What were your top 3 DISCOveries for January?

**boogie nites** · January 16th, 2005, 08:56 PM

I know January is not technically over yet but by the time I get back on here it will be.
I have been absolutely obsessed with

1."SHAKE YOUR GROOVE THING" 12" - Peaches & Herb. Sure its commercial but this is a 6:34 minute stomper and I love it so much. I found it on "Priscilla Queen of the Desert " soundtrack (I really wanted it on cd so that I could groove with my discman). I realised that I really like the production work of Freddie Perren which led me to buy..

2."SOMETHING SPECIAL" - The Sylvers. This album features gems like "Disco Showdown" and "Mista Guitar Man". "Hot Line" is a classic.

3. "PART 3" - KC And The Sunshine Band. Hits aside, "Lets Go Party" absolutely rocks, its funky, druggy and catchy as hell. I heard Eurotechno group Scooter had sampled "Shake Your Booty" recently.
Other sampled songs I'm sure you are all aware of are "Weekend'' by Michael Gray (Oliver Cheathams "Get Down Saturday Night" - 1983) and INS Project use David Josephs "You Can't Hide Your Love" also 1983.

FINAL WORD> Carrie Lucas' "Dance With You" is my FAVOURITE SONG OF ALL TIME and I will NEVER get sick of hearing it!

**Jimmy-Michaels** · January 16th, 2005, 10:00 PM

For recent obsessions or discoveries? For obsessions has been Louis Love "Manhattan" (which is unfortunatly an unreleased track as ive found out that we'll never find on vinyl lol).

As for new/old discoveries for the month that were totaly new to me..

Ganymed - Future World LP (1979)
Ganymed - Takes You Higher LP (1978)

both of these are pretty hardcore electro eurodisco on the order of Giorgio meets Kraftwerk..and the one song "We Like You" on the Future World LP is a total rip off of Cerrone's Supernature (right down to the "sweet drums" section) but done more hardcore and is great!

my other discovery for the month (and I even made a post about it) was a 12'' promo of Peter Gabriel "D.I.Y." which has a disco remix of it on it.

**Giovanni** · January 17th, 2005, 06:41 PM

OBSESSION Gladys Knight & the Pips: Love is always on your mind........... Simply fantastic!!!!
DISCOVERYWUF TICKET: The key...... totally house ante-litteram

**QUINNY** · January 18th, 2005, 06:56 PM

One record that I've rediscovered in the past few days, after a gap of 25 years is KEITH BARROW - TURN ME UP. I'd completely forgotten about this fantastic, 117 BPM, insistant, funky, disco opus with an 'I Wish' type of bassline, until I came across it in the attic. In some ways it's no surprise that I used to like it so much, as it was produced by Michael Stokes and co-written by him with Ron Matlock. Michael Stokes was part responsible for Morning Noon & Night's 'Bite Your Granny' (an all time funky fave) and Creative Source among others.

Although 11.38 in length it keeps me groovin', which is something very rare for me. The best part of the disc has to be the instrumental jam that more or less constitutes the middle third of the track. Yes please, more tracks like this!!!

**MixMasterMax** · January 18th, 2005, 07:35 PM

While cleaning the cob webs off of some vinyl, I came across these. Ahhhh, it's great to hear these after so long.

Rhoddes Kids - Voo-Doo Magic
Brother to Brother - In The Bottle
Pat Lundy - Party Music
Gentle Persuasion - Litterbug
Morningside Tribe - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine
De-Lite-Ful - Forget That Girl
De Blanc - Oh No, Not My Baby
Dooley Silverspoon - Let Me Be The #1
David Barreto - On And On
Abaco Dream - Life And Death In The G&A
Executive Suite - You Believed In Me
Coalitions - I Don't Mind Doin' It

Gotta love the music :lol:

**boogie nites** · January 20th, 2005, 11:12 PM

And two days ago I found NORMA JEAN WRIGHTs cassette for 50c in an op shop! I love "Saturday" to bits and "I Like Love" although I can't help but think of the recent cover by Solitaire whenever I listen to it. Hers is an expectedly superior version.

