Gold Show 116 ~ The Oddcast

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Meli’sa Morgan ~ Fool’s Paradise ~ Capitol ~ 1986
The Strangers ~ Step Out Of My Dream ~ Salsoul ~ 1983
James Taylor Quartet ~ Love Will Keep Us Together ~ Acid Jazz ~ 1995
Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lets ~ Get Dancin’ ~ Chelsea ~ 1974
Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lets ~ I Wanna Dance Wit’ Choo ~ Chelsea ~ 1975
Parliament ~ Tear The Roof Off The Sucker ~ Casablanca ~ 1976
Raydio ~ Jack And Jill ~ Arista ~ 1978
Wham ~ Wham Rap ~ Inner Vision ~ 1982
Rob N Raz ft. Leila K ~ Got To Get ~ Telegram Records Stockholm/Arista ~ 1989
King Bee ~ Back By Dope Demand ~ Torso Dance, Netherlands ~ 1990
Average White Band ~ Queen Of My Soul ~ Atlantic ~ 1976
Herb Alpert ~ Rise ~ A&M ~ 1979
Soul II Soul ~ Just Right ~ Ten Records ~ 1992
Manu DiBango ~ Big Blow ~ Fiesta Records, France/Decca UK ~ 1976
Africanism ~ Block Party (Q re-edit/remix) ~ Yellow Productions ~ 2000
Danny Howells & Dick Trevor ft. Erire ~ Dusk Til Dawn ~ CR2 Records ~ 2004
Bobby Womack ~ I Can Understand It ~ United Artists ~ 1972
Teddy Pendergrass ~ You Cant Hide From Yourself ~ Philadelphia International ~ 1977
Melba Moore ~ Mind Up Tonight ~ Capitol ~ 1982
Evelyn Champagne King ~ Love Come Down ~ RCA ~ 1982
Risque Rythum Team – 122 House Chycago Connection Records 1986.
“Little” Louie & Marc Anthony – Ride On The Rhythm Atlantic 1991.
Rhythm On The Loose – Break Of Dawn The One After D Records 1991.
Goody Goody ~ It Looks Like Love ~ Atlantic ~ 1978
Chic ~ Dance, Dance, Dance ~ Atlantic ~ 1977
Cerrone Bob Sinclar ~ Supernature ~ Sound Of Barclay / Malligator ~ 2001

Here comes Show 116 ~ JFSR ~ 4pm to 6pm

Here we go again, another week, another show

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4pm to 6pm UK time.

We’ll be in the JFSR chat room and probably on the FaceBook page.

These are the artists ~ but what will the tracks be?
Meli’sa Morgan, The Strangers, James Taylor Quartet, Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lets, Parliament, Raydio, Wham, Rob N Raz ft. Leila K, King Bee, Average White Band, Herb Alpert, Soul II Soul, Manu DiBango, Africanism, Danny Howells & Dick Trevor ft. Erire, Bobby Womack, Teddy Pendergrass, Melba Moore, Evelyn Champagne King, Risque Rythum Team, “Little” Louie & Marc Anthony, Rhythm On The Loose, Goody Goody, Chic and Cerrone with Bob Sinclar.

Steve closes 115 with Yvonne Gage, Living In A Box and Professor Funk & the House Brothers

Yvonne Gage – Doin’ It In A Haunted House Chycago International Music (C.I.M.) US 1984. Famously sampling/re-working parts from Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’, it could also be found on her LP ‘Virginity’ and did reasonably well for her on the dancefloors, even though ‘Thriller’ had been and gone and was possibly over-played by time of release. # 45 UK

Living In A Box – Blow The House Down Chrysalis 1989.
The English trio had Dan Hartman co-produce this track for them, taken from their second album ‘Gatecrashing’, the title track to which we played a few weeks back. # 10 UK MIX

Professor Funk & the House Brothers – Work Your Body Rap Underground US 1986.
Joe Smooth and Rocky Jones (owner of DJ International Records), were co-producers on this, a sort of rap version of the House giant ‘Jack Your Body’ by Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley… or is it?. I’m guessing it was made around the same time as the Hurley classic and at one time even vied for supremacy.

