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The Futures - Past, Present & The Futures - Ain't No Time Fa Nothing 1978

James Brown may be the Godfather of Soul, but his 1965 hit "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" is widely regarded as one of the first Funk songs. JB's also recorded a multitude of Funk tracks during his career, including "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)," and "I Got the Feelin'."

Rafael Cameron - Camerons In Love 1981

[Born:] Rafael Cameron in 1951, he sang in bands while growing up. In the early '70s, he moved to America to further his education. Meeting Muller while performing in the active New York City music scene, the two didn't start to record together until a few years later.

Muller's own band was later signed to the United Artists Records distributed label, Roadshow Records. Their self-titled LP was produced by Jeff Lane (B.T. Express) and spawned "Movin'" -- which went to number one R&B and number 14 pop -- in 1976. Randy Muller of '70s disco/funk band Brass Construction ("Movin'") produced Georgetown, Guyana, native Rafael Cameron's biggest early-'80s hits, "Magic of You (Like the Way)" and "Funtown U.S.A."

Initially recording as Cameron, his silky tenor proved to be the perfect counterpoint to Muller's brassy funk-driven production style. Muller produced the band Skyy, who was having hits ("First Time Around," "Call Me," "High," "Skyyzoo," "Superlove") for the Cayre Brothers' Salsoul Records, so he shopped the young singer to the label. Cameron was the name of his gold Salsoul 1980 debut LP which yielded several hits: the squishy, funny, funky "Magic of You (Like the Way)," "Funkdown," and "Feelin'.

Cameron continued having hits, including "Funtown U.S.A." and "Boogie's Gonna Get Ya'" from the album Cameron's in Love, and "Desires" and "Shake It Down" from Cameron All the Way. "Let's Get It Off" was a disco hit from Cameron; it sports the most Brass Construction influence and can be found on the flip side of "Magic of You (Like the Way)" and its own 12" single with a short version on one side and an extended, slightly faster Larry Levan remix on the other.

In 1983, Salsoul became dormant when the Cayre Brothers decided to concentrate on their newly created First Choice Home Video division. Without a recording contract, Cameron faded into private life. Becoming a born-again Christian, he resurfaced in the mid-'90s recording gospel music. A reactivated Salsoul Records reissued his records on CD in the '90s.

CD:

1. Number One
2. All That's Good to Me *
3. Let's Get Married
4. Boogie's Gonna Get Ya'
5. Funtown U.S.A.
6. I'd Go Crazy
7. Daisy
8. In Love
9. All That's Good to Me [Bonus Track] *

Raphael Cameron - Number One 1981

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RARE - A Rare Collection Of Grooves Volume 1 - 1988

As with reggae, rap contains a wealth of original beats for musical archaeologists to unearth; whereas many reggae producers mined rock-steady rhythms from the Studio One and Treasure Isle studios, their hip-hop counterparts excavated the monster grooves of '70s and early-'80s funk. James Brown and P-Funk family members like Bootsy Collins immediately come to mind, and they are appropriately covered on this Rare Grooves collection.

RARE - A Rare Collection Of Grooves Volume 2 - 1988

Besides Bootsy's "Hollywood Squares" having been taken over by Too Short and Brown's instrumental "Blind Man Can See It" once getting cherry picked by producer Erick "Funklord" Sermon, the record reveals Dr. Dre's "Nothin' but a 'G' Thang" is really Leon Haywood's "I Want to Do Something Freaky to You" and Redman's "A Day of Sooperman Luver" is an appropriation of Johnny "Guitar" Watson's "Superman Lover.

RARE - A Rare Collection Of Grooves Volume 3 - 1988

And the exchange wasn't just between funk and hip hop, as a lick from James Brown's "Give It Up or Turn It Loose" is heard opening Tom Browne's late funk classic "Funkin' for Jamaica (N.Y.)." Of course, the list is endless; thankfully, many of the resulting hip-hop productions turned out to be original in their own right.

