You Sexy Thing 1975 Fest

[Pete C]

First song by me for the 1975 Fest, one of the cheesier songs from that year.

Always reminds me of hearing my younger brother singing his misheard lyric "I believe in Milko"

- Hot Chocolate's You Sexy Thing

Pete

[ODH]

Fantastic. Love a bit of Hot Chocolate. I will give this more attention when I get the opportunity.

[TPB]

Funky playing you sexy thing nice
Tim

[Pru]

cool funky track mate. well produced and performed. i don't know the original and have never heard of hot chocolate so i'll have to check them out.

[kenny mac]

Cool funky guitar work.
Like that guitar intro tone.
Hot chocolates songs all seemed to be sex driven lol.
Great groove mate, you've done the song justice.
Well done.

[ODH]

Back for another listen.

That guitar tone on the riff at the start is very authentic and I love the auto-wash on the rhythm. Brilliant work.

[Zoltan]

I'm doing the second dips too with this one. It's funky, authentic and really nails the groove which is the most important thing with this song. It sounds bred in the 70s.

Well done!

[Mike_S]

Great job Pete. Performances are all rock solid. Rhythm guitar is so good. It sounds so seventies, it's a classic really. You made some excellent sound choices and I enjoyed your vocal too! Spot on mate.

Mike

[Ted]

I know the original – Oh how I know the original.

I have to admit, I put off listening to this. From the first time I ever heard this (at the age of 12 or 13) I found that vocal leap of the intro and chorus to be kind of startling – a major fucking 10th. Are we alpine yodeling here, or what? To say nothing of the nascent anti-dance-music sentiments I had at that age. When I saw this in the jukebox here, I asked myself, "Is Pete really going for that? Brave man. But do I want to hear it?"

I don't fault you for sticking to a more reasonable vocal range. (I used to be able to hit that B4 note, but I think those days are gone). But also your vocal performance is more natural – less cheesy and "look what I can do" showy than the original. You've made it listenable, and it's on about it's 5th repeat right now.

Not to say that your version isn't cheesy. It still is. And you still get a Songcrafters medal of bravery for sharing this.

It's clear you took care with this production: The bass, the strings, the synth. Tell us about the guitar over on the left – is that an auto-wah?

[Jean Pierre]

Excellent Pete, I love the rhythm guitar in this one too...I didn't know this song, so of course I'm going to listen to the original.