Bar-Kays Small Christmas Mix-Fun (Propositions CD)

Vinyl Only with Dj Gregory @ Inoteka Monastiraki Sat. 22.

Κάθε Σάββατο στο Inoteka Bar θα διαλέγω για σας τα μαργαριταρένια βινύλια μου θυμίζοντας σας τα αριστουργήματα της μουσικής μέσα από την House - Deep Techno - Electro μουσική που γραφτήκανε πριν από 15 χρόνια περίπου. 

Αυτό το Σάββατο 22 θα κάνουμε ένα αφιέρωμα στα χρυσά χρόνια της House με μπόλικο Garage.

After 22:00 - Free Entrance

Inoteka Bar
Πλ. Αβησσυνιας 3, Μοναστηρακι
Τηλ. 210 32 46 446

This Is Disco @ Cafe Boheme Kolonaki

Bonnie Pointer - Free Me From My Freedom (12'' Disco Version)

Bonnie Pointer - Free Me From My Freedom (12'' Disco Version)

Patricia Eva "Bonnie" Pointer (born July 11, 1950) is an American R&B and disco singer, most notable for being the next-to-youngest member of the 1970s and 1980s family music group, The Pointer Sisters. 
She scored several moderate solo hits after leaving the Pointers in 1977, including a disco cover of The Elgins' "Heaven Must Have Sent You" which became a U.S. top 20 pop hit on September 1, 1979.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Pointer

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'This Is Disco' Thursday 25.10 @ Cafe Boheme Kolonaki

'This Is Disco' 

Thursday 25.10 

@ 

Cafe Boheme Kolonaki

Dj Gregory

Hosted 

By

Maria-Melissa

Free Entrance

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Soundz @ Secreto Gazi Saturday 22 Sep.

Photos from our last party

Soundz @ Secreto Gazi (Roof Garden) Friday 14

Soundz musical taste No2 will hit you again this week, are you prepare?

Friday 14

Souljar 

(deep conspiracy) with deep house

Dj Gregory

(soundz) with deep techno

Hosted by 

Maria-Melissa 

After 23:00

Free entrance

Info's : 6947198871

Secreto (Roof Garden)

21 Persefons Str. Gazi

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Patti Labelle - I'll Still Love You More

Patti Labelle - I'll Still Love You More

Ask me how much you mean to me

And I wouldn't even know where to start

Ask if this love runs deep in me

You wouldn't find a deeper love in any heart

You could say, you couldn't live one day without me, no

You could say all of your thoughts are thoughts about me

You can think no other love can be as strong but

You'd be wrong, you'd be wrong

If you say that you love me

More than anybody than anyone's

Ever been loved before

As much as you love me

Baby, I'll still love you

Baby, I'll still love you more

I'll still love you more

Ask me just what I'd do for you

I'll tell you that I would do anything

Ask if this heart be true for you

I'll show you a truer heart could never be, no

You could say, there's not a star that you won't bring me

You could say, there'll be no day that you won't need me

You could think no other love could last as long

But you'd be wrong, you'd be wrong

If you say that you love me

More than anybody than anyone's

Ever been loved before

As much as you love me

Baby, I'll still love you

Baby, I'll still love you more

And for every kiss, I'll kiss you back a hundred times

And forever thing you do I'll just do more

And for all the love you give, I'll give so much back you'll see

I have so much love for you inside me

Yeah, no matter how much you care

And I know you do

Baby, I'll still love you more

I'll still love you, I'll love so much more

You could say

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Soundz @ Secreto Gazi (Roof Garden) Friday 14

Blaze - If You Should Need A Friend (Friendship Mix) 1987

Blaze - If You Should Need A Friend (Friendship Mix) 1987

Drums, Computer – Kevin Hedge

Engineer – George Louvis, Kevin Hedge

Guitar – Scott Lea

Horns – George Louvis

Keyboards – Josh Milan

Mastered By – "Pump"*

Producer, Mixed By – Blaze

Vocals – Chris Herbert

Written-By – C. Herbert*, J. Milan*, K. Hedge*

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Soundz @ Secreto (roof garden) Saturday 8

ABC - The Look Of Love (Part.1)

ABC - The Look Of Love (Part.1)

