The sole album by Baby Huey & The Babysitters, released after his death from a drug overdose at age 26 in 1970, was produced by Curtis Mayfield and released on his label.
James Ramey moved to Chicago from Indiana at age 19. He was very heavy due to a glandular problem and took the stage name of a cartoon duck. I always think back to the adolescent group home I met Monica at in the lower Haight in the early aughts. There was a kid there that one of the childcare workers, Ivy, referred to in our office as "Baby Huey". Ivy had a scar from a gunshot wound she suffered while robbing a bank. She turned the unsightly scar into a rose tattoo. It looked cool. She wore colorful wigs. She was street.
Anyway, I have never seen the cartoon, and thinking back, the kid she referred to did look like this Baby Huey. I dunno.
If you dig Curtis Mayfield - and if you don't, what is wrong? - then you're gonna love this album.
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