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It’s a bit curious to me that “Draw Your Brakes” was such a huge it – the song was, after all, included on the soundtrack to The Harder They Come­ – but Scotty (bka David Scott) never really achieved that level of success again. It doesn’t seem, from a brief overview of his recorded career, that he switched up styles and abandoned what made that well known effort so engaging. Of course, then one might figure that repeating a formula doesn’t work any better than trying new things every five minutes.

Either way, Scotty deserved better.

His earlier career as a portion of the singing group the Choosen Few didn’t pan out all that much better. So, when (relative) success arrived in the form of that afformentioned single, it must have been a shocker. The funny thing is, the rest of the album, Unbelievable Sounds, which was built around that one effort is almost as good even if there’s not a chorus or melodic figure that matches Scotty’s best known track.

Working in what amounts to an early deejay style, Scotty gets to roll in over a spate of tracks that don’t exactly rank as the most recognizable hits from past decades, but each should bring to mind at least a few snatches of older songs – “Rosemarie” specifically, even if that song’s kind of a bummer when compared to the rest of Unbelievable Sounds.