Trax feat. Brenda Russell, Sesso Matto, Convertion, Deep Brothers

 

 

Love and Paris Rain  –  Brenda Russell (Brenda has written songs that having been covered by Luther Vandross, Donna Summer, Oleta Adams to name a few … Brenda has also been a Grammy nominated songwriter for “The Color Purple” musical)

Sesso Matto  –  Sesso Matto (First trak from the iconic Disco/Boogie label – West End Records … a 3 minute plus trak that was remixed from the Italian movie soundtrak ‘How funny can sex be’ – Armando Trovaioli)

Let’s do it  –  Convertion (Boogie Meister Extraordinaire Leroy Burgess – with his equally talented  associations James Calloway, Greg Carmichael & Sonny Davenport … released on Sam Records, this is Logg under a different name

It works for me  –  Sabrynaah Pope (Released on King Street Sounds and written, produced and mixed by Blaze … Sabrynaah was also one of the vocalists on Blaze’s wonderful ‘Keep hope alive’ album under the heading “Underground Dance Artists United For Life”)

Trax feat. First Choice, Thelma Houston, Dayton, Deep Zone

 

 

House for sale  –  First Choice (Salsoul Records’s ‘Doyennes of Disco’ – shows their versatility –  Rochelle Fleming and the girls lowers the tempo without lowering the quality, produced by Norman  Harris and sadly to say this was from their last album ‘Breakaway’)

Love Machine  –  Thelma Houston (Motown Records were known to pass songs to their different artists – slower tempo than The Miracles original … www.thelmahouston.com)

Krackity Krack  –  Dayton feat. Bootsy Collins (Dayton consists were former members of Sun … from Ohio which was hotbed for Funk band which in including Zapp, Ohio Players & Sun amongst others)

It’s gonna be alright (Help is on it’s way)  – Deep Zone featuring Ceybil Jeffries (Released on New York’s Sub-Urban Records … after Ceybil one-off album for Atlantic Records – she became the featured vocalists for a variety of Garage/House productions)

Trax feat. Esther Phillips, The O’Jay’s, Funky People, Deborah Cox

 

Scarred knees  –  Esther Phillips (Discovered by Johnny Otis, who also discovered Etta James & was named after U.S.’s Phillips 66 gas/petrol company … Esther crossed various musical genres including  Blues, Jazz, Soul, Disco and Gospel – from her first album on Kudu/CTI Records “From a whisper to a scream”)

Unity  –  The O’Jay’s (Hailed from Ohio and originally named ‘The Mascots’ before being renamed by a local Dj … recording at Sigma Sound Studios and utilising studio superstars MFSB as the backing band – Eddie Levert and company kept the world dancing and thinking with their message songs … or as one of their later album was titled ‘Message in the music’)

Everybody hustle  – Funky People (A pre-Brass Construction single that was co-produced by Jeff Lane & Randy Muller – both who were the producer and arranger of the first B.C. album … released on Roulette Records)

Easy as life  –  Deborah Cox (Canadian Deborah came prominence via Clive Davis’s Arista Records … reinterpreted from  ‘Aida’ which was written by Elton John and Tim Rice – some of her singles were remixed by David Morales, Hex Hector and other top Dj/Remixers with this particular trak by Offer Nissim)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq3u4wR6Dj4