Trax feat. Leela James, Freddie James, James Brown, Martha Wash

 

 

My Joy  –  Leela James (Leela burst on the scene with her solo album ‘A Change is gonna come’ on Warner Brothers – Leela album reminded us that their is still a musical genre called “Soul” … www.leelajames.com)

Get up and boogie  –  Freddie James (The 15 year old son of Geraldine Hunt was mashing up the Disco floors with his debut … produced by Tony Green – mixed at Alpha International Studio Philadelphia)

Make it funky  –  James Brown (James invented Funk and was credited with the moniker ‘Minister of New Super Heavy Heavy Funk’ … featuring the full length version Parts 1 – 4)

Come  –  Martha Wash  (She was half of “Two tons o’ Fun” then “The Weather Girls” … also known for that opening line ‘Everybody dance now’ from C & C Music Factory and most of the Black Box album)

Trax feat. Brenda Russell, Sesso Matto, Convertion, Deep Brothers

 

 

Love and Paris Rain  –  Brenda Russell (Brenda has written songs that having been covered by Luther Vandross, Donna Summer, Oleta Adams to name a few … Brenda has also been a Grammy nominated songwriter for “The Color Purple” musical)

Sesso Matto  –  Sesso Matto (First trak from the iconic Disco/Boogie label – West End Records … a 3 minute plus trak that was remixed from the Italian movie soundtrak ‘How funny can sex be’ – Armando Trovaioli)

Let’s do it  –  Convertion (Boogie Meister Extraordinaire Leroy Burgess – with his equally talented  associations James Calloway, Greg Carmichael & Sonny Davenport … released on Sam Records, this is Logg under a different name

It works for me  –  Sabrynaah Pope (Released on King Street Sounds and written, produced and mixed by Blaze … Sabrynaah was also one of the vocalists on Blaze’s wonderful ‘Keep hope alive’ album under the heading “Underground Dance Artists United For Life”)

Trax feat. First Choice, Thelma Houston, Dayton, Deep Zone

 

 

House for sale  –  First Choice (Salsoul Records’s ‘Doyennes of Disco’ – shows their versatility –  Rochelle Fleming and the girls lowers the tempo without lowering the quality, produced by Norman  Harris and sadly to say this was from their last album ‘Breakaway’)

Love Machine  –  Thelma Houston (Motown Records were known to pass songs to their different artists – slower tempo than The Miracles original … www.thelmahouston.com)

Krackity Krack  –  Dayton feat. Bootsy Collins (Dayton consists were former members of Sun … from Ohio which was hotbed for Funk band which in including Zapp, Ohio Players & Sun amongst others)

It’s gonna be alright (Help is on it’s way)  – Deep Zone featuring Ceybil Jeffries (Released on New York’s Sub-Urban Records … after Ceybil one-off album for Atlantic Records – she became the featured vocalists for a variety of Garage/House productions)