Neo Featuring Drizabone - Your Smile - Now released!

Just released on DSG Music through, i Tunes, Amazon, Beatport, Juno and other download sites. The song is currently in the top 10 of Solar Radio's  ''Sweet Rhythm's Soul Chart'' and has been played on many BBC Radio shows. The song was also a record of the week on John Leech's popular radio show. The song also entered the Amazon's best sellers chart.     

REVIEWS POSTED BELOW:

Texas-born singer Rudi Wilburn has more than a touch of classic soul singers like Barry White in his voice. But it was a trip to Europe that introduced him to Stephane d'Esposito, aka Neo, a talented producer and songwriter, with whom Rudi wrote the song “Your Smile” in 2005. The song became a hit at selective venues throughout Europe, but never got the shine it deserved until this year, when noted producer Billy Drizabone reworked the backing track to give it a new, hotter sound.
Review with thanks to Soul Tracks

Rudi learnt his craft in the juke joints of Texas and cites his influences as Barry White, Luther Vandross and Marvin Gaye and it's his wonderful sonorous voice that graces the song... no wonder it's been a popular spin on the modern soul scene for a number of years.
Review with thanks to Souljazzandfunk.com

Currently the hottest tune on the modern soul scene is 'Your Smile' by NEO. Neo of course, is French piano man Stephane d'Esposito and he penned the song with the vocalist Rudi Wilburn. The song first came out in 2005 but this year it won the attention of Gary Van den Bussche who runs the wonderful Disco Soul Gold organization which includes the boutique label DSG Records. So, Gary got his old mate Billy Freeman from Drizabone to remix 'Your Smile'. Big Bill retained the magic of the original but added those special, infectious Drizabone elements to the cocktail and the new version took the modern soul world by storm.

If you want more of 'Your Smile', the good news is that it's about to become available in two new mixes.

First up is CW's Soulful Mix. Slightly slowed down, this one will once again appeal to the sophisticated modern soul crowd. With a lush, spoken passage, the ambience is Barry White meets Lou Rawls ... and that can't be bad can it?

The second tweak – the 12 Shades Dirty Groove Mix – is a touch more experimental. Almost in soulful house territory, it features a loping bass line and some wonderful Donald Byrd style trumpet which creates an appealing, ethereal atmosphere.

Whatever mix you go for, you'll enjoy some classy, proper modern soul..

Review with thanks to Bill Buckley

 Top 10 on Indamixworldwide

Drizabone will be Live in London's Jazz Cafe 24th January 2015 with Solar Radio's Mike Gee as
musical support.

Thanks to everybody for your support ...

The CW Soulful remix, 12 shades and Soul2heaven remixes are now also released!

  

Gary Van den Bussche (DSG Music)

A tribute to Jimmy Ruffin - What becomes of a broken hearted.

To many Jimmy Ruffin is best known as the older brother of former Temptations lead singer David Ruffin , the position he turned down himself in choice of a solo career. Jimmy Ruffin had a solid career of his own scoring his biggest hit with, ''What Becomes Of A Broken Hearted'', which was first recorded by The Isley Brothers under the tile of, ''Smile'' then rewritten and offered to the Detroit Spinners whom rejected the song.

Jimmy Ruffin's version became a UK Hit twice, once in the 60's and then an even bigger hit on re-release in 1974 where it climbed to #4. Ruffin followed the American charted 1960 hit "Brokenhearted" with two more major 1967 UK / US hits, "I've Passed This Way Before" and "Gonna Give Her All the Love I Got", which were also covered by David and the Temptations. A year later Jimmy Ruffin again cracked both the US & UK charts, with the hit single, ."I'll Say Forever My Love'' reaching as high as #7 in the UK. The US hits dried up. but in the UK further hits followed, "Farewell is a Lonely Sound" & "It's Wonderful (To Be Loved By You)" . He also teamed up with brother David to record the album I Am My Brother's Keeper, a modestly successful 1970 album for Motown that included, a cover of Ben E. King's "Stand by Me" & The Hollies, ''He Ain't Heavy He's my Brother''. Versions of some of his recording were later being covered by other Motown artists, most prominently "Everybody Needs Love," a hit when released by Gladys Knight & The Pips, & "Maria (You Were The Only One)", a hit for Michael Jackson. He then left Motown, and signed with the Polydor/Chess record label where he recorded the UK top 40 US R&B/ Soul hit, "Tell Me What You Want".

