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Today’s trax includes Shirley Brown, Voyage, The Creations, Stephanie Cooke feat Kenny Bobien

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Anticipation – Shirley Brown (From The Bar-kays song-book who were previously to Stax Records – Shirley was discovered by Bluesman Albert King and was assigned to Truth, the Gospel arm of Stax … from the album “Fire & Ice” released on Malaco Records)

From East to West – Voyage (Some of France’s top session musicians who recorded under a variety pseudonyms including ‘The Peppers’ came together as Voyage … recorded in London’s Trident Studios with U.K. & French vocalists – additional ‘fine tuning’ in their capital city of Paris)

Kinky girl – The Creations (Released on ‘Dre-Mar Records’ – an independent label out of Philadelphia, U.S.A. however this trak was recorded at Bob Blank’s “Blank Tape Recording Studio”, New York with one of their in-house engineers Butch Jones)

Love’s been right here – Stephanie Cooke feat. Kenny Bobien (Based and inspired by the address of “Paradise Garage” night club – Kings Street Sounds became New York’s favourite ‘House’ record label … co-written by Stephanie, Kenny & Moise Laporte – who produced the original & remixed by “Blaze”)

Today’s trax includes Stanley Turrentine feat. Jean Carn, Sylvester, B.T.Express, N.Y. House’n Authority

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Night breeze – Stanley Turrentine feat. Jean Carn (Jean returns to her Jazz roots, when she teams up with saxophonist – Stanley who has recorded over 50 albums which includes the iconic Jazz label ‘Blue Note Records’ which was co-founded by German born Alfred Lion)

Grateful – Sylvester (Having being part of ‘The Cockettes’ – an avantgarde coterie of hippie actor/musicians out of San Francisco, Sylvester put together ‘The Hot Band’ which recorded for “Blue Thumb” & later was assigned to Honey Productions/Fantasy Records as a solo artist)

Still good, still I like it – B.T. Express (Brooklyn Transit Express were a self-contained band from New York whose trax were released on ‘Roadshow’ distributed “Scepter/Wand Records” owned by Florence Greenberg – who allowed some of their Mid-Seventies catalogue to be remixed by Tom Moulton)

Apt. 3A – N.Y. House n Authority (Burrell (twin brothers) released an album for U.K.’s Virgin Records and when it faulted financially – they freelanced with ‘Nu Groove Records’ … as stated on the vinyl release ‘Everythang by Rheji Burrell’)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDemYrxSksA