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Tavasco & the Millionaires -- Rare modern soul LP and very hard to find! Influences of disco, boogie, funk and soul.
Born and raised in Chicago, Cheryl AKA Charly Valentine, found that her destiny lay in her musical and performance background. As a young girl, she sang with her dad. Her mother was a dancer and her aunt was the first black soprano at the New York Civic Opera House. By the age of 15 she was already working with jazz bands throughout Chicago.
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Time was Larry Nozero’s 1975 passion project. In his own words, Nozero confessed the following about the album's original liner notes, saying “It got so deep that we decided to call the group and our album after that concept of TIME, because it seemed to mean something to just about everyone.”
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Three of the Pressure Point members also worked together as The Greedy Beat Syndicate.
The song "Black Gold Disco Moving Machine" by Joe & Lee was the theme song for the regional dance show called Black Gold (in Jackson, Mississippi, on Saturdays). The show was back in the late 70's and ran through the early 90's. Hosted by Lee King and backed by his Mean Machine Dancers.
Back then, this was the Mid-South's equivalent to "Soul Train" or "Solid Gold". Many tuned in every weekend to catch up on the latest moves and grooves. Dancing you wouldn't dare catch on Soul Train.
East Coast Love Affair Edit
While specific recording dates for 17 Days are not known, it was initially recorded at The Warehouse in St. Louis Park, Minnesota in August 1983, likely a couple of days after Let’s Go Crazy.
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Composed of two former The Glories and a Vandella, Quiet Elegance were formed in 1971 by Frances Yvonne (Frankie) Gearing, Mildred Vaney and Sandra Delores (Lois) Reeves. While supporting The Temptations at a show in Memphis, they were seen by Willie Mitchell who signed them to Hi Records in 1972. In 1974 they went on the road as Engelbert Humperdinck's backing group, the following year they appeared as the backing group for Al Green. They disbanded in 1977.
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Southern soul singer-songwriter from the late-60’s and 70’s Memphis music scene. As one half of George & Greer he co-penned several songs with George Jackson for Goldwax.
As a southern soul singer-songwriter, Dan Greer was a significant player on the late-60’s and 70’s Memphis music scene.
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www.sirshambling.com
The Choice Four were a nice harmonizing soul group from Washington, D.C., whose records deserved a better fate. They recorded for RCA in the mid-'70s, but were never able to score a breakout hit, despite making some very moving, nicely sung ballads.
Prior to the group’s formation, several of the members had previously sung in other music groups such as The Stridels and The Love Tones.
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70s/80s US soul family group. (Formerly known as The Compacts.) Six brothers and one sister, all from the Brown family, Delivering that smooth vocal style. Renamed as Family Brown, they made one album 'Imaginary World' for United Artists in the late 70s.
"Direct Connec Shun" was a Houston, Texas based band started by bassist Bernard “Kinny” Mercier and keyboardist Marsha McDonald around 1978. They were the house band at the Flag Ship Hotel in Galveston, Texas. They did a lot of opening concerts for the famous soul / funk acts of the era including The Bar Kays, SOS Band, Chaka Khan or Con Funk Shun.
The band recorded the vocal & instrumental versions in an 8 hours session over a two day period. According to Bernard Mercier, only 500 copies were pressed and most of the stock got destroyed in a flood – which made this record really rare and hard to find to this day.
This song features guest vocals from her brother Mark Stevens! By 1981, Chaka Khan was close approaching soul/jazz royalty status in the US. After the best part of a decade spent recording she could, either solo or with her group Rufus, guarantee gold album status with every release!
Check out more about Chaka Khan on her Allmusic bio: www.allmusic.com
Regina James, a southern soul singer. Recorded one album under the guidance of Clarence Reid.
On this album (Dancin' In The Flames Of Love), it included songs written by Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole and Bobby Caldwell!
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Family of Swede hail from Oakland, California and were very proactive on the west coast live scene in the 1970s. They released one single in 1976 on Butter Fields called ‘Everybody Must Pay’ and ‘I Got A Move.’ Prior to this they were known as The Epics whom released one single on Bridge Town Records called ‘We Are Made As One'.
familyofswede.bandcamp.com
This lp was recorded during 1981 and 1982, as a sideline from Young and Company. Because of other work commitments it got shelved. -- It was then released on January 10, 2020.
buddyhankandtheshineband.bandcamp.com
Lucy Stone was not her real name but a ficticious name given by Troiel B. Raglin to a girl he had met. He coached her for months to sing, and finally recorded songs he wrote for her.
