Jason Orr, producer of the legendary FunkJazz Kafé®, has recently branched his vision for marketing Soul artists to a new level at the right time. You can say it’s more of a Spike Jonze meets Spike Lee approach to video and film-making. Orr believes his videos for Soul artists with followings are simply “ visual expressions of an artists’ spirit and intent of a song, adding a broader dimension to the music. Especially music that would have never gotten a video budget from a label nor been a “single” at all. The Soul audience usually liked the “album” tracks too. So these are visual soundscapes capturing some of the greatest Soul artists of modern times.”
Dionne Farris “Baggage”
First short film from Dionne Farris’ video album “Remember My Name - Vol. 1″. These are songs from a new collection that will be introduced only through short film videos. Go to www.myspace.com/dionnefarris to purchase/ download “Baggage”. Song co-written by Van Hunt. Directed by J. Orr for FunkJazz Kafé® Films. (Peep the comments)
Omar “Syleste”
This has not been done before. Omar Lye Fook performing “Syleste”, in a rare performance within a performance of one of his many classic … all » sing-along tunes from his fifth … all » album, Best By Far. This short film/video was produced by Omar and Jason Orr for FunkJazz Kafé® - Life Arts Films. It’s great that we no longer have to wait to see a visual for our musical icons with soulful songs. Pick up Omar’s music catalog and join our team for notification of future projects (www.omarmusic.net and www.funkjazzkafe.com)
SEE OTHER OMAR VIDEOS:
Omar - EPK (2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXZSVrrnjtA
” Where’s The Soul?” - Omar And Rasaan Patterson Protest Against 2007 MOBO Awards http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22TzJyyJ77w&feature=related
“Don’t You Worry About A Thing” Stevie Wonder & Omar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF6kvs7ZKfI&feature=related
“Sing” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1bv6zsnaGU&feature=related
“Your Mess” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnH39WhmnxE&feature=related
“Outside” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cabZjvzCI3Y&feature=related
“Keep Stepping” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPxcqjCtlMQ&feature=related
“There’s Nothing Like This” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFnclBOlr6o
“Something Real” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMENN6ayRQU&feature=related
“Say Nothing” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSdLy-l9VhA&feature=related
“Golden Brown” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIxt_L1Hgok
FunkJazz Kafé® exerpt pt.3 (f. Omar) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3IClp6id-I
More Soulful Videos, Artist Interviews, Music Documentaries and more at http://www.youtube.com/funkjazzkafechannel
Enjoy!
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First Lou Pearlman (http://www.nypost.com/seven
Part 1
Part 2
The “RAZ-B APOLOGIZES IT WAS FAKE!!!!!” Video (That no one seems to believe)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaGZwiXcDAU&feature=related
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Thought ya’ll might like seeing a “good” video from one of the greatest entertainers of all time. He’s speaking on a bit of knowledge in there too. Deep for a Jehovah’s Witness. Enjoy this new funk from a legend who’s been in “the game” since 1978.
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Just think about it. If Ike had not gain the reputation of an abuser, he would’ve been known for being a great Rock & Roll pioneer and Hall Of Famer. Here’s a video of Ike rehearsing in his living room. You can easily hear Rock & Roll roots in him. Here’s his bio for our younger readers.
