Wow - Had no idea that Minnie had a previous life as a Psychadelic artist. 
That's a unique tune. Can't imagine it ever getting radio play.

On Saturday, July 21, 2012 1:17:48 AM UTC-7, t bedford wrote:
>
> My earliest experiences with psychedelic music was 11th grade, when 
> WZAK-AM (the nationalitiies station - Polish, Slovak) hired a nighttime 
> deejay, called Doc Nemo, spinning "underground" music.....regional stuff 
> (the theme song was Heavy Music by Bob Seger), different stuff (Spirit was 
> a fave), and even James Brown (because white kids didn't get to hear it). 
> So the following song (which I meant to post last weekend because a group 
> member's birthday was the week previous) is dedicated to the late Minnie 
> Ripperton, and here's the Rotary Connection singing "Turn Me On". (Note the 
> first 0:38 is a song called Rapid Transit....only here because the only 
> version of Turn Me On by itself was really cheesy quality.)
>  
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrTb3uHeXDY
>  
> So I'd fall asleep listening to cool stuff, and be awoken by a Frankie 
> Yankovic polka record....
>

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