Apr 14, 2017
Never Let Go by EastBound Express a garage rocker if ever there was one don't know much about the band but this record goes it's a post disco dance floor killer #Veryrare #Obscure #LarryLevanwasGod (at Lower East Side)
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Never Let Go by EastBound Express a garage rocker if ever there was one don't know much about the band but this record goes it's a post disco dance floor killer #Veryrare #Obscure #LarryLevanwasGod (at Lower East Side)
Colonel Abrahams Not Gonna LetYou Go: Abrahms had his first hit with in 1984 with the classic Music Is The Answer a massive NYC record@on Arthur Bakers Streetwise records. He then had possibly his biggest hit Trapped a dance classic straddling the fence between Freestyle and more traditional dance music. Trapped and this classic were bith on MCA where he was signed after Streetwise. Both those records were big international hits. Cat was a great singer reminiscent of both D Train and Luther at times. This song and Trapped were also number 1 dance records.Unfortunately he later on in life suffered through some hard times eventually passing in 2016. I love his music it was always celebratory, he was a large part of what we called club music growing up, it ore dated house and wasn’t freestyle some would call it boogie for me and my friends it was the music we danced to that wasn’t hip hop. Larry Levan used to kill this record its a certified Paradise Garage classic jam love this song and that moment in time in NYC it was golden! #LarryLevanWasGod #SuperDiscoBreakin’ (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtgyLZPBLCD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=b0c1ti2tcp2t
Lenny Williams Choosing You: This 1977 uptempo disco classic was one of the many great songs in Lenny Williams catalog. Most famous for his time spent in Tower Of Power he sang there classic ballad So Very Far To Go a vato classic.He also was the singer on the TOP classic What Is Hip and Soul Vaccination. His You Got me Running is a roller boogie classic and of course his Kanye sampled Cause I Love You. He is a under rated vocalist and performer he made a lot of great tunes in his career. This tune and You Got Me Running were Paradise Garage Larry Levan NYC dance floor classics. Always love his Tower Of Power records and his solo hes a legend in my book and this song goes. #LarryLevanwasGod #SuperDiscoBreakin’ (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtZVT25hNvh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=b8ipsabfbnpw
Melba Moore You Stepped Into My Life: This 1978 disco classic was a Paradise Garage dance floor killer. Produced and arranged by the disco soul gods McFadden and Whitehead (Aint No Stopping us Now) this one cooks! The NY native Melba Moore started making records in the late 60s. She was also a noted stage and screen actress. She was in original cast of Hair as well as winning a Tony aware in 1970 for the play Purlie. She had hit with songs like This Is it written by Van McCoy (The Hustle). This song is a cover originally written and recorded by The Bee Gees. Other hits for Melba include Loves Comin at you Love Me Right and Read My Lips. She was always big in the UK perhaps bigger in Europe than the US. Her duet with Freddie Jackson A Little Bit More is a classic r n b jam. She later returned to the theatre where she performed her 1 woman show on broadway In Still Standing to sold out audiences for a few years. I saw it, it was great! I also loved her in the classic Cotton Goes Th Harlem, shes a NY institution and a great singer. This song is her biggest club jam and used to go off at all the New York dance clubs back in the day. This was a Larry Levan sure shot! Best thing is I copped a dope vintage polo rugby on line from this seller PatinaAnita and they threw this with the shirt, how they knew I was looking for this is anyones guess thanks! #EbayBlessing #ParadiseGarageClassic #SaluteMelbaMoore #LarryLevanWasGod #SuperDiscoBreakin’ (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrI4H6fBjiH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1s8jl20a6443o