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Anthony White, O’Jays and Detroit Spinners picked by Paul

Anthony White ~ Stop & Think It Over ~ Philadelphia International Records ~ 1976
from his Could It Be Magic album the title track of which was a cover of the Manilow song.

O’Jays ~ Livin’ For The Weekend ~ Philadelphia International Records ~ 1975
from the Family Reunion album written by Cary Gilbert with Gamble & Huff (the same team that wrote Me and Mrs Jones) it made 20 on the Hot 100 and number 1 on the US R&B – but I don’t think it got a single release here in the UK

Detroit Spinners ~ Mighty Love ~ Atlantic ~ 1973 (live)
written by Joseph Jefferson, Bruce Hawes and Charles Simmons

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Mary Jane Girls, Yvonne Elliman and Konk selected by Steve

Mary Jane Girls – Candy Man Gordy US 1983.
From their debut album ‘Mary Jane Girls’, comes this, the third single to be released, a track written, arranged and produced by Rick James who had brought them together in 1979 to act as his tour backing singers. In 1982/3 he managed to secure a recording contract for them with Motown and they found instant success. # 60 UK (first hit), # 23 R&B US

Yvonne Elliman – Love Pains RSO 1979.
Probably best known for ‘If I Can’t Have You’ from the ‘Saturday Night Fever’ soundtrack, this Disco single showed her in a harder light and gained some success for her in the US clubs. She was born in Hawaii, found initial success as Mary Magdalene in ‘Jesus Chris Superstar’ in London and was a backing singer for Eric Clapton too.

Konk – Your Life Sleeping Bag 1984.
So far as I can see, this was their third single to be released. Some of the US releases had very interesting label artwork that was very much designed to look like the tag of a graffiti artist. I loved the single and used to play it all the time, usually to slightly better than average response.

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Gladys Knight & The Pips, Dayton and Willie Hutch

Gladys Knight & The Pips ~ Baby Don’t Change Your Mind ~ Buddah ~ 1977
Classic, probably my favourite Gladys Knight single, written by Van McCoy 52 Hot 100, 10 US R&B, UK number 4

Dayton ~ The Sound Of Music ~ Capitol ~ 1982
Unsurprisingly, the band was from Dayton, Ohio. This, their biggest chart success was from their 3rd album and their first for Capitol records entitled ‘Feel the Music’ that saw the introduction of Rahni Harris into the group as vocalist/keyboards player and also saw him writing and producing much of the album. Amazingly, this track was 10 weeks in the extended UK charts making the staggering heights of… number 75. Even more amazingly, Steve was in the running to do the remix on it, but for whatever reason, it never materialised.

Willie Hutch ~ In And Out ~ Motown ~ 1982
Willie McKinley Hutchinson aka Wiilie Hutch ~ In And Out ~ a 55 US R&B, 29 US Dance and a UK number 51 at the end of 1982 on Motown. Among his many credits, he also co-wrote I’ll Be There.

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Tom Scott & the L.A.Express, Shakatak and Spyro Gyra, chosen by Steve

Tom Scott & the L.A.Express – Tom Cat Ode US 1975.
The title track from the second LP by the band, lead by Tom Scott on sax. Were this (and the following tracks) the start of the smooth Jazz movement, as such? There’s a hard funk edge to this that precludes it from being so, but maybe this and a myriad tracks like it in the ‘70s and early ‘80s were the forerunners. Tom Scott was the composer of TV themes ‘Starsky & Hutch’ and ‘Streets Of San Francisco’ and was a member of ‘The Blues Brothers’ band. What a film that was!

