Soul
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The first and only recordings of a duo of two R&B loving blind men sees a reissue 40 years after its release on Folkways Records. Read more
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The Hues Corporation, a Las Vegas-based R&B group, first came to prominence as the band in the film Blacula, which provided the band with the break they had been seeking, and which resulted in a record deal. Though success was long in coming, when it did come, it was well-deserved. Freedom For The Stallion, Read more
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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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What, a Brooklyn-based girl group from the early 1960s soundtracking a Mafia show? What an original concept…. Read more
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Gotta love those “brand new songs added to a Greatest Hits package,” which is the case with this lovely number, which was the single from her 1996 compilation, Epiphany. Read more
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A stone-cold soul/pop classic ballad. Dig it for all its amazing properties: the singing, the choir, the orchestration, the lyrics. (Pardon the lyrical video; the only other versions I found of this were rather terrible 1970s/1980s rerecords) Read more
The Recoup 