TOP R&B PRODUCERS OF THE '80S (updated 2010 02 01)
By Francis Depuydt
R&B record producers often represent a musical
force that is significant in the success story of many celebrated black
artists. Their productions change the face of R&B music. On these pages
the author gathered some of the 1980s hottest producers and songwriters of
the American black recording industry along with their musical achievements
in Soul, Funk, Boogie and Disco music during the exciting young '80s and
beyond…
In the '80s Soul and Funk got smoother and less live
and acoustic than in previous decades. The orchestral Philly sound was fading
away and large funkbands restructured into smaller economical entities. Music
became more keyboards-minded and soon turned high-tech as it gradually
evolved into sophisticated Urban Contemporary towards 1983. Many artists who
had dominated the previous twenty years struggled to find a place in this new
chapter. Their place was taken by a slew of fresh stars bringing fine tunes with
the help of a new generation of record producers and composers.
The early '80s is one of the most overlooked and prolific eras of R&B
music and reflected a very refreshing time. Musicality was on the rise again
after the monotonous reign of the Disco queens. At the end of the '70s,
Disco's pulsating four-on-the-floor beat was wearing thin and R&B music
was finding its way to the next rhythm. The music industry was no more
focused on the massive exploitation of Disco but shifted towards the new profits
of mainstream Pop culture. It seemed to be a period when audiences, as well
as radio DJs, were wide open to receiving all kinds of music. As a reaction
to the Disco over-saturation people were looking for alternatives and this
musical climate was perfect to explore new styles of dance music. This new
situation implied a welcome deathblow for the brainless sort of Disco. At the
same time it was a blessing for true R&B dance music that was refueling
musical energy and regaining credibility after the Disco craze.
Commercial success for many Disco-related artists
indeed rapidly declined in the '80s. The dance music industry was in turmoil
by that time. Sales were disappointing and record labels announced cutbacks
in the number of dance records they would release. The problem started with
the major record companies that were late getting into the Disco scene. When
they woke up, they released loads of Disco records and flooded the market
which soon led to the so called "Death of Disco". But of course there
were still buyers and radio stations playing many of the Disco songs. There
exists a misconception that "credible" Disco music wasn't being
made and released during the early '80s. Apparently only the silly Disco
emanations had reached their expiration date. In fact, after the Disco
overkill of the late seventies, this type of music was still popular during
the year 1980 and even to a limited extent until the summer of 1982. If Disco
was dead, why then did R&B acts as George Benson, Earth Wind & Fire,
The Brothers Johnson, Diana Ross, The Whispers, Kool & The Gang or
Stephanie Mills score some of their biggest "Disco" hits in 1980
and 1981? Soulmusic aiming for the dancefloor got rid of the choking Disco
trauma and was given the opportunity to excite again! Disco wasn't really
dead, it was in a continuous evolution, as was music technology and music
culture.
A different type of songs and productions shifted the sound genre towards
black R&B/Soul music. This renaissance mainly occured in the thriving and
hip underground clubscene where black dance music evolved into what we call
Boogie today, electronic dance music marked out by its soulfulness and
integrity. The early '80s was actually an exciting period in dance music
history, where all the seeds of now flourishing contemporary forms of
Hip-Hop, R&B and Dance music were really planted in the form of
technology. The Boogie dance tunes, with their super-catchy layers of vocals
and synths on top of machine-driven beats, totally redefined how dance music
would sound into the next decades. The Boogie phenomenon can largely be
summed up by the output of the larger New York Disco labels like Prelude,
Vanguard, SAM, West End, Salsoul and Radar
in the early '80s. It took a long-time for Boogie to surface from the
underground. It had been largely ignored or regarded as Disco's poor cousin,
perhaps too slow, too electronic, too R&B…too black even. But it kick-started a musical groundswell which would see
club music topping the charts all over the world again, just like Disco had.
The post-Disco era represented by Boogie was a turbulent and creative time
for independent dance music in general and one where the early trends in
music technology are easy to spot. It was still a continuation of Disco,
though dressed up differently. Its rhythms weren't always the ubiquitous
four-to-the-floor. Boogie was all about the groove: tempo down or up, the
rhythm had to groove. It was a heady blend of Disco, Funk, Jazz, Soul/R&B
and Electro, fused by and for the party-heads of the day.
Boogie also introduced the creative and brilliant mixing techniques of
legendary DJs/mixers/producers like John Morales, Shep Pettibone, Larry
Levan, Jim Burgess, Nick Martinelli & David Todd and François Kevorkian:
alchemists who turned even basic tracks into complex sonic masterpieces which
can still turn heads now. Obviously the Boogie beat didn't remain the fresh
vibe of the underground scene only. Also the major record companies adopted
the slick, crisp and synthy club sound for their R&B artists and engaged
the services of a new batch of popular producers and mixers.
Throughout the early '80s, Disco music would not
only reincarnate into Boogie but also into other forms of dance music like
Dance, Rap and even New-Wave and Pop. The term "Disco" was banned
but the phenomenon and its energy remained alive and kickin'!
Bit by bit as the '80s era progressed, R&B (dance) music entered the
field of Urban Contemporary music: technically advanced and sparkling
USA-Soul/Funk fabricated by very sollicitated producers and production
companies as Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis' Flyte
Tyme Productions on Tabu records (S.O.S. Band, Alexander O'Neal), Vincent
Calloway & Reggie Calloway (Midnight Star, Teddy Pendergrass), Kashif's New Music Group Productions (Melba Moore, Stacy
Lattisaw), Paul Lawrence Jones' Stone
Jones Productions (Lillo Thomas, Freddie Jackson), Lonnie Simmons on his
Total Experience label (Gap Band, Yarbrough & Peoples), Keith Diamond
(Billy Ocean, Melba Moore), Dennis Lambert (Commodores, Natalie Cole), Barry
Eastmond (Freddie Jackson, Jonathan Butler), Leon F. Sylvers III and his Silverspoon Productions (Rockie
Robbins, Glenn Jones), Nile Rodgers (Madonna, Al Jarreau), Richard Perry on
his Planet label (Pointer Sisters, Greg Phillinganes), Nick Martinelli's Watch Out Productions (Loose Ends,
Phyllis Hyman) and The System's Science
Lab Productions (Jeff Lorber, Pauli Carman). Also
important in the '80s was Hush/Orpheus
Productions, the innovative company of the brothers Beau and Charles
Huggins that was highly successful through collaborations with an impressive
array of top producers (Kashif, Howard King, Keith Diamond, Barry Eastmond,
Rahni Song, Paul Laurence, Morrie Brown, Gene McFadden, John Whitehead, Amir
Bayyan) and elite artists (Lillo Thomas, Freddie Jackson, John White, Ray
Goodman & Brown, Meli'sa Morgan, The Controllers, Melba Moore, Beau
Williams, Eric Gable, Najee, Alex Bugnon, Vaneese, Scott White, Willie Collins, Chad). Especially in the second half of the '80s
Hush/Orpheus Productions was largely responsible for adding the classy Soul
vibe back into R&B music.
On the threshold of the '90s, R&B music welcomed a new musicstyle called
New Jack Swing that introduced new artists and producers. Simultaneously the
importance of Rap music and Hip Hop culture firmly increased and ultimately
gained worldwide recognition, achieving the status of a vital part of today's
R&B music.
Technology in the '80s played a bigger part,
synthesizers and music computer systems were getting cheaper and allowed
musicians and producers to experiment with innovating ways of musical
expression. Although the influence of electronic instruments was already
immense at that time, early '80s Disco/Funk music still retained the warmth
and charm of artists really playing the instruments. That was the period in
which musicians still took the lead in actually embroidering music, as
opposed to fully programming it.
It was also an amazingly productive era for R&B music in general. It
wasn't unusual that hot R&B acts cut two albums in the same year as did
the Whispers, Fatback, Ozone, Skyy, Gene Dunlap, The Detroit Spinners,
Starpoint, Richard 'Dimples' Fields, The Dazz Band, Bill Summers, Con Funk
Shun, One Way, The Isley Brothers, Lakeside or Cameo. The abundance of
quality output during this time was to a large extent the merit of a new
generation of producers/songwriters who would mark the '80s and even the '90s
sometimes. They helped constructing the matrix of sophisticated Soul, a
formula whereby Soulmusic could be massive on the dancefloor while still
maintaining the highest standards of composition and musicianship.
The dawn of '80s R&B was clear when Michael
Jackson's Off The Wall peaked the black album charts during the whole of
1980. It was the perfect record to introduce the post-Disco era with an
impeccable production, brilliant songs, tasteful arrangements and a
captivating artist to truly give them life. The man behind this project was
the legendary producer Quincy Jones who proved pivotal in connecting
post-Disco to the present. But he wasn't the only figure who redefined the
sound of Disco/Dance and R&B. A bunch of young, busy studiocats who
surfaced in the late '70s also contributed to the new outline of Black Dance
Music. The likes of Randy Muller, Dexter Wansel, Nick Martinelli, Kashif or
the partnership James Mtume/Reggie Lucas employed an efficient synthesis of
Soul, Funk and Disco, new recording technologies and synthesized
instrumentation on top of a strong musical foundation. Remember the luminous
work of writer and producer Leon F. Sylvers III. His fusion of guitar,
strings, tight harmonies, infectious melodies, funky bass lines, handclaps
and a smattering of synthesised sparkle created the fresh Solar sound.
Some long-established producers as Michael Stokes, Arif Mardin or Allen A.
Jones, who all started their careers back in the deep seventies, stayed in
the game. They distinguished themselves by the soundness of their '80s output
and the bright adaptation of their production patterns to a contemporary
standard.
Whereas most of the instrumentation on the earlier productions was live and
authentic, drum programming, synthesizer arrangements, sequencing and
overdubs entered the picture in the '80s, and certainly in a big way around
the mid '80s. Soulmusic became increasingly keyboard-based and computerized.
Not everyone was keen on this electronic and digital turnabout but the
application of revolutionary music technology was an inevitable phase on the
way to the the R&B music of the next generation.
Before focusing on the 'Producer facts in short' and
the 'Producer discographies' it's important to know what a record producer
really is. Most people imagine that this is the musicbiz equivalent of a film
producer, a person who finances projects and invests in upcoming artists with
the ultimate motivation of generating money. This perception is wrong because
the word 'record producer' is a misleading term that can be confused with the
function of an 'executive producer'. The word 'record director' would be far
more accurate. The record producer has three simultaneous functions. He's a
director, a consultant and a catalyst. To know when to switch from one role
to another becomes the record producer's primary goal in the studio. Some
artists will require far more of one aspect than another, but the producer
should always be ready to give enough creative space to let the unexpected
happen. His challenge is to bring out the best in an artist and to improve
the chance to have a successful if not an outstanding product. Therefore he
can often rely on a team of trusty collaborators like musicians, songwriters,
vocalists, arrangers and engineers who make up the keystones of a
characteristic production sound. Complementary to their role of studio
captains, producers are often qualified musicians, arrangers, songwriters
(e.g. Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis, Nile Rodgers/Bernard Edwards) or even artists
themselves (e.g. Prince, Narada Michael Walden, Ray Parker Jr.).
The creative control enables the producer to develop a personal style that
eventually becomes his trademark sound. Black music has always played a major
role in the field of commercial dance music. Because this type of music is
still regarded as a producer's medium par excellence it is quite common that
the artist's position is inferior to the production concept. Also during the
'80s the actual artists were often an instrument of the producer's
creativity. The success of Solar Records was mainly based on the production
and songwriting wizardry of one influential musician: Leon Frank Sylvers III.
Leon Sylvers and a tight knit crew of Solar associated musicians and writers
effortlessly provided quality music for a stable of seemingly interchangeable
labelmates. They were the vehicles of the glorious Solar sound. Morrie Brown's
company Mighty M Productions, that at a certain time comprised the
triumvirate of Kashif, Paul Lawrence Jones III (a.k.a. Paul Laurence) and
Brown himself, developed a ground-breaking sound that played a significant
role in the careers of Howard Johnson, Lillo Thomas, Kashif, Evelyn King and
Melba Moore as well as in the evolution of urban electronic contemporary
music in general. The fact that a recognizable production style was shared by
different artists wasn't necessarily a minus as long as the artists benefited
from an inspiring collaboration with skilled top producers who had a clear
vision.
Self-contained R&B bands and autonomous black acts beyond compare such as
One Way, Prince, The Isley Brothers, Zapp, Maze or Earth Wind & Fire
followed a more personal course. The evolution of their unique styles was an
inner process of natural renewal subtly influenced by the trends in the world
of black music.
The achievements of all these remarkable sonic architects gave R&B music
a new zest, lifting it up to a higher level of sophistication and enjoyment.
The '80s R&B producer's craft was individual, private and behind the
scenes. An obscure control room job virtually unknown to the general public.
Their under-appreciated contribution to the development of black music was so
substantial that they deserve an introduction. All to be discovered in the
following digest that brings the merits of the often unsung '80s heroes of
the black recording industry into the limelight...
The author wishes to emphasize that the following
survey doesn't intend to be complete. Any suggestion, comment, idea, remark
or additional info regarding this article is more than welcome.
Please feel free to contact the writer francis.depuydt@base.be or the
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12 INCH and 7 INCH
single releases are only listed if the productions never appeared on a
corresponding album by the artist or if the track appeared on a soundtrack
album. Also mind that the Producer Discographies are restricted to the 1970s
and 1980s. The '90s is another story…
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PRODUCER DISCOGRAPHIES
A
Patrick Adams
Productions, co-productions (and songs) appear on:
Art Webb: LP Mr. Flute
(Atlantic 1977)
Ben E. King: LP Let Me Live In
Your Life (Atlantic, 1978)
Black Ivory: LP Don't Turn Around
(Today, 1970)
Black Ivory: LP Baby, Won't You
Change Your Mind (Today, 1972)
Black Ivory: LP Feel It (Buddah,
1975)
Bumblebee Unlimited: LP/CD Sting
Like A Bee (RCA, 1979)
Bumblebee Unlimited: 12 INCH "The
Bumblebee Rap" (1981)
Candi Staton: LP/CD Young Hearts
Run Free (Warner Bros.,1976)
Caress: LP/CD Caress (PAP, 1977)
Claudette Polite: 12 INCH "I'll Come
When You Call" (ScorpGemi, 1987)
Claudja Barry: 12 INCH "Your Sweet
Touch" (Personal, 1984)
Cloud One: LP/CD Atmosphere Strut
(P&P, 1976)
D.K. Dyson: 12 INCH "Leave Your
Key On The Table" (Ravin, 1986)
Daybreak: 12 INCH "Everything
Man" (PAP, 1977)
Daybreak: 12 INCH "Everybody
Get Off" (Prelude, 1980)
Debbie Taylor: LP/CD Comin' Down
On You (Today, 1972)
Destiny: 12 INCH "Young, Fine
& Single" (ScorpGemi)
Eddie Kendricks: LP Vintage
(Arista, 1978)
Eddie Kendricks: LP Something More
(Arista, 1979)
Endia Johnson: 12 INCH
"Love Education" (Magnetic, 1986)
F.A.C.E. 2000: 12 INCH "Run Jesse
Run" (RSP, 1984)
Fonda Rae: 12 INCH "Tuch Me
(All Night Long)" (Streetwave, 1984)
Golden Flamingo Orchestra: 12 INCH "The
Guardian Angel Is Watching Over Us" (P&P)
Herbie Mann: LP/CD Super Mann
(Atlantic, 1978)
Imperial Three, The: 12 INCH "It's
Rough" (Hit Maker, 1985)
Inner Life: LP/CD I'm Caught Up
(In A One Night Love Affair) (Prelude, 1980)
Inner Life: LP/CD Inner Life
featuring Jocelyn Brown (Salsoul, 1981
J.J. Barnes: LP Born Again
(Perception, 1973)
Jean Jones: 12 INCH "Love At
First Sight" (ScorpGemi)
Kay-Gees, The: LP/CD Burn Me Up
(De-Lite, 1979)
King Davis: 12 INCH "Stoop own
Baby/Hitch Hike One More Time" (P&P, 1977)
Klinte Jones: 12 INCH "In The Heat
(Of The Night)" (Personal, 1984)
Krishna: 12 INCH
"Mystery" (Big Apple, 1985)
Leon Love: 12 INCH "Once Is Not
Enough" (Still Rising, 1984)
Lisa Richards: 12 INCH "Hooked On
Your Love" (Special K)
Louie Delight : 12 INCH "They Put
Sex In Everything" (Still Rising, 1984)
Magnetic Touch: LP Falling In Love
With A Dream (Red Greg, 1978)
Main Ingredient feat. Cuba Gooding:
LP/CD I Only Have Eyes For You (RCA, 1981)
Margo Williams: 12 INCH "God Save
And Protect All The Children" (Golden Flamingo, 1980)
Mark IV: 12 INCH "Rainy
Days" (World Trade, 1985)
Marta Acuna: 12 INCH "Dance Dance
Dance" (P&P, 1977)
Mary Clark: 12 INCH "Take Me I'm
Yours" (La Shawn, 1980)
Musique: LP/CD Keep On Jumpin' (Prelude,
1978)
Musique: LP/CD Musique II
(Prelude, 1979)
Narada Michael Walden: LP/CD
Awakening (Atlantic, 1979)
Nobles, The: 12 INCH "Rock
On" (Vanguard, 1980)
P Crew, The: 12 INCH "Busy
Body" (Prelude, 1983)
P Crew, The: 12 INCH "Nasty
Rock" (Prelude, 1983)
Phreek: LP Patrick Adams Presents
Phreek (Atlantic, 1978)
Poopee & The N.Y. Squirrels: 12 INCH "Bust That
Nut" (CT, 1981)
Positive Choice: 12 INCH "Super Sonic
Stereophonic Funk" (Buddah, 1980)
Rainbow Brown: LP/CD Rainbow Brown
(PAP, 1981)
Salsoul Orchestra, The: LP/CD Heat
It Up (Salsoul, 1982)
Shades Of Love, The: 12 INCH "Come And
Make Me Feel Good" (ScorpGemi, 1982)
Shades Of Love, The: 12 INCH "Keep In
Touch (Body To Body)" (Venture, 1982)
Shannon: LP/CD Love Goes All The
Way (Atlantic, 1986)
Sharon Brown: 12 INCH "You Got Me
Where I Want To Be" (Profile, 1983)
Sicle Cell & Rhapazooty: 12 INCH "Rhapazooty
In Blue" (Showstoppers, 1979)
Sine: 12 INCH
"Rotation" (Prelude, 1983)
Sine: LP Happy Is The Only Way
(CBS, 1977)
Sister Sledge: LP/CD Circle Of
Love (Atco-Atlantic, 1974)
Skipworth & Turner: LP
Skipworth & Turner (4th & Broadway, 1985)
Skipworth & Turner: LP
Skipworth & Turner (Warner Bros., 1986)
Skipworth & Turner: LP/CD
Harlem Nights (4th & Broadway, 1989)
Spyder C : 12 INCH "Credit Card
Fraud" (Kej, 1985)
Switch Hitter: 12 INCH "High
Life" (Thom Tay, 1986)
Terri Jones: 12 INCH "Do It Again
Tonight" (Mirage, 1984)
Thomas & Taylor: 12 INCH "You Can't
Blame Love" (Cooltempo, 1986)
Tribe, The: 12 INCH "Jungle
Rock" (Prelude, 1983)
Universal Robot Band, The: LP/CD
Dance And Shake Your Tambourine (Red Greg, 1976)
Universal Robot Band, The: LP/CD
Freak In The Light Of The Moon (Red Greg, 1978)
Universal Two: 12 INCH "Dancing
Heart" (Golden Flamingo)
Venus Dodson: LP Night Rider
(Warner Bros., 1979)
Wish & La-Rita Gaskin: 12 INCH "You're The
Best" (CT, 1982)
Wish: 12 INCH "Touch Me
(All Night Long)" (KN, 1984)
Other
contributions:
Ace
Spectrum: LP Low Rent Rendezvous
(Atlantic, 1975) - songwriter
Black Ivory: LP Hangin' Heavy
(Buddah, 1979) - arranger
Bruni Pagan: LP Just Bruni
(Elektra, 1979) - songwriter
Bumblebee Unlimited: 12 INCH "Love
Bug" (Red Greg, 1976) - arranger, songwriter
Bumblebee Unlimited: 12 INCH "Everybody
Dance" (Red Greg, 1977) - songwriter
Carol Douglas: LP Come Into My
Life (Midsong International, 1978) - musician
Clair Hicks & Love Exchange: 12 INCH "Push (In
The Bush)" (Personal, 1984) - songwriter, arranger, associate producer
Crew Devastation: 12 INCH "We're All
Going To Heaven" (Gitten, 1986) - arranger
Dana Dame: LP/CD Dana Dame With
Fame (Profile, 1987) - recording engineer
Dazzle: LP Dazzle (De-Lite, 1979)
- arranger
Donna McGhee: LP/CD Make It Last
Forever (Red Greg, 1978) - arranger, songwriter
Eric B & Rakim: LP/CD Paid In
Full (4th & Broadway, 1987) - recording engineer
Eric B & Rakim: LP/CD Follow
The Leader (UNI, 1988) - recording engineer
Gary Toms Empire: 12 INCH "Let's Do It
Again" (Mercury, 1978) - arranger
Gary Toms Empire: 12 INCH "Welcome To
Harlem" (Mercury, 1978) - arranger
Heavy D. & The Boyz: LP/CD
Living Large (MCA, 1987) - recording engineer
Kathy Miller: 12 INCH "Tell'em I
Love You" (Tyson, 1982) - arranger
Keith Sweat: LP/CD Make It Last
Forever (Elektra, 1987) - recording engineer
La She Ba: 12 INCH "You've Been
Hunchin'" (Heavenly Star) - arranger
Laura Lee: 12 INCH
"Sat-Is-Fac-Tion" (Fantasy, 1979) - arranger
Lonzine Wright: 12 INCH "Stop The
Taxi" (Tyson) - arranger
Magnetic Touch: 12 INCH "You Deserve
It" (Cheryl) - songwriter, arranger
MC Craig G: 12 INCH
"Transformer" (Pop Art, 1985) - recording engineer
Melba Moore: LP What A Woman Needs
(Capitol-EMI, 1981) - arranger
Mello Tone Tee: 12 INCH "Mission Is
Possible" (Gitten, 1988) - arranger, mixer
Paper Doll: 12 INCH "Get Down
Boy" (Heavenly Star) - arranger
Paper Doll: 12 INCH "It's Gigin
To Be Cornbread Time" (Tyson) – arranger
Paper Dolls Plus One: 12 INCH "I'm A Freak
For" (Tyson) - arranger
Q-Pid: 12 INCH "My Latin
