Come on Boy DJ H feat. Stefy RARE LARRY LEVAN REMIX

One of the last records that Larry Levan worked on was the EuroDance track Come on Boy.  An Italian import.  He was truly able to relieve the song of that euro dance sound and bring it into a new york house groove.

Come on boy

The 1992 release came out as a white label on the UK's Wicked & Wild.  The one I include in the zip was never formally released.  Not sure what the story is on that.

But by November 8, 1992 Larry Levan died of hear failure at the age of 38.  Lawrence Philpot has been given a legendary status and his legacy has been immortalized.  Many consider The Paradise Garage to be the best club, with the best sound that ever existed.  There is no doubting that his remix style and his way of DJ'ing had a huge influence on all that came after him.  He was also the reason that a lot of dance records sold as much as they did, especially in New York where Frankie Crocker on WBLS was highly influenced by Larry's playlist.

Frank Owens who often writes about nightlife and even wrote a book that had a nasty quote about me wrote this article for Vibe.  Paradise Lost Vibe Magazine November 1993

Here's a hot excerpt from the article:

ONE NIGHT, IN 1988, barely six months after the closing of the Garage, Levan was spinning at the World in the East Village when, on a whim, he decided to play ‘ABC’ by the Jackson 5.

But the chirpy pop-soul didn’t go over too well with the hardcore dance devotees. They had come to hear the sound Levan made classic during his 11 years at the Garage. Some dancers folded their arms and stood still, staring up at the DJ booth in the balcony. Others squatted on the floor.

Enraged, Levan hurtled down the stairs, yelling and screaming, ordering people to “get up and dance.” Returning to the booth, he let the record end before putting it on again. When this drew even more protests, he played the Jackson 5 tune for a third time.

“That’s when I knew I couldn’t use him anymore,” recalls nightlife mainstay Steven Lewis, then the manager of the World. “It was no easy thing sacking the greatest DJ on the planet.”