@Seventieslord I researched this a while back. I think it is supposed to be all of them, as in a The Parliaments “reunion” record. There’s a 35 second clip Gimme Gimme Gimme with Calvin Simon, Fuzzy Haskins, George Clinton, Grady Thomas and Ray Davis from 2000. Also, I assume Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight from How Late is highly related, if not a teaser.
Techno Doo-Wop / New-Wop / Re-Bop
Pulse! - December 1993
The project which he seems most excited, however, is a reunion record with the original members of the Parliaments. Two members - Grady Thomas and Ray Davis - worked with Clinton on his latest album. The others - Calvin Simon and Fuzzy Haskins, the latter now a preacher - have recently been rounded up.
“I want to do half of the album old doo-wop and do the other half of what we call ‘new-wop,’” Clinton says. “You know, like sing all into the Fairlight and put it on tape with the machine and sing the other half of it straight like we used to do. We’ll do some originals and I really want to do some old r&b songs that never made it pop, like maybe some Spaniels or some El Dorados.” Clinton starts to sing "I’ll Be Forever Lovin’ You
Pulse Magazine - FUNK’S Founding Father - Dec 6, 1993
He calls the style they’re working on “new-wop” and plays a tape of a song over the phone, chuckling when he gets back on the line. “We went into the studio last night and said we’re gonna do some a cappella with little hip-hop things under it,” he says. “Ain’t it funny?”
George Clinton - 12/01/2005
Larry Ferguson said,
‘Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight’ was an old doo-wop song and I did a trip-hop/jungle version of it
FaceCulture - 2007?
[The idea of Gangsters of Love] started a long time ago. I had one called Techno Doo-Wop. […] I guess I scared a few people with that one.
George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic To Funk Up House Of Blues On April 16- 2010/04/10
“Mark and I figured we’d mix some doo-wop, hip hop and techno doo wop and call it “re bop!” I’ve been thinking about it for a while now.” Techno doo wop? “That’s when you play a slow ballad groove against a triple time beat. I first did that on ‘How Late Do You Have to Be Before You’re Absent.’” George was very purposeful in the diversity of his special guests. “I didn’t want the record to be ‘nostalgic,’” he states. “I wanted to merge the old school with the new school. Some of the kids didn’t even know the original songs, so they did them their own way.”