Trax feat. Lillo Thomas with Melba Moore, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jnr., Rocket, Blaze presents Cassio Ware

 

 

All of me  –  Lillo Thomas feat, Melba Moore (Former athlete Lillo was assigned to Hush Productions – a company owned by Beau & Charles Huggins … Melba was the wife of Charles who encouraged Lillo after been her background vocalist)

Shine on Silver Moon  –  Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jnr (Been part of the mega-successful group ‘The Fifth Dimension’ – wife and husband duo branched out on their own … released on Columbia Records)

Here comes my love  –  Rocket (Headed by Ray Rock – a member of Crown Height Affair whose musical tentacles and offshoot into other groups including The Strikers, Empress & Unlimited Touch)

Fantasy  –  Blaze presents Cassio Ware featuring Sajaeda (Starts off as the nursery rhyme ‘Mary had a little lamb’ before turns into an unhurried Garage anthem … a Shelter Records release)

Trax feat. Miles Jaye, Melba Moore, Brothers Johnson, Cevin Fisher

 

 

I’ve been a fool for you –  Miles Jaye (Assigned to Teddy Pendergrass’s Teddy Bear Enterprises – released on Island/Fourth & Broadway … now releases his albums on Black Tree Records)

You stepped into my life  –  Melba Moore (Originally written and sung by the Bee Gees … produced by McFadden & Whitehead – CBS’s in-house remixer John Luongo twiddled the knobs)

Ain’t we funkin’ now  –  Brothers Johnson ( George & Louis were whisked to A&M Records by Quincy Jones after guesting and featuring on his ‘Mellow Madness’ album)

Music saved my life  –  Cevin Fisher (‘Gotta Thank God for the music – if it wasn’t for music i don’t know what we’d do’  – is the introductory lyrics … released on Maxi Records then ‘touched up’ by U.K.s Pete Heller)

Trax feat. Shirley Brown, Isaac Hayes, Lalo Schifrin, Deborah Cox

 

 

Don’t go looking for my man  –  Shirley Brown (Shirley was discovered by Blues giant Albert King and taken to Stax Records … now with Malaco Records – Shirley still releases quality Southern Soul albums)

Don’t let go  –  Isaac Hayes (A Jesse Stone composition that was a hit for Roy Hamilton … Isaac-  being a dab hand of giving old songs the ‘Isaac’ treatment sometimes giving them a completely new arrangement also a new lease of life)

No one’s home  –  Lalo Schifrin (Released on Clarence Avant’s ‘Tabu Records’ – this trak has become something of an underground Jazz-Funk classic … Clarence was previously Lalo’s manager even before he started Sussex Records and discovered Bill Withers)

Things just ain’t the same  –  Deborah Cox (Canadian vocal explosion settled at Clive Davis’s Arista/J Records … Grammy Award Winning Dj Hex Hector was at the helm of this remix)