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 studio album, Tuxedo IV."
Tracklist:

Ohio Players – Star Of The Party (1981)
Sugarhill Gang – Rapper’s Delight (1979)
The S.O.S. Band – The Finest (1986)
Sister Sledge ‎– Lost In Music [Remix] (1984)
Gavin Turek – Back On The Market (2024)
Tuxedo – Back For More (2024)
Kurtis Blow – The Breaks (1980)
Patrice Rushen – Forget Me Nots [ADN Edit] (1982)
Alton McClain & Destiny ‎– It Must Be Love [Scratchandsniff Re-Rub] (1979)
Rose Royce ‎– Best Love (1982)
Chemise – She Can't Love You (1982)
Linx – You’re Lying (1980)
Lucy Pearl – Don’t Mess With My Man (2000)
Mantronix – Don’t Go Messin’ With My Heart (1991)
Dynasty – Groove Control (1981)
The Jones Girls – ASAP (As Soon As Possible) (1981)
James Govan – Love (I Thought I Would Never Find Love) (1987)

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