I’ve Got the Cure is the eighth studio album by the American singer Stephanie Mills. The album was released in 1984 and was Mills’ last release on Casablanca Records. It contains the track “The Medicine Song”, which reached number one on the Billboard Dance Chart. In 2013, the UK’s Cherry Red Records reissued I’ve Got […]
My Music Is Hot was the first solo album by Lalomie Washburn, released in 1977. Lalomie (Lomie) Washburn (25 August 1941 – 18 December 2004) was a R&B singer and song writer. She was born on August 25, 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee and went on to sing backup with such legends as Ray Charles, Ike […]
“Making Love” is a 1982 song written by Burt Bacharach, Bruce Roberts, and Carole Bayer Sager, and recorded by Roberta Flack. It served as the theme song to the film of the same name. It also appeared on Flack’s album I’m the One. “Making Love” peaked at #13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and […]
I’m the One is an album by Roberta Flack released in May 1982 which reached #59 on the album chart in Billboard whose R&B album chart afforded the album a #16 peak. The Burt Bacharach/Carole Bayer Sager-produced “Making Love”, which appeared in the film of the same name and in the spring of 1982 had […]
Garden Party is a song by the band Mezzoforte (from Iceland), covered by Herb Alpert and released on his album Blow Your Own Horn in 1983 Musicians Bass Nathan East Drums Carlos Vega Guitar Paul Jackson Jr Keyboards Neil Larsen Moog Bill Cuomo Sax Ernie Watts Trombone Randy Aldcroft Percussion Lenny Castro Percussion Paulinho Da […]
Pressin’ On is the fifteenth studio album by Billy Preston, released in 1982. It was his final album released on Motown Records, although he would briefly return to the label in 1986 to record one single (“Since I Held You Close”). The song “I’m Never Gonna Say Goodbye” was used for the Ed Asner/Jodie Foster […]
Touch The Feeling is an album by Stix Hooper, released in 1982 Nesbert “Stix” Hooper (born August 15, 1938, Houston, Texas, United States) is an American drummer, best known as a founding member of the seminal jazz band, The Crusaders. He and Hubert Laws, who left the group to attend Juilliard in 1960, are the […]
Yours Forever is the fifth studio album by American band Atlantic Starr. This album features the hit single “Touch a Four Leaf Clover.” Yours Forever was the last album to feature Sharon Bryant as a lead vocalist before she departed the group to pursue a solo career. This was also the last album to be […]
“All Night Long (All Night)” is a hit single by American singer-songwriter Lionel Richie from 1983. Taken from his second solo album, Can’t Slow Down, it combined Richie’s soulful Commodores style with Caribbean influences. This new, more dance music, pop-inspired approach proved popular, as the single reached number one on three Billboard charts (pop, R&B […]
“Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever” is a 1966 song by the Four Tops, on the Motown label. It was written by Ivy Jo Hunter and Stevie Wonder and peaked at #12 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs singles charts and #45 on the Billboard Top 100 singles charts. Nick Kamen released his version in 1987, […]