He surprised the music world when he re-emerged in 1980 with an unlikely top 10 worldwide pop hit, "Hold On To My Love" on RSO Records,plus the accompanying album, Sunrise, which was writer/producer by Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees. In the 80s, Ruffin moved to live in Britain, where he continued to perform successfully, he collaborated with Paul Weller of The Style Council for his benefit single "Soul Deep" in 1984.  

When Jimmy Ruffin passed away earlier this week, it reminded us of some of his lesser known work. “The Foolish Thing To Do” was released in 1986 as the A side of Jimmy's release with Heaven 17, but tucked away on the B Side of the 7 and 12 inch only release was Jimmy's version of the Luther Vandross classic “My Sensitivity.” The act, Heaven 17, also known as B.E.F. for their production work, brought Tina Turner back to the public eye with their version of The Temptations’ “Ball of Confusion” in 1982, after which Tina signed to Capitol Records and, with B.E.F.’s production help, scored the worldwide hit with her cover of Al Green’s ''Lets Stay Together '' which served as her hit comeback single in late 1983; from that moment she never looked back. If only the same success had been brought to Jimmy Ruffin he also no doubt would have carried on recording hits and gotten the recognition he deserved. Read more here from Soultracks 

Peter Young  of Jazz FM wrote ''Foolish Thing To Do' must be one of the great undervalued gems of the whole of the 80s. Pure class.

. I was luck to have met Jimmy Ruffin in 1985 when he was on a club tour for EMI Records to promote his UK top 75 hit, "There Will Never Be Another You" which was coupled with his version of, The O'Jays ''Backstabbers (strangely Tina Turner also covered when she was on U/A records). In the 90's Jimmy Ruffin hosted a Radio show on BBC Radio two. It was reported that Jimmy was gravely ill and had been taken into an intensive care unit at a Las Vegas hospital. Jimmy Ruffin died on November 17, 2014, in Las Vegas, aged 78. He will be missed - R.I.P Jimmy Ruffin.

STATEMENT ON PASSING OF JIMMY RUFFIN by  Berry Gordy.

Jimmy Ruffin was a phenomenal singer. He was truly underrated because we were also fortunate to have his brother, David, as the lead singer of the Temptations, who got so much acclaim. Jimmy, as a solo artist, had "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted," one of the greatest songs put out by Motown and also one of my personal favorites. He was a wonderful human being, quiet and unassuming, who touched many lives with his music, not just here in the states, but overseas, as well.

Jimmy Ruffin will always be a part of the Motown legacy, and I extend my sincere condolences to his family, friends and fans.

Berry Gordy, Founder
MOTOWN

November 19, 2014

Aretha Franklin covers Adele and more on the Great Diva Classic's

The excitement of Aretha Franklin being back with Clive Davis after departing Artista Records back in 2003 with her album, ‘So Damm Happy’… The Queen of Soul went down the independent route for her next two albums, which included the 2008 released ‘This Christmas’ . So how do you put the Queen Of Soul back on her throne? 

