Twennynine with Lenny White

Twennynine with Lenny White

Just Like Dreamin' (1981) 2007

Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers

Bustin' Loose 1979 (1992)

Solomon Burke

Cool Breeze [Soundtrack] (1972)

01. Cool Breeze
02. PSR 1983
03. The Bus
04. Love Affair
05. Icbyatht W.T.?
06. Get Up And DoSomething For Your Self
07. Love's Street And Fool's Road
08. It Must Be Love
09. Fight Back
10. Then I Want To Come Home(Instrumental)
11. Then I Want To Come Home(Vocal)
12. We're Almost Home

Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway

Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (1972)

Billy Preston

Encouraging Words 1970 (2010)

01 Right Now
02 Little Girl
03 Use What You've Got
04 My Sweet Lord
05 Let The Music Play
06 The Same Thing Again
07 I've Got A Feeling
08 Sing One For The Lord
09 When You Are Mine
10 I Don't Want You To Pretend
11 Encouraging Words
12 All Things (Must) Pass
13 You've Been Acting Strange

Bonus Tracks
14 As Long As I Got My Baby
15 All That I Got (I'm Gonna Give It To You)
16 How Long Has The Train Been Gone

Billy Preston

The Best of Billy Preston (1988)

1. Outa-Space
2. Will It Go Round in Circles
3. That's the Way God Planned It [Live]
4. Struttin'
5. You Are So Beautiful
6. Nothing from Nothing
7. Get Back
8. I'm Really Gonna Miss You
9. Space Race
10. I Wrote a Simple Song

Bobby Womack & J.J. Johnson

Across 110th Street 1972 (2001)

A1 Across 110th Street 3:45
A2 Harlem Clavinette (Instrumental) 2:12
A3 If You Don't Want My Love 2:27
A4 Hang On In There (Instrumental) 2:45
A5 Quicksand 1:37
A6 Harlem Love Theme (Instrumental) 3:07
B1 Across 110th Street (Instrumental) 2:26
B2 Do It Right 2:59
B3 Hang On In There 2:23
B4 If You Don't Want My Love (Instrumental) 3:03
B5 Across 110th Street - Part II 2:52

Sharon Redd

Redd Hott (1982)

1.Never Give You Up 7:00
2.You're The One 6:20
3.Send Your Love 6:57
4.Beat The Street 5:40
5.In The Name Of Love 6:30
6.Takin' A Chance On Love 5:02
7.We're Friends Again 4:43

Kleeer

License To Dream 1981 (2006)

1 De Kleeer Ting 4:41
2 Running Back To You 7:22
3 Sippin' & Kissin' 4:15
4 Hypnotized 3:40
5 License To Dream 4:45
6 Get Tough 8:17
7 Say You Love Me 4:41
8 Where Would I Be (Without Your Love) 4:22

Betty Davis

Betty Davis 1973 (2007)

01. If I'm in Luck I Might Get Picked Up [Davis] (5:00)
02. Walkin Up the Road [Davis] (4:31)
03. Anti Love Song [Davis] (3:08)
04. Your Man My Man [Davis] (5:12)
05. Ooh Yeah [Davis] (2:55)
06. Steppin in Her I. Miller Shoes [Davis] (3:39)
07. Game Is My Middle Name [Davis] (3:14)
08. In the Meantime [Davis] (2:43)
09. Come Take Me [Davis] (3:56)
10. You Won't See Me in the Morning [Davis] (3:49)
11. I Will Take That Ride [Davis] (4:43)

Ju-Par Universal Orchestra

Moods And Grooves (1976)

Labi Siffre

Labi Siffre

Labi Siffre (1970) [Remastered 2006]

01] Too Late
02] Words
03] Something On My Mind
04] Maybe Tomorrow
05] You And I Should Be Together
06] I Don't Know What's Happened To The Kids Today
07] I Love You
08] Make My Day
09] A Little More Line
10] Maybe
11] River
12] Love Song For Someone
13] Why Did You Go, Why Did You Leave Me? (Bonus Track)
14] I Just Couldn't Live Without Her (Bonus Track)
15] Last Night Tonight (Bonus Track)
16] Maybe When We Dance (Bonus Track)
17] Ask Me To Stay (Bonus Track)
18] Here We Are (Bonus Track)

