Monthly Archives: October 2016

Trak feat. Cissy Houston, Mary Mundy, Crown Heights Affair, Those Guys

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After all  –  Cissy Houston (Having provided background vocals for such stalwarts as Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin … she later went solo she was assigned to ‘Private Stock Records’ & was she was produced  – trak from her album”Think it over”)

Love is gone  –  Mary Mundy (Mary had previously partnered with ‘The Soul Syndicate’ … she later surfaced on the re-activated “Laurie Records” – this was a b side which has since been re-edited by Al Kent)

Dance lady dance  –  Crown Heights Affair (Assigned to RCA for one album only before hot-footing to independent ‘De-lite Records’ for the rest of their career … although they didn’t seem to be very successful it’s because they splintered into such outfits as ‘The Strikers’, Empress, Unlimited Touch & others)

Love, Love, Love  –  Those Guys (The Basement Boys under a different guise – featuring a legal and co-credited sample of ”Computer Incantations of World Peace” – Jean-Luc Ponty … The Basement Boys so believed in this trak that they re-released when they changed distribution)

Trax feat. Love Unlimited, Bionic Boogie, Funk Deluxe, Wally Jump Junior & Criminal Element

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Walking in the rain with the one i love  –  Love Unlimited (The trak which put Barry White as a writer/producer into stratosphere also his vocalists which also included his future wife Glodean … Barry is the voice on the telephone)

Don’t lose that number (Mumbo Jumbo)  –  Bionic Boogie (From the first studio album produced by Greg Diamond featuring Gwen Guthrie and other stellar New York session musicians … recorded at Media Sound Studio N. Y.)

Friends  –  Funk Deluxe (Written and produced by “The Funk Meister” Randy Muller known for his work with Brass Construction, B.T. Express, Rafael Cameron, Skyy & Full Circle … a Blank Tape Studio recording New York)

Jummp Back  –  Wally Jump Junior & The Criminal Element (The ‘answer back’ trak in response to Dhar Braxton’s nugget … an Arthur Baker production on his own Criminal Records featuring Will Downing & Craig Derry)

Trax feat. First Choice, Chic, Skyy, Michelle Sweeney

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Let him go  –  First Choice (The mistress turns up at the wife’s door asking to ‘let her husband Buddy go’ … the third album “Let us entertain you”, produced by Stan Watson and released on Philly Groove/Warner Brothers Records)

My feet keep dancing  –  Chic (The Great Disco Demolition Fire of  Chicago in ’79 where numbskulls decided to burn Disco records cause many radio stations & record labels to drop acts, this meant ‘Chic’ had lesser hits –  yet 30 years later Nile Rodgers & Chic are selling out world tours … Niles’s partner, the late Bernard Edwards feet is probably still ‘keep dancing’
Questions no answers  –  Skyy (Skyy were an eight piece band which featured three ‘Durning’ sisters – Denise, Dolores & Bonne, Solomon Roberts amongst others … assigned to Salsoul Records by their production company  named “Alligator Bit Him”)

This time  –  Michelle Sweeney (Released on Big Beat Records which became an imprint of Atlantic … written by Tony Green and remixed by Stonebridge & Nick Nice)