Lover" (Sunnyview, 1986) - musician
Rochelle Fleming: 12 INCH "Love
Itch" (Prelude, 1985) - arranger
Salt 'N Pepa: LP/CD Hot Cool &
Vicious (Next Plateau, 1986) - recording engineer
Sammy Gordon & The Hip Huggers:
12 INCH
"Making Love" (Red Greg, 1976) - arranger
Sugar Sugar: 12 INCH "New Girl In
Town" (1800 Records, 1986) - arranger
Prince Charles & The City Beat
Band: 12 INCH
"We Can Make It Happen" (Virgin, 1986) - mixer
ADK
(Al Hudson, Dave Roberson, Kevin McCord) (See O: One Way-related)
John
"Skip" Anderson
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Carl Anderson: LP On & On
(Epic, 1984)
Carole Sylvan: 12 INCH "Think"
(S.O.N.Y., 1982)
Manhattans, The: LP/CD Forever By
Your Side (CBS, 1983)
Manhattans, The: LP/CD Too Hot To
Stop It (CBS, 1985)
Melba Moore: LP/CD Never Say Never
(Capitol-EMI, 1983)
Norma Jean Wright: 12 INCH "Love
Attack" (Mirage, 1983)
September: 12 INCH "Are You Free Tonight" (Salsoul, 1984)
Other
contributions:
Cerrone: LP/CD You Are The One - Cerrone VII (RCA, 1980) -
musician
Gregory Hines: LP/CD Gregory Hines
(Epic, 1988) - musician, songwriter
Kleeer: LP Get Ready (Atlantic,
1983) - musician
Luther Vandross: LP/CD Busy Body
(Epic, 1983) - musician
Luther Vandross: LP/CD The Night I
Fell In Love (Epic, 1985) - musician
Luther Vandross: LP/CD Give Me The
Reason (Epic, 1986) - musician, songwriter
Starshine: 12 INCH "All I Need
Is You" (Prelude, 1983) - musician
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Joy
(Elektra, 1988) - musican
Twennynine feat. Lenny White:
LP/CD Best Of Friends (Elektra, 1979) - musician
Twennynine with Lenny White: LP/CD
Twennynine with Lenny White (Elektra, 1980) - musician, songwriter
Twennynine with Lenny White: LP/CD
Just Like Dreamin' (Elektra, 1981) - musician, songwriter
William Anderson & Raymond Reid (See C: Crown Heights Affair-related)
Ashford
& Simpson
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Ashford
& Simpson: LP Exposed (Motown, 1971)
Ashford & Simpson: LP/CD Gimme
Something Real (Warner Bros., 1973)
Ashford & Simpson: LP I Wanna
Be Selfish (Warner Bros., 1974)
Ashford & Simpson: LP Come As
You Are (Warner Bros., 1976)
Ashford & Simpson: LP/CD So So
Satisfied (Warner Bros., 1977)
Ashford & Simpson: LP/CD Send
It (Warner Bros., 1977)
Ashford & Simpson: LP/CD A
Musical Affair (Warner Bros., 1978)
Ashford & Simpson: LP/CD Stay
Free (Warner Bros., 1979)
Ashford & Simpson: LP/CD Is It
Still Good To Ya (Warner Bros., 1980)
Ashford & Simpson: LP/CD
Street Opera (Capitol, 1982)
Ashford & Simpson: LP/CD High
Rise (Capitol, 1983)
Ashford & Simpson: LP/CD Solid
(Capitol, 1984)
Ashford & Simpson: LP/CD Real
Love (Capitol, 1986)
Ashford & Simpson: LP/CD Love
Or Physical (Capitol, 1989)
Diana Ross: LP/CD Diana Ross
(Motown, 1970)
Diana Ross: LP Surrender (Motown,
1971)
Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye:
LP/CD Diana & Marvin (Motown, 1973)
Diana Ross: LP/CD The Boss
(Motown, 1979)
Gladys Knight & The Pips:
LP/CD About Love (CBS, 1980)
Gladys Knight & The Pips:
LP/CD Touch (CBS, 1981)
Patti LaBelle: LP/CD Winner In You
(MCA,1986)
Philip Michael Thomas: LP/CD
Somebody (Spaceship-Atlantic, 1988)
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles:
LP A Pocket Full Of Miracles (Motown, 1970)
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles:
LP Flying High Together (Motown, 1972)
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD
Tantalizingly Hot (Casablanca, 1982)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD TP (PIR,
1980)
Ullanda McCullough: LP Ullanda
McCullough (Atlantic, 1981)
Valerie Simpson: LP Valerie
Simpson (Motown, 1972)
Other
contributions:
Brothers
Johnson, The: LP/CD Blam!! (A&M, 1978)
- songwriters
Chaka Khan: LP/CD Chaka (Warner
Bros., 1978) - songwriters
Jennifer Holliday: LP/CD Feel My
Soul (Geffen, 1983) - songwriters
Nona Hendryx: LP Nona (RCA, 1983)
- Valerie Simpson musician
Phyllis Hyman: LP/CD Can't We Fall
In Love Again (Arista, 1981) - songwriters
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Sounds…And Stuff Like That!! (A&M, 1978) - songwriters
Randy Crawford: LP/CD Raw Silk
(Warner Bros., 1979) - songwriters
Roberta Flack: LP/CD Oasis (Atlantic, 1988) - songwriters
Sylvester: LP/CD Sylvester
(Fantasy, 1977) - songwriters
B
Babyface & L.A. Reid
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
After 7: LP/CD After 7 (Virgin, 1989)
Babyface: LP/CD Lovers (Columbia,
1986)
Babyface: LP/CD Tender Lover
(Solar/Epic, 1989)
Bobby Brown: LP/CD Don't Be Cruel
(MCA, 1989)
Bobby Brown: LP/CD Dance!…Ya Know It! (MCA,
1989)
Bobby Brown: 12 INCH "On Our
Own" taken from LP/CD Ghost Busters II - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack (MCA, 1989)
Boys, The: LP/CD Messages From The
Boys (Motown, 1988)
Deele, The: LP/CD Material Thangz
(Solar, 1985)
Deele, The: LP/CD Eyes Of A
Stranger (Solar, 1987)
Dynasty: LP/CD Out Of Control
(Solar, 1988)
Jacksons, The: LP/CD 2300 Jackson
Street (Epic, 1989)
Karyn White: LP/CD Karyn White
(Warner Bros., 1988)
Mac Band, The: LP/CD Mac Band
Featuring The McCampbell Brothers (MCA, 1988)
Mary Davis: LP/CD Separate Ways
(Tabu, 1989)
Paula Abdul: LP/CD Forever Your
Girl (Virgin, 1988)
Pebbles: LP/CD Pebbles (MCA, 1987)
Sheena Easton: LP/CD Lover In Me
(MCA, 1988)
Whispers, The: LP/CD Just Gets
Better With Time (Solar, 1987)
Other
contributions:
Siedah
Garrett: LP/CD Kiss Of Life (Qwest, 1988) - musician,
arranger
Whispers, The: LP/CD So Good
(Solar, 1984) - songwriters
Amir
Bayyan a.k.a. Kevin Bell (See K:
Kool & The Gang related)
Khalis
Bayyan a.k.a. Ronald Bell (See K:
Kool & The Gang related)
Larry
Blackmon
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Barbara
Mitchell: LP/CD High On Love (Atlanta
Artists, 1986)
Bobby Brown: LP/CD King Of Stage
(MCA, 1987)
Cameo: LP/CD Cardiac Arrest
(Mercury, 1977)
Cameo: LP/CD We All Know Who We
Are (Mercury, 1977)
Cameo: LP/CD Ugly Ego (Mercury,
1978)
Cameo: LP/CD Secret Omen (Mercury,
1979)
Cameo: LP/CD Cameosis (Mercury,
1980)
Cameo: LP/CD Feel Me (Mercury,
1980)
Cameo: LP/CD Knights Of The Sound
Table (Mercury, 1981)
Cameo: LP/CD Alligator Woman
(Mercury, 1982)
Cameo: LP/CD Style (Mercury, 1983)
Cameo: LP/CD She's Strange
(Mercury, 1984)
Cameo: LP/CD Single Life (Mercury,
1985)
Cameo: LP/CD Word Up! (Mercury,
1986)
Cameo: LP/CD Machismo (Mercury,
1988)
Cashflow: LP/CD Big Money (Atlanta
Artists, 1988)
Cashflow: LP/CD Cashflow (Atlanta
Artists, 1986)
Charles Earland: LP Earland's Jam
(CBS, 1982)
Eddie Murphy: LP/CD So Happy (Columbia, 1989)
George Howard: LP/CD Personal
(MCA, 1989)
LA. Connection: LP/CD LA. Connection feat. Cameo (MCA,
1982)
Mantra: LP Mantra (Casablanca, 1981)
Miki Howard: LP/CD Miki Howard (Atlantic, 1989)
Reddings: LP If Looks Could Kill
(Polydor, 1985)
Tomi Jenkins: LP/CD Tomi (Atlanta
Artists, 1989)
Willie
Lester & Rodney Brown
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Bobby
Thurston: LP/CD Sweetest Piece Of The
Pie (Mainline, 1978)
Bobby Thurston: LP/CD You Got What
It Takes (Prelude, 1980)
Bobby Thurston: LP/CD The Main
Attraction (Prelude, 1982)
Bobby Thurston: LP My Love's The
Real Thing (Mainline, 1982)
Contact: 12 INCH "Big
Fun" (Mainline, 1982)
Evelyn King: LP/CD I'm In Love
(RCA, 1981)
Gayle Adams: LP/CD Gayle Adams
(Prelude, 1980)
Gayle Adams: LP/CD Love Fever
(Prelude, 1982)
Gayle Adams: 12 INCH
"Emergency" (Prelude, 1981)
Gayle Adams: 12 INCH "Love
Attraction" (Prelude, 1982)
Gayle Adams: 12 INCH "Baby Don't
Make Me Do It" (Prelude, 1982)
Gayle Adams: 12 INCH "I'm Warning
You" (Mainline, 1984)
Kathy Buck: 12 INCH "Don't Beat
Around The Bush" (Buzz, 1982) - Rodney Brown production
Khemistry: LP/CD Khemistry (CBS,
1982)
Khemistry: 12 INCH "I Can't Win
For Losing" (Mainline, 1985)
Marie Malloy: 12 INCH "I
Surrender" (Mainline, 1985)
Sharon Redd: LP/CD Sharon Redd
(Prelude, 1980)
Waldo: LP Love Don't Grow On Trees
(Columbia,1982)
Other
contributions:
Esther
Williams: 12 INCH "I'll Be
Your Pleasure" (RCA, 1981) - songwriters
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD Stephanie (Casablanca, 1981) -
songwriters
Leroy
Burgess
Productions,
co-productions (and songs) appear on:
Aleem
feat. Leroy Burgess: LP/CD Casually
Formal (Atlantic, 1986)
Aleem: 12 INCH "Get
Loose" (NIA, 1984)
Aleem: LP/CD Shock! (Atlantic,
1987)
Black Ivory: LP Feel It (Buddah,
1975)
Black Ivory: LP Black Ivory
(Buddah, 1976)
Caprice: 12 INCH "100%"
(NIA, 1985)
Caprice: 12 INCH "Personal
Injury" (NIA,1986)
Convertion: 12 INCH "Let's Do
It" (SAM, 1980)
Dazzle: LP Dazzle (De-Lite, 1979)
Dino Terrell: 12 INCH "You Can Do
It (It's So Easy)" (New Image, 1985)
Fantastic Aleems, The: 12 INCH "Hooked On
Your Love" (NIA, 1980)
Herbie Mann: LP Super Mann
(Atlantic, 1978)
High Frequency: 12 INCH
"Summertime" (NIA, 1980)
Inner Life: LP/CD Inner Life II
(Salsoul, 1982)
Inner Life: 12 INCH "No
Way" (Personal, 1983)
Intrigue: 12 INCH "Fly
Girl" (World Trade, 1984)
Kool Kyle: 12 INCH "Getting
Over" (Frills, 1982)
Leroy Burgess: 12 INCH
"Heartbreaker" / "Stranger" (Salsoul, 1983)
Logg: LP/CD Logg (Salsoul, 1981)
Mike Gee: 12 INCH "Rappers
Revenge" (Streetwise, 1984)
Phreek: LP Patrick Adams Presents
Phreek (Atlantic, 1978)
Skipworth & Turner: LP/CD
Harlem Nights (4th & Broadway, 1989)
Venus Dodson: LP Night Rider
(Warner Bros., 1979)
Other
contributions:
Black
Ivory: LP Hangin' Heavy (Buddah, 1979) - songwriter
Black Ivory: 12 INCH "I've Got My
Eye On You" (Panoramic, 1985) - songwriter
Bobbi Humphrey: 12 INCH "No
Way" (Mercury, 1986) - songwriter
Change: LP/CD Sharing Your Love
(RFC-Atlantic, 1982) - songwriter
Class Action feat. Chris Wiltshire:
12 INCH
"Weekend" (Sleeping Bag, 1983) - songwriter
Convertion: 12 INCH "Sweet
Thing" (Vanguard, 1982) - songwriter, musician
Conversion: 12 INCH "I Can't
Stop Dancin'" (Helly-O, 1984) - songwriter
Debbie Blackwell: 12 INCH "Once You
Got Me Going" (Jump Street, 1986) - songwriter
Eddie Kendricks: LP Something More
(Arista, 1979) - songwriter
Fonda Rae: 12 INCH "Over Like A
Fat Rat" (Vanguard, 1982) - songwriter, arranger
Inner Life: 12 INCH "Let's
Change It Up" (Personal, 1984) - songwriter
Inner Life: 12 INCH "Your
Love" (Personal, 1986) - songwriter
Intrique: 12 INCH "Together
Forever" (Cooltempo, 1987) - songwriter
Rick James: LP Garden Of Love
(Motown, 1980) - songwriter
Satin, Silk & Lace: 12 INCH "Your
Love" (Prelude, 1986) - songwriter
T.S. Monk: LP/CD Human
(Mirage-Atlantic, 1982) - songwriter
Universal Robot Band, The: 12 INCH "Barely
Breaking Even" (Streetwave, 1984) - songwriter
Keni
Burke
Productions,
co-productions (and songs) appear on:
Bill
Withers: LP/CD Menagerie (CBS, 1977)
Curtis Mayfield: LP/CD Something
To Believe In (Curtom, 1980)
Jones Girls, The: LP/CD Keep It
Comin' (PIR, 1984)
Keni Burke: LP Keni Burke (Dark
Horse, 1977)
Keni Burke: LP/CD You're The Best
(RCA, 1981)
Keni Burke: LP/CD Changes (RCA,
1982)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD When Will I See
You Again (PIR, 1983)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD Love And More
(PIR, 1984)
Other
contributions:
Billy
Preston: LP It's My Pleasure (A&M, 1975) - musician
Billy Preston: LP Billy Preston
(A&M, 1976) - musician
Billy Preston: LP A Whole New
Thing (A&M, 1977) - musician
D.J. Rogers: LP Love, Music &
Life (RCA, 1977) - musician
D.J. Rogers: LP Love Brought Me
Back (Columbia, 1978) - musician
D.J. Rogers: LP Trust Me (ARC,
1979) - musician
Emotions, The: LP New Affair
(ARC-CBS, 1981) - musician
Four Tops, The: LP Back Where I
Belong (Motown, 1983) - musician
George Howard: LP/CD Steppin' Out
(GRP, 1984) - musician
Linda Clifford: LP/CD If My
Friends Could See Me Now (Curtom, 1978) - musician
Narada Michael Walden: LP/CD
Awakening (Atlantic, 1977) - musician
Natalie Cole: LP I Love You So
(Capitol, 1979) - musician
Natalie Cole: LP Happy Love
(Capitol, 1981) - musician
Perri: LP/CD The Flight (Zebra,
1988) - musician, songwriter
Pockets, The: LP/CD Take It On Up
(CBS, 1978) - songwriter
Ramsey Lewis: LP/CD Routes (CBS,
1980) - musician
Sly & The Family Stone: LP/CD
Back On The Right Track (Warner Bros., 1979) - musician
Smokey Robinson: LP Warm Thoughts
(Motown, 1980) - musician
Stairsteps: LP 2nd Resurrection
(Dark Horse, 1976) - songwriter
Stargard: LP What You Waitin' For
(MCA, 1978) - musician
Stargard: LP The Changing Of The
Gard (Warner Bros., 1979) - musician
Stargard: LP Back 2 Back (Warner
Bros., 1981) - musician
Terry Callier: LP/CD Turn You To
Love (Elektra, 1979) - musician
Undisputed Truth: LP Smokin'
(Whitfield, 1979) - musician
Whispers, The: LP/CD Whisper In
Your Ear (Solar, 1979) - songwriter, arranger
C
Reggie
Calloway & Vincent Calloway
Producer
facts in short:
Reggie (Reginald) and Vincent Calloway have worked
in the music industry as songwriters, producers and recording artists since
the early '80s. The Calloway brothers were the nucleus of the techno-funk
band Midnight Star, founded at Kentucky
State University
in 1976. In
1980 they secured a deal with Dick Griffey's Solar label where in-house
producer Leon Sylvers III took full control of Midnight Star's second
Standing Together set. In between the recording sessions of Standing Together
Leon Sylvers had touring obligations in Africa
with his band Dynasty. So the Calloway brothers were given a break to explore
their skills as producers on the songmaterial for their second long player.
The sessions were so satisfactory that Reggie and Vincent Calloway progressed
to producer for the next Midnight Star albums. The influence of Leon Sylvers
in their work, particularly on their No Parking On The Dance Floor album, was
obvious. Together with the bandmembers they created timeless hits such as
"Freak-A-Zoid" (1983), "Wet My Whistle" (1983),
"Operator" (1984), "Curious" (1984),
"Headlines" (1986) and "Midas Touch" (1986). Everything
clicked, from the production and arrangements to the hook-filled lyrics and
exuberant vocals. The chart success of Midnight Star was credited to the
distinctive production approach of Reggie and Vincent. During this time they
also wrote and produced for Solar associated artists such as Klymaxx
("The Men All Pause"), the Whispers ("Contagious") and
The Deele ("Body Talk"). After leaving Midnight Star in 1986, they
formed Calloco Productions and wrote/produced the hits "Love
Overboard" for Gladys Knight & The Pips, "Joy" for Teddy
Pendergrass, "Jump Start" for Natalie Cole and "Casanova"
for Levert. In 1990, Reggie and Vincent hit the stage again as the duo
Calloway. Calloway had a gold smash in 1989 with "I Wanna Be Rich"
and issued two Solar albums: All The Way (1990) and Let's Get Smooth (1992).
The brothers continued working with Pieces Of A Dream, Teddy Pendergrass,
Bootsy Collins, NSYNC and Sugar Ray. Reggie released his solo debut album
Walking Between Raindrops on Calloway Records in 2003.
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Deele,
The: LP/CD Street Beat (Solar, 1984)
Gladys Knight & The Pips:
LP/CD All Our Love (MCA, 1988)
Klymaxx: LP/CD Meeting In The
Ladies' Room (MCA, 1984)
Levert: LP/CD The Big Throwdown
(Atlantic, 1987)
Midnight Star: LP/CD Standing
Together (Solar, 1981)
Midnight Star: LP/CD Victory
(Solar, 1982)
Midnight Star: LP/CD No Parking On
The Dancefloor (Solar, 1983)
Midnight Star: LP/CD Planetary Invasion
(Solar, 1984)
Midnight Star: LP/CD Headlines
(Solar, 1986)
Natalie Cole: LP/CD Everlasting
(Manhattan/EMI, 1987)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Joy
(Elektra, 1988)
Whispers, The: LP/CD So Good
(Solar, 1984)
Other
contributions:
Carrie
Lucas: LP/CD Horsin' Around (Constellation/MCA, 1984) -
executive producers
Greg
Carmichael
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Bumblebee
Unlimited: 12 INCH "Love
Bug" (Red Greg, 1976)
Bumblebee Unlimited: 12 INCH "Everybody
Dance" (Red Greg, 1977)
Bumblebee Unlimited: LP/CD Sting
Like A Bee (RCA, 1979)
Carol Douglas: LP Come Into My
Life (Midsong International, 1978)
Clair Hicks & Love Exchange: 12 INCH "Push (In
The Bush)" (Personal, 1984)
Claudja Barry: 12 INCH "Your Sweet
Touch" (Personal, 1984)
Convertion: 12 INCH "Sweet
Thing" (Vanguard, 1982)
Conversion: 12 INCH "I Can't
Stop Dancin'" (Helly-O, 1984)
Debbie Hayes & The Universal Robot
Band: 12 INCH
"Let's Get This Thing Together" (Caramer, 1980)
Donna McGhee: LP/CD Make It Last
Forever (Red Greg, 1978)
Esther Williams: LP Let Me Show
You (Friends & Co, 1976)
Fonda Rae: 12 INCH "Tuch Me
(All Night Long)" (Streetwave, 1984)
Inner Life: LP/CD I'm Caught Up
(In A One Night Love Affair) (Prelude, 1980)
Inner Life: LP/CD Inner Life
featuring Jocelyn Brown (Salsoul, 1981)
Inner Life: LP/CD Inner Life II
(Salsoul, 1982)
Inner Life: 12 INCH "No
Way" (Personal, 1983)
Inner Life: 12 INCH "Let's
Change It Up" (Personal, 1984)
Inner Life: 12 INCH "Your
Love" (Personal, 1986)
Invitations, The: 12 INCH "We Don't
Allow (No Sitting Down In Here)" (Red Greg, 1977)
Logg: LP/CD Logg (Salsoul, 1981)
Love Exchange: 12 INCH "Got To Find
A Disco" (Dance Disk, 1978)
Love Exchange: 12 INCH "Do You Want
My Love" (Transrecords, 1982)
Pam Todd & Love Exchange: LP
Let's Get Together (Shyrlden, 1977)
Poopee & The N.Y. Squirrels: 12 INCH "Bust That
Nut" (CT, 1981)
Rochelle Fleming: 12 INCH "Love
Itch" (Prelude, 1985)
Ronnie Love: 12 INCH "Let's Make
Love" (Almeria)
Sammy Gordon & The Hip Huggers:
12 INCH
"Making Love" (Red Greg, 1976)
Satin, Silk & Lace: 12 INCH "Your
Love" (Prelude, 1986)
Shiek: 12 INCH "Finders
Keepers" (Zone, 1985)
Spice: 12 INCH "You're So
Nice (Latin Spice)" (Jive, 1983)
Universal Robot Band, The: LP/CD
Dance And Shake Your Tambourine (Red Greg, 1976)
Universal Robot Band, The: 12 INCH "Disco
Christmas" (Red Greg, 1977)
Universal Robot Band, The: LP/CD
Freak In The Light Of The Moon (Red Greg, 1978)
Universal Robot Band, The: 12 INCH "Barely
Breaking Even" (Streetwave, 1984)
Willie James: 12 INCH "Sweet Lips,
Sensuous Hips" (Greg, 1976)
Wish & La-Rita Gaskin: 12 INCH "Nice And
Soft" (DJ Productions, 1981)
Wish: 12 INCH "You're The
Best" (CT, 1982)
Wish: 12 INCH "Touch Me
(All Night Long)" (KN, 1984)
James
A. Carmichael
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Ada Dyer: LP/CD Meant To Be (Motown, 1988)
Atlantic Starr: LP/CD Radiant
(A&M, 1980)
Atlantic Starr: LP/CD Brilliant
(A&M, 1982)
Atlantic Starr: LP/CD Yours
Forever (A&M, 1983)
Commodores: LP/CD Machine Gun
(Motown, 1974)
Commodores: LP/CD Caught In The
Act (Motown, 1975)
Commodores: LP/CD Movin' On
(Motown, 1975)
Commodores: LP/CD Hot On The
Tracks (Motown, 1976)
Commodores: LP/CD Commodores /
Zoom (Motown, 1977)
Commodores: LP/CD Natural High
(Motown, 1978)
Commodores: LP/CD Midnight Magic
(Motown, 1979)
Commodores: LP/CD Heroes (Motown,
1980)
Commodores: LP/CD In The Pocket
(Motown, 1981)
Commodores: LP/CD United (Polydor,
1986)
Diana Ross: LP/CD Swept Away
(Capitol, 1984)
Lionel Richie: LP/CD Lionel Richie
(Motown, 1982)
Lionel Richie: LP/CD Can't Slow
Down (Motown, 1983)
Lionel Richie: LP/CD Dancing On
The Ceiling (Motown, 1986)
Temptations, The: LP/CD A Song For
You (Motown, 1975)
Thank God It's Friday: LP/CD
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Polygram, 1978)
Other
contributions:
Charles
Wright & The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band: LP/CD Express Yourself (Warner Bros., 1970) - arranger
Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye:
LP/CD Diana & Marvin (Motown, 1973) - arranger
Diana Ross: LP/CD Last Time I Saw
Him (Motown, 1973) - arranger
Diana Ross: LP/CD Touch Me In The
Morning (Motown, 1973) - arranger
Gladys Knight & The Pips: LP
All I Need Is Time (Motown, 1973) - arranger
Jackson 5, The: LP/CD Maybe
Tomorrow (Motown, 1971) - arranger
Jackson 5, The: LP/CD Skywriter
(Motown, 1973) - arranger
Marvin Gaye: LP/CD Trouble Man
(Motown, 1972) - musician, arranger
Michael Jackson: LP/CD Got To Be
There (Motown, 1972) - arranger
George
Clinton
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Bernie
Worrell: LP/CD All The Woo In The World (Arista, 1978)
Bootsy's Rubber Band: LP/CD Stretchin'
Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band (Warner Bros., 1976)
Bootsy's Rubber Band: LP/CD Ahh
...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby ! (Warner Bros., 1977)
Bootsy's Rubber Band: LP/CD
Bootsy? Player Of The Year (Warner Bros., 1978)
Bootsy's Rubber Band: LP/CD This
Boot Is Made For Fonk-n (Warner Bros., 1979)
Bootsy: LP/CD Ultra Wave (Warner
Bros., 1980)
Bootsy Collins: LP/CD What's
Bootsy Doin? (Columbia,
1988)
Brides Of Funkenstein, The: LP/CD
Funk Or Walk (Atlantic, 1978)
Brides Of Funkenstein, The: LP/CD
Never Buy Texas From A Cowboy (Atlantic, 1979)
Dells, The: LP/CD New Beginnings
(ABC, 1978)
Eddie Hazel: LP/CD Games, Dames
And Guitar Thangs (Warner Bros., 1977)
Eramus Hall: LP Gohead
(Capitol-EMI, 1984)
Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns:
LP/CD A Blow For Me, A Toot To You (Atlantic, 1977)
Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns:
LP/CD Say Blow By Blow Backwards (Atlantic, 1979)
Funkadelic: LP/CD Funkadelic
(Westbound, 1970)
Funkadelic: LP/CD Free Your
Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow (Westbound, 1970)
Funkadelic: LP/CD Maggot Brain
(Westbound, 1971)
Funkadelic: LP/CD Cosmic Slop
(Westbound, 1973)
Funkadelic: LP/CD America Eats Its
Young (Westbound, 1972)
Funkadelic: LP/CD Standing On The
Verge Of Getting It On (Westbound, 1974)
Funkadelic: LP/CD Let's Take It To
The Stage (Westbound, 1975)
Funkadelic: LP/CD Tales Of Kidd
Funkadelic (Westbound, 1976)
Funkadelic: LP/CD Hardcore Jollies
(Priority/Warner Bros., 1976)
Funkadelic: LP/CD One Nation Under
A Groove (Priority/Warner Bros., 1978)
Funkadelic: LP/CD Uncle Jam Wants
You (Priority/Warner Bros., 1979)
Funkadelic: 12 INCH "By Way Of
The Drum" (MCA, 1989)
Funkadelic: LP/CD The Electric
Spanking Of War Babies (Priority/Warner Bros., 1981)
George Clinton: LP/CD Computer
Games (Capitol 1982)
George Clinton: LP/CD You
Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish! (Capitol, 1983)
George Clinton: LP/CD Some Of My
Best Jokes Are Friends (Capitol, 1985)
George Clinton: LP/CD R&B
Skeletons (In The Closet) (Capitol, 1986)
George Clinton: LP/CD George
Clinton Presents Our Gang Funky (MCA, 1989)
George Clinton: LP/CD The
Cinderella Theory (Paisley Park, 1989)
Incorporated Thang Band: LP/CD
