Saturday, June 28, 2008

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


Tuesday, June 17, 2008

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)


Sunday, June 15, 2008

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")


Monday, June 9, 2008

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)


Friday, June 6, 2008

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


Thursday, June 5, 2008

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