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Groove Control: Oldschool Soul, Funk, Disco & Hip Hop

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Ayo Ogunseinde A night at a club in New York City, like Studio 54, The Loft or Paradise Garage must have sounded something like this in the seventies and early eighties. Enjoy! The tragedy of The Jones Girls was that they made quality disco in an era when the popularity of the genre was fading. Shirley, Valerie and Brenda Jones never recaptured the moment they had at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s. When record sales went down, lead singer Shirley Jones pursued a solo career and her wonderful ballad Do You Get Enough Love reached the number one position on the Billboard soul chart in 1986.  The track ASAP from The Jones Girls' 1981 album Get As Much Love As You Can is on this cloudcast. According to Bandcamp, the new album by Tuxedo will be out next month: "Bonding over a shared love of Parliament, Zapp and other signs in the greater funk Zodiac, Mayer Hawthorne (Aquarius) and Jake One (Taurus), collectively known as Tuxedo, return with their fourth studi