If we  ever needed peace  – Isaac Hayes (As ‘Black Moses’ as Isaac was known during the ‘Stax’ days or ‘Chef’ – his voiced character of adult cartoon South Park  – this multi-talented titan’s music never diminished as he pleads for Peace)

Panic  –  French Kiss (F. K. were a studio put together by Simon Soussan who created Shalamar – released on Polydor Records via his Hareem Productions … the original was by Sixties girl group Reparata & The Delrons)

Love will keep us together  –  James Taylor Quartet featuring Alison Limerick (J.T.Q. are/were a U.K. JazzFunk assemblage who recorded on a variety of labels including Acid Jazz … Alison was featured in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express show)

Imbalaye – African Allstars (French House meets Afrobeat  … released on France’s Yellow Prodictions – produced by Bjorn Lundt, lead vocals by Ivan Voice & background vocals by Valerie and Marie Paul)

A song for Donny  –  The Whispers (Tribute to Donny Hathaway – his original song was called ‘This Christmas’ –  but was  re-named and re-lyriced by Carrie Lucas)

Casanova Brown  –  Gloria Gaynor (‘The story of Little Red Riding Hood – the Big Bad Wolf was up to no good’ … are some of the lyrics originally released on M.G.M Records)

Stretching out (on a rubber band)  –  Bootsy Collins (The Funkin’ of Casper – not the friendly ghost but the Holy Ghost…written by George Clinton & William ‘Bootsy’ Collins)

Can’t stop  –  Quentin Harris featuring Jason Walker (Originally sung by After 7 and written by L.A. & Babyface  – released on the revitalised Strictly Rhythm Records)

‘Ole love  –  Stephanie Mills (Trak from her debut ‘Tantalizingly’ on on Casablanca Records – recently released on cd … an early self-production by Stephanie, the former “Dorothy” from the Broadway show ‘The Wiz’)

Do you wanna boogie hunh  –  Two Tons o’ Fun (Sylvester gave his  background vocalists the name due to their physical sizes and personalities … this duo later became known as ‘The Weather Girls’ – the name given by Paul Jabara – the writer/producer of their most well-known song)

Pass the peas  –  Maceo Parker (This is a trak from James Brown’s second lieutenant ‘live’ album “Life on Planet Groove” – an original recording by The JB’s which also featured Maceo … released on Germany’s Minor Music)

Music maakes me higher  –  Life featuring Jeannie Febus (Written, arranged by Mike Delgado and Matt Heilbronn for their DeepZone Productions … released on Tommy Musto’s Sub-Urban Records out of New York)