Lifestyle Of The Roach And Famous (Warner Bros., 1987)
Jimmy G. And The Tackheads: LP The
Federation Of Tackheads (Capitol, 1985)
Otis Day & The Knights: LP/CD
Shout (MCA, 1989)
Parlet: LP/CD Pleasure Principle
(Casablanca, 1978)
Parlet: LP/CD Invasion Of The
Booty Snatchers (Casablanca, 1979)
Parlet: LP/CD Play Me Or Trade Me
(Casablanca, 1980)
Parliament: LP/CD Up For The Down
Stroke (Casablanca, 1974)
Parliament: LP/CD Chocolate City
(Casablanca, 1975)
Parliament: LP/CD Mothership
Connection (Casablanca, 1975)
Parliament: LP/CD The Clones Of
Dr. Funkenstein (Casablanca, 1976)
Parliament: LP/CD Funkentelechy
Vs. The Placebo Syndrome (Casablanca, 1977)
Parliament: LP/CD Motor-Booty
Affair (Casablanca, 1978)
Parliament: LP/CD
Gloryhallastoopid (Casablanca, 1979)
Parliament: LP/CD Trombipulation (Casablanca, 1980)
Philippe Wynne: LP/CD Wynne
Jammin’ (CBS, 1980)
P-Funk All Stars: LP/CD Urban
Dancefloor Guerillas (CBS, 1983)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: LP/CD
Freaky Styley (Capitol, 1985)
Red Hot Chili Peppers: 12 INCH "Taste The
Pain" (EMI-America, 1989)
Well Red: LP/CD Respect Due
(Virgin, 1988)
William Bootsy Collins: LP/CD The
One Giveth, The Count Taketh Away (Warner Bros., 1982)
Other
contributions:
Well Red: LP/CD Motion (Virgin, 1987) - remixer
Xavier: LP/CD Point Of Pleasure (Liberty, 1982) -
musician
David
"Pic" Conley & David Townsend
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Carol Lynn Townes: LP/CD Try Me Out
(Polydor, 1988)
Gwen Guthrie: LP/CD Good To Go
Lover (Polydor, 1986)
Hi Tension: 12 INCH "You Make Me
Happy" (Streetwave, 1984)
Isaac Hayes: LP/CD U-Turn (CBS,
1986)
Jermaine Jackson: LP/CD Don't Take
It Personal (Arista, 1989)
Jimmy Williams: 12 INCH "Do You
Really Want To Wait" (Soulstreet, 1987)
Mason: LP/CD Double Xposure
(Elektra, 1987)
Rebbie Jackson: LP/CD Reaction
(CBS, 1986)
Rebbie Jackson: LP/CD R U Tuff
Enuff (CBS, 1988)
Stanley Jordan: LP/CD Flying Home (EMI, 1988)
Surface: 12 INCH "Falling In
Love" (Salsoul, 1983)
Surface: 12 INCH "When Your X
Wants You Back" (Salsoul, 1984)
Surface: 12 INCH "Stop
Holdin' Back" (Salsoul, 1984)
Surface: LP/CD Surface (CBS, 1986)
Surface: LP/CD 2nd Wave (CBS,
1988)
Visions: 12 INCH
"Hypnotized" (Polydor, 1988)
Felton
Pilate & Michael Cooper
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Con Funk
Shun: LP/CD Secrets (Mercury, 1977)
Con Funk Shun: LP/CD Loveshine
(Mercury, 1978)
Con Funk Shun: LP/CD Candy
(Mercury, 1979)
Con Funk Shun: LP/CD Spirit Of
Love (Mercury, 1980)
Con Funk Shun: LP/CD Touch
(Mercury, 1980)
Con Funk Shun: LP/CD 7 (Mercury,
1981)
Con Funk Shun: LP/CD To The Max
(Mercury, 1982)
Con Funk Shun: LP/CD Electric Lady
(Mercury, 1985)
Klique: LP/CD It's Winning Time
(MCA, 1981)
Klique: LP/CD Let's Wear It Out
(MCA, 1982)
M.C. Hammer: LP/CD Feel My Power
(Bustin , 1987) Felton Pilate production
Michael Cooper: LP/CD Love Is Such
A Funny Game (Warner Bros., 1987) Michael Cooper production
Phyrework: LP Phyrework (Mercury,
1978) Michael Cooper production
Spinners, The: LP/CD Down To
Business (Volt, 1989) Felton Pilate production
Crown Heights Affair-related:
William
Anderson & Raymond Reid
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Amii Stewart: LP I'm Gonna Get
Your Love (Handshake, 1981)
Audrey Wheeler: 12 INCH "Your Love
Is Serious" (Prelude, 1983)
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Think Positive (De-Lite, 1982)
Crown Heights
Affair: LP/CD Struck Gold (De-Lite, 1983)
Darnell Williams: LP Pure
Satisfaction (My Disc/CBS, 1983)
Empress: LP/CD Dyin' To Be Dancin'
(Prelude, 1982)
Enchantment: LP Enchanted Lady (Columbia, 1982)
France Joli: LP/CD Now! (Prelude, 1982)
Intensive Heat: LP/CD Intensive
Heat (My Disc, 1982)
Terri Gonzalez: 12 INCH "Treat
Yourself To My Love" (Sutra/Becket, 1981)
Terri Gonzalez: 12 INCH
"Born A Winner"
(Sutra/Becket, 1982)
Trilark: LP/CD Trilark (Handshake,
1982)
Unlimited Touch: LP/CD Unlimited
Touch (Prelude, 1981)
Unlimited Touch: LP/CD Yes We're
Ready (Prelude, 1983)
Zinga: LP/CD Zinga (My Disc, 1982)
Other
contributions:
Carol Douglas: 12 INCH "My Simple Heart" (20th Century, 1981) -
arrangers
Carol Douglas: LP Love Zone (Next
Plateau, 1983) - arrangers
Carol Douglas: LP I Got Your Body
(Savoir Faire, 1983) - arrangers
Klassique: 12 INCH "Somebody's
Loving You" (SAM, 1983) - Raymond Reid remix
Crown Heights Affair: LP Crown Heights Affair (RCA, 1974) - musicians, songwriters
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD
Dreaming A Dream (a.k.a. Foxy Lady) (De-Lite, 1975) - musicians, songwriters
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Do It
Your Way (De-Lite, 1976) - musicians, songwriters
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Dream
World (De-Lite, 1978) - musicians, songwriters
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Dance
Lady Dance (De-Lite, 1979) - musicians, songwriters
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Sure
Shot (De-Lite, 1980) - musicians, songwriters
Denroy Morgan: LP/CD I'll Do
Anything For You (Sutra/Becket, 1982) - Raymond Reid musician
Rocket: LP/CD Rocket (Quality,
1982) - Raymond Reid songwriter
Bert
Reid
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Bert Reid: 12
INCH "Groovin' With You" (Next Plateau,
1985)
Denroy Morgan: LP/CD I'll Do
Anything For You (Sutra/Becket, 1982)
Jamaica Girls: 12 INCH "Rock The
Beat" (Sutra,1982)
Jamaica Girls: 12 INCH "On The
Move" (Sire, 1986)
Jimmy Williams: 12 INCH "All Of My
Lovin'" (Salsoul, 1983)
Unlimited Touch: LP/CD Unlimited
Touch (Prelude, 1981)
Other
contributions:
Crown
Heights Affair: LP Crown Heights
Affair (RCA, 1974) - musician
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Do It
Your Way (De-Lite, 1976) - musician, songwriter
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Dream
World (De-Lite, 1978) - musician, songwriter
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Dance
Lady Dance (De-Lite, 1979) - musician, songwriter
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Sure
Shot (De-Lite, 1980) - musician, songwriter
Empress: LP/CD Dyin' To Be Dancin'
(Prelude, 1982) - musician
Raw Silk: 12 INCH "Do It To
The Music" (West End, 1982) - songwriter
Unlimited Touch: LP/CD Yes We're
Ready (Prelude, 1983) - songwriter
Raymond
Rock
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Rocket: LP/CD Rocket (Quality, 1982)
Carol Douglas: LP Love Zone (Next
Plateau, 1983)
Carol Douglas: LP I Got Your Body (Savoir Faire, 1983)
Other
contributions:
Crown Heights Affair: LP Crown Heights Affair (RCA, 1974) - musician
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Dreaming
A Dream (a.k.a. Foxy Lady) (De-Lite, 1975) - musician
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Do It
Your Way (De-Lite, 1976) - musician
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Dream
World (De-Lite, 1978) - musician, songwriter
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Dance
Lady Dance (De-Lite, 1979) - musician
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Sure
Shot (De-Lite, 1980) - songwriter, musician
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Think
Positive (De-Lite, 1982) - songwriter, musician
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Struck
Gold (De-Lite, 1983) - songwriter, musician
Empress: LP/CD Dyin' To Be Dancin'
(Prelude, 1982) - musician
France Joli: LP/CD Now! (Prelude,
1982) - songwriter, musician
Trilark: LP/CD Trilark (Handshake,
1982) - musician
Unlimited Touch: LP/CD Unlimited
Touch (Prelude, 1981) - musician
Unlimited Touch: LP/CD Yes We're
Ready (Prelude, 1983) - musician
Darryl
Gibbs
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Strikers,
The: LP/CD The Strikers (Prelude, 1981)
Strikers, The: 12 INCH
"Contagious" (Prelude, 1982)
Other
contributions:
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Sure Shot (De-Lite, 1980) - musician
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Think Positive (a.k.a. I Got Somethin' For Ya)
(De-Lite, 1982) - musician
Crown Heights Affair: LP/CD Struck Gold (De-Lite, 1983) - musician
Phil
Thomas
Production
appears on:
Zafra Bros.: 12 INCH
"Will You See Me Tonight" (Eastbourne, 1981)
D
Eumir
Deodato
Producer
facts in short:
Brazilian Eumir Deodato worked as a session
musician in Rio before emigrating to California in
1967 where he quickly established himself as a musical arranger. He has
worked with artists such as Roberta Flack, Frank Sinatra, Bette Midler,
Aretha Franklin, Earth Wind & Fire, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto
and Stanley Turrentine. As a solo artist with a jazzy approach he signed
successfully to the New York-based CTI Records (hit: "Also Sprach Zarathustra") and later got a deal
with MCA. A subsequent move to Warner Bros. revived his career with the
electrifying "Whistle
Bump" (1978)
and "Night
Cruiser"
(1980). In 1979 Eumir Deodato went disco/soul and embarked on a highly
successful producer career, revitalizing the fortunes of funkband Kool &
The Gang. He refined the qualities already inherent in the group's eclectic
style and together they achieved a series of highly successful international
hits including "Ladies
Night"
(1979), "Too
Hot"
(1980), "Celebration" (1980), "Get Down On It" (1981) and "Let s Go Dancing (Oh La
La La)"
(1982). He utilized this same successful formula on his own album Happy Hour and Juicy's self-titled debut
album, both released in 1982.
In 1983 Deodato offered his services to ConFunkShun,
another hot funk act on the Mercury label, and produced their Fever set which showed an
interesting transitional production sound. His following solo project Motion
in 1984 and further collaborations with Kleeer, Juicy and One Way had Deodato moving
heavily into the realm of '80s soul, using a bit more of an electro feel overall, often including
work on Prophet, Linn drums and DMX, next to the more traditional
instrumentation. Eumir Deodato switched to the Atlantic
label in 1989 for his last album to date. In the '90s Deodato continued to
be a vital force in the pop scene, working with Icelandic singer Björk and
several Brazilian artists.
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Breakfast Club: LP/CD Breakfast
Club (MCA, 1987)
Brenda K. Starr: LP/CD Brenda K.
Starr (MCA, 1987)
Chuck Mangione: LP/CD Disguise
(CBS, 1984)
Con Funk Shun: LP/CD Fever
(Mercury, 1983)
Dazz Band, The: LP/CD Rock The
Room (RCA, 1988)
Denroy Morgan: LP Make My Day
(RCA, 1984)
Deodato: LP/CD Prelude (CTI, 1972)
Deodato: LP/CD Deodato 2 (CTI,
1973)
Deodato: LP/CD Whirlwinds (MCA,
1974)
Deodato: LP/CD First Cuckoo (MCA,
1975)
Deodato: LP Very Together (MCA,
1976)
Deodato: LP/CD Love Island (Warner
Bros., 1978)
Deodato: LP/CD Knights Of Fantasy
(Warner Bros., 1979)
Deodato: LP/CD Night Cruiser
(Warner Bros., 1980)
Deodato: LP/CD Happy Hour (Warner
Bros., 1982)
Deodato: LP/CD Motion (Warner
Bros., 1984)
Deodato: LP/CD Somewhere Out There
(Atlantic, 1989)
Fat Larry’s Band: LP Nice (Omni,
1986)
Gwen Guthrie: LP/CD Just For
You (Island, 1985)
James J.T. Taylor: "The
Promised Land" from LP/CD Ghostbusters II - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack (MCA, 1989)
James J.T. Taylor: LP/CD Master Of
The Game (MCA, 1989)
Juicy: LP Juicy (Arista, 1982)
Juicy: 12 INCH "Beat Street
Strut" and "Give Me All" taken from LP Beat
Street - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Atlantic, 1984)
Juicy: LP/CD It Takes Two (Epic,
1985)
Juicy: LP/CD Spread The Love
(Epic, 1987)
Kleeer: LP/CD Intimate Connection
(Atlantic, 1984)
Kleeer: LP Seeekret (Atlantic,
1985)
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Ladies'
Night (De-Lite/Mercury, 1979)
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD
Celebrate (De-Lite/Mercury, 1980)
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD
Something Special (De-Lite/Mercury, 1981)
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD As One
(De-Lite/Mercury, 1982)
One Way: LP IX (MCA, 1986)
Pretty Poison: LP/CD Catch Me I'm
Falling (Virgin, 1988)
Platinum Hook: LP Ecstasy Paradise (Motown, 1980) - unreleased
Platinum Hook: 12 INCH
"Words Of Love” / “Ecstasy Paradise"
(Motown, 1980)
Roberta Flack: "People On
A String" from LP/CD White Nights - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Atlantic, 1985)
Other
contributions:
Aretha Franklin: LP Let Me In Your Life (Atlantic, 1973) - arranger
Earth Wind & Fire: LP/CD All
'N All (CBS, 1977) - arranger
Roberta Flack: LP Quiet Fire
(Atlantic, 1971) - arranger
Roberta Flack: LP/CD Killing Me
Softly (Atlantic, 1973) - arranger
Roberta Flack: "One Thing
Leads To Another" from LP Body Rock - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(EMI, 1984) - arranger
Stanley Turrentine: LP Salt Song
(CTI, 1971) - arranger, musician
Keith
Diamond
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Anthony
Franklin: 12 INCH "Hot Number" (Mirage, 1983)
Billy Ocean: LP/CD Suddenly (Jive, 1984)
College Boys, The: 12 INCH "I Get A
Rush" (BMC, 1983)
James Ingram: LP/CD Never Felt So
Good (Qwest/Warner Bros., 1986)
Keith Diamond Band, The: 12 INCH "All Night
Rocker" / "Body Talk" (Millenium-RCA, 1981)
Keith Diamond Band, The: 12 INCH "The Dip
(Show Me What You Got)" (Millenium-RCA, 1981)
Melba Moore: LP/CD Read My Lips
(Capitol, 1985)
Precious Wilson: LP/CD Precious
Wilson (Jive, 1986)
Richard Jon Smith: LP/CD Richard Jon
Smith (Jive, 1983)
Richard Jon Smith: 12 INCH "In The
Night" / "I Need You" (Jive, 1984)
Starpoint: LP/CD Restless
(Elektra,1985)
Other
contribution:
Freddie
Jackson: LP/CD Rock Me Tonight (Capitol, 1985) - songwriter
Jimmy Douglass
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Black Heat: LP/CD No Time To Burn (Atlantic, 1974)
Creation: LP Creation (Atco, 1974)
Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King: LP/CD So Romantic (RCA, 1984)
Odyssey: LP/CD Happy Together (RCA, 1982)
Ritchie Family: LP All Night All Right (RCA, 1983)
Skwares: LP Skwares (Cotillion, 1984)
Slave: LP Just A Touch Of Love (Cotillion, 1979)
Slave: LP/CD Stone Jam (Cotillion, 1980)
Slave: LP/CD Show Time (Cotillion, 1981)
Slave: LP Bad Enuff (Cotillion, 1983)
Slave: LP New Plateau (Cotillion, 1984)
Steve Arrington: LP/CD Steve Arrington’s Hall Of Fame (Atlantic,
1983)
Steve Arrington: LP/CD Positive Power (Atlantic, 1984)
Steve Arrington: LP/CD Jam Packed (EMI- Manhattan, 1987)
United 8: single “Ain’t It Good”/“Getting Uptown (To
Get Down)” (Atlantic, 1972)
George
Duke
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
101 North: LP/CD 101 North (Capitol/Valley Vue, 1988)
A Taste Of Honey: LP/CD Twice As
Sweet (Capitol, 1980)
Al Jarreau: LP/CD Heart's Horizon
(Warner Bros./Reprise, 1988)
Angela Bofill: LP/CD Tell Me Tomorrow
(Arista, 1985)
Billy Cobham - George Duke Band, The:
LP/CD "Live" On Tour In Europe (WEA, 1976)
Blackbyrds: LP/CD Better Days
(Fantasy, 1980)
Brecker Brothers, The: LP/CD
Detente (Arista, 1980)
Dee Dee Bridgewater: LP Bad For Me
(Elektra, 1979)
Deniece Williams: LP/CD I'm So
Proud (CBS, 1983)
Deniece Williams: LP/CD Let's Hear
It For The Boy (CBS, 1984)
Deniece Williams: 12 INCH "Let's Hear
It For The Boy" taken from LP Footloose - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack (Colombia, 1984)
Deniece Williams: LP/CD As Good As
It Gets (CBS, 1988)
Dianne Reeves: LP/CD Dianne Reeves
(Blue Note, 1987)
Dianne Reeves: LP/CD Never Too Far
(EMI, 1989)
Flora Purim: LP/CD Carry On
(Warner Bros., 1979)
France Joli: LP Witch Of Love
(Epic, 1985)
George Duke: LP/CD Feel (MPS,
1974)
George Duke: LP/CD Faces In
Reflection (MPS, 1974)
George Duke: LP/CD The Aura Will
Prevail (MPS, 1975)
George Duke: LP/CD I Love The
Blues, She Heard Me Cry (MPS, 1975)
George Duke: LP/CD Liberated
Fantasies (MPS, 1976)
George Duke: LP/CD The 1976 Solo
Keyboard Album (MPS, 1976/1982)
George Duke: LP/CD From Me To You
(Epic, 1977)
George Duke: LP/CD Reach For It
(Epic, 1977)
George Duke: LP/CD Don't Let Go
(Epic, 1978)
George Duke: LP/CD Follow The
Rainbow (Epic, 1979)
George Duke: LP/CD Master Of The
Game (Epic, 1979)
George Duke: LP/CD A Brazilian
Love Affair (Epic, 1980)
George Duke: LP/CD Dream On (Epic,
1982)
George Duke: LP/CD Guardian Of The
Light (Epic, 1983)
George Duke: LP/CD Rendezvous
(Epic, 1984)
George Duke: LP/CD Thief In The
Night (Elektra, 1985)
George Duke: LP/CD George Duke
(Elektra, 1986)
George Duke: LP/CD Night After
Night (Elektra, 1989)
George Howard: LP/CD A Nice Place
To Be (MCA, 1986)
George Howard: LP/CD Personal
(MCA, 1989)
Gladys Knight & The Pips: LP
Christmas Every Day (MCA, 1980)
Gloria Loring: LP/CD Full Moon/No
Hesitation (Atlantic, 1988)
Hiroshima: LP/CD Go (Epic, 1987)
Howard Hewett: LP/CD I Commit To
Love (Elektra, 1986)
Howard Hewett: LP/CD Forever And
Ever (Elektra, 1988)
Irene Cara: LP/CD Carasmatic
(Elektra, 1987)
Jeffrey Osborne: LP/CD Jeffrey
Osborne (A&M, 1982)
Jeffrey Osborne: LP/CD Stay With
Me Tonight (A&M, 1983)
Jeffrey Osborne: LP/CD Don't Stop
(A&M, 1984)
Jeffrey Osborne: LP/CD Emotional
(A&M, 1986)
Katia: LP Party Lights (WEA, 1984)
L.A. Lakers: 12 INCH "Just Say
No" (Capitol, 1987)
Larry Graham: LP/CD Sooner Or
Later (Warner Bros., 1982)
Leon Patillo: LP Love Around The
World (Myrrh LA, 1985)
Melissa Manchester: LP Mathematics
(MCA, 1985)
Michael Sembello: LP Summer Lovers
(Warner Bros., 1982)
Michael White: LP The X Factor
(Elektra, 1978)
Miles Davis: LP/CD Tutu (Warner
Bros., 1986)
Miles Davis: LP/CD Amandla (Warner
Bros., 1989)
Philip Bailey: LP/CD Continuation
(CBS, 1983)
Philip Bailey: LP The Wonders Of
His Love (Myrrh, 1984)
Raul DeSouza: LP Sweet Lucy
(Capitol, 1977)
Raul DeSouza: LP Don't Ask My
Neighbour (Capitol, 1978)
Rufus: LP/CD Seal In Red (Warner
Bros., 1983)
Sadao Watanabe: LP/CD Birds Of
Passage (Elektra, 1987)
Sadao Watanabe: LP/CD Front Seat
(Elektra, 1989)
Saijo Hideki: LP/CD New York Girl
(RCA Japan, 1987)
Seawind: LP Seawind (A&M,
1980)
Shalamar: LP/CD Heart Break
(Solar, 1984)
Sister Sledge: LP/CD Betcha Say
That To All The Girls (Cotillion/Atlantic, 1983)
Spaceballs: LP/CD Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack (Atlantic, 1987)
Stanley Clarke & George Duke:
LP/CD The Clarke/Duke Project (Epic, 1981)
Stanley Clarke & George Duke:
LP/CD The Clarke/Duke Project 2 (Epic, 1983)
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD I've Got
The Cure (Polygram/Casablanca, 1984)
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD Stephanie
Mills (MCA, 1985)
Steps Ahead: LP/CD Magnetic
(Elektra/Asylum, 1986)
Tania Maria: LP The Lady From
Brazil (Manhattan, 1986)
The Heavenly Kid: LP Original
Motion Picture Soundtrack (Elektra, 1985)
Other
contributions:
Airto: LP/CD Virgin Land (Salavation, 1974) - musician
Airto: LP/CD I'm Fine, How Are You
(Warner Bros., 1977) - musician
Airto: LP Touching You…Touching Me (Warner Bros., 1979) - musician
Al Jarreau: LP/CD We Got By
(Reprise, 1975) - musician
Al Jarreau: LP/CD This Time (WEA,
1980) - musician
Al Jarreau: LP/CD Breakin' Away
(WEA, 1981) - musician
Alphonse Mouzon: LP The Man
Incognito (Blue Note, 1975) - musician
Anita Baker: LP/CD Giving You The
Best That I Got (Elektra, 1988) - musician
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Jump To It
(Arista, 1982) - musician
Billy Cobham: LP/CD Crosswinds
(Atlantic, 1974) - musician, songwriter
Billy Cobham: LP/CD A Funky Thide
Of Things (Atlantic, 1975) - musician
Billy Cobham: LP/CD Life And Times
(Atlantic, 1976) - musician
Billy Cobham: LP/CD B.C. (CBS,
1979) - musician
Billy Cobham: LP/CD Picture This
(GRP, 1987) - musician
Carl Carlton: LP/CD Carl Carlton
(20thCentury, 1981) - musician
Chocolate Jam Co., The: LP/CD
Spread Of The Future (Epic, 1979) - musician
Commodores, The: LP/CD Rock Solid
(Polydor, 1988) - musician
DeeDee Bridgewater: LP/CD Just
Family (Elektra, 1978) - musician, songwriter
Deniece Williams: LP/CD Water
Under The Bridge (CBS, 1987) - musician, songwriter, arranger
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD Touch
The World (CBS, 1987) - musician, arranger
Eddie Henderson: LP/CD Sunburst
(Blue Note, 1975) - musician, songwriter
Flora Purim: LP/CD Butterfly
Dreams (Milestone, 1974) - musician
Flora Purim: LP/CD Stories To Tell
(Milestone, 1974) - musician
Flora Purim: LP/CD Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly (Milestone, 1976) -
musician
Flora Purim: LP/CD Encounter
(Milestone, 1977) - musician
Flora Purim: LP/CD Nothing Will Be
As It Was Tomorrow (Warner Bros., 1977 ) - musician
Flora Purim: LP/CD That's What She
Said (Milestone, 1978) - musician
Flora Purim: LP/CD Everyday,
Everynight (Warner Bros., 1978) - musician
Flora Purim & Airto: LP/CD
Magicians (Crossover/Concord, 1986) - musician
George Benson: LP/CD Give Me The
Night (Warner Bros., 1980) - musician
George Howard: LP/CD Reflections
(MCA, 1989) - musician
Gladys Knight & The Pips:
LP/CD All Our Love (MCA, 1988) - musician
Larry Graham: LP/CD Victory
(Warner Bros., 1983) - musician
Lee Ritenour: LP/CD Captain
Fingers (Epic, 1977) - musician
Michael Jackson: LP/CD Off The
Wall (Epic, 1979) - musician
Michael Sembello: LP/CD Bossa Nova
Hotel (A&M, 1983) - musician
Patti LaBelle: LP/CD Be Yourself
(MCA, 1989) - musician
Paul Jackson Jr.: LP/CD I Came To
Play (Atlantic, 1988) - musician
Paulinho Da Costa: LP/CD Sunrise
(Pablo, 1984) - musician
Paulinho Da Costa: LP/CD Breakdown
(A&M, 1987) - musician
Quincy Jones: LP/CD You've Got It
Bad Girl (A&M, 1973) - musician
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Mellow Madness
(A&M, 1975) - musician
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Back On The Block
(Qwest, 1989) - musician
Siedah Garrett: LP/CD Kiss Of Life
(Qwest, 1988) - musician
Stanley Clarke: LP/CD Journey To
Love (Epic, 1975) - musician
Stanley Clarke: LP/CD School Days
(Epic, 1976) - musician
Stanley Clarke: LP/CD I Wanna Play
For You (Epic, 1977) - musician
Stanley Clarke: LP/CD Time
Exposure (Epic, 1984) - musician
Stanley Clarke: LP/CD If This Bass
Could Only Talk (Epic, 1988) - musician
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD If I Were
Your Woman (MCA, 1987) - musician
T-Connection: LP The Game Of Life
(Capitol, 1983) - musician
Whispers, The: LP/CD Love For Love
(Solar, 1983) - musician
E
Barry
Eastmond
Producer
facts in short:
Barry J. Eastmond is a classically trained musician.
