Classic R+B, Soul, Hip-Hop, etc

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Performing LIVE!

[PaulBullion]

After working with the Funk Masters and Working Week, this lady hit it big in the UK with this song:

[Vegan Daddy]

[CellarDweller]

I love this song now as much as I did when I first heard it.

[Surf]

Near as I can figure, 'Fortunate' is the only song Kelly ever wrote for Maxwell. And that was on the Life soundtrack. His studio albums remain untainted.

whew, let me tell you. That would have been an uncomfortable position for me.

Hankerson's and Knight's marriage fell apart after he had produced a huge flop of a movie with Gladys' own money (Pipe Dreams), which basically bankrupted her right after her most successful recording period in the 70s. Their son seems to be taking after daddy, as Shanga Hankerson made headlines not so long ago for evading taxes as manager of the "Gladys Knight Chicken and Waffle" restaurant. In court, he smeared his own mom as having Alzheimer's disease and not knowing what she was doing...

OK I remember Gladys had a falling out with one of her boys regarding that restaurant, that wasn't that long ago. Damn that's foul. I consider Gladys Knight a national treasure and find it hard to believe how someone can take from her and worse have her offspring do the same. I wondered if she owns any of her masters?

Speaking of great voices, the great Sharon Bryant. 1st female lead singer of Atlantic Starr, this woman's voice always takes me back in time to the early 1980s when I was a kid. I feel they've been back to Indiana Black Expo, it's kind of like a rotation of acts over about a dozen of them. I don't know which of the women, her, Barbara or the last couple would even still go out with them.

[Surf]

Some Funk Friday on a Tuesday.

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What? Yeah it's me posting yet another version of "It's Not Unusual"...so? This is Marvin Gaye!

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Florence did a solo version that really good as well. It's probably better than this one.

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It's weird only because Al is singing his own song as a tribute to someone else ( Tina)

[From The Shadows]

I don't know if Janet fits here. She's been a lot of everything but I think this particular song fits.

[Mormel]

I don't know if Janet fits here. She's been a lot of everything but I think this particular song fits.

She definitely does! Maybe much of her discography leans heavily toward pop, but she's always kept ties with contemporary R&B. Control pioneered New Jack Swing, after all!

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