What else can be said about you after your name is repeatedly shouted out in one of the greatest songs ever recorded? Not much, so I’ll let Hamilton Bohannon speak mostly for himself. I have to admit, I’d listened to and loved the Tom Tom Club’s “Genius of Love” for more than a decade before I bothered to figure out who this guy was. He created some of the tightest and funkiest dance music of the 70s, I my opinion, and was no slouch when it came to album covers either.
From the sleeve to Dance Your Ass Off:
PLAY THIS RECORD LOUD
P.S. Dance Your Ass Off is not used in the sense of profanity.
There’s a signed 8×10 of Bohannon in the basement of Union Hall, a bar in my neighborhood, that I think is there mostly to spotlight his hairdo. I covet it.
Bohannon, “Spread the Groove” from the Dance Your Ass Off LP on Brunswick Records (1975)
Tom Tom Club’s “Genius of Love”:
