Category Archives: Today’s Trax

Trax feat. Ten City, Cerrone, The Perfect Circle, Testament

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School me  – Ten City (From their third album for Atlantic Records – comes this corker of a down-tempo masterpiece … known for their House stompers – lead vocal vocalist Byron Stingily show how Soulful the group was)

Take me  –  Cerrone (French drummer/writer/producer Cerrone’s second album was just as potent as the first – however the title trak which was 16 minutes plus – the b-side was less interest but not because of lack of quality)

The hands of time  –  Perfect Circle (Released on the little independent “Inner City Records” label headed by George Semper  (producer/writer/arranger … this album was re-discovered and re-released on Japanese cd)

We need love  –  Testament (headed by Ron Carroll and released on Soulgroove Records … Ron has had a variety of pseudonyms which has which has mostly had is Gospel inspired without losing their House flair)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTOcDulx80c

Trax feat. S.O.S Band, Tony Rallo & the Midnite Band, Finished Touch, Ralphi Rosario

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Unborn child  –  S.O.S. Band (Their name was shortened from “Sounds of Success” – they signed with Clarence Avant’s Tabu Records with Mary Davis as the primary female lead vocalist … produced by Sigidi who had previously worked with “The Mizell Brothers” and arranged by Fred Wesley)

Burning alive  –  Tony Rallo & the Midnite Band (co- written by Tony Rallo …  produced by Alec R Constandinos & Danny Goldsmidt – released on Alec R Constandinos’s Ibis Records)

Sticks and stones (but the Funk would never hurt you)  –  Finished Touch (They were the backroom staff at Motown Records – who was given the authority to make an album amongst themselves – to great triumph … sadly this did not reflect in the sales)

Build it up  –  Ralphi Rosario feat. Donna Blakely (Chicago-an dj/producer Ralphi was part of “Hot Mix Five” team of djs on the local radio & in local clubs/bars … Ralphi released several trax on varoius labels before landing on ‘Afterhours  Records’ where he made the album ’45 Miles of Nerves’)

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

Trax feat. Sandra Wright, Tenderness, James Brown, Paul Simpson Connection

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I not strong enough to love you again  –  Sandra Wright (Sandra Wright had very bad luck – musically as she was assigned to Stax Records just as it was going out of business … her album ‘Wounded Woman’ was eventually released approximately 15 years after it was originally recorded)

Gotta keep on trying  –  Tenderness (Released on RCA  Records – co-written by James Purdie & Skip Mahoaney who both were part of Skip Mahoaney & The Casuals … James later produced Skip’s solo single on Salsoul with Skip’s surname spelt differently)

I’m a greedy man –  James Brown (‘Soul Brother Number 1’, ‘Minister of New Super Heavy Heavy Funk’, were just two of the titles of James Brown … the edited single was released as part 1 /part 2 on the b-side, from the album “There it is”)

Use me lose me  – Paul Simpson Connection (A Streetwise Records release, headed by Arthur Baker … mixed at Bob Blank’s Blank Tape studios by one of their most respected engineers’ Butch Jones & co-produced by Winston Jones who co-wrote the influential “Ma Foom Bey – from the album “The Streetwise Records Anthology”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iATlzCt5H4g