Anyone with more info on this Sharon Redd release

[Noman]

http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/3178_0_2_0_M/

Would like to know more about this remix of "Can You Handle It"
I have the original on LP too.

Is this THE Francois K remix (I have seen a remix from 1980 too) or is it an alternative mix? It's kind of a Dub mix with lots of loops.

I haven't found any info on this particular record anywhere, please Oh disco Gods out there - could you straighten it out for me?

[discofresh]

I have a version of this record but i cannot find it for the life of me. My copy is on Prelude and there are 3 mixes. sorry cant help any more.

DJ Boogie Badness
:D :D

[Davicillo]

Righty O, here we go;

The original LP version runs in at 6.36 and was mixed Rodney Brown and Willie Lester. (1980) This was released on 12" also.

Later a remix on 12" b/w 'You got the love' was released in 1981 which ran at 8.24. This was remixed by Francois Kervorkian.

In 1982, Shep Pettibone did a collection of remixes for Kiss FM
NYC. These were put on Vinyl and this remix of 'Can you handle it' ran for 7.20.

There is also a remix which was on the b side to the UK copy of
'In the name of love' and ran for 9.44, I think that was a montage of all of them!!!

Hope that helps.

[discofresh]

Some of Gayle Adams tracks are just as good as the Sharon Redd song. Things like "lets go all the way" and "you're a winner". I dont know if you heard these before

DJ Boogie badness :D

[Bernie]

Some of Gayle Adams tracks are just as good as the Sharon Redd song. Things like "lets go all the way" and "you're a winner". I dont know if you heard these before

DJ Boogie badness :D

Gayle Adams is all right, but she can't even come close to Sharon Redd. :P

[discofresh]

Overall, of course, I was just reflecting on the reaction of a couple songs i played at the weekend. The late great Sharon Redd is one of the best.

DJ Boogie Badness :D :D

[Davicillo]

You can't top 'Beat the street'. Whatta toon! :D

[Noman]

Great info.

Theres nothing on the label that mention him or the Kiss FM. Found this description (jahsonic):
"Shep Pettibone pioneered the 'mastermixes' of Kiss FM Radio, introducing a new methodology by segueing records to build 'sequences', almost like movements in classical music. Examples of this can be found on Prelude records', 'Kiss 98.7FM Mastermixes Vol. II' [...] "

This description fits on this very special remix.

Took me 23 years to find this out :oops:

I,ve got Sharon's three albums, baught them all when they first came out.
I also like Gayle Adams. I've got Love fever, Stretchin Out and the 7" of Baby I need your Lovin. I think Stretchin Out got the same "feel" as the first Sharon Redd Album

[Davicillo]

Norman, don't forget to look for 'Love Insurance' by Front Page feat Sharon Redd.
http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/371_0_2_0_C/

[discofresh]

Yeah that was my feeling in responding originally. Funnily enough i have a melba moore album that too have a couple of tracks very Sharon Reddish. If i find the album, i'll let you know

DJ Boogie Badness :D

[Noman]

don't forget to look for 'Love Insurance' by Front Page feat Sharon Redd.

Thanks for the tip.
I actually discovered it some months ago and I have got it on a lousy Mp3.
Can I find it on any CD-compilation ?

[Davicillo]

Discofresh, don't you think that 'Love how you feel' sounds like Steve Harvey's 'Something special'.

[Bernie]

Can I find it on any CD-compilation ?

An edited version appears on... http://www.discomusic.com/cds-more/1099_0_3_0_C/

[discofresh]

Yes i do. It actually took me a while to get into that tune as i was hook on "Beat the Street" and "I'll never give you up". But yes a dead ringer, and her whole catalogue does the business

DJ Boogie badness :D

[billywho]

Discofresh, don't you think that 'Love how you feel' sounds like Steve Harvey's 'Something special'.

Stu Allan used to mix these two songs together on Piccadilly Radio's "All Night Beat" nearly twenty years ago. Very similar.

I was listening to Kenny Lynch's 'Half The Day's Gone And We Haven't Earned A Penny' recently, and that reminded me of 'Funkin' For Jamaica'. Lots of similarities between songs if you listen closely...

[JohnnyEckhardt]

I could just scream. I was playing at Probe one night and Sharon Redd and Taka Boom were partying with me up in the booth. It was Sharon's birthday and we were having a blast. I happened to be taping onto reel to reel that night and managed to get Sharon & Taka doing a duet of "In the Name Of Love" as well as a duet of "Night Dancin'" on tape. It was priceless......and apparently someone else thought so as well...it was stolen from me about a year later.

[remicks]

I'm screaming with you :( :x

[Giovanni]

The original LP version runs in at 6.36 and was mixed Rodney Brown and Willie Lester. (1980) This was released on 12" also.

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I never saw a 12" with the original version of "Can you handle it"!
I don't believe it exists.
Or, it could be a test press only that never came out commercially (PRL 524?)

Can you please indicate its code number, or, even better, post a scan?!?

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[Davicillo]

Giovanni, the UK catologue no was EPC A 139572 (Epic Records). Prelude was not given its own identity until 1982 in the UK but it was still affiliated to Epic/CBS.

[Anonymous]

BEAT THE STREET INSTRUMENTAL FRANCOIS K MIX!!!!!!!!!

[totoman]

I have the 9 min version of Can You Handle It on the b side of In The Name Of Love. It has a new intro for about 3 mins with Sharon scatting along to the guitar and some spoken vocals over the break ("do you really think you can handle IT"), it then mixes into the original 6 min version and plays through.

Funnily enough, I was playing it over the weekend

toto

[Noman]

Sounds like they have taken the intro from the Shep Pettibone Remix this thread is about... Not a Remix, more like "Recycling" :)