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Unsplash Enjoy these tracks that are meant for the days that you wish it was a little cooler… 😊 I chose to play a chillout mix of Spiller’s Groovejet by Breakbot & Irfane that came out two years ago. The initial instrumental version of the song was first played in a Miami based club, called Groove Jet, later Sophie Ellis-Baxtor was asked to add vocals on it. Cristiano Spiller told British newspaper The Guardian: “This was one of the fastest tracks I ever produced. It was 1999, the night before I was due to fly to Miami for the Winter Music Conference, where all aspiring DJs and producers went. I was trying to stay awake for my early-morning flight and put on an unreleased version of Carol Williams’ Love Is You. I ended up sampling it and, in a couple of hours, I had Groovejet more or less written.” Tracklist: Emma Hoet & Molitor – Sucré Salé (2024) Bonus Points – Life At Sea (2016) Kenneth Bager Feat. Findlay Brown – Stones And Steel (2019) Sweatson Klank – Kiss In The Sh...

Unsplash Enjoy the most popular disco songs in the summer of 1981, according to Billboard ! Tracklist: Thelma Houston – If You Feel It B.B. & Q. Band – On The Beat Kraftwerk – Pocket Calculator Vin Zee – Funky Bebop Change – Paradise Suzy Q – Get On Up And Dance Material Feat. Nona Hendryx – Busting Out Billy Ocean – Stay The Night Two Man Sound – Capital Tropical Voggue – Dancin’ The Night Away France Joli – Gonna Get Over You Karen Silver – Set Me Free Denroy Morgan – I’ll Do Anything For You Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper Cheryl Lynn – Shake It Up Tonight Boys Town Gang – Remember Me / Ain't No Mountain High Enough Barbara Roy And Ecstasy, Passion And Pain ‎– If You Want Me Gino Soccio – Try It Out Evelyn King – I’m In Love Rick James – Give It To Me Baby

Unsplash Enjoy this little trip to the West Coast! 😊 Sadly Angela Bofill passed away recently. In 1978 her debut album Angie came out. With her strong, distinctive alto, she turned out to be an outstanding interpreter of jazzy soul ballads. Between 1978 and 1984, Bofill had consistent success on the American soul charts, with six albums making the Top 40, including two that entered the top ten. During this period, seven of her singles reached the Billboard R&B Top 40 as well. Bofill’s career went downhill after 1984. She was then dropped by her record company Arista in favour of Whitney Houston, who could conquer the pop market as well. In 2006 and 2007 Angela Bofill suffered two strokes. Because she had no health insurance, a benefit concert was organized to pay her hospital bills. Dutch singer Albert West was nicknamed the Cover King by the Dutch press, but he had quite a few hits that were originals. One of his cover songs was Just One Of Life's Little Tragedies , which re...

Quality disco took over the Record World soul chart on this day in 1979! 😊 At the time Record World was one of the three main music industry trade magazines in the United States, along with Billboard and Cashbox. Lou Rawls surely will be remembered as one of the best singers of all time, but when I saw an Unsung documentary about him, I was a bit shocked. Although he was famous for his charity work, he could be quite violent to his family. It even got to the point that he beat up his wife for 3 and a half hours and she had to be taken to hospital. He was not a pleasant man to work with either and he always wanted to be in control. In that perspective the song title Let Me Be Good To You sounds a bit ironic. Peaches and Herb were known as the sweethearts of soul during the 1960s and had a string of hits, most notably Let’s Fall In Love in 1966. When the hits dried up, they decided to quit the music business. Herb Fame became a police officer, but after a few years he started to re...

Pexels Enjoy this Sunshine Radio chart rundown from 20 to 1! Disco came knocking on the door of the Billboard Hot Soul Singles Chart of July 12th 1975 with Van McCoy’s The Hustle at number one. However, most of the songs were from veteran soul and funk acts, like Gladys Knight & The Pips, the Four Tops, Ben E. King and the Isley Brothers. The story of the Isley Brothers is quite remarkable. In 1959, when they first charted with Shout , they were contemporaries of rock ‘n’ roll legends like Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. In the 1960s, the group recorded songs for a variety of labels, including Twist And Shout (later covered by The Beatles) and the Motown single This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You) , but they could not find a real style of their own yet. In 1969 they released the Grammy Award-winning hit It's Your Thing on their own label, T-Neck Records. The next decade the brothers were at the peak of their career, when they reinvented themselves a...

Unsplash The Smooth Operators (Martijn Soetens and I) play yacht rock songs that you must have heard at least once in your life! We present some real yacht rock classics and yacht rock songs that we think should have been classics. Enjoy! 😊 Fire On The Water by Jesse Colin Young is a timeless blend of his signature folk-rock sound, supported by Michael McDonald’s iconic piano and voice. The song from his 1982 album The Perfect Stranger is a reflection on life’s challenges and the resilience of the human spirit. Young told about playing with Michael McDonald: “What can I say… Michael McDonald is a genius… What a pleasure it was to work with him.” Tracklist: Jesse Colin Young – Fire On The Water (1982) James Taylor – Woman’s Gotta Have It (1976) Pure Prairie League – I Can't Stop This Feelin' (1980) Robert Byrne – Pretend He's Me (1979) Ambrosia – Livin' On My Own (1980) Larry Carlton – Wavin' And Smilin' (1977) Nielsen/Pearson – If You Should Sail (1980...