Aretha‘s last #1 was in 1998 with the, “A Rose Is Still A Rose” set which featured Lauren Hillon the title cut. Aretha is no stranger to having hit covers, ‘I Say A Little Pray’, ‘Satisfaction’, ‘Respect’, ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, ‘Spanish Harlem’ and even recorded ‘Let It Be’ before The Beatles did themselves. So what’s up in 2014? Club/Dance music has not changed for the better, Soul music is still not as popular as it once was, due to most Radio Stations in America still programming Hip-Hop/Rap. Sam Cooke once said a change is gonna come. Well, this year has been more positive though for Soul music with the likes of John Legend, Ron Isley and Kem still having big sellers in America. With the trend for established artists to score in the national charts being either with duet albums or covers, but this kinda of branding does get into the supermarkets and can be purchased with the week’s food shopping!!! Aretha‘s first single from her new ‘Sings The Great Diva Classics’ album (with production work from Kenneth ‘Babyface’ Edmonds and Outkast‘s Andre 3000) is a well done cover of the Adele song ‘Rolling In The Deep’, and it certainly looks like it will be a huge success for the Queen Of Soul. But whenever comin’ to the rest of the album, did we really need a whole set of covers? Every or most Aretha album since her first in 1961 has always featured a cover or two & most chosen as the hit single. Meanwhile on this new album, we are brought to a new version of the now karaoke classic ‘I Will Survive’ (although a good song at the time), with Diana Ross and Gladys Knight havin’ already covered and released it years ago, so did we need another??? ‘Midnight Train To Georgia’ first a hit for Cissy Houston & another classic out of the Gladys Knight song book ‘At Last’, ‘People’ which is currently in a duet form on the latest Barbara Streisand album with Stevie Wonder, but let’s face it: it was a hit first for Streisand.

It's very sad when there are countless songs we would have loved the Queen Of Soul to cover, yet the choice here is just so run of the mill. In my opinion stick to buying the single and go back into your collection & dig out her better albums like ‘Lady Soul’, ‘Soul 69′, ‘I Never Loved A Man’, etc… We just hope the next album will be an outstanding collection of songs, now how great would that be with Stevie Wonder producing it! 

Melba Moore - Just Dance - The new single out now!

Melba Moore is a living legend. A star of the stage, screen and has recorded some timeless classics. Melba first hit the UK charts in 1976 with "This Is It" and has had many classics hits since including, "You Stepped Into My Life", "Standing Right Here", ''Falling'', "Pick Me Up, I'll Dance", "Love's Comin' At Ya" and many others.
It's with great excitement that Melba Moore  has a new single called, ''Just Dance'' which is now available through iTunes and other download sites. The single was written by Dominic McFadden, the Son of the late Gene McFadden of McFadden & Whitehead.. So there ain't no stopping us now - Just Dance! 
Melba's new single hits the top 20 UK Soul chart on Solar Radio

American Rhythm & Blues singer and actress Melba Moore (b. New York, NY, 29 October 1945) is a four-time Grammy nominee and the winner of the 1970 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, for her performance as Lutiebelle in Purlie. With a total of eleven top ten U.S. hits on the Billboard charts over the past 40 years, both singles and albums, Melba Moore continues into the 21st century as one of pop music’s most enduring artists.

Moore was born Beatrice Melba Hill to the popular R & B singer known as Bonnie Davis (originally named Gertrude Melba Smith) and saxophonist Teddy Hill, who managed the influential Harlem jazz club Minton’s Playhouse in its heyday. The first nine years of the child’s life in Harlem were difficult; her mother was single, and distracted with her busy career (she had a Number One R & B hit, “Don’t Stop Now,” in 1943, before Melba was born). In 1954 Bonnie Davis married her long-time accompanist, pianist Clement Moorman, and the family moved permanently to Newark, New Jersey.

Clem Moorman, and the large family of siblings, aunts, and uncles to which he belonged, transformed Melba’s life. He insisted that she and the other children learn to play the piano (although her primary interest was dance) and kept a watchful eye over her musical development. At the High School for Performing Arts in Newark she studied piano and voice, and went on to Montclair State College (New Jersey) for a bachelor's degree in music education.