He initially worked as an arranger on the Philly music scene doing rhythm
arrangements for artists including the O'Jays. In the early '80s he got a gig
with Melba Moore as musical director and keyboard player and went on the road
with her. After Melba Moore came Chaka Khan and Angela Bofill. When he grew
tired of touring he decided to settle in his vibrant hometown of New York. His goal was
to be a complete musician and that's what he did: playing keyboards in
Broadway shows (Cats), composing tunes and jingles, writing songs, doing live
gigs and session work. Inevitably though, one aspect began to overshadow the
rest. In 1984 he worked with producer Keith Diamond on Billy Ocean's
Suddenly album in every way (hit: "Caribbean Queen"). When Billy Ocean and Keith Diamond had some kind
of falling out, Eastmond was asked to do the next record. With the help of
his friend Wayne Brathwaite he wrote and produced a slew of hits for Billy Ocean. The previous years he had
already produced outstanding releases by Lillo Thomas and Freddie Jackson.
Since, Barry Easmond has become one of the most prolific pop and R&B
songwriter/producers, having over seventy gold, platinum, and multi-platinum
albums on some of the most important contemporary artists. Barry's creative
magic has been responsible for R&B hit records by Anita Baker, Brandy,
Aretha Franklin, Tamia, Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, Keith Washington, Whitney
Houston, Al Jarreau, Dionne Warwick, Temptations, Phil Perry, Will Downing,
Vanessa Williams, Jonathan Butler, Regina Belle, Barry White, Al Jarreau and
George Benson, to name just a few. Barry has not limited his composing to the
record industry. He has written numerous songs for films and TV. As if that
were not enough, Barry has received numerous A.S.C.A.P. Pop and R&B
awards.
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Billy
Ocean: LP/CD Love Zone (Jive, 1986)
Controllers, The: LP/CD Stay (MCA,
1986)
Freddie Jackson: LP/CD Rock Me
Tonight (Capitol, 1985)
Freddie Jackson: LP/CD Just Like
The First Time (Capitol, 1986)
Freddie Jackson: LP/CD Don't Let
Love Slip Away (Capitol, 1988)
George Benson: LP/CD Twice The
Love (Warner Bros., 1988)
Jonathan Butler: LP/CD Introducing
Jonathan Butler (Jive, 1986)
Jonathan Butler: LP/CD Jonathan
Butler (Jive, 1987)
Jonathan Butler: LP/CD More Than
Friends (Jive, 1988)
Lillo Thomas: LP/CD All Of You
(Capitol, 1984)
Najee: LP/CD Day By Day
(EMI-America, 1988)
Regina Belle: LP/CD Stay With Me
(CBS, 1989)
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD Home (MCA,
1989)
Vanessa Bell Armstrong: LP/CD
Wonderful One (Jive, 1989)
Other
contributions:
Carol Williams: 12 INCH "Have You
For My Love" (New Image, 1983) - songwriter
Change: LP/CD Sharing Your Love
(Atlantic,1982) - musician
Earl Klugh: LP/CD Wishful Thinking
(Capitol, 1983) - musician
Evelyn King: LP/CD Get Loose (RCA,
1982) - musician
Funk Deluxe: LP/CD Funk Deluxe (Salsoul, 1984) -
songwriter
Genobia Jeter: LP/CD Genobia
(RCA, 1986) - musician
Glenn Jones: LP/CD Finesse (RCA,
1984) - musician
Katie Kissoon: 12 INCH "You're The One
(You're My Number One)" (Jive, 1983) - songwriter
Kenny G: LP/CD G Force (Arista,
1983) - musician
Kenny G: LP/CD Gravity (Arista,
1985) - musician
Lillo Thomas: LP/CD Let Me Be
Yours (Capitol, 1983) - musician
Lonnie Liston Smith: LP/CD
Silhouettes (Dr. Jazz, 1984) - musician
McFadden & Whitehead: LP
Movin' On (Capitol-EMI, 1983) - musician, songwriter
Melba Moore: LP What A Woman Needs
(Capitol, 1981) - musician
Melba Moore: LP/CD Read My Lips
(Capitol, 1985) - musician
Millie Jackson: LP/CD Tide Is
Turning (Jive, 1988) - musician
O'Jays, The: LP/CD My Favorite
Person (PIR, 1982) - musician, arranger
Sadao Watanabe: LP/CD Rendezvous
(Elektra/Asylum, 1984) - musician
Starpoint: LP/CD Restless
(Elektra/Asylum, 1985) - musician
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD If I Were
Your Woman (MCA, 1987) - musician
Whodini: LP/CD Black In Black
(Jive, 1986) - musician
Hubert
Eaves III
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Andre
Cymone: LP/CD AC (CBS, 1985)
Cheryl Lynn: LP/CD It's Gonna Be
Right (CBS, 1985)
D-Train: LP/CD You're The One For
Me (Prelude, 1982)
D-Train: LP/CD Music (Prelude,
1983)
D-Train: LP/CD Something's On Your
Mind (Prelude, 1984)
D-Train: 12 INCH "Just
Another Night (Without Your Love)" (Prelude, 1985)
Genobia Jeter: LP/CD Genobia (RCA,
1986)
Glenn Jones: LP/CD Everybody Loves
A Winner (RCA, 1983)
Hubert Eaves: LP/CD Esoteric Funk
(Inner City, 1977)
James "D Train" Williams:
LP/CD Miracles Of The Heart (CBS, 1986)
James "D Train" Williams:
LP/CD In Your Eyes (CBS, 1988)
Jocelyn Brown: LP One From The Heart
(Warner Bros., 1985)
Madonna: LP/CD Who's That Girl
(Warner Bros.,1987)
Miles Jaye: LP/CD Miles (Island,
1987)
Norma Jean Wright: 12 INCH "Every Bit
Of This Love" (MCA, 1985)
Stacy Lattisaw: LP/CD What You
Need (Motown, 1989)
Strangers, The: LP/CD Step Out Of
My Dream (Salsoul, 1983)
Other
contributions:
Bridgewater
Brothers, The: LP Generations Suite
(Columbia, 1979) - musician
Carlos Garnett: LP Journey To
Enlightenment (Muse, 1974) - musician
Carlos Garnett: LP Let This Melody
Ring On (Muse, 1975) - musician
Force M.D.'s: LP/CD Touch And Go
(Warner Bros., 1987) - musician
Gary Bartz: LP I've Known Rivers
And Other Bodies (Prestige, 1973) - musician
Gary Bartz NTU Troop: LP Follow
The Medicine Man (Prestige, 1973) - musician
Gary Bartz: LP Singerella: A
Ghetto Fairy Tale (Prestige, 1973) - musician
Gary Bartz: LP The Shadow Do
(Prestige, 1975) - musician
Gary Bartz: LP Bartz (Arista,
1980) - musician, songwriter
Luther Vandross: LP/CD Any Love
(Epic, 1988) - musician, songwriter
Mtume: LP Kiss This World Goodbye
(Epic, 1978) - musician
Mtume: LP/CD In Search Of The
Rainbow Seekers (Epic, 1980) - musician, songwriter
Norman Connors: LP/CD Slew Foot
(Buddah, 1975) - musician
Norman Connors: LP/CD Saturday
Night Special (Buddah, 1976) - musician
Norman Connors: LP/CD Romantic
Journey (Buddah, 1977) - musician
Norman Connors: LP/CD You Are My
Starship (Buddah, 1977) - musician
Phyllis Hyman: LP/CD Phyllis Hyman
(Buddah, 1977) - musician, songwriter, arranger
Phyllis Hyman: LP/CD You Know How
To Love Me (Arista, 1979) - musician, songwriter
Roberta Flack: LP/CD Roberta Flack
feat. Donny Hathaway (Atlantic, 1979) - musician
Sharon Redd: LP/CD Love How You
Feel (Prelude, 1983) - songwriter
Spinners, The: LP Can't Shake This
Feelin' (Atlantic, 1981) -
musician
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD Sweet
Sensation (20th Century, 1980) - musician, songwriter
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD Stephanie
(20th Century, 1981) - musician
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD Whatcha
Gonna Do (20th Century, 1979) - musician
Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds &
Lou Antonio "L.A."
Reid (See B: Babyface & L.A. Reid)
Nile
Rodgers & Bernard Edwards (See R:
Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards)
Bernard
Edwards
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
ABC: LP/CD Alphabet City (Mercury, 1987)
Bernard Edwards: LP/CD Glad To Be
Here (WEA, 1983)
Burglar: LP/CD Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack (MCA, 1987)
Diana Ross: LP/CD Swept Away
(Capitol, 1984)
E.P.M.: LP No Lies (Cotillion,
1984)
Jacksons, The: 12 INCH "Time Out
For The Burglar" taken from LP/CD Burglar - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack (MCA, 1987)
Jody Watley: LP/CD Jody Watley
(MCA, 1987)
Nona Hendryx: LP The Heat (RCA,
1985)
Starpoint: LP/CD Hot To The Touch
(Asylum-Elektra, 1988)
Other
contributions:
Eddie
Murphy: LP/CD So Happy (CBS, 1989) - musician
Madonna: LP/CD Like A Virgin
(Sire, 1984) - musician
Michael Gregory: LP Situation X
(Island, 1983) - musician
Nile Rodgers: LP/CD Adventures In
The Land Of The Good Groove (Mirage-Atlantic, 1983) - musician
Roundtree: LP Roller Disco (Island, 1978) - musician
F
David
Frank & Mic Murphy
Producer
facts in short:
Singer/guitarplayer Mic (Michael) Murphy and
keyboardist David Frank met while touring with the funk band Kleeer in 1981.
Together they formed their own group The System and set up the company
Science Lab Productions. Frank invested in the emerging MIDI/synth music
technology. Through these revolutionary synchronized instruments, he created
a one-man electronic rhythm section and helped laying the foundation for
contemporary electronic popular music. Before The System became a top act,
Frank and Murphy recorded the Slave-like single "Much Too Much" in
1982 under the name Sass. The first System single "It's Passion"
generated major interest. They were subsequently signed to the
Mirage/Atlantic label and the debut album Sweat was released in 1983 (hit:
"You Are In My System"). Their innovative approach put The System
in high demand as producers, songwriters and musicians. The group embarked on
a number of writing and/or production projects for other artists including
Howard Johnson and Attitude. As The System they hit the black charts again
with "I Wanna Make You Feel Good" (1984) and "This Is For
You" (1985). In the meantime the duo continued to work as musicians and/or
producers for Jeff Lorber ("Step By Step"), Chaka Khan ("I
Feel For You"), Phil Collins ("Sussudio"), Mtume ("Juicy
Fruit"), Evelyn King, Steve Winwood ("Higher Love"), Scritti
Politti ("Absolute"), Aztec Camera and Pauli Carman. They also
contributed to the movie soundtracks for two Eddie Murphy blockbusters:
Beverly Hills Cop and Coming To America. 1987 was a great year for The
System, giving them their biggest R&B and pop hit: "Don't Disturb
This Groove". Even though it seemed that everyone wanted to work with
The System, the pair decided not to spread themselves too thin and turned
down a lot of offers. At the end of the '80s, Mic Murphy and David Frank
parted ways. Frank went on to work with artists like Michael McDonald, Phoebe
Snow, Masters At Work, 98 Degrees, Sheena Easton, Christina Aguilera, Omar,
Dionne Farris, Wild Orchid, Eternal and Rebbie Jackson. During early 1991,
Mic Murphy released his solo album Touch (Fit to Be Tied) which had a lot of
System overtones. In 2000 the The System reunited for their album ESP.
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Angela
Bofill: LP/CD Let Me Be The One (Arista, 1984)
Ashford And Simpson: LP/CD Love Or
Physical (Capitol, 1989)
Attitude: LP/CD Pump The Nation
(Atlantic, 1983)
Aztec Camera: LP/CD Love (Sire,
1987)
Chaka Khan: LP/CD C.K. (Warner
Bros., 1988)
Dance Like A Mother: 12 INCH "Love Or
Lust" (Virgin, 1987)
Evelyn "Champagne" King:
LP/CD So Romantic (RCA, 1984)
Gavin Christopher: LP/CD Gavin
(EMI/Manhattan, 1988)
Howard Johnson: LP Doin' It My Way
(A&M, 1983)
Jeff Lorber: LP/CD Step By Step
(Arista, 1985)
Junior: LP/CD Acquired Taste
(Mercury/Phonogram, 1985)
Nona Hendryx: LP/CD Female Trouble
(EMI America, 1987)
Pauli Carman: LP/CD Dial My Number
(CBS, 1986)
Philip Bailey: LP/CD Inside Out
(CBS, 1986)
Radiant: 12 INCH "Something's
Got A Hold On Me" (Columbia, 1989)
Sass: 12 INCH "Much Too
Much" (25 West, 1982)
System, The: LP/CD Sweat
(Mirage/Polydor, 1983)
System, The: "Rock 'N Roll Me
Again" from LP/CD Beverly Hills Cop - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(MCA, 1984)
System, The: "Baptize
The Beat" from LP Beat Street - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Atlantic, 1984)
System, The: LP/CD X-Periment
(Mirage/Atlantic, 1984)
System, The: LP/CD The Pleasure
Seekers (Mirage/Atlantic, 1985)
System, The: LP/CD Don't Disturb
This Groove (Mirage/Atlantic, 1987)
System, The: LP/CD Rhythm And
Romance (Mirage/Atlantic, 1989)
Takeshi Itoh: LP/CD T.K.
(Columbia, 1989)
Other
Contributions:
Chaka
Khan: LP/CD I Feel For You (Warner Bros., 1984) -
arrangers, musicians, songwriters
Cheri: LP/CD Cheri (Polydor, 1982)
- David Frank musician
Kleeer: LP Taste The Music
(Atlantic, 1982) - Mic Murphy musician
Kleeer: LP Get Ready (Atlantic,
1983) - David Frank musician
Lenny White: LP/CD Attitude
(Elektra, 1983) - David Frank musician
Mtume: LP/CD Juicy Fruit (Epic,
1983) - David Frank musician
Mtume: LP/CD Theater Of The Mind
(Epic,1986) - David Frank musician
Phil Collins: LP/CD No Jacket
Required (Atlantic, 1985) - David Frank musician
Scritti Politti: LP/CD Cupid &
Psyche 85 (Virgin, 1985) - David Frank musician
Steve Winwood: LP/CD Back In The
High Life (Island, 1986) - David Frank musician
G
Kenneth
Gamble & Leon Huff
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Billy Paul: LP/CD Going East
(PIR, 1971)
Billy Paul: LP/CD 360 Degrees Of
Billy Paul (PIR, 1972)
Billy Paul: LP/CD Ebony Woman
(PIR, 1973)
Billy Paul: LP/CD War Of The Gods
(PIR, 1973)
Billy Paul: LP/CD Got My
Head On Straight (PIR, 1975)
Billy Paul: LP/CD Let 'Em In
(PIR, 1976)
Billy Paul: LP/CD Only The Strong
Survive (PIR, 1977)
Billy Paul: LP/CD First
Class (PIR, 1979)
Bobby Rush: LP/CD Rush Hour
(PIR, 1979)
Bunny Sigler: "Don't Stop Doing What
You're Doing" / "Where Do The Lonely Go" (Neptune,
1970)
Dee Dee Sharp: LP/CD Happy Bout
The Whole Thing (PIR, 1976)
Dee Dee Sharp: LP/CD What Color Is
Love (PIR, 1977)
Dee Dee Sharp: LP/CD Dee Dee (PIR,
1980)
Ebonys, The: LP The Ebonys (PIR, 1973)
Futures, The: LP/CD Past,
Present & The Futures (PIR, 1979)
Futures, The: LP/CD Greetings
Of Peace (PIR, 1980)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes: LP/CD I Miss You (PIR, 1972)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes: LP/CD Black & Blue (PIR, 1973)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes: LP/CD Wake Up Everybody (PIR, 1975)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes: LP/CD To Be True (PIR, 1975)
Intruders, The: LP/CD Save The
Children (PIR, 1973)
Jacksons, The: LP/CD The
Jacksons (Epic/PIR, 1976)
Jacksons, The: LP/CD Goin' Places
(Epic/PIR, 1977)
Jean Carn: LP/CD Jean Carn (PIR,
1976)
Jean Carn: LP/CD Happy To Be With
You (PIR, 1978)
Jerry Butler: LP/CD Nothing Says I
Love You Like I Love You (PIR, 1978)
Jerry Butler: LP/CD The Best Love
(PIR, 1980)
Joe Simon: LP Drowning In The Sea
Of Love (Spring, 1972)
Jones Girls, The: LP/CD The Jones
Girls (PIR, 1979)
Jones Girls, The: LP/CD At Peace
With Woman (PIR, 1980)
Jones Girls, The: LP/CD Get As
Much Love As You Can (PIR, 1981)
Jones Girls, The: LP/CD Keep It
Comin' (PIR, 1984)
Leon Huff: LP/CD Here To Create
Music (PIR, 1980)
Lou Rawls: LP/CD All Things
In Time (PIR, 1976)
Lou Rawls: LP/CD Unmistakably Lou
(PIR, 1977)
Lou Rawls: LP/CD When
You Hear Lou, You've Heard It All
(PIR, 1977)
Lou Rawls: LP/CD Let Me Be Good To
You (PIR, 1979)
Lou Rawls: LP/CD Sit Down And Talk
To Me (PIR, 1979)
Lou Rawls: LP/CD Family Reunion
(Gamble & Huff Records, 1987)
M.F.S.B.: LP/CD M.F.S.B. (PIR,
1973)
M.F.S.B.: LP T.S.O.P. (The
Sound Of Philadelphia) (PIR, 1973)
M.F.S.B.: LP Love Is The
Message (PIR, 1973)
M.F.S.B.: LP Philadelphia Freedom (PIR, 1975)
M.F.S.B.: LP Universal
Love (PIR, 1975)
M.F.S.B.: LP Summertime
(PIR, 1976)
M.F.S.B.: LP End Of Phase
1 (PIR, 1977)
M.F.S.B.: LP/CD The Gamble-Huff
Orchestra (PIR, 1978)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD Backstabbers
(PIR, 1972)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD Ship Ahoy (PIR,
1973)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD Family Reunion (PIR, 1975)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD Survival
(PIR, 1975)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD Message In
The Music (PIR, 1976)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD
Travelin At The Speed Of Thought (PIR,
1977)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD So Full Of
Love (PIR, 1978)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD Identify
Yourself (PIR, 1979)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD The Year
2000 (PIR, 1980)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD My
Favorite Person (PIR, 1982)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD When Will
I See You Again (PIR, 1983)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD Love And
More (PIR, 1984)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD Love Fever
(PIR, 1985)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD Let Me
Touch You (PIR, 1987)
Patti LaBelle: LP/CD The
Spirit's In It (PIR, 1981)
Patti LaBelle: LP/CD I'm In Love
Again (PIR, 1983)
Patti LaBelle: LP/CD Patti (PIR,
1985)
Philadelphia International All Stars: LP/CD Let's
Clean Up The Ghetto (PIR, 1977)
Phyllis Hyman: LP/CD Living All
Alone (PIR, 1986)
Soul Survivors: LP Soul
Survivors (TSOP, 1974)
Shirley Jones: LP/CD Always In
The Mood (PIR/Manhattan, 1986)
Stylistics, The: LP/CD 1982 (PIR,
1982)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Teddy
Pendergrass (PIR, 1977)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Life Is A
Song Worth Singing (PIR, 1978)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Teddy
(PIR, 1979)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD TP (PIR,
1980)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD It's Time
For Love (PIR, 1981)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD This One's
For You (PIR, 1982)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Heaven
Only Knows (PIR, 1983)
Three Degrees, The: LP Three Degrees
(PIR, 1973)
Three Degrees, The: LP International
(PIR, 1975)
Three Degrees, The: LP Take Good
Care Of Yourself (PIR, 1975)
Three Degrees, The: LP With Love
(PIR, 1975)
Other contributions:
Arthur Prysock: 12 INCH
"When Love Is New" (Old Town, 1976) - songwriters
Ken
Gold
Producer
facts in short:
Kenneth Gold is actually British, but when he signed
his first publishing deal in 1971, it was only in the U.S. that he was able to place
his work. The problem was that Ken Gold was into Soul and there wasn't any
room for Soul music in the British record industry at that time. He got his
songs recorded by the likes of Aretha Franklin, Jackie Wilson, Eugene Record
and Jackie Moore over in the States - which gives some indication of just how
good he was - and couldn't get a hearing in Britain. That changed when he got
to know Tony Hall, the veteran hero of British popular music who was then
managing soul act The Real Thing. Back in the U.K. in 1976 he got success
with songwriting and production work for The Real Thing with whom he
continued to work over the next couple of years (hits: "You To Me Are
Everything", "Can You Feel The Force"). Gold became one of the
innovators amongst British producers of black music. The quality of his
productions was at least the equal of anything emerging Stateside at the
time. Along with his solid writing partner Micky Denne he also took care of
the career of Delegation through the late '70s and early '80s (hits: "Oh
Honey", "Where Is The Love (We Used To Know)", "You And
I", "Put A Little Love On Me"). Delegation's classic album Eau
De Vie from 1979 can be considered as Gold's ultimate signature work as a
Disco-Funk producer and songwriter. Ken Gold and Micky Denne appeared as
artists on their one album Denne & Gold, released in 1978. Gold
furthermore wrote for the Pointer Sisters' Black & White album in 1981
and teamed up with Billy Ocean for his 1980 and 1981 albums (hits: "Stay
The Night", "Are You Ready"). In 1988 he relocated to the
States where he had cuts with Randy Crawford, Teddy Pendergrass (album Truly
Blessed, 1991), Carl Anderson (album Fantasy Hotel, 1992), Anthony T. Gibson
(album Complete, 1993) and Smokey Robinson (album Love, Smokey, 1990). Gold
also wrote and produced three new songs on the last Delegation album Encore
released in 1996. Besides composing soulmusic Ken Gold also wrote fine pop
tunes for Cliff Richard (album I'm Nearly Famous, 1976). He even toured with
Cliff Richard and Elton John as a backing vocalist and produced material for
the pop group The Scene in 1980.
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Billy Ocean: LP/CD City Limit
(GTO, 1980)
Billy Ocean: LP/CD Nights (Feel
Like Gettin' Down) (Epic, 1981)
Delegation: LP/CD The Promise Of
Love (State/Shadybrook, 1977)
Delegation: LP/CD Eau De Vie
(Ariola, 1979)
Delegation: LP/CD Delegation
(Ariola, 1981)
Delegation: LP/CD Delegation
II (Mercury, 1981)
Delegation: LP/CD Deuces High
(Ariola, 1982)
Delegation: 12 INCH "It's Your
Turn" (CBS, 1983)
Denne & Gold: LP/CD Denne
& Gold (MCA, 1978)
Jimmy Helms: single
"Uncertain" (Pye, 1975)
Jimmy Helms: single "Putting
It Down (To The Way I Feel)" (Pye, 1977)
Ken Gold: 12 INCH
"Join The Party" / "Funky
Time, Party Time"
(Creole, 1977)
Katie Kissoon: 12 INCH "I Need A
Man In My Life" (Jive, 1984)
Liquid Gold: LP Liquid Gold
(Parachute, 1979)
Realistics, The: single "Putting It Down (To The Way I feel About
you)" (Warner Bros., 1975)
Realistics, The: single "The Magic That You Do" (Epic, 1977)
Realistics, The: single "Someone Oughta Write A Song About You
Baby" (Epic, 1977)
Real Thing, The: LP The
Real Thing (Pye, 1976)
Real Thing, The: LP Step Into Our
World / Can You Feel The Force (Pye, 1978)
Ritz: LP Puttin' On The Ritz
(Epic, 1979)
Spookey: single "Times" / "Someone Oughta Write A
Song" (Decca, 1979)
Vikki Benson: 12 INCH "Easy
Love" (Bronze/Ariola, 1984)
Warren Mills: LP Warren Mills (Jive, 1985)
Other
contributions:
Aretha Franklin: LP You (Atlantic, 1975) - songwriter
Billy Ocean: LP/CD Nights (Feel Like Getting Down) (Epic, 1981) -
songwriter
Billy Ocean: LP/CD Inner Feelings
(Epic, 1981) - songwriter
Dells, The: LP/CD Whatever Turns You On (20th Century Fox, 1981) -
songwriter
Eugene Record: LP/CD The Eugene Record (Warner Bros., 1977) -
songwriter
Jackie Wilson: LP Nobody But You (Brunswick, 1976) - songwriter
LaToya Jackson: LP/CD LaToya
Jackson (Polydor, 1980) - songwriter
Lenny Williams: LP Taking Chances
(MCA, 1981) - songwriter
Pointer Sisters: LP/CD Black &
White (Planet, 1981) - songwriter
Randy Crawford: LP/CD Rich And
Poor (Warner Bros., 1989) - songwriter
Lotti
Golden & Richard Scher
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Arthur
Baker & The Backbeat Disciples: LP/CD Merge (A&M, 1989) - Richard Scher production
Brenda K. Starr: 12 INCH
"Suspicion" (Mirage-Atlantic, 1985)
Brenda K. Starr: LP/CD Brenda K.
