"I think I'd better let it go. Looks like another love tko!"
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Robert died in 2010. He was only 53.
https://www.musicradar.com/news/guit...on-dies-271758
The last I heard about Ronnie was when he sued Charlie, who prevented him from using the Gap Band name in local gigs around their hometown of Tulsa. Messy situation that probably has a very ugly back story.
https://eurweb.com/2015/11/25/gap-ba...harlie-wilson/
Music industry is a meat grinder.
For some reason Youtube took done the copy of this I previously upload:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBHnPHztmJI
Personally, I think there are a bunch of sounds interwoven in Bruno's music. I like him because he is the first to throw credit to his predecessors and influences. When other artists grumble that he cribbed sections of their songs, he has given them credit and a share of royalties. That's respectful. Regarding New Jack Swing, I might get a little of it from the vocals but Bruno Mars uses "real" instruments in a lot of his songs - bass and electric guitars, live drums, etc. Teddy Riley used almost all synths and drum machines, if I recall correctly. I'd like to read that article but for my thin understanding of music composition, NJS would be a very minor part of how Bruno fashions his songs.
That young woman who went viral for protesting Bruno Mars' "cultural appropriation" needs to shut up, by the way. If someone suggested that Prince's rock songs [[or Lenny Kravitz) were cultural appropriation, there would have been a civil war breaking out.
Here's another person that does not get the recognition he deserves.....Gene Chandler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9fjAI0CdTY
Some heavy, kickin' deep Soul here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T246rhSoHes
My baby!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6zwD4Oe5LM
Back when being "cool" was everything! Watch the video children. LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO1e9PJyDlI
Pauli Carman was like Johnny Wilder, Jr. A great voice who never was noticed as much as the band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBUqDr14DEw
And this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V40BQtAGIQ
There were a lot of great outfits in the '90s that got off to hot starts before disapearing. I always wondered why Soul 4 Real never followed up their album with more hits. They seemed to be a talented family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx0xzO73Amo
This was the follow up, which I thought was better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihhJCPYHuk
Montell Jordan had a low-key good career. His ego wrecked his personal life and that railroaded his professional life. That's too bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHti3RvP-Iw
This was such a smooth cut. Almost jazz in its rendering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJLS9O37HIc
It kind of reminds me of...
I Can't Help It by Michael Jackson, which ranks among my favorite songs by him. I wish he would have focused on more diverse music because he typecast himself with the pop output. His range in the end was seriously limited and it didn't need to be. I'm convinced he grew to appreciate his celebrity more than his music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnhWML43NI8
How in the world is this song not considered one of his better records? I've heard everything else on the radio 100 times but haven't heard this since 1989. That's too bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKBiYBWRYDM
Of course, Siedah Garrett never had the career that her voice should have commanded. Here she is in Dennis Edwards' biggest hit [[without the Temptations).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH3rx8LhrQo
I always like this one by Michael and Patti Austin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUKXSAg0cdo
Another duet with another underappreciated voice [[Syreeta Wright). I used to chill with this song back in the day but only heard it on my mix tapes. Don't know if it played anywhere else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkw_kvvtxY
And here is the song that should have launched her to something grand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqTq8gckf8E
Always loved this one too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=591FQbomd6M
Here is the strange thing about "With You I'm Born Again". It was on the soundtrack to the movie "Fast Break" which was released on February 23, 1979. The song was not released [[even though they had performed it on television when the film was released) until December 1979 making it a chart record in 1980 a full year and more after the film's release.
I love song facts. There have been many accidental hits. There are also a bunch of songs that we remember played in clubs and at parties that were not actually hits because they were never released as singles. Sounds like With You I'm Born Again was nearly one of those until somebody finally wised up.
This may have popped up earlier. Apologies if it has. But I used to love this record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZcbDESaxhY
Southern girls-maze
Love Maze. Frankie Beverly is the man. And that song was great on the Live In New Orleans concert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4KXTr35d-4
Love this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwnjWl8oxyY