After graduation she worked briefly as a music teacher, but a life in the classroom was not what she had envisioned for herself. Moorman was in a position to introduce her to several agents, and soon Melba Moore (a name she chose in honor of her stepfather, abbreviating it slightly) was on track for a singing career, making backup tracks (with Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson on Bobby Hebb’s “Sunny” in 1966), some of them for stars as prominent as Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin – although she was not actually working in the same space with them.

chance. Melba Moore moved to Broadway with the original cast of Hair as the character named Dionne, and after several months she replaced Diane Keaton in the role of Sheila. (Keaton had started as a “Waitress” and had moved to “Sheila” a month or so after the Broadway opening. The interchangeability of cast members in this highly unconventional show made it possible for Moore to become the first African-American actress to replace a white actress in a lead role on Broadway.)

In a very short time, Moore was cast as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins, opposite Cleavon Little, in the musical Purlie (1970). Having absolutely no training in acting, she found that working in such company was very scary, and yet she had no fear of being rejected, since stage acting had never been her own ambition. Originally she was assigned only one song, “Purlie,” in the show, but she had such success with it in previews that songwriters Gary Geld and Peter Udell gave her another, “I Got Love.” This song was such a smash hit that it shot her to stardom. Not only did it supply the title to her debut album with Mercury Records, which earned her a 1971 Grammy nomination as Best New Artist, but it boosted her to the 1970 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, a 1970 Theatre World Award, and a 1970 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance.

In much later interviews, Moore has revealed that she considers this Broadway period, despite the three top awards, a hiatus, an interruption in her pilgrimage toward becoming a lead singer in the world of Rhythm and Blues. Still, it led to her first recording contract (three albums with Mercury Records: I Got Love 1970; Look What You're Doing to the Man 1971; Melba Moore Live! 1972) and a firm foothold as a guest on television (Ed Sullivan, David Frost, Mike Douglas, Dick Cavett, Carol Burnett, Flip Wilson, and thirteen appearances within three years on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show).

In the summer of 1972, Melba Moore and actor Clifton Davis co-starred in their own television series. It was intended as a temporary replacement for Carol Burnett’s variety show, but was so successful that it would have continued, had not the couple’s off-screen relationship come to an end. Moore’s career began to slump when her managers and accountants abandoned her in 1973, and she returned to Newark, singing only for benefits.

Melba Moore's Web site

Following a performance at the Apollo Theater in 1974, she met manager and business promoter Charles Huggins, and her career began to pick up again, with a leading role in a film version of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s Lost in the Stars, opposite Brock Peters and Raymond St. Jacques. Moore and Huggins married in 1975 and formed their own company, Hush Productions, signing several other R & B artists, including Freddie Jackson and Meli’sa Morgan.

Melba Moore’s next four albums (Peach Melba 1975; This Is It 1976; Melba ’76; and A Portrait of Melba 1977) were recorded by Buddah Records. Peach Melba brought her a second Grammy nomination.
Nineteen seventy-six was a banner year for her, with five singles approaching the top of the charts, and one of them, “Lean on Me,” earning her third Grammy nomination for Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Female. As a single, “This Is It” reached Number Two on the U.S. dance charts. Moore also returned to television with a serious acting assignment, playing Harriet Tubman in The American Woman: Portraits of Courage, and emerging with an Emmy nomination.

In 1978 Moore returned to Broadway, starring as Marsinah in Timbuktu! with Eartha Kitt. The cast of Timbuktu!, “A Musical Fable based on Kismet,” was all black, with the Robert Wright/George Forrest score supplemented by African folk music, and with direction and choreography by Geoffrey Holder. Despite its success, Moore left the show after only a few weeks.

Moving to Epic Records, she had another big hit with the disco track "You Stepped into My Life," in 1979. Three albums later, she signed with Capitol EMI and reached the top five on the R & B charts in 1982 with the dance single, "Love's Comin' At Ya." This was also a considerable hit in Europe and the UK. A string of successes followed ("Keepin' My Lover Satisfied" and "Love Me Right" in 1983, "Livin' For Your Love" in 1984, "When You Love Me Like This" in 1985), climaxing with "Read My Lips" (1985), which brought Moore a fourth nomination for a Grammy, for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.

