Category Archives: Today’s Trax

Trax feat. Jimmy Briscoe & The Little Beavers, Love Unlimited Orchestra, The Sound Stylistics, Harlem Hustlers

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My Ebony Princess  –  Jimmy Briscoe & The Little Beavers (Inspired by the success of “The Jackson Five”  – The Beavers were discovered at a talent contest in Baltimore U.S.A, when they were approximately years old … co-written, arranged and produced by their manager Paul L Kyser)

Brazilian love song  –  Love Unlimited Orchestra (Barry White’s backing band who shone as an independent identity although they were predominantly written, arranged & produced by Barry … from the album “My Sweet Summer Suite” on 20th Century Fox Records)

The players theme  –  The Sound Stylistics (The Sound Stylistics started out as a group of musicians who put a collection together for a music library company … the album became an underground phenomena that it was re-edited and re-released on Freestyle Records)

My love’s forgotten   –  Harlem Hustlers (Released in the U.S.A. as Harlem Hustler’s Vol. 2  on Big Big Trax and licensed from Italy’s Lemon Records/Wax Productions … this was the b-side of the single – inspired by “My forbidden lover – Chic”)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0FUFDYJHKM

Trax feat. Lorraine Ellison, Hi Voltage, T-Connection, Kimara Lovelace

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Stay with me baby  –  Lorraine Ellison (The rumour was Frank Sinatra decided not to turn up for a particular recording session and the producer Jerry Ragovoy decided to use the time constructively – and this is result … there has been several versions of this song however ! …)

Let’s get horny  –  Hi Voltage (Inspired by Vertigo – the first part of the medley “Vertigo/Relight my fire”, originally written & recorded by Dan Hartman feat. Loleatta Holloway … produced by the mysterious but brilliant and sometimes elusive Began Cekic)

Saturday night  –  T-Connection (This Bahamas born group skipped across to Florida, U.S.A and signed to Dash Records, an offshoot of Henry Stone’s T.K Records … featuring Theophilus Coakley, the T. of T.Connection)

Misery  –  Kimara Lovelace (Despite the title – this trak is anything but ! credited as written by Marvin Burns however he uses birth name as writer & Lil’ Louis as producer, remixer and artist … released on King Street Sounds)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTj3NujuzPw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJaxk9QuRHk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-w2zgec0g

 

Trax feat. The Dells, Brenda & The Tabulations, Morning Noon & Night, Byron Stingily

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Passionate Breezes  –  The Dells (Written by Chuck Jackson & Marvin Yancy formally of The Independents … The Dells were assigned to Chi-Sound Records then distributed by 20th Century Fox Records – produced  by label supremo Carl Davis)

Everybody’s Fool  –  Brenda & The Tabulations (Put together by music entrepreneur Gilda Woods who had the groups trax released on a few independent Philadelphian labels mostly trax written and produced by Van McCoy eventually signing with Chocolate City – part of Neil Bogart’s Casablanca Records)

Time  –  Morning, Noon & Night (Named after an album title by the Nite-liters – released by Roadshow Records and distributed by United Artists Records … produced by Michael Stokes known for his work with “Enchantment” & “Magic Lady”)

Testify  –  Byron Stingily (Byron came to prominence as the featured vocalist on Ragtyme – he later went on to form Ten City along with Herb Lawson & Byron Burke … signing to Michael Weiss’s Nervous Records of New York )