| 词条 | Blowfly (musician) |
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|name = Blowfly |image = Blowfly instructs us in dirtiness.jpg |caption = On stage, circa 2005 |image_size = |background = solo_singer |birth_name = Clarence Henry Reid |birth_date = {{birth date|1939|2|14|mf=y}} |birth_place=Cochran, Georgia, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|2016|1|17|1939|2|14|mf=y}} |death_place=Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, U.S. |years_active = 1963{{ndash}}2016 |origin = |instrument = Vocals |genre = Parody, punk rock, rhythm and blues, soul, funk, hip hop, comedy |occupation = Vocalist, songwriter, producer, comedian, rapper |label = TK Records, Alternative Tentacles |associated_acts=Willie Clarke }}Clarence Henry Reid (February 14, 1939 – January 17, 2016) was an American musician, songwriter and producer, also known by the stage name and alternate persona Blowfly.[1][2][3] Early life and careerReid was born in Cochran, Georgia, in 1939.[4] During the 1960s and 1970s he wrote for and produced artists including Betty Wright, Sam & Dave, Gwen McCrae, Jimmy "Bo" Horne, Bobby Byrd, and KC & the Sunshine Band. During this period he was also a recording artist, cutting many of his own songs, including "Nobody But You Babe".[5] Reid wrote sexually explicit versions of hit songs for fun but only performed them for his friends at parties or in the studio. In 1971, he along with a band of studio musicians, recorded a whole album of these songs under the name Blowfly. The album, The Weird World of Blowfly, features Reid dressed as a low-rent supervillain on its cover. He created this alter ego to protect his career as a songwriter,{{Clarify|date=July 2015}} and continued to perform in bizarre costumes as his Blowfly character and continued to record sexually explicit albums throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The albums were widely popular as "party records". The explicit version of his song "Rapp Dirty" (a.k.a. "Blowfly's Rapp") helped the album Blowfly's Party reach No. 26 on Billboard Magazines black albums chart and No. 82 on the Billboard Top 200 in 1980.{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}} {{quote box|quote="This veteran writer-producer has his soul in the right place—Miami, as far south as he can get it. And though he's a/k/a Blow Fly, purveyor of parody porn, the true Reid is as unyielding a moralist as Porter Wagoner or Ernest Tubb. He cheats a lot, just like his daddy, but he also pays—in one song, his 'real woman' goes off to find 'a real man,' while in another she simply kills herself and is he sorry. The only drawback is that Reid is a writer-producer for a reason—vocals."|source=–Review of Running Water in Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981)[6]|width=23%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}Blowfly's profane style earned Reid legal trouble. He was sued by songwriter Stanley Adams, who was ASCAP president at the time, for spoofing "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" as "What a Difference a Lay Makes". Reid's own compositions have been sampled by dozens of hip hop, R&B, and electronic artists (such as Beyonce, Wu Tang Clan, DJ Quik, DMX, Method Man & Redman, Main Source, DJ Shadow, Eazy-E, RJD2, Jurassic 5, Big Daddy Kane, Mary J. Blige, Brand Nubian, and the Avalanches) but Reid received almost no money from sampling due to signing away most of his royalties. Blowfly's Zodiac Blowfly LP (also released on CD in 1996 on Weird World Records) includes the songs "If Eating You Is Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Right", "The First Time Ever You Sucked My Dick", and "Ain't No Head Like My Woman's Head", as well as a version of "Clean Up Woman", which he co-wrote. Another album of this period is The Weird Worldof Blow Fly. 2000sIn 2003, Blowfly sold the rights to his entire catalog after years of debt. The catalog was said to be worth millions of unpaid royalties.