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Monsta
Give Me Something Good

Give Me Something Good
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Artists

Monsta

Labels

Past Due

Catno

PASTDUE020

Formats

1x Vinyl 12" Single Sided Reissue

Country

US

Release date

Dec 1, 2020

Give Me Something Good - Monsta on Past Due.

Lead by 17 year old Carlton “Dirk” Poward, San Francisco’s Monsta was one of many ephemeral late seventies funk and disco bands that haunt the dreams of record diggers worldwide. This is the only song Monsta ever released - on a 100 copies one sided test press - in 1979. But what a song. Produced by the late Bill Withers, Give Me Something Good Is an epic disco funk monster that has never been reissued to this day! This Past Due Records reissue comes with a full sleeve and the story of Carlton “Dirk” Poward, Monsta and how the mighty Bill Withers got involved in the production of this magnificent slice of boogie.

Media: Mi
Sleeve: M

$18*$25

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Give Me Something Good

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