Where did I go wrong

The falsetto floating over this 1972 Philadelphia single belongs to Ron Tyson, and if it sounds ready for bigger rooms, it was: a decade later he joined The Temptations to sing their high parts.

The Ethics formed in Philadelphia in 1967 and cut “Lost in a Lonely World” for the tiny Vent label — sweet harmony soul with that aching refrain, “where did I go wrong,” circling like a thought you can’t put down. The 45 went nowhere much at the time; crate-diggers did the rest. Half a century on, the record has turned up inside Four Tet’s “Baby” and Logic’s “Village Slum,” which is a strange kind of afterlife for a song about being lost: everybody keeps finding it.