When your world is full of strange arrangements 

And gravity won't pull you through 

You know you're missing out on something 

Well that something depends on you 

All I'm saying, it takes a lot to love you 

All I'm doing, you know it's true 

All I mean now, there's one thing 

Yes one thing that turns this grey sky to blue 

That's the look, that's the look 

The look of love 

When your girl has left you out on the pavement (goodbye) 

Then your dreams fall apart at the seams 

Your reason for living's your reason for leaving 

Don't ask me what it means 

Who's got the look? I don't know the answer to that question 

Where's the look? if I knew I would tell you 

What's the look? look for your information 

Yes there's one thing, the one thing that still holds true 

(what's that? ) 

That's the look, that's the look 

The look of love 

If you judge a book by the cover, 

Then you'd judge the look by the lover 

I hope you'll soon recover, 

Me I go from one extreme to another 

And though my friends just might ask me 

They say "martin maybe one day you'll find true love" 

I say "maybe, there must be a solution 

To the one thing, the one thing, we can't find" 

That's the look, that's the look 

The look of love 

That's the look, that's the look 

The look of love 

That's the look, that's the look 

Sisters and brothers 

Should help each other 

Oh, oh, oh 

Heavens above 

That's the look, that's the look, hip hip hooray, ay 

That's the look, that's the look, yippee ai yippee aiay 

That's the look, that's the look 

Be lucky in love 

Look of love

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Lew Kirton - Do What You Want Be Who You Are

Lew Kirton - Do What You Want Be Who You Are

Smooth soul singer Lew Kirton was born in Barbados and grew up singing in his church choir; he later performed with island vocal groups as Jiggs Kirton. Also an accomplished drummer, he later moved to the United States and took over the drum chair in Sam & Dave's touring revue in 1969. He joined the Philly-styled soul group the Invitations in 1972 as lead vocalist, and they attracted some attention with singles like "They Say the Girl's Crazy" and "Look on the Good Side." Kirton went solo in the late '70s, signing with the Miami-based TK label family (best known for hits by George and Gwen McCrae) in 1977. 

Teamed with writer/producer Clarence Reid (whose alter ego was, of course, the bawdy comedian Blowfly), his first releases on the Marlin subsidiary included the future collector's item "Do What You Want, Be What You Are." 1978 saw the single release of his best-known song, "Heaven in the Afternoon"; two years later, he issued his first full-length album, Just Arrived, on another TK subsidiary, Alston. 

After recording as a guest vocalist with B. Baker's Chocolate Company, Kirton left TK and moved to New York. His second album, Talk to Me, appeared in 1983 on the Believe in a Dream label, and spawned singles in the title track and "Don't Give Up Your Dream (Hang On in There)." One further single, "Don't Wanna Wait," was released on MCA in 1986; despite having completed another album, Kirton has yet to find an outlet for its release. 

Just Arrived was later reissued by the British label Expansion under the title Heaven in the Afternoon, with bonus tracks from Kirton's earlier singles included.

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Dj Gregory Kavlotek Mix 27-08-2012

Gloria Estefan & The Miami Sound Machine - Can't Stay Away From You

Gloria Estefan & The Miami Sound Machine - Can't Stay Away From You

I love this song

Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García de Estefan, known professionally as Gloria Estefan (born in1957) is a Cuban-born American singer, songwriter, actress and entrepreneur.
Known as the "Queen Of Latin Pop", she is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 100 million albums sold worldwide, 31.5 million of those in the United States alone.
She has won three Grammy Awards, and 4 Latin Grammys, and is the most successful crossover performer in Latin music to date.

http://www.gloriaestefan.com/

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

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Yagya - The Inescapable Decay Of My Heart (LP)

Bound to split the biscuit, this one: esteemed Dub Techno and Ambient producer presents his Luomo-like suite of vocal-heavy House and Pop. As Yagya, Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson has borne three albums of exquisite ambient techno strongly informed by the likes of Gas, Basic Channel, and Brian Eno. 

They're all much loved by those who own them, but they're also all instrumental, so it's a bit of a shock to hear full-blooded vocals covering the majority of 'The Inescapable Decay Of My Heart'. Luckily it does come with a disc of instrumentals for those who can't handle that level of human emotion, but as for us, we're not so turned off. 

