Born "Annie Mae Bullock" near Brownsville, TN, she began singing as a teen, and joined "Ike Turner's" touring show as an 18-year-old backup vocalist. Her first single, a cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," hit the Top 30 early in 1984. Second single "What's Love Got To Do With It" became one of the year's biggest hits, spending three weeks at number one............This......"Re-Shape" is.....well......just brilliant!!
This song, produced by Mrs. Phyliss McKoy Joubert, David Joubert, Julien Jabre, and Sophie Delila is already in rotation on French and British radio with remixes by French producers Distort and Mima (Michael Tordjman and Maxime Desprez) and of course not forgetting the remix by the disco man himself " Larry Levan".
During the final years of his life, Ian kept himself busy touring and recording with The Blockheads. His latter shows were extremely emotional affairs for band and fans alike, as all of the hits were belted out: 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick', 'Reasons To Be Cheerful', 'What A Waste', 'Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll' and the classic songs from 'New Boots And Panties'. Ian played his final show - 'New Boots And Panto'- at the London Palladium on 6th February 2000.
aka "Maurizio Dami" an Italian music producer. He makes his debut on the Italian music scene as the founding-member of Avida, a "dance -cabaret band" featuring Daniele Trambusti and Stefano Fuochi and releasing a 7'' track "La bustina" published by Materiali Sonori in 1981. In 1983 he then attains international popularity under the pseudonym "Alexander Robotnick" and his track "Problèmes d'amour", published first by the Italian label Materiali Sonori and then by Sire-Wea , becomes a "cult track" of dance music.
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Mr Orlando cut his first song at the tender age of 16 (it was a minor hit). In 1961 at the age of 17, he had consecutive top 40 hits, co-authored by Carol King, "Halfway To Paradise" and "Bless You". They were followed up by "I Can't Stop Talkin' About You" and "The Edge Of Tears". He's group was offered their own summer variety TV series in 1974 and it clicked with audiences. Their Sonny & Cher-styled show, which mixed song and dance with light slapstick comedy, lasted two seasons from 1974 to 1976.
J.J. Cale is an American songwriter and musician best known for writing two songs that Eric Clapton made famous, "After Midnight" and "Cocaine", as well as the Lynyrd Skynyrd hit "Call Me The Breeze". Some sources incorrectly give his real name as "Jean Jacques Cale".
Barsotti D J's Italian electro versions of the Led Zepplin classic!! This leftfield killer is from 1983 and was released on cult Italo label Fuzz Dance. Not a lot is known of Barsotti and as far as i'm aware this was his biggest and only hit (I may be wrong). This is one seriously dirty, sleazy record. Over the years i've heard a lot of covers of this Led Zepplin track but this is my favourite.
These guys have been putting together some excellent mixes ... here's one for your ears !! Nice flow and selections !
Look up "languid" in the dictionary and you'll no doubt find a photograph of the Roxy Music frontman and Britain's very own King of Cool.
The problem in the past has been the man turning us against one another. We have been unable to see the truth, because we have been fighting for ten square feet of ground, our turf, our little piece of turf. That's crap, brothers! The turf is ours by right, because it's our turf. All we have to do is keep up the general truce. We take over one borough at a time. Secure our territory... secure our turf... because it's all our turf.
The Electro-Pop duo MGMT, pronounced “management”, is comprised of multi-instrumentalists Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, two guys whose paths first intersected on the campus of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut USA, circa 2002. "Electric Feel" is a lovely track in its self which is helped a long beautifully by one of the master remixers "Areoplane".
The queen of weird "Grace Jones" may be one of the only controversial icons left from the 80’s. In the old days you had Iggy Pop, Andy Warhol, and many others. But nowadays they have all let us down. They died or completely sold out to commercial shit.
This song has been recorded several times - the first being at The Backyard Studio (MK I) in 1997. As fate would have it, that version never survived....as did none of the subsequent versions and remixes............until now!!............Enjoy!
So the new thing is disco??? which I’m quite pleased about, and the bandwagon ride is proving fairly pleasant. Fortunately unlike minimal or new-rave etc etc etc, it seems that disco does actually exist. Thankfully this means that we can spend more time appreciating the records than shooting the breeze about what this thing called disco might actually be!!
Singer/songwriter Carly Simon is planning to play concert dates in Europe early next year for the first time in her 38-year career, she told Reuters on Thursday.Times and places are still being worked out, but she expects to perform at small venues beginning in January, to promote her upcoming acoustic album "Never Been Gone."
This guy is the undisputed king of canadian disco (not that there's a lot of competition!) no joke though, his four LPs have held up better than 99% of the competition from the states & europe.
This selection presents Swedish disco singer Patricia Harris sampling the hook from Hot Chocolate's 79' jam "Heaven Is"