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Brenda and the Big Dudes was a South African recording group formed in the 1980s.
As a young man, Larry H. Jordan wasn't a fan of church or gospel music. The former professional R&B singer says that he found the shouting and hollering of traditional black gospel music too shrill and too loud.
But after finding the Lord and becoming an ordained bishop, Jordan and his brother-in-law Frank Tinsley, founded Washington DC soul/gospel outfit Enlightment in the mid 80s. One of the first groups to fuse modern R&B production with gospel themes, Enlightment's 1984 debut album Faith Is the Key used funk and soul in an attempt to reach a larger audience.
After Decades Lost, Enlightment’s Classic 1984 Gospel Soul Album Finally Resurfaces
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Lawrence Payton sang with the Four Tops for more than four decades. Payton, along with other other group members, was born in Detroit and grew up there.
The Four Tops were one of Motown's most forceful groups. From 1965 to 1974, nearly 30 of their singles reached the pop charts, and they continued to make hits into the 80's. While other vocal groups changed lineups, the Four Tops retained the original members since 1953.
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Crazy rare gem from 1976. Pick up Greenville, South Carolina-based Al-Dos Band’s unreleased 1976 gospel soul and disco album Doing Our Thing With Pride from Kalita Records.
kalitarecords.bandcamp.com
Nick Bike Edit
Sugar Billy born Willie Garner from Detroit was a soul funk singer from the 70's. He recorded an entire albums worth of material in 1975, and then promptly disappeared leaving behind a supremely funky slice of soul that still lives on today.
sugarbilly.bandcamp.com
Despite unimaginable obstacles, the Bar-Kays have endured as one of the longest-running funk and soul groups ever, while their talents as a backing band can be heard on some of the most popular albums of the ’60s and ’70s. In their earliest incarnation—more than 55 years ago—the band proved the power of determination, working tirelessly to earn their place at Stax and perform alongside one of the label’s biggest stars. But when tragedy struck, the remaining members of the group were forced to channel that passion to reimagine what—and who—the Bar-Kays could be.
THE INNOVATORS: STAX ARTIST SPOTLIGHTS
THE BAR-KAYS
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Bobbie Gentry was an American singer-songwriter. She was born in 1942, in Chickasaw County, Mississippi. Her 1967 song "Ode To Billie Joe" was a massive pop and country hit and has been covered by many different artists. She went on to release six albums under her own name and one collaborative 1968 album with labelmate Glen Campbell. She retired from her music career in the late 1970s.
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Soul singer from Washington, D.C. that was active in the 1960s and 1970s.
Soul singer Alice Clark never received the commercial success she deserved when releasing her first and only self-titled album in 1972. These very recordings are now highly regarded and claimed as "delivered with understated passion and appealing vulnerability".
aliceclark.bandcamp.com
Soul music singer and songwriter, Barrett Strong was born on February 5, 1941, in Westpoint, Mississippi. He moved to Detroit, Michigan, and was one of the first artists to sign with Berry Gordy's legendary Motown Records label in the early 1960s.
Strong was the first artist to record a hit record for Motown, though he is best known for his successful songwriting collaboration with Norman Whitfield, which produced hits like "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby", "Papa Was a Rolling Stone", "Ball of Confusion", and "War". Barrett Strong was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004.
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Grammy Award winning American soul singer, most known for his 1972 number-one single, "Me and Mrs. Jones". Billy Paul was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -- After Billy Paul died on April 24, 2016, the Gamble and Huff team released a statement saying, "Our proudest moment with Billy was the recording of the salacious smash 'Me and Mrs. Jones.' In our view, it is one of the greatest love songs ever recorded. Billy was one of the first artists to help launch the PIR/TSOP brand, and he will forever have a special place in music history."
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www.songfacts.com
Group from Oakland California. Members included Joseph "Bobo" Cotton, Richard MCCowan, Donald Mack, and Earl Slack.