**sammyperez** · January 21st, 2005, 07:55 AM

What a great topic because this happens often. Something you have not heard in awhile that sounds really good. Three that I have found this month that I rediscovered on New Year's Eve are:

High - Skyy ('80)
Bad times - Captain Rapp ('84)
Come on and dance - The Saturday Night Band ('78)

one more that I'd like to add to this list is on the slow side:

Forever more- Enchantment

This is the beauty of classics, they reinvent themselves. :P

Easy,

Sam "ALL JAM"

**mrbmarco** · January 21st, 2005, 11:00 AM

I bought this CD from Amazon Marketplace for one song that I have been playing over and over:
YOUR'E THE ONE by LITTLE SISTER.
6:39 worth of glory. The sound is flawless. A treasure.
I have the original 45 on Stone Flower, which I played to death way back in 1973. Part I was on the A side and Part II was on the B side.

**markydefad** · January 21st, 2005, 09:21 PM

Originally Written by mrbmarco

I bought this CD from Amazon Marketplace for one song that I have been playing over and over:
YOUR'E THE ONE by LITTLE SISTER.
6:39 worth of glory. The sound is flawless. A treasure.
I have the original 45 on Stone Flower, which I played to death way back in 1973. Part I was on the A side and Part II was on the B side.

This caught my eye!!!Would love to have that track in all its glory!!!

So I went to AMG to see what else is on it:

1 Sweet Soul Music Arthur Conley 2:21
2 Funky Street Arthur Conley 2:25
3 (There's Gonna Be A) Showdown Archie Bell, Drells 2:34
4 Just One Look Doris Payne 2:29
5 Cry to Me Betty Harris 3:15
6 The Sweetest Thing This Side of Heaven Chris Bartley 2:55
7 Open the Door to Your Heart Darrell Banks 2:30
8 She's Looking Good Rodger Collins 2:22
9 I'm the Lover Man Williams, Little Jerry 2:35
10 Dry Your Eyes Brenda & The Tabulations 3:03
11 Part Time Love Taylor, Little Johnny 3:20
12 Slip Away Clarence Carter 2:31
13 Stand by Your Man Candi Staton 2:55
14 Reconsider Me Johnny Adams 3:52
15 Expressway to Your Heart Soul Survivors 2:54
16 (I Wanna) Testify Parliaments 3:02
17 You're the One [Complete] Little Sister 6:38 :D
18 Trapped by a Thing Called Love Denise LaSalle 2:37
19 Somebody's Watching You Little Sister 2:53
20 Love Land Charles Wright 3:04

**FrontPage22** · January 22nd, 2005, 11:04 AM

Come On And Dance, Dance (LP Mix) / Saturday Night Band
It's Alright With Me / Patti Labelle
Does It Feel Good / BT Express
It Looks Like Love / Goody Goody
Just Like A Doorknob / Touche
Running Away (12" Mix) / Roy Ayers
To Each His Own / Faith, Hope & Charity

Some are more re-discoveries than all new finds. Namely the Saturday Night Band.

The one song I never really enjoyed but got a better quality mp3 of and now LOVE is...
Feed The Flame / Lorraine Johnson

**Videoskooter** · January 23rd, 2005, 09:55 AM

Disco-vered and bought some excellent stuff over the past weeks, things that I was not very familiar with but took me to heaven:

1. J.B's : "Rock groove machine" (Groove Machine-1979/9:03)
"Georgia peach disco" (Groove Machine-1979/10:18 )
2. Southside Movement: "Ain't gonna watch you no' mo'"
(Moving South-1975/6:15)
3. Brass Construction: "Dance" (Brass Construction-1975/9:46)
4. Caress: "Catch the rhythm" (Danny Krivit-Edits by Mr. K-2003/
11:02)
5. Claudja Barry: "Love for the sake of love" (Salsoul TDM-2004/
7:46)

And I'll be hunting again this week!

**shootyourshot** · January 28th, 2005, 04:05 PM

My top five songs of the month:
“I Feel Right” - Danny Keith
“Palace Palace” - Who’s Who
“Miss You” - Styloo
“Pretty Face” - Styloo
“Take A Chance” - Bizzy & Company

My most unusual discovery of the month:
“Dancing Street” - Priscilla Chan (Cantonese Eurobeat from 86)

On the top of my download list:
“Midnight” - Doris D & The Pins (for the last six months)
“Magic Moment” - Webo
“Connection” - Lena
“Top Model” - Biba

I also finally got around to downloading “Hills Of Katmandu”, “Love Attack”, “Souvenirs”, and “Fear”.

