Today’s trax

 

 

All the man that i need  –  Linda Clifford (After recording for Curtis Mayfield’s Curtom Records – Linda moved unto Capitol and released one a album from which this is culled … this trak was later covered by Whitney Houston)

Me and the gang  –  Hamilton Bohannon (A Motown all-round session musician who went on to have hits in his own right on Dakar/Brunswick & Mercury Records … this was sampled : Get get down – Paul Johnson)

(It’s not the Express) It’s JB’s Monaurail – Fred & The New J B’s (Inspired by ‘Express – B T Express’ – James Brown’s backing band is ‘on track’)

Dirty filthy  –  Superchumbo featuring Celeda (Real name Victoria Sharpe … does exactly what it says ‘Dirthy Filthy Groove’)

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)