Trax feat. True Reflection, The Trammps, 24 Carat Black, Thelma Houston

Look at all the lonely people  –  True Reflection (A quartet who recorded for Atco, a unit of  Atlantic Records – member Glenn Leonard later joined “The Temptations” … co-produced & co-written by Rodney Brown and Willie Lester who later wrote and produce hits for Prelude Records)

Disco Party  –  The Trammps (“The Trammps” were the evolution of a Phildelphian vocal group ‘The Volcanos’  which included Earl Young, brothers Harold & Stanley Wade amongst others … recording for Buddah and Norman Harris’s Golden Fleece before signing to Atlantic Records)

Ghetto : Misfortune Wealth  –  24 Carat Black (24 Carat Black’s album was released on Stax Records’s Enterprise subsidary … a concept album which was under sold and valued until the Hip hop producers came ‘sampling’ which elevated it cult status)

All of that  –  Thelma Houston (Thelma came to the prominence via her cover of ‘The Rolling Stones’s “Jumping Jack Flash” on Dunhill Records before resurfacing Motown’s Mo West imprint … written by the lady herself with Dave Lee – nom de plume Joey Negro)

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Today’s trax Featuring Marlena Shaw, The Trammps, Dexter Wansel, Soul Rebels

 

 

 

Save the children  –  Marlens Shaw (One of the hardest thing to do is to make someone else’s song your own – & in this case Marlena does that with this Marvin Gaye original)

Shout  – The Trammps (The Isley Brothers’ song, Lulu hit, and this is why The Trammps were the greatest Disco group)

All night long  –  Dexter Wansel (Philly’s all-round musician/writer/producer shows without doubt he was the man for the job)

The revolution will not be televised  –  Soul Rebels (Gil Scot-Heron original has been made from a protest song to a dance trak

Trax featuring The Trammps, Bruni Pagan, Guru feat. Chaka Khan, Kathy Brown

 

Down three dark streets  –  The Trammps  (We’ve all lost a love  – be it ‘down three dark streets/ the man next door or the hunk in the night club)

Fantasy  –  Bruni Pagan  (one of the lesser known “Patrick Angels” – meaning that there was a slew of female session vocalists who worked with Patrick Adams)

Watch what you saying  –  Guru feat.  Chaka Khan (Funky hip-hop trak with the Chicagoan diva giving it her all at the same not ‘over-singing it)

Happy People  –  Kathy Brown (Prod. by ‘The Gamble & Huff’ of Garage : Blaze released on Easy Street – you this isn’t gonna be a lemon