Quentin Tarantino gets a lot of credit for bringing The Delfonics new a new audience when he featured two of their songs prominently in his underrated 1997 film Jackie Brown. Tarantino deserves the credit as he captures perfectly the tone of the music in the emotional centers of the scenes in which they are featured. The scenes center around what it feels like to feel so in touch with the past and have it be a sort of living nostalgia. As we all are in an era of our life where we can relate, you know it - that feeling of time going by right before our eyes. Thing is, even though I knew the title track from listening to the radio as a little kid, it was a 1994 film that brought The Delfonics to my attention and made me a fan: Spike Lee's Crooklyn, which is set in Brooklyn in the early 1970s. There is a scene that is one of my all-time favorites in film - a quick scene - in which five young siblings on their front stoop sing along to the refrain. At any rate, this album, the debut from the Philly group is one that would be on my turntable a lot.
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