Nickolas Ashford (born May 4, 1942, in Fairfield County, South Carolina) and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946 in The Bronx, New York) are a husband and wife songwriting/production team and recording artists.They met at Harlem's White Rock Baptist Church in 1963. After having recorded unsuccessfully as a duo, they joined aspiring solo artist and former member of the Ikettes, Josie Jo Armstead, at the Scepter/Wand label where their compositions were recorded by Ronnie Milsap ("Never Had It So Good"), Maxine Brown ("One Step At A Time"), as well as the Shirelles and Chuck Jackson. Another of the trio's songs "Let's Go Get Stoned" gave Ray Charles a number one U.S. R&B hit in 1966. That same year Ashford & Simpson joined Motown where their best-known songs included "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "You're All I Need To Get By", "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", and "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)". As performers, Ashford and Simpson's best-known song is "Solid" (1984 US and 1985 UK). The duo was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. 1 You're All That I Need To Get By/Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing/Ain't No Mountain High Enough 2 (I'd Know You) Anywhere 3 Somebody Told A Lie 4 Send It 5 Don't Cost You Nothing 6 By Way Of Love's Express 7 Stuff Like That 8 It Seems To Hang On 9 Is It Still Good To Ya 10 Found A Cure 11 Nobody Knows 12 Love Don't Make It Right 13 Happy Endings 14 Street Corner 15 Solid
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Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow is the second studio album by American funk band Funkadelic, released in July 1970. The inspiration for this album was, according to George Clinton, an attempt to "see if we can cut a whole album while we're all tripping on acid.
1. Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow 2. Friday Night, August 14th 3. Funky Dollar Bill 4. I Wanna Know If It's Good to You? 5. Some More 6. Eulogy and Light
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Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione (play /mændʒiˈoʊni/; born November 29, 1940) is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good." Mangione has released more than thirty albums since 1960.
Feels So Good Hill Where The Lord Hides Bellavia Fun And Games Children Of Sanchez Land Of Make Believe Give It All You Got Chase The Clouds Away Cannonball Run Theme Doin' Everything With You Funky Town Disco Music 70s_Click on the cover..
The Man is the self-produced eighth album by American R&B singer Barry White, released in 1978 on the 20th Century label. The album became White's sixth R&B chart topper and peaked at #36 on the pop chart. Lead single "Your Sweetness Is My Weakness" reached #2 on the R&B chart, while White's cover of Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" made #12 in the UK. The first three tracks (originally Side One) are uptempo with a noticeable Latin influence, while the remainder (Side Two) are ballads. A cover version of "It's Only Love Doing Its Thing" (with the shortened title "It's Only Love") would be a hit for British band Simply Red in 1989. 1. Look At Her 2. Your Sweetness Is My Weakness 3. Sha La La Means I Love You 4. September When I First Met You 5. It's Only Love Doing Its Thing 6. Just The Way You Are 7. Early Years
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1. The Piointer Sisters - I'm So Excited 2. Village People - Y.M.C.A. 3. The Rubbetes - Sugar Baby Love 4. KC & The Sunshine Band - That's The Way (I Like It) 5. Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive 6. Earth, Wind & Fire - September 7. Quincy Jones - Ai No Corrida 8. Donna Summer - Love To Love You 9. Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everything 10. The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men 11. Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing 12. Brass Construction - Movin' 13. First Choice - Armed & Extremely Dangerous 14. Sister Sledge - We Are Family 15. Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out 16. Barry Manilow - Copacabana 17. Cheryl Lynn - Got To Be Real 18. The Hues Corporation - Rock The Boat 19. George Clinton - Atomic Dog --- 1. Kool & The Gang - Get Down On It 2. Gibson Brothers - Cuba 3. Michael Zager - Let's All Chant 4. Rose Royce - Car Wash 5. Candi Station - Young Hearts Run Free 6. Tavares - Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel 7. The Trammps - Disco Inferno 8. Dan Hartman - Instant Replay 9. Ottawan - D.I.S.C.O. 10. Chic - Le Freak 11. Labelle - Lady Marmolade 12. Maze Feat. Frankie Beverly - Joy And Pain (Live In New Orleans) 13. Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood 14. Patrice Rushen - Forgets Me Nots 15. A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie 16. Jimmy Bo Horne - Spank 17. Carl Douglas - Kung-Fu Fighting 18. Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody 19. Anita Ward - Ring My Bell --- 1. Bananarama - Venus 2. Boney M - Daddy Cool 3. B3 - Nightfever 4. Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok 5. Army Of Lovers - Crucified 6. Kool And The Gang - Celebration 7. George McCrae - Rock Your Baby 8. Blondie - Heart Of Glass 9. Little Eva - Locomotion 10. Belle Epoque - Black Is Black 11. The Whispers - And The Beat Goes On 12. Imagination - Just An Illusion 13. Odyssey - Going Back To My Roots 14. Soundalikes - Stayin' Alive (Tribute To The Bee Gees) 15. Donna Summer - Hot Stuff 16. Viola Willis - Gonna Get Along Without You Now 17. Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up --- 1. Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita 2. London Beat - I've Been Thinking About You 3. MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This 4. Haddaway - What Is Love 5. Corona - Rhythm Of The Night 6. Culture Beat - Mr. Vain 7. La Bouche - Be My Lover 8. Whigfield - Saturday Night 9. Baltimora - Tarzan Boy 10. Dr Alban - It's My Life 11. Modern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My Soul 12. Sabrina - Boys 13. Sandra - In The Heat Of The Night 14. Culture Club - Karma Chameleon 15. Kajagoogoo - Too Shy 16. Erasure - Take A Chance On Me 17. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
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Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track was the album that contains the soundtrack of the film Saturday Night Fever with John Travolta. The album was released December 10, 1977, to launch the film, which was released a week later. Immediately climbed to the top of U.S. chart. Although the album is often credited to the Bee Gees, who are in fact the authors of the most significant songs of the album, in fact it is a compilation of various artists. The album won a Grammy Award and the U.S. reached an incredible recognition of fifteen times platinum. The success was achieved in the world, where the disc is still the 4th best selling of all time, with more than 41 million copies sold. The songs and Calypso Breakdown Jive Talkin, the album, were not included in the film.
TRACKLIST: 1 Stayin' Alive _The Bee Gees 2 How Deep Is Your Love _ The Bee Gees 3 Night Fever _ The Bee Gees 4 More Than a Woman _ The Bee Gees 5. If I Can't Have You _Yvonne Elliman 6 A Fifth of Beethoven _Walter Murphy 7 More Than a Woman _ Tavares 8 Manhattan Skyline _ David Shire 9 Calypso Breakdown _ Ralph MacDonald 10 Night on Disco Mountain _ David Shire 11 Open Sesame' _ Kool & the Gang 12 Jive Talkin _ The Bee Gees 13. You Should Be Dancing _ The Bee Gees 14 Boogie Shoes _ KC & the Sunshine Band 15 Salsation _ David Shire 16 K-Jee _ MFSB
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Happy Days is a sit-com television popularity and success of U.S. broadcast premiere in the United States from 1974 to 1984. The series presents an idealized vision of American life in the late fifties and sixties. The series, set in Milwaukee, is focused on the daily life of the Cunningham family. Even in Italy the series has been a great success, which helped make this drive a real cult.
Side A 1 Happy days theme 2 Bony moronie 3 Running bear 4 It's all in the game 5 Tallahassie lassie 6 Rhythm o the rain 7 Only you 8 Big man 9 Duke of earl 10 Beatnik fly 11 Let the good times roll Side B 12 Charlie brown 13 The impressionist theme 14 The fonz song 15 Let's twist again 16 Because they're young 17 Donna 18 Personality(you've got) 19 Rock around the clock 20 To know him is to love him 21 Let the little girl dance 22 Fonzerelli slide
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1 Walk On By 2 Don't Make Me Over 3 Make The Music Play 4 One Hand, One Heart / With These Hands 5 You Can Have Him 6 Baubles, Bangles And Beads 7 Trains & Boats & Planes 8 Gettin' Ready For The Heartbreak 9 A House Is Not A Home 10 Unchained Melody 11 Here Where There Is Love 12 Close To You
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Once upon a time the music of the 70s, Disco Music, Funky, Soul, Pop Music, who made the history of those years. I was born in the mid 60s, so i lived right in the evolution of these sounds. This blog wants to revive after more than 20 years, the music of those years, memories, friends, first loves ..... For those not familiar with these genres, is a good opportunity to approach these fantastic sounds. Welcome to all and good listening....
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