RIBS: Halloween Mix 2007…
Filed under: Holiday, R&B, Rock, SundaySoul, blues, music, podcasts/mixes, soul
With “Trick-or-Treat” time just a few days away, I thought it would be fun to put together a mix of songs with a “Halloween” theme to them. Something for you to “get your ghoul on” so to speak. {smile}
Now, you know around here we hit it with mostly “old skool” Soul, R&B and Jazz. But some of the best (IMHO) “Halloween” songs are by Rock groups, and just in case you may not know it, RIBS can rock it out with the best of ‘em when we want to! {smile}
So, get ready for some Soul, some Rock, some R&B, some Blues and even some Rap as we present to you:
The Rhythms In Black Satin Halloween Mix 2007
RIBS: Halloween Mix 2007
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Playlist:
- Stevie Wonder - Supersttion
- Santana - Black Magic Woman
- AC/DC - Highway To Hell
- The Doors - Riders On The Storm
- Blue Magic - Born On Halloween
- Van Halen - Running With The Devil
- Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
- Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Chile
- Mike Oldfield - Exorcist Theme
- Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Put A Spell On You
- Blue Magic - Haunted (By Your Love)
- Will Smith - A Nightmare On My Street
- Rockwell - Somebody’s Watching Me
- C.J. & Co. - Devil’s Gun
- Michael Jackson - Thriller
Enjoy!
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RIBS TPTD: T-Connection, Pockets & Pleasure
Filed under: Triple Play Thurs-Day, music, podcasts/mixes, soul
Some Funk and Ballads are on the Triple Play Thurs-Day menu this week. Three bands that, while not household names, had a measure of success back in the day and, on top of that, were particular favorites of yours truly.
This week we present to you:
T-Connection: Whenever I think of T-Connection I always remember their single “Do What You Wanna Do” from their debut album ‘Magic’ and the mix one of my friends, Eddie “Starchild” Miller did of the song with a flange effect added to it. Of course this was “back in the day” when we had to work this magic with a couple of precisely matched turntables, a light touch and a good ear. And Starchild had a great ear for music! Always a great party song back in the day.
Originally hailing from the Bahamas, T-Connection enjoyed a pretty good run until disbanding in the mid-80s. They enjoyed success with a number of tunes such as At Midnight, Saturday Night, On Fire and Let Yourself go.
Pockets: This is a group I have always really enjoyed. They have one of those sounds that I just never get tired of listening to. Unfortunately, even through they were produced by Verdine White (of Earth, Wind & Fire fame), their run was very short lived producing only three albums: Come Go With Us (their best of the the three), Take It On Up and So Delicious between 1977 and 1979. Their standout tracks are “Come Go With Me”, Pasado (originally done by The Stairsteps) and the beautiful ballad “Elusive Lady”.
Unless you already have them on vinyl these albums may be pretty hard to find. Fortunately, there is a 
Pockets, Golden Classics
Pleasure: This was, IMHO, always a fun group to groove to. Their sound was a mixture of Soul, Funk and Jazz, and you can tell they had a lot of fun doing it. Along the way they left us with plenty of great music: “Joyous” (I can listen to this one over and over and over again!), “Glide”, a cover of “Midnight At The Oasis”, “Let Me Be The One” and “Sassafras Girl” (a very jazzy, mid-tempo ballad).
RIBS TPTD: T-Connection, Pockets, Pleasure
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Playlist:
- Pleasure - Beginnings
- Pockets - Come Go With Me
- T-Connection - At Midnight
- Pleasure - Joyous
- Pockets - In The Pocket
- T-Connection - Saturday Night
- Pleasure - Glide
- Pockets - Got To Find My Way
- T-Connection - Do What You Wanna Do
- Pleasure - Let Me Be The One
- Pockets - Elusive Lady
- T-Connection - The Best Of My Love
- Pleasure - Sassafras Girl
- Pockets - Happy For Love
- T-Connection - Let’s Do It Today
- Pockets - In Your Eyes
- Pleasure - Ghettos Of The Mind
Enjoy!
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RIBS TPTD: Melba, Syreeta & Minnie
Filed under: Triple Play Thurs-Day, music, podcasts/mixes, soul
The ladies are taking center stage on the Triple Play Thurs-Day this week…
This week we present to you:
Melba Moore: It would be hard to argue with the statement that Melba is one of the more versatile entertainers to come along in the past 40 years or so. Having performed on Broadway (she won a Tony Award for her role in Purlie), in movies (most recently The Fighting Temptations starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Beyonce), television (The Melba Moore Show, a Summer replacement series on CBS back in the early 70s) and, of course, as a recording artist.