And if your interest in sampling history is only passing, this record also works remarkably well as a solid funk collection, with even more prime cuts by Cameo, Ohio Players, the Floaters, and many others.

Benny Golson - Always Dancing To The Music 1979

Garfield Fleming - Don't Send Me Away 1981

New Jersey Connection - Love Don't Come Easy 1981

Ron Matlock - Love City 1979

In 2007 digitally remastered reissue of the lone 1979 album from the overlooked smooth Soul baritone featuring three bonus tracks including two single edits of 'Let Me Dance' and the mono mix of 'You Got The Best Of Me'. His husky, smooth, understated baritone and sensitive compositional skills merge to create an album free of the Disco-oriented saturation of many of his contemporaries' efforts.

It's the swooping ballads and swaying mid-tempos here, like the plush "Take Me to the Top (Of Your Mountain)" and the rare-groove favorite "I Can't Forget About You," that truly show his essence. Longtime collaborator Michael Stokes' organic production and arrangement expertise is a steady complement to Matlock's unique stylings, whether it's on the low-key "Feeling Something" or the more agile "Back Street." WSM. purchased this album by Ron way back in the day and have been waiting for it to be produced on a CD.

Ron has never received his just due and I am glad someone had the foresight to reissue his music. Buy this CD and you will be just as elated as I am for this reissue.

Tracks:

1. Let Me Dance 5:21
2. Love City 4:14
3. I Can't Forget About You 5:13 *
4. Feeling Something 3:47 $0.99
5. Back Street 4:34
6. Take Me To The Top (Of Your Mountain) 5:53
7. You Got The Best Of Me 4:13
8. Working Man 4:28
9. Let Me Dance (Mono Single Version) 3:33
10. You Got The Best Of Me (Mono Single Version)

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Roger - The Many Facets Of 1981

Tracks:

1. I Heard It Through The Grapevine 10:51
2. So Ruff, So Tuff 04:52
3. A Chunk Of Sugar 05:32
4. Do It Roger 08:15
5. Maxx Axe 08:21
6. Blue 03:25
7. I Heard It Through The Grapevine (part 1) 04:01
8. Do It Roger 04:01
9. Superman

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Rockie Robbins - Rockie Robbins 1985

Robbins was [Born:] Edward W. Robbins Jr. He cut his first record in 1979, which was produced by Richard Evans and Johnny Pate. The master tapes for this record were erased in transit to the record company, and the album had to be re-recorded.

Robbins' self-titled debut did not sell particularly well but A&M retained him for a second album, which was produced by Bobby Martin, and which produced his biggest hit, "You and Me". Robbins moved to MCA Records who, in 1984, included his song “Emergency” in the Grammy Award-winning soundtrack to the Hollywood blockbuster Beverly Hills Cop. They also released a second self-titled album. Robbins changed record company again, this time to Respect Records, where he recorded his last album, Are You Ready (1991).

CD:

1. Ive Got Your Number 4:25
2. Goodbyes Dont Last Forever 5:16
3. Stay With Me 5:05
4. Work For Love 4:17 ***
5. Caught In The Act 3:57
6. I Found Love 4:04
7. We Belong Together 4:54
8. You Finally Found The One 4:17
9. An Act Of Love [Bonus Track] 3:46
10. Time To Think [Bonus Track] 4:43
11. Look Before Your Leap [Bonus Track] 3:50
12. Hang Tough [Bonus Track]

Rockie Robbins - Work For Love 1985

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Richard Dimples Fields - Mr. Look So Good 1982

[Born:] 21st March 1941, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
[Died:] 12th January 2000, Novato California Community Hospital, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Richard 'Dimples' Fields hailed from San Francisco and was born in 1941. He was born to Parnell Fields and Evelyn Wells Brazil and his grandmother was Julia Wells Quillins. He took his nick name 'Dimples' from a female admirer who remarked that he was always smiling.

Richard began singing in the early 70's, purchasing a San Francisco cabaret, the Cold Duck Music Lounge, where he headlined.

