Bunny
Sigler – Angel Eyes
In
1976, Bunny Sigler set up an album deal for Instant Funk with Gamble and Huff's
TSOP label. And if you know that album you know you soul music. Creating
several hits over the span of his career (many of which are still being sampled
today), Bunny continues to write, produce and record new material. He cut
tracks for artists on Curtis Mayfield's Curtom label, including Mayfield
himself ("Trippin' Out"), and created a duet album with Barbara
Mason. He got a chance to work with a number of acts as a writer and/or
producer, including the Whispers, Ecstacy, Passion And Pain, Patti Labelle. His
forthcoming album is entitled Young At Heart, and the second single on this
project is Ella Fitzgerald’s “Angel Eyes” and it’s great. The entire
arrangement itself is a high-quality thing to hear. It shouldn’t fall on deaf
ears, and it won’t. This isn’t a young artist although Young At Heart takes him
into some mature territory that he still aces like he’s 19 years old or
something. The spirit has that ambiance anyway, and it’s just me hoping the
rest comes on this strongly. It’s a statement nonetheless already, so it begs
for more of the same. An album’s full of this quality is worth anyone’s dollar
and time.
It’s
easy to glow all over something if you like it the first time, but it doesn’t
quit, time after time you hear this sweet tune. The way he does it makes his
own song out of it without stealing Ella’s thunder in the process. Frank
Sinatra sang it too, but I have-to say this well outclasses him in the vocal
department, and that’s nothing against Sinatra but this is not a one-dimension
singer. That’s probably why they call Bunny “Mr. Emotion.” That’s certainly
nothing Frank would be referred to as. Let’s just say a lot was put into this
to bring out the best in Bunny Sigler and the song itself. And if you like
videos, take-a look at the promo clip.
He
is the co-writer of the song “The Ruler's Back” which was an opening song for
Jay Z's album, Blueprint. At the age of 70 he’s still at it with a modern edge
and that is just another reason to anticipate this album, and the single should
get your ears in gear for just that. He’s a long way from playing the churches
of Philadelphia, but he hasn’t lost a step where the hunger lies. It’s
important to retain that and the only way to keep proving it is with more work.
There is nothing better than going till the day the oil runs out, rather than
wasting it away. He’s done his time off over the years, it’s time to keep
shining.
The Philly soul sound is important as well, and the heritage of it is something Bunny Sigler holds a piece of, and it doesn’t matter if you’re digging up the late 60s, mid-70s or following him all along, he’s always brought the goods on records and stages. While everyone is dying off it thins out the genres as well, so it’s a use it or lose it thing, and as-long as the heart and soul meet the spirit of music, something takes over and you can’t turn it off. The light switch of this artist is still on and this single proves it as much as the first one. Hopefully the album Young At Heart will too, because this helps light the way for it.
The Philly soul sound is important as well, and the heritage of it is something Bunny Sigler holds a piece of, and it doesn’t matter if you’re digging up the late 60s, mid-70s or following him all along, he’s always brought the goods on records and stages. While everyone is dying off it thins out the genres as well, so it’s a use it or lose it thing, and as-long as the heart and soul meet the spirit of music, something takes over and you can’t turn it off. The light switch of this artist is still on and this single proves it as much as the first one. Hopefully the album Young At Heart will too, because this helps light the way for it.
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