Monthly Archives: September 2016

Trax feat. True Reflection, The Trammps, 24 Carat Black, Thelma Houston

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Look at all the lonely people  –  True Reflection (A quartet who recorded for Atco, a unit of  Atlantic Records – member Glenn Leonard later joined “The Temptations” … co-produced & co-written by Rodney Brown and Willie Lester who later wrote and produce hits for Prelude Records)

Disco Party  –  The Trammps (“The Trammps” were the evolution of a Phildelphian vocal group ‘The Volcanos’  which included Earl Young, brothers Harold & Stanley Wade amongst others … recording for Buddah and Norman Harris’s Golden Fleece before signing to Atlantic Records)

Ghetto : Misfortune Wealth  –  24 Carat Black (24 Carat Black’s album was released on Stax Records’s Enterprise subsidary … a concept album which was under sold and valued until the Hip hop producers came ‘sampling’ which elevated it cult status)

All of that  –  Thelma Houston (Thelma came to the prominence via her cover of ‘The Rolling Stones’s “Jumping Jack Flash” on Dunhill Records before resurfacing Motown’s Mo West imprint … written by the lady herself with Dave Lee – nom de plume Joey Negro)

Trax feat. David Peaston, Double Exposure, Cameo, Chaka Khan

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Can I  – David Peaston (David regularly won the “Showtime at the Apollo” television programme held at New York’s Apollo theatre in Harlem … released on Geffen Records – it is a cover version of the Eddie Kendricks single)

Baby i need your loving  –  Double Exposure (This trak was overlooked because of the other uptempo trax on their first album … written by Motown Records’ trio “Holland/Dozier/Holland” for The Four Tops)

Cameosis  –  Cameo (Cameo leader Larry Blackmon was in the band ‘East Coast’ with Gwen Guthrie & Pat Grant – assigned to Neil Bogart’s Casablanca Records sub-division “Chocolate City” – from the album of the same name)

Never miss the water  –  Chaka Khan (Chicago born Yvette Stevens also known as Chaka Khan released a greatest hits album called “Epiphany” which also included added trax which featured Me’shell Ndegeocello … remixed by Frankie Knuckles on Reprise Records)

 

Trax feat. Angela Johnson, Linda Clifford, Brass Construction, Vincent Valler & Savio

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Cryin’ for U  –  Angela Johnson feat. Lisala (Beatty) & Tricia Angus (After being with Cooly’s Hot Box  Angela decided to branch out as a solo artist … being a singer/writer/producer – she struck musical gold with her album “A Woman’s touch Volume 1” which features a variety of guests)

Hold me close  –  Linda Clifford (Linda Clifford was assigned to one of Curtis Mayfield’s company before it became Curtom Records and released a variety of singles via different labels … first trak from her double album “Let me be your woman”)

Celebrate  –  Brass Construction (Funk supremos Brass Construction first 6 albums were numbers then they were changed to letters that’s when their music changed from Funk to Boogie … whilst still in the Funk this trak is from the third album ‘Brass Construction 111’)

Love Theme  –  Vincent Vallor feat. Savio (Released as an instrumental by Love Unlimited Orchestra then later released as a vocal trak by Love Unlimited – the vocal trio who were both vocalists for L.U.O. & Barry White which also included his wife Glodean)