Tracks:

1. If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another 7:02
2. After I Put My Lovin' On You 3:46
3. Baby Work Out 4:24
4. Mr. Look So Good 3:55
5. Taking Applications 5:33
6. A Freak On The Side 5:17
7. Sincerely 4:13
8. The Lady Is Bad 5:14

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Rene & Angela - A Street Called Desire 1985

During Rene & Angela's early years, Moore and Winbush were asked to produce songs for Janet Jackson's 1982 self-titled debut album, Janet Jackson. One of the songs, "Young Love", became Jackson's first top ten R&B hit reaching number six on the chart. They also wrote exclusively for Stephanie Mills, who forged a close friendship with Winbush their "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love", gave Mills her first-ever #1 R&B single, in 1985.

Winbush would later write another Mills number one R&B hit with "Something in the Way You Make Me Feel". Between that, Rene & Angela decided to branch out and find a bigger fan base signing with Mercury Records in 1984. They released their breakthrough album, A Street Called Desire the following year.

Among the hit singles included on the album was their first R&B number one with the dance single, "Save Your Love (For #1)", which included guest vocals from rapper Kurtis Blow, making it besides Chaka Khan's "I Feel For You", one of the first songs to prominently feature a rapper.

Other hit singles included "I'll Be Good", the mostly Winbush-led "Your Smile" was another number one hit while the subsequent "You Don't Have to Cry", hit number two in the beginning of 1986. Eventually A Street Called Desire sold over a million copies going platinum, but on the brink of their greatest success, tensions between Winbush and Moore had grown.

Moore went on to compose and produce hits for and with Michael Jackson and co-wrote with Winbush four songs for Janet Jackson's first album. Moore would continue to find success as a songwriter, most notably for Michael Jackson.

CD:

1. Save Your Love
2. I'll Be Good
3. No How - No Way
4. You Don't Have to Cry
5. Street Called Desire
6. Your Smile
7. Who's Foolin' Who
8. Drive My Love
9. Set Me Free
10. Save Your Love (For #1) [12" Version] *
11. I'll Be Good [12" Version] *
12. No How - No Way [12" Version] ***
13. Your Smile [12" Version]
14. Drive My Love [12" Version]

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Roberta Flack Ft. Donny Hathaway - Roberta Flack Ft. Donny Hathaway 1979

Tracks:

1. Only Heaven Can Wait (For Love)
2. God Don’t Like Ugly
3. You Are My Heaven
4. Disguises
5. Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long
6. Back Together Again ***
7. Stay with Me

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Ray Parker Junior - After Dark 1987

Guitarist/songwriter/producer Ray Parker, Jr. had hits as Raydio (the million-selling Jack and Jill, You Can't Change That), Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio (Two Places at the Same Time, A Woman Needs Love [Just Like You Do]"), Ray Parker Jr. (the number one R&B and pop gold single "Ghostbusters"), and co-wrote hit songs for Rufus and Chaka Khan (the number one "You Got the Love" from fall 1974) and Barry White ("You See the Trouble With Me" from spring 1976).

[Born:] May 1, 1954, in Detroit, MI, Parker started out as a teenaged session guitarist playing on sessions recorded for Holland-Dozier-Holland's Hot Wax and Invictus Records whose roster listed Freda Payne, Honey Cone, Chairman of the Board, 100 Proof Aged in Soul, Laura Lee, and 8th Wonder. He'd also play behind the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, the Spinners, Gladys Knight and the Pips, and other Motown acts when they appeared at the Twenty Grand Club. In 1972, Wonder called Parker to ask him to play behind him on a tour that he was doing with the Rolling Stones. Parker thought it was a crank call and hung up the phone. Wonder called back and convinced Parker that he was the real deal by singing "Superstition" to him.

Later, Parker played on Wonder's albums Talking Book (1972) and Innervisions (1973). Moving from Detroit to Los Angeles, Parker got into session work playing on sides by Leon Haywood, Barry White, arranger Gene Page, and working with Motown producer Clarence Paul on Ronnie McNeir's 1976 Motown debut, Love's Comin' Down, and he appeared in the picnic scene in the Bill Cosby/Sidney Poitier comedy classic Uptown Saturday Night.

