The Dazz Band grew out of Kinsman Dazz, which had one of my unquestionably favorite tunes with this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLX9IkPBL74
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The Dazz Band grew out of Kinsman Dazz, which had one of my unquestionably favorite tunes with this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLX9IkPBL74
Midnight Star went over the top with electronic dance music when they came out with "Freak-A-Zoid". This song got lost in the mix of that album, which is too bad because it sounds a lot like their earlier output, which I like a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeZgcUq5bWg
This is sooooo underrated. The Chi-Lites were such a wonderful group. The arrangement and lyrics of this are so special.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybdSjUjzfW0
And if you didn't cry when you first heard this, then I'll cry for you, you cold heartless bastards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXyq8S0CQRU
Sad, sad song by the Chi-Lites from my freshman year in High School. The O'Jays had an equally sad song my freshman year in College with this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6j-99ckw4c
LOL. I almost posted that one behind "Toby". The difference is that Brandy left my dude while Toby died. Personally, the saddest song for me is called "Boys In Blue" by View From The Hill, which is about childhood friends who were drafted and sent to fight in a war. My bond with my childhood friends is unbreakable and that song gets me every time I hear it.
Here's one by the O'Jays that was just good, happy music. I like happy music.LOL!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btATI0zL4hI
Hey Marv & TTom
Here;s one you may not like then!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j38S1tXlIgo
Forgot to post this one earlier, from the same O’Jays album... just love it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSBHDeHTcrA&app=desktop
You-maze...lady love-lou rawls...loverboy-the spinners...electricnation-ewf...steamboat-the drifters...i could have loved you-the moments.
Badder than a Brick House! SHE'S A BAD MAMA JAMA by Carl Carlton!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QIw1BQIvT4
I remember this one from Carl back in the 60s!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtnwmkJ5d9Y
Hey Marv
I had completely forgotten Little Carl Carlton.Thanks for reminding me. He had absolutely zero exposure in the UK, but I remember picking up this exact [[bullet hole import) disc from a Whitechapel market stall , 68 or 69 the "14 year old sensation" intrigued me! Never before having heard him, or of him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-MvXgtGYt4
And another thing Marv
Seeing your recent post Re Lalah Hathaway reminded of Donny, and his for all intents and purposes "B side", which has been covered by what can only be described as a veritable "who's Who" of soul music, Including.... Ree, ... the Poet,....Deniece Williams, and Alicia Keys
Not forgetting Lalah herself, along with Take 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r0thKFgrOY
Shades of James Ingram, and Peabo Bryson in there as well don'tcha think
Hey Guys
just been listening to some Bobby Womack on U-Toob,
Anyone else hear Dennis Edwards/Seidah Garret Don;t Look Any Further here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGgq0iift5s
Don't remember this one, glad I found it now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=365CFNRMNyw
WHAT THA, HOLD THE PHONES — a David Ruffin song I don’t know about?! How have I never heard of it? WHAT MADNESS IS THIS!?
Just looked it up, it was from Bobby Womack's 1978 LP Pieces and David is there in the background. I guess it came about through Don Davis, who produced Bobby's Pieces album and David's So Soon We Change LP from the same year.
OK TOM PANIC OVER, LOL
Thanks for sharing anyway Richy ;)
I heard this one today. From 1968, William Bell and Judy Clay "Private Number"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKLyac_-Jdg
Thats a great song Marv!
Getting back to my Bobby Womack musings tho' I guess he was real happy when the Rolling Stones picked this one up and ran with it, must have been a big earner? I do like this original version tho'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71XrZ7ghpZg
Freda Payne -A song for you
I was driving with my dad today and this came up on an mp3 CD that I made for him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Zb3T18Jms
And of course, there is this classic by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbaSh8i5eyE
And the cover version by Simply Red is a classic in its own right from the '80s. Normally, I turn up my nose at covers that are made many years after the original, but this was so respectfully done, I can't hate it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTcu7MCtuTs
Speaking of covers, Roger had some big balls with a funk cover of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine". This was huge in Columbus in the '80s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhQ-D95VGFY
Trouble Funk doesn't get the love that Chuck Brown and EU seem to get as pillars of Go-Go, but they should have. That sub-genre is probably the best club music ever but never caught on big outside of Washington DC. Drop The Bomb was another dance floor monster. If there are three all-time classic Go-Go hits, this goes right up with Da Butt and Bustin' Loose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buXt-yyZEss