Today’s trax

Carless whisper  –  Fred Wesley (We all know that this is a George Michael composition which was recorded as part of the duo Wham – however in the hands (horns) of James Brown’s first  lieutenant Fred has given it a new dimension)

Dance little boy blue  –  Freddie James (Whilst the average 14 year old boy is turning puberty – Freddie was turning into a Disco star … singing mother Geraldine Hunt and Canadian producer Tony Green made that possible)

Get up  –  Vernon Burch (Released on Casablanca’s Soul/Funk offshoot Chocolate City comes this title trak … parts of this trak was the inspiration for ‘Groove is in the heart – Deee-lite’)

The Midnight hour  –  Jamie Principle (At one time classed as the ‘Bad boy of House’ due to his controversial lyrical content but then they said that about Prince … sadly to say only the true believers bought his album – produced by Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley)

Today’s trax includes Dee Dee Wilde feat. Eugene Wilde, Michele’, Mass Production, Dee Holloway

I miss you  –  Dee Dee Wilde featuring Eugene Wilde (From the talented family called Bloomfield –    this sister signed to Island Records Soul/Dance subsidiary ‘Fourth & Broadway’)

Magic love  –  Michele (Recorded in Paris, France and ‘fine-tuned’  at Sigma Sound, Philadelphia and mixed by “The Master” Tom Moulton … released on West End Records – with former Scepter/Wand A & R man Mel Cheren at the helm)

Firecracker  –  Mass Production (Ten piece Funk band from Virginia U.S.A. – assigned to Cotillion, the small arm of Atlantic Records … this trak was the inspiration for the backbeat of ‘The 2 Live Crew’ Me so horny)

I won’t surrender  –  Dee Holloway (No relation to Loleatta … Co-written by Dee and produced George Morel – released on short-lived Active Records – the Dance subsidary of Select, a predominantly Hip Hop label)

Today’s trax

 

 

Night Breeze  –  Stanley Turrentine featuring Jean Carn (Jean goes back to her former Jazz roots when she teamed up Stanley who has recorded over 50 albums which includes the iconic Jazz label Blue Note)

Grateful  –  Sylvester (After being featured as leader of his Hot Band with where he released albums on Blue Thumb … this trak is from his second Fantasy Records album ‘Step 2’)

Still good, still like it  –  B T Express (Barbara Joyce on co-lead shows how versatile The B T’s were … released on Roadshow distributed Scepter/Wand Records who shut down it’s operations affected their career)

Apt. 3A  –  N.Y House’n Authority (From the mind and talent of Rheji Burrell comes this nugget … released on what was the most famous New York House label – Nu Groove … the artist title said it all – the type of music and where it was released)