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Trax includes Chantel Mapp and 5am People, Judy Clayton, The Warriors, Victor Davies

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Sunday morning blue – Chantel Mapp and 5 am People (Release on the very short-lived U.K. label “2 Groove Records” … written by Mapp, Freeth and Dzonu & produced by Kwashiel)

Love’s gonna find you – Judy Clayton (Written by Carole Bayer-Sayer and Melissa Manchester and mixed by Jim Burgess … released on Warner/Curb Records imprint … later re-edit/adjusted by Chicago’ Mr Peabody)

Destination – The Warriors (Whilst in the U.S. ‘Crown Heights Affair’ was were becoming the Boogie Kings under various pseudonyms offshoots … “Light of the World” was doing similar with Funk – released Ensign, on the same label as ‘Light’, and was featured their only album ‘Behind the mask’)

Sound of the Samba – Victor Davies (Remixed by “Masters at Work” also known as Louie Vega & Kenny ‘Dope’ Gonzalez … written and produced by the man himself which also featured an acoustic version on the original single release)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIUQeBZSx8

Trax includes Love Unlimited, Carol Douglas, Pleasure, Ananda Project

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Oh love we finally made it – Love Unlimited (Originally recorded by ‘Smoke’ and released on “Mo-Soul Records” although slight title change – which was arranged by Gene Page & written by Barry White … Sisters Glodean and Diane James plus Diane Taylor made up the trio ‘Love Unlimited’ for Barry White Productions)

Doctor’s orders – Carol Douglas (Eddie O’Loughlin’s Midland International was who put Carol on the musical map after a few false starts using different pseudonyms and she instantly had a hit with a reinterpretation of a U.K. by Sunny Leslie)

Let’s dance – Pleasure (Assigned to The Crusaders’s Wayne Henderson’s At-home Productions and Fantasy Records – the self contained band from Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. … co-written by Angie Johnson of Side Effect who were pacted with the same companies)

Many starred sky – Ananda Project (Started as a side project but became bigger musically and creatively – written by Chris Brann and John Camp … released on ‘Kings Street Sounds’ subsidiary “Night Grooves”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98nAFmgE5VU

Today’s trax includes Gwen Guthrie, Ben E King, J.B.’s Wedge, Studio Apartment feat. Terrance Downs

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Oh Donny no – Gwen Guthrie (Introduced to background singing by Whitney’s mother Cissy Houston, one of her earliest sessions was with Aretha Franklin … she later wrote and/or produced trax for such luminaries as Sister Sledge, Ben E King, Angela Bofill, Roberta Flack, Linda Lewis and others before going solo)

Touched by your love – Ben E King (Having being the lead vocalist of “The Drifters” – Ben decided to to take solo route career-wise – mainly assigned to Atlantic Records throughout his journey … Co-written & co-produced by Bert De Coteaux, a trak from his ‘Music Trance’ album”)

Bessie – J.B’s Wedge (Originally released on TK Records ‘Brownstone’ imprint – a label headed by both Henry Stone and James Brown … available on 7 inch only, however a slightly different version turned up on James Brown’s ‘Mutha’s Nature’ long player)

We are lonely – Studio Apartment feat. Terrance Downs (Released in Japan on New World Records – Studio Apartment are/were duo Masanori Morita & Noboru Abe … Terrance is known as the main male vocalist affiliated with Chris Brann’s Ananda Project – both were released in the U.S.A. ON ‘King Street Sounds’)