The Singer And The Song (1971) [Remastered 2006]
01] There's Nothing In The World Like Love
02] You're Lovely
03] A Number Of Words
04] Who Do You See
05] Not So Long Ago
06] A Shadow Of Our Love
07] When I'm On My Own You Are On My Mind
08] Rocking Chair
09] Interlude
10] Thank Your Lucky Star
11] Talk About
12] Relax
13] Bless The Telephone
14] Summer Is Coming
15] Goodbye
16] Get To The Country (Bonus Track)
17] Till Nightime Comes Along (Bonus Track)
18] Fallin' For You (Bonus Track)
19] Oh What A Day (Bonus Track)
20] Just A Face (Bonus Track)
21] Seasons Come, Seasons Go (Bonus Track)

Crying Laughing Loving Lying (1972) [Remastered 2006]
01] Saved
02] Cannock Chase
03] Fool Me A Goodnight
04] It Must Be Love
05] Gimme Some More
06] Blue Lady
07] Love Oh Love Oh Love
08] Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying
09] Hotel Room Song
10] My Song
11] Till Forever
12] Come On Michael
13] You Make It Easy (Bonus)
14] Good Old Days (Bonus)
15] Pristine Verses (Bonus)
16] You'll Let Me Know (Bonus)
17] Oh Me Oh My Mr City Goodbye (Bonus)
18] For The Lovin' (Bonus)

For The Children (1973) [Remastered 2006]
01] Somesay
02] Children Of Children
03] Entertainment Value
04] Odds And Ends
05] Prayer
06] Let's Pretend
07] Someday
08] If You Have Faith
09] For The Children
10] Give Love
11] So What! (Bonus Track)

Remember My Song (1975) [Remastered 2006]

01] I Got The
02] Another Year
03] Down
04] Old Time Song
05] The Vulture
06] Dreamer
07] Sadie And The Devil
08] Turn On Your Love
09] Remember My Song
10] You've Got A Hold On Me (Bonus Track)
11] Hot And Dirty In The City (Bonus Track)
12] Solid Love (Bonus Track)

So Strong (1988) [Reissue 1999]

01 Listen To The Voices
02 Nothin's Gonna Change (Remix – Kevin W. Smith)
03 I Will Always Love You
04 All I Wanna Do
05 And The Wind Blows
06 (Something Inside) So Strong (Remix – Kevin W. Smith)
07 Lovers
08 Hard Road
09 I'm Alright
10 When You're Lonely

Man Of Reason (1991)
01 - City of Dreams
02 - Most People Sleep Alone
03 - A Matter of Love
04 - Lovers in Arms
05 - All Fall Down
06 - Reason
07 - When Lights Are On
08 - Sensible Betrayal in the City
09 - Wash Away Your Troubles in Love
10 - Schooldays

The Last Songs (1998) [Remastered 2006]

01] Everything
02] Samaritans
03] Face To Face (A Paper Regret)
04] This Is It
05] Lose Myself In You
06] Cling To The Ledge
07] The Life I Got
08] The Dead Don't Matter
09] A Kiss In The Mirror
10] Sparrow In The Storm
11] Little Boy Baby Blue
12] Rainbow Moon
13] Why Isn't Love Enough
14] The Song To Sing

Stanley Clarke and George Duke

The Clarke / Duke Project 2 (1983)

The Clarke / Duke Project 3 (1990)

VA - Tramp

45rpm Single Collection Vol 1 (2014)

