Blue Magic (1974) Stringing Me Along - LOST 70s GEMS

From the punchy horn lines of Looking For a Friend to the Wah Wah-ed Minimoog stabs from You Won't Have to Tell Me Goodbye to the sprightly plucked strings of this track, The Magic of the Blue is a more magical set of highly produced and diverse array of pillowy soft ballads and funky upbeat jazz pop.
 The group was best with breathy vocals and 'labour of love' styled yearning against flavourful arrangements of horns strings and vibes usually distinguished by Bobby Eli's creative uses of electric sitars, moogs and wah wah/fuzz tone pedals. Though both this album and their debut could end songs in little funky two steps like this song and Love Has Found Its Way To Me which could easily have featured on the 1974 debut alongside Look Me Up and Welcome to the Club.

 Here we start with a heavy guitar reverberation to mimic the sound of heart strings before a dazzlingly daisy field of plucked strings pop up all over the track. The heavy orchestration by Norman Harris creates a huge Disco sound and sets the commanding tone of the chorus. In stark contrast is reedy falsetto of Ted 'The Wizard' Mills', he hits an exceptionally high note in the 'You're Just' of "You're Just, stringing me along how can I go wrong?" The song ends in another Blue Magic patented Latin funk breakdown; the wah wah chicken scratch, the group vocals and the rolling strings sweeping us into a strangely grande lounge room workout. 

PS 'Lounge room workout' is referring to a jazz lounge in case that didn't sound right.