Starr (MCA, 1987)
Carol Douglas: LP Love Zone (Next
Plateau, 1983) - Richard Scher production
Carol Douglas: LP I Got Your Body
(Savoir Faire, 1983) - Richard Scher production
Charades: 12 INCH "Gimme The
Funk" (Brunswick, 1982)
Chilltown: 12 INCH "Rock The
Beat" (A&M, 1983)
C.K. Dexter-Haven: 12 INCH "That's Why
(I Love You So)" (Radar, 1983) - Richard Scher production
Ladies Choice: 12 INCH "Girls Night
Out" (Streetwise, 1983)
Lotti G: 12 INCH "What's It
Worth" (C Sharp, 1982)
Manhattans, The: LP/CD Forever By
Your Side (CBS,1983) - Richard Scher production
Jennifer Holliday: LP Say You Love
Me (Geffen, 1985)
Jermaine Stewart: LP/CD What
Becomes A Legend Most (10 Records, 1989) - Richard Scher production
Jets, The: LP/CD Magic (MCA, 1987)
- Lotti Golden production
Wally Jump Jr. & The Criminal
Element: LP/CD Don't Push Your Luck (Criminal, 1987) - Richard Scher
production
Warp 9: 12 INCH "Nunk"
(Prism, 1982)
Warp 9: 12 INCH "Beat
Wave" (Prism, 1983)
Warp 9: 12 INCH "Light Years
Away" (Prism, 1983)
Warp 9: 12 INCH "No Man Is
An Island" (4th & Broadway, 1983)
Warp 9: LP Fade In Fade Out
(Motown, 1986)
Wavo: 12 INCH "Real Life"
(Columbia, 1983) - Richard Scher production
Weather Girls, The: LP/CD The
Weather Girls (Columbia, 1988) - Richard Scher production
Other
contributions:
Empress: LP/CD Dyin' To Be Dancin' (Prelude, 1982) -
songwriters
Manhattans, The: LP/CD Too Hot Too
Stop It (CBS, 1985) - songwriters
Melba Moore: LP/CD The Other Side
Of The Rainbow (Capitol, 1982) - songwriters
Patti Austin: LP/CD Gettin' Away
With Murder (Qwest, 1985) - songwriters
Rocket: LP/CD Rocket (Quality,
1982) - songwriters
Strikers, The: 12 INCH
"Contagious" (Prelude, 1982) - songwriters, arrangers
Trilark: LP/CD Trilark (Handshake,
1982) - songwriters
Jay
Graydon
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Al
Jarreau: LP/CD This Time (Warner
Bros., 1980)
Al Jarreau: LP/CD Breakin' Away
(Warner Bros., 1981)
Al Jarreau: LP/CD Jarreau (Warner
Bros., 1983)
Al Jarreau: LP/CD High Crime
(Warner Bros., 1984)
Al Jarreau: LP/CD Heart's Horizon
(WEA, 1988)
Bunny DeBarge: LP/CD In Love
(Motown, 1987)
DeBarge: LP/CD Rhythm Of The Night
(Motown, 1985)
Dionne Warwick: LP/CD Friends In
Love (Arista, 1982)
El DeBarge: LP/CD El DeBarge
(Motown, 1986)
El DeBarge: LP/CD Gemini (Motown,
1989)
George Benson: LP/CD The George
Benson Collection (Warner Bros., 1981)
George Benson: LP/CD Twice The
Love (Warner Bros., 1988)
Herbie Hancock: LP/CD Lite Me Up
(CBS, 1982)
Johnny Mathis: LP Friends In Love
(CBS, 1982)
Johnny Mathis: LP/CD Love Songs
(CBS, 1988)
Lou Rawls & Tata Vega: LP/CD
Learn To Love Again (1985)
Lou Rawls: LP/CD Love All Your
Blues Away (Epic, 1986)
Manhattan Transfer: LP/CD
Extensions (Atlantic, 1979)
Manhattan Transfer: LP/CD Mecca
For Moderns (Atlantic, 1981)
Miami Vice II: LP/CD Original TV
Soundtrack (MCA, 1986)
Sheena Easton: LP/CD Best Kept
Secret (EMI, 1983)
Other contributions:
Al
Jarreau: LP/CD L Is For Lover (Warner Bros., 1986) -
songwriter
Alphonse Mouzon: LP/CD Mind
Transplant (Blue Note, 1975) - musician
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD You
(Atlantic, 1975) - musician
Bloodstone: LP Don't Stop (Motown,
1979) - songwriter
Bobby King: LP Bobby King (Warner
Bros., 1981) - musician
Booker T. Jones: LP Try And Love
Again (A&M, 1978) - musician
Boz Scaggs: LP Down Two, Then Left
(CBS, 1977) - musician
Candi Staton: LP Young Hearts Run
Free (Warner Bros., 1976) - musician
Candi Staton: LP House Of Love
(Warner Bros., 1978) - musician
Carrie Lucas: LP/CD Simply Carrie
(Solar, 1977) - musician
Charlene: LP I've Never Been To Me
(Motown, 1982) - musician
Daryl Hall & John Oates: LP
Along The Red Ledge (RCA, 1978) - musician
Daryl Hall & John Oates: LP
X-Static (RCA, 1979) - musician
Dave Grusin: LP/CD Night Lines
(GRP, 1984) - songwriter
Diana Ross: LP/CD Touch Me In The
Morning (Motown, 1973) - musician
Dionne Warwick: LP/CD Love At
First Sight (Warner Bros., 1977) - musician
Donna Summer: LP/CD Bad Girls
(Casablanca, 1979) - musician
Donna Summer: LP/CD She Works Hard
For The Money (Mercury, 1983) - songwriter, musician
Dramatics, The: LP Shake It Well
(ABC, 1977) - musician
Earth Wind & Fire: LP/CD I Am
(CBS, 1979) - songwriter
Eddie Kendricks: LP The Hit Man
(Motown, 1975) - musician
Edwin Starr: LP/CD Hell Up In
Harlem - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Motown, 1970) - musician
Eloise Laws: LP Eloise (ABC, 1977)
- musician
Five Star: LP/CD Silk & Steel
(RCA, 1986) - musician
Four Tops, The: LP/CD Hot Nights
(Motown, 1986) - songwriter
Freddie Hubbard: LP Bundle Of Joy
(CBS, 1977) - musician
George Howard: LP/CD Reflections
(MCA, 1988) - songwriter
Harvey Mason: LP/CD Funk In A
Mason Jar (Arista, 1977) - musician
Harvey Mason: LP/CD Groovin' You
(Arista, 1979) - musician
High Inergy: LP Turnin' On
(Motown, 1977) - musician
High Inergy: LP Steppin' Out
(Motown, 1978) - musician
Hues Corporation: LP Your Place Or
Mine (Warner Bros., 1978) - musician
Johnnie Taylor: LP Rated
X-Traordinaire (CBS, 1977) - musician
Lamont Dozier: LP/CD Right There
(Warner Bros., 1976) - musician
Lee Ritenour: LP/CD Captain
Fingers (Epic, 1977) - musician
Lee Ritenour: LP/CD The Captain's
Journey (Elektra, 1978) - musician
Manhattan Transfer: LP/CD Pastiche
(Atlantic, 1979) - musician
Marvin Gaye: LP/CD I Want You
(Motown, 1976) - musician
McCrarys, The: LP Loving Is Living
(Portrait, 1978) - musician
Miracles, The: LP City Of Angels
(Motown, 1975) - musician
Miracles, The: LP Miracles (Motown,
1978) - musician
Narada Michael Walden: LP/CD
Awakening (Atlantic, 1979) - musician
Norman Connors: LP/CD This Is Your
Life (Buddah, 1977) - musician
Odyssey: LP I Got The Melody (RCA,
1981) - songwriter
Randy Crawford: LP/CD Everything
Must Change (Warner Bros., 1976) - musician
Spinners, The: LP/CD Down To
Business (Volt, 1989) - songwriter
Stanley Turrentine: LP Tender
Togetherness (Elektra, 1981) - songwriter
Stevie Woods: LP Take Me To Your
Heaven (Cotillion, 1981) - songwriter
Sylvers, The: LP New Horizons
(Capitol, 1977) - musician
Sylvers, The: LP Forever Yours
(Casablanca, 1978) - musician
Syreeta: LP Syreeta (Motown, 1980)
- musician
Tata Vega: LP Full Speed Ahead
(Motown, 1976) - songwriter, musician
Tavares: LP/CD Supercharged
(Capitol, 1980) - musician
Wayne Henderson: LP Living On A
Dream (Polydor, 1978) - musician
Yvonne Elliman: LP/CD Yvonne (RSO,
1979) - musician
Dave
Grusin & Larry Rosen
Producer
facts in short:
Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen met during the '60s
while attending the Manhattan School of Music and Art. They later worked
together on the Andy Williams Show and collaborated on a series of Jon Lucien
albums during the first half of the '70s. In 1976 they formed the production
company GRP and introduced artists as Patti Austin, Noel Pointer, Earl Klugh
and Lee Ritenour. Through Grusin/Rosen Productions they were helping to
redefine sophisticated contemporary jazz for a whole new generation. Their
production association soon led to the creation of their own GRP label via
Arista in 1978. For GRP Records they developed new jazz-fusion and R&B
talent, including Tom Browne (hit: "Funkin' For Jamaica"), Don
Blackman, Jay Hoggard, Dave Valentin and Angela Bofill. Along with young
prodigious musicians like Bernard Wright, Marcus Miller and Bobby Broom they
created an incredibly crisp and clean jazz-funk sound. Grusin and Rosen also
were pioneers in digital recording. The Dave Grusin
album Mountain
Dance, produced in 1979, was the first digitally recorded non-classical album.
Their visionary strategy, combining world-class artistry with
state-of-the-art recording technology aimed at the sophisticated adult
consumer, enabled them to build the most successful contemporary jazz and
fusion label in the world. In 1990 GRP was sold to MCA (Universal Music
Group). Larry Rosen stayed at GRP as president and CEO until 1995. Today he
owns a company involved in e-commerce consulting. Co-founder Dave Grusin is
still active as performer, producer, (soundtrack-)composer and arranger on the
GRP label.
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Angela
Bofill: LP/CD Angie (GRP/Arista, 1978)
Angela Bofill: LP/CD Angel Of The
Night (GRP/Arista, 1979)
Bernard Wright: LP/CD 'Nard
(GRP/Arista, 1981)
Bernard Wright: LP/CD Funky Beat
(Arista, 1983)
Bobby Broom: LP Clean Sweep
(GRP/Arista, 1981)
Bobby Broom: LP Livin' For The
Beat (Arista, 1984)
Dave Grusin: LP/CD One Of A Kind
(Polydor/GRP, 1977)
Dave Grusin: LP/CD Mountain Dance
(GRP/Arista, 1980)
Dave Grusin: LP/CD Out Of The
Shadows (GRP/Arista, 1982)
Dave Grusin: LP/CD Night-Lines
(GRP, 1984)
Dave Grusin & Lee Ritenour:
LP/CD Harlequin (GRP, 1985)
Dave Valentin: LP/CD The Hawk
(GRP/Arista, 1979)
Dave Valentin: LP Land Of The
Third Eye (GRP/Arista, 1980)
Dave Valentin: LP Pied Piper
(GRP/Arista, 1981)
Dave Valentin: LP It's Love Time
(GRP/Arista, 1982)
Dave Valentin: LP Flute Juice
(GRP/Arista, 1983)
Don Blackman: LP/CD Don Blackman
(GRP/Arista, 1982)
Earl Klugh: LP/CD Living Inside
Your Love (Blue Note, 1976)
Earl Klugh: LP/CD Finger Paintings
(Blue Note, 1977)
Funkacise Gang: 12 INCH "Let's
Funkacise" (GRP/Arista, 1982)
Jay Hoggard: LP/CD Days Like These
(GRP/Arista, 1979)
Jon Lucien: LP/CD Rashida (RCA,
1972)
Jon Lucien: LP/CD Mind's Eye (RCA,
1973)
Jon Lucien: LP Song For My Lady
(Columbia, 1975)
Lee Ritenour: LP/CD The Captain's
Journey (Elektra, 1978)
Noel Pointer: LP/CD Phantazia
(Blue Note, 1977)
Noel Pointer: LP/CD Hold On
(United Artists, 1978)
Sergio Mendes: LP/CD Sergio Mendes
(Elektra, 1975)
Three Days Of The Condor: LP/CD Original
Motion Picture Soundtrack (Capitol, 1975)
Tom Browne: LP/CD Browne Sugar
(GRP/Arista, 1979)
Tom Browne: LP/CD Love Approach
(GRP/Arista, 1980)
Tom Browne: LP/CD Magic
(GRP/Arista, 1981)
Tom Browne: LP Yours Truly
(GRP/Arista, 1981)
Tom Browne: LP Rockin' Radio
(Arista, 1983)
Patti Austin: LP/CD Havana Candy
(CTI, 1977)
Yutaka: LP/CD Love Light (Alfa,
1978)
Other Dave
Grusin contributions:
Al
Jarreau: LP/CD We Got By (Reprise, 1975) - musician
Alphonse Mouzon: LP The Man
Incognito (Blue Note, 1975) - musician
Brothers Johnson, The: LP/CD Look
Out For # 1 (A&M, 1976) - musician
Brothers Johnson, The: LP/CD Right
On Time (A&M, 1977) - musician
Chaka Khan: LP/CD C.K. (Warner
Bros., 1988) - musician
Donna Summer: LP/CD Donna Summer
(Warner Bros., 1982) - musician, arranger
George Benson: LP/CD 20/20 (Warner
Bros., 1984) - musician
Grover Washington Jr.: LP/CD A
Secret Place (Kudu, 1976) - musician
Harvey Mason: LP/CD Marching In
The Streets (Arista, 1976) - musician
Harvey Mason: LP/CD Funk In A Mason
Jar (Arista, 1977) - musician
Lee Ritenour: LP/CD First Course
(Epic, 1976) - musician, songwriter
Lee Ritenour: LP/CD Captain
Fingers (Epic, 1977) - musician, songwriter
Lee Ritenour: LP/CD Lee Ritenour
& His Gentle Thoughts (JVC, 1977) - musician, songwriter
Lee Ritenour: LP/CD Friendship
(Jasrac, 1978) - musician
Lee Ritenour: LP/CD Feel The Night
(Discovery, 1979) - musician
Lee Ritenour: LP/CD Rio (GRP,
1979) - musician, arranger
Lee Ritenour: LP/CD On The Line
(GRP, 1983) - musician, arranger, songwriter
Lee Ritenour: LP/CD Earth Run
(GRP, 1986) - musician, songwriter
Lee Ritenour: LP/CD Festival (GRP,
1988) - musician, arranger
Melba Moore: LP Peach Melba
(Buddah, 1975) - musician
Quincy Jones: LP/CD You've Got It
Bad Girl (A&M, 1973) - musician
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Body Heat
(A&M, 1974) - musician
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Mellow Madness
(A&M, 1975) - musician
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Roots - The
Saga Of An American Family - Original Soundtrack (A&M, 1977) - musician
Sadao Watanabe: LP/CD My Dear Life
(Flying Disk, 1977) - musician, arranger
Sadao Watanabe: LP/CD California
Shower (Flying Disk, 1978) - musician
Sadao Watanabe: LP/CD Morning
Island (Flying Disk, 1979) - musician, arranger
Sadao Watanabe: LP/CD Orange
Express (Columbia, 1981) - musician, arranger
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77:
LP/CD Homecooking (Elektra, 1976) - musician
Sergio Mendes: LP/CD Sergio Mendes
& The New Brasil '77 (Elektra, 1977) - musician
Sergio Mendes: LP/CD Sergio Mendes
& Brasil '88 (Elektra, 1978) - arranger
Wah Wah Watson: LP Elementary
(Columbia, 1977) - musician
H
Rahni
P. Harris II a.k.a. Rahni Song
Productions,
co-productions (and songs) appear on:
Alex Bugnon: LP/CD Love
Season (Orpheus, 1989)
Colorblind: LP/CD Crazy (Capitol,
1984)
David Ruffin & Eddie Kendricks: LP/CD Ruffin & Kendrick (RCA, 1987)
Dayton: LP/CD Feel The Music
(Capitol, 1983)
Dayton: LP/CD Hot Fun (Liberty,
1982)
Dayton: LP/CD This Time (Capitol,
1985)
John White: LP/CD Night People
(Geffen, 1987)
Melba Moore: LP/CD The Other Side
Of The Rainbow (Capitol, 1982)
Melba Moore: LP/CD Never Say Never
(Capitol, 1983)
Melba Moore: LP/CD A Lot Of Love
(Capitol, 1986)
Melba Moore: LP/CD I'm In Love
(Capitol, 1988)
Najee: LP/CD Najee's Theme (EMI,
1986)
Project Future: 12 INCH
"Ray-Gun-Omics" (Capitol, 1983)
Rahni Harris & Family Love: LP
A Different Drummer (Emprise, 1977)
Rahni Harris & F.L.O.: 12 INCH "Six Million
Steps (West Runs South)" (Inspirational Sounds, 1978)
Ray, Goodman & Brown: LP/CD
Take It To The Limit (Polydor, 1986)
Scott White: LP/CD Success…Never Ends (RCA, 1988)
Willie Collins: LP/CD Where You
Gonna Be Tonight (Capitol, 1986)
Xavier: LP/CD Point Of Pleasure (Liberty, 1982)
Other
contributions:
Bootsy
Collins: LP/CD The One Giveth, The Count Taketh Away (Warner
Bros., 1982) - musician
George Clinton: LP/CD Computer
Games (Capitol, 1982) - musician
Leon
Haywood
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Carl Carlton: LP/CD Carl
Carlton (20th Century, 1981)
Jerry Knight: LP/CD Love's On Our
Side (A&M, 1982)
Leon Haywood: LP Keep It In The
Family (20th Century, 1974)
Leon Haywood: LP Come And Get
Yourself Some (20th Century, 1975)
Leon Haywood: LP Intimate (CBS,
1976)
Leon Haywood: LP Double My
Pleasure (MCA, 1978)
Leon Haywood: LP Energy (MCA,
1979)
Leon Haywood: LP Naturally (20th
Century, 1980)
Leon Haywood: LP/CD It's Me Again
(Casablanca, 1983)
Leon Haywood: 12 INCH
"Tenderoni" (Modern, 1984)
Private Joy: 12 INCH "Coolin’
Out" (1986, Evejim Records)
Toddy Tee: 12 INCH
"Batterram" (Epic, 1985)
Toddy Tee: 12 INCH "Lost In
Space" (Evejim, 1986)
Al
Hudson (See O: One Way related)
Kenneth
Gamble & Leon Huff (See G: Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff)
I
Butch
Ingram
Producer
facts in short:
Born in Camden,
New Jersey, Norman 'Butch' Ingram
is the spearhead of the Ingram family group and began his music career after
giving up basketball due to an injury. Butch taught himself the bass,
acquired some recording equipment and put his musical family to work on their
first album The Funk Is In Our Music in 1976. They signed to H&L the
following year for their second album That's All ("Mi Sabrina
Tequana"). H&L went out of business, but the name Ingram was tied up
contractually for two years, preventing the group from using it. Butch
started producing Philly artists on the WMOT/Fantasy label, including Slick,
Damon Harris, David Simmons and Philly Cream. The Ingrams together with the
musicians of Fat Larry's Band actually became the session group Philly Cream
after the original Ohio
band split up before their album was finished. For two years the Ingrams
recorded as Philly Cream and had an American hit with "Motown
Review" in 1979. The Ingram family also acted as the multi-talented
studiogroup that backed up Butch Ingram's Family Productions. In 1983, the
Ingrams recorded as Ingram again on the Mirage label, releasing Would You
Like To Fly, including "Smoothin' Groovin'" and "DJ's
Delight". Their follow-up was Night Stalkers in 1984 including "I
Like It" and "Groovin' On A Groove". In addition to producing
Ingram, Butch continued to work as a writer/producer with numerous other
Philadelphia-based artists like Barbara Mason (hits: "Another Man",
"Don't I Ever Cross Your Mind"), Ronnie Dyson ("All Over Your
Face"), Julius Brown, The Sigma Sweethearts, Major Harris, Roz Ryan,
Brandi Wells, The Stylistics, Blue Magic, Vera Brown and Michelle Gold.
Around 1983 he started up the record label Society Hill and instigated new
talent. In the '90s he appeared on albums by Rene Goodwin, King Eddie, Edmond
Daniels and Maria Hernandez.
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Alectra: 12
INCH "It's A Woman's World" (Society Hill,
1985)
Alectra: 12 INCH "Mr
Man" (Society Hill, 1985)
Barbara Mason: LP/CD Yes I'm Ready
(WMOT, 1981)
Barbara Mason: 12 INCH "Another
Man" (West End, 1983)
Barbara Mason: 12 INCH "Don't I
Ever Cross Your Mind" (West End, 1984)
Barbara Mason: LP/CD Another Man
(Society Hill, 1984)
Blue Magic: LP Magic # (Mirage,
1983)
Booker Newberry III: single
"Since You've Gone" (Society Hill, 1984)
Brandi Wells: LP/CD Watch Out
(WMOT, 1981)
David Simmons: LP The World
Belongs To Me (WMOT/Fantasy, 1979)
Ingram: LP That's All (H&L,
1977)
Ingram: LP Would You Like To Fly
(Mirage, 1983)
Ingram: LP Night Stalkers (Mirage,
1984)
Julius Brown: 12 INCH "Never too
late" (West End, 1983)
Major Harris: LP/CD I Believe In
Love (Society Hill, 1984)
Men, The: 12 INCH "Someone On
My Side" (Society Hill)
Michelle Gold: 12 INCH "Lost In
Love" (Society Hill)
Odyssey: LP/CD Roots (Society
Hill, 1985)
Odyssey: 12 INCH "Back To My
Roots" (Society Hill, 1987)
Philly Cream: LP No Time Like Now
(WMOT, 1978)
Ronnie Dyson: LP/CD Constantly
(Cotillion,1983)
Roz Ryan: 12 INCH "Boy, Where
Have You Been" (Mirage, 1983)
Sigma Sweethearts, The: 12 INCH "You Wear Me
Out" (Society Hill)
Slick: LP Go For It (WMOT, 1980)
Slick: LP Slick (WMOT, 1979)
Vera Brown: 12 INCH "Little Did
I Know" (Society Hill)
Vera Brown & The Rich Girls: 12 INCH "Too Much
Too Fast" (Palace, 1985)
Other
contributions:
Damon
Harris: LP/CD Damon (WMOT, 1978) - arranger
Dinosaur L: LP 24-24 Music
(Sleeping Bag, 1981) - musician
Philly Cream: LP Jammin' At The
Disco (WMOT, 1979) - arranger, musician
Sandy Mercer: LP Hey Love Come And
Get It (H&L, 1978) - musician
The
Isley Brothers
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Bloodstone: LP/CD We Go A Long Way Back (T-Neck/Epic, 1982)
Isley Brothers, The: LP/CD 3+3
(T-Neck/CBS, 1973)
Isley Brothers, The: LP/CD Live It
Up (T-Neck/Epic, 1974)
Isley Brothers, The: LP/CD The
Heat Is On (T-Neck/Epic, 1975)
Isley Brothers, The: LP/CD Harvest
For The World (T-Neck/Epic, 1976)
Isley Brothers, The: LP/CD Go For
Your Guns (T-Neck/Epic, 1977)
Isley Brothers, The: LP/CD
Showdown (T-Neck/Epic, 1978)
Isley Brothers, The: LP/CD Winner
Takes All (T-Neck/Epic, 1979)
Isley Brothers, The: LP/CD Go All
The Way (T-Neck/Epic, 1980)
Isley Brothers, The: LP/CD Grand
Slam (T-Neck/Epic, 1981)
Isley Brothers, The: LP Inside You
(T-Neck/Epic, 1981)
Isley Brothers, The: LP The Real
Deal (T-Neck/Epic, 1982)
Isley Brothers, The: LP/CD Between
The Sheets (T-Neck/Epic, 1983)
Isley Brothers, The: LP/CD
Masterpiece (Warner Bros., 1985)
Isley Brothers, The: LP/CD Smooth
Sailing (Warner Bros., 1987)
Isley Jasper Isley: LP Broadway's
Closer To Sunset Boulevard (Epic, 1984)
Isley Jasper Isley: LP/CD Caravan
Of Love (Epic, 1985)
Sunrize: LP/CD Who's Stickin' It?
