Kurtis Blow- 1-2-5, Main Street, Harlem, USA (1983)

Foto extraida de la portada del album "Party Time" (Buzz Freitag)

 

Escuchar / Listen

 

 

(K.Blow/ J.Moore. Bralower/ R. Ford)

 

 

Come with me and let´s take a trip

Where the scene is tough and the folks are hip

I can´t tell a lie ´cause it ain´t no myth

I´m talking about A Hundred Twenty Fifth

 

Foxy ladies everywhere

Skin tight jeans and jazzy hair

Clothes for the body, shoes for the feet

And lots of tasty things to eat

 

One Hundred Twenty Fifth Street

The people and the concrete

The hottest spot to work and play

Main Street, Harlem, USA

 

Original paintings on the walls

Music stores and bingo halls

Apollo´s gone, but that´s OK

There´s lots of music anyway

 

The Baby Grand is still going strong

Celebrity Club rocks all night long

Sikulu Records is on the case

And Bobby´s chillin´out in the same old place

 

Lots of folks have passed this way

Malcom X and Billie Holiday

Fidel Castro, The Commodores

Heads of State and troubadours

The Count, The Duke, The Pres, The Bird

Have bought music and that´s my word

Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder

Have all come for Harlem´s thunder

 

Marcus Garvey and JFK

Meadowlark Lemon and Doctor J

And Doctor Martin Luther King

All came to Harlem to do their thing

 

Louis, Jack Johnson and Ali

The heavyweight to name but three

Bill Bojangles and James Brown

Spent their time in Harlem Town

 

Con-men, poets, saints and sinners

Three time losers and all time winners

Politicians, fools and sages

Enough to fill a million pages

 

So take the trip and come alive

The A train stops at One-Twenty-Five

Where I was born one August day

On Main Street, Harlem, USA

 

 

 

 

Done