Deciding to become a recording artist, Parker got a deal with Arista Records in 1977. Not confident on his singing ability, he put together a band that included vocalist Arnell Carmichael, bassist/singer Jerry Knight (who later had his own solo hit with "Overnight Sensation" and as half of Ollie & Jerry and co-produced hits by the Jets), guitarist Charles Fearing, Larry Tolbert, and Darren Carmichael. However, on record, Parker played most, if not all of the instruments. Though after racking up hits, Arnell et al. were paid a retainer so they'd be available if Raydio had a hit record and needed to tour.

His first LP, Raydio, went gold, peaking at number eight R&B in spring 1978. The LP included the gold, number five R&B hit single "Jack and Jill" (lead vocal by Jerry Knight), "Is This a Love Thing," and the charting single "Honey I'm Rich." The hits continued with Ray Parker, Jr. and Raydio's gold, number four Rock On (the single "You Can't Change That" was number three R&B, number nine pop in the spring of 1979); the gold, number six R&B Two Places at the Same Time from spring 1980 ("Two Places at the Same Time" was number six R&B in spring 1980); and the number one gold record A Woman Needs Love from 1981 ("A Woman Needs Love [Just Like You Do]" -- the first song Parker sung all the way through without trading vocals -- held the number one R&B spot for two weeks and went number four pop in spring 1981).

Then, as Ray Parker, Jr., The Other Woman held the number one R&B, number 11 pop spot in spring 1982 ("The Other Woman" was number two R&B for four weeks). One of Parker's biggest hits and best loved songs, "Ghostbusters" was initially submitted for the background score of the Dan Aykroyd/Harold Ramis/Bill Murray/Ernie Hudson comedy. Director Ivan Reitman thought that the song should be released as a single.The "Ghostbusters" music video is one of the funniest and star-studded videos ever made (breakdancing Bill Murray style). "Ghostbusters" parked at the number one R&B spot for two weeks and the number one pop for three weeks on Billboard's charts in summer 1984.

Around this time, Parker was sued by Huey Lewis for copyright infringement claiming that "Ghostbusters" was a rip-off of his recent hit, "I Want a New Drug." Lewis received an out-of-court settlement. Some others at the time thought that if anyone's attorney should have been contacting both Parker and/or Lewis, it should have been Robin Scott who recorded as M and had a 1979 number one pop smash with "Pop Muzik," which both "...Drug" and "Ghostbusters" sounded similar to.

Parker also wrote and produced hits for New Edition ("Mr. Telephone Man" -- Parker originally recorded this with Jr. Tucker for his 1983 self-titled Geffen album), Randy Hall ("I've Been Watching You [Jamie's Girl]," the refreshing "Gentleman"), Cheryl Lynn ("Shake It Up Tonight" from In the Night), Deniece Williams (the 1979 ARC/Columbia LP When Love Comes Calling, the 1981 Bang LP Brick, Summer Heat), and Diana Ross ("Upfront" from her 1983 RCA LP Ross).

Tracks:

1. I Don’t Think That Man Should Sleep Alone
2. Over You
3. Lovin’ You
4. You Shoulda Kept A Spare
5. The Past
6. You Make My Nature Dance
7. Perfect Lovers
8. After Midnite
9. I Love Your Daughter
10. After Dark

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Rene & Angela - Wall To Wall 1981

René & Angela were an 1980s R&B duo consisting of artist/producers René Moore and Angela Winbush. Angela met René in 1980, formed the group, and subsequently married. The relationship dissolved by the mid 1980s, with the duo falling apart not long after. Both went on to solo careers as performers, songwriters, and producers.