{{cn|date=December 2016}} After 17 years of sporadic touring and occasional re-recording of his classic raps, Blowfly signed with Jello Biafra's independent record label Alternative Tentacles in 2005. Fahrenheit 69, the first album under the new contract, featured appearances from Slug of Atmosphere, King Coleman, Gravy Train, and Afroman. Blowfly's Punk Rock Party, a 2006 album release from Alternative Tentacles, features several punk rock classics given the Blowfly treatment—including a rewrite of the Dead Kennedys song "Holiday in Cambodia" recast as "R. Kelly in Cambodia", which features Biafra (the song's composer and original singer) playing a trial judge. The album also includes "I Wanna Be Fellated", "Gotta Keep Her Penetrated", "I Wanna Fuck Your Dog" and "Should I Fuck This Big Fat Ho?". Blowfly completed his first tour of Australia in March 2007, and toured Germany with Die Ärzte in 2008. He performed at the 2010 Big Day Out music festival, held in Australia and New Zealand. The Weird World of Blowfly, directed by Jonathan Furmanski, premiered at South by Southwest in 2010[1] and received a wider release in September 2011.[7]Illness and deathOn January 12, 2016, Blowfly drummer "Uncle" Tom Bowker announced in a statement on the Blowfly Facebook page that Reid was suffering from terminal liver cancer and had been admitted to a hospice facility in Florida. According to Bowker, the singer would release his final LP – entitled 77 Rusty Trombones – in February 2016.[8] Reid died on January 17, 2016, from cancer and multiple organ failure at the hospice facility in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, aged 76.[9][10] FamilyReid's daughter is former WNBA player Tracy Reid. DiscographyAlbums as Clarence Reid
Albums as Blowfly
7" Singles as Clarence Reid
Singles as Blowfly
Selected songwriting credits
References1. ^1 {{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/movies/the-weird-world-of-blowfly.html?_r=0|title=‘The Weird World of Blowfly’|newspaper=The New York Times|accessdate=2016-01-17}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/23/entertainment/la-et-weird-world-of-blowfly-20110923 |title='The Weird World of Blowfly': Movie review - latimes |website=Articles.latimes.com |date=2011-09-23 |accessdate=2016-01-17}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/thingstodo/2012/08/weekend_preview_garnet_and_gol.html |title=Weekend preview: Garnet and gold, burlesque and Blowfly, panthers and downward dogs | The Go Guide | Sun Sentinel blogs |website=Weblogs.sun-sentinel.com |date=2012-08-16 |accessdate=2016-01-17}} 4. ^{{cite book| first1= Bob| last1= Eagle| first2= Eric S.| last2= LeBlanc| year= 2013| title= Blues - A Regional Experience| publisher= Praeger Publishers| location= Santa Barbara| pages=314 | isbn= 978-0313344237}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/211510-Clarence-Reid?filter_anv=0&subtype=Writing-Arrangement&type=Credits |title=Clarence Reid Discography at Discogs: Writing-Arrangement - Credits |website=Discogs.com |date= |accessdate=2016-01-17}} 6. ^{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: R|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=R&bk=70|accessdate=March 10, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.musicfilmweb.com/2011/08/blowfly-music-documentary-cinema-release |title=September opening in New York for Blowfly music film | MFBlog |website=Musicfilmweb.com |date=2011-08-02 |accessdate=2016-01-17}} 8. ^{{cite web|last=Kreps |first=Daniel |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/blowfly-in-hospice-care-with-terminal-liver-cancer-20160113 |title=Blowfly in Hospice Care With Terminal Liver Cancer |publisher=Rolling Stone |date=2016-01-13 |accessdate=2016-01-17}} 9. ^https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/arts/music/clarence-reid-singer-and-songwriter-also-known-as-blowfly-dies-at-76.html?_r=0 10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/clarence-reid-r-b-singer-known-as-blowfly-dead-at-76-20160117|title=Clarence Reid, R&B Singer Known as Blowfly, Dead at 76|work=Rolling Stone}} 11. ^{{cite journal|title=Billboard|date=August 2, 1980|page=65|website=Books.google.com|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7yMEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 12. ^{{cite journal|title=Billboard|date=August 9, 1980|page=18|website=Books.google.com|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyQEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 13. ^{{cite web|author=Richie Unterberger |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/hot-runnin-soul-the-singles-1965-71-mw0002285895 |title=Hot Runnin' Soul: The Singles 1965–71 - Paul Kelly | Songs, Reviews, Credits |publisher=AllMusic |date=2012-01-31 |accessdate=2016-01-18}} 14. ^{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gwen-mccrae-mn0000651549/songs |title=Gwen McCrae | Songs |publisher=AllMusic |date=1943-12-21 |accessdate=2016-01-18}} Further reading
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