**OneCharmingBastard** · January 28th, 2005, 09:47 PM

Noel - "Is There More To Life Than Dancing". Written & Produced by the Mael brothers of Sparks, this is disco-fabulousness I didn't even know existed. Ditto "The Night They Invented Love".

The Exciters "Blowing Up My Mind" - ok, its really a Northern Soul tune, but a damn fine one at that

The Shapeshifters - "Back To Basics" - a new record that sounds 25 years old. And that's a good thing.

**jam master jay** · January 29th, 2005, 11:50 PM

Rediscovered recently -

Ripple - The Beat Goes On

Sine - Just Let Me Do My Thing

KID - Don't Stop

**Mixmachine** · January 30th, 2005, 12:24 AM

Cymande's first Lp, (listening to the other two)the hit "The Message" was the only cut I remembered but this whole album has some mighty funky,jazzy, jams in it :D

**tony wong** · January 31st, 2005, 12:18 PM

thanks to www.arrow.nl (choose the jazz channel), I've discovered:

chuck mangione - feels so good

**bluewingspeaks** · January 31st, 2005, 11:50 PM

Seabiscuit In The Fifth - Belinda West. Hadn't heard this song in at least 20 years.

**paul** · February 1st, 2005, 04:40 PM

Well, I did very well in January and intentionally waited till now to respond because I had one more cd that came in 1/31/05.
That cd was is a dj promo cd with "Lovin Is Really My Game", the 12" version. I'm still auditioning it and aside from excess midbass boost, it sounds pretty good.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Brits really have an appreciation for music that the general population here in the states don't. I picked up 2 cds that are British based. One from Vox, some kind of promotional cd. I originally purchased it to get Time Of The Season. To my pleasant surprise the cd also had the extended version of Bus Stop. The other cd is Soul Spectrum: Radio Sessions . Bought it to get 9 minutes of Runaway Love. Also got with it as a nice bonus Act Like You Know which is not on the Best of Fat Larry's Band cd I have. And finally, I must have as many Diana Ross music as Marky now. :D I had to replace my 12" Boss cause it has turned up missing. Anyway I bought the remastered(?) Boss cd. A bonus track on that cd is the original 12" release of that song.
I guess I made out and I didn't spend a whole lot of money.

**QUINNY** · February 1st, 2005, 06:16 PM

Paul: Is that the Fatback's Bus Stop or (it can't be true, so it won't be :cry: ) Oliver Sain's? What's the name of the CD?

Looks like I'll have that CD with Brainstorm tomorrow or the nest day. Mastermix Classics Vol. 8 and I picked it up for $9.00.

**paul** · February 1st, 2005, 06:21 PM

Originally Written by QUINNY

Paul: Is that the Fatback's Bus Stop or (it can't be true, so it won't be :cry: ) Oliver Sain's? What's the name of the CD?

Looks like I'll have that CD with Brainstorm tomorrow or the nest day. Mastermix Classics Vol. 8 and I picked it up for $9.00.

Hey Quinny, it's Fatback's Bus Stop. When I get home I pull the cd and give you the proper name for that cd.
I'm gonna look for the Mastermix Classics right now. Thanks. :D

**paul** · February 1st, 2005, 11:36 PM

OK Quinny, here's the info on the cd.

those boogie knights & disco divas
a '70s urban soundtrack
VOX ACE 98
1998 VOX Magazine/IPC Magazines Ltd

There are 23 tracks. In addition to what I mentioned, it includes:
Joe Simon - Get Down, Get Down (Get On The Floor)
Isaac Hayes - Ike's Mood
The Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park
Little Richard - The Girl Can't Help It
The Teen Queens - Eddie My Love

**QUINNY** · February 2nd, 2005, 02:25 AM

Paul: I knew it rang a bell somewhere. I already have this CD and only bought it for Bus Stop, which I already had on LP. Personally, I've always preferred the UK 7" version (presumably the same as the U.S one) of the tune.

**bluewingspeaks** · February 2nd, 2005, 04:38 PM

One More Minute - Saint Tropez

**eddie** · February 8th, 2005, 02:40 AM

Fatback's entire Raising Hell album which includes Party time is great. It's available on a Southbound CD which is in its second pressing.
PS: Musique stole that Party time riff for "In the bush".