Tracks:

1. Wall to Wall
2. I Love You More
3. Imaginary Playmate
4. Secret Rendezvous
5. Loves All Right
6. Just Friends
7. Wanna Be Close To You
8. Come My Way

Rene Moore & Angela Winbush - Imaginary Playmates 1981

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Ray, Goodman & Brown - Mood For Lovin' 1988

Tracks:

1 Where Did You Get That Body Baby?
2 Mood For Lovin'
3 Where Are You Now
4 Say It
5 Electrified
6 Next Time I'll Know
7 Never Stop Lovin' You
8 Don't Make Me Wait

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RJ's Latest Arrival - Truly Yours 1988

Tracks:

1. Broken Heart
2. Off the Hook
3. Truly Yours
4. Could Have Been You
5. I'll Always Love You
6. Miracles
7. Time 4 Love
8. Nights
9. Water Pump
10. Terri's Place

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Richard Dimples Fields - Dimples 1981

Tracks:

1. I Like Your Loving
2. Coast To Coast
3. Let Me Take You In My Arms Tonight
4. Let The Lady Dance
5. Lovely Lady
6. In The Still Of The Night
7. She's Got Papers *
8. I've Got To Learn To Say No
9. Earth Angel
10. Don't Ever Take Your Love

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Rene & Angela - Rise 1983

Singer/songwriter/keyboardist/producer Angela Winbush's credentials include her own solo hits such as her number one R&B hit, "Angel"; hits as one-half of the singing duo Rene & Angela and their hits "Save Your Love (For #1)" and "Your Smile"; and her hits by Stephanie Mills and the Isley Brothers. One Rene & Angela hit, the 1983 ballad "My First Love," was covered by Avant on his spring 2000 debut CD, My Thoughts.

Winbush's own albums are Sharp, Angela Winbush, and It's the Real Thing. Besides Rene Moore, Winbush's early collaborators were Moore's brother, Rufus, bassist Bobby Watson, engineer/producer Bruce Swedien, and George Duke. Born in St. Louis, MO, Winbush grew up singing gospel music in the church choir and learned to play piano as a child. She had no intentions of pursuing a professional music career when she began attending Washington, D.C.'s Howard University majoring in architecture. To earn money to pay expenses, she began singing on recording sessions and formed a singing trio that opened for Van McCoy and Al Jarreau.

She became interested in the music business and changed her major to music education. Around 1977, Winbush sent a demo tape to New York DJ Gary Byrd. He played it over the phone for his friend Stevie Wonder. He called Winbush and invited her to Los Angeles. While singing in Wonder's backup band Wonderlove, Winbush learned about writing and producing by sitting in on sessions with Wonder.

In 1980, she met singer/songwriter Rene Moore through Wonderlove vocalist Carolyn Dennis and they began writing songs together, eventually forming the duo Rene & Angela. In 1978, former Tower of Power lead singer Lenny Williams recorded one of their songs, "Changes." A friend introduced the duo to Dr. Cecil Hale, a Capitol Records executive who signed the duo to the label. Two LPs were issued, Wall to Wall and Rise. Another Rene & Angela song, the ballad "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love," was recorded by Alton McClain and Destiny on their self-titled 1978 Polydor LP.

It can be found on Polygram's Power of Love: Best of Soul Essentials Ballads. In 1985, Rene & Angela signed with Polygram and were assigned to their Mercury imprint. Their label debut, Street Called Desire, went gold, yielding the number one hits "Save Your Love (For #1)," which featured a rap by Kurtis Blow, and "Your Smile."

An earlier Rene & Angela song would resurface in a big way. The first single from Stephanie Mills' 1985 Stephanie Mills album was "Stand Back"; on its flip side was her passionate cover of "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love." Because of its massive radio play as an album track, Mills' version, produced by Philly Soul keyboardist Ron Kersey, was reissued as an A-side and held the number one spot for two weeks in spring 1986.

By 1987, Winbush was solo and got her first production job on the Isley Brothers' Smooth Sailing LP after the group's lead singer, Ronald Isley, mentioned to Warner Bros. records executive Benny Medina that he wanted to work with the group who did "Your Smile." After working together, Isley became the singer's manager. Becoming romantically involved, Winbush married Ronald Isley on June 26, 1993.

