Don't care what anyone thinks...I love this song! Billy Ocean Are You Ready (originally a 12"Maxi version in 1979).
Jimmy Castor, "Hey Leroy Your Mama's Calling You"-great Latin R&B groove on this tune. I first heard Jimmy when his crazy song "Troglodyte" came out.
Renaldo Domino, "I'm Hip To Your Game"-Chicago soul from 1968. Renaldo had a nice high tenor voice, I really dig this song.
Willie Hightower: Out Of The Blue Out Of The Blue Produced by Quinton Claunch of Goldwax fame and featuring great songs and recorded in Muscle Shoals. Willie Hightower: A Lost Soul Man’s Second Chance – Rolling Stone Willie Hightower Interview | Soul Express Out of the Blue - YouTube Also available for streaming e.g. on Apple Music.
Been into Me'shell NdegéOcello's Plantation Lullabies (1993) album all week: one of the first of the 90s releases dubbed with Neo-Soul monkier. Still sounds good.
Something like an encore - live performance of Soul Record (from the NdegéOcello album I referenced above):
From the 1990 Elektra album, Compositions, here is Fairy Tales, the final (and arguably, best, cut on it): It actually charted (Top Ten R&B) though I don't remember hearing it on the radio. At any rate, it's hardly likely that the entire 7 and a half minute version, which features a great piano solo by Greg Phillinganes near the end, aired in its entirety.
Love it. Too short! Here's an interesting longer cut, including a bio of Taylor's life and career on the YT page: Cheaper In The Long Run (1973, Polydor)
Bob J got me on an early 70s kick. So I pulled out It's Just Begun. ('72, RCA) The album has that long strange intro that the Debbie Taylor record has... Good to hear this again, too.
I came to this song through Roberta Flack's slowed down version but this one is more in the vein of the McCann/Harris post. Dee Dee Bridgewater - Compared To What
