Today’s trax

 

 

Bring it on  –  N’dea Davenport (N’dea was introduced to The Brand New Heavies by Delicious Vinyl Records when they made a sojourn to the U.S.A. as a band  … N’dea’s first solo single on Richard Branson’s V2 Records which also includes the Hex Hector mix)

Shame, Shame, Shame  –  Shirley and Company (Sylvia Robinson – owner of All Platinum Records knew Shirley Goodman during the Fifties when they were both recording artists known as ‘Mickie & Shirley & Lee’ and ‘Mickie & Sylvia’ respectively  … they reconnected and gave All Platinum their biggest hit before it metamorphose into Sugar Hill Records)

Papa was a rolling stone  –  Bill Wolfer (When this album was originally released  on Solar Records subsidary : Constellation – everyone except the album credit readers was unaware who he was … a major session musician for Stevie Wonder & Michael Jackson who were also featured on his lp ‘Wolf”)

Baby gets high  –  Quentin Harris featuring Drew Vision (From Quentin’s second album from the re-activated iconic Strictly Rhythm Records  …  written by Peter ‘Do you wanna get funky with me’ Brown)

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What part of heaven do you come from  –  Ray Barretto featuring Phillip Mitchell (Phillip was more successful as a song writer than a singer … his songs has been recorded by artists including Candi Staton, Bobby Womack, The Staple Singers  – his most famous been ‘Hurt so good’)

Don’t let my rainbow pass me by  –  Cloud One featuring Margo Williams (Patrick Adams first well-known studio band … Patrick supposedly said that if Cloud Nine was great – Cloud One would be so much more)

Am i gonna be the one  –  Colors (Co-written and featuring Vanesse Thomas – daughter of the inimitable of the great Rufus Thomas … Vanesse first came to my notice as background vocalist of John Davis & The Monster Orchestra mixed by Shep Pettibone )

Without you  –  Spero featuring Dannie Scott (Released on Chicago’s After-hours  … for a short while Afterhours was the label of choice when  most of their 12″ were a magnet for the Househeads)

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And the memory lingers on –   Chaka Khan (Yvette Stevens to her family … Chaka put words to Dizzy Gillespie’s Jazz masterwerk ‘A night in Tunisa’)

Welcome to the disco  –  Air Power (One-off Disco classic released on American Variety International by all-round Producer/Musician Donald Burnside … this is a ‘B’ side)

Bread  –  Idris Muhammed (From his CTI/Kudu sessions comes this multitrak vocals, downbeat Funk … and they are talking about what most of us haven’t got – Dollars, Nuggets, Money)

Touch the sky  –  Dennis Ferrer featuring Mia Tuttavilla (Dennis and Mia didn’t just ‘touch the sky’ they also took you to heaven)