Category Archives: Today’s Trax

Trax feat. Love Unlimited, Bionic Boogie, Funk Deluxe, Wally Jump Junior & Criminal Element

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Walking in the rain with the one i love  –  Love Unlimited (The trak which put Barry White as a writer/producer into stratosphere also his vocalists which also included his future wife Glodean … Barry is the voice on the telephone)

Don’t lose that number (Mumbo Jumbo)  –  Bionic Boogie (From the first studio album produced by Greg Diamond featuring Gwen Guthrie and other stellar New York session musicians … recorded at Media Sound Studio N. Y.)

Friends  –  Funk Deluxe (Written and produced by “The Funk Meister” Randy Muller known for his work with Brass Construction, B.T. Express, Rafael Cameron, Skyy & Full Circle … a Blank Tape Studio recording New York)

Jummp Back  –  Wally Jump Junior & The Criminal Element (The ‘answer back’ trak in response to Dhar Braxton’s nugget … an Arthur Baker production on his own Criminal Records featuring Will Downing & Craig Derry)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zSvdu-lbCU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2YRJdSHNTQ

Trax feat. First Choice, Chic, Skyy, Michelle Sweeney

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Let him go  –  First Choice (The mistress turns up at the wife’s door asking to ‘let her husband Buddy go’ … the third album “Let us entertain you”, produced by Stan Watson and released on Philly Groove/Warner Brothers Records)

My feet keep dancing  –  Chic (The Great Disco Demolition Fire of  Chicago in ’79 where numbskulls decided to burn Disco records cause many radio stations & record labels to drop acts, this meant ‘Chic’ had lesser hits –  yet 30 years later Nile Rodgers & Chic are selling out world tours … Niles’s partner, the late Bernard Edwards feet is probably still ‘keep dancing’
Questions no answers  –  Skyy (Skyy were an eight piece band which featured three ‘Durning’ sisters – Denise, Dolores & Bonne, Solomon Roberts amongst others … assigned to Salsoul Records by their production company  named “Alligator Bit Him”)

This time  –  Michelle Sweeney (Released on Big Beat Records which became an imprint of Atlantic … written by Tony Green and remixed by Stonebridge & Nick Nice)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG5jKKg0LgU

 

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Trax feat. Facts of Life, Biddu Orchestra, Defunkt, Jasper Street Company

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Caught in the act (of getting’ it on)  –  Facts of life (“Get dressed baby, i’m afraid we are caught – your husband is here, somebody must have tipped him off” are the opening lyrics  – written by former Stax Records backroom boys Homer Banks & Carl Hampton … released on Brad Shapiro’s Kayvette Records & produced by Millie Jackson)

I could dance all night  – Biddu Orchestra (‘My Fair Lady’ was a Broadway show also a very successful movie written by Alan Jay Lerner & Frank Loewe from which the original version was culled … Biddu Orchestra was headed by Biddu who made his name as the producer of “Kung Fu Fighting – the global hit)

Defunkt  –  Defunkt (Defunkt were a Funk band headed by Joe Bowie, the writer, arranger, vocalist, trombonist and producer –  released on Joe Boyd’s Hannibal Records … saw Defunkt probably four or five times and their gigs were Awesome)

Smile  –  Jasper Street Company (From their “New Birth”extended play single, which was also released as a double 12” in it’s own right – featuring April Lovelist & ‘Fruity’ on lead vocals … all on Basement Boys Records)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4KN3u_83MQ