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Une Histoire de Crime Organisé

Salvatore "Sammy" Triumbari was one of the founding members of the 'ndrangheta crimine in Ontario.

He was killed on the morning of January 6, 1967 as he left his bungalow on Sherman Court.

More information on Triumbari and the investigation surrounding his murder in my new blog article.

Article in French + translator available on the page

Direct link
unehistoiredecrimeorganise.blo

Or link in my bio

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1000 Day Album Challenge (#19) Isaac Hayes: Tough Guys (1974) [19.01.24]

I sit alone in my four-cornered room / starin' at candles / oh, that shit is on?...

this is the shit Scarface is talkin’ about – Hung Up On My Baby by Isaac Hayes. what a tune. I remember when I first heard it. it was 1992 or 1993 not long after we had moved into our place on Frederick and Stanyan in the Upper Haight. I had put in a few solid days of digging. too many used record and thrift stores to recall. I had dozens and dozens of records to check out.

Tough Guys must have sat around for days after I brought it home. I had bought it sealed at a thrift store probably for no more than a dollar. all I knew was that it was Isaac Hayes and quite obviously a soundtrack to a blaxploitation flick with which I was unfamiliar. it was not unusual for me to take a while before checking out all of my new purchases when I bought a ton in a short period of time which I did a fair amount of the time.

I finally got around to checking it out. after tearing off the plastic wrap I’m sure I kinda needle dropped my way through the first time. listening to Tough Guys as I write this I’m fairly certain that Joe Bell, the last track on side one, was the only one I might have listened to all the way through, nothing else there that would have caught my ear.

then I turned it over and everything changed. Hung Up On My Baby – “oh my god! that’s the tune the Geto Boys sampled for Mind Playing Tricks On Me.” I think I just about jumped out of my skin. it wasn’t just a great sample. it was a great tune. those two are not always synonymous. I don’t recall precisely, buy I think I must have listened to it over and over at the time. I would have also busted out Mind Playing Tricks On Me too.

as the years have passed I have returned to the Geto Boys less and less, but I always return to Hung Up On My Baby. it is a brilliant and funky instrumental that has a bit of a down home feel to it. there’s a nice groovy guitar solo in the middle that ties it all together.

covert art to Isaac Hayes' Tough Guys (1974).
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