REMEMBERING IKE TURNER
IKE”S BIO
2006 blessed Ike Turner with his first GRAMMY, in 35 years, as the winner for Best Traditional Blues Album; his 2nd consecutive Grammy Nomination (’01/’06) for this category. 1971 brought him his first GRAMMY for Best R&B Vocal by Duo/Group (Ike & Tina Turner for “Proud Mary”). In 1991 Ike Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his act, Ike & Tina Turner. In 2001 Turner full-tilt boogied throughout his multi-nominated come-back album, “Here and Now”. His Grammy Winner, “Risin’ with the Blues”, is again consistent with big-group arrangements, unique lyrics, and sizzling solos. Amazingly, “Here & Now”, was his first commercial release in 23 years, receiving rave critical acclaim. His follow up CD, “Risin’ with the Blues”, proved he could “take you higher”. Radio action in 2006-07 shows chart movement in multiple formats: Blues, AAA Alternative, and College Jazz. Turner’s European appeal also continues to rise; bolstered by his year-end, show-topping set in the 47-show tour Night of the Proms. Supported by a 72-pc. Orchestra, 40-pc. Choir, a backing Rock-band, a Power Vocal-trio, and Lyrica Garrett as lead vocal, Turner turned the rock-act-plus-orchestra romp into a frenzy. In other awards success for his 2001 Hit CD, the W.C. HANDY BLUES AWARDS heralded “Here and Now” as a masterpiece. It was lauded with 2002 COMEBACK ALBUM OF THE YEAR AWARD and Turner also received nominations for Blues Entertainer, Soul/Blues Male Artist, and Soul/Blues Album of the Year.2001 marked the Golden Anniversary of a GOLD Record from an Era when Fifty-thousand 45’s was a BIG Seller. That 500K-selling Single cut the edge of a new ground-breaking style, & NY deejay Alan Freed christened it: ROCK & ROLL. Sam Phillips, Sun Studios founder, tagged that Billboard #1 R&B Smash as the very first “Rock & Roll Recording”. Every hell-raiser, hip-shaker, and hit-maker owes a nod to that teenager recognized by Rock historians as the “Father of Rock & Roll”. That Billboard bullet, “Rocket 88″, was penned by a 19-year old boogie-woogie piano boy and his back-up band, “The Kings of Rhythm”, for their first Sun Studios session in March 1951. B.B. King introduced the boys to Phillips. His lead vocalist and sax-man, Jackie Brensten was mistakenly credited with the song by Chess Records, who released it. But those that know Rock History know that Ike & The Kings were the real, original rockers toiling in the shadow of their own success. That kid is referred to by Little Richard as “The Man”, and B.B. King proudly echoes, “He’s the best band leader I’ve ever seen”. He is none other than the legendary comeback-kid, Ike Turner. Turner has re-established himself with his ‘01 & ‘06 albums as a serious world-title holder; and proved why the hip-hop generation calls him “Ike Turner, the original mic-burner”. Ever-the-innovator never-the-duplicator, Turner ushers in a new style/trend in 2007, just as he did in 1951: Blues on top and Hip-Hop on bottom, a/k/a “Blues-Hop”. Turner says the rhythm and dance steps that ride today’s hip-hop grooves are as contagious as the skillet-hot Rhythm and Blues moves of the 1940’s that he grew up on. It’s time to mix it up. He recorded his first Blues-Hop track, “Safe Sex” in 2001, but his label wasn’t ready for it. Now, the tongue-in-cheek, blues-hopper “Gimme Back That Wig” makes it to the street in 2006. With the danceable Hip-Hop grooves and the soulfulness of a true Blues feel, Turner’s new hybrid style is guaranteed to groove music fans the world over, body and soul. Turner is currently scorching tracks for his anticipated “three-peat” CD.
–Phil Arnold
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Since everything we do musically has rhythmically been laid out and initiated by James Brown, we at FunkJazz Kafé® declare December 25th as “James Brown Day”. Hail to the undisputed King and Godfather of Funk, Soul, R&b and Hip Hop. To celebrate, we’ve post two favorites for ya’ll. One with the now legendary performance with Michael Jackson and Prince sharing the stage with the Godfather in 1983 (when “iconism” was at it’s best) and the other is a classic from his LIVE performances on Soul Train, where he was one of a few who really performed live. Peep how he hitchya in intro and brought it back in the middle of the groove. A Funk God. This man sounds like straight Georgia red clay. All true ATLiens know what I mean. Here’s question for you. Is there anyone harder than James Brown?
James Brown, Prince and Michael Jackson
James Brown Live On Soul Train “Papa Don’t Take No Mess”
More James Brown Affairs Still In Disarray
Story courtesy of EUR Web http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur39536.cfm *The Associated Press checked in with the estate of James Brown one year after the entertainer’s death on Christmas Day at age 73, and all is not well.
Tomi Rae Hynie, a former backup singer who claims to be Brown’s fourth wife and the mother of his child, claims Brown wanted her to have his home in the western part of South Carolina, near the Georgia state line, but was locked out.
“Everybody says I’m being a drama queen and I’m a great actress,” Hynie said, alternately sobbing and joking during a recent telephone interview with AP. “All I did was cry and fall to my knees and faint a couple of times. Isn’t that how a wife is supposed to act at a funeral when she loses the man she loves?” Hynie has since been in court trying to win half of Brown’s estate, which in October was reported by Forbes magazine to have earned an estimated $5 million in the prior year alone. But attorneys have said Brown’s accounts do not have the money they expected. One former trustee of Brown’s estate, David Cannon, has repaid $350,000 he was accused of misappropriating.
