Trax feat. Jerry Butler, Faith Hope & Charity, T-Connection, Jasper Street Company

 

 

Dream World  –  Jerry Butler (A titan of Soul Music who wrote for Otis Redding and – was one of the original member of The Impressions and personal friend , confidant and co-writer of Curtis Mayfield … was the original singer of ‘Only the strong survive’ & ‘Make it easy on yourself’)

A little love  –  Faith, Hope & Charity (F, H & C recorded for Sussex Records and when it folded – they signed with RCA now known as BMG … the later line-up consisted of Brenda Hillard, Albert Bailey and Diane Destry and was written and produced primarily by Van McCoy and Charles Kipps)

Born to boogie  –  T-Connection (A six piece from The Bahamas was assigned to Florida’s TK Records – Dash subsidary before moving to Capitol Records … from their ‘Totally Connected’ album released on Dash)

Lift every voice and sing  –  Jasper Street Company (Jasper Street are a Gospel/House coterie under the guidance of The Basement Boys – released on Basement Boys Records and/or their offshoot label … originally recorded by Mass Order which was also produced by The B.B.)

Trax feat. Bill Withers, Freda Payne, Deadline , DJ Oji

 

 

Harlem  –  Bill Withers (Originally released on Clarence Avant’s Sussex Records – however when Clarence had problems the master tapes ended up with Columbia Records now known as Sony … from the album ‘Just as i am’ which also featured “Ain’t no sunshine”)

Master of love  –  Freda Payne (The No. 1 singer in term of sales for writers Holland – Dozier – Holland  after hot-footing from Motown Records to set up Invictus Records then wife of Gregory Abbott who also contributed to as a songwriter to her album ‘Stares & Whispers … now available on cd)

Makossa Rock  –  Deadline (After meeting Celluloid head honcho Jean Karakos – producer/arranger and all arounder Bill Laswell released a variety of projects on Celluloid … having had a major hit with Herbie Hancock gave him kudos)

Lift up your hands in the Santuary  –  DJ Oji featuring Una (Una Barry  first came to my on my radar via her release on Look at you Records – since she has turned up on a variety on trax including Oji’s partner DJ Pope)

Trax feat. Dee Dee Sharp Gamble, Tuxedo Junction, Salsoul Orchestra & Adeva

 

 

I’m not in love  –  Dee Dee Sharpe Gamble (Dee Dee started a Dance-craze with her hit single ‘Mash Potato Time’ and other  subsequent Dance-craze releases … an original composition/hit for U.K. self-contained group TEN CC)

Chattanooga choo choo  –  Tuxedo Junction (Studio group concieved by Disco Producers Extraordinaire Rinder & Lewis – having made their mark via their America Variety International Recordings of El Coco, Le Pamplemousse et al – they move this production to the newly activated Butterfly Records)

Getaway  –  Salsoul Orchestra (A hit for Maurice White’s Earth , Wind & Fire … Vince Montana led Salsoul Orchestra reconstructed it and took it up a few notches above the original … from the album ‘Magic Journey’)

Respect  –  Adeva (Patrica Daniels to her mother … Smack Productions brought Adeva to the public attention via a monster club hit that was released on Easy Street Records – second single from her self-titled album, written by Otis Redding)