Today’s trax

 

 

I wanna be closer – Switch (Mentored and guided by Jermaine Jackson … signed to Motown, sadly to say whilst they had r&b hits in the U.S – the were nearly totally ignored by the rest of the world)

Live it up  –  Sweet Touch featuring Jocelyn Brown (A Began Cekic  production – with the uncredited Ms Brown .. released his own B.C Records)

Let’s boogie  –  The Kay-Gees (Even though it has ‘boogie’ in it’s title – this is hot burning ‘Funk’ …. released on ‘Gang Records’ as in “Kool & the Gang”

Music saved my life  –  Cevin Fisher (…. I’ve got to thank God for the music, if it wasn’t for the music i don’t know what we’d do  …. Thank God) … for the music

Today’s trax

 

 

You’ll never get to heaven – Leata Galloway (Leata tackles “Bacharach & David” tried and tested nugget – making it her own also throwing a little scatting in the mix also featured on vocalist on the interesting Paul Jabara & Friends lp)

Work song  –  Pat Lundy (An underground jazz piece written by Nat Adderley … Pat tells the story of a prison letter from an association she had)

House party  –  Fred Wesley (James Brown’s main man and one of the two most important players in ‘The JB’s’  …. saw him at the Moseley Funk & Soul’ weekend in Birmingham 2012)

Everybody  –  Criminal Element Orchestra featuring Wendell Williams (Producer Arthur Baker gives us a new slant of ‘Everybody – Blackbox’  … you can hear an ‘essence’ of “Don’t stop ’til you get enough – Michael Jackson”)

Today’s trax

 

 

Dream lover  –  Liz Hogue (This lady was the featured vocalist along with Spencer Harrison @ The Royal Festival Hall London in the mid-eighties – however the headline acts were Jean Carn and Norman Connors  … released on the short-lived Gold City Records)

Keep on making me high  –  Unyque (Recorded at the warm and friendly Blank Tape Studios in New York by owner Bob Blank with his assistant  Butch Jones and arranged by Carlos “Cocoa Funk” Franzetti)

Summer  –  War (‘Warm Funk’ – slow and laid back … an assemblage that felt at home playing Funk, Soul, Latin and sometimes everything all rolled into one all at the same time)

Never enough  – Anthony Flanagan  (Released on Sfere Records …. written and produced by Kerry Chandler & remixed by Dennis Ferrer says this trak will not be a ‘bag of manure’)