“When I married James he said it wasn’t because I was the prettiest girl in the room,” Hynie said. “He said it’s because I was a fighter. And I’m going to fight. … I’m going to fight because every night, when me and that man were in bed together, all we did was talk about this day and what I was going to have to do and how if I wanted it I was going to really have to fight for it.”
Buddy Dallas, Brown’s longtime attorney and adviser, has spent the year immersed in that fight. He met the entertainer in 1984 and was “with him through thick and thin from then until now.”
“Mr. Brown needed what I was able to give him and that was someone he could trust,” Dallas told the AP. “We laughed together, we cried together, we prayed together. And I was there for Mr. Brown’s children as well.”
But after their father died, Brown’s adult children moved to oust Dallas and two other trustees. Dallas resigned in November but now claims the judge handling the disputes forced him out and he’s trying retract his resignation.
“My only regret is that the children cannot accept the will of their father,” Dallas said. “He left household and personal effects to his children. He left a trust fund to educate his grandchildren. And then everything else on the face of the earth that he owned he left to the needy and underprivileged children of Georgia and South Carolina for educational purposes. And he named his three friends (Brown’s trustees) to carry out that purpose.”
As for Hynie, Dallas says she’s not Brown’s widow because she was still married to another man when she and Brown said their vows in 2001.
….AND DID ANYBODY HEAR ABOUT THIS? James Brown’s daughter charged with attack
By JEFFRY SCOTT
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
June 13, 2007
If there are courtroom fireworks to be seen in the disintegrated marriage of the daughter of late singer James Brown and her husband, they’ll have to wait for the criminal trial, when she faces charges of allegedly stabbing him the day before her father’s burial.On Wednesday — with the custody of their children, aged 5 and 8, on the line — the feuding Yamma Brown, 34, and estranged husband, Darren Lumar, 36, went into the courtroom of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Gail Tusan and reached a temporary agreement giving them roughly equal time with the children.There was no mention of the stabbing attack on March 9 that sent him to the hospital for 12 stitches in his arm.
There also was no mention of his wife’s attorney’s claim that Yamma Brown was just defending herself from an abusive spouse, or of Yamma Brown facing aggravated assault charges after her April indictment.“This is not a Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown situation,” Lumar said after the agreement, referring to the tabloid fodder of those singers’ rocky marriage over the years.“We don’t want this in the media, I don’t like the media. I am extremely happy this turned out the way it did. Our kids are safe, and that’s what matters the most.”Lumar reiterated that he did not press charges against his wife following the alleged attack at the couple’s Tuxedo Court home in Buckhead, and he did not testify before the April grand jury. “I don’t know if I’ll be called as a witness,” he said. “But the Fulton County grand juries don’t indict people for nothing. They had witness and evidence enough to indict without my testimony.”Yamma Brown’s criminal attorney, Renee Rockwell, who was not at the hearing, said Brown had been abused by her husband over the years. “If he gets custody of the kids, he’ll be in line for the [James Brown] inheritance.t> \n \u003cbr\>\u003cbr\>\u003cp\>\u003cspan\>\u003cb\> More James Brown drama\u003c/b\>\u003cbr\>\n \u003c/span\>\u003cspan\>Daughter arraigned in knife attack against husband; couple in midst of divorce case.\u003c/span\>\u003cfont size\u003d\”4\”\>\u003cstrong\>\u003cbr\>\n \u003c/strong\>\u003c/font\>\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>By Bill Torpy\u003cbr\>\n The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u003cbr\>\n June 12, 2007 \u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>The\ndeath last year of music legend James Brown revealed to the world a\nhost of familial infighting. Now add one more: One of Brown's daughters\nslashed her husband with a butcher knife the day before her father's\nburial.\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>Yamma Brown Lumar was arraigned last week in\nFulton County on a felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly\nweapon for the March 9 attack at the couple's Tuxedo Court home in\nBuckhead.\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>Atlanta police noticed blood spatters on the\nhome's floor. Darren Lumar told investigators the couple had argued and\nstruggled when she broke free, went to the kitchen to get the knife and\nthen stabbed him in the right forearm as he tried to restrain her,\naccording to the police report.\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>He got 12 stitches.\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>"She was going for my chest," he said in a Tuesday interview. "I have no doubt that woman was trying to kill me.\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>"This\nis a crazy case," he said. "At the time I thought we were happily\nmarried. But I guess she wanted out, and she figured by killing me she\ngets out."