CHERI :: RARE VIDEO

" Murphy's Law," was the name of a number 1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart single by the Montreal, Quebec-based American female dance duo Chéri. It reached the top spot in May 1982 and stayed there for three weeks. The single also reached the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at number 39 that same year.
Written and produced by Geraldine Hunt and Freddie James, the mother and brother of Chéri singer Rosalind Hunt, the song is based on the sayings of Murphy's Law, in which they told a boyfriend that his good luck had just run out and everything he had owned were being taken away from him.

When he realizes what has happened and thought that it wouldn't happen to him , the ladies reply by telling him "got it all together, don't cha baby..." The track is also best known for featuring squeaky sped-up vocals and laughs throughout the song and in its chorus.

Today the song is considered both a Club and an Old School classic by many fans. It would also be a One-hit wonder and a novelty hit for the duo, even though they did have a few minor hits on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart: "Give It To Me Baby"/"Star Struck" (#57, 1982), "Working Girl" (#27, 1983), and "small town lover" (1983).
Recently, the song has been featured on Canadian band Chromeo's DJ-Kicks compilation.

CA$HFLOW

When Cameo's Larry Blackmon relocated to Atlanta in the '80s, one of the groups he signed to his Atlanta Artists label was Ca$hflow. They blended funk, rap, and urban contemporary stylings, and featured lead vocalist Kary Hubbert, backed by drummer Gaylord Parson, keyboardist James Duffie, and keyboardist Regis Ferguson. Their debut LP, Ca$hflow, yielded one moderate hit, "Mine All Mine," in 1986, which did respectably well internationally and in clubs, but didn't excite R&B fans. They issued a follow-up LP, Big Money, in 1988.

Below are my favorite tracks from LP.

Enjoy





CA$HFLOW - I NEED YOUR LOVE
CAN'T LET LOVE PASS US BY

LILO THOMAS :: SOUL TRAIN

SWEATER FUNK PRESENTS :: NIGHTWIND :: NOV 6th

THE SUTTONS :: A WHOLE LOT OF LOVE

Last Saturday I was preparing for a gig, benefit for local San Jose Low Rider Model Chole. ( scroll down to see info) While I was going through 12's I red discovered this Suttons LP from 84 titled "So Good" Not a killer album, although the track titled " A whole lot of love" makes up for the whole LP. I knew this had to go in the bag for these Low Riders. Later that night this one got them on the dance floor. BOOM!


THE SUTTONS - A WHOLE LOT OF LOVE 1984

MATTHEW DAVID

Matthew David has been playing guitar since he was a young child and has played in groups and worked in studios and music stores in the Philadelphia area for years. Since embracing recording engineering as a passion he has been able to bring his creative forces together. He learned his craft from some of the greats in recording and has put his experience in the studio to good use on these songs.

This is funk, echoed down the halls of classic rock. These tunes are the ghosts of music past in the flesh of the latest music of the present. Listen for Queen and you will hear them. Listen for Fishbone and you will hear them too.

His music finds a way to incorporate the big beautiful sounds of your favorite legendary rock records into the raw bones frame of funk music of the seventies. Pick a decade, sixties, seventies and eighties… listen and you will hear those sounds on these tunes. Deep funky drum grooves are complimented by etherial guitar arpeggios and riffs and vocal layering to create some of the most growling, spacial rock tunes I have heard in decades.



These songs are crafted from the bottom up and produced from the top down. The lyrics are integral and meaningful and the music supports them all the way. As writer, producer, vocalist, player and recording engineer, Matthew David commands a level of control from conception to final mastering that allows the songs to be everything that they were meant to be. These songs are not corrupted by outside forces and interests. Each song has been allowed to follow it’s own compass heading and take on it’s own particular singular style to best capture the sentiment and meaning it was meant to convey.

MATTHEW DAVID - DON'T LET LOVE GET YOU DOWN 1986

HAIGHT & SOUL :: HOMEBOY MADS B-DAY :: ALRATO "GYPSY" PARTY

I had a great time last Friday for the Homeboy Mads Birthday / Gypsy's going away party over at "Haight & Soul". Don't let the rough exterior fool you, The Souleros are some of the nicest people around. Nothing but good times when kicking it with the Soul Familia. Check pictures captured through out the night!

Enjoy

HAIGHT & SOUL PICTURES

MCB

Played this Sunday Night at Sweater Funk. Had all the dancers going nuts.


MCB - IM THE ONE, YOUR THE ONE 1983

FUNK FUSION BAND - JAZZ FUNK

THE COOL NOTES

One of my favorite 12"... Did you know the Cool notes started off as a reggae band?

THE COOL NOTES - SPEND THE NIGHT 1985

MASS PRODUCTION

MASS PRODUCTION - A3 VICTORY 83

80's BRIT FUNK - JOEY NEGRO

In this episode, Dave Lee AKA Joey Negro discusses his new Backstreet Brit Funk compilation, a double CD collection of rare British soul, jazz-funk and disco. As well as running through a few of the cuts, he talks compilation culture, the 80s British jazz dance scene, and how these homegrown sounds compared to their bigger, bolder US counterparts.

CHOCOLATE MILK

CHOCOLATE MILK - SWEAT HEAT

ONE WAY

ONE WAY - SWEET LADY

COLLAGE

COLLAGE - DO YOU LIKE OUR MUSIC

JUST THE WAY YOU LIKE IT

FATBACK

FATBACK - KEEP YOUR FINGER OUT THE JAM 1981

STARPOINT

Starpoint was originally formed around 1978 under the group name "Lycindiana", which name was a combination of 3 related females.


STARPOINT - I JUST WANNA DANCE WITH YOU 1980

MTUME

From Philadelphia, the group's original line-up included Michael Henderson on bass, who would go on to a successful solo career and worked closely with Norman Connors.
James Mtume moved into Urban Contemporary and funk in the late '70's, and became one of the more successful producers and performers in both styles during the '80's.
The son of the great jazz saxophonist Jimmy Heath, Mtume was a conga player and percussionist who recorded and toured with Miles Davis and was featured on albums by the Heath Brothers, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, and Freddie Hubbard.
He even recorded as a bandleader for Strata-East before turning to funk in the late '70's. Their first album, of this period, was released in 1977 and was entitled 'Rebirth Cycle', although there were two earlier albums for the Third Street label.

The following year came 'Kiss This World Goodbye' which contained the original version of 'The Closer I Get To You', later a hit for Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway.
The album also featured 'Love Lock', popular on the U.K. rare groove scene.
Mtume were signed to Epic in 1980 while James was still writing and producing with Reggie Lucas. Mtume / Lucas wrote and produced the 1980 Mtume album 'In Search Of Rainbow Seekers'. In Search Of The Rainbow SeekersJuicy Fruit They had a number one R&B hit with 'Juicy Fruit' for Epic in 1983 and a number two single in 1984 with 'You, Me and He.' ou, Me & HeTheatre Of The Mind. They recorded for Epic until the late '80's before, Tawatha Agee went solo in 1987.

THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE CUTS ON THE ALBUM

MTUME - GREEN LIGHT 1983

DONT SLEEP - TONY COOK - IN SHOPS NOW!!!

Tony Cook is best known as a longtime drummer for James Brown, but What's On Your Mind? marks a foray into the world of early 1980s boogie funk. The song was unfinished and among tracks recorded for a side project that never saw the light of day until falling into the hands of Stone Throw Records' Dam-Funk and Peanut Butter Wolf, who then added the final touches on Cook's re-introduction to the world. "Dam is surprising because be can spin those records," says Cook. "But he can sing as well. He put the icing on the cake."