They're a bit naff at times, but but when they work, they do so surprisingly well, finding a fine middle ground between Moritz Von Oswald's most stripped down Dub House and the ebullient beauty of Vladislav Delay's Luomo work, all with extra atmospheric detail. 

http://boomkat.com/cds/562833-yagya-the-inescapable-decay-of-my-heart

Barbara Tucker - Stay Together (Radio Mix)

Barbara Tucker - Stay Together (Radio Mix)

Barbara Tucker (born March 19, 1967, Brooklyn, New York), is an African American house, R&B and soul singer, songwriter and choreographer. Her impact on the mainstream music scene has been felt more in Europe, than in her home country.

Tucker scored a string of six #1 hits on the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart in the 1990s and into the 2000s, as well as several hits on the UK Singles Chart

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Black Box - Fantasy (Remixed Edit)

Black Box - Fantasy (Remixed Edit)

Black Box was an Italian house music group popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The members of the group included a trio made up of a club DJ (Daniele Davoli), a classically trained clarinet teacher (Valerio Semplici), and a keyboard and electronic music "wiz" (Mirko Limoni).
The three created an image for the Black Box act using French fashion model Katrin Quinol as its album/singles cover art and supposed lead singer in all of the group's music videos.

Davoli, Semplici, and Limoni had previously formed a group called Groove Groove Melody, producing dance music under names such as Starlight (who had a UK Top 10 hit in August 1989 with "Numero Uno") and Wood Allen. They went on to record music under many other aliases, most notably the alias Mixmaster, which scored a UK #9 hit in November 1989 with the song "Grand Piano".
For more :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Box_%28band%29

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Dee Dee Bridgewater - Lonely Disco Dancer

Dee Dee Bridgewater - Lonely Disco Dancer

One of the best jazz singers of her generation, Dee Dee Bridgewater (who was married to trumpeter Cecil Bridgewater in the early '70s) had to move to France to find herself. She performed in Michigan during the '60s and toured the Soviet Union in 1969 with the University of Illinois Big Band.

She sang with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis orchestra (1972-1974) and appeared in the Broadway musical The Wiz (1974-1976). Due to erratic records and a lack of direction, Bridgewater was largely overlooked in the jazz world by the time she moved to France in the '80s. She appeared in the show Lady Day and at European jazz festivals, and eventually formed her own backup group.

By the late '80s, Bridgewater's Verve recordings were starting to alert American listeners as to her singing talents. Her 1995 Horace Silver tribute disc (Love and Peace) is a gem, and resulted in the singer extensively touring the U.S, reintroducing her to American audiences. She would find even more success with her tribute album, Dear Ella, which won a Grammy in 1997. 

This Is New, released in 2002, featured Bridgewater singing Kurt Weill songs, while 2005’s J’ai Deux Amours found her tackling French classics. For 2010’s Eleanora Fagan (1917-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee, Bridgewater moved from Verve to Decca/Emarcy, and offered her versions of several songs associated with Billie Holiday.

She followed this in August 2011 with her sophomore effort for the label; a compilation collection of jazz standards entitled Midnight Sun, with tunes fom previously albums ranging from "Angel Eyes" to Horace Silver's "Lonely Woman," and included one cut, "L'Hymne a la Amour (J'ai Deux Amours)," which was released previously only in Japan.
From : http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dee-dee-bridgewater-mn0000227415

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Dj Gregory - Random Retro 80's Cut Demo

Hello my friends

This is a random choose of some beautiful tracks that i can play in a future gig for you.

I cut them for put many in there in a few time, so you to have a clear picture of my music.

If you like my taste and you like to have me as guest feel free to contact me

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From My ' This Is Disco ' Project

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Michael Jackson - Lady In My Life (Timmy Regisford & Quentin Harris Shelter Vocal)

Michael Jackson - Lady In My Life (Timmy Regisford & Quentin Harris Shelter Vocal)

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Heatwave - Leavin' For A Dream

Heatwave - Leavin' For A Dream

If you could use only one adjective to describe Heatwave's sound, it would be "smooth." The band's romantic ballads and slow jams were the epitome of smooth, and that adjective also describes many of their up-tempo funk grooves.

This isn't to say that Heatwave's funk lacked grit -- it had plenty of grit, but even so, it was an undeniably smoother style of funk than Parliament/Funkadelic, James Brown, Tower of Power, Rick James, or the Bar-Kays. In fact, when Kool & the Gang switched to a smoother, sleeker approach in 1979 and hired J.T. Taylor as its new lead vocalist, Heatwave was a big influence.

