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Craig Adderly Music that makes you feel good on a Friday Night, not necessarily on the dance floor, but more particular in your own bath tub 😊Enjoy! Last week I played two tracks from the 4th instalment of Too Slow To Disco , by far the best compilation of 2022. This week I selected another one, Tell Me The Reasons Why by Max Leake. On the album there is also a track by Severin Browne, Stay . In the liner notes it is said that he was "the first ever white artist to be signed to Motown Records." This is not true, of course. There were quite a few white artists employed by Motown before him, like Meatloaf, Tommy Good, Frankie Valli, R. Dean Taylor, the band Rare Earth and female artists like Chris Clark, Kiki Dee and Debbie Dean. Say Lou Lou are beautiful twin sisters Miranda and Elektra Kilbey. They are the daughters of singer Steve Kilbey. front man of Australian band The Church, known for their eighties hit Under The Milky Way . Say Lou Lou’s new single, Waiting For A...

Pexels Last week I wrote about Rupert Holmes who composed half of the songs for the only album by the Buoys. This time I chose to play his biggest hit Escape , which is a typical 1970s (novelty) hit. The song is more or less about the silliness of the decade. The lyrics that deal with failed adultery sum up the zeitgeist very well. That's why The Piña Colada Song is used dozens of times in movies about the 1970s. Rupert Holmes disappeared the next decade. Starting out in the rock & roll era, the Isley Brothers were at the peak of their career in the 1970s, when they reinvented themselves as a funk-rock band with wonderful guitar solos from younger brother Ernie. He and singer Ron (aka Mr Biggs) are the remaining members at present and they are still going strong. Last year they released the album Make Me Say It Again, Girl . This time I selected Work To Do . Enjoy the sounds from the golden years of pop on Sunshine Radio ! Tracklist: Dave Mason & Michael Jackson – Save Me...

Labelle This weekend’s Disco Action Top 15 by audience response 48 years ago, according to Tom Moulton in Billboard Magazine. I play them from number 15 to number 1. Some of the tracks were not released as a single yet, like the ones from The Jimmy Castor Bunch and Betty Wright, but those album tracks were already extremely popular in the New York discotheques.  Enjoy this Mixcloud Exclusive ! Tracklist: Moments & Whatnauts – Girls Betty Wright – Where Is The Love Gene Page – Satin Soul Jimmy Ruffin – Tell Me What You Want The Stylistics – Hey Girl Come And Get It Carol Douglas – Doctor's Orders LaBelle ‎– Lady Marmalade Carl Douglas – Blue Eyed Soul Sister Sledge – Love Don't You Go Through No Changes On Me Herbie Mann – Hi-Jack B.T. Express – Express Gloria Gaynor – Reach Out, I’ll Be There The Jimmy Castor Bunch – E. Man Boogie Al Downing – I'll Be Holding On Shirley & Company – Shame, Shame, Shame

C-Heads Magazine Dutch-Israeli singer Danny Kuttner explains on Bandcamp that the lyrics of her new single are about “the desire to live curiously and a constant reminder to play.” To me Come Play With Me sounds a bit like Minnie Riperton in her early days and it also has that neo-soul nineties sound of Erykah Badu. Give Up Your Guns, the second single by The Buoys was written by Rupert Holmes (famous for his Pina Colada Song ) and first released in 1971. The song was not a big hit in the US, but it reached #5 in the Dutch Top 40 a year later and after its re-release in 1979, it became a top ten hit again. Their debut single Timothy (written by Rupert Holmes too) went to #17 in the Billboard Hot 100. Their only, self-titled album contained both songs. This week in 1981 the album Arc Of A Diver from Steve Winwood entered the UK charts: “I intended to make Arc Of A Diver so it would sound like a band was playing. When I was a kid, I always used to mess around with tape machines; ...

Flickr Everyone’s a winner in 2023! 😊 Let’s start the year with some disco classics from 1978. To prove my point that disco was dominant in 1978, I selected the Dutch list of best sold disco records of the year. All these tracks (except for the Grease cover) were in the year-end Dutch top 100 singles chart. It’s funny that the Bee Gees, who were known as a sixties band back then, catapulted the disco craze in the late 1970s. They achieved that their dance music not only sounded good in clubs, but on the radio as well. They ruled the dancefloors (with a little help from John Travolta) and dominated the airwaves too. And their songs are still popular. Foo Fighters made a Bee Gees cover album in 2021 and in the new movie Triangle Of Sadness a male model hums Stayin’ Alive when he’s asked to move rhythmically on the catwalk. Sadly only one of the three brothers, Barry Gibb, is still alive. Enjoy this new part of the Disco Years ! Next up is a winter episode of Smooth Sailing . Tracklist...