Today’s trax

 

 

Heaven must be like this  –  Ohio Players (After leaving Westbound records where there they made great albums and even greater album covers – they landed on Mercury … from their first album on their new label release comes this monster ballad)

Sound of funky horn  –  K C & The Sunshine Band (Harry  Wayne “K C” Casey & Richard Finch were the principle writers – the band a consists of variety of TK Records studio musicians)

Dr. Funkenstein  –  Parliament (‘Funk upon a time in the days of the Funkapus, the concept of specially designed Afronauts capable of Funkatizing galaxies was first laid on man-child, but was reposted and placed among the secret of the Pyramids’ … lyrics of the first trak from their album “The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein)

The Boat  –  Cloak & Dagger (A “Premium Plastic” release … written/produced by Simon Kemper and Iain Hagger – license courtesy of Multiply Records)

Today’s trax

 

 

Good morning heartache  –  D’Influence (A U.K. self-contained band who had Sarah Anne Webb as lead vocalist – the rest of the band were Kwame Kwaten, Steve Marston and Ed Baden-Powell makes up the quartet … after releasing a one-off single on Acid Jazz, they were assigned to East-West Records)

Don’t make me wait too long  –  Barry White (The words ‘Symphonic Soul’ was used to described Barry’s music as it had a large orchestra with strings, horns … assigned to 20th Century Fox Records  which has since been swallowed up by Polygram and then Universal)

Lady’s wild – Con Fun Shun (The seven piece started off as The Soul Children backing band … signed on the dotted line to Mercury Records – they filled stadiums in the U.S.A. but were completely overlooked in the U.K except by the dedicated)

I’m in love  –  Sha-lor (Released on Gertie in the U.S.A., it was license to Deconstruction in the U.K. via  Jump Street  – their distributor …. the Deconstruction compilation ‘North – The Sound of the Dance Underground’ which showed Manchester as being the House Music capital of the U.K)

Today’s trax

 

 

Where did our love go  –  The Reddings (The late great Otis Redding left a wonderful body of work … The Reddings are two of his sons Otis and Dexter also relative Mark Lockett … even their management was a Redding)

Night dancin’  –  Taka Boom (Born Yvonne Stevens – whose more famous sister is Yvette  has laid  down lead vocals for Norman Whitfield  and later became the favourite vocalist for Joey Negro also known as Dave Lee for his Garage/House releases in the U.K)

Wicki wacky/House party  –  The Team who were the ashes of Light of the World who  married Fatback Band with Fred Wesley with a soupçon of Kool and the Gang … released by Ian Dewhirst whilst at EMI )

Club Lonely  –  Li’L Louis (Featuring Joy Cardwell on lead – this trak became an instant anthem … there was a bidding war by major labels to get hold of his masters)