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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 self-penned songs was Just One Of Life's Little Tragedies , wh

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

Cottonbro Enjoy the Billboard Disco Action Top 15, dated on June 26th 1976! I believe the best disco was made in 1976, just before the big “Saturday Night Fever bang", when it all became too commercial. In 1976 the line between up-tempo soul and disco was very thin. Disco meant soul music for the dance floor, nothing more and nothing less. It all ended when the movie Saturday Night Fever became a massive success and everyone tried to get a piece of the disco pie. The Philly track by Eli’s Second Coming (MFSB guitarist Bobby Eli) was surprisingly released by T.K. Records, which was based in Hialeah, Florida. The name "TK" was inspired by the initials of sound engineer Terry Kane. He built a recording studio on the second floor of founder Henry Stone’s office. T.K. Records is closely associated with the early rise of disco. In 1974 the label released Rock Your Baby by George McCrae, the second bona fide disco song (after The Hues Corporation's Rock The Boat ) that r