Love don’t live here  – Benita Arterberry (A new slant on an old song – Benita re-arrange, re-sings, re-records a Rose Royce number that you would think it was her original – it is now)

Don’t make me wait too long  –  Roberta Flack (From the last album featuring Donny Hathaway …  this Stevie Wonder composition had sterling dance floor movement – but only in the right clubs)

Change makes you wan to hustle  –  Donald Byrd (To make a trak like this – you must have history and Donald have already for Savoy & Prestige labels although this is a Blue Note release)

Given me joy  –  Marc Evans (Or to quote the original title ‘Dj Spen & The Muthafunkaz presents’ … before the word ‘Garage’ was coined – this trak would to classed as “Uptempo Soul”)

Phoenix  –  Buckshot Lefonque featuring Frank McComb ( Brandford Marsalias pseudonym was is inspired by the musician – ‘Buckshot Le Funke’ who was featured on Louis Smith debut for Blue Note Records … Frank reminds us of what Quality, is both vocally and musically – boobeescoot.com for more information)

Brand new day  –  The Wiz Stars featuring Diana Ross & Michael Jackson (From the film The Wiz  which was also a Broadway show  …  written by Luther Vandross and produced by Quincy Jones for Motown Productions – a division of Motown Records)

Interpretations – Soul Power No.1.  –  Soul Impossibles (Written and produced by Clyde Perkins who was also the lead vocalist recorded and released their one and only single … released on small independent Champ Records)

Those who have (those who have not)  –  Mitch Dixon (Written by Andrew Komis & Anne Saunderson – wife of Inner City’s Kevin Saunderson … released on Andrew’s First Choice Records and distributed by in the U.K by Network Records)

King Heroin  –  James Brown (There was a New York avant-garde band called James Chance & The Contortions also known as James White & The Blacks  … i actually heard their version before the James Brown original … a Polydor release from album ‘There it is’)

Right there in the socket  –  Shalamar (They started out as a studio outfit from the mind of Simon Soussan who pitched the idea to Soul Train entrepreneur Don Cornelius & assistant Dick Griffey … Dick took over Soul Train Records and renamed it Solar Records subtitled ‘Sound Of Los Angeles Records’ who released this trak)

Take your praise  –  Camille Yarbrough (Known for the original work which was sampled by Fatboy Slim also known as Norman Cook …there is so much more to this talented lady than one trak – she is also a writer, poet, activist and more – camilleyarbrough.com for more information)

I got my education  –  Uncanny Alliance (What seemed to start out as a sent up of : ‘Homeless – Crystal Waters’  ended up being a rather interesting trak  … writing by Orville Brinsley Evans & David Cole of C & C Music Factory/Clivilles & Cole)