Roberta Kelly - Zodiac Lady 1977

Prior to releases in the U.S. through composer Giorgio Moroder's Oasis record label, during the 1970s, Kelly recorded a single in Germany entitled "Kung Fu Is Back Again", released on Atlantic and produced by songwriter/producer Pete Bellotte.After the 1974 single "Kung Fu Is Back Again", she released the single "Love Power" (b/w "Drifter"), a cover version of a 1967 hit for The Sandpepples, written by Teddy Vann, and later made famous as part of the repertoire of Luther Vandross. She also released the album "This is Roberta Kelly" in 1975, a collection of soul funk.In April 1976, she turned to disco with the single "Trouble-Maker" (b/w "The Family") and released an album by the same name. The album contained 5 tracks, including an extended version of "Love Power".In 1977, she released Zodiac Lady, a controversial album that Casablanca Records, during the disco heyday, refused at first to release.[citation needed] Imports from Italy swamped the international dance floors, creating a blockbuster hit in the title track and songs such as "Love Sign".

1 Zodiacs
2 Love-Sign
3 Funky Stardust
4 I'm Sagittarius
5 Sunburst
6 Moondreaming

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Isaac Hayes_Hot Buttered Soul_1969

Hot Buttered Soul was Isaac Hayes' second studio album. Released in 1969, it is recognized as a landmark in soul music.
The album almost never came to be. Hayes' solo debut, Presenting Isaac Hayes, had been a poor seller for Stax Records, and Hayes was about to return to his behind-the-scenes role as a producer and songwriter at the venerable soul label when it suddenly lost its complete back catalog after splitting with Atlantic Records in May 1968. Stax executive Al Bell decided to release a new, almost instant, back catalog of 27 albums and 30 singles at once, ordered all of Stax's artists to record new material, and encouraged some of Stax's prominent creative staff, including Hayes and Steve Cropper, to record solo albums.Burned by the retail flop of Presenting Isaac Hayes, Hayes told Bell that he would not cut a follow-up unless he was granted complete creative control. Since Bell had encouraged Hayes to record Presenting... in the first place, he readily agreed. The album begins with a cover of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David classic, "Walk On By."

Second was Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic", an uptempo funk song with wah-wah guitar and rolling pianos. "One Woman", at just over five minutes the shortest track on the album, focuses on the pangs of infidelity. An extended reinterpretation of Jimmy Webb's country music composition "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" closes the album.

1 Walk On By
2 Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic
3 One Woman
4 By The Time I Get To Phoenix

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Billy Cobham _ A Funky Thide of Sings _ 1975

A Funky Thide of Sings is a 1975 studio album by Billy Cobham.
William C. Cobham (born May 16, 1944 in Panama), is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who has called Switzerland home since the late 1970s. Coming to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham is, in the words of Steve Huey, "generally acclaimed as fusion's greatest drummer with an influential style that combines explosive power and exacting precision.

1. Panhandler
2. Sorcery - Billy Cobham, Jarrett, Keith
3. A Funky Thide of Sings
4. Thinking of You - Billy Cobham, Blake, Alex
5. Some Skunk Funk - Billy Cobham, Brecker, Randy
6. Light at the End of the Tunnel
7. A Funky Kind of Thing
8. Moody Modes - Billy Cobham, Leviev, Milcho

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Brass Construction - Brass Construction 1975

Brass Construction I is an album by the funk band Brass Construction. It was released in 1975. "Movin'" reached #1 in the Hot Dance Club Play chart, in 1976.


1 Movin'
2 Peekin'
3 Changin'
4 Love
5 Talkin'
6 Dance

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Joe Jackson - Night And Day_1982

Night and Day is Joe Jackson's fifth album, released in June 1982.The title is from a Cole Porter song, and the album reflects a transition to a more sophisticated level of songwriting. Night and Day paid tribute to the wit and style of Cole Porter (and indirectly to New York).Night and Day was Jackson's only studio album to reach the Top 5 in both the UK and U.S.Night and Day sold over one million copies, earning gold disc status. The tracks "Real Men" and "A Slow Song" pointed obliquely to the city's early 1980s gay culture.A&M put considerable promotional muscle behind the album, and the resultant single "Steppin' Out" became a multi-format hit, eventually earning Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male.The album also spawned a second Top 20 U.S. hit single in "Breaking Us in Two".Jackson finished his Night and Day touring in May 1983.
While "Steppin' Out" was a Top 10 in both the UK and the U.S. (UK #6, U.S. #6); "Breaking Us in Two" was a Top 20 hit in the U.S. (#18), but charted lower in the UK (#59).This was a rare occurrence in which one of his singles charted higher in the U.S. than the UK.


