A much needed Black Music thread.

[K Douglas]

if i ordered take out for smooth.silky and soulful........Sade,s music would come to the door..................not that familiar with her stuff, but can appreciate her styling...thanks for posting Dougie...

Sade has an incredible and extensive discography. This was just three samples from one album. They have 6 studio albums in total. 5 sold multi platinum and the 6th was platinum. Their fanbase is global and they are passionate. I would highly suggest taking an afternoon one weekend and listen through their albums, the first 4 of which I consider absolute classics.

Sade discography - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[eddie kerr]

Crang Plaza was the same venue i saw Little Jackie Shane,,,,a cross dressing soul singer a few years later,,,,,but Eddie i believe the Plaza was at the North /West side of Jane and Wilson.. iknow because i went to school at ST Phillips which was opposite side of Wilson

Yes you are right. I actually saw Jackie Shane way back at the Club Blue note on Yonge and Gerrard, a late night club venue. I believe he was from Buffalo. A great place to meet girls and listen and see some great R & B performers.

 

[K Douglas]

Album title: Ironman
Artist: Ghostface Killah
Release date: October 29, 1996

Happy 25th birthday to this epic album from Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah, his debut solo album. Production handled by the RZA.
My 3 favorite tracks:

Assassination Day feat. Inspectah Deck, RZA, Raekwon & Masta Killa

Daytona 500 feat. Raekwon and Cappadonna

Camay feat. Raekwon and Cappadonna. Great sample of Teddy Pendergrass

 

[ogibowt]

i love Rock and soul like ZZ Topp and George Thorogood.........and im always up for a hard driving banger.........but i cant help myself sometimes.....so i go down into the Vault and pull up some random syrupy Soul Ballad and just listen....and it makes me feel good

 

[K Douglas]

i love Rock and soul like ZZ Topp and George Thorogood.........and im always up for a hard driving banger.........but i cant help myself sometimes.....so i go down into the Vault and pull up some random syrupy Soul Ballad and just listen....and it makes me feel good

Its nice. Definitely reminiscent of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles Ooh Baby Baby, which was released three years earlier.
I've been listening to ZZ Top a lot recently those dudes had so much soul. Best southern rock group ever.

 

[K Douglas]

Driving home from the office on Friday night I was listening to my favorite station on Sirius XM radio channel 50 The Groove. I didn't switch it once for the 45 minute drive because the playlist was absolute
Started off with this classic from the Blackbyrds

Then another 'happy' song from the one and only Maze feat. Frankie Beverly

Then the quintessential Friday evening song "Just got paid. It's Friday night. Money in my pocket. Feelin' right". RIP Johnny Kemp

 

[K Douglas]

Cont'd.
Next up Karyn White's 'Romantic'

Then some classic Kool & The Gang. One of their funkiest jams.

A great duet from the late 80's was next. RIP Teddy P.

 

[K Douglas]

Cont'd (2)

I've posted this one before I'm sure. Its such an Isley classic. Rockin' soul.

I've definitely posted this one before. My ATF Barry White track. RIP

And finally this has to be one of the funkiest jams ever laid down on wax. And so influential. Inspired the west coast hip hop G-Funk sound of the early 90's.

Made the poor weather drive truly enjoyable.

 

[ogibowt]

Cont'd.
Next up Karyn White's 'Romantic'

Then some classic Kool & The Gang. One of their funkiest jams.

A great duet from the late 80's was next. RIP Teddy P.

Kool and The Gang....Awesome

 

[ogibowt]

 

[Fun For All]

 

[Fun For All]

 

[eddie kerr]

Loved both groups, so many great songs to dance to slow sexy R & B music back in the day at the Club Trocadero in West Toronto, the best R & B dance hall ever. Aah, those were the days.

 

[K Douglas]

I could watch that all night

 

[Fun For All]

 

[ogibowt]

Soul at its finest

 

[trm]

The Persuasions-Doo Wop Acapella

 

[K Douglas]

Ten years ago today hip hop lost one of its early pioneers. Dwight Arrington Myers aka Heavy D was from 'Money Earnin" Mount Vernon, a suburb of NYC. He broke out on the scene in 1987 co-founding the group Heavy D & The Boyz, with DJ Eddie F who handled the DJ and production duties.
Heavy D will forever go down as one of my favorite rappers. He put out party rap joints mostly, often crossing over with r&b sounds. Their 1st single was 'Mr. Big Stuff' a hip hop remake of Jean Knight's 1971 soul hit of the same name. But the best track on their debut album was this one
The Overweight Lover's in the House

Contains a sample of 3 different James Brown songs, the most notable being Hot Pants.

The groups second album, Big Tyme, was released in 1989 and I consider it to be their best. This was my favorite song from it
Flexin'

Heavy D and the Boyz would go on to release 3 more albums. In 1997 he released his first solo album, Waterbed Hev, which has a distinctive r&b club flavor to it. This was the jam for me

Heavy D also had an eye for talent. He developed and produced the r&b boy band Soul For Real who scored platinum with their debut album 'Candy Rain'

Gone way too soon. RIP.

 

[K Douglas]

Heard this gem on Soul Town this morning.

 

[K Douglas]

Sly and the Family Stone - Everybody's a Star

The Roots did a great sample of this