The Nite-Liters

KJEE

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Music

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• Northern
• soul
• classics
• 50

[tljones9]

Did anybody know that this group ended up becoming THE NEW BIRTH??

[stompietheowl]

@tljones9 i think the two groups became an amalgamation

[mikeeiland1]

I don't believe I'm hearing this again. WOW! Summer 1971!! I have the RCA single still but can't play it. No turntable. Absolutely unbelievable! I had a hard time convincing younger folks this is the original. djsweethots, my daughter says the same thing. She says she was born too late (1979). She loves this and Afro Strut like they are NEW songs...just like me back in the day.

[stompietheowl]

@mikeeiland1 Glad to be of service mike and i can tell you all with my hand on my heart that this is indeed the original cut of this tune.The next best version i have listened to is on a jazz house lp from 1992 remixed by masters at work but this one here really takes some beating,you know what they say "if it ain't broke,don't fix it"i think that says it all.Keep the soul in your heart and the heart in your soul buddy.Cheers Lance.

[smartypantsnancy]

Just found post..great tune thanks Stompieowl x

[stompietheowl]

@smartypantsnancy..no probs nancy xxx

[HaliB75]

Why are you guys calling it sampling?? There was no such thing as sampling. Sampling is replaying a recording that someone else recorded. A remake is actual musicians playing real instruments all over again. Sampling is a computerized replica of the original with no creative input from the one doing the sampling. Sampling is stealing the music from something that was recorded. This is real and MFSB's version played with real instruments by real musicians, not a computer.

[bjc19199]

this is the original version!!!!!!!

[magikmeany]

I remember having an 8 minute long version of this before anybody invented the 'remix'.

Quality.

[ateball1]

@Meridian83West ah, indeed :)

[Meridian83West]

@ateball1 I was referring to ISS2010's remark about MFSB's version of "K-Jee" sounding dated when their version actually came out after the Nite-Liters' version.

[ateball1]

@Meridian83West where is the irony ?

[Meridian83West]

@ISS2010 Ironically, this version came out in 1971 and the version by MFSB was released in 1975!

[ISS2010]

Oh and I'm STILKL playing it over and over again - over 40 years later! I guess that makes me an addict. ;-)

[ISS2010]

The most important difference between this version by the Nite-liters and the MFSB one is that the MFSB one sounds dated, whereas this one sounds as new and fresh as the day it first came out.

[ISS2010]

This is indeed the original unbeatable version of K Jee. It's tighter, sexier and way cooler than any rivals. I was 12 when it first came out and I played it over and over again on cassette all the way down to the South of France in the Summer of 71 when my family (including my parents and four sisters) drove down there on holiday from London.. They never complained at all! So they must have liked it.

[emanboogie]

Heavy, Heavy, Heavy + I like the MFSB version also!