(Boardwalk, 1982)
J
Jimmy
Jam & Terri Lewis
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Alexander
O'Neal: LP/CD Alexander O'Neal (Tabu, 1985)
Alexander O'Neal: LP/CD Hearsay
(Tabu, 1987)
Alexander O'Neal: LP/CD My Gift To
You (Tabu, 1988)
Captain Rapp: 12 INCH "Bad Times
(I Can t Stand It)" (Saturn, 1983)
Change: LP/CD Change Of Heart
(Atlantic, 1984)
Cherrelle: LP/CD Fragile (Tabu,
1984)
Cherrelle: LP/CD High Priority
(Tabu, 1985)
Cherrelle: LP/CD Affair (Tabu,
1988)
Cheryl Lynn: LP/CD Preppie (CBS,
1983)
Cheryl Lynn: LP/CD It's Gonna Be
Right (CBS, 1985)
Dragnet: LP/CD Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack (Atlantic, 1987)
Force M.D.'s: LP/CD Chillin'
(Tommy Boy, 1986)
George Michael: LP/CD Faith (CBS,
1988)
Herb Alpert: LP/CD Keep Your Eye
On Me (A&M, 1987)
Howard Johnson: LP The Vision
(A&M, 1985)
Human League: LP/CD Crash
(A&M, 1986)
Janet Jackson: LP/CD Control
(A&M, 1986)
Janet Jackson: LP/CD Janet
Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (A&M, 1989)
Klymaxx: LP/CD Girls Will Be Girls
(Solar, 1982)
Klymaxx: LP/CD Meeting In The
Ladies Room (MCA, 1984)
Krush Groove: LP/CD Original
Motion Picture Soundtrack (Warner Bros., 1985)
Patti LaBelle: 12 INCH "Just The
Facts" taken from LP/CD Dragnet -
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (MCA, 1987)
Michael Jeffries: LP/CD Michael
Jeffries (Warner Bros., 1989)
Morris Day: LP/CD Daydreaming
(Warner Bros., 1987)
New Edition: 12 INCH Helplessly
In Love taken from LP/CD Dragnet -
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (MCA, 1987)
New Edition: LP/CD Heartbreak
(MCA, 1989)
Patti Austin: LP/CD Gettin' Away
With Murder (Qwest, 1985)
Pia Zadora: LP/CD When The Lights
Go Out (Epic, 1988)
Real To Reel: 12 INCH "Can You Treat Me Like She Does"
(Arista, 1983)
Rhonda Clark: LP/CD Between
Friends (Tabu, 1989)
S.O.S. Band, The: LP/CD On The
Rise (Tabu, 1983)
S.O.S. Band, The: LP/CD Just The
Way You Like It (Tabu, 1984)
S.O.S. Band, The: LP/CD Sands Of
Time (Tabu, 1986)
Thelma Houston: LP/CD Qualifying
Heat (MCA, 1984)
Other
contributions:
Gladys
Knight & The Pips: LP/CD Visions
(CBS, 1983) - songwriters
Ice-T: 12 INCH "The Coldest
Rap" / "Cold Wind-Madness" (Saturn, 1983) - musicians
Nona Hendryx: LP/CD Female Trouble
(EMI America, 1987) - musicians
S.O.S. Band, The: LP/CD S.O.S.
Band III (Tabu, 1982) - songwriters
Time, The: LP/CD The Time (Warner
Bros., 1981) - musicians, songwriters
Time, The: LP/CD What Time Is It?
(Warner Bros., 1982) - musicians, songwriters
Vanity 6: LP/CD Vanity 6 (Warner Bros., 1982) - Terry
Lewis songwriter
Rick
James
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Bruni
Pagan: 12 INCH "You Turn Me On" (Motown, 1984)
Eddie Murphy: LP How Could It Be
(CBS, 1985)
Mary Jane Girls: LP/CD Mary Jane
Girls (Motown, 1983)
Mary Jane Girls: LP/CD Only For
You (Motown, 1985)
Process And The Doo-Rags: LP Too
Sharp (CBS, 1984)
Process And The Doo-Rags: LP/CD
Colorful Changes (CBS, 1987)
Rick James: LP/CD Come And Get It!
(Gordy, 1978)
Rick James: LP/CD Bustin' Out Of L
Seven (Gordy, 1979)
Rick James: LP Fire It Up (Gordy,
1979)
Rick James: LP Garden Of Love
(Gordy, 1980)
Rick James: LP/CD Street Songs
(Gordy, 1981)
Rick James: LP/CD Throwin' Down
(Gordy, 1982)
Rick James: LP/CD Cold Blooded
(Gordy, 1983)
Rick James: "Can't Stop"
from LP/CD Beverly Hills Cop - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (MCA, 1984)
Rick James: LP/CD Glow (Gordy,
1985)
Rick James: LP/CD The Flag (Gordy,
1986)
Rick James: LP/CD Wonderful
(Reprise, 1988)
Stone City Band, The: LP In 'N'
Out (Motown, 1980)
Stone City Band, The: LP The Boys
Are Back (Motown, 1981)
Stone City Band, The: LP Out From
The Shadow (Motown, 1983)
Teena Marie: LP/CD Wild And
Peaceful (Motown, 1979)
Temptations, The: LP/CD Reunion
(Motown, 1982)
Val Young: LP/CD Seduction (Gordy,
1986)
Lionel
Job
Producer
facts:
New York-based producer and industry executive
Lionel Job has produced/arranged throughout the '70s, '80s and '90s for
artists like Cliff Dawson, Marz, Audrey Wheeler, Keith Sweat and Joe Public. A
remarkable career that made him bridge successfully three decades of Black
music, going from Disco-Funk to New Jack Swing. His first project goes back
to 1977 when he masterminded and produced the studio group Southroad
Connection. Their funky tune "Just Laying It Down" is regarded as
one of the finest Disco records of all time. Lionel Job also played an
integral role in the group Starpoint, producing all their hit records.
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Atension: LP/CD D.O.A. - Def On Arrival (Island, 1989)
Audrey Wheeler: LP/CD Let It Be Me
(Capitol, 1987)
Bert Robinson: LP/CD No More Cold
Nights (Capitol, 1987)
Cliff Dawson: LP/CD Cliff Dawson
(Boardwalk, 1982)
Double Exposure: 12 INCH "After All
This Time" (Gold Coast Entertainment, 1981)
Lace: LP/CD Shades Of Lace (Wing,
1987)
Marz: LP/CD Make It Right
(Liberty/EMI, 1982)
Marz: 12 INCH "I Got A
Boyfriend Now" (Prism, 1985)
Marz: 12 INCH "It's Hard
To Fall Out Of Love" (Manhattan, 1986)
Southroad Connection: 12 INCH "Just Laying
It Down" (Mahogany, 1977)
Southroad Connection: LP Sweet
Ride (Mahogany, 1978)
Southroad Connection: LP/CD Ain't
No Time To Sit Down (United Artists, 1979)
Southroad Connection: LP Positive
Energy (United Artists, 1980)
Starpoint: LP Starpoint (Chocolate
City/Mercury, 1980)
Starpoint: LP/CD Keep On It
(Chocolate City/Mercury, 1981)
Starpoint: LP/CD Wanting You
(Chocolate City/Mercury, 1981)
Starpoint: LP/CD All Night Long
(Chocolate City/Mercury, 1982)
Starpoint: LP/CD It's So Delicious
(Boardwalk, 1983)
Starpoint: LP/CD It's All Yours
(Elektra, 1984)
Starpoint: LP/CD Restless
(Elektra, 1985)
Starpoint: LP/CD Sensational
(Elektra, 1987)
Starpoint: LP/CD Hot To The Touch
(Elektra, 1988)
Walter Beasley: LP/CD Walter
Beasley (Polydor,1987)
Walter Beasley: LP/CD Just Kickin'
It (Mercury,1989)
Will Clayton: LP/CD Never Too Late
(Polydor, 1989)
Allen
A. Jones
Producer
facts in short:
Allen A. Jones is best known as longtime mentor,
devotee, producer and manager of funkband the Bar-Kays. He started his career
in Memphis back
in the sixties as an in-house producer and songwriter at Stax records. There
he worked with many legendary Stax artists like The Mar-Keys, Margie Joseph,
Otis Redding, Albert King, Johnnie Taylor, The Mad Lads, Isaac Hayes and
protégés the Bar-Kays. He was the man who connected the 'Kays' with the pulse
of the street, who provided an essential pair of ears and who kept everybody
loose. His approach was very analytical and adaptibility was the magic
formula that secured the longevity of his groups. He would create an album
exactly based on the kind of grooves that were in vogue at the time of
recording, without losing the basic funk. In the '80s he also produced the
black acts Kwick, Carl Carlton, Ebonee Webb and Chocolate Milk. Their 'naked
funk' musicstyles were quite similar: muscular synth-grooves that combined
the slamming nasty funk of the '70s with the techno-charged vibes of the
'80s. Allen A. Jones died of a heart attack in 1987.
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Bar-Kays: LP/CD Black Rock
(Volt, 1971)
Bar-Kays: LP/CD Do You See What I
See? (Volt, 1972)
Bar-Kays: LP/CD Coldblooded (Volt,
1974)
Bar-Kays: LP/CD Too Hot To Stop
(Mercury, 1976)
Bar-Kays: LP/CD Flying High On
Your Love (Mercury, 1977)
Bar-Kays: LP/CD Money Talks (Stax,
1978)
Bar-Kays: LP/CD Injoy (Mercury,
1979)
Bar-Kays: LP/CD As One (Mercury,
1980)
Bar-Kays: LP/CD Nightcruising
(Mercury, 1981)
Bar-Kays: LP/CD Propositions
(Mercury, 1982)
Bar-Kays: LP Dangerous (Mercury,
1984)
Bar-Kays: LP Banging The Wall
(Mercury, 1985)
Breakin’: LP/CD Original
Motion Picture Soundtrack (Polydor, 1984)
Carl Carlton: LP Hot Property
(PolyGram, 1985)
Chocolate Milk: LP/CD Blue Jeans
(RCA, 1981)
Chocolate Milk: LP/CD Friction
(RCA, 1982)
Ebonee Webb: LP/CD Ebonee Webb
(EMI/Capitol, 1981)
Ebonee Webb: LP Too Hot
(EMI/Capitol, 1983)
Kwick: LP Kwick (EMI/Capitol,
1980)
Kwick: LP To The Point
(EMI/Capitol, 1981)
Kwick: LP Foreplay (EMI/Capitol,
1983)
William C. Brown III: 12 INCH
"Shining" (HCRC, 1982)
Quincy Jones
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Aretha Franklin: LP Hey Now Hey,
The Other Side Of The Sky (Atlantic, 1973)
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Aretha's
Jazz (Atlantic, 1972)
Brothers Johnson, The: LP/CD Look
Out For # 1 (A&M, 1976)
Brothers Johnson, The: LP/CD Right
On Time (A&M, 1977)
Brothers Johnson, The: LP/CD
Blam!! (A&M, 1978)
Brothers Johnson, The: LP/CD Light
Up The Night (A&M, 1980)
Brothers Johnson, The:
"Let’s Swing" - non album release, B-side of "Stomp"
(A&M, 1980)
Ernie Watts: LP/CD Chariots
Of Fire (Qwest, 1982)
Donna Summer: LP/CD Donna Summer
(Warner Bros., 1982)
Donna Summer: "Sometimes
Like Butterflies" - non album release, B-side of "Love Is In
Control (Finger On The Trigger)" (Warner Bros., 1982)
George Benson: LP/CD Give Me
The Night (Warner Bros., 1980)
James Ingram: LP/CD It's Your
Night (Qwest, 1983)
Michael Jackson: LP/CD Off The
Wall (Epic, 1979)
Michael Jackson: LP/CD Thriller
(Epic, 1982)
Michael Jackson: LP/CD Bad (Epic,
1987)
New Order: 12 INCH "Blue Monday
1988" (Qwest, 1988)
Patti Austin: LP/CD Every Home Should
Have One (Qwest, 1981)
Patti Austin: LP/CD Patti Austin
(Qwest, 1984)
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Walking In
Space (A&M, 1969)
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Gula Matari
(A&M, 1970)
Quincy Jones: LP/CD They Call Me
Mister Tibbs! - Original Motion Picture Score (United Artists, 1970)
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Smackwater
Jack (A&M, 1971)
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Dollars -
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Reprise, 1971)
Quincy Jones: LP The Hot Rock -
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Prophesy, 1972)
Quincy Jones: LP The Getaway -
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (A&M, 1973)
Quincy Jones: LP/CD You've Got It
Bad Girl (A&M, 1973)
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Body Heat
(A&M, 1974)
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Mellow Madness
(A&M, 1975)
Quincy Jones: LP I Heard That!
(A&M, 1976)
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Roots - The Saga Of An
American Family - Original Soundtrack (A&M, 1977)
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Sounds…And Stuff Like That!!
(A&M, 1978)
Quincy Jones: LP/CD The Dude
(A&M, 1981)
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Back On The
Block (Qwest, 1989)
Rufus & Chaka Khan: LP/CD
Masterjam (Warner Bros., 1979)
The Wiz: LP/CD Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack (MCA, 1978)
Young M.C.: LP/CD Stone Cold
Rhymin' (Delicious Vinyl, 1989)
USA For Africa: 12 INCH "We Are The
World" (Columbia, 1985)
K
Kashif
Producer
facts in short:
The brilliant keyboardist Kashif was born Michael
Jones in 1959 in
Brooklyn, N.Y., but later changed his name to Kashif
Saleem when he adopted the Islamic faith. Kashif began his professional
career at the age of 16 as member of the funkband B.T. Express in 1976. He
remained there for 3 years. Afterwards he worked as a session musician for a
while. In the early '80s he joined Morrie Brown's production house Mighty M
Productions together with his friend keyboard player Paul Lawrence Jones III
(now Paul Laurence). During 1981 and 1982 the Mighty M triumvirate
successfully wrote and produced for Howard Johnson, Evelyn King and Melba
Moore. Within the Mighty M team Kashif developed a complete new music style
that revolutionized R&B music through the infusion of the MIDI/synth
technology, creating a whole new approach to production with vocalists. The
fresh synth-based sound appeared for the first time on Evelyn King's debut
album I'm In Love in 1981. The title track became one of the first
all-synthesized R&B/pop hits and marked the birth of the one-man-band
producers. In 1983 he left the Mighty M collective and went on to fame and
fortune as a solo artist. While signed with Arista, Kashif started using the
Synclavier to create unique blends of synthesized and live music. With hit
records like "I Just Got To Have You (Lover Turn Me On)" and
"Stone Love" Kashif began creating a solid reputation for his
distinctive pioneering musical sound that formed the base of urban
contemporary soul music. He started up the production company New Music Group
and became a very in-demand producer/songwriter who can be heard on releases
by George Benson, Kenny G, Melba Moore, Whitney Houston and Meli'sa Morgan.
In 1990 Kashif took a break from recording, devoting his time to other ways
of self-expression like software development, conducting seminars about
contemporary record production and writing a book on the music industry. He
also started up the L.A.
based Brooklyn Boy company. He's still recording sporadically nowadays but
admits that music is and always will be his first love.
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Debbie
Allen: LP/CD Special Look (MCA, 1989)
Dionne Warwick: LP/CD Reservations
For Two (Arista, 1987)
Evelyn King: LP/CD I'm In Love
(RCA, 1981)
Evelyn King: LP/CD Get Loose (RCA,
1982)
George Benson: LP/CD In Your Eyes
(Warner Bros., 1983)
George Benson: LP/CD While The
City Sleeps (Warner Bros. 1986)
Giorge Pettus: LP/CD Giorge Pettus
(MCA, 1987)
High Fashion: LP/CD Feelin' Lucky
(Capitol, 1982)
Howard Johnson: LP/CD Keepin' Love
New (A&M, 1982)
Johnny Kemp: LP/CD Johnny Kemp
(CBS, 1986)
Johnny Kemp: LP/CD Secrets Of
Flying (CBS, 1988)
June Pointer: LP/CD June Pointer
(CBS, 1989)
Jermaine Jackson: LP/CD Don't Take
It Personal (Arista, 1989)
Kashif: LP/CD Kashif (Arista,
1983)
Kashif: LP/CD Send Me Your Love
(Arista, 1984)
Kashif: LP/CD Condition Of The
Heart (Arista, 1985)
Kashif: LP/CD Love Changes
(Arista, 1987)
Kashif: LP/CD Kashif (Arista,
1989)
Kenny G: LP/CD G Force (Arista,
1983)
Kenny G: LP/CD Gravity (Arista,
1985)
LaLa: LP/CD LaLa (Arista, 1987)
Melba Moore: LP What A Woman Needs
(Capitol, 1981)
Melba Moore: LP/CD The Other Side
Of The Rainbow (Capitol, 1982)
Melba Moore: LP/CD Never Say Never
(Capitol, 1983)
Melba Moore: LP/CD A Lot Of Love
(Capitol, 1986)
Melba Moore: LP/CD I'm In Love
(Capitol, 1988)
Meli'sa Morgan: LP/CD Good Love
(Capitol, 1987)
Stacy Lattisaw: LP/CD Take Me All
The Way (Motown, 1986)
Whitney Houston: LP/CD Whitney
Houston (Arista, 1985)
Whitney Houston: LP/CD Whitney
(Arista, 1987)
Other
contributions:
Average
White Band: LP/CD Cupid's In Fashion
(RCA,1982) - songwriter
B.T. Express: LP/CD Energy To Burn
(Roadshow/CBS, 1976) - musician
B.T. Express: LP/CD Function At
The Junction (Roadshow/CBS, 1977) - musician
B.T. Express: LP/CD Shout! Shout
It Out (Roadshow/CBS, 1978) - musician
Bobby Mardis: 12 INCH "Keep
On" (Profile, 1985) - songwriter
Change: LP/CD Sharing Your Love
(Atlantic, 1982) - musician
Dr. York: LP/CD New York (Hot
Melt, 1985) - songwriter
Fonzi Thornton: LP/CD The Leader
(RCA, 1983) - arranger, musician
Four Tops, The: LP Tonight
(Casablanca, 1981) - musician
Geraldine Hunt: LP/CD Heat Heat
(Prism, 1981) - arranger, songwriter
Glenn Jones: LP/CD Finesse (RCA,
1984) - musician, executive producer
Johnny Kemp: LP/CD Secrets Of
Flying (CBS, 1988) - musician
Lillo Thomas: LP/CD Let Me Be
Yours (Capitol, 1983) - arranger, musician
Nona Hendryx: LP Nona (RCA, 1983)
- musician
Passion: LP/CD Don't Stop My Love
(Prelude, 1982) - songwriter
Pleasure: LP Give It Up (RCA, 1982)
- musician
Shawne Jackson: 12 INCH
"Loveline" (Loose End, 1983) - songwriter
Tavares: LP/CD Loveline (Capitol,
1981) - songwriter, musician
Wootens, The: LP The Wootens
(Arista, 1985) - songwriter, executive producer
Zinc: LP/CD Street Level (Jive,
1982) - songwriter
Kool & The Gang-related
Amir
Bayyan a.k.a. Kevin Bell
Producer
facts in short:
The Bell
brothers and their relations who joined Kool & The Gang were given the
Muslim name Bayyan when they became adherents of the Nation of Islam in 1972.
Kool & The Gang's musical success influenced new talent right in their
own family. Multi-instrumentalist Amir Abdul-Salaam Bayyan, a.k.a. Kevin
Bell, is the younger brother of Robert "Kool" Bell (a.k.a. Muhammad
Bayyan) and Ronald "The Captain" Bell (a.k.a.
Khalis Bayyan) who formed Kool & The Gang. Prior to becoming a freelance
musician, producer and songwriter Amir Bayyan sang and played with Kool &
The Gang and The Kay-Gees. In 1981 Amir started up the production company
Bayyan Internationale together with his first cousin Royal Bayyan and a
little later formed his own group Forecast along with Royal Bayyan and Adil
Bayyan, another first cousin (a.k.a. Royal Jackson). Adil Bayyan formerly was
the Road Manager of Kool & The Gang and Royal Bayyan played guitar with
the Gang. Forecast also introduced female singer Armenta Richardson (a.k.a.
Armenta Bayyan) who would record a couple of solo singles as Armenta later
on. Adil Bayyan, Khalis Bayyan - Kool & The Gang's musical genius - and
Royal Bayyan often collaborated with Amir Bayyan on many projects like
Candela, Jimmy Cliff (hit: "Reggae Night"), Kool & The Gang,
Forecast (hit: "Happy Days (Hip Hip Hooray)"), Armenta, Latoya
Jackson, Atlantis, Conquest, Majik and Tomorrow's Edition. Several groups,
like Majik, consisted of Bayyan family members. Amir Bayyan's later projects
included production work for Third World,
Freddie Jackson, Color Me Badd and Stevie B. Separately Royal Bayyan produced
Beau Williams, Mary Davis, Kool & The Gang, Freddie Jackson, Black Miss,
Here & Now and a Tupac Shakur tribute. The early sound of the different
Bayyan productions was quite similar and showed the bond of the Bayyans whose
musical enterprises were a tightly-knit family affair.
