With both the original and 1996’s Japanese reissue likely to set you back a few quid, it’s up to Be With Records to act as our knights in shining armour again with a no-frills, faultless-sounding reissue of Edna Wright’s only solo album to date, Oops! Here I Go Again.
It had been four years since her pop-soul vocal group Honey Cone had disbanded following diminishing commercial returns and it’s pretty clear from the lush, Syreeta-like If The Price Is Right, The Brides Of Funkenstein-evoking slow burner Nothing Comes To A Dreamer (But A Dream) or the sweet string arrangements of Spend The Night With Me that Wright had spent a lot of that time soaking up influences.
Quality abounds then, but the title track remains the stand-out (and a song that a whole new generation came to appreciate when Prince Paul sampled it for De La Soul’s Pass The Plugs), a song with such an uncanny ability to brighten one’s day that it’s somewhat unbelievable it didn’t make Wright a solo star. We recommend highly that you don’t miss out this time, especially as it’s a limited run of 500.