The Kool & the Gang that emerged on 1979's Ladies' Night is certainly a lot more Heatwave-like than the gutbucket, down-and-dirty Kool & the Gang of "Jungle Boogie" and "Hollywood Swinging." And it isn't hard to hear the parallels between Taylor and Heatwave's Johnnie Wilder. It's safe to assume that when Kool & the Gang was reinventing itself, its members had Too Hot to Handle and Central Heating in their collections.

With this excellent sophomore effort, Heatwave lived up to the promise it showed on Too Hot to Handle. The invigorating funk smash "The Groove Line" became a disco-era anthem, and the album's other big hit, "Mind Blowing Decisions," is a quiet-storm classic. From up-tempo funk grooves like "Party Poops" and "Put the Word Out" to the romantic Northern soul of "Happiness Togetherness" and "Leaving for a Dream," Central Heating is among Heatwave's strongest releases. (Alex Henderson, All Music Guide)

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Melba Moore - Don't You Want To Be My Lover

Melba Moore - Don't You Want To Be My Lover

There were early signs that Melba Moore would become an entertainer. The most obvious motivation was her mother, Bonnie Davis, who was also a successful singer. Witnessing the success that her mother endured, Moore knew the entertainment industry would not escape her.
The world of performing arts was formally introduced to her by way of dance lessons at the age of four. Moore's mother impressed upon her that "if you don't touch people's hearts, it doesn't mean anything." Her stepfather would also become an instrumental figure in the development of her early career.
All her siblings were musically inclined. Melba's interest was dance.

However, her stepfather insisted that she learn the piano. Against her will, she conceded -- and to her benefit. She gained much admiration for the blues and jazz pianists.
Upon graduating from college, she became a music teacher, which she found very fulfilling. Nonetheless, Moore's affinity for the entertainment industry persisted.
More here : http://www.allmusic.com/artist/melba-moore-mn0000869409

Melba Moore - Don't You Want To Be My Lover

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Charles Earland - Never Knew Love Like This Before

Charles Earland - Never Knew Love Like This Before

Charles Earland (24 May 1941 – 11 December 1999[1]) was an American jazz composer, organist, and saxophonist in the soul jazz idiom.

Earland was born in Philadelphia and learned to play the saxophone in high school. He played tenor with Jimmy McGriff at the age of 17 and in 1960, started his first group. He started playing the organ after playing with Pat Martino, and joined Lou Donaldson's band from 1968 to 1969.

The group that he led from 1970, including Grover Washington, Jr., was successful, and he eventually started playing soprano saxophone and synthesizer. His hard, simmering grooves earned him the nickname, 'The Mighty Burner'.

In 1978, Earland hit the disco/club scene with a track recorded on Mercury Records called "Let the Music Play", written by Randy Muller from the funk group, Brass Construction. The record was in the U.S. charts for five weeks and reached number 46 in the UK Singles Chart With Earland's playing on synthesizer, the track also has an uncredited female vocalist. He had several moderate Billboard R&B chart hits in the mid-70s and early 80s on Mercury and later Columbia Records.

Earland traveled extensively from 1988 until his death, performing throughout the USA and abroad. One of the highlights of his latter years was playing at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1994. Among the musicians that performed with him at the Berlin Jazz Festival was the Alabama born, Chicago resident, Zimbabu Hamilton on the drums. He died in Kansas City, Missouri of heart failure at the age of 58.

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

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Millie Jackson - I'll Be Rolling (With The Punches)

Millie Jackson - Lovingly Yours (1976)

 Producers : Brad Shapiro, Millie Jackson
Background Vocals : Brandy, The Moments

Millie Jackson's first taste of singing in front of an audience occurred one night at the famed nightclub Smalls Paradise. Sitting in the audience with friends, Jackson heckled the lady on stage and, when dared to do better, she stepped up to belt Ben E. King's "Don't Play It No More." Jackson was hired for another gig within two weeks, but didn't get paid. A gentleman by the name of Tony Rice took her to a venue in Hoboken, NJ, a couple of weeks later and then on to Brooklyn, NY, to perform for a nominal fee.

