R&B
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You just gotta love a guy who buys back his album and then walks across the street to a competing record label, and when it is released, the once-rejected record is a massive success. That’s the case of Jimmy Castor, who signed to Columbia, and when he turned in his debut album, It’s Just Begun, Read more
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Gerald Alston, lead singer for popular soul group The Manhattans, decided to step out on his own in the late 1980s, and had moderate success. His self-titled album was a top-twenty charting album, and debut single “Take Me Where You Want To” went to #3 in the Hot R&B charts. Though he’d later Read more
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I just felt like hearing a little Peabo Bryson. Taken from his 1976 debut album Peabo, this is a fine little soul ballad. Read more
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The four members New York’s Kleeer had spent the 1970s working in the funk and disco scene before finally coming together in 1978, signing to Atlantic, where they would release seven albums of funk/dance groove. Winners, their sophomore album, is an album resting firmly at the crossroads of black music: disco was on its way Read more
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