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Let’s end this year with one more look at the golden days of radio pop and R&B! Apart from seventies and eighties songs, I selected three of the best tracks of 2021: While The Music’s On by Page 99 (yacht rock), Wounds Of Lov e by Nation Of Language (electro) and Only For Tonight by Pearl Charles (disco). Enjoy this exclusive episode of Mellow Mellow FM ! We all long for a bit of summer in the winter, that’s why I chose to play She Works Hard For The Money by Donna Summer!😊 During a meal at a luxurious Hollywood restaurant, her eyes fell upon an exhausted washroom attendant taking a nap on the job and she decided to write a song about her. It was accompanied by a video that got heavy rotation on MTV at a time when few black artists were being played by the channel. She Works Hard for Her Money topped the R&B charts for three weeks and hit number three pop in the summer of 1983. The same-titled LP went gold, peaking at number five R&B and number nine pop. "Given ...

C-Heads Magazine Music never sounded as soft as in the 1970s. This is the proof, enjoy! 😊 In the 1970s singer/songwriter Jimmie Spheeris found it hard to reach commercial success, although he released 4 beautiful albums. After Ports Of The Heart , which came out in 1976, Spheeris lost his recording contract: “Commercially, Spheeris wasn't where he deserved to be in 1976, but creatively, he was on a roll. The L.A. native incorporates a variety of influences on this album, including jazz, folk and country. In fact, jazzmen Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke are among the guests.” (Allmusic.com) Next up is a new part of Mellow Mellow FM ! Tracklist:  Rena Scott – Touch The Love In Your Heart (1979) Fonda Feingold – Fly (1978) Janis Ian – In The Winter (1975) Jimmie Spheeris – Child From Nowhere (1976) Graham Dee ‎– Make The Most Of Every Moment (1977) Maxine Weldon – Make It With You (1971) Dee Dee Bridgewater – He’s Gone (1976) Captain & Tennille – No Love In The Morning (19...

Pixabay Wouldn’t you rather have a yacht? 😊 On this one I broadened the definition of yacht rock a tiny little bit with some wave and power pop tracks from the 1980s. Enjoy! The track by Mud was originally the flipside of L’L’ Lucy and is now on the brand new 4CD box set Mud: The Albums 1975-1979 , out on Cherry Red Records. Although written by guitarist Rob Davis and bassist Ray Stiles, My Love Is Your Love was not first recorded by Mud, but by sibling trio Ellie. They were formed by Ellie, Kathy and Christine Hope. The sisters provided background vocals on Mud records and released two singles themselves in the mid-seventies. Ellie Hope appeared on Top Of The Pops with Mud, when they performed their UK number one single Oh Boy . A couple of years later she would become famous as the lead singer of disco group Liquid Gold, mostly known for their smash Dance Yourself Dizzy. Mud guitarist Rob Davis married Christine Hope and made a big mark in pop history when he co-wrote Groovejet ...

Unsplash Just for once I rebooted my series Groovy, Sexy & Soulful . Enjoy! 😊 In an interview with C-Heads Magazine Dutch singer Rina tells that her new single Exhibition Closed is about not feeling the need to share her love and relationships on social media. It´s about keeping her own privateness. Besides that she wants to keep a realistic image of herself on socials: “I want to show the happy and beautiful moments, but also the sad and painful moments that everyone goes through.” Next up is a new part of Smooth Sailing . It will be a slightly heavier trip than the previous ones. Tracklist: Victoria Monét – Coastin’ (2021) Mary Jane Girls – All Night Long (1983) Soul II Soul – Back To Life (However Do You Want Me) (1989) Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On [Old School Remix] (1971) Aaliyah – Rock The Boat (2001) Full Flava Feat. Carleen Anderson – Was That All It Was  (2007) Filo Machado – Quero Pouco, Quero Muito (1983) Ray Barretto – Here We Go Again (1977) Johnny Hammond ...

Unsplash Enjoy this rainy Mixcloud Exclusive ! 😊 Next time I will reboot my series Groovy, Sexy & Soulful . The track by Ben Moore is a yacht soul cover of the Seals & Crofts original. In 1969, ten years before Get Closer , Ben Moore joined the duo James & Bobby Purify, after Bobby Purify (real name Robert Lee Dickey) retired for health reasons. In the 1970s Ben Moore recorded a couple of solo albums. One of them was Slow Dancin' , on which Get Closer appeared. In 1998, he became blind from severe glaucoma and left the music industry temporarily. In 2006 he joined the gospel band The Blind Boys Of Alabama. From the end of the 1960s, Delores Hall performed in several musical revues in Los Angeles and on Broadway. In 1973 her debut LP was released by RCA Records titled Hall-Mark , produced by Billy Jackson. Her first movie part was in Scrooged in the 1980s. She also played a security guard named Delores in Lethal Weapon 3 . On television she was a regular on the first...

Pixabay In short, this was the kind of music that was mostly played on the radio in the late sixties and early seventies. In the mid-sxities rock ‘n’ roll was already history and new exciting music was breaking through on AM radio, catapulted by The Beatles. Adventurous dj’s on offshore radio stations knew what was going on musically and so-called "pirate radio" was immensely popular. Ten years later the musical landscape had changed in many ways. Disco music that could be heard in clubs became leading, and radio was no longer dominant in discovering fresh sounds. In the meantime FM radio had replaced AM radio as the most popular dial and offshore stations disappeared, but at the end of this era (1965-1974), pop music was shaped as we know it today. In Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story Of Modern Pop , Bob Stanley wrote about God Only Knows by the Beach Boys: “It’s impossible to exaggerate how beautiful this song is.” In the same book Stanley sums up the history of the Mamas & th...