Born in Thompson, GA, Jackson lived with her grandmother prior to moving to Newark, NJ, to live with her father in 1958. She grew up influenced by the sounds of Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, and later, the O'Jays. Her first single to chart was 1971's deceptively titled "A Child of God (It's Hard to Believe)," which many thought was a gospel track. Due to its heated lyrical content, the single was canceled, but still managed to peak at number 22 on the R&B charts. In the spring of 1972, Jackson had her first R&B Top Ten single with "Ask Me What You Want." She kept busy performing in nightclubs and enjoyed her second consecutive Top Ten single with "My Man, A Sweet Man" in August of 1972; it peaked at number seven. (Ironically, the song was not one of Jackson's favorites.)

A year later, Jackson, whose vocal texture is similar to one of her idols, Gladys Knight, had her third Top Ten single with the moderately paced "Hurts So Good," which peaked at number three on the R&B charts and made the pop Top 40. The single bore the title of her album and was also featured on the movie soundtrack for Cleopatra Jones. Jackson produced the album with Brad Shapiro. However, she was only given credit for the album concept. In Jackson's own words, "...that's when they (label owners) met the real Millie Jackson." Thereafter, she was given credit for her efforts.

In January of 1975, Jackson released the album that would introduce what would later become her trademark rap style of racy, raunchy language; her audience loved it. The album was Caught Up and the featured release was "If Loving You Is Wrong I Don't Want to Be Right," for which she received two Grammy nominations. Jackson openly admits that she never had singing lessons and never thought she could sing. Consequently, she began to talk (or what was commonly known at the time as rap) on her songs in a blunt, candid manner to make up for the shortcoming and had her fourth Top Ten single with country singer Merle Haggard's "If You're Not Back in Love by Monday" (Billboard country charts number two). Jackson's version peaked at number five on the R&B charts. 

Over the next ten years, Jackson had numerous Top 100 singles for Spring Records. In 1986, she signed with Jive and released her fifth and sixth Top Ten singles in "Hot! Wild! Unrestricted! Crazy Love" and "Love Is a Dangerous Game, both respectively peaking at number nine and six on the R&B charts. In addition to her impressive music career, Jackson wrote the play Young Man, Older Woman; the play toured for four years. Her attention, though, has turned to the broadcast booth as a radio program host on the afternoon radio show in Dallas, TX. According to Billboard, Jackson is one of the top R&B acts to ever record or step onto a stage and is still giving her fans what they want as a radio host and a performer.
Source : http://www.allmusic.com/artist/millie-jackson-mn0000488859

Upcoming concerts :

Friday 03 August 2012
Millie Jackson
at 

Howard Theatre Washington, DC, US

Saturday 04 August 2012
Joey Morant Quartet & Millie Jackson
at 

B.B. King's Blues Club New York, NY, US

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From New Wave to Electro Tech Fri. 27 at Secreto Gazi B part

From New Wave to Electro Tech Fri. 27 at Secreto Gazi A part

MICHAEL JACKSON INTERVIEW ON SOUL TRAIN

Silver Convention - Dancing In The Aisle

Silver Convention - Dancing In The Aisle

 The group was initiated in Munich by producers and songwriters Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze. The group was named after Levay, "Silver" being Levay's nickname. Kunze had in the late 1960s been a pop lyricist who wrote protest songs in German; when these tunes went out of style, he began producing pop records and commercials. Levay had developed a taste for American music while growing up in Yugoslavia, eventually becoming a music arranger and lyricist.

Using female session vocalists for their first recordings, they scored a successful single in the United Kingdom in 1975 with the song "Save Me", which peaked at #30. They were only a studio group, and realized then that they would need to find professional entertainers for presentation to the public.

They recruited vocalists Linda Thompson (real name Linda Übelherr, who would be billed on her solo records as Linda G. Thompson, formerly a member of Les Humphries Singers), Penny McLean (real name Gertrude Wirschinger) and Ramona Wulf (real name Ramona Kraft, born to a German mother and black American G.I. father). Their first production was the minor successful single named ironically "There Is Always Another Girl".

As Silver Convention they scored two major U.S. and Canadian hit singles. "Fly, Robin, Fly," of which the complete lyrics consisted of only six different words (Fly, Robin, Up, To, The, Sky), maintained three weeks at #1 in late November and early December 1975, and won the group a Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in December 1975. Initially the song was titled "Run, Rabbit, Run", changed by the writers moments before the recording took place. 