Meanwhile, Melba Moore had not entirely abandoned acting. She had another brief Broadway appearance in May 1981 in the title role of Inacent Black, a play for which she wrote incidental music and lyrics. She also guested on several TV series – The Tim Conway Show, The Love Boat, Ellis Island, Hotel, two specials (The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf and Charlotte Forten’s Mission: Experiment in Freedom) – and a TV movie version of Purlie (1981) in which she reprised her Tony-winning role of Lutiebelle.

In 1986, she scored two number-one R & B hits, "Falling," and a duet with Freddie Jackson, "A Little Bit More." The same year she headlined her own TV sitcom, Melba. Unfortunately the premiere was the same night as the Challenger explosion and the remaining five episodes of the series had to be postponed, so that the project fizzled. The following year she appeared on four episodes of Falcon Crest. From 1987 to 1990, Moore released seven more singles: two reached the Top Twenty, and three were Top Ten hits, including "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which featured many well known artists (Freddie Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Jeffrey Osborne, Anita Baker, and Stephanie Mills among others) and was entered into the Congressional Record as the “African-American national anthem.”

Then in 1991 Melba Moore suffered a huge blow: her husband and manager of fifteen years abruptly divorced her without warning. Suddenly she was broke, and her career went into a worse slump than before. At one point she even went on welfare and was estranged from her daughter, who went to live with Bill Cosby’s family. But she managed to rebound: she toured with the Atkins sisters in Michael Matthews’s Gospel Play Mama I'm Sorry (Moore is both a Catholic and a born-again Christian), and began to perform the one-woman musical autobiography, variously titled, that would become Sweet Songs of the Soul.

A Broadway agent who caught her solo act somewhere in the provinces realized that Melba’s voice would be a perfect fit for the part of Fantine in Les Misérables, and in due course, in January 1995, Melba Moore was back on Broadway again, the first black actress to play the role. In 1996 she released her first album in six years, Happy Together, with the Lafayette Harris, Jr., Trio.

By calculations that may not be altogether reliable, Melba Moore has recorded about seventy singles and EPs overall, appears on fourteen compilations, and has made nineteen albums – among the more recent are Solitary Journey (1999), A Very Special Christmas (2001), I’m Still Here (2002), Night in St. Lucia (2002), Nobody but Jesus (2004), Live in Concert (2007), and, with singer Phil Perry, her first R & B album in nearly 20 years, The Gift of Love (2009).

In 2003, Moore was featured in the film The Fighting Temptations, which starred Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Beyoncé Knowles. In 2006 she toured with American Idol star Diana DeGarmo in the musical Brooklyn.

Other TV series, movies, and voiceovers for animated features to which Melba Moore has contributed her talents are ABC Afterschool Specials
(1987), The Cosby Show (1988), Mother's Day (1989), All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), Monsters (1989), Def by Temptation (1990), Mathnet (1992), Square One TV (1992), and Loving (1992).

Melba Moore has received honorary degrees in Humanities from Florida A&M University and from her alma mater, Montclair State.

After her success at the Café Carlyle in April 2011 in a cabaret act called Forever Moore, she has a new R&B album forthcoming, her first in twenty years, by the same title. Her single, “Love Is,” is now available on iTunes. She continues to perform and work on her one-woman play (a development of Sweet Songs of the Soul) called Still Standing: The Melba Moore Story.
By calculations that may not be altogether reliable, Melba Moore has recorded about seventy singles and EPs overall, appears on fourteen compilations, and has made nineteen albums – among the more recent are Solitary Journey (1999), A Very Special Christmas (2001), I’m Still Here (2002), Night in St. Lucia (2002), Nobody but Jesus (2004), Live in Concert (2007), and, with singer Phil Perry, her first R & B album in nearly 20 years, The Gift of Love (2009).