Patti Austin Honey From The Bees: This Paradise Garage classic produced by non other than the legendary Tommy Lipuma who I worked with at Elektra records as a youngster was a NYC classic. His post disco dance jam almost sounds like a freestyle record to me. Written by Allison Moyet this is actually a cover version which I only recently found out. Patti Austin was and is a great jazz singer most famously known for her work with Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. Her Betcha Wouldn’t Hurt Me from the classic Quincy album The Dude. Her duet with Janes Ingram Baby Come To Me is an adult contemporary classic. She had vacillates between Jazz , dance and R n B music a lot of her career but at her core she is a jazz singer. She is also one of the most recorded background singers having provided her vocals to Steely Dan, Michael Jackson and countless others she won a Grammy in 2008 for best for her Gershwin tribute album Avant Gershwin. She continues to push her vocal boundaries and performs regularly. The Harlem born vocalist is a national treasure if you ask me. If you ever get the chance to see her perform do it her jazz performances are stellar. She is one of the most under sung singers in all of black music. She personifies the word elegance! #SalutePattiAustin #NationalTreasure #LoveHer #ParadiseGarageClassic #LarryLevanWasGod #SuperDiscoBreakin’ (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrDw7orBVp3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1trea0c6yireb
Chemise She Can”t Love You: This Larry Levan Paradise Garage classic has been on my bucket kist for a minute ever since @monalisa7872 lulled it out the bag one night when we were rocking. I knew the tune it was a nyc proto freestyle classic but I had no idea she was Georgia Muldrows mother and that her pops Ronnie Muldrow wrote and produced the tune with her mother Rickie Byers aka Chemise. This record is a feel good roller boogie jam if ever there was one. Had no idea it was a west coast record. The instrumental on the b side is also an added treat love when they do that on a 45! This one goes I now have the 12 (bootleg at that) and the 45 glad Mona pulled that out and hipped me to it love this jam can’t wait to play it out! #PardaiseGarage #LarryLevanWasGod #FunHouse #The Loft #SuperDiscoBreakin’ (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpZ8sQ-BKCg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1t111a8s6mgbc
Kleeer Get Tough: from 1981s License To Dream this uptempo banger was a NYC area hit. Kleeer started out as a rock band before becoming the Patrick Adams produced Universal Robot band whos genius tine Shake Your Funky Tambourine and the equally amazing Oateick aadams produced Barley Breakin Even with Leroy Burgess in vocals. After touring as he Universal Robot Band the rechristened themselves as Kleeer. Often sampled particularly the drums on Intimate Connections Kleeer was also the back up band for a ton if disco and boogie classics. Lead by drummer and singer Woody Cunningham they were a strong component in the early 80s NYC dance music scene. Other hits include Keep The Body Working, Tonights the Night (Sampled by both Tupac and DJ Quik)and Winners. This record right here goes and was also a Paradise Garage standard as well as a roller skating classic! #SuperDiscoBreakin #NYC #LarryLevanWasGod (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo1kNEPB9zO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fzjmx8jbk2ra
Gwen Guthrie Should Have Been You: most famously known for her 1986 anthem Ain’t Nothin Going On But The Rent the 1982 classic produced and written by Surface’s David Thompson was a dance floor smash. Down the line she would emerge as one of the best dance floor divas around scoring massive dance hits with the song Padlock and 7th Heaven as well as Peanut Butter all remixed by the Legendary Larry Levan. Prior to that she had been a background singer for everyone from Aretha to Stevie Wonder. She also co wrote ben E Kings masterful top 5 1975 smash Supernatural Thing. Her work with Sky and Robbie and her popularity with The Paradise Garage dance movement had her hailed as the 1st Lady Of Paradise Garage. She was also one of the first artists to co front the AIDS epidemic with her 88 song Can”t love You Tonight. Gwen sadly passed from cancer in 1999 at the tender age of 48. She was truly one of my favorite dance music artists of all time. Come hear this and lots of rare dance soul and funk 45/ Saturday with me and @houseshoes go in at our secret weho locale. Hit me for the list! #NewarksFinest #DanceFloorQueen #LarryLevanWasGod #ParadiseGarage #SuperDiscoBreakin’ (at Los Angeles, California)