She produced and wrote the bulk of his solo debut, Spend the Night, credited as the Isley Brothers Featuring Ronald Isley. Winbush's other credits include the platinum Isley Brothers album Mission to Please, Body, Lalah Hathaway, the 1982 self-titled debut of Plush, Klymaxx, Sheena Easton's The Lover in Me, and the 1993 Warner Bros. various artists set, A Tribute to Curtis Mayfield.

Tracks:

1. Rise 3:57
2. Keep Runnin' 5:16
3. My First Love 5:07
4. Bangin' The Boogie 5:01
5. When It Comes To Love 5:01
6. Wait Until Tonight 4:20
7. Can't Give You Up 4:01
8. Take Me To The Limit 4:16

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Rene' & Angela - Rene' & Angela 1980

Tracks:

1. Do You Really Love Me
2. Turn It Out
3. Everything We Do
4. Hotel California
5. I Don't Know (Where Love Comes From)
6. Free And Easy**
7. Love Won't Slip Away
8. Strangers again

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Rick James & The Stone City Band - Come Get It 1978

After returning to the U.S. from London, where he fronted the blues band Mainline, Rick James cut one album with White Cane before he turned to his own solo venture. By 1977, he'd begun working with the Stone City Band, emerging at the end of the year with an album's worth of delicious funk-rock fusion.

Released in spring 1978, Come Get It! was a triumphant debut, truly the sum of all that had gone before, at the same time as unleashing the rudiments of what would become not only his trademark sound, but also his mantra, his manifesto, his self proclaimed punk-funk. Packed with intricate songs that are full of effusive energy, Come Get It! is marvelously hybridized funk, so tightly structured that, although they have the outward feel of funk's freewheeling jam, they never once cross the line into an uncontrolled frenzy.

This is best demonstrated across the monumental, eight-plus-minute You and I. With enough funk bubbling under the surface to supplant the outward disco sonics of the groove, but brought back to earth via James' vocal interpolations, You and I became James' first R&B chart hit, effortlessly slamming into the top spot. Mary Jane, meanwhile, was James' homage to marijuana, honoring the love affair through slang, it dipped into the Top Five in fall 1978. More importantly, though, it also offered up a remarkable preview of his subsequent vocal development.

With nods to Earth, Wind & Fire on Sexy Lady, Motown sonics on Dream Maker, the passionate Hollywood, and the classic club leanings of Be My Lady, it's obvious that James was still very much in the throes of transition, still anticipating his future onslaught of hits and superstardom. Many of the songs here have a tendency toward the disco ethics that were inescapable in 1978, and have been faulted as such; nevertheless, what James achieved on this LP was remarkably fresh, and would prove vitally important to funk as it grew older during the next decade.

R.I.P.

Tracks:

1. Stone City Band, Hi!
2. You & I
3. Sexy Lady
4. Dream Maker
5. Be My Lady
6. Mary Jane
7. Hollywood
8. Stone City Band, Bye

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Randy Brown - Welcome To My Room 1978

Randy Brown cut his teeth with the Newcomers, a group patterned after the Mad Lads. On Welcome to My Room, his excellent solo debut, the teething is over, and the full-fledged deep soul crooner is unleashed. Romanticism is the theme and Brown delivers the goods on "I Wanna Make Love to You," a direct midtempo number where Brown relates his lusty intentions to his date.

"I Love You Baby" conjures images of the aftermath of passion, cuddling together, and truly loving the person and what transpired; it's an emotional ballad that builds to an exciting climax. Brown realizes he's found the right woman on the remarkable, compelling "I'd Rather Hurt Myself," which is ultra-soulful and extremely moving.

But often love doesn't last, and Brown tells his woman why when he mourns "Too Little in Common to Be Lovers" -- originally recorded by the Newcomers after Brown left, it's a true Southern classic; salty Denise LaSalle, among others, has cut the slow, rambling tear-jerker. In all, eight prime songs that define deep soul.