\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>Yamma Lumar told police she struck in\nself-defense after he punched her in the nose and had thrown her to the\nmarble floor. Police noted, "Mrs. Lumar did not have any physical\ninjuries, only complaints." The report added that there was slight\nswelling at the bridge of her nose. Both had been drinking.\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>Darren\nLumar, a 36-year-old who said he's involved in investment banking,\nsaid, "We were dealing with a lot of family stress at the time. "\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>He\nwas initially charged with simple battery but those charges were later\ndropped. Yamma Lumar, a pharmacist who is 34, was initially charged\nwith aggravated assault and indicted on those charges in April. Yamma\nLumar's attorney did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.”,1] ); //–>
Daughter arraigned in knife attack against husband; couple in midst of divorce case.By Bill Torpy
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
June 12, 2007 The death last year of music legend James Brown revealed to the world a host of familial infighting. Now add one more: One of Brown’s daughters slashed her husband with a butcher knife the day before her father’s burial.Yamma Brown Lumar was arraigned last week in Fulton County on a felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for the March 9 attack at the couple’s Tuxedo Court home in Buckhead.Atlanta police noticed blood spatters on the home’s floor. Darren Lumar told investigators the couple had argued and struggled when she broke free, went to the kitchen to get the knife and then stabbed him in the right forearm as he tried to restrain her, according to the police report.He got 12 stitches.“She was going for my chest,” he said in a Tuesday interview. “I have no doubt that woman was trying to kill me.“This is a crazy case,” he said. “At the time I thought we were happily married. But I guess she wanted out, and she figured by killing me she gets out.”Yamma Lumar told police she struck in self-defense after he punched her in the nose and had thrown her to the marble floor. Police noted, “Mrs. Lumar did not have any physical injuries, only complaints.” The report added that there was slight swelling at the bridge of her nose. Both had been drinking.Darren Lumar, a 36-year-old who said he’s involved in investment banking, said, “We were dealing with a lot of family stress at the time. “He was initially charged with simple battery but those charges were later dropped. Yamma Lumar, a pharmacist who is 34, was initially charged with aggravated assault and indicted on those charges in April. Yamma Lumar’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday \n \u003cp\>In\nan unrelated case, Darren Lumar faces three pending charges of\nmisdemeanor sexual battery filed last year in Fulton County. A former\nemployee of his, Jasmine Palmer, last year told WSB-TV: "He'll make his\nadvances toward me, grope me and touch on me, and I tried to not say\nanything and tried to just brush it off, but it was just getting\noverbearing. Then he got me cornered up in a room, basically, and\nforced himself on me."\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>In the other case, Yamma Lumar\nwas not arrested the night of the attack, but she was asked to leave\nthe home that night, the report states.\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>"They were going\nto take her to jail," Darren Lumar said. "I begged them not to take her\nto jail. She was going to miss her father's funeral."\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>The\nnext day, he said he traveled to his father-in-law's burial in South\nCarolina at the property of another of Brown's daughters, Deanna Brown\nThomas. But Lumar said he was not allowed to attend the service.\nHowever, he said he visited James Brown's grave after the burial, which\nis said to be temporary.\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>Brown, who was 73, died on\nChristmas Day of heart failure at Atlanta's Crawford Long Hospital, but\nhe was not buried for two and a half months. The family and Tomi Rae\nHynie, Brown's companion who bore a child she said was his son, split\nover the division of the assets and even where the body should be\nburied. That case is still working itself through the court system.\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>The Lumars are in the midst of divorce proceedings.\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>Randy\nKessler, Darren Lumar's divorce lawyer, said the stabbing will be\n"crucial" in the ongoing custody battle over the couple's two children.\nThe two sides are to appear in Fulton County court on Wednesday.\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>"The stability of the parents and the safety of the kids is crucial," Kessler said. "It comes down to judgment."\u003c/p\>\n \u003cp\>Outlaw,\nYamma Lumar's attorney, said of Darren Lumar: "It's not appropriate to\nthreaten criminal prosecution to get advantage in a civil proceeding."”,1] ); //–>
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Peep this video from Summer 2007 of Sly at the North Sea Jazz Festival and recently at BB Kings (NYC). He sports a Mohawk in his 60’s, killing a Korg Micro (keyboard) and simply sounds great. Enjoy.
