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Following on the heels of Syl Johnson’s monster single “Sorry ‘Bout Dat,” released on Chicago's Twinight Records, was a brilliant but overlooked single by John Colley under the pseudonym “Stormy.” In September of 1967, the seventeen-year-old Colley put together a who’s who of Chicago musicians to back him for a session at RCA studios, including neighborhood heroes the Chi-Lites and seasoned players Phil Upchurch and Bernard Reed. Colley shopped the songs to Wise World and One-Der-Ful before they were finally snatched up by Twilight. “I Won’t Stop To Cry” is an above average ballad that suffers from occasionally off key vocals, but its B-side, “The Devastator,” is the real gem here. Intended as an introduction to Stormy, the man, the myth, the legend, the song is a boastful proto-funk number accented wonderfully by the thoroughbred backing musicians. While the single failed to “devastate,” John Colley hit pay dirt a few months later co-writing the novelty cash-in hit “Psychedelic Soul” by Saxie Russell for the Thomas label.
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