Unfortunately, a series of personal and financial setbacks in the 80s knocked her out of the spotlight and has caused many of us to tend to forget how active and successful a recording career she was carving out for herself. Things are much better for her these days and she is now moving into singing Gospel with her new album release, I’m Still Here.
Syreeta: (some notes on Syreeta a bit later)
Minnie Riperton: (some notes on Minnie a bit later)
RIBS TPTD: Melba Moore, Syreeta, Minnie Riperton
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Playlist:
- Melba Moore - You Stepped Into My Life
- Syreeta - I’m Goin’ Left
- Minnie Riperton (ft. Peabo Bryson) - Here We Go
- Melba Moore - Livin’ For Your Love
- Syreeta - I Love Every Little Thing About You
- Minnie Riperton - When It Comes Down To It
- Melba Moore (ft. Kashif) - I’m In Love
- Syreeta (ft. Stevie Wonder) - To Know You Is To Love You
- Minnie Riperton - Memory Lane
- Melba Moore (ft. Peabo Bryson) - A Little Bit More
- Syreeta - Heavy Day
- Minnie Riperton - Reasons
- Melba Moore - Do You Really (Want My Love)
- Syreeta - Spinnin’ & Spinnin’
- Minnie Riperton (ft. Jose Feliciano) - Light My Fire
- Melba Moore - Stormy Weather
- Syreeta - Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers
- Minnie Riperton - The Edge Of A Dream
Enjoy!
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RIBS TPTD: Side Effect, The Crusaders, Swing Out Sister
Filed under: R&B, Triple Play Thurs-Day, jazz, music, podcasts/mixes, soul
Man I think we’ve got us a real good one this week!
While it’s always fun putting together a new mix, sometimes the vibe you get from the combination of music selections feels like something special. It’s one of those things that you can’t exactly explain or put your finger on… but it is definitely there. Today’s TPTD is one of those kinds of mixes. Overall, I’d characterize this one as having that “jazzy” feel to it, although I think you’ll find enough toe-tapping rhythms in this one that you’ll be hard pressed t keep still while it’s playing.
This week we present to you:
Side Effect: What do Sylvia Nabors, Helen Lowe, Sylvia St. James, Miki Howard and Elaine Gibbs have in common? They all have, at one time or another, been the lead singer with the group Side Effect. It seems like with every new release there was a new female member of the group (although I believe Sylvia St. James actually recorded on two consecutive albums for the group!). Even with all of the various leads, Side Effect always had, IMHO, just the right mix of soulful rhythms and jazz influences to produce a dynamic, enjoyable sound.
Most of our SE selections are from their What You Need album, their first release on the Fantasy Records label. Helen Lowe is the lead singer on this one. My first taste of the group was the fantastic vocal version of Ronnie Laws’ Always There. Man, just listen to Helen blow it out on that one. Even better though is the final SE track in the mix S.O.S. Wow! I have to admit even though I’ve had this album since it first came out, I completely overlooked this song until now. And speaking of covers, Side Effect’s version of Toto’s Georgy Porgy just had to be included. My second favorite SE song after Always There.
The Crusaders: Joe Sample, Stix Hooper, Wilton Felder and Wayne Henderson. Also known for a time (1961-1970) by the name The Jazz Crusaders, this group is legendary (IMHO). Their jazz-funk style that they adopted in the early 70s right around the time they shortened their name to just “The Crusaders”, produced some of my favorite jazz music that I remember from my college days. Street Life for example (released in 1979, sorry not in this mix; gotta wait for a Crusaders ‘double-triple’ for that one), is a classic that sounds just as good today as when it was first released.
For today’s mix though we have some of my other Crusaders favorites: their fantastic instrumental cover of Carol King’s So Far Away, the funky Put It Where you Want It and Chain Reaction, the beautiful It Happens Every Day and my favorite Crusaders cut, And Then There Was The Blues. You how there are just some songs you never get tired of hearing and you can listen to them over and over and over again? ATTWTB is that kind of song to me. I’m so familiar with it that I tried not to include in the mix. No, really. I really did. Oh well, guess I didn’t win that battle, eh? {smile}
Swing Out Sister: I just love Corinne Drewery’s singing voice. Can’t tell you exactly why, but I just love to listen to her sing. Are they Jazz? Are they Pop? Soul? R&B? Smooth Jazz? The actuality of it is that SOS combines elements of all these genres, plus some others. The other interesting aspect of the group is how time and again they tend to tinker with their production and arrangements, essentially reinventing themselves with each release of new material.
