am back!

Aruba Bar & Restaurant presents: TRUE FAITH

Jose Feliciano - "I'm never gonna change"

José Montserrate Feliciano García (born September 10, 1945) is a Puerto Rican singer and guitarist. He was left permanently blind at birth due to congenital glaucoma. Feliciano overcame the effects of this impairment to score many international hits Feliciano was born in Lares, Puerto Rico, one of eleven children. He was first exposed to music at age three. At five, his family moved to Spanish Harlem, New York City and, at age nine, he played on the Teatro Puerto Rico. He started his musical life playing accordion until his grandfather gave him a guitar. He reputedly sat by himself in his room for up to 14 hours a day to listen to 1950s rock albums, classical guitarists like Andrés Segovia, and jazz players like Wes Montgomery. He later had classical lessons with Harold Morris who earlier had been a student with Segovia.

At 17, he quit school to play in clubs, having his first professional, contracted performance in Detroit. In 1989, I'M NEVER GONNA CHANGE was released.

JOSE FELICIANO - I'M NEVER GONNA CHANGE (12")

Viola Wills - "If you could read my mind"

"If You Could Read My Mind" is a song by Gordon Lightfoot. It was his first recording to appear on the American music charts, reaching #5 on the Billboard chart in January 1971. Lightfoot has cited his divorce for inspiring the lyrics. This song first appeared on the Lightfoot's 1970 album Sit Down Young Stranger. The success of the single led Lightfoot's label, Reprise Records, to retitle the album after the song. The song reached #1 on Billboard's Easy Listening charts. The song has been covered by many artists, including Don McLean, Kalan Porter, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Cash, Liza Minnelli, Glen Campbell, Gene Clark, Viola Wills and the house music collective Stars on 54.

VIOLA WILLS - IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND (Disconet

Right said Fred - "Don't talk just kiss"

Don't Talk Just Kiss" is the second single by Right Said Fred off their album Up. The song featured R&B & dance singer Jocelyn Brown. The song reached #3 in the UK in December 1991. The single was released in the USA on February 27, 1992.

RIGHT SAID FRED - DON'T TALK JUST KISS (Dick's Mix)

Atlantic Starr - "Circles"

Atlantic Starr were a 1980s R&B band. Among their hits were "Always" and "Secret Lovers". The group was started in 1976 in White Plains, New York by Duke Jones, drummer Porter Carroll Jr., bassist Clifford Archer, percussionist and flautist Joseph Phillips, and three brothers: David Lewis (vocals and guitar), Wayne Lewis (keyboards and vocals), and Johnathan Lewis (percussion and trombone). Other members of the band were lead singer Sharon Bryant (who was later replaced by Barbara Weathers), trumpeter William Sudderth, and saxophonist Damon Rentie (who was replaced by Koran Daniels).

Brilliance is the fourth studio album by Atlantic Starr. This album featured hit singles "Love Me Down" and "Circles."

ATLANTIC STARR - CIRCLES (12")

Duran Duran - "Girls on Film"

Girls on Film" is the third single by Duran Duran, released on 13 July 1981. The single became Duran Duran's Top 10 breakthrough in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #5 on 25 July. Its success was particularly gratifying for the band, who had personally selected it for release following the failure of its predecessor, "Careless Memories", which had been chosen by their record company, EMI. Its popularity provided a major boost to sales of the band's eponymous debut album, Duran Duran, which had been released a month earlier. The song did not chart in the U.S. on its initial release, but it became popular and widely known after receiving heavy airplay on MTV when the Duran Duran album was re-issued in 1983. It is regarded one of the band's signature songs.

DURAN DURAN - GIRLS ON FILM (Hot Tracks)

Black Box - "Strike it up"

Black Box (later Blackbox) was an Italo-house music group popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They are arguably best known for their hit song "Ride on Time". The members of the group included a trio made up of a club DJ (Daniele Davoli), a classically trained clarinet teacher (Valerio Semplici) and a keyboard and electronic music "wiz" (Mirko Limoni.) The three had previously joined to form a group called Groove Groove Melody, producing dance music under names such as Starlight and Wood Allen. They went on to record music under many other aliases.

