Touch Your Soul: Μαΐου 2012

Πέμπτη 31 Μαΐου 2012

This Is Disco Sat. 09.06 @ Aurora (Pahi Beach Megara)

Isaac Hayes - Wonderful

Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American songwriter, musician, singer, actor, and voice actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. Hayes, Porter, Bill Withers, the Sherman Brothers, Steve Cropper, and John Fogerty were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of writing scores of notable songs for themselves, the duo Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, and others.

The hit song "Soul Man", written by Hayes and Porter and first performed by "Sam & Dave", has been recognized as one of the most influential songs of the past 50 years by the Grammy Hall of Fame. It was also honored by The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, by Rolling Stone magazine, and by the RIAA as one of the Songs of the Century.

It's wonderful to be in love with you
It's so nice to know that you love me too

It seems like heaven is smiling at me
The first time I saw your face
This hunger started growing in me
And those lips of yours, I just had to taste

Now that was the birth of our love affair
And since then it's grown a thousand times
You're the sweetest thing that love can bring
And I'm so glad that you're mine

And it's wonderful to be in love with you, oh, yes it is
It's so nice to know that you love me too

No one in this world is perfect
But you're the closest to perfection as one can be
You are my inspiration
You're the other half that makes the whole of me

Compliments to you from all the people who know
Is how you brighten up my world
And you keep it bright, every day and night
You are just quite a girl

It's wonderful to be in love with you, oh, yes, it is, yes, it is
It's so nice to know that you love me too

Baby, ooh baby, I wouldn't leave you if I could
Mama, ooh mama, your love is so doggone good, so good
And everyday is gonna be that way
Just as long as I'm your man

It's wonderful to be in love with you, yes it is
I said that it's so nice to know that you love me too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Hayes

Τετάρτη 30 Μαΐου 2012

Vicki Sue Robinson - When You're Lovin' Me

Vicki Sue Robinson turned the disco and pop music world upside down with her rousing 1976 Top Ten Pop smash, "Turn The Beat Around." A strong, vibrant vocalist, Robinson's records were among some of the best produced and arranged '70s disco releases with solid beats built on solid songs.

Born in Harlem (or Philadelphia) in 1955, Robinson's birth was the result of a union between a black actor and white folk singer.

Her professional debut was at the Philadelphia Folk Festival when she was 6. Her eclectic heritage was also reflected in her wide ranging love of different types of music performers. Her favorites included Dinah Washington, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Laura Nyro, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Sarah Vaughn.

As a teenager, Robinson appeared in the Broadway hit, Hair, and having been discovered by Robert Stigwood (RSO Records, The Bee Gees) she joined the cast of Jesus Christ Superstar. Her varied career include stints as a model, waitress and recording with Japanese artists Sadistic Mica Band and Itsuru Shimoda and working at Ms. Magazine.
Signed to RCA Records in the mid '70s by producer Warren Schatz, she had four albums on the imprint, Never Gonna Let You (spring 1976), Vicki Sue Robinson (fall 1976), Half and Half (1978) and Movin' On (1979).

"Turn The Beat Around," written by Pete and Gerald Jackson reached #10 Pop on Billboard's Pop chart in summer 1976, earning Robinson a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Female. Her other favorites include her cover of Bobby Womack's "Daylight" and "Hold Tight." Her movie roles include Going Home with Robert Mitchum in 1971 and 1972's To Find A Man with Lloyd Bridges.

In between being an in-demand jingles singer, Robinson starred in her own 1999 off-Broadway play,Vicki Sue Robinson: Behind The Beat. The play was a continuation of her popular, enticing cabaret show. She happily made the TV talk show circuit, inviting everyone to the show and joyously performed her signature song, "Turn The Beat Around."

It's appeared on numerous various artists sets (Disco Divas: Salute to the Ladies, Turn the Beat Around: Great Disco Hits, 70's Disco Ball Party Pack, Disco Box Sampler, Decades of Dance 60's 70's & 80's, Super Party, Vol.1 and Millennium Disco Party) with the 12" mix being a part of Groovin' You: Big 12 Inches issued May 1999 by BMG/ Buddha. In the '90s, her "House of Joy" single was a UK dance smash.
At the age of 46, Vicki Sue Robinson died of cancer at her Wilton, Connecticut home on April 27, 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Sue_Robinson

Δευτέρα 28 Μαΐου 2012

Nicolette Larson - Lotta Love (Disco Stereo Mix)

Nicolette was born in Helena, Montana in 1952. Her father was with the Treasury Department and moved the family's six children to a different U. S. city every two years, exposing Nicolette to diverse styles of music that combined into the unique vocal style that eventually made her into a recording star. Later in life after college, Nicolette got her first break when she was hired as a singer with Hoyt Axton's band and later with Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen.

She was soon on her way to becoming one of the top recording and touring vocalists in the business, recording with key musical figures like Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Michael McDonald, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett, Neil Young, Christopher Cross, The Dirt Band, the Beach Boys and the Doobie Brothers.
Within five years of her arrival in California, Nicolette found herself at the top of the pop chart with "Lotta Love", the Neil Young song that she turned into a classic.

