Today’s trax

 

 

Leave a message behind the door  –  Colonel Abrams (Later known for the Garage mega-hit ‘Trapped’ – the Colonel shows the Soulful side   …  released on Streetwise Records – a label affiliated with Arthur Baker)

Na na kiss him goodbye  –  Scott Garrett (Scott was part of what could only be described as a studio band – Steam  which as featured Scott as a co-writer and singer as Gary Decarlo  … Gary re-recoded his song for West End Records cat. no. WES12104)

You can have Watergate, just gimme some bucks and i’ll be straight  –  Fred Wesley & The New JB’s (President Nixon caused scandal in The White House when instigated burglaries and wire-taps of his opponents – named Watergate after the named office block  … released on James Brown’s People Records)

Can u dance  –  Kenny ‘Jammin’ Jason & ‘Fast’ Eddie Smith (Released on Rocky Jones’s DJ International Records out of Chicago – this was licence to the U.K.’s Champion Records and was one of the now very rare 3 inch cd singles)

Today’s trax

 

 

I’d rather go blind  –  Ruby Turner (This lady has never got the accolade she truly deserved  …. maybe if she was in the U.S., and hooked up with the right writers and producers – she was would have had more success and appreciation)

Midnight Lady   –  Cerrone (from the first album ‘Love in C minor’ – a three trak recording – the background vocalists later became known as the ‘Midnight Ladies’)

Let’s boogie  – The Kay-gees (Released on Gang Records – as in Kool and the … produced by Roland ‘Kool’ Bell for his younger brother’s Kevin’s Bell band)

Tell me what  –  Devastating (Released on Bottom Line Records by Ed ‘The Red’ Goltsman – owner ,writer, producer and arranger of most trax on his label  …  he also mixed this with sidekick/wife ‘Nancy Kay’  …. uncredited female vocalist)

Today’s trax

 

 

A boy named Junior   –  First Choice (Young love – we all thought we would have for  a lifetime not realising that we were seeing life from a child’s eyes  ..  with Rochelle Fleming on lead, arranged by Vince Montana  and produced by Norman Harris released on Stan Watson’s Philly Groove Records)

Flight ’76  –  The Walter Murphy Band (Also known as ‘The Big Apple Band’ – the trak was based around “Flight of the Bumble Bee – Rimsky Korsakov”  … Walter played all instruments however the bigwigs at Private Stock Records thought it would be more believable if he had a band behind him hence the names)

I don’t believe you want to get up and dance a.k.a. ‘Oops up side your head’ –  Gap Band (The nursery rhyme section of this trak was known to be used by George Clinton whilst playing live with his band Parliament/Funkadelic … was also the last trak on Nice & Naasty – Salsoul Orchestra … released on  Mercury Records … produced by Lonnie Simmons)

Was that all it was  – Kym Mazelle (Chicagoan House Diva has again been produced for a cover of Jean Carn’s masterpiece  … released on Syncopate Records – a unit of EMI, mixed by David Morales also by mixed by Les Adams)