Today’s trax

 

 

 

Stay in my corner  –  Patti Labelle (Then signed to MCA Records and on a roll after her global monster duet with Micheal McDonald – Patti puts her own stamp on a trak closely associated with Chicago’s The Dells)

Sell my soul  –  Sylvester (Although this is a Disco trak – it is Black Church, a Gospel performance – Sylvester was at the top of his game … written by Lionel Azulay & released on Fantasy Records however there has recently been another compilation of his Fantasy hits)

Super Freak  –  Rick James (Big hit in the Soul/Funk clubs until M.C. Hammer sampled it for his monster hit ‘U can’t touch this’ … the ‘new school djs’ started scurrying to find the original for their musical arsenal)

Don’t scandalise my name  –  Kym Mazelle (Kym came to prominence via a few independent 12″ produced by Marshall Jefferson – signed on the dotted line to E.M.I. in the U.K. … this trak appeared on her remixed U.S lp/cd Brilliant – mixed by Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley)

Today’s trax

 

 

If this world were mine  –  Cheryl Lynn featuring Luther Vandross (Written by Marvin Gaye and sung originally with Tammi Terrell – there has been a variety of cover versions including Reggae … Cheryl & Luther were assigned to the same label Columbia/Epic now owned by Sony)

Let go  –  France Joli (Think she was 16 years old when the album was recorded  … backing trak was recorded in Canada and percussion and background vocals provided by ‘The Sweethearts of Sigma’,  Barbara Ingram, Carla Benson & Evette Benton at Sigma Sound Philadelphia)

Right on time  –  Brothers Johnson (I was short-changed as the 12″ was the same length as the 7″ … the title trak from their second album of the same name – which like their first was produced by Quincy Jones)

Horny  –  Mousse T vs Hot ‘N’ Juicy (Never heard of the original version of Horny  – and was one of the first time i saw the word ‘vs’ on a record/cd … released on AM:PM, a division of A & M Records)

Today’s trax

 

 

How come you don’t call me up anymore  –  Stephanie Mills (Written by Prince … Stephanie made it her own in 1983 although Alicia Keys has since covered it)

Pressure point  –  First Choice (Rochelle and the girls gave 100% on her last Salsoul album ‘Breakway’)

And you call that love  –  Vernon Burch (The woman has turn the tables on the woman that he asks the question ‘And you call that …)

We can make it  –  Mone’ (Released on Strictly Rhythm at the time when the ruled the dance floors – musically speaking)