This song propelled Nicolette's career into the musical stratosphere. Her subsequent hits, both in the United States and abroad, included "Rumba Girl", "I Only Want To Be With You", "Let Me Go Love" (a duet with Michael McDonald) and "That's How You Know When Love's Right" (a top 10 country single). Nicolette released two critically acclaimed albums (four for Warner Brothers and two for MCA). Her awards included Best New Vocalist by both Cashbox Magazine (1985) and the Academy of Country Music (1984) and Performance Magazines Best Female Vocalist (1979).

Married to the music industry's renowned drummer Russell Kunkel, Nicolette gave birth to Elsie May in 1990. The birth of her daughter inspired the last album she recorded, "SLEEP, BABY, SLEEP," for the SONY WONDER Family Artist Series in 1994.

The album is a collection of lullabies and children's songs including duets with Graham Nash and Linda Ronstadt. One of the songs, "Oh Bear" was written with her young daughter, Elsie. In another Nicolette-penned song on that album called "Starlight, Starbright," a heartfelt lyric summed up her feelings toward motherhood and the all-embracing love of a child:

"You're the answer to a million prayers;
You're the apple of my eye;
I can hear you breathing next to me
Just how lucky can one person be?
I am looking at a mystery…
Everything I dreamed, More than I could wish for"

Nicolette passed away in December of 1997 due to complications from a cerebral edema. She is survived by her husband, Russell Kunkel, and their 8-year-old daughter, Elsie May. Those who loved her came together in February of 1998 to honor her in a memorial concert.

http://www.nicolettelarson.com/main.html

Κυριακή 27 Μαΐου 2012

Gladys Knight & The Pips - You're Number 1 (In My Book)

One of the great soul singers, Gladys Knight was a performer from her childhood years, forming the Pips with her brother Merald and a couple cousins. They made the Top Ten in 1961 with the heavily doo wop-influenced "Every Beat of My Heart," and recorded some fine, nowadays overlooked pop-soul sides for the Fury and Maxx labels in the early and mid-'60s, sometimes under the direction of songwriter Van McCoy.
A couple singles from this period, "Letter Full of Tears" and "Giving Up," made the Top 40, but Knight didn't hit her commercial stride until she moved to Motown in 1966. Steeped in the gospel tradition, like so many soul singers, Knight & the Pips developed into one of Motown's most dependable acts, although they never quite scaled the commercial or artistic heights of fellow stars on the label like the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, and the Temptations.
With Norman Whitfield providing the production and much of the songwriting, the Pips fit into the mainstream of Motown's machine well, scoring big hits with some rabble-rousers (like "Friendship Train" and the original version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"), mainstream midtempo soul ("It Should Have Been Me" and "The End of Our Road"), and smooth ballads like "If I Were Your Woman."
In 1973, Knight had her biggest Motown hit with "Neither One of Us," which made number two; shortly afterward, she and the Pips left Motown for Buddah. The group members were briefly superstars in 1973-1974, reeling off the smashes "Midnight Train to Georgia" (their only number one), "I've Got to Use My Imagination," and "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me."
This ranked as some of their best material, but Knight soon moved toward an easy listening, adult contemporary direction, one that she's maintained to this day. Now performing separately from the Pips (who have retired), her days as a high-charting star ended after the mid-'70s, although she remains fairly popular, and maintained an active recording career into the new millennium, releasing At Last, an album of urban R&B, on MCA in 2000; One Voice, a gospel set, on Many Roads Records in 2005; and Before Me, an album of jazz standards, on Verve in 2006.

Σάββατο 26 Μαΐου 2012

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Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind (Shep's Holiday Mix)

The Emotions - I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love

The Hutchinson sisters' first charting album since 1969, 1976's Flowers found the Emotions out of the Volt enclave and under the wing of Earth, Wind & Fire's Maurice White.
Revamping their classic girl group soul sounds to incorporate the more eclectic nuances of White's production, the resultant brassed-up disco proved to be on target and their Kalimba debut cruised straight into the Top Five in August.
With fellow Earth, Wind & Fire members Verdine and Fred White adding their unmistakable chops to the sound, the Emotions ultimately emerged with an absolutely stunning brew that kept their powerful vocal harmonies well spotlighted, while adding more than a little funk to the sound.
Leading with the one-two punch of the hit singles "I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love" and "Flowers," the combination brought the marriage of their styles fully to bear as the former sizzled with Verdine's classic, elastic bass and the latter smoothed the mood with the girls' sweet R&B vocals.
With those two songs revealing Flowers' intentions, the rest of the set spools out in similar fashion, as the punchy funk of "We Go Through Changes" is tempered by the quiet "Me for You," while the lighthearted pathos of "No Plans for Tomorrow" falls deliciously in the middle.
And, although the Emotions wouldn't sweep the top spot until their massive "Best of My Love" the following year, Flowers nevertheless remains an important and, even more significantly, eminently pleasant precursor to that groove.

The Jones Girls - You're Breakin' My Heart

The Detroit sisters' final LP for Philadelphia's International Records features eight dressy urban soul tracks that work as well in regular or shuffle play mode.

A jazzy smooth rendition of Cynthia Biggs and Dexter Wansel's "Nights Over Egypt" (featuring Grover Washington) is a catch no urban soul lover will throw back.

The peppery "(I Found) That Man of Mine" and the soulful "ASAP (As Soon as Possible)" are saucy delights. Contains some tasty bites you won't find on The Best of the Jones Girls.