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I was going to post Narada last week with Tonight I'm Alright as my best. One week later, I've decided to go with his classic I Shoulda Loved Ya :roll:
Find them and destroy them!
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No doubt in my mind here..... "Divine Emotions" (Shep Pettibone Remix)!! :D :D
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That one album (The Dance Of Life) tore up the dance floors in late '79 early '80, but strangely, never featured for me as a classic to be revisited. There was something about it that made it almost instantly forgetable and the tracks were bitches to try and mix. Tempos were all over the place.
Didn't he write and/or produce Freeway of Love by Aretha Franklin? I'd go for that as his best Disco effort. Such a joyous record.
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Forget about the mixing Q, how did they work with your dulcet tones over the top of them? I can imagine the bass break on "I Should..." sounding great with a request for the driver of the yellow Capri to move it as he was blocking someone in!Originally Written by QUINNY
I'm a big fan Of Narada and his funky smaking bass powered songs - The whole Dance Of Life LP was a big fave of mine, even the jazz-rock title track. The follow album up Victory repeats the formula to almost as good effect on "The Real Thing" (Tonight...PT 2), "I Want You" (I Should Have..PT2) and "Take it to the Bossman". For me he had lost his fire by Confidence ("Summer Lady" is decent enough but even I had got a bit bored with the formula by then)
The earlier Awakening album has some nice mellower moments, though his voice sometimes is a bit of a let down.
Lets not forget his productions from the era for Wanda Walden, Stacey Lattisaw and Sister Sledge. The guy came up with some killer bass lines!
Leather is the way forward!
Gold Record [Level 7]
The "Victory" album (1980) is real good. There's a couple of hidden gems like "Lucky fella" (in a dance-rock vein) and a fusion jam called "Victory suite" or something like that.
Very good guitars on all the record, but remember Narada is really a drummer (he worked in John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra some years earlier).
From his production efforts I pick the title song of Aretha's "Who's zooming who".
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[quote="Leatherman
Forget about the mixing Q, how did they work with your dulcet tones over the top of them? I can imagine the bass break on "I Should..." sounding great with a request for the driver of the yellow Capri to move it as he was blocking someone in! [/quote]
Leatherman: Oh Please, I was judicious in my verbalise, but it's amazing to realize what things I had to say 'cos they were important to the management.
One venue I played had something like 6 emergency exits, which were connected to a warning system. So every 5 minutes (or what seemed as frequent) I'd HAVE to announce something like "check #3 fellas, #3" 'cos people would lean against them and set the bleeding warning light off. What a pain!!! At the same venue they insisted that we had to announce that no drinks or cigarettes should be taken onto the dance floor......Arrrgh!!!!! You'd play a great record, have a surge onto the floor only to lose maybe half of them when you made that blasted announcement, but I guess it was even more of a pain for a woman who might have a very expensive, very new dress ruined by a cigarette end accidently being stubbed against her or a glass of wine spilt over her.
There were discos and there were discos, eh?
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"High Above The Clouds"-eew, eew, eew....... is my fave. :D
"Lost inside adorable illusion...."
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"High Above The Clouds" --- NYC Gay-boy classic! :D
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Paul,
I've always dug his biggest hits. I felt his songs were very different from other artists... favorite cuts:
I Don't Want Nobody Else
I Shoulda Loved Ya
Divine Emotions
Underground Hit [Level 5]
Allright...
I'm tended to go with Efunk's fav's, just add "Tonight i'm allright" and it's complete.
Finally someone who remembers "I don't want nobody" :lol:
Got this on import when nobody knew this guy back
then, what a blast, and those horns !
The best things in life are free,
Peter
Double Platinum Record [Level 9]
I always found the 7" edit of 'I Dont Want Nobody Else To Dance With You' much better than the 12"/LP version. It sounds so much tighter & more exciting somehow. I always thought this about Sylvester's 'Dance (Disco Heat)' too.
...ya gotta beat the street......
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Steely,
To some extent i agree, as with most single versions the short edit comes to the point
quicker and in a more concentrated form, but for this track i never had that feeling.
Sometimes they did try to extend singles to make a 12" record which hardly ever works
out, you cannot simply add more stuff to make a new and exiting piece of music.
In general, i find most 12"es that feature a sort of instumental version of the single instead
of a nice buid-up to the actual vocal part pretty wortless. :-?
The best things in life are free.
Peter
Gold Record [Level 7]
Always had a thing for 'You Oughta Love Me'. I think that was his last bullet.
Wanda Walden's 'Don't You Want My Lovin'' was a favourite for me at the time.
What would you do without your muesli...where would you be without a bowl?
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I also love that Wanda Walden track Forrrrce; I have the LP that it's from. Do you remember her track from '82 'I Must Be Dreaming' which had a more Kashif-ish sound; do you know if there was an LP containing this brilliant track or was it just a single?
...ya gotta beat the street......
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I had a real thing for 'I Must Be Dreamin'' also. Sadly(?) there was no LP. I agree that it was very Kashif-sounding, like one of his better moments from the time. '...Dreamin'' was produced by Randy Jackson, wasn't it...pretty cutting edge as it wasn't really that commercial; and very much in the Prelude/Sam/West End N.Y. groove that I used to go nuts for.
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