North Sea Jazz Festival “If You Want Me To Stay” , “Sing A Simple Song” and “Higher”
Video from BB King’s
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We know Prince is the man but this bullshit about not allowing his videos on the internet is silly to me. Prince has an extensive catalogue of videos and TRUELY FUNKY live performances that all his fans from the 80’s have on video. Dude should let these free videos (that he isn’t going to be able to sell anyway) out on the net so the world can see how much of a funk legend he really is. Nonetheless, here’s a glimpse of video from fans in Madison Square Garden at a recent Stevie Wonder concert. Hurry up and view because ya’ll know Prince is quick to have his “internet police” take video with him in it down. Enjoy.
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Legendary Philadelphia Soul music producers, Gamble & Huff, will receive the 2007 “Ahmet Ertegun Award” (formerly the non-performer category). Peep this write-up we read courtesy of the Soul Patrol Newsletter (www.soul-patrol.net).
I was saddened yesterday as well when I read the announcement. I’m *not* surprised that Madonna got inducted - I mean, c’mon. You know that the industry as it stands today couldn’t wait to get Madonna inducted into the R&RHOF. Based on the long established rules, an artist has to have put out music at least 25 years ago to qualify. Madonna debuted in 1982 with “Everybody” (which, I’ll admit, I have featured on my site - it is a fun dance song to be fair) so she only JUST qualifies since we’re at the end of 2007.
Again, to be fair, she has had some fun dance music in her career (”Everybody”, “Burning Up”, “Material Girl”). However, she is not of the caliber of Donna Summer (or Chic who, if you’ll remember, were also nominated for induction along with Donna Summer). I thought for sure that either Donna Summer or Chic had a shot of being inducted. I mean, and I also mentioned this on my site’s blog area, Donna Summer helped define the face of disco from 1975 forward beginning with “Love To Love You Baby” (I know she actually debuted in 1974 with a German release but in the U.S. her 1975 classic is widely regarded as her “debut”). Her evolving disco and dance music throughout the seventies, eighties, and nineties into the 2000s should have made her a shoo-in for induction. Unfortunately, today’s generation of listeners are more in tune to Madonna than to Donna Summer.
As for Chic, another prime example of today’s generation not appreciating past legends. Nile Rodgers and the late Bernard Edwards crafted sophisticated disco and funk not only for their own band (”Le Freak”, “Dance, Dance, Dance”, “Good Times”, “I Want Your Love”, “Chic Mystique”) but for others including Sister Sledge (”We Are Family”, “He’s The Greatest Dancer”), Diana Ross (the entire 1980 album “Diana” featuring “Upside Down” and “I’m Coming Out”), and others. If I’m not mistaken, Nile Rodgers even did music for Madonna herself!
Speaking of “Good Times”, that song alone by Chic has served as the template for many other genres - rap (The Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rappers Delight”), rock (Queen’s “Another One Bites The Dust”). Another group that should have been a shoo-in for induction.
By rushing to put Madonna (who, again, only JUST BARELY qualifies for induction based on the 25-year rule) into the R&RHOF and again passing over Donna Summer (who, based on the 25-year rule, became eligible in 2000) and Chic (who became eligible around 2002), the music industry once again shows its current disdain for the true classics and its favoritism for cookie cutter pop fluff.
At least Gamble/Huff & Little Walter are getting in.
–Tony Madison
Steel Pulse “ Now That We Found Love” (link)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TjG6HeJjv0
The Sound Of Philadelphia
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Peep this write-up that compliments the “Gamble & Huff” post. Courtesy of the Soul Patrol Newsletter (www.soul-patrol.net). [Chic, more so than Donna Summer meets the *surface requirements* of RRHOF inclusion. I would like to expand upon their accomplishments on the ROCK and ROLL side of things.The single “Good Times” was credited with generating enough income to help Atlantic Records thru a very financially perilous time. Remember the various formats we had then? Cassette. LP. 7 inch single. 12 inch single. Chic sold thru on ALL of them at well over a million units.
