Current is the fifth album by funk-disco band Heatwave, released in 1982 on the Epic label. The album was remastered and reissued with bonus tracks in 2010 by Big Break Records. Tracks 1 Lettin’ It Loose (Rod Temperton) 4:17 2 State To State (Rod Temperton) 4:53 3 Look After Love (Rod Temperton) 5:32 4 Naturally […]
Give Me The Night is a 1980 album recorded and released by American jazz guitarist and singer George Benson. Released in the summer of 1980, Give Me The Night was produced by Quincy Jones and released on Jones’s start-up label Qwest Records, in conjunction with Warner Bros. Records. It charted at number one on both […]
Significant Gains is the first solo album by Greg Phillinganes, released in 1981. While the album itself was not very successful, the song “Baby, I Do Love You” was a minor R&B hit. Gregory Arthur “Greg” Phillinganes (born May 12, 1956) is an American keyboardist, singer, songwriter, and musical director based in Los Angeles, California. […]
Magic Windows is the thirty-second album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, released on September 29, 1981 on Columbia. Personnel involved in this album, besides Herbie himself, include among others: Wah-Wah Watson, Ray Parker Jr., Sylvester, Paulinho da Costa, Adrian Belew. (see below for more) Amongst the other synthesizers employed on this album, an Alpha Syntauri […]
Headed for the Future is the seventeenth studio album released by Neil Diamond in 1986. The album went to number 20 on the Billboard 200 and also heralded a return to the pop charts, when the uptempo, keyboard-heavy title track, “Headed for the Future” reached #53 (also cracking the top 10 on the Adult Contemporary […]
The Official Music Of The 1984 Games is an album for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984. It features music from John Williams, Bill Conti, Loverboy, Toto, Christopher Cross, Foreigner and more. Tracks 1 Leo Arnaud & Felix Slatkin – Bugler’s Dream (From Charge Suite) (Leo Arnaud) 00:55 2 Loverboy – […]
Lite Me Up! is the thirty-third album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, in 1982. It would be the last of his disco/pop albums. Because the huge amount of instruments Herbie played on this record, the list will be posted here: Electric Piano (Fender Rhodes), Clavinet (Clavitar), Synthesizer (Yamaha-cs 80, The Source By Moog, Mini Moog, Prophet […]
The Dude is a 1981 studio album by American musician and producer Quincy Jones. The album featured the debut of vocalist James Ingram on the singles “Just Once” and “One Hundred Ways,” which reached no. 17 and 14, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100. It also contained “Razzamatazz”, which reached no. 11 in the UK […]