Trax feat. Miles Jaye, Melba Moore, Brothers Johnson, Cevin Fisher

 

 

I’ve been a fool for you –  Miles Jaye (Assigned to Teddy Pendergrass’s Teddy Bear Enterprises – released on Island/Fourth & Broadway … now releases his albums on Black Tree Records)

You stepped into my life  –  Melba Moore (Originally written and sung by the Bee Gees … produced by McFadden & Whitehead – CBS’s in-house remixer John Luongo twiddled the knobs)

Ain’t we funkin’ now  –  Brothers Johnson ( George & Louis were whisked to A&M Records by Quincy Jones after guesting and featuring on his ‘Mellow Madness’ album)

Music saved my life  –  Cevin Fisher (‘Gotta Thank God for the music – if it wasn’t for music i don’t know what we’d do’  – is the introductory lyrics … released on Maxi Records then ‘touched up’ by U.K.s Pete Heller)

Trax feat. Shirley Brown, Isaac Hayes, Lalo Schifrin, Deborah Cox

 

 

Don’t go looking for my man  –  Shirley Brown (Shirley was discovered by Blues giant Albert King and taken to Stax Records … now with Malaco Records – Shirley still releases quality Southern Soul albums)

Don’t let go  –  Isaac Hayes (A Jesse Stone composition that was a hit for Roy Hamilton … Isaac-  being a dab hand of giving old songs the ‘Isaac’ treatment sometimes giving them a completely new arrangement also a new lease of life)

No one’s home  –  Lalo Schifrin (Released on Clarence Avant’s ‘Tabu Records’ – this trak has become something of an underground Jazz-Funk classic … Clarence was previously Lalo’s manager even before he started Sussex Records and discovered Bill Withers)

Things just ain’t the same  –  Deborah Cox (Canadian vocal explosion settled at Clive Davis’s Arista/J Records … Grammy Award Winning Dj Hex Hector was at the helm of this remix)

Trax feat. Lonnie Liston Smith & Phyllis Hyman, MFSB, Aquarium Dream, Her

 

 

Obsession – Lonnie liston Smith feat Phyllis Hyman (The great Jazz/Soul vocalist guested on a few ‘Jazzmen’ albums towards the end of her life … “Mr. “Space Princess” Lonnie output in the 70’s are Jazz Funk masterpieces – for further information : lonnielistonsmith.net)

The Zip  – MFSB (The ‘Sigma Sound’ session musicians who played on most artists albums out of said studio – these are some of the men who invented Disco  … Dj Sneak used this trak as an inspiration for his ‘E.P.’ on Strictly Rhythm)

East of 6th Street  –  Aquariun Dream (Titled ‘Norman Connors presents Aquarian Dream recorded just one album for Buddah Records before hotfooting to Elektra … featuring keyboard player Jacques Burvick although this trak was written by Dwight Webster)

Her  –  Even if you’re sad (Vocals courtesy of the wonderfully talented Michelle Weeks … released as a single on (never heard of) Dance Baby Records)