1 Another World
2 Chinatown
3 T.V. Age
4 Target
5 Steppin' Out
6 Breaking Us In Two
7 Cancer
8 Real Men
9 A Slow Song

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Joe Jackson_ Body and Soul_ 1984

Body and Soul is an album by Joe Jackson, released in March 1984. Joe Jackson (born David Ian Jackson, 11 August 1954, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001. He is probably best-known for the 1979 hit song "Is She Really Going Out with Him?", which still gets extensive FM radio airplay; for his 1982 hit, "Steppin' Out"; and for his 1984 success with "You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)". Along with Elvis Costello and Graham Parker, Jackson was a part of the trio of English artists who challenged the punk scene[citation needed] and brought a New Wave sound to the United States[citation needed] in the late 1970s. He was popular for his power-pop and new wave music early on before moving to more eclectic, though less commercially successful, pop/jazz/classical musical pieces.
The ultimately UK #14 album was heavily influenced by pop and jazz standards and salsa, showcasing the U.S. #15 hit single "You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)".


1. The Verdict
2. Cha Cha Loco
3. Not Here, Not Now
4. You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)
5. Go for It
6. Loisaida
7. Happy Ending
8. Be My Number Two
9. Heart of Ice

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Marvin Gaye__I Heard it through the grapevine_1968

"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is a landmark song in the history of Motown Records. Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong in 1966, the single was first recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. Released on September 25, 1967 as Soul 35039 by Gladys Knight & the Pips who recorded the third version of the song, it has since become a signature song for singer Marvin Gaye, who recorded his version of the song prior to the Pips' but released it after theirs on October 30, 1968 as Tamla 54176. Creedence Clearwater Revival released their version of the song in 1970.
Gaye's version has since become a landmark in pop music. In 2004, it ranked #80 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. On the commemorative 50th Anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 issue of Billboard magazine in June 2008, Gaye's version was ranked as the 65th biggest song on the chart.It was also inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value.

1 Stubborn Kind of Fellow
2 Pride and Joy
3 Can I Get a Witness
4 How Sweet It Is [To Be Loved By You]
5 Little Darling I Need You
6 Chained
7 I Heard It Through The Grapevine
8 What's Going On
9 Let's Get it On
10 I Want You
11 The World Is Rated X
12 Ego Tripping Out
13 Trouble Man
14 Unforgettable
15 What's The Matter With You Baby
16 It Takes Two
17 If This World Were Mine
18 Yesterday
19 Got to Give it Up [Part One]
20 You are Everything [With Diana Ross]

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Lipps. Inc. - Mouth To Mouth_1979

Mouth to Mouth is the first album by Disco act Lipps Inc. It was released in early 1980 on Casablanca Records. The album was arranged, produced and mostly written (track 4 was written by Sandy Atlas & Steven Greenberg) by Steven Greenberg himself, who played five instruments on the album: keyboards, guitars, bass, drums & percussion. It contains the #1 hit "Funkytown".


1 Funkytown
2 All Night Dancing
3 Rock It
4 Power

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Best.Of.Disco. V.A

1 anita ward - ring my bell
2 boys town gang - can't take my eyes off you
3 michael zager band - let's all chant

4 koxo - step by step

5 ottawan - d.i.s.c.o
6 amii stewart - knock on wood
7 musique - keep on jumpin
8 cerrone - give me love

9 john davis and the monster orchestra - bourgie bourgie
10 the salsoul orchestra and loleatta holloway - runaway
11 inner life and jocelyn brown - aint'no mountain high enough
12 evelyn thomas - high energy
13 irene cara - fame
14 miquel brown - so many men so little time
15 claudja barry - boogie woogie dancin shoes
16 garys gang - lets love dance tonight

17 the tramps - disco inferno
18 ripple - the beats goes on
19 silver convention - fly robin fly
20 patricia hernandez - born to be alive

21 kc and the sunshine band - that's the way i like it
22 gibson brothers cuba

23 carol williams - love is you
24 tina charles - i love to love
25 carol douglas - dancing queen
26 gloria gaynor - i will survive
27 cloud one - disco juice
28 destination - move on up
29 thelma houston - don't leave me this way
30 geraldine hunt - can't fake the feeling
31 first choice - let no man pu asunder
32 inner life and jocelyn brown - moment of my life
33 karen young - hot shot
34 carrie lucas - dance with you
35 loleatta_holloway - love sensation
36 hamilton bohannon -let’s start the dance
37 black soul-let's dance
38 cerrone - supernature
39 candido - jingo

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