While I love their original hits, Breakout, Surrender and Twilight World, there just wasn’t room in the mix to include them (looks like there may have to be a special SOS ‘double-triple’ in the future also). I did manage to squeeze in Waiting Game, couldn’t have omitted that one! Swing Out Sister also has a knack for producing quality interpretations of other artists’ songs, imbuing them with a freshness that more than does justice to the original. Just check out their versions of Dusty Springfield’s Am I The Same Girl?, the Delfonics’ La La (Means I Love You) and the Fifth Dimensions’ Stoned Soul Picnic.
RIBS TPTD: Side Effect, The Crusaders, Swing Out Sister
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Playlist:
- Side Effect - Always There
- The Crusaders - Put It Where You Want It
- Swing Out Sister - Waiting Game
- Side Effect - Keep That Same Old Feeling
- The Crusaders - Chain Reaction
- Swing Out Sister - Am I The Same Girl
- Side Effect - Georgy Porgy
- The Crusaders - So Far Away
- Swing Out Sister - La La (Means I Love You)
- Side Effect - Do Your Thing
- The Crusaders - It Happens Every Day
- Swing Out Sister - Stoned Soul Picnic
- Side Effect - S.O.S.
- The Crusaders - And Then There Was The Blues
Enjoy!
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RIBS TPTD: Bonus Hours-Chaka Khan, Jill Scott, Queen Latifah
Filed under: R&B, Triple Play Thurs-Day, music, podcasts/mixes, soul
OK, here we are finally. Man, it’s been a crazy 4 or 5 weeks around here during the month of September. So many things have been going on that we wanted to focus on and/or draw attention to (from a musical point of view of course). Our 5 mixes in 5 days P-Funk extravaganza for the Labor Day holiday weekend, the Jena 6 situation (which is far, far from over), and our special look at Gil Scott-Heron and whew, September just flew by!
But now as we enter into October, my favorite month of the year, we can settle down (at least for a bit) and get back to our regular “triple play” format here at Rhythms In Black Satin. Well, close to it at least {smile}. For this first Thursday in October we’re gonna borrow something I first heard on radio station WBLS 107.5 in New York during my high school days. They used to have something called “Bonus Hours” every weekday between 10am and 12noon where they would take a couple of new album releases and play all of the songs on them. Man, I used to love that! Remember, this was back in the days before we had the Internet, MP3 players and all that. Unless you knew of someone who already had bought the album there was no way to hear it before plunking down your own hard earned dollars. AAMOF, I cannot tell you how many times Bonus Hours saved me from buying something I would not have liked. Of course, on the other hand, it cost me a fair amount too, as I remember rushing out to the record store as soon as it was over to buy the discs I had just heard!
Anyway, that is why the post has the subtitle attached to it today. Our TPTD is doing it’s own version of “Bonus Hours” as we turn our focus on three new albums that just hit the stores on September 25th. This week the RIBS TPTD presents brand new releases from:
RIBS TPTD: Bonus Hours - Chaka Khan, Jill Scott, Queen Latifah
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Playlist:
- Chaka Khan - Back In The Day
- Jill Scott - Hate On Me
- Queen Latifah - How Long (Betcha’ Got A Chick On The Side)
- Chaka Khan - Disrespectful (ft. Mary J. Blidge)
- Jill Scott - How It Make You Feel
- Queen Latifah - I’m Not In Love
- Chaka Khan - Angel
- Jill Scott - All I
- Queen Latifah - I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
- Chaka Khan - You Belong To Me (ft. Michael McDonald)
- Jill Scott - Crown Royal
- Queen Latifah - Don’t Cry Baby
- Chaka Khan - Ladies Man
- Jill Scott - Celibacy Blues
- Queen Latifah - What Love Has Joined Together
- Chaka Khan - Castles Made Of Sand
- Jill Scott - Epiphany
- Queen Latifah - Georgia Rose (ft. Stevie Wonder)
- Chaka Khan - Sign ‘O’ The Times
- Jill Scott - Breathe
- Chaka Khan - Pack’d My Bags/You Got The Love (ft. Tony Maiden)
Enjoy!
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