BLACK BOX - STRIKE IT UP

Nu Shooz - "I can't wait"

"I Can't Wait" is a 1986 hit song by Nu Shooz from the album Poolside. The song was originally recorded the previous year and became a popular radio track in and around the band's hometown of Portland, Oregon. It is noted for its instantly-recognizable bassline and for its catchy "uh-uh uh uh uh uh uh-uh!" sample chorus. In the United States, the song reached #1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart in late March of 1986, remaining atop the chart for two weeks. Soon afterwards the song appeared on the Hot 100 chart, where it climbed to #3 in mid-June of that year; it remained in the Top 40 for 15 weeks. In the United Kingdom the song reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart. The song's American chart run coincided with that of a Stevie Nicks song also titled "I Can't Wait" (a rare incidence of two different songs with the same title charting at the same time). The extended "Long Dutch Mix" contains more samples (such as "c'mon!" from Madonna's "Into the Groove"), and takes the pitchshifting of the chorus even further, creating an eventual "pitchdown" at the ending. A rap cover of the song, "I Can't Wait (To Rock The Mike)" by Spyder-D was released shortly theareafter. The song was covered in 2002 by British R&B group Ladies First and reached #19 on the UK chart. In 2007 the music was replayed in a remix for Paula DeAnda's single "Easy", featuring a rap appearance by Bow Wow, this song was produced by a production team by the name of The Flyntstones. The song was also mashed up with Snoop Dog's Drop It Like It's Hot by dj BC in a song called "Snoop's Nu Shooz. "In 1996, Vanessa Williams used an interpolation of "I Can't Wait" in her hit "Happiness."

NU SHOOZ - I CAN'T WAIT

Kym Sims - "Too Blind to see it"

Kym Sims in an American singer born 1966, whose biggest success came outside her home market. Kym began her career as an advertising jingle singer before breaking through into the dance music market. Working with 4-time Grammy Award-nominated producer Steve Hurley (aka Steve "Silk" Hurley) her dance anthem "Too Blind to See It" spent 12 weeks on the UK pop chart over the festive period of 1991/1992. Another song that Sims is well known for is her 1992 hit single "Take My Advice" which hit number 13 in the UK. It was a huge club hit. The same year a modest hit came with, 'A Little Bit More', number 30. An album was released entitled (like the single of the same name) "Too Blind To See It". The album just about scraped the UK Top 40 peaking at number 39. The entire album was produced by Steve Hurley with co-production credits shared with producer/remixer E-Smoove (aka Eric Miller) and Grammy Award-winning producer/remixer Maurice Joshua.

In 1995 she released the single "I Must Be Free. In 1996, she released another single 'We Gotta Love', which was the last single of hers to be released physically on CD or Vinyl. In 2000 she released a single through MP3.com called "Just Can't Get Enough".

KYM SIMS - TOO BLIND TO SEE IT (Hurley's House Mix)

Gary Low - "I Want You"

Gary Low is the sobriquet of a very famous singer in the 80's named Luis Romero. His two greatest hits you are in danger & schoolgirl was esuchan even today. Born in Terrassa, Spain and managed to intruducirse music aspect ruled that the Italian season with a theme called "I want you"; one year later would become more famous with his version of the popular theme Collegiality.

This is dedicated to all the Staff of DECADES METROWALK especially to Kuya Mon who helped me in finding my car (na hindi naman nawala).

GARY LOW - I WANT YOU (Ext. Version)

Jane Wiedlin - "Blue Kiss"

"Blue Kiss" is a song written by Jane Wiedlin and Randell Kirsch and performed by Jane Wiedlin, the rhythm guitar player of the all-female rock band The Go-Go's. It was the lead single from her self-titled debut album Jane Wiedlin. An extended 12-inch single was also released, featuring an instrumental version of "Blue Kiss", along with two extended dance versions, one of which was remixed by famed Madonna collaborator William Orbit. "Blue Kiss" can be heard during the frat house party scene in the film Night of the Creeps (1988), and was used during the date montage scene in the Sci-Fi indie film The iDol (2007). There were two versions of a video produced for this song - one was not released, the other features Jane playing her guitar and singing in the back of a truck traveling a backroad.