Shakatak – Street Walking Polydor 1981.
Especially for everyone in the chat room, our Japanese followers and regular listener Disco Des who is one of their biggest fans. A band with a phenomenal number of albums to their credit, they still perform and record to this day. # 38 UK

Spyro Gyra – Shaker Song Infinity MCA 1979.
The first single release from their self-titled debut album and therefore released prior to their smash hit ‘Morning Dance’, it has similarities to it, but still retains its own identity too. New York born Jay Beckenstein was the founder of the band and saxophonist and they too have released a fair number of albums over the course of time, their latest ‘A Foreign Affair’ being just last year.

Here’s Shaker Song and Morning Dance – enjoy!

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Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson, Julia & Company and Donna Washington played by Paul

Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson ~ Say Say Say ~ EMI ~ 1983
Written by McCartney and Jackson, produced by George Martin and remixed by John Jellybean Benitez from the Pipes Of peace album. It was actually recorded in 1981. 1 Hot 100, 2 US R&B, 2 UK.

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Julia & Co ~ Breakin’ Down (Sugar Samba) ~ District Of Columbia US / London Records UK ~ 1983
Julia & Company were Julia McGirt, now known as Julia Nixon, and David Yivisaker
It reached number 15 in 1984 over here and was a huge dance-floor hit.
As well as her work with Julia & Company she’s has had success on Broadway including replacing Jennifer Holliday in the original production of “Dreamgirls”.

Donna Washington ~ Save Your Love For Me ~ Capitol ~ 1981
Discogs describes her as born and raised in L.A. rooted in gospel From her 1981 Going For The Glow album, written by Chuck Jackson and Tony Coleman

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West Street Mob, Herbie Hancock and Time Zone mixed by Steve

West Street Mob – Break Dance ~ Electric Boogie Sugarhill 1983.
I’m kicking off today with a trio of electro tracks. With a sample taken from the Incredible Bongo Band’s Apache (maybe it was a sample of the sample from the Sugarhill Gang’s version of it), here’s yet another record that ultimately must have lead to the death of Sugarhill Records, due to the samples used and all the legal wrangles that ensued. # 64 UK

Herbie Hancock – Rockit Columbia US 1983.
And to think, many of Herbie’s Jazz-Funk fans in the UK were openly hostile towards this when it hit the streets. I’m guessing time has healed the rift, but for my own money this was Herbie on top form and truly inspired by using Grand Mixer D. ST on turntables to add a totally different dimension to the track.. I love it # 8 UK , # 6 R&B, # 1 Dance US

Time Zone – The Wild Style Celluloid US 1984.
This is one of those rare Electro records that managed to ‘swing’, a lack of which is something that has plagued music with electronic drums ever since. Just how do you get something that is metronomic to have a human feel? It ain’t easy. The track was part-written and part-produced by Afrika Bambaatta who together with Amad Henderson consisted of the band’s members for this track. #82 UK

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Paul starts Show 115 with the Valentine Brothers, Leisa Dove and Ingram

Valentine Brothers ~ Money’s Too Tight To Mention ~ Bridge Records ~ 1982
Originaly from Columbus, Ohio, John and William (Billy) Valentine – they wrote it, co produced it with Stanley Bethel and Bobby Lyle it reached 41 on the Hot 100 and 73 over here.
Covered in 1985 by Simply Red and released as their first single making 13 in the UK, 28 Hot100 and 2 US Dance

Leisa Dove ~ I Wish I Were Older ~ ScorpGemi Records ~ 1985
written, and produced by Lonnie Johnson who also arranged it with Patrick Adams
(Royalle Delite ~ I’ll Be A Freak For You)

Ingram ~ With You ~ Other End Records ~ 1984
From their 1984 album Night Stalkers. Their only UK hit was “Smoothin’ Groovin” which made number 56 in summer of ’83. The Ingrams were very much a family group consisting of Barbara Ingram, Billy Ingram, Butch Ingram, Edith Ingram, Francis Ingram, Jimmy Ingram, Johnny Ingram, Timmy Ingram, and Virginia Ingram.

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