CHIC should be in the RRHOF based on their INFLUENCE on ROCK and POP MUSIC. The basic ingredients of the Rock Anchor “Power Trio” were in place: Bernard Edwards: BASS, Nile Rodgers: GUITAR, Tony Thompson: Drums. Time after time we have been reminded these 3 instruments are representative of what ROCK is all about. The SOUND that CHIC made was indeed identified as a TEMPLATE for the following ROCK acts: The POLICE, BLONDIE, DURAN DURAN and later and more importantly INCLUSIVE OF CHIC MEMBERS: POWER STATION. They performed BEYOND their own industry imposed borders. Those borders (for any to need to be reminded) are: Soul and Disco.
As a PRODUCTION ENTITY CHIC produced the following POP and ROCK acts either TOGETHER or SEPARATELY (I purposely left off the Soul/Disco performers Grace Jones, Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, Al Jarreau, Jody Watley, etc. to concentrate on the “Rock and Roll” of the RRHOF):
Koo Koo, Debbie Harry (1981)
Carly Simon, “Why” from the motion picture soundtrack “Soup for One” (1982)
Power Station, Power Station (1985)
“A View To A Kill” (single), Duran Duran (1985)
Heat, Nona Hendryx (1985)
Riptide, Robert Palmer (1985)
Cocker, Joe Cocker (1986)
Color In Your Life, Missing Persons (1986)
Hearts In Motion, Air Supply (1986)
Alphabet City, ABC (1987)
If, Hollywood Beyond (1987)
Contact, Platinum Blond (1987)
Out of Order, Rod Stewart (1988)
Under The One Sky, Distance (1989)
YUI Orta, Ian Hunter/The Hunter Ronson Band (1990)
Break The Silence, The Triplets (1990)
Vagabond Heart, Rod Stewart (1991)
Living in Fear, Power Station (1996)
Let’s Dance, David Bowie (1983)
Situation X, Michael Gregory (1983)
“Invitation To Dance”, Kim Carnes (1983)
Trash It Up, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes (1983)
“Original Sin”, INXS (1984)
Like a Virgin, Madonna (1984)
“The Reflex”, “The Wild Boys”, Duran Duran (1984)
Flash, Jeff Beck (1985)
She’s The Boss, Mick Jagger (1985)
Here’s to Future Days, Thompson Twins, (1985)
Do You, Sheena Easton (1985)
Home of the Brave, Laurie Anderson (1986)
“Route 66″ [Nile Rogers Mix], Depeche Mode (1987)
Cosmic Thing, The B-52’s (1989)
Slam, Dan Reed Network (1989)
Family Style, Vaughan Brothers (1990)
Move To This, Cathy Dennis (1990)
The Heat, Dan Reed Network (1991)
“Real Cool World”, David Bowie (1992)
Good Stuff, The B-52’s (1992)
Black Tie White Noise, David Bowie (1993)
Your Filthy Little Mouth, David Lee Roth (1994)
Azabache, Marta Sánchez (1997)
Us, Taja Sevelle (1997)
Little Wonder, David Bowie (1997)
Samantha Cole, Samantha Cole (1997)
On And On, All-4-One (1998)
The thought process that allows an act like THIS to go un rewarded can ONLY be identified by TWO TERMS and TWO TERMS only: STUPIDITY and RACISM. Leonard Cohen’s influence may indeed be deep, but who did HE ever produce? Did Leonard Cohen rescue a record company from financial straits? There can be no thought process of any consequence if anyone who VOTES at the RRHOF ever paid attention to what is-on the face of it-the accomplishments within the ROCK world of an act like CHIC.
An act like CHIC was responsible for influencing musical SUBSTANCE.
Madonna’s lasting accomplishments were of STYLE over substance.
EXAMPLE: “The Material Girl”…And who produced THAT track……..?
Written by Peter Brown and Robert Rans
Produced by Nile Rodgers
Bass by Bernard Edwards
Guitar, Synclavier II, Juno 60 by Nile Rodgers
Drums by Tony Thompson
Background vocals by Madonna, Curtis King, Frank Simms and George Simms
Even the girl who needed the “Material” knew where to get it.
If only the committee of the Rock and Roll Foundation were as wise….]
–Donald Cleveland
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