JANE WIEDLIN - BLUE KISS (V Mix)

A-HA - "Cry Wolf"

"Cry Wolf" is a song by Norwegian band A-ha. It was the second single from their 1986 Scoundrel Days album. The lyrics "Night I left the city I dreamt of a Wolf..." are credited to Lauren Savoy whom Pål later married. It was the most successful single from the Scoundrel Days album in the U.S., where it peaked at #14 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts and went to #50 on the Hot 100. While it would be their last entry on that chart, the band would continue to have major pop hits from each album release throughout the rest of the world through to the present day. The single went Top 40 nearly everywhere else it was released, including Top 5 chartings in the UK, Poland and Ireland, going #2 in Norway and to the top spot in Japan. World Sales: 2.400.000 copies.

A-HA - CRY WOLF (12"

Pat & Mick - "I haven't stopped Dancing yet"

Pat and Mick were a British vocal duo consisting of popular radio personalities Pat Sharp and Mick Brown. The royalties from their record sales were donated to Capital FM's Help A London Child charity. The pair were often portrayed as unintelligent in media coverage, but this served to boost record sales, providing money for the charity in the process. With their last single released in 1993, and Pat Sharp no longer at Capital Radio, they have no immediate plans to collaborate on future charity singles.

Top 40 Singles
* 1988: Let's All Chant / On The Night (UK #11, credited to Mick And Pat)
* 1989: I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet (UK #9)
* 1990: Use It Up & Wear It Out (UK #22)

The duo also had 2 lesser hits after 1990. These were 1991's "Gimme Some" (UK #53) and 1993's "Hot Hot Hot" (UK #47).

PAT & MICK - I HAVEN'T STOPPED DANCING YET

Something different

Ever since I started this blogging thing, my purpose was to promote & share 80's & 90's music just like from other music blogs. However, it came to a point that while I love sharing and listening to through these mixes, I just thought it would also be nice to post my own mix sets and hear how others would interpret it. Next week, am going to try somethin' different. For the first time, I will be uploading my own MIX SET. If you're into 80's/90's mixes, you should give this set a try and you won't regret it.

Robert Palmer - "Addicted to Love"

"Addicted to Love" is a song by Robert Palmer. It is the third song on the Riptide album. The most commonly heard version runs around four minutes, but the full album version runs a little over six minutes. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at #5 on the UK Singles Chart, and has now become known as his trademark song, thanks, in part, to a highly popular video. The song is unusual in that the intro drum solo is in the 7/4 time signature, while the remainder is in a more conventional (at least for pop music) 4/4 time signature. It was originally intended to be a duet with Chaka Khan. However, her record company at the time wouldn't grant her a release to work on Palmer's label, Island Records. Chaka Khan is still credited for the vocal arrangements in the album liner notes. The guitar part on the song is played by Andy Taylor, then a member of Duran Duran. Palmer met Taylor when they were both members of supergroup The Power Station.

ROBERT PALMER - ADDICTED TO LOVE (12")

U2 - "New Year's Day"

"New Year's Day" is the third song and lead single from U2's 1983 album, War. The song is driven by Adam Clayton's distinctive bassline and The Edge's keyboard. It was the band's first hit single, breaking the top ten in the UK, peaking at #10 on the singles chart, and charting on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in their career. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine placed the single at number 427 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

U2 - NEW YEAR'S DAY (US Remix)

Marky Mark & Funky Bunch - "Good Vibrations"

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch was a hip-hop group led by Mark Wahlberg. Members included Scott Ross (alias Scottie Gee), Hector Barros (alias Hector the Bootie Inspector), Duffy Culligan (alias Duffle), Terry Yancey (alias DJ-T) and Anthony Thomas (alias Ashey Ace). The group's best known song is "Good Vibrations". "Good Vibrations" made it to number one on the American music charts in 1991. Although their music career was only minimally successful in the United Kingdom, they won "Best Dance Act" at the Smash Hits Poll Winners Party in December 1992. Marky Mark was also featured on the single "You Know How We Do It" by Pandemonium on the Surf Ninjas soundtrack.

MARKY MARK & FUNKY BUNCH - GOOD VIBRATIONS

Freda Payne - "Band of Gold"

Powered by a rumbling, pounding rhythm section and an unforgettable chorus, Freda Payne’s “Band Of Gold” was released in 1969 and went on to dominate 1970’s pop charts on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, it spent an amazing six weeks at #1. In the USA, it sold a million copies, earning Freda Payne her first gold record.

FREDA PAYNE - BAND OF GOLD (Almighty 12" Pop'd Up Mix)