Tracks:

1. Do It Baby
2. I Wanna Make Love To You
3. Love Is All We Need
4. I Love You Baby
5. I'm Always In The Mood
6. I'd Rather Hurt Myself
7. Sweet, Sweet Darling
8. Too Little In Common

Randy Brown - I Wanna Make Love To You 1978

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Randy Crawford - Secret Combination 1981

Randy Crawford [Born:] Veronica Crawford, February 18, 1952, Macon, Georgia) is an American jazz and R&B singer. She has been more successful in Europe than in the United States, where solo she has not entered the Billboard Hot 100. Crawford first performed at club gigs from Cincinnati to Saint-Tropez, but made her name in mid 1970s in New York, where she sang with jazzmen George Benson and Cannonball Adderley.

Adderley invited her to sing on his album, Big Man (1975). Crawford recorded "Don't Get Caught in Love's Triangle," produced by Johnny Bristol, during her short stint on the Fantasy label. In 1978 former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett had Crawford perform on his second solo album "Please Don't Touch". Hackett discovered Crawford in a Chicago club and was so impressed that he had her sing "Hoping Love Will Last", which was the opening song on side two of the album.

She led R&B veterans The Crusaders on the transatlantic hit "Street Life" (1979). This song stayed atop the U.S. jazz chart for twenty weeks and has since become both a rare groove and disco classic. It was featured in the soundtrack for the film, Sharky's Machine, and appeared in commercials in the early 2000s. She moved to Warner Bros. and after "Street Life," recorded and toured Europe with the Crusaders.

Crawford was named the 'Most Outstanding Performer' at the 1980 Tokyo Music Festival. Her follow up solo efforts included "One Day I'll Fly Away" (1980); "You Might Need Somebody" (1981); and "Rainy Night in Georgia" (1981); which all became soul standards. The album, Secret Combination (1981) stayed on the UK Albums Chart for sixty weeks, after which her profile dipped, despite a return to the UK Top Ten with "Almaz" in 1986.

She remained with Warner Bros. through to the early 1990s, but was unable to score either a big R&B hit or major crossover success, despite having one of the most readily identifiable voices and distinctive approaches of any contemporary female vocalist. Naked And True (1995) brought Crawford back to her roots: it included George Benson's "Give Me the Night", and confirmed her soul heritage by featuring Funkadelicists Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell and the Fred Wesley Horns. She enjoyed her highest profile of the decade when rising starlet, Shola Ama, had a worldwide hit with her 1997 cover of "You Might Need Somebody".

Tracks:

1. You Might Need Somebody
2. Rainy Night In Georgia
3. That's How Heartaches Are Made
4. Two Lives
5. You Bring The Sun Out
6. Rio De Janeiro Blue
7. Secret Combination
8. When I Lose My Way
9. Time For Love

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Who could forget the prequel to the Real McCoy Comedy Series - The Posse, co starring Victor Romeo Evans and cast from The Real McCoy.

Who could forget the cool and collectable Ritchie Rich from (The Soul of MTV), and the very best of YO! MTV Rap's hosted by Ed Lover, Dr Dre, T-Money, including the all inspiring Fab 5 Freddy.

So I'd thought to put together a compilation of rare and hard to get video footage, hard get CD's, LP's from the 70's, 80's & 90's era. I've also put together a sample of my record collection accessible via pages with links entitled My Record & CD Collection SALE! .
Here you will find the best in Soul, Funk, Jazz, Rare Grooves and Hip Hop. Some mid-tempo beats, dance and jazzie cross over's.

You'll find the best of Rene' & Angela, The Detroit Spinners, Kashif to the all inspiring sounds of Howard Johnson and Aretha Franklin, Kenni Burke, The Manhattans, Chandra Simmonds and many, many more.

You will find a host of material to view and play at your leisure. I've included a self help tutorial page Complete 12/LP Listing & Help Files so you can get use to navigating your way around. The blog also makes use of the standard Internet Explorer (IE) Web Browser Version 11. The tutorial will guide IE version 9 and 10 users also.

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