You can say a lot of negative things about Charles Hamilton. But one undeniable positive is that the manchild from Harlem is an avid digger/student of music. Anyone whose been brave enough to shift through his prodigious collection of mixtapes can attest to that. One of his better drops comes from jazz singer/songwriter Michael Franks.
“When Sly Calls (Don’t Touch That Phone),” off 1983’s Passionfruit, became one of Franks’s signature hits courtesy of the track’s split between sugary ballad and dance floor rhythms. Decades later on 2008’s Intervention, Hamilton would use the chorus to convey his annoyance at those who blow up his phone.
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