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Trax feat. Double Exposure, Syreeta, Light of the World, Soulmagic & Ebony Soul feat. Ann Nesby

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Gotta give my love away  –  Double Exposure (After hearing the lead vocalist Jimmy Williams, – i decided to pay a tribute with a Soul ballad  … recorded previously as ‘United Image’ for Stax Records before signing on the dotted line with Salsoul who it is claimed released first commercially available 12 inch record available in the world by Double Exposure)

Can’t shake your love  –  Syreeta (Originally recorded as “Rita Wright” before returning to her proper name –  became known as a co-writer of “It’s a shame” & Stevie Wonder’s “Signed, sealed & delivered” as well as Stevie’s wife … Syreeta spent nearly all her recording career with Motown Records)

Pete’s Crusade  –  Light of the World (Named after a “Kool & The Gang” album of the same name (minus the ‘s’)… these London boys help create the genre that became known as ‘Jazz Funk’ … signed to the newly formed Ensign Records by owner Chris Hills)

Get your thing together  –  Soulmagic & Ebony Soul feat. Ann Nesby (Soulmagic is primarily Morten Trost known for his trax on Morehouse Records amongst others – Ebony Soul is Victor Simonelli of Blind Truth, NY Finest, Bassline Records and a plethora of pseudonyms … Ann is the former lead vocalist of “Sound of Blackness” the African American Gospel ensemble)

Trax feat. David Peaston, Double Exposure, Cameo, Chaka Khan

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Can I  – David Peaston (David regularly won the “Showtime at the Apollo” television programme held at New York’s Apollo theatre in Harlem … released on Geffen Records – it is a cover version of the Eddie Kendricks single)

Baby i need your loving  –  Double Exposure (This trak was overlooked because of the other uptempo trax on their first album … written by Motown Records’ trio “Holland/Dozier/Holland” for The Four Tops)

Cameosis  –  Cameo (Cameo leader Larry Blackmon was in the band ‘East Coast’ with Gwen Guthrie & Pat Grant – assigned to Neil Bogart’s Casablanca Records sub-division “Chocolate City” – from the album of the same name)

Never miss the water  –  Chaka Khan (Chicago born Yvette Stevens also known as Chaka Khan released a greatest hits album called “Epiphany” which also included added trax which featured Me’shell Ndegeocello … remixed by Frankie Knuckles on Reprise Records)