Today’s trax

 

 

Midnight lover   –  Side Effect (This trak is part of the Elektra recordings which featured Miki Howard  … dress in 1940’s garb all  – three lps had a very distinctive sleeves)

California strut  – Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band (Apparently there was no such band but the marketing people said it would look better – as he did nearly everything on the record)

Can’t love you tonight   –  Gwen Guthrie (This trak was released in the height of ‘Aids’ conscientiousness in the media – so you can be on the dance floor and still get the message)

All that jazz  –  Ruffneck feat. Yavhan (Ex-Jomanda vocalist Joanne Yvonne Thomas scats to  Masters At Work’s masterwork   … you can imagine doing the ‘Lindy Hop’/ ‘The Charleston’ dance to this – the name changed according to the colour of your skin)

Today’s trax

 

 

Never knew love like this before   –  Gwen Guthrie (Musical and vocal arrangement in the same vein as Luther Vandross/Martha Wash’s ‘I who have nothing’)

You can get over  –  Stephanie Mills (This is a 9 minute opus sees Stephanie sets the dance floor alight … writ. and prod. by James Mtume’ & Reggie Lucas)

College girls are easy  – Jesse Jaymes (This was one of the continous play on a ‘pay tv ‘ channel The Box …the backbeat is Low Rider – War with a snippet of  Dance, dance, dance – Chic)

Right size  –  Gene Farris (‘House music’ was/is ‘Disco music’s baby – and for verification  : You’re just the right size – Salsoul Orchestra that’s been chopped up)

Today’s trax

 

Inside my love  –  Trina Broussard (Trina shows that not only she is a beauty but she gives it her all – with this old Minnie Riperton chestnut)

I’ve got to dance to keep from crying  –  The Destinations (The instrumental b-side is called ‘the hustle and the bus stop’ and it was looped up for Livin in da projects – Toronto Track Company)

Patty Duke  –  Cloud One (From one of Patrick Adams & Peter Brown numerous labels … a boogie trak that saunters into your  brain that makes you grooves to it’s tempo hours after hearing it)

You don’t know  –  Serious Intention (A hot sliced of semi-acapella Easy Street garage which has been remixed, rerecorded and rereleased amongst other things)