Monthly Archives: April 2014

Today’s trax Featuring Marlena Shaw, The Trammps, Dexter Wansel, Soul Rebels

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Save the children  –  Marlens Shaw (One of the hardest thing to do is to make someone else’s song your own – & in this case Marlena does that with this Marvin Gaye original)

Shout  – The Trammps (The Isley Brothers’ song, Lulu hit, and this is why The Trammps were the greatest Disco group)

All night long  –  Dexter Wansel (Philly’s all-round musician/writer/producer shows without doubt he was the man for the job)

The revolution will not be televised  –  Soul Rebels (Gil Scot-Heron original has been made from a protest song to a dance trak

Today’s trax

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God don’t like ugly  –  Gwen Guthrie (Her own composition however Roberta Flack recorded it before her … there is a rumour that Sony has an unreleased album in their archives)

I’ve got you under my skin  –  Gloria Gaynor  (Gloria and Disco goes so well – in this case a Cole Porter composition)

Free & Easy   –  Rene & Angela (Husband and wife team used to write for a variety of Soul acts)

Black man  –  Sabrynaah Pope (From Stevie Wonder’s ‘Songs in the key of life’ was a forgotten trak  – it was re-awakened with a Garage backbeat and Sabrynaah on vocals)

Trax feat. Donna Summer, Linda Clifford, Parliament, Soul Vision

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Black Lady  –  Donna Summer (One of her near forgotten trax from ‘I remember yesterday’ lp)

You are, You are  –  Linda Clifford  (The Queen of Curtom delivers this diamond from her second lp – later covered by Black Masses Wonderful Person)

Up for the down stroke  – Parliament (The re-beginning of George Clinton after problems his band The Parliaments – he now signed to Casablanca and forward to world domination)

Don’t stop  –  Soul Vision (Credited to D’layna on some releases  … Soul vision was also known as Kings of Tomorrow)