Weird World was a TK subsidiary entirely dedicated to releasing the "works" of Blow Fly (a.k.a.
Clarence Reid), notorious musician, soul singer, composer and producer (for Alston records and Betty
Wright) whose obscene rap over current disco and soul anthems could be seen by some as the original
dirty rapper. And to be fair, some lyrics could be quite funny. At the time, these albums were filed under
"Adult Comedy", sometimes behind the counter due to the nudity on many covers.
Many of these are sexually-oriented parodies of hit songs. Reid had been doing off-color parodies since
he was quite young. His grandmother overheard one of these and exclaimed he was nastier than a
blowfly. After singing his parodies for friends, he finally recorded an album in 1971 and started his own
Weird World label.
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The Weird World label (far left) is a yellow or green (very) cheap one with black lettering and "WEIRD WORLD" written on the top half of the label. There is no mention whatsoever of the T.K. connection on the label and it is rarely mentioned on the record sleeves. Blowfly did have an instrumental 12-inch disco single on the T.K. Disco label (near left) |