Productions,
co-productions (and songs) appear on:
Angela Clemmons: LP/CD This Is
Love (Portrait, 1987)
Armenta feat. Majik: 12 INCH "Comment
Allez-Vous" (Sneak Preview, 1984)
Armenta feat. Majik: 12 INCH "I Wanna Be
With You" (Savoir Faire, 1983)
Brisko The Kidd: 12 INCH "Big Foot
Boogie" (Golden Flamingo, 1980)
Candela: 12 INCH "Love You
Madly" (Arista, 1982)
Charles Blackman: 12 INCH
"Special" (PJ, 1988)
Conquest: 12 INCH "Give It To
Me (If You Don't Mind)" (Prelude, 1981)
Conquest: 12 INCH "Body
Movement" (Prelude, 1982)
Conquest: 12 INCH
"Optimistic" (Epic, 1985)
Delight: LP Is It Too Late
(Magical Ring/EMI, 1982)
Forecast: LP Forecast 1 (RCA,
1982)
Freddie Jackson: LP/CD Don't Let
Love Slip Away (Capitol, 1988)
Givens Family, The: 12
INCH "I
m Still Waiting"
(Sugarhill, 1985)
Givens
Family, The: 12
INCH "Somehow,
Someway" (PJ, 1986)
Gloria Gaynor: LP/CD Gloria Gaynor
(Atlantic, 1983)
Gunchback Boogie Band: 12 INCH "Funn"
(Prelude, 1982)
Jimmy Cliff: LP/CD The Power And
The Glory (CBS, 1983)
Jimmy Cliff: LP/CD Cliffhanger
(CBS, 1985)
Larry Wu: 12 INCH "Let Me Show
You" (Atlantic, 1984)
LaToya Jackson: LP Heart Don't Lie
(Private I, 1984)
LaToya Jackson: LP Imagination
(Private I, 1986)
Legacy: 12 INCH "Word
Up" (Brunswick, 1982)
Majik: 12 INCH "You Gotta
Get Up" (Savoir Faire, 1982)
Philip Michael Thomas: LP/CD
Somebody (Spaceship-Atlantic, 1988)
Rainy Davis: LP Sweetheart
(Columbia, 1987)
Raymond Harris: 12 INCH "Under Your
Spell" (Atlantic, 1983)
Raymond Harris: 12 INCH "You're The
One For Me" (Atlantic, 1983)
Third World: LP/CD Sense Of
Purpose (CBS, 1985)
Tomorrow's Edition: LP/CD A Song
For Everyone (Atlantic, 1982)
Tomorrow's Edition: 12 INCH "I'm The
Best" (Mel-O, 1984)
Vanessa Williams: LP/CD The Right
Stuff (Polygram, 1988)
Other
contributions:
Curtis
Hairston: LP/CD Curtis Hairston
(Atlantic, 1986) - musician
Dayton: LP/CD Hot Fun (Liberty,
1982) - songwriter
Enchantment: LP Enchanted Lady
(Columbia, 1982) - musician
Kay-Gees, The: LP/CD Keep On
Bumpin' & Masterplan (Gang Records, 1974) - musician, songwriter
Kay-Gees, The: LP Hustle Wit'
Every Muscle (Polydor, 1975) - musician, songwriter
Kay-Gees, The: LP/CD Find A Friend
(Gang Records, 1976) - musician, songwriter
Kay-Gees, The: LP/CD Kilowatt
(De-Lite, 1978) - musician, songwriter
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Spirit
Of The Boogie (De-Lite, 1975) - musician
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Love
And Understanding (De-Lite, 1976) - musician
Kool & The Gang: LP Everybody's
Dancin' (De-Lite, 1978) - musician
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD As One
(De-Lite, 1982) - songwriter
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD In The
Heart (De-Lite, 1983) - musician
Royal
Bayyan a.k.a. Royal Jackson
Productions,
co-productions (and songs) appear on:
Atlantis: 12
INCH "Keep On Movin' And Groovin'" (Chaz Ro,
1982)
Beau Williams: LP/CD No More Tears
(Capitol, 1986)
CeCe Rogers: LP/CD CeCe Rogers
(Atlantic, 1989)
Forecast: LP Forecast 1 (RCA,
1982)
Joyce Sims: LP/CD All About Love
(Sleeping Bag, 1989)
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Sweat
(Mercury-Polygram, 1989)
Majik: 12 INCH "You Gotta
Get Up" (Savoir Faire, 1982)
Mary Davis: LP/CD Separate Ways
(Tabu, 1989)
Penn Avenue Boys feat. Ralphael: 12 INCH "Lover
Tonight" (Atlantic, 1983)
Other
contributions:
Freddie
Jackson: LP/CD Don't Let Love Slip Away (Capitol, 1988) -
songwriter
Gerald Alston: LP/CD Gerald Alston
(Motown/Taj, 1988) - songwriter
Kool & The Gang: LP The Force
(De-Lite, 1977) - musician
Kool & The Gang: LP
Everybody's Dancin' (De-Lite, 1978) - musician
Meli'sa Morgan: LP/CD Do Me Baby
(Capitol, 1986) - musician
Khalis
Bayyan a.k.a. Ronald Bell
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Jimmy
Cliff: LP/CD The Power And The Glory (CBS, 1983)
Jimmy Cliff: LP/CD Cliffhanger
(CBS, 1985)
Kay-Gees, The: LP/CD Keep On
Bumpin' & Masterplan (Gang Records, 1974)
Kay-Gees, The: LP Hustle Wit'
Every Muscle (Polydor, 1975)
Kay-Gees, The: LP/CD Find A Friend
(Gang Records, 1976)
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Spirit
Of The Boogie (De-Lite, 1975)
Kool & The Gang: LP The Force
(De-Lite, 1977)
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD In The
Heart (De-Lite, 1983)
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD
Emergency (De-Lite, 1984)
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Forever
(Mercury, 1986)
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Sweat
(Mercury, 1989)
Manhattans, The: LP/CD Back To
Basics (Columbia, 1986)
Manhattans, The: LP/CD Sweet Talk
(Valley Vue, 1989)
Other
contributions:
Deodato: LP/CD Night
Cruiser (Warner Bros., 1980) - musician
Joyce Sims: LP/CD All About Love
(Sleeping Bag, 1989) - musician
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Kool
& The Gang (De-Lite, 1969) - musician, songwriter, music director
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Good
Times (De-Lite, 1972) - musician, songwriter, music director
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Music
Is The Message (De-Lite, 1972) - musician, songwriter
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Wild
And Peaceful (De-Lite, 1973) - musician, songwriter
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Light
Of Worlds (De-Lite, 1974) - musician, songwriter, arranger
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Love
And Understanding (De-Lite, 1976) -musician, songwriter
Kool & The Gang: LP Open
Sesame (De-Lite, 1976) - musician, songwriter
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD
Everybody's Dancin' (De-Lite, 1978) - musician, songwriter, arranger
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Ladies'
Night (De-Lite, 1979) - musician, songwriter
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD
Celebrate (De-Lite, 1980) musician, songwriter
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD
Something Special (De-Lite, 1981) - musician, songwriter
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD As One
(De-Lite, 1982) - musician, songwriter
Saturday Night Fever: LP/CD
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (RSO-Polydor, 1977) - musician, songwriter
Paul L. Kyser
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Breeze: 12 INCH
"Just In The Nick Of Time" (Silver Dollar, 1980)
Breeze: 12 INCH
"Everybody Loves Music " (Silver Dollar, 1980)
Calender: LP It’s A Monster
(Pi Kappa, 1976)
Double Dose: 12 INCH
"Double Dose" (Trumpet, 1989)
Eleanor Goodman: 12 INCH
"Sneak Preview" (Trumpet, 1987)
Jimmy Briscoe And The Beavers: 12 INCH "Invitation To The World" (T.K., 1977)
Jimmy Briscoe And The Beavers: 12 INCH "Into The Milky Way" (Salsoul, 1979)
Nu-Sound Express Ltd.: 12 INCH "Ain’t It Good Enough"
(Silver Dollar, 1970)
Quincy Patrick: 12 INCH "Loving Touch" (Trumpet, 1989)
Rhyze: LP/CD Just How Sweet Is Your
Love (Sam, 1980)
Rhyze: LP/CD Rhyze To The Top (20th
Century, 1981)
Soul Generation: LP Beyond Body
And Soul (Ebony Sounds, 1972)
Super Disco Band, The: LP The Super Disco Band (Pi Kappa,
1976)
Terry Tate: 12 INCH
"Babies Having Babies" (Trumpet, 1989)
L
Dennis
Lambert
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Average
White Band: LP/CD Aftershock (Track,
1988)
Commodores: LP/CD Nightshift
(Motown, 1985)
Commodores: LP/CD United (Motown,
1986)
Cuba Gooding: LP First Album
(Motown, 1978)
Dennis Edwards: LP/CD Don't Look
Any Further (Motown, 1984)
Dennis Edwards: LP/CD Coolin' Out
(Motown, 1985)
Dionne Warwick: "Walk
Away" from LP/CD Dionne Warwick - Greatest Hits (1979-1990) (Arista,
1989)
Five Star: LP/CD Between The Lines
(RCA, 1987)
Four Tops, The: LP/CD Keeper Of
The Castle (ABC-Dunhill, 1972)
Four Tops, The: LP Main Street
People (ABC-Dunhill, 1973)
Four Tops, The: LP Meeting Of The
Minds (ABC-Dunhill, 1974)
George Benson: LP/CD Twice The
Love (Warner Bros., 1988)
Jermaine Jackson: LP/CD Don't Take
It Personal (Arista, 1989)
Manhattans, The: LP/CD After
Midnight (Columbia, 1980)
Meli'sa Morgan: 12 INCH "Deeper
Love" (Capitol, 1986)
Natalie Cole: LP/CD Everlasting
(EMI-Manhattan, 1987)
Natalie Cole: LP/CD Good To Be
Back (EMI, 1989)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD Serious (EMI
America, 1989)
Shaft In Africa: LP/CD Original
Motion Picture Soundtrack (Probe/ABC, 1973)
Smokey Robinson: LP/CD Smoke
Signals (Motown, 1986)
Tavares: LP/CD Check It Out
(Capitol, 1974)
Tavares: LP/CD Hard Core Poetry
(Capitol, 1975)
Tavares: LP In The City (Capitol,
1976)
Temptations, The: LP Surface
Thrills (Motown, 1983)
Thelma Houston: LP/CD Qualifying
Heat (MCA, 1984)
Other
contributions:
Dionne
Warwick: LP Love At First Sight (WEA, 1977) - songwriter
Emotions, The: LP/CD Sunshine
(Stax, 1977) - songwriter
Freda Payne: LP Out Of Payne Comes
Love (ABC, 1975) - songwriter
Johnny Mathis: LP/CD Best Days Of
My Life (Columbia, 1979) - songwriter
Johnny Mathis: LP/CD Once In A
While (Columbia, 1988) - songwriter
Kashif: LP/CD Kashif (Arista,
1989) - songwriter
Margie Joseph: LP/CD Margie
(Atlantic, 1975) - songwriter
Roberta Flack: LP/CD Oasis
(Atlantic, 1988) - songwriter
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77:
LP/CD Love Music (Bell, 1973) - songwriter
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77:
LP/CD Vintage '74 (Bell, 1974) - songwriter
Temptations, The: LP/CD To Be
Continued… (Motown, 1986) -
songwriter
Paul
Lawrence Jones III a.k.a. Paul Laurence
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Do The
Right Thing: LP/CD Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack (Motown, 1989)
Eric Gable: LP/CD Caught In The
Act (Orpheus, 1989)
Evelyn King: LP/CD I'm In Love
(RCA, 1981)
Evelyn King: LP/CD Get Loose (RCA,
1982)
Freddie Jackson: LP/CD Rock Me
Tonight (Capitol, 1985)
Freddie Jackson: LP/CD Just Like
The First Time (Capitol, 1986)
Freddie Jackson: LP/CD Don't Let
Love Slip Away (Capitol, 1988)
Howard Johnson: LP/CD Keepin' Love
New (A&M, 1982)
Kashif: LP/CD Kashif (Arista,
1983)
Lillo Thomas: LP/CD Let Me Be
Yours (Capitol, 1983)
Lillo Thomas: LP/CD All Of You
(Capitol, 1984)
Lillo Thomas: LP/CD Lillo
(Capitol, 1987)
Melba Moore: LP What A Woman Needs
(Capitol, 1981)
Melba Moore: LP/CD The Other Side
Of The Rainbow (Capitol, 1982)
Melba Moore: LP/CD Never Say Never
(Capitol, 1983)
Melba Moore: LP/CD Read My Lips
(Capitol, 1985)
Melba Moore: LP/CD A Lot Of Love
(Capitol, 1986)
Meli'sa Morgan: LP/CD Do Me Baby
(Capitol, 1986)
Meli'sa Morgan: LP/CD Good Love
(Capitol, 1987)
Michael Henderson: LP Fickle
(Buddah/Arista, 1983)
Paul Laurence: LP Haven't You
Heard (Capitol, 1985)
Paul Laurence: LP/CD Underexposed
(Capitol, 1989)
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD If I Were
Your Woman (MCA, 1987)
Other
contributions:
Kenny G: LP/CD G Force (Arista, 1983) - musician, songwriter
Tavares: LP/CD Loveline (Capitol,
1981) - songwriter
Webster
Lewis
Productions,
co-productions (and songs) appear on:
Gwen
McCrae: LP/CD On My Way (Atlantic, 1982)
Love Unlimited Orchestra: LP Love
Unlimited Orchestra Presents Webster Lewis - Welcome Aboard (CBS/Unlimited
Gold, 1981)
Michael Wycoff: LP/CD Love
Conquers All (RCA, 1982)
Michael Wycoff: LP/CD On The Line
(RCA, 1983)
Webster Lewis: LP/CD On The Town
(Epic, 1976)
Webster Lewis: LP/CD Touch My Love
(Epic, 1978)
Webster Lewis: LP/CD 8 For The
80's (Epic, 1979)
Webster Lewis: LP/CD Let Me Be The
One (Epic, 1981)
Other
contributions:
Barry
White: LP/CD Dedicated (Unlimited Gold, 1983) - songwriter
Willie Lester & Rodney Brown (See B: Willie Lester & Rodney Brown)
Jimmy
Jam & Terri Lewis (See J:
Jimmy Jam & Terri Lewis)
Bryan Loren
Productions,
co-productions (and songs) appear on:
Barry White: LP/CD The Right Night & Barry White (A&M,
1987)
Brothers Johnson, The: LP/CD
Kickin' (A&M, 1988)
Bryan Loren: LP/CD Lollipop Luv
(Philly World, 1984)
Con Funk Shun: LP/CD Burnin' Love (Mercury, 1986)
Johnson & Branson: LP/CD
Johnson & Branson (A&M, 1989)
Meli'sa Morgan: LP/CD Do Me Baby (Capitol, 1986)
Randy & The Gypsys: LP/CD
Randy & The Gypsys (A&M, 1989)
Shanice: LP/CD Discovery (A&M, 1987)
Valentine Brothers, The: LP/CD
Picture This (EMI, 1987)
Vesta Williams: LP/CD Vesta
(A&M, 1986)
James
Mtume & Reggie Lucas (See M:
James Mtume & Reggie Lucas)
Reggie
Lucas
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Constina: LP/CD Constina (Columbia, 1989)
Elisa Fiorillo: LP/CD Elisa
Fiorillo (Capitol, 1987)
Four Tops, The: LP Magic (Motown,
1985)
Madonna: LP/CD Madonna - The First
Album (Sire-Warner Bros., 1983)
Models: LP/CD Out Of Mind Out Of
Sight (Geffen, 1985)
Randy Crawford: LP/CD Abstract
Emotions (Warner Bros., 1986)
Rebbie Jackson: LP/CD Reaction
(Columbia, 1986)
Reggie Lucas: LP Survival Themes
(Inner City,1978)
Sunfire: LP/CD Sunfire (Warner
Bros., 1982)
Sunfire: 12 INCH "Video
Queen" / "Never Too Late For Your Lovin'" (Warner Bros., 1983)
Weather Girls, The: LP/CD The
Weather Girls (Columbia, 1988)
Other
contributions:
Aquarian Dream: LP Norman
Connors Presents Aquarian Dream (Buddah, 1976) - songwriter, arranger
Carlos Garnett: LP Let This Melody
Ring On (Muse, 1975) - musician
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic
Echoes: LP/CD Visions Of A New World (Flying Dutchman, 1975) - musician
M.F.S.B.: LP M.F.S.B. (PIR, 1973)
- musician
Norman Connors: LP/CD Slew Foot (Buddah,
1974) - musician
Norman Connors: LP/CD Romantic
Journey (Buddah, 1977) – musician
Phyllis Hyman: LP/CD Phyllis
Hyman (Buddah, 1977) - musician
M
Jacques
Fred Petrus & Mauro Malavasi
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
B.B.&
Q. Band, The: LP/CD The Brooklyn, Bronx
& Queens Band (Capitol, 1981)
B.B.& Q. Band, The: LP/CD All
Night Long (Capitol, 1982)
B.B.& Q. Band, The: LP/CD Six
Million Times (Capitol, 1983)
B.B.& Q. Band, The: LP/CD
Genie (Break, 1985/Elektra, 1986) *
Change: LP/CD The Glow Of Love
(Goody Music/RFC-Atlantic, 1980)
Change: LP/CD Miracles (Goody
Music/RFC-Atlantic, 1981)
Change: LP/CD Sharing Your Love
(RFC-Atlantic, 1982)
Change: LP/CD This Is Your Time
(RFC-Atlantic, 1983)
Change: LP/CD Change Of Heart
(RFC-Atlantic, 1984) *
Change: LP/CD Turn On Your Radio
(RFC-Atlantic, 1985) *
Gianni Riso: 12 INCH “Disco Shy”
(Goody Music, 1980)
High Fashion: LP/CD Feelin' Lucky
(Capitol, 1982)
High Fashion: LP/CD Make Up Your
Mind (Capitol, 1983)
Macho: LP/CD I'm A Man (Goody
Music/Prelude, 1978)
Macho: LP/CD Roll (Goody Music,
1980)
Midnight Gang: LP Love Is Magic
(Goody Music, 1979)
Peter Jacques Band: LP/CD Fire
Night Dance (Goody Music/Prelude, 1979)
Peter Jacques Band: LP/CD Welcome
Back (Goody Music, 1980)
Peter Jacques Band: LP/CD Dancing
In The Street (Atlantic, 1985) *
Revanche: LP/CD Music Man (Goody
Music/Atlantic, 1979)
Ritchie Family: LP/CD I'll Do My
Best (RCA, 1982)
Rudy: LP/CD Just Take My Body
(Goody Music/Polydor, 1979)
Silence: LP Goodtime Baby (Memory,
1982)
Silence 2: LP The Beast In Me
(Flarenasch/Speed Records, 1984) *
Zinc: LP/CD Street Level (Jive,
1982)
Zinc: 12 INCH "I'm Livin'
A Life Of Love" (Jive, 1983)
* Mauro Malavasi not involved
Arif
Mardin
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Aretha
Franklin: LP/CD Spirit In The Dark
(Atlantic, 1970)
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD This Girl's
In Love With You (Atlantic, 1970)
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Amazing
Grace (Atlantic, 1972)
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Young,
Gifted And Black (Atlantic, 1972)
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Aretha's
Jazz (Atlantic, 1972)
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Let Me In
Your Life (Atlantic, 1974)
Aretha Franklin: LP With
Everything I feel In Me (Atlantic, 1974)
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Love All
The Hurt Away (Arista, 1981)
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Aretha
(Arista, 1986)
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Through The
Storm (Arista, 1989)
Average White Band: LP/CD Average
White Band (Atlantic, 1974)
Average White Band: LP/CD Cut The
Cake (Atlantic, 1975)
Average White Band: LP/CD Person
To Person (Atlantic, 1976)
Average White Band: LP/CD Soul
Searching (Atlantic, 1976)
Average White Band & Ben E. King:
LP Benny And Us (Atlantic, 1977)
Average White Band: LP/CD Warmer
Communications (Atlantic, 1978)
Average White Band: LP Volume VIII
(Atlantic, 1980)
Bee Gees: LP Main Course (RSO,
1975)
Bee Gees: LP/CD E.S.P. (Warner
Bros., 1987)
Chaka Khan: LP/CD Chaka (Warner
Bros., 1978)
Chaka Khan: LP/CD Naughty (Warner
Bros., 1980)
Chaka Khan: LP/CD What Cha' Gonna
Do For Me (Warner Bros., 1981)
Chaka Khan: LP/CD Chaka Khan
(Warner Bros., 1982)
Chaka Khan: LP/CD I Feel For You
(Warner Bros., 1984)
Chaka Khan: "The Other Side
Of The World" from LP/CD White Nights - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack (Atlantic, 1985)
Chaka Khan: LP/CD Destiny (Warner
Bros., 1986)
Chaka Khan: LP/CD Life Is A Dance
(The Remix Project) (Warner Bros., 1987)
Daryl Hall & John Oates: LP
Whole Oats (Atlantic, 1972)
Daryl Hall & John Oates: LP/CD
Abandoned Luncheonette (Atlantic, 1973)
Donny Hathaway: LP/CD Donny
Hathaway (Atlantic, 1971)
Donny Hathaway: LP/CD Extension Of
A Man (Atlantic, 1973)
George Benson: LP/CD The George
Benson Collection (Warner Bros., 1981)
George Benson: LP/CD In Your Eyes
(WarnerBros., 1983)
George Benson: LP/CD Twice The
Love (Warner Bros., 1988)
Junior: LP/CD Acquired Taste
(Mercury/Phonogram, 1985)
Margie Joseph: LP/CD Margie Joseph
(Atlantic, 1973)
Margie Joseph: LP/CD Sweet
Surrender (Atlantic, 1974)
Margie Joseph: LP/CD Margie
(Atlantic, 1975)
Margie Joseph: LP/CD Feeling My
Way (Atlantic, 1976)
Miki Howard: LP/CD Love Confessions
(Atlantic, 1988)
Peabo Bryson: LP/CD Take No
Prisoners (Elektra, 1985)
Roberta Flack: LP/CD Roberta Flack
& Donny Hathaway (Atlantic, 1972)
Scritti Politti: LP/CD Cupid &
Psyche '85 (Warner Bros., 1985)
Nick
Martinelli
Productions,
co-productions (and songs) appear on:
52nd
Street: LP/CD Children Of The Night (10, 1986)
Booker Newberry III: 12 INCH "I Get
Romantic" (Buzz International, 1984)
Booker Newberry III: 12 INCH "Handle With
Care" (Buzz International, 1984)
Brandi Wells: LP/CD Watch Out
(WMOT, 1981)
Bryan Loren: LP/CD Lollipop Luv
(Philly World, 1984)
Café feat. The Hearns Sisters: 12 INCH "Want Ads" (Montage,
1983)
Carol Kenyon: 12 INCH "Give Me One Good Reason" (Chrysalis,
1987)
Cashmere: LP/CD Let The Music Turn
You On (Philly World, 1983)
Christopher Williams: LP/CD
Adventures In Paradise (Geffen, 1989)
Cuca: 12 INCH "Young
Love" (Alpha International, 1988)
D'Atra Hicks: LP/CD D'Atra Hicks
(Capitol,1989)
Debbie Trusty: 12 INCH "Searchin'
For Some Lovin'" (West End, 1982)
Direct Current: LP/CD Direct
Current / Sweet Release (TEC, 1979)
Fat Larry's Band: LP/CD Breakin'
Out (WMOT, 1982)
Fat Larry's Band: 12 INCH "Straight
From The Heart'" (Virgin, 1983)
Five Star: LP/CD Luxury Of Life
(RCA, 1985)
Gladys Knight & The Pips:
LP/CD All Our Love (MCA, 1988)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes:
LP/CD Talk It Up (Tell Everybody) (Philly World, 1984)
Ian Foster: LP/CD Ian Foster (MCA, 1987)
Imagination: LP/CD Closer (RCA,
1987)
Janice McClain: LP/CD Janice
McClain (MCA, 1986)
Jean Carne: LP/CD You're A Part Of
Me (Omni, 1988)
Joanna Gardner: LP/CD Joanna
Gardner / I Never Thought (Philly World, 1985)
Kiara: LP/CD To Change And/Or Make
A Difference (Arista, 1988)
Kool & The Gang: LP/CD Sweat
(Mercury, 1989)
Leata Galloway: LP/CD The Naked Truth (CBS, 1988)
Loose Ends: LP/CD A Little Spice
(Virgin, 1983)
Loose Ends: LP/CD So Where Are
You? (Virgin, 1985)
Loose Ends: LP/CD Zagora (Virgin,
1986)
Loose Ends: LP/CD The Real
Chuckeeboo (Virgin, 1988)
Mahogany: 12 INCH "Ride On The
Rhythm" (West End, 1982)
Miki Howard: LP/CD Miki Howard
(Atlantic, 1989)
Mikki: 12 INCH "Dance
Lover" (Renaissance, 1985)
Mission: 12 INCH "Show A
Little Love" (1987)
P.P. Arnold feat. Loose Ends: 12 INCH "A Little
Pain" (Virgin/10, 1985)
Peabo Bryson: LP/CD All My Love
(Capitol, 1989)
Peggi Blu: LP/CD Blu Blowin'
(Capitol, 1987)
Phyllis Hyman: LP/CD Living All
Alone (PIR/Manhattan, 1987)
Real Thing, The: 12 INCH "We Got
Love" (RCA, 1984)
Regina Belle: LP/CD All By Myself
(Columbia, 1987)
Regina Belle: LP/CD Stay With Me
(Columbia, 1989)
Rose Royce: LP Fresh Cut (Omni,
1986)
Shirley Lites: 12 INCH "Heat You Up (Melt You Down)" (West
End, 1983)
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD Stephanie Mills (MCA,1985)
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD If I Were
Your Woman (MCA, 1987)
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD Home (MCA,
1989)
Stone: 12 INCH "Girl I Like
The Way That You Move" (West End, 1982) - additional production
Sybil Thomas: 12 INCH "Rescue
Me" (West End, 1983)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Joy
(Elektra, 1988)
Terri Wells: LP/CD Just Like
Dreamin' (Philly World, 1984)
Other
contributions:
Alphonse
Mouzon: 12
INCH "Our Love Is Hot" (Private I, 1984) -
mixer
B.B.&Q. Band, The: 12 INCH "Genie"
(Chrysalis-Cooltempo) - mixer
Bernard Wright: 12 INCH "Who Do You Love" (Manhattan, 1985)
- remixer
Bliss: 12 INCH "Fun"
(WMOT, 1981) - mixer
Bonnie Pointer: 12 INCH "Your
Touch" (Epic, 1984) - mixer
Bonnie Pointer: 12 INCH
"Premonition" (Epic, 1984) - mixer
Booker Newberry III: 12 INCH "Love
Town" (Montage/Polydor, 1983) - mixer
Bootsy's Rubber Band: 12 INCH "Body
Slam" (Warner Bros., 1982) - mixer
Brenda Taylor: 12 INCH "You Can't
Have Your Cake And Eat It Too" (West End, 1982) - mixer
Captain Sky: 12 INCH "Station
Brake" (WMOT, 1981) - mixer
Captain Sky: 12 INCH "Them
Changes" (Philly World, 1983) - mixer
Change: 12 INCH "Mutual
Attraction" (Atlantic, 1985) - remixer
Chill Fac-Torr: 12 INCH "Twist"
/ "Round 'N' Round" (Philly World, 1983) - mixer
Cosmetic & Jamaaladeen Tacuma:
12 INCH
"(In The) Nightlife" (Gramavision, 1983) - mixer
David Sanborn: 12 INCH "I Told U So" (Warner Bros., 1983) -
remixer
Debbie Trusty: 12 INCH "Searchin'
For Some Lovin'" (West End, 1982) - mixer
DeVille: 12 INCH "(I'd Like
To) Squeeze You Hold You" (Philly World) - mixer
Donna Allen: 12 INCH "Joy And
Pain" (Oceana, 1988) - mixer
D-Train: 12 INCH "Keep Giving
Me Love" (Prelude, 1982) - mixer
Eugene Wilde: LP/CD Eugene Wilde
(Philly World, 1984) - mixer
Family Brown: 12 INCH "I'm Gonna
Getcha" (Buzz, 1984) - mixer
Frankie Smith: LP/CD Children Of Tomorrow (WMOT, 1981) - remixer
Fredi Grace & Rhinstone: 12 INCH "Head Over
Heels" (RCA, 1983) - remixer
Funk Fusion Band: 12 INCH "Can You
Feel It" (WMOT, 1981) - created and edited by Nick Martinelli &
David Todd from an original Keith Benson production
George Benson: 12 INCH "Shiver"
(Warner Bros., 1986) - remixer
George Benson: 12 INCH "Teaser" (Warner Bros., 1986) -
remixer
Glass: 12 INCH "Let Me Feel
Your Heartbeat" (West End, 1982) - mixer
Glenn Jones: LP/CD Finesse (RCA,
1984) - mixer
Haywoode: 12 INCH "A Time Like This" (CBS, 1985) - remixer
Jermaine Jackson: 12 INCH "(Closest Thing To) Perfect"
(Arista, 1985) - remixer
Johnny Mathis: 12 INCH
"Simple" (CBS, 1984) - mixer
Mahogany: 12 INCH "Ride On The
Rhythm" (West End, 1982) - mixer
Major Harris: 12 INCH "All My
Life" (Pop Art, 1983) - mixer
Major Harris: 12 INCH "I Want Your
Love" (Pop Art, 1983) - mixer
Master Jam: 12 INCH "Dancin' All
Night" (2nd To None, 1983) - mixer
New Experience: 12 INCH "Prove It To
Me" (Philly World, 1984) - mixer
Nona Hendryx: 12 INCH "Design For
Living" ( RCA, 1983) - mixer
Nona Hendryx: 12 INCH "Keep It Confidential" ( RCA, 1983) -
mixer
Raw Silk: 12 INCH "Do It To
The Music" (West End, 1982) - mixer
Raw Silk: 12 INCH "Just In
Time" (West End, 1983) - mixer
Ray Parker Jr.: 12 INCH "Ghostbusters"
(Arista, 1984) - mixer
Robert Hazard: 12 INCH
"Change Reaction" (RHA, 1982) - mixer
Rocket: LP/CD Rocket (Quality,
1982) - remixer
Rose Royce: LP/CD Music Magic
(Montage, 1984) - mixer
Rumple-Stilts-Skin: 12 INCH "I Think I Want To Dance With
You" (Heat/Polydor, 1983) - mixer
Shirley Lites: 12 INCH "Heat You Up
(Melt You Down)" (West End, 1982) - mixer
Stone: 12 INCH "Girl I Like
The Way That You Move" (West End, 1982) - mixer
Unique: 12 INCH "What I Got
Is What You Need" (Prelude, 1982) - mixer
Yarbrough & Peoples: 12 INCH "Don't Waste
Your Time" (Total Experience, 1984) - mixer
Nigel
Martinez
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Billy
Ocean: LP/CD Nights (Feel Like Getting Down) (Epic, 1981)
Billy Ocean: LP/CD Innerfeelings
(Epic, 1982)
Evasions, The: 12 INCH "Wikka
Wrap" (SAM, 1981)
Junior: "Do You Really (Want
My Love?)" from LP/CD Beverly Hills Cop - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack (MCA, 1984)
Junior: LP/CD Acquired Taste
(Mercury/Phonogram, 1985)
Light Of The World: LP Check Us
Out (EMI, 1982)
Nigel Martinez: LP Better Things
To Come (State, 1978)
Paula Desmond: 12 INCH "If It Feels
Good" (Flamingo, 1980)
Real Thing: 12 INCH "Street
Corner Boogie" (Catawba, 1983)
Total Contrast: LP/CD Total
Contrast (London, 1985)
Underground: 12 INCH "Behind My
Back" / "Doin' It" (SAM, 1981)
Other
contributions:
Delegation: LP/CD Delegation
(Ariola, 1981) - musician
Delegation: LP/CD Delegation
II (Mercury, 1981) - musician
Marvin Gaye: LP/CD In Our Lifetime
(Motown, 1979/1981) - musician
Norman Connors: LP/CD Mr. C
(Arista, 1981) - songwriter
Philip Bailey: LP/CD Chinese Wall
(CBS, 1984) - musician, vocals
Real Thing, The: LP The Real Thing
(Pye, 1976) - musician
Eric
Matthew
Producer
facts in short:
New York based producer/songwriter Eric Matthew - a showbiz
name for Joe Tucci - started his musical career as lead singer and guitar
player with the band Gary's
Gang. In the late '70s he formed this group with partner Gary Turnier to play
weddings and other celebrations in the New
York area. In a friend's garage they recorded a
demo in 1978 and caught the eye of SAM Records, a small N.Y. dance label
headed by Sam Weiss and distributed by giant CBS Records. Gary's Gang got subsequently signed and hit
the dancefloors worldwide with the disco anthem "Keep On Dancin'".
