Trax feat. Pamela Williams, Juggy Murray Jones, Thelma Houston, Rhythm on the loose

Secret Garden – Pamela Williams feat. Patti Labelle & Teena Marie (Having worked with/for both Patti & Teena on their respective albums – they decided to do their honours and be the featured  vocalist’s on Pamela’s ”Saxtress” cd … originally released and recorded by Quincy Jones with an allstar cast)

Disco Extraordinaire  –  Juggy Murray Jones (Juggy was a musical entrepreneur who started Sue Records in the U.S.A. , released trax by ‘Ike & Tina Turner’, Jimmy McGriff & Baby Washington also discovered ‘Charlie & Inez Foxx’ … he later started Jupiter Records and this is the result – cat. no. : Jupiter 1101)

If you feel it  –  Thelma Houston (Thelma had her most successful trax at Motown Records  but things got a bit lacklustre hits-wise so she moved unto RCA … this trak was from her ‘Never gonna be another one’ album)

Break of dawn  –  Rhythm on the loose (Salsoul’s “Let no man put asunder – First Choice featuring Rochelle Fleming” was one of the most trak sampled/butchered trax at the beginning of Chicago’s House explosion … this trak first appeared on ‘The one after D’  Records before being picked up by Birmingham’s Network Records for national distribution)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSKc0lwxikE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvqv0TUqgEk

Trax feat. Leon Bryant, Jean Carn, Chubukos, Victor Simonelli presents Sound of One

Can I  – Leon Bryant (Leon is/was also a writer, producer & arranger – and this trak is one of his compositions … assigned to New York’s Delite Records – home of Kool & the Gang, Crown Heights Affair)

Time waits for no one  –  Jean Carn (The vocals, the composition & the arrangement – all three put together is what makes it works … from her first album on Philadelphia International which was self-titled “Jean Carn”)

House of the rising funk   –  Chubukos (Inspired by ‘House of the rising sun – The Animals/Nina Simone … this trak appeared on Mainstream Records after they forayed into Soul & Funk from the usual Jazz releases , ignored by most until being discovered by Hip hop producers & Street Funk fans alike)

I know a place  –  Victor Simonelli presents Sounds of One (I’ll take you there – Staple Singers is the trak that comes to mind every time i hear this trak … originally released as  The EP – on One Records)

 

Trax feat. The Manhattans, Lew Kirton, Unidisputed Truth, Extortion

 

 

If my heart could speak/One life to live  –  The Manhattans (Having worked with producer Bobby Martin for a number of years – they ventured forward with a variety of producers including Philadelphia’s Norman Harris for this trak)

Heaven in the afternoon  –  Lew Kirton (A former member of The Invitations – who were assigned such labels as Red Greg & Silver Blue Records  … released on Alston – one of Henry Stone’s plethora of labels under the T.K. Records umbrella)

Atomic Funk  –  Undisputed Truth (Chicago-an Yvonne Stevens – also know as ‘Taka Boom’ was drafted in when producer Norman Whitfield started his Warner Brothers affiliated ‘Whitfield Records’ … from the album ‘Smokin’)

How do you see me now  –  Extortion feat Dihan Brooks (Written by Dihan & Boyd Jarvis – produced by Jason Load and originally release on A&R Records before being re-released on Easy Street)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08whb3ieYag

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDtOhXz1oBU