More musical goodness from CurtisMayfield. Do Do Wap Is Strong in here has the unmistakable Mayfield quality from start to finish. Released in 1977 on Curtom as a 7″ (edit) & from the Long Player Short Eyes.
Curtis Mayfield - Do Do Wap Is Strong In Here
April 9th, 2008
Rose Royce - Sunrise
April 1st, 2008
‘Sunrise’ Super soulful soundtrack business by Rose Royce, taken from the motion picture Car Wash featuring Richard Pryor.
Horns, strings, keys & basslines make it a perfect disco shuffler.
Stanley Turrentine - Spaced
March 8th, 2008
All about the strings…During his musical career saxophonist Stanley Turrentine released jazz, jazz funk fusion & soul jazz performing with organist Jimmy Smith, Bob James and Idris Muhammad releasing mainly through Blue Note & Fantasy Records.
Released in 1975 & co-produced by Billy & Gene Page, here is the longtime Love Unlimited spin ‘Spaced’
blue magic - welcome to the club
November 17th, 2007
Hailing from the City of Brotherly Love Blue Magic formed in 1973 when former Delfonic Randy Cain went in to the studio with singer-songwriter Ted Mills.
Signed to Atco/Atlantic Records in the same year. Blue Magic were one of the earliest acts produced by Norman Harris & had the very talented backing of the the MFSB house band.
Unreleased edits of “Welcome to the Club” circulated in Chicago during the early 1980s
Make Someone Feel Happy Today - Two Tons O’ Fun
November 4th, 2007
Izora Rhodes and Martha Wash soon went on to release a solo LP on fantasy records.
A strong debut release with plenty of tracks to choose from it includes “One sided love affair”, “Got the feeling”, “Do you wanna boogie, hunh?” and the classic soul-spin “Just Us”.
It also has the feel-good disco slammer “Make Someone Feel Happy Today”
night trains - miles away
August 6th, 2007
Hugh Brooker’s Night Trains were signed to Acid Jazz & BGP Beat Goes Public.
Many of their releases had hip-hop leanings featuring cartoon cut-ups, breaks, cinema samples & scratching.
Here is Miles Away taken from the Checkmate LP released on BGP - a track constructed from a trumpet solo (Miles) and some programming - simple & effective.
