Dee Clark (1975) Ride A Wild Horse - LOST 70s GEMS

With a classic mid 70s disco start, klinky chicken scratch funk guitars strum in a smooth fashion while the inimitable Disco strings course so sweetly. Clark's chorus good time melody is cheerful, while the backing vocalist's 'giddyup' is very corny but somehow still sounds catchy like the whole song. There is an Conga percussion to this song that reminds me of the Carribean flavour of Rock the Boat, Clark's hits its stride at the end with a long note but it's that call of 'Ride a Wild Horse, saddle up get down to the source, if you can tame me, you can claim me; I'm yours ' brilliant. Like the best disco songs, this bounces along with elegant strings and funk guitars and an inspired melody line or two before they became more and more smooth and homogenised losing the eclecticism of the genre's Black, Latin and Gay community roots.