Their next success "Get Up And Boogie", which also consisted of only six different words (Get, Up, And, Boogie, That's, Right), hit #1 in Canada on June 15, 1976,had 3 weeks at #2 in the U.S in June 1976 and also peaked at #7 in the UK, in May 1976. Their next release, "No No Joe," only scored #60 in September 1976. The further singles released by the trio attempted to duplicate the sound that had made them successful briefly, but they were only minor successes. At this time, Linda G. Thompson left the group and was replaced by New Yorker Rhonda Heath, who was chosen over other hopefuls at an open casting call to become the newest singer for the group.

Michael Kunze wrote the lyrics on the first two albums under the pseudonym Stephan Prager. During this time the three singers released their own solo work. McLean and Thompson achieved hit singles with "Lady Bump" and "1, 2, 3, 4 ... Fire!", and "Ooh What a Night" respectively. Wulf's solo effort was only a moderate success.

Silver Convention represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 with "Telegram", finishing eighth. The entry had only English lyrics (with considerably more words than their past hits), but was allowed to enter in spite of the language rule being reintroduced this year, because the song was chosen to represent Germany before the reintroduction was announced. In 1994, Rhonda Heath returned to Eurovision, providing backing vocals and keyboards for the German entry "Wir Geben 'Ne Party" performed in German by Mekado. This entry did better than Silver Convention's effort, finishing third out of the 25 entries in Dublin.

With a new producer (John Davis), and a revised line-up of singers (Suzie McClosky aka Zenda Jacks, Rhonda Heath and Ramona Wulf), Silver Convention was successful again during 1978 with the album Love in a Sleeper. The 12" single release from the LP was "Spend the Night With Me" backed with "Mission To Venus".

Levay also worked with Giorgio Moroder, and Kunze began work with Jim Steinman. The solo careers of the three singers ended quickly and they left the music industry. Levay and Kunze later collaborated on the successful Vienna productions of the musicals Elisabeth, Mozart! and Rebecca.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Convention
http://www.silverconvention.de/

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Teddy Pendergrass - I Can't Live Without Your Love

Teddy Pendergrass - I Can't Live Without Your Love

1982 Grammy Award Nomination Best Male R&B Vocal Performance

Pendergrass received several nominations for the American Music Awards between 1979 and 1981 for Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist, Favorite Soul/R&B Album, and Favorite Disco Artist. He won the AMA for Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist in 1979, alongside singer Lou Rawls in a tie.

Teddy Pendergrass started singing gospel music in Philadelphia churches, becoming an ordained minister at ten years old. While attending public school, he sang in the citywide McIntyre Elementary School Choir and in the All-City Stetson Junior High School Choir. A self-taught drummer, Pendergrass had a teen pop vocal group when he was 15. By his late teens, Pendergrass was a drummer for local vocal group the Cadillacs.

In the late '60s, the Cadillacs merged with another more established group, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. In 1970, when the Blue Notes broke up, Melvin, now aware of Pendergrass' vocal prowess, asked him to take the lead singer spot. It's no secret that Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff wanted Marvin Junior of the Dells for their Philadelphia International Records roster. Since the Dells were signed to Chess, they were unavailable. When the gruff'n'ready vocals of Pendergrass came their way, they eagerly signed the group. Beginning with "I Miss You," a steady stream of hit singles flowed from the collaboration of Pendergrass and Gamble & Huff: "If You Don't Know Me by Now," "The Love I Lost," "Bad Luck," "Wake Up Everybody" (number one R&B for two weeks in 1976), and two gold albums, To Be True and Wake Up Everybody.

Unfortunately, the more success the group had, the more friction developed between Melvin and Pendergrass. Despite the revised billing of the group, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes featuring Theodore Pendergrass, Pendergrass felt that he wasn't getting enough recognition. Around 1976, Pendergrass left Melvin's Blue Notes and formed his own Blue Notes, featuring Teddy Pendergrass. Briefly, there was some confusion as to which Blue Notes were which. The resolution came when Pendergrass disbanded his Blue Notes in favor of a solo career and Melvin's group signed a recording contract with Source Records, distributed through ABC Records, scoring a hit with "I Want to Be Your Lover."

 Pendergrass signed a new contract with Philadelphia International Records in late 1976/early 1977. He burst back on the scene with Teddy Pendergrass, a platinum solo debut that included the top-notch singles "I Don't Love You Anymore," "You Can't Hide from Yourself," and "The More I Get the More I Want." Around this time, Pendergrass began to institute his infamous "Ladies Only" concerts. His next three albums went gold or platinum: Life Is a Song Worth Singing (1978), Teddy (1979), and Teddy Live (Coast to Coast). The hit single "Close the Door" was used in the film Soup for One, where Pendergrass had a small role.

