Today’s trax

 

 

All for you  –  Anascostia (Named after the river and the neighbourhood in Washington D.C. U.S.A. … this group consists of Tony Boyd, Ron Sinclair & Tommy Williams – produced by Charles for (Van) McCoy/Kipps Productions)

Hey girl, come and get it  –  Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony (Having been involved as an arranger/conductor for The Stylistics original – Van reprises it for his ‘Disco Baby’ album to great effect)

Wait at the mountain  –  General Caine (Named after an old school associate … their leader Mitch McDowell was such a George Clinton/Parliament /Funkadelic mega-fan that he recruited past and current members for their album ‘Girls’)

Ring my bell  –  Monie Love vs Adeva (Originally featured Ultra Nate on her album – it was re-vocalled with Adeva with a little ‘knob twiddling’ by Simon Dunmore)

Today’s trax

 

 

Can’t we just sit down & talk it over  –  Bill Brandon (Disco producers Jessie Boyce & Moses Dillard returned to their Soul roots for this stellar recording of this Tony Macauley composition … released on Prelude Records)

Love is just a heartbeat away  –  Gloria Gaynor (You could called this trak as Gloria’s ‘lost trak’ … from  ‘Nocturna’ – a horror comedy from 1979 released on MCA Records, produced by Reid Whietlaw  & Norman Bergen …  recorded at Sigma Sound, Philadelphia)

Moe, let’s have a party  –  Cleveland Eaton (Released on the influential and iconic ‘Black Jazz Records’ , this composer, arranger, producer, upright bass player – and then some  … he has worked with everyone including Miles Davis, Ramsey Lewis & Count Basie)

Without you  –  Jamie Lewis & Marc Evans (Dj & producer Jamie teams up with ‘Quantize Recordings   artist Marc for this monster club hit … Marc had previously recorded under the ‘MuthaFunkaz’ under the production guidance of Dj Spen also known as Sean Spencer)

Today’s trax

 

 

I took my strength from you  –  Sylvester (Known as a ‘High Octane’ singer  & with a personality to match, Syl shows he can also delivers the goods by bringing his vocals down a notch without losing any energy or power … written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David)

Opus 1  –  Charlie Calello Orchestra (Charlie came to prominence via Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons or to Disco fans as the arranger for hits by Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band & Odyssey … a ‘Big Band’ hit for Tommy Dorsey – this trak has become a standard although Charlie has added a vocal chorus)

Funk machine  –  21st Creation (Written and produced by Willie Hutch – known for the ‘Foxy Brown’ soundtrax … these 5 guys previously recorded for RCA as 21 Century)

He reigns  –  Yass featuring Littleton Brown (Littleton came to my interest via aKings of Tomorrow trak … released on Purple Music of Switzerland – this label has been making dancers feet ‘Purple’ due to sore feet because of continous quality releases)