Arzell Hill (September 30, 1935 – April 27, 1984), known as Z. Z. Hill (pronounced "Zee Zee...") was an Americanbluessinger best known for his recordings in the 1970s and early 1980s, including his 1982 album for Malaco Records, Down Home, which stayed on the Billboard soul albumchart for nearly two years. The track "Down Home Blues" has been called the best-known blues song of the 1980s. According to the Texas State Historical Association, Hill "devised a combination of blues and contemporary soul styling and helped to restore the blues to modern black consciousness."
Life
Born in Naples, Texas, Hill began his singing career in the late 1950s as part of a gospel group called The Spiritual Five, touring Texas. He was influenced by Sam Cooke, B. B. King, and Bobby "Blue" Bland, and began performing his own songs and others in clubs in and around Dallas, including spells fronting bands led by Bo Thomas and Frank Shelton. He took his stage name in emulation of B. B. King.
Encouraged by Otis Redding who had seen him perform, he joined his older brother, budding record producer Matt Hill, in Los Angeles in 1963, and released his first single, "You Were Wrong", on the family's own M.H. label. It spent one week at no.100 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964, and Hill was quickly signed by Kent Records. Most of his records for Kent were written or co-written by Hill, and arranged by leading saxophonistMaxwell Davis. None charted, but in retrospect many, such as "I Need Someone (To Love Me)", are now viewed with high regard by soul fans.
Bump and Grind or bump-and-grind refer to various kinds of rough movement, e.g., kayaking through rapids, aggressive car racing, a slang term for sexual intercourse, etc. In particular, the terms may refer to one of the following:
Grinding, also known as juking, freak dancing or freaking (in the Caribbean, wining) is a type of close partner dance where two or more dancers rub or bump their bodies against each other, generally with a female dancer rubbing her buttocks against a male dancer's crotch area.
Grinding gained widespread popularity as a hip hop dance in night clubs, and eventually moved on to high school and middle school dances (especially proms) in the US and Canada where there have been cases of administrators attempting to ban it due to its explicit nature.
A predecessor to grinding as a sexually charged high-contact social dance was "The Bump", popular in the 1970s, in which the contact between partners generally involved the hips or buttocks of one dancer "bumping" those of the other dancer in temporary contact. Other predecessor elements of grinding may be attributed to the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, and the lambada, a brief dance craze of the 1980s that featured grinding actions, as seen in the films The Forbidden Dance and Lambada. A more explicit form of the dance is known as daggering.
Lookin' for love in the back of a taxi Got lucky in a cheap motel Hot pants, nasty Don't bother knockin' 'Cause you know damn well This blind date is cash and carry Dead ringer for the big first prize She's screaming in the roarin' 80's And ain't goin' home tonight So shake it slowly And do that bump and grind Well I can tell you've got a few reservations More value, beg for the buck I may be wrong but she kind of likes you Think quiet or you're outta luck This blind date is cash and carry We have a winner for the big first prize Cheap scheming in the roarin' 80's And you ain't goin' nowhere tonight Shake it slowly And do that bump and grind Rotate slowly Make it bump and grind, oh yeah I feel romantic, I wanna let you know Have you ever really studied dancing Or do you make it up as you go Shake it slowly Do that bump and grind Move it slowly And make it bump and grind
It took a while, maybe a mile and half of bumping and grinding up and down a bunch of hills, before I decided this was not the way to the lake and turned around ... My lightweight 10-foot kayak was strapped to a rack on the top of my car ... ....
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Lee could convey expectation and experience simultaneously, as in her version of "Folks Who Live on The Hill." ... Well, it was not as if much imagination was needed, with a drummer dropping exclamation points, but tastefully, not bump and grind.
