Rick James makes his debut appearance at the Love Unlimited with “Fool On The Street” released via Gordy in 1979 on the long player “Bustin’ Out Of L Seven” & as a 7″ single.
A great sounding crossover tune that was big on the Bank Holiday Do’s of yesteryear. To read more about Rick’s life & music visit www.rickjames.com
Once described as the perfect cross between the 5th Dimension & Sly & The Family Sone The Undisputed Truth was a 1970s Motown recording act, assembled by record producer Norman Whitfield as a means for being able to experiment with his psychedelic soul production techniques.
A number of their singles became minor hits, and many of them were also songs for Whitfield’s main act The Temptations including “Papa Was A Rolling Stone” & “Smiling Faces”. Here is the cosmic “ufos” taken from the 1975 LP release “The Cosmic Truth”.
Here we have a performance of the philly classic backstabbers, if you get chance check out Tailgate by 21st Creation on motown records for a killer piece of heavy disco that deals with the same subject matter.
Never Can Say Goodbye was a 1971 hit for The Jackson 5. Covered by Gloria Gaynor towards the end of 1973, it became a major club hit, despite litttle support from label MGM. The follow-on long player Never Can Say Goodbye established Gloria as a disco artist. Produced by Tom Moulton the first side of this album consisted of three disco songs - Honey Bee, Never Can Say Goodbye and Reach Out, I’ll Be There, with no breaks in between the songs. All three songs were released as singles via radio edits. Never Can Say Goodbye became the first song to top Billboard magazine’s dance chart.
Played here there & everywhere & covered by heaps of folk it is seen as one of the defining recordings of the disco era. This very soulful single edit at about 3 minutes long is now 34 years old and still sounds mighty fine.
Jimmy is the older brother of David vocalist from the Temptations. In the mid 70’s Jimmy was dashing from LA via Detroit to Philadelphia making the LP Love is All We Need. The usual suspects at Sigma Sound Studios helped out with strings & things on Get On Up.
Formed in the late sixties and hailing from San Francisco the group Tower of Power have served up some real funk sizzlers during their lenghty career.
Originally penned by the Commodores here is their very tight (check out the horns) cover version of the popular funk tune Brick House.
