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Rapture
Rapture
It's 1974, The Spinners were headliners at the "Zaire 74" music festival, a sideshow to Muhammad Ali’s fabled "Rumble in the Jungle" fight with George Foreman. Among the faded snapshots, there’s a picture of Stepp backstage posing arm in arm with Ali; another image shows The Greatest seated at Stepp’s Fender Rhodes alongside vocalist Etta James.
It was all a dream for this Naptown Wunderkind, who had previously recorded for Herb Miller's LAMP Records as the Diplomatics and had issued the sweet soul killer "Young Girl" as Jazzie Cazzie and the Eight Sounds on a rare Knaptown 45.
But as exciting as his rise out of those local status was, as exciting as it was to headline festivals and arenas and appear on late night talk shows, Stepp grew restless with the mechanical routine of being a sideman.
He grew tired of playing the same charts night after night.
He was hungry for a creative outlet that mimicked his earliest days in recorded music. So, in 1978, Stepp left The Spinners and returned to Indianapolis, where he established an all-star group of musicians - including members of Jazzie Cazzie and the fabled Amnesty - and he named the band Rapture.
They inspired countless others. They recorded an album's worth of material. This is the first time it is seeing the light of day, a triumphant, late career moment for Stepp and a cause for celebration of those intrigued by deep, sweet soul and disco funk.
A1
In My Life
A2
Playing Around
A3
Do You Wanna
A4
Turn On Your Funk-A-Phizor
A5
The Beat Won't Leave You Hangin'
A6
On The Way To The World
B1
Happiness Is
B2
Send My Love
B3
Oh I Love You So
B4
Down at the Disco
B5
Let Me Put It In Your Ear
B6
Errol Flynn





