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Aurora De Leon What is classic rock? According to Wikipedia classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s: "In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on commercially successful hard rock popularized in the 1970s." The Smooth Operators emphasize the melodic or pop/rock side of the genre. The tracks we chose are tightly constructed, with no wasted space or prolonged detours from the melodic hooks. The production of the songs is clean, polished, and bright, making full use of the advances in recording technology and technique. Enjoy! Tracklist: Roxy Music – Dance Away (1979) Al Stewart – If It Doesn’t Come Naturally, Leave It (1976) Jeff Harrington – Kristi (1975) Heart – Dreamboat Annie (1976) Dane Donohue – Can’t Be Seen (1978) Larry Lee ‎– Don't Talk (1982) Wings ‎– Listen To What The Man Said (1975...

Joan Smalls Instagram The sub-genre is officially called folk funk , but I think soulful folk is a better description, because there are just a few snippets of funk in this music style. As the 1960s melted into the ’70s in a colourful swirl of musical possibility, bands and singer-songwriters were experimenting with newfound freedoms. The psychedelic era had brought about many changes and much political upheaval in its wake. Discrete genres became fluid. Many acts fused different sounds together. Rock would meet jazz. Soul was mixed with psychedelia. In this fertile environment the somewhat vague yet highly prized form of folk funk emerged. Names that are synonymous with the genre are Bill Withers, Minnie Riperton and more recently the wonderful Kadhja Bonet. Her album Child Queen will be released June 8, 2018. Aside from also being an awesome pro wrestler name, “Shadow Captain” is one of several songs that David Crosby wrote after waking up in the middle of the night. Kind of ma...

C-Heads Magazine " Easy Listening was almost entirely about great sweeping washes of melody " ( Robert Fontenot ) The soft orchestrated sounds of easy listening for those who were not into rock that much were most successful during the 1960s and early 1970s. By then the fusion of folk-rock, country-rock, and singer-songwriter music had produced the Californian soft rock format, which was just rhythmic and rock-like enough to win over a new generation of easy listeners. Well-crafted and radio friendly soft rock consequently dominated the air waves throughout the 1970s and eventually metamorphosed into the synthesized music of adult contemporary in the 1980s. According to Wikipedia, Quiet Storm is a radio format and a "super genre" of contemporary R&B, jazz fusion and pop music . It is named after Smokey Robinson's 1976 album. Enjoy this new part of AOR Radio ! Next up is a new episode of Smooth Sailing . Tracklist: Ed Motta – AOR On The Radio (2013) ...

C-Heads Magzine This Boogie Bunker Radio mix is built around I love to love by Tina Charles. It is the key track in the excellent Netflix detective series River . Producer Biddu was inspired by Rock The Boat from The Hues Corporation (off-beat tom tom) and George McCrae’s Rock Your Baby (rhythm box). Three of the musicians on the record, Tina's then boyfriend Trevor Horn, Geoffrey Downes and Bruce Woolley would later start The Buggles and have a worldwide hit with Video killed the radio star . When Biddu brought the track to the record company, they wanted to release the flip-side Disco Fever . An executive told him that they would give I Love To Love four weeks to be a success: "We brought it out and within four weeks it was #1." ( Biddu ) Tracklist: Gizelle Smith – Dust [Dimitri From Paris Vs. Cotonete Remix] (2018) Tina Charles ‎– I Love To Love (1975) K.C. & The Sunshine Band ‎– That's The Way (I Like It) (1975) Van McCoy & The Soul City S...

Russian saxophonist André Solomko has been featured on Favorite Recordings before, delivering a couple of albums that cheerily riffed on smooth jazz and 1980s jazz-funk. He's flipped the script on this return to the noted French label, laying down a righteous slab of club-ready disco-funk with noted Afro-disco influences. Naturally, Solomko's killer saxophone solos can be heard on Le Premier Disco Sans Toi , rising above a groovy backing track. His album Le Deltaplane is out on May 7. Phenomenal bass player Louis Johnson, who passed away on May 21st 2015, was one half of the Brothers Johnson, of course, but he was a much sought session player too. For example, he was the one who played bass on Billy Jean by Michael Jackson and he was also the guy who played that distinctive bass part on I Keep Forgettin' by Michael McDonald. The intros on both records are copied and sampled many times, but Louis Johnson will always be the founding father of them. Enjoy this new Smoo...