Smooth Sailing: Soft Soul, Slow Dance & Folk Funk

 

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You may not get turned on, as the Addrisi Brothers suggest, but when you keep 6 feet distance from each other, it is perfectly safe to slow dance on the beach. Enjoy! 😊 

Don and Dick Addrisi were part of an acrobatic family, but they chose music as their career. In the 1950s they recorded a series of singles that sounded like the Everly Brothers, from which Cherrystone became a hit in 1959. Then the brothers disappeared from the limelight for more than a decade, concentrating on composing. Their biggest success as a songwriting duo was Never My Love, a hit for The Association in 1967. Inspired by another family act, the Bee Gees, the duo re-invented themselves as a really strong disco and yacht rock act in the 1970s. Their three albums from that period are definitely worth checking out. Slow Dancin’ Don’t Turn Me On reached #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977. The brothers worked together until Don Addrisi died from pancreatic cancer in 1984. 

Uno Esta by American R&B flautist Bobbi Humphrey is from her 5th studio album Fancy Dancer. It was recorded in 1975, produced by the wonderful Mizell Brothers and released on the legendary Blue Note label. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars, stating: 

"There isn't anything approaching a middling moment here -- this is all killer, no filler. Jazz critics may have had their troubles with this set, but no one cared; Humphrey and the Mizells were creating a new kind of largely instrumental funk that was inclusive of everything they could weave in from world music to soul-jazz to club music to pop -- and the public responded.”

Next up is a new part of Best Of 70s Soul!

Tracklist:

City Park – Matter To Me (2021)
Rumer – Sailing (2014)
Crosby, Stills and Nash – Just A Song Before I Go (1977)
Peter Allen – Fly Away (1980)
Commodores – Sail On (1979)
Summer – All Your Love Surrender (1979)
Bobbi Humphrey ‎– Uno Esta (1975)
LeBlanc & Carr – Stronger Love (1977)
Yvonne Elliman – Sailing Ships (1979)
Gordon Lightfoot – All The Lovely Ladies (1975)
Randy Crawford – One Day I’ll Fly Away (1980)
The 5th Dimension – (Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All (1972)
Banana Brothers – Springtime Of The Year (1984)
Graf Brothers – Naked Eyes (1986)
Steve Kipner – The Beginning (1979)
Lenny Zakatek – One Is A Lonely Number (1979)
Alex – Flying High (You & I) (1977)
Jeffra – Caught You (1983)
Nicolette Larson ‎– Dancing Jones (1979)
Addrisi Brothers – Slow Dancin’ Don’t Turn Me On (1977)
Fox – S-S-S Single Bed (1976)
Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly – Foreign Affair (1983)