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New Jack Swing Gold Rarities10/14/2021
Primary Artists Al Green, Basic Black, Bell Biv DeVoe & 20 more. About New Jack Swing Gold New Jack Swing Gold Q&A. Some songs simply had hip-hop beats, others had rapped sections and sung choruses, but the overall result was an edgier, more street-oriented sound that seamlessly blended both. New Jack Swing evolved in the late 80s, when urban contemporary soul artists began incorporating hip-hop rhythms, samples, and production techniques into their sound.Shalamar’s Gold features 41 shimmering classics (including all 24 of the group’s U.S. The series, which has released titles from artists ranging from T Rex to Brotherhood of Man, may be budget-priced, but the content certainly isn’t on the cheap. Now, the group’s towering accomplishments have been chronicled on a new entry in Demon Music Group/Crimson Productions’ Gold anthology series. Billboard R&B chart and more than 10 on the Pop survey across the pond, the group scored 19 hits on the U.K. One of the leading lights of impresario Dick Griffey’s SOLAR (Sounds Of Los Angeles Records), Shalamar placed over 20 twenty entries on the U.S.Don Cornelius of Soul Train Records plucked Jeffrey Daniel and Jody Watley from the ranks of the famous Soul Train dancers. When the medley became a top 5 hit, a real group was needed to be the “face” of the song. Producer Simon Soussan for the nine-minute “Uptown Festival,” a medley of popular Motown tunes aimed at the disco market. The style originated from 's third studio album, from 1986.Shalamar began life as a studio group created by U.K. The Beatles Rarities.New jack swing or swingbeat is a spearheaded by and that was popular from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s. (Nothing from that album charted.) 1979’s Big Fun , introducing the Watley/Daniel/Hewett group, is represented with five tracks including the.Blending a traditional vocal group style with a dance-oriented vibe, Disco Gardens‘ “Take That to the Bank” peaked at No. Disco Gardens, produced by Dick Griffey and Leon Sylvers, introduced the “real” Shalamar. Mumford, uncomfortable with the spotlight, resigned and was replaced by Gerald Brown.
Produced and co-written by Leon Sylvers, “The Second Time Around” shot to the Pop top 10 as well as No. (Nothing from that album charted.) 1979’s Big Fun, introducing the Watley/Daniel/Hewett group, is represented with five tracks including the song which became Shalamar’s biggest hit. Despite personal tensions, Watley, Daniel, and Hewett “clicked” musically, and the classic Shalamar line-up was born.The non-chronologically sequenced Gold includes selections from all of the group’s SOLAR albums through 1987’s Circumstantial Evidence, eschewing the 1990 new jack swing-inspired effort Wake Up. Gerald Brown, having balked at Griffey’s business practices, was replaced with Howard Hewett. (“Stay Close to Love” and “Leave It All to Love” have also been reprised from the LP.) But there was a major change yet to come. This iteration placed a couple of songs on 1984’s Heartbreak in very successful films both “Dancing in the Sheets” (heard in Footloose) and the Grammy-winning “Don’t Get Stopped in Beverly Hills” (from Beverly Hills Cop) are included on Gold. Watley and Daniel left following the release of The Look, to be replaced by Delisa Davis and Micki Free. The latter turned out to be the final album from Watley, Daniel, and Hewett. Including Three for Love (1980, containing the smash “Make Your Move”) Friends (1982, boasting “A Night to Remember”), and The Look (1983, featuring “Dead Giveaway,” with The Time’s Jesse Johnson on guitar). In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. As the song goes, take that to the bank!Shalamar’s Gold is available now from Crimson/Demon at the following links:3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon CanadaJOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. This release (also available in a highlights version on – what else? – gold 180-gram vinyl) is, quite simply, the ultimate dancefloor celebration from one of R&B’s most beloved trios. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray.Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders.Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company.
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