some 12" that I found today!

[nonkel808]

this is the result of my crate diggin today:

> GWEN GUTHRIE: HOPSCOTCH
Larry Levan remix
1983 Island records
(produced by the magic sly and robbie)

> ROD : Just Keep on Walking
Francois Kevorkian mix
1983 Atol Records France

> FEVER : Standing in the shadows of Love
a Holland/Dozier/Holland production
1979 Fantasy records

> Brass Construction: Partyline
Randy Muller party mix
1984 Capitol records

> Sly & Robbie : Make 'em move
Produced by Bill Laswell/ Material
1985 Island Records

These are really fine tunes in a Funk-reggea-disco style that I like the most.

Does anyone else like these records? And could you advice me more of the same musical style?

[maarten]

Hey Nonkel - if you like Sly & Robbie as well as Gwen Guthrie.... look out for the album they did together, which also includes some Larry Levan remixes. The album is called "Ticket to ride" and features classics like "Seventh heaven", "It should have been you" and others.

There were a number of Larry Levan 12" remixes from this album which can be found on various compilation CD's, as well as in the second hand vinyl stores (although they can be a bit pricey).

Sly and Robbie also produced one track ("Miss my love") on her "Hot times" album. And Larry Levan remixed "They long to be close to you" from the "Good to go lover" album.

Unfortunately, Gwen is no longer in this world, but what an awesome voice she had. I remember that I was listening one morning in 1998 to CD101.9 in NYC, where I lived at the time, and the presenter had Patti Austin in the studio to break the news that Gwen had died. Gwen will be one of my all-time favorites EVER.

I hope she is jamming with Phylis Hyman and Sharon Redd up there!

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"ON THE BEAT"

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[nonkel808]

Yes, I know about that Gwen Guthrie + Sly and Robbie album.
In fact when i was diggin thru the 12" in the recordstore today, a guy advised me to buy the Gwen Guthrie Track and told me about the album.
It's on my hotlist right now!

I'll probably be getting more 12" because i found out today that the record store where i reguraly go, has a whole room full of 12" and 7" up in their attic. Its almost a hidden treasury. And there was lots more up there.

[Giovanni]

Yesterday I found one mint copy (for 1 Euro!!) of the Gwen Guthrie album titled "Portrait" on Island from 1983, produced by Sly & Robbie. This LP includes some tracks featured in other records too (Peanut butter, Seventh Heaven, Hopscotch, Padlock). Maarten please give us the G Guthrie discography.

MORE INTERESTING EVER: Yesterday I also bought the Leroy Burgess Anthology CD "the voice", and, believe it or not, it smells of the old good vinyl !!! I almost died, and have been sniffing it for one day now!!!!!!

[SandraDee]

Oh no thats bad news about Gwen. All my favourite acts seem to die young(ish). That Portrait album is a classic as far as I'm concerned. Her sound was a 'cuddlier' version of Grace Jones I always thought!
She was also I believe the top act to perform at the closing night of the Paradise Garage.

[maarten]

If you buy Gwen Guthrie - Ultimate Collection (Hip-O Universal Music HIPD-47777) you will not only have an excellent cross selection of her works, but also an excellent biography written by Brian Chin (who wrote disco columns in Billboard). There is also a moving dedication written by Karl and Beverly Guthrie on behalf of the family.

As a singer, Gwen is listed to have worked on anything from Aretha Franklin to Quincy Jones to Bionic Boogie to Madonna to The Limit to Mtume. As a songwriter she is credited for work on Sister Sledge, Roberta Flack, Angela Bofill, Ben E. King, Utah Saints and Foxy Brown (!).

The tracks on this compilation are of course not on the skinny side: Padlock is the special Larry Levan mix (6m55); Outside in the rain, They long to be close to you, Ain't nothing going on but the rent and the special Larry Levan dub version of the same song are all the 12" versions.

Gwen was a truly wonderful and multi-talented person. Buy the CD. And then hunt down the vinyl!