01. Soul Brothers Inc. - Pyramid (02:22)
02. Soul Brothers Inc. - Girl in the Hot Pants (02:31)
03. Jody Parsley - This Is Me (02:09)
04. Jody Parsley - I Don't Know (02:25)
05. Lee Fields - Funky Screw (03:32)
06. Lee Fields - The Bull Is Coming (03:29)
07. Aalon Butler & The New Breed Band - Gettin' Soul, Pt. 1 (02:46)
08. Aalon Butler & The New Breed Band - It's Got to Be Something (02:03)
09. Duffy Jackson Orchestra - I Feel Good (03:06)
10. Duffy Jackson Orchestra - Tamahawk (03:00)
11. Marvelle & the Blue Mats - Mellow Man (02:43)
12. Jimmy 'preacher' Ellis - Kiddio (02:38)
13. Jimmy 'preacher' Ellis - Baby I Love You (02:25)
14. Lil' Buck & The Top Cats - Cat's Back (02:43)
15. Lil' Buck - Don't Make Me Cry (feat. The Top Cats) (02:53)
16. Tornadoes - Won't You Forgive (02:22)
17. Allen Matthews - Allen's Party (02:38)
18. Allen Matthews - Good Loving Care (02:34)
19. Little Gregory & The Concepts - Look, And You'll See (02:46)
20. Little Gregory & The Concepts - Get Away!! (03:23)

45rpm Single Collection Vol 2 (2014)

01. Soul Explosion - Barn Yard Pimp (03:26)
02. Soul Explosion - Love Is the Answer (02:56)
03. Lonnie Lester - So This Is Love (02:52)
04. Lonnie Lester - Ain't That a Shame (02:40)
05. Wayne Carter - Mad Mouth Woman (02:48)
06. Wayne Carter - Wahoo, Wahoo, Wahoo (02:55)
07. Len & the P.A.'s - Soul Block (02:39)
08. Len & the P.A.'s - Believe Me (04:23)
09. Rudy Lambert - Love (01:42)
10. Rudy Lambert - Let's Stick Together (02:19)
11. Filet of Soul - Do Your Own Thing (02:53)
12. Filet of Soul - Sweet Lovin' (02:41)
13. Marie Adams - That's the Way to Get Along (02:17)
14. Marie Adams - You Don't Know (02:17)
15. Bobby Allen & Exceptions - Soul Chicken (02:47)
16. Bobby Allen & Exceptions - Lonely Christmas Tears (03:17)
17. Roy Porter Sound Machine - Party Time (03:47)
18. Roy Porter Sound Machine - Out on the Town Tonight (03:25)
19. Bob French's Storyville Jazz Band - Y'er Comes the Funky Man (02:34)
20. Bob French's Storyville Jazz Band - St. James Infirmary (03:24)

Waltel Branco

Meu Balanco (1975)
Genre: Jazz, Latin, Funk

City Limits

Circles (1975)

White Heat

White Heat (1975)

VA - Ghana

Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-81 (2009)

CD1
01 Mercury Dance Band - Kai Wawa (3:01)
02 T. O. Jazz Owou - Adaadaa Me (2:52)
03 Christy Azuma & Uppers International - Din Ya Sugri (7:03)
04 The Barbecues - Aaya Lolo (3:48)
05 Ohiani Sua Efir - Asaase Ase (4:02)
06 St Peter & The Holymen - Bofoo Beye Abowa Den (3:15)
07 City Boys Band - Nya Asem Hwe (4:51)
08 Hedzolleh Soundz - Edina Benya (3:17)
09 The Cutlass Dance Band - Hwehwe Mu Yi Wo Mpena (3:18)
10 Dr. K Gyasi & His Noble Kings - Sei Nazo (3:02)
11 Kyeremateng Atwede & His Kyermateng Stars - I Go Die For You (5:23)
12 Vis A Vis - Obi Agye Me Dofo (9:51)
13 Ebo Taylor - Twer Nymae (5:22)
14 The Big Beats - Mi Nsumoo Bo Donn (3:39)
15 Pa Steele's African Brothers - Odo Mmera (3:01)
16 The Ogyatanaa Show Band - You Monopolise Me (3:14)

