Midnight Breeze: Slowing Down Before Bedtime

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“The recipe for good times is simple, it calls for a boat, open shirts, sun kissed women, a few bottles of spirit, a couple of joints and some of that peruvian marching powder.”

(Sweatson Klank)

Soul singer Sunny (Leslie) used to be in the original line-up of Brotherhood of Man (United We Stand), but she had left the group already, when they became extremely successful from the mid- to the late seventies. Sunny is mostly known as one-half of UK backing vocals duo Sue & Sunny with her sister Yvonne Wheatman, later known as Sue Glover. During the late 1960s and 1970s, Sue and Sunny were two of the busiest session vocalists in England, working with Lulu (backing her at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969), Tom Jones, Joe Cocker (on With a Little Help from My Friends), Cat Stevens and Elton John, to name but a few. In 1974 Sunny Leslie finally had a solo hit record with Doctor's Orders, after quite a few failed attempts. Sister Sue sang with Germany’s Joy Fleming on the excellent Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein at the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest. The renewed Brotherhood of Man, in the meantime, had become an ultra-light weight pop group, which is not always a step in the right direction, but it helped them to win the Eurovision Song Contest a year later.

Singer Marc Almond (formerly of Soft Cell) about his track Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, live at the Royal Festival Hall:

“You know what, being a narcissist, that could be a love song to myself”

Enjoy these songs that feel like a warm, soft midnight breeze...

Tracklist:

The Mystic Moods Orchestra – The Other Side Of Midnight (1975)
Dance People – Midnight Breeze (1979)
Mesa – Sailing Ships (1976)
Brotherhood Of Man – Lady (1974)
Cory Wells – Midnight Lady (1979)
Art Webb – You Can’t Hide Love (1977)
Salty Miller – One More Time (1980)
Leroy Hutson – A Lover’s Holiday (1976)
Maxine Nightingale – Life Has Just Begun (1976)
McGuinn, Clark & Hillman – Long Long Time (1979)
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds ‎– Daisy Mae (1971)
Cheese – Lady Love (1977)
James Vincent – People Of The World (1978)
Paul Skyland – Give Me Your Love (1981)
Gary Hyde – Waste Of Time (1974)
Cream And Sugar – Between Us (1980)
Marc Almond – Chevrolet Corvette Stingray (2020)
Byrne & Barnes – Love You Out Of Your Mind (1981)
Santiago – Berangére (1979)
Sunny ‎– We Got Love (1979)
Moonchild – Wise Women (2020)
The Love Unlimited Orchestra ‎– Midnight Groove (1975)