In 2003, Moore was featured in the film The Fighting Temptations, which starred Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Beyoncé Knowles. In 2006 she toured with American Idol star Diana DeGarmo in the musical Brooklyn.

Other TV series, movies, and voiceovers for animated features to which Melba Moore has contributed her talents are ABC Afterschool Specials
(1987), The Cosby Show (1988), Mother's Day (1989), All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), Monsters (1989), Def by Temptation (1990), Mathnet (1992), Square One TV (1992), and Loving (1992).

Melba Moore has received honorary degrees in Humanities from Florida A&M University and from her alma mater, Montclair State.

After her success at the Café Carlyle in April 2011 in a cabaret act called Forever Moore, she has a new R&B album forthcoming, her first in twenty years, by the same title. Her single, “Love Is,” is now available on iTunes. She continues to perform and work on her one-woman play (a development of Sweet Songs of the Soul) called Still Standing: The Melba Moore Story.

Melba Moore is remarkably forthcoming about herself and the trials she has borne. In a recent (2012) interview she reveals, “I have been low more than once, and I want people to know that it won’t happen just once, it will happen many times. I guess if you have a dream, and you have something that you want to live for, that makes you think about more than the devastation that you are experiencing …maybe people that you love that need you, or maybe you have a question like why did that happen, or am I going to live through this? Sometimes you really feel like you want it to be over and even contemplate suicide, but for some reason you don’t, so you wait a minute, and wait a minute, and wait another minute, then after a while you just get the heck up! [She laughs.] Then you’re so shocked you can laugh about it, because life is a mystery.”

– Lucy E. Cross

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Soul Togetherness 2014 is the Champagne of compilations!

The Dom Perignone of compilation albums is all set for release on the 29th of September.Be it Northern, Blue Eyed, Brit, Modern, Soul has always had a special place in the heart of recording artists as music lovers in the UK. With this month seeing the upcoming release of the yearly ‘Soul Togetherness’ album in the series, although on a way smoother taste to the palette than the awaited Beaujolais Nouveau!

The ‘Soul Togetherness’ collection album is for many Soul lovers the event of the year. With Ralph Tee at the controls, the series first started back in 2000 under the form of an album simply titled ‘Soul Togetherness 2000′, and has delivered the best new Modern Soul anthems and more once a year ever since! On this latest collection of Goodies, there are to be found some of this year’s most loved tracks. The vintage track this year is a 1979 Linda Clifford song, ‘I Can’t Let This Good Thing Get Away’ that might have got missed by us the first time around, but with its classy midtempo soulful feel which is simply irresistible, it definitely fits in well. Joe is on board with ‘Fortune Teller’, taken from latest album ‘Bridges’, one of the best albums of this year. UK Modern Soul duo, SouLutions are also included with their #1 UK Soul anthem, ‘Listen’ as remixed by Drizabone, as is Noel Gourdin‘s falsetto led over looked gem, ‘No Worries’, from his third album.  

Soulful House is also present in the form of Company‘s ‘Superstar’ that has been playing on Soulful airwaves throughout the Summer  Tracy Hamlin also appears with her winning cover of Luther Vandross‘s, ‘Never Too Much’. Quick look at the high caliber of artists featured, Eric Benet, Jennifer Holiday and Lalah Hathaway with top quality material. Lisa Stansfield has had a great comeback this year, returning back to the UK top 20 album chart. From her latest  to be remixed set is the limited edition 7 inch, Soul Talk remix of ‘So Be It’. In fact, one of three Soul Talk remixes with others being the UK's current #1 Soul artist Glen Goldsmith with ‘London Skies’ and Paul Johnson who quite rightly says “not much ‘Better Than This'”.

All in all, a mighty fine collection of songs making this year’s ‘Soul Togetherness 2014′ an essential purchase for every Soul music collector…
Updated review with thanks to indamixworldwide

Los Charly- Everlasting Love is out now!

