Professor Eddy

There's a funky edit of a Suzi Quatro song in this new episode of Groovy, sexy & soulful . And Suzi Quatro was in fact the first woman I was in love with... ;-) She looked like one of the boys, with her tough leather suit and big bass guitar, but I found her incredibly sexy. She was originally from Motown city Detroit, but she was most popular in Great Britain, Europe and Australia in the 1970s. Well-known songs are ' Can The Can ', '48 Crash' and 'Devil Gate Drive', all written and produced by famous glam hit makers Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. The latter also worked on her latest album 'In the spotlight' that came out recently. It includes the single ' Whatever love is '. Suzi Quatro influenced girl bands like The Runaways and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. There are two songs in this mix from the great new Maysa album, 'Motions of love'. She has a single out, called ' Flower girl ', which is a duet with Dwele. Enjo...

More than a thousand followers on Mixcloud, wow! And tomorrow I will celebrate my birthday, so there are reasons enough for a party and you're all invited! :-) Tracklist: Smoove + Turrell – The Way It Goes (2011) The Chaplin Band – Welcome To The Party (1981) Today, Tomorrow, Forever – Dance, Party, Jam (1981) The Temptations – Treat Her Like A Lady (1984) Kurtis Blow – The Breaks (1980) Legacy – Word Up (1982) Skool Boyz – Superfine (From Behind) (1985) Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio – It's Time To Party Now [Frico Edit Warped] (1980/2008) Arlana – You Can't Keep Breaking My Heart (1982) Kim Tolliver – Party Lights (1982) Lee Moore – Do You Feel Like A Party (1981) Cookie – Can’t Judge A Book By Its Cover [Eddy’s Extended Edit] (1981) Monsieur Dubois – Dance (2011) Switch – We Like To Party... Come On (1978) Van McCoy – Party (1976) Eddy's Party Jam by Professor Eddy on Mixcloud

Times have changed. Nowadays it would be totally inappropriate to sing about ‘little girls’, but in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s songs about teenage girls didn’t raise any eyebrows, even when the singers, like Ringo Starr and Chuck Berry, were in their (late) thirties. Being in love with school girls seemed to be quite normal. Alex Chilton (Big Star) sang on top of that about his love for a thirteen year old girl ('Thirteen') and Jerry Lee Lewis even married one! Bruce Springsteen sang about his little girl (‘I’m on fire’) in 1984 and Billy Idol claimed that he was in love with his ‘sweet sixteen’ three years later, but songs about teenage love were fading away in the 1980s. After the legal problems that R. Kelly and Gary Glitter faced in the 1990s and 2000s the openly teenage adorations seem to have disappeared for good in 2011, just like the word ‘teenager’ in songs. But that’s from the male perspective. Female vocalists like Katy Perry, on the other hand, still sing about ‘tee...

Ever since the 1980s I love to hear electro music and especially electro or synth funk. Kraftwerk started the revolution in the 1970s and bands like the Human League went on with the electro sound in the early 1980s. Then it started to infect soul and disco music as well, as you can hear in this mix. I included the Club Clique For The Bad Girls Remix of ‘Video games’ from the wonderful Lana Del Rey too. It fits perfectly as the first track. If you want to hear some more old school electro, check out ‘ Elektro Diskow ’, a cool new compilation album from Mixmag Magazine. Enjoy! Picture below from FreeFoto.com Look out for part 5 of Groovy, sexy & soulful next week! Playlist: Lana Del Rey – Video Games [Club Clique For The Bad Girls Remix] (2011) Dimitri From Paris & DJ Rocca Present Erodiscotique – Downtown (2011) Roy Ayers – And Then We Were One (1983) Rashaan Patterson – If (2004) Wendy & Lisa – Are You My Baby? (1989) Beverley Knight – Mama Used To Sa...