CD2
01 The African Brothers International Band - Wompe Masem (4:19)
02 Gyedu-Blay Ambolley & His Creations - Akoko Ba (5:26)
03 The Sweet Talks - Akampanye (4:27)
04 Houghas Sorowonko - Enuanom Adofo (3:10)
05 Oscar Sulley's Nzele Soundz - Bukom (3:28)
06 Bokoor Band - You Can Go (3:22)
07 K. Frimpong & His Cubanos Fiestas - Kyenkyen Bi Adi M'Awu (6:57)
08 Basa Basa Soundz feat. Fela Anikulapo Kuti - Dr Solutsu (3:22)
09 Pagadeja - Tamale (3:11)
10 Hedzoleh Soundz - Omusus Da Fe M'Musu (4:58)
11 The Uhuru Dance Band - Yahyia Mu (4:11)
12 Dr. K. Gyasi & His Noble Kings - Noble Kings (Yako Aba) (5:46)
13 The Wellis Band - Bindiga (3:25)
14 Boombaya - Boombaya (3:39)
15 Sawaaba Soundz - Owuo (4:20)
16 The Cutlass Dance Band - Them Go Talk Of You (3:30)
17 Honny & The Bees Band - Sis Mbon (6:48)

VA - Rare

Funk 1-8 (1993-96)

Heartbeats: Expanded Edition - Yarbrough & Peoples

Cavin Yarbrough and Alisa Peoples were childhood friends from Dallas, Texas who went on to have great chart success as an R&B duo through the 1980's. While on tour as a backing vocalist with Leon Russell in the late 1970's Cavin met the Wilson Brothers from The Gap Band, who in turn introduced Cavin to their collaborator Lonnie Simmons and his Total Experience Recording Studios who produced the duos debut album and later signed them to his Total Experience label, joining The Gap Band on the roster.

•    Yarbrough & Peoples second album, HEARTBEATS was released through Total Experience Records in 1983, due to producer Simmons securing a distribution deal with Polygram for his label during the previous year. Commercially Heartbeats perhaps suffered from "second album syndrome” because of the great success of debut LP "The Two Of Us” (CDBBRX0195) and the three year gap between releases. Peaking at #25 R&B the album, which also provided 2 R&B hit singles, picked up from where the debut had left off with Simmons trademark slick, mid-tempo production style.

•    The first single released was the title track and album opener ‘Heartbeats.’ Charting at #10 R&B and #101 Pop ‘Heartbeats’ is an intense slice of electronic soul with a pulsing synth bass line and unwavering beat allied to progressive synth lines, vocoder vocal effects and the rhythmic phrasing of Cavin and Alisa's passionate vocals. Second single ‘Feels So Good’ peaked at #20 R&B in the spring of 1983 and is closely related to their debut hit ‘Don't Stop The Music’ with its solid mid tempo expansive groove, dynamic synth work and the response "when the music feels so good I don't wanna' stop.”

•    Other stand out tracks on this superb  album are the playful soul groove ‘You Love Me, You Love Me Not,’ the feel good dancer ‘Party Night’ and the more traditional, piano led R&B balled ‘What About Me’ which closes the record.

•    BBR is very proud to present HEARTBEATS, expertly remastered and complete with extensive liner notes and bonus tracks. HEARTBEATS completes BBR's re-master series of all four of Yarbrough & peoples studio albums and is absolutely essential listening for all R&B, Soul, Funk and Disco fans. 

Guilty- Expanded Edition - Yarbrough & Peoples

YARBROUGH & PEOPLES first set airwaves alight when their futuristic hit, Don’t Stop The Music shot to #1 on the R&B charts. Following the success of their first single they recorded numerous hit singles on Total Experience Records throughout the 80’s.
YARBROUGH & PEOPLES consisted of childhood friends Cavin Yarbrough and Alisa Peoples. Cavin Yarbrough started as a singer and keyboardist for a group called Grand Theft and one night at a gig, the Wilson brothers, founders of The GAP Band, were in the audience and offered Cavin a job as a background singer on the Leon Russell tour they were a part of. Soon after returning to Dallas, Alisa Peoples sang with Grand Theft and once again at a gig in Dallas, The Gap Band, now signed to Total Experience Records, introduced them to label owner and producer, Lonnie Simmons. The Result of this introduction? Four hit albums and numerous hit singles until the labels demise in the late 80s.