Hailing from Venezuela, the production duo of Juan Laya & Jorge Montiel, aka Los Charly’s Orchestra, take influences from Salsoul, Fania, Donna Summer, Cerrone, Herbie Hancock and Jamiroquai and blend them with their very unique style of production on their latest anthem of neo Latin funky Disco.

Led by Juan & Jorge, the Los Charly’s Orchestra is a London based 10 strong collective of hand-picked musicians, whose inspiration is the spirit and the sounds of New York City in the late 60’s & 70’s. ‘Everlasting Love’ will be released on the 1st of September. Last year the likes of Daft Punk & Nile Rodgers had the come back story of the year, opening the door for more Disco inspired anthems to make you shake your rump to the funk!

Reviews

                                      "Really good track, very Salsoul!" John Morales

                                     "Another cracking production here" Quinton Scott, Strut Records

                                       "Gorgeous! On the set list!" Jim Stanton, Horse Meat Disco

                                        "Instant Disco Classic!" Ennio Styles, RRR FM Melbourne

                                          Soul Tracks -Los Charly give us Everlasting Love

                                                                      Buy it here

A Disco Inferno! The return of The Trammps after 35 years!

Fueled by the drum work of Earl Young and the vocals of the late Jimmy Ellis, The Trammps were among the first great disco groups.

The Trammps first hit our turntables in 1972 with their cover with,"Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" and "Sixty Minute Man" frome their debut Legendary Zing album. They are best known for their Grammy winning song, "Disco Inferno," which was originally released in 1976, but went on to become a worldwide smash hit when it was included on the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever. They had a big top 5 single in the UK with "Hold Back The Night" in 1976, and followed with such hits as "That's Where the Happy People Go," "Hooked For Life," "The Night The Lights Went Out," "Stop and Think."

Now, after years away from the studio, group co-founder Earl You has issued a new single with his current version of the group, Earl Young's Trammps. As were the group's biggest hits, this new song was recorded live in Philadelphia. Earl Young stated on his Facebook page, "we are jamm'in. great philly musicians...you play live or go home!! 'that's how we do it in philly."

The song was written by, The Steals Brothers, who have penned great classics like "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love" for the Spinners, "Honeybee" for Gloria Gaynor, along with many others

Out Now through Amazon :Buy it here

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UK Soul makes a big return in 2014

2014 looks like being the comeback year of UK Soul.The Summer of Soul started with, Lisa Stansfield making a return after a 10 year break, with her UK Top 20 album crammed with great songs, sell out tours & as an actor in the October release of the film Northern Soul. Lisa has even thought about the Northern/Modern Soul market & released special limited edition 7 inch singles due to public demand.

Georgie B  (AKA George Bromfield) gets a #1 selling album after entertaining, writing and producing within the music industry for the past 33 years starting with popular 80’s soul/jazz funk band Second Image and more recently as a solo artist.' Something's Changed' and 'Thinking About Your Love' (a cover of the Skipworth & Turner classic).

 Both singles hit top 5 in the UK Soul Chart and are featured on the brand new Groove Association album '3AM'. '3AM' was released in March 2014 and features 15 new tracks of jazz funk heaven! Produced by ex-Second Image singer/drummer Weston Foster, It is the best Georgie B work to date!! Read more here: http://bit.ly/1kTk9jB .

Glen Goldsmith first found world fame in 1987 with his hits 'I Won't Cry' and 'Dreaming'. He went on to have smash hits as a songwriter with 'Mysterious Girl', 'I Feel You' and 'Natural' which were hits for Peter Andre. Glen Goldsmith made his come back in 2012 with his Soul Chart #5 'Jammin in the Place' and enjoyed two #1 hits with 'So @ Ease' and 'Sunshine'. "Don't Delay" is Glen's new single which is already in the top 10 of Solar Radio Soul chart, think you will enjoy the proper horns, base synth, live percussion and a great vocal performance to keep it hooky. - See more at: http://www.soultracks.com/first-listen-glen-goldsmith-dont-delay#sthash.kvqEZJlN.dpuf.