Smooth Sailing: Soulful Rocking & Easy Listening

Patrick Demarchelier (Vogue April 2013)

Enjoy this new episode of smooth sailing! I like the bass line of 'Him' by Rupert - The Piña Colada Song – Holmes. It comes in like a rolling thunder: heavy weather is in sight and that is all because of HIM! It reached the number 6 position on the Hot 100 U.S. pop chart in 1980.

Greenflow was an agile soul group that delivered the lion’s share of their performances on military bases from the Aleutian Islands to Wuerzburg, Germany, along with several strategic points in between. Bandleader A.J. Greene was an ex-marine who far preferred entertaining personnel to active duty. “After carrying a gun, it was nice to carry a trombone,” he recently remarked from his home in Pasadena, California. (Source: Numero Group)

"Archie James Cavanaugh can certainly claim to have had a major label release on A&M in 1980 with an album entitled Black and White Raven. The fine print is that the label released the record only in Alaska."

(Quote: Allmusic.com)

Tracklist:

Dee Dee Sharp Gamble – I'm Not In Love (1976)
Debarge – All This Love (1982)
The Roach Band – Aladdin (1979)
Diana Ross – Tenderness (1980)
Daft Punk Feat. Todd Edwards – Fragments Of Time (2013)
David Roberts – Wrong Side Of The Tracks (1982)
Greenflow – I Got’cha (1993)
MFSB – I’m On Your Side (1976)
Exile – Kiss You All Over (1978)
Mud – Drift Away (1978)
Dobie Gray – Drift Away (1973)
John Henry Kurtz – Drift Away (1972)
Joseph Nicoletti – Night Time Stars (1977)
David Lasley – One Fine Day (1973)
Archie James Cavanaugh – Take It Easy (1980)
Smokey Robinson – Cruisin' (1979)
Charlene – I've Never Been To Me (1977)
The Isley Brothers – For The Love Of You (1975)
Rupert Holmes – Him (1980)
Kenny Loggins ‎Feat. Stevie Nicks – Whenever I Call You "Friend" (1978)
Valentine Brothers – Let Me Be The One (1979)
Sailor – Sailor (1974)

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