[Music] yest morning let me know you g girl yeah stand the plans in there putting [Music] in I walk out this down song but I just can't remember who to send it to then new one Senor I seen seen that's a bit of Fire and Rain from Alero wow a newly discovered live recording he did at the child Herald in Washington DC back in 1976 we're joined Now by music journalist a Scott Galloway to talk more about that Discovery uh Mr Scott thank you so much for uh being here first off just talk about what intrigued you about this particular project wow I first of all uh as a music journalist uh getting to do anything on Alo uh was an absolute honor and uh for residence records to be the company I knew it was going to be done first class I've been a fan of alaro since I was a child one of my uh childhood friends mothers is the one that turned me on to him so um I was very excited that there was going to be a fresh unheard before live recording of Mr jro uh just before he was about to start skyrocketing as an international uh music star so talk about that you kind of alluded to my next question uh where was he in his musical journey and uh just talk about uh where he was uh when this uh recover when this recording was done he had signed to Warner Brothers he's from Milwaukee and then he moved to Los Angeles and uh he'd been you know scuffling around for quite a while uh working in different nightclubs and everything he finally uh was given a break uh at Warner Brothers records where he was signed to the repre record label and uh he had done one album for the company called we got by and it it you know it was a really wonderful album but it didn't have an they couldn't find an audience for it so on the week that they uh that this album was recorded they uh his second album had just been released called glow and so he's in Washington at this uh at child Herald which is a very hip and and happening kind of Club where a lot of great artists on the way up and and some of them that were already great playing and so we're you know when you listen to this record what you're listening to is a developing artist who was very mature uh you know he wasn't somebody that that was a late teer in his 20s he was in his mid-30s when he really started to take off in his career and he's just really going for it you know he has all the Talent all the experience he has his 10,000 hours he just needs a bigger audience and uh he comes in and is is best himself a wonderful personable guy doing all this gumbo of music of jazz pop R&B mixed together and plus he he wrote a lot of his own material as well and so the audience is just sitting there seeing somebody that that is just on the bubble they're about to take off because on his third album is when things really started to happen are there a couple songs on this album or maybe one in particular that stand out to you and for what reason uh a lot of fans will will love hearing yet another version of uh take five which was a big hit for Dave rubek that uh that Alo uh did wonderful things with vocally take five was originally an instrumental and and there's also great covers like give me that wine which was a Lambert Hendricks and Ross classic of a humorous jazz piece but to my estimation the most important thing on the album is uh a very early live recording of his song you don't see me a lot of people have kind of glossed over this song and never really gotten the uh the social significance of it but the song is about being a young black man in America trying to do the right thing and Society always looking at you as a know Potential Threat uh a criminal uh somebody that um needs to be watched to make sure that you know they don't do something and so the song deals first person with his frustration with all of that and it deals with his anger and frustration it's a funky song so a lot of people sometimes you know people listen to music before they get into lyrics and I mean Al recorded this song four different times but this will be one of the earliest documents of it particularly in front of a live audience and you you will hear how he shifts the whole mood of the room and makes this segue from singing fun pop things into something very serious don't see me when I'm trying to do right don't see me when I'm trying to do right like my mother taught me to do right mother say son don't hurt nobody mother say son don't treat nobody wrong mother say son don't mistreat hurt nobody don't hurt no don't put that kind of Karm soul I mean Al has Always sung all kinds of songs I mean even on this album it's live record he has a couple of Originals like Aladdin's lamp and lock all the doors that have a spiritual Bend and and then you know his personality was so fun and vibrant and colorful that a lot of people wouldn't be checking for him to be necessarily writing and singing about something like you don't see me but it was definitely there you know um even though he was a major crossover artist he was still a black man who grew up in Milwaukee where he was definitely he and his family were a minority he under he he also studied psychology so he really understands um light of of uh of people of color in general in America but definitely the black man uh but like I said a lot of people just kind of glossed over that particular song um it's crazy because he it four times version on this record when you hear the segue from like everybody clapping and whatever was going on with the song before he clears his throat and begins to go into this piece and wow you know it's spoken word it's singing It's Jazz it's Funk it's a masterpiece you don't see me definitely a highlight of aljo wow appreciate that thank you so much Scott for being here on black newvo my pleasure my honor