Favorite Sylvester Song??

[Robbie]

With the mention of Sylvester over at the "Disappointing Disco" thread, I thought I'd ask you guys what your favorite song by Sylvester is.

My faves are:

1. DANCE (DISCO HEAT)--This is my all-time fave Sylvester song. I even use the hook from that song as my signature. The version from Step II was the best one. Martha and Izora's vocal accomodations made the song so great, with their varied chants after the hooks towards the end. I can never get tired of this song. I feel that it is always overshadowed by "Mighty Real".

2. I NEED YOU--I heard this song for the first time during one of Jellybean's mixes on WKTU many years ago. I loved it the first time I heard it. Again, the ending where his background singers let their vocal talents shift into high gear. Jellybean mixed the ending of this song with Technotronic's "Pump Up The Jam" at the intro, where "Felly" (before we knew who "Ya Kid 'K'" was) sings "Pump up the jam, pump it up... ("I Need You" didn't completely fade out until "Jam" got around to "...and you'll find out if you do that").

3. STARS--The lengthy instrumental break in between the song gives me images of wandering off into some no man's land with fierce, gusting winds all around me.

4. (YOU MAKE ME FEEL) MIGHTY REAL--Despite it becoming a disco cliche in the tradition of "I Will Survive" and "Good Times", the version from the album Step II is the best.

5. DO YOU WANNA FUNK--Sylvester didn't pan out from disco music the way almost everyone else did by 1980. This was from the early 80's.

[Voyage]

You Make Me Feel Mighty Real
Dance With Me At The Disco Heat

[NickNack]

My two favorites are actually 'covers':

I Who Have Nothing
Fever

[Funky Dude]

My favourites are:

I've Been Down 1972 (A great soul/funk classic)

Over & Over 1976 (My number one favourite)

Down, Down, Down 1977

Dance (Disco Heat) 1978

Grateful 1978 (I wish there was an extended version of this)

Body Strong 1979

[Graham_Start]

I'll go with "I Need Somebody To Love Tonight"

[maarten]

Do you wanna funk (answer: yes, please!)

[sirius]

Dear Friends! Now it´s my turn again...
There´s too much, what I love ...
But I love to play now:
1)LOVIN IS REALLY MY GAME(You know the orig.
from BRAINSTORM;SYLVESTER covered it 1984)
2)MAGIC NUMBER(he did the vocals for this
Herbie Hancock Track in 1981; 12"-Version
about 9 Minutes)
3)Did you ever heard "Sell My Soul"???
4)"Give It Up" from the Album "TOO HOT TO
SLEEP"(1981/Is there a longer version
available?)
These are the trax I´m working with nowadays.
Cosmic Love & Kisses From SIRIUS & DARKTUNES

[paul]

Dance (Disco Heat)

[HustleBaby]

My favorites of Sylvester's are:

1.I Need You
2.Dance Disco Heat
3.Mighty Real

*DELIGHTFUL*

[DJ P]

'Dance (Disco Heat)' and 'Mighty Real'.

[The Lord of Flatbush]

Here's are some sleepers by Sylvester:

Menergy - Import 12" to which I thought was better than Patrick Cowley's version.

Tell Me - A mid, tempo groove to which I liked very much. Thanks Unidisc.....

Someone Like You - Mixed by Larry Levan

[Fantomas]

Mighty Real

[Blaxman]

- OVER & OVER

- despite cliché "YOU MAKE ME FEEL"(MIGHT REAL)

Blaxman

[markydefad]

The best are probably "You Make Me Feel Mighty Real" & "Dance (Disco Heat)"--but I'm gonna put in a plug for two covers that Syl did well by: "Band Of Gold" & "Living For The City".

Also, there was a nice cover of "Cry Me A River" (the Joe Cocker arrangement) that was more in the rock vein.

In the ballad vein, what about: Here Is My Love" with Jeanie Tracy, "Too Hot To Sleep" and his cover of Miss Patti LaBelle's "You Are My Friend"?

I'd want all those on a definitive retrospective compilation. BUT, probably NO ONE but me would think to add any of them. What say? Prove me wrong.

[Boodikka]

" I Need You" and "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real". "I Need You" was remade in a rap version by Joeski Love ("I Know She Likes Joe").