Billy Paul - Lately / CD Expanded

Billy Paul - Lately **

01. Fire in Her Love 4:25
02. Sexual Therapy 4:34
03. Lately 4:04
04. I Search No More 3:42
05. I Only Have Eyes for You 4:22
06. Hot Date 4:17
07. Get Down to Lovin' 4:30
08. Let Me in 3:51
09. Me and You 4:23
10. On a Clear Day 4:28
Bonus Track
11. Lately (Single Version) 3:41

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Pleasure - Give It Up (PTG CD)

Pleasure - Give It Up

Jazz-Funk band Pleasure are Bruce Carter on drums, Sherman Davis and Randy Hall on vocals, Donald and Michael Hepburn on keyboards, Douglas Lewis on guitar and Nathaniel Phillips on bass. Guests are Pat Gleeson and Kashif on synthesizers, Pete Escovedo Jr. and Jimmy Maelen on percussion, plus background vocals. The album was first released in 1982 on RCA Records and produced by Robert Wright and Pleasure.

Never released on CD before. Digitally remastered from original mastertapes

TAVARES NEW ISSUES

Tavares - Love Storm

The Tavares brothers' debut album, Check It Out, established them as soul stars, and when they delivered their fourth album, Sky High!, in 1976, they became disco stars as well -- at least for a few years. The man Tavares has to thank for its popularity in the disco world from 1976-1978 is Freddie Perren, who made sure that Sky High! had both soul appeal and disco appeal. Perren did the same thing when he produced Tavares' fifth album, Love Storm released in 1977 on the Capitol label.

Perren brings a fair amount of disco gloss to the major hit "Whodunit" with its lyrics pleading to several 1970’s TV detectives (Baretta/Kojak …) and the Latin-tinged "Watchin' the Woman's Movement", but the album also has plenty of unapologetic soul crooning. Listen to the ballads "Keep in Touch", "Out of the Picture" and "Fool of the Year", or a heartfelt cover of Jesse Belvin's 1956 doo wop hit "Goodnight My Love". Also memorable is Tavares' cover of the Jim Weatherly song "The Going ups and the Coming Downs" which Gladys Knight & the Pips had recorded in 1974. The album is in the style Perren had used on 1976's Sky High!, with a mixture of R&B material and radio-friendly disco-oriented tracks.

Lead single "Whodunit" became the group's third R&B chart-topper, also reaching #22 on the pop chart and #5 in the United Kingdom. "One Step Away" also made the UK top 20, but "I Wanna See You Soon", featuring Capitol label-mate Freda Payne, stalled just outside the Top 50, breaking a run of five consecutive top 25 singles for the group in Britain. The album peaked at #15 on the Billboard R&B chart and #59 on the pop chart. Love Storm wasn’t Tavares’ most successful album, but it's a decent, satisfying effort that the group's hardcore fans will enjoy and certainly worthwhile for PTG to re-issue.

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Tavares - Future Bound

Released in 1978, Future Bound was the third album that Freddie Perren produced for Tavares and was the group's sixth album overall. Once again, Perren sees to it that Tavares provides a healthy blend of up-tempo dance numbers and romantic soul ballads like "Feel So Good" and "All I See Is You", Northern soul ballads that would have fit right in on a Stylistics, Delfonics, or Moments album. But those who savored "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel" shouldn't have a problem getting into exuberant disco-soul items like "Slow Train to Paradise," "The Ghost of Love," and Tavares' hit version of the Bee Gees' "More Than a Woman" which was available on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack several months before Future Bound came out.

The group was asked to participate in the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, a movie about the Brooklyn disco/dance scene starring John Travolta. The score was being composed and supervised by The Bee Gees. When it was released in 1978, the movie was a huge success with Travolta winning an Oscar for Best Actor, but the soundtrack took on a life of its own! In its initial run, the double album sold eight million copies and has since been certified by the RIAA as fifteen times Platinum. Tavares and Freddi Perren were honored with Grammy Awards when the soundtrack won the 1978 Album of the Year award. Other hit singles on the album were The Ghost of love, Timber and Slow Train To Paradise. The album itself reached nearly the Top 100 album charts.