The singer received several Grammy nominations during 1977 and 1978, Billboard's 1977 Pop Album New Artist Award, an American Music Award for best R&B performer of 1978, and awards from Ebony magazine and the NAACP. He was also in consideration for the lead in the movie biopic The Otis Redding Story. The '70s ended, but Pendergrass kept racking up the hits. TP, his fifth solo album, went platinum in the summer of 1980 off the singles "Turn Off the Lights," "Come Go with Me," "Shout and Scream," "It's You I Love," and "Can't We Try." It's Time for Love gave Pendergrass another gold album in summer 1981, which included the hit singles "Love TKO" and "I Can't Live Without Your Love."

A 1982 car accident left Pendergrass paralyzed from the waist down and wheelchair-bound. After almost a year of physical therapy and counseling, Pendergrass returned to the recording scene, signing a contract with Elektra/Asylum in 1983. His ninth solo album and Elektra/Asylum debut, Love Language went gold the spring of 1984. Philadelphia International issued two albums of unreleased tracks, This One's for You (1982) and Heaven Only Knows (1983). Other albums included Workin' It Back (1985), Joy (1988, whose title track went to number one R&B for two weeks), and Little More Magic (1993). 

The latter half of the '90s found Pendergrass recording for the Surefire/Wind Up label. Truly Blessed, the name of an 1991 Elektra album, is also the title of the autobiography Pendergrass co-authored with Patricia Romanowski. Apart from an appearance at a 2007 ceremony held in his honor, Pendergrass spent his later years away from the spotlight. He had difficulty recovering from colon cancer surgery and passed away on January 13, 2010.

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'This Is Disco' Boney M. Tribute @ Aurora (Pahi Megaron) Sat. 14

Do not miss this 60 Minutes tribute to the legendary Boney M. group.
Made from rare 12'' mix singles & some great remixes.

This Is Disco

Saturday 14 July

Boney M. Tribute

Soundtrack by The Phantom

Aurora Cafe Bar (Pahi Megaron)

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Jean Carn - If You Don't Know Me By Now

 

Jean Carn - If You Don't Know Me By Now

Jean Carn's lone Motown effort reunites the singer with producer Norman Connors, whose mid-'70s dates for Buddah effectively launched her solo career. Trust Me proves some distance removed from the jazz-funk context of their previous collaborations, however, instead couching Carn's potent vocals in a slickly commercial, radio-friendly setting that casts neither artist nor producer in a positive light. 

The album's biggest chart hit, a cover of the Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes classic "If You Don't Know Me by Now" that features the Temptations on backing vocals, exemplifies all of Trust Me's flaws: Carn and Connors rely on safe, conventional material and saleable gimmicks that render the music absolutely faceless. The album's title is sadly accurate. Rather than going for broke, Trust Me plays it far too close to the vest.

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Carol Williams - Love Is You

Carol Williams - Love Is You

New Jersey native Carol Williams had performed with soul groups Geminis and the Del-Rios prior to her breakthrough as a disco artist. Beginning with the catchy, Gloria Gaynor-influenced "Rattlesnake" (replete with a contagious lead vocal) at the close of 1975, she would enjoy a string of dancefloor hits from 'Lectric Lady. 

The breezy "Love Is You" and a polished remake of Kai Winding's "More" both garnered international acclaim. Though "Love Is You" is the track to appear on most Salsoul compilations and has been sampled well into the new millennium, it was, in fact, the B-side to Williams' own composition, "Come Back." 

The latter boasts a stronger melody, more creative arrangement, and a more resilient vocal from the singer; but perhaps the fact that it didn't comply so strictly with the burgeoning disco formula prevented it from climbing further.

Another hidden gem lies in the moody, desperate "My Time of Need," a Williams composition which touches on out-of-wedlock pregnancy and makes effective vocal use of a fast-food jingle. In addition to the up-tempo numbers, the singer also turns in a touching performance on the Philly soul ballad "This Time May Be the Last Time" (earlier recorded by De De Warwicke). 

All in all, 'Lectric Lady is a solidly produced, strongly arranged set with a fine range of material. With the Salsoul Orchestra on board throughout, it serves as one of the label's fundamental albums. By Justin M. Kantor AllMusic

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