This success and collaborations with producer Darryl Payne and friend Gary
Turnier allowed him to produce an array of artists for the N.Y. club scene.
Matthew scored huge hits with Sharon Redd, Toney Lee and Sinnamon. In 1982 he
decided to form his own label Radar Records. During the early '80s Eric
Matthew realised few quantity but established high quality and is in many
aspects the producer archetype of the soulful New York club music with its sweet dance
grooves, smooth harmonies and great hooks.
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Arnie's
Love: 12
INCH "I'm Out Of Your Life" (Radar, 1983)
Arnie's Love: 12 INCH "Date With
The Rain" (Profile, 1985)
Barbra Fowler: 12 INCH "Come And
Get My Lovin'" (Radar, 1984)
Barbra Fowler: 12 INCH "Knockin'
On My Door'" (Profile, 1985)
Bettye LaVette: 12 INCH "Doin' The
Best I Can" (West End, 1978)
Brian Keith: 12 INCH "Touch Me
(Love Me Tonight)" (New Image, 1988)
Carol Douglas: LP Love Zone (Next
Plateau, 1983)
Disco Four: 12 INCH "We're At
The Party" (Profile, 1982)
Disco Four:
12 INCH "Whip Rap" (Profile, 1982)
Disco Four:
12 INCH "Throwdown" (Profile, 1983)
Dr. Jeckyll
& Mr. Hyde: 12 INCH "Genius Rap" (Profile, 1981)
Dr. Jeckyll
& Mr. Hyde: 12 INCH "The Challenge" (Profile, 1982)
Dynamic Force:
12 INCH "It's Not Right" (Ebony Coast, 1984)
Elektrik Funk: 12 INCH "On A
Journey (I Sing The Funk Electric)" (Prelude, 1982)
France Joli: LP/CD Now! (Prelude,
1982)
Gary's Gang: LP Let's Do It Again
(Mercury, 1978)
Gary's Gang: LP Gangbusters (CBS,
1979)
Gary's Gang: LP Keep On Dancin'
(CBS, 1979)
Gary's Gang: 12 INCH "Knock Me
Out" (Arista, 1982)
Gary's Gang: 12 INCH "Makin'
Music" (Radar, 1983)
Gary's Gang:
12 INCH "Runaway" (Radar, 1984)
Huey
"Baby" Harris: 12 INCH "You've Got To Be A Winner"
(Profile, 1985)
John Travolta: 12
INCH "A Girl Like You" (Vogue, 1979)
Miles Watson: 12 INCH "You're My
Everything" (Profile, 1982)
Menage: 12 INCH "At This
Moment" (Profile, 1987)
Nightfall:
12 INCH "Keep It Up" (RCA, 1977)
Passion: 12 INCH "You Can't
Hide It" (Prelude, 1984)
Sharon Redd: LP/CD Sharon Redd
(Prelude, 1980)
Sharon Redd: LP/CD Redd Hott
(Prelude, 1982)
Sharon Redd: LP/CD Love How You
Feel (Prelude, 1983)
Sinnamon: 12 INCH "Thanks To
You" (Becket, 1982)
Sinnamon: 12 INCH "I Need You
Now" (Jive, 1983)
Spyder-D: 12 INCH "I Can't
Wait (To Rock The Mike)" (Profile, 1986)
Status IV: 12 INCH "Lovin'
You" (Radar, 1983)
Status IV: 12 INCH "You Ain't
Really Down" (Radar, 1983)
Steve Drayton: 12 INCH "Stop
Playin' With My Love" (Radar, 1984)
Toney Lee: 12 INCH "Reach
Up" (Radar, 1982)
Toney Lee: 12 INCH "Love So
Deep" (Radar, 1983)
Toney Lee: LP Teaser (Critique,
1985)
Tracy Weber: 12 INCH "Sure
Shot" (Quality, 1982)
Tracy Weber: 12 INCH "One Step
At A Time" (Quality, 1983)
Kevin
McCord (See O: One Way-related)
Gene
Mc Fadden & John Whitehead
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Archie Bell & The Drells: LP Dance Your Troubles Away (PIR, 1975)
Archie Bell & The Drells:
LP/CD Where Will You Go When The Party's Over (PIR, 1976)
Archie Bell & The Drells:
LP/CD Hard Not To Like It (PIR, 1977)
Archie Bell & The Drells:
LP/CD Strategy (PIR, 1979)
Beau Williams: LP/CD No More Tears
(Capitol, 1986)
David Ruffin & Eddie Kendricks: LP/CD Ruffin & Kendrick (RCA, 1987)
Freddie Jackson: LP/CD Just Like
The First Time (Capitol, 1986)
Freddie Jackson: LP/CD Don't Let
Love Slip Away (Capitol, 1988)
Gloria Gaynor: LP I Kinda Like Me
(Polydor, 1981)
Jacksons, The: LP/CD The Jacksons
(Epic, 1976)
Jacksons, The: LP/CD Goin' Places
(Epic, 1977)
Jean Carn: LP/CD Jean Carn (PIR,
1976)
John Whitehead: LP/CD I Need Money
Bad (Mercury, 1988)
McFadden & Whitehead: LP/CD
McFadden & Whitehead (PIR, 1979)
McFadden & Whitehead: LP/CD I
Heard It In A Love Song (TSOP, 1980)
McFadden & Whitehead: LP
Movin' On (Capitol-EMI, 1983)
Melba Moore: LP A Portrait Of
Melba (Buddah, 1977)
Melba Moore: LP Melba (Epic, 1978)
Melba Moore: LP Dancin' With Melba
Moore (Buddah, 1979)
Melba Moore: LP What A Woman Needs
(Capitol, 1981)
Melba Moore: LP/CD A Lot Of Love
(Capitol, 1986)
Melba Moore: LP/CD I'm In Love
(Capitol, 1988)
M.F.S.B.: LP Summertime (PIR,
1976)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Teddy
Pendergrass (PIR, 1977)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Life Is A
Song Worth Singing (PIR, 1978)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Teddy
(PIR, 1979)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD TP (PIR,
1980)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD This
One's For You (PIR, 1982)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Heaven
Only Knows (PIR, 1983)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD Message In Our
Music (PIR, 1976)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD Travellin' At
The Speed Of Thought (PIR, 1977)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD The Year 2000
(PIR, 1980)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD My Favorite
Person (PIR, 1982)
Pasadena Roof Orchestra, The: LP
Good News (Transatlantic, 1975)
People's Choice: LP We Got The
Rhythm (PIR, 1976)
Ray, Goodman & Brown: LP/CD
Take It To The Limit (EMI, 1986)
Willie Collins: LP/CD Where You Gonna
Be Tonight (Capitol, 1986)
Other
contributions:
Harold
Melvin & The Blue Notes: LP/CD
Black & Blue (PIR, 1974)
- songwriters
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes:
LP/CD To Be True (PIR, 1975) - songwriters
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes:
LP/CD Wake Up Everybody (PIR, 1975) - songwriters
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes:
LP/CD Black & Blue (PIR, 1974) - songwriters
Melba Moore: LP Closer (Epic,
1980) - songwriters
Rene Moore & Angela Winbush (See W: Rene Moore & Angela Winbush)
James
Mtume & Reggie Lucas
Producer
facts in short:
James Mtume a.k.a. James Heath (percussion, guitar,
keyboards) and Reggie Lucas (guitar) met during their days as members of the
Miles Davis band in the early '70s. In 1977 they joined Roberta Flack's band
and within one year Mtume and Lucas developed the foundations of a prolific
songwriting/production partnership that would yield many outstanding, richly
orchestrated hit productions for artists like Stephanie Mills (hit:
"Never Knew Love Like This Before"), Phyllis Hyman (hit: "You
Know How To Love Me"), The Real Thing (hit: "She's A Groovy
Freak") and Marc Sadane. The very successful association lasted until 1983
when they started working independently.
Mtume is the son of saxophonist Jimmy Heath of the Heath Brothers. As a
percussionist Mtume shared the stage with such jazz legends as Sonny Rollins,
Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock and Joe Henderson. In addition to his
production and session work he formed the band Mtume, released seven albums
between 1969 and 1986 and introduced female singer Tawatha Agee. In 1983
Mtume moved away from the full string and horn sound towards a much sparser,
stripped down synth-funk formula (hit: Mtume "Juicy Fruit"). At the
end of the '80s he left the record industry because the changing musical
climate clashed with his artistic integrity. Mtume resurfaced as a successful
record producer halfway the '90s, bridging the generation gap.
In the early stages of his career Reggie Lucas was a jazz guitarist and
played with Norman Connors, Lonnie Liston Smith, Miles Davis and Carlos
Garnett. Later he was a member of Mtume and Sunfire. As a solo artist he
released the fusion album Survival Themes in 1978. Lucas has worked with
Madonna (hit: "Lucky Star"), Rebbie Jackson and Randy Crawford
among others.
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Gary
Bartz: LP Bartz (Arista, 1980)
Lou Rawls: LP Now Is The Time
(Epic, 1982)
Marc Sadane: LP/CD One-Way Love Affair
(Warner Bros., 1981)
Marc Sadane: LP/CD Exciting
(Warner Bros., 1982)
Mtume: LP Kiss This World Goodbye
(Epic, 1978)
Mtume: LP/CD In Search Of The
Rainbow Seekers (Epic, 1980)
Phyllis Hyman: LP/CD You Know How
To Love Me (Arista, 1979)
Real Thing, The: LP Saints Or
Sinners? (Calibre, 1980)
Real Thing, The: 12 INCH "It's The
Real Thing" (Calibre, 1980)
Real Thing, The: 12 INCH "You're My
Number One" (Calibre, 1981)
Rena Scott: LP Come On Inside
(Buddah, 1979)
Spinners, The: LP Can't Shake This
Feelin' (Atlantic, 1981)
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD Whatcha
Gonna Do (20th Century, 1979)
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD Sweet
Sensation (20th Century, 1980)
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD Stephanie
(20th Century, 1981)
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD
Tantalizingly Hot (Casablanca, 1982)
Sunfire: LP/CD Sunfire (Warner
Bros., 1982) - Produced by Reggie Lucas for Mtume/Lucas Productions
Other
contributions:
Aquarian
Dream: LP Norman Connors Presents Aquarian Dream (Buddah,
1976) - musicians
Candy Bowman: 12 INCH "I Wanna
Feel Your Love" (RCA 1981) - executive producers (written and produced
by Mtume musicians Howard King and Edward 'Ed' Moore)
Carlos Garnett: LP/CD Black Love
(Muse, 1974) - musicians
Eddie Henderson: LP/CD Comin'
Through (Capitol, 1977) - songwriters
Miles Davis: LP/CD Get Up With It
(Columbia, 1974) - musicians
Miles Davis: LP/CD Agharta
(Columbia, 1975) - musicians
Roberta Flack: LP/CD Blue Lights
In The Basement (Atlantic, 1977) - musicians, songwriters
Roberta Flack: LP/CD Roberta Flack
featuring Donny Hathaway (Atlantic, 1979) - musicians, arrangers, songwriters
Vitamin E: LP/CD Sharing (Buddah,
1977) - musicians, arrangers, songwriters
Vivian Reed: LP Ready And Waiting
(Liberty, 1982) - songwriters
James
Mtume
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Bar-Kays: LP/CD Animal (Mercury, 1989)
Comsat Angels: LP/CD 7 Day Weekend
(Jive/Arista, 1985)
Freeze Factor: LP/CD Chill (Epic,
1989)
Heath Bros.: LP/CD Expressions Of
Life (Columbia, 1981)
Kiara: LP/CD To Change And/Or Make
A Difference (Arista, 1988)
Levert: LP/CD Bloodline (Atlantic,
1986)
Mtume: LP Kawaida (Strata East,
1969)
Mtume: LP Alkebu-Lan (Strata East,
1972)
Mtume: LP Rebirth Cycle (Third
Street, 1974)
Mtume: LP/CD Juicy Fruit
(Epic,1983)
Mtume: LP/CD You, Me And He
(Epic,1984)
Mtume: LP/CD Theater Of The Mind
(Epic,1986)
Native Son: LP/CD Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack (MCA, 1986)
Native: 12 INCH "Love Ain't
No Holiday" (Jamaica, 1984)
Nu Romantic Crew: LP/CD Tonight
(EMI, 1987)
Roy Ayers: LP/CD You Might Be
Surprised (Columbia, 1985)
Sue Ann Carwell: LP/CD Blue Velvet
(MCA, 1988)
Tawatha Agee: LP/CD Welcome To My
Dream (Epic, 1987)
Tease: LP/CD Remember (Epic, 1988)
Tyrone Brunson: LP/CD Love
Triangle (MCA, 1987)
Other
contributions:
Eddie
Henderson: LP/CD Heritage (Blue Note,
1976) - songwriter, musician
Eddie Henderson: LP/CD Comin'
Through (Capitol, 1977) - songwriter, musician
Eddie Henderson: LP Mahal
(Capitol, 1978) - songwriter, musician
Randy
Muller
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Brass Construction: LP Attitudes
(Liberty, 1981)
Brass Construction: LP/CD
Conversations (Capitol, 1983)
Brass Construction: LP/CD
Renegades (Capitol, 1984)
Brass Construction: LP Conquest
(Capitol, 1985)
Charles Earland: LP/CD Perceptions
(Mercury, 1978)
First Circle
(Full Circle): LP Boys Night Out (EMI, 1987)
Funk Deluxe: LP/CD Funk Deluxe
(Salsoul, 1984)
Funky People: 7 INCH "Everybody
Hustle" (Roulette, 1975)
Garnett Mims & Truckin' Company:
12 INCH
"What It Is" (Arista, 1977)
Rafael Cameron: LP/CD Cameron
(Salsoul, 1980)
Rafael Cameron: LP/CD Cameron's In
Love (Salsoul, 1981)
Rafael Cameron: LP/CD Cameron All
The Way (Salsoul, 1982)
Rapper’s
Convention: LP Rapper’s Convention (EMI, 1986)
Skyy: LP/CD Skyy (Salsoul, 1979)
Skyy: LP/CD Skyway (Salsoul, 1980)
Skyy: LP/CD Skyyport (Salsoul,
1980)
Skyy: LP/CD Skyy Line (Salsoul,
1981)
Skyy: LP/CD Skyyjammer (Salsoul,
1982)
Skyy: LP/CD Skyylight (Salsoul,
1983)
Skyy: LP/CD Inner City (Salsoul,
1984)
Skyy: LP/CD From The Left Side
(Capitol, 1986)
Skyy: LP/CD Start Of A Romance
(Atlantic, 1988)
Skyy: "Lover's
Celebration" from LP/CD Action Jackson - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack (RCA-BMG, 1988)
Other
contributions:
Aural Exciters: 12 INCH "Chinese Rap" (Top Flight, 1982)
- songwriter
Brass Construction: LP/CD Brass Construction
(United Artists, 1975) - musician, arranger, songwriter
Brass Construction: LP II (United
Artists, 1976) - musician, arranger, songwriter
Brass Construction: LP III (United
Artists, 1977) - musician, arranger, songwriter
Brass Construction: LP IV (United
Artists, 1978) - musician, arranger, songwriter
Brass Construction: LP 5 (United
Artists, 1979) - musician, arranger, songwriter
Brass Construction: LP 6 (United
Artists, 1980) - musician, arranger
B.T. Express: LP/CD Do It ('Til
You're Satisfied) (Roadshow, 1974) - arranger
B.T. Express: LP/CD Non-Stop
(Roadshow, 1975) - arranger
B.T. Express: LP/CD Function At
The Junction (Roadshow/CBS, 1977) - arranger
Eruption: LP Eruption (Hansa International,
1977) - songwriter
Final Touch: 12 INCH "I'm Ready To Give Up
My Love" (Epic, 1976) - arranger
Instant Funk: LP/CD The Funk Is On
(Salsoul, 1980) - songwriter
Rudy Love And The Love Family: LP This Song Is
For You (Calla-CBS, 1976) - arranger
Shirley Caesar: LP No Charge (HOB,
1975) - arranger
Tamiko Jones: 12 INCH "Can't Live
Without Your Love" (Polydor, 1979) - arranger
Tamiko Jones: 12 INCH "Let It Flow"
(Polydor, 1979) - arranger
Thunderstorm: LP Thunderstorm
(Dureco, 1981) - songwriter
Venus: 12 INCH "Madison 76 (Part II)" (Columbia, 1976) - arranger,
songwriter
David
Frank & Mic Murphy (See F: David Frank &
Mic Murphy)
O
One Way-related:
ADK
(Al Hudson, Dave Roberson, Kevin McCord)
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Oliver: LP The Boss (MCA, 1982)
Oliver Cheatham: LP/CD Saturday Night
(MCA, 1983)
Round Trip: LP Let's Go Out
Tonight (MCA, 1980)
ADK
& Richard Becker
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Al Hudson
& The Soul Partners: LP Spreading
Love (ABC, 1978)
Al Hudson & The Partners: LP
Happy Feet (MCA, 1979)
One Way feat. Al Hudson: LP/CD One
Way feat. Al Hudson (MCA, 1979)
One Way feat. Al Hudson: LP One
Way feat. Al Hudson (MCA, 1980)
One Way: LP Love Is… One Way (MCA, 1981)
ADK
& Al Perkins
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
One Way: LP/CD Fancy Dancer (MCA, 1981)
ADK
& Irene Perkins
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
One Way: LP/CD Who's Foolin' Who (MCA, 1982)
One Way: LP/CD Wild Night (MCA,
1982)
One Way: LP Shine On Me (MCA,
1983)
Al
Hudson
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Bert
Robinson: LP/CD No More Cold Nights
(Capitol, 1987)
Bert Robinson: LP/CD I Promise You
Love (Capitol, 1989)
One Way: LP/CD Turn Up The Music (Extra, 1987)
Vee Allen: LP All About Love (MCA,
1983)
Other
Contributions:
Al Hudson
& The Soul Partners: LP Cherish (ABC,
1977) - songwriter
Al Hudson & The Soul Partners:
LP Especially For You (ABC, 1977) - songwriter
Al Hudson & The Soul Partners:
LP Spreading Love (ABC, 1978) - songwriter
Al Hudson & The Partners: LP
Happy Feet (MCA, 1979) - songwriter
Alicia Myers: LP/CD Alicia (MCA,
1981) - songwriter
Alicia Myers: LP I Fooled You This
Time (MCA, 1982) - songwriter
Alicia Myers: LP/CD I Appreciate
(MCA, 1984) - songwriter
Alicia Myers: LP Don't Stop What
You're Doin' (MCA, 1986) - songwriter
Candye Edwards: LP Candye (MCA, 1982)
- songwriter
Candye Edwards: LP Lady (MCA,
1985) - songwriter
Candye Edwards: LP Candye Right
Now (Presents, 1986) - songwriter
Dells, The: LP/CD New Beginnings
(ABC, 1978) - songwriter
Oliver: LP The Boss (MCA, 1982) -
songwriter
Oliver Cheatham: LP/CD Saturday
Night (MCA, 1983) - songwriter
One Way feat. Al Hudson: LP/CD One
Way feat. Al Hudson (MCA, 1979) - songwriter
One Way feat. Al Hudson: LP One
Way feat. Al Hudson (MCA, 1980) - songwriter
One Way feat. Al Hudson: LP/CD A
New Beginning (Capitol, 1989) - songwriter
One Way: LP/CD Fancy Dancer (MCA,
1981) - songwriter
One Way: LP Love Is…One Way (MCA, 1981) - songwriter
One Way: LP/CD Wild Night (MCA,
1982) - songwriter
One Way: LP/CD Who's Foolin' Who
(MCA, 1982) - songwriter
One Way: LP Shine On Me (MCA,
1983) - songwriter
One Way: LP/CD Lady (MCA, 1984) -
songwriter
One Way: LP Wrap Your Body (MCA,
1985) - songwriter
One Way: LP IX (MCA, 1986) -
songwriter
Round Trip: LP Let's Go Out
Tonight (MCA, 1980) - songwriter
Kevin
McCord & Al Perkins
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Alicia
Myers: LP/CD Alicia (MCA, 1981)
Alicia Myers: LP I Fooled You This
Time (MCA, 1982)
Al
Perkins
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Al Hudson
& The Soul Partners: LP Especially
For You (ABC, 1977)
Al Hudson & The Soul Partners:
LP Cherish (ABC, 1977)
Dells, The: LP/CD New Beginnings
(ABC, 1978)
Dells, The: LP/CD Face To Face
(ABC, 1979)
Alicia Myers: LP Alicia Again
(MCA, 1981)
Al
Hudson, Dave Roberson & Irene Perkins
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
One Way: LP Wrap Your Body (MCA, 1985)
One Way: LP IX (MCA, 1986)
One Way feat. Al Hudson: LP/CD A
New Beginning (Capitol, 1989)
Kevin
McCord
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Alicia
Myers: LP/CD I Appreciate (MCA, 1984)
Alicia Myers: LP Don't Stop What
You're Doin' (MCA, 1986)
Candye Edwards: LP Candye (MCA,
1982)
Candye Edwards: LP Lady (MCA,
1985)
Candye Edwards: LP Candye Right
Now (Presents, 1986)
One Way: LP/CD Lady (MCA, 1984)
Other
contributions:
Harold
Melvin & The Blue Notes feat. Sharon Paige: LP/CD The Blue Album (Source, 1980) - songwriter
P
Ray
Parker Jr.
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Bohannon: LP Stop & Go (Dakar, 1973)
Brick: LP/CD Summer Heat
(Bang/Epic, 1981)
Cheryl Lynn: LP/CD In The Night
(Columbia, 1981)
Deniece Williams: LP/CD When Love
Comes Calling (Columbia,1979)
Diana Ross: LP/CD Ross (Capitol,
1983)
Gene Page: LP Love Starts After
Dark (Arista, 1980)
Jr. Tucker: LP Jr. Tucker (Geffen,
1983)
Masayuki Suzuki: LP/CD Dear Tears
(Epic, 1989)
New Edition: LP/CD New Edition
(MCA, 1985)
Randy Hall: LP I Belong To You
(MCA, 1984)
Raydio: LP/CD Raydio (Arista,
1978)
Raydio: LP/CD Rock On (Arista,
1979)
Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio: LP/CD
Two Places At The Same Time (Arista, 1980)
Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio: LP/CD
A Woman Needs Love (Arista, 1981)
Ray Parker Jr.: LP/CD The Other
Woman (Arista, 1982)
Ray Parker Jr.: 12 INCH "Bad
Boy" taken from LP/CD Ray Parker Jr. - Greatest Hits (Arista, 1983)
Ray Parker Jr.: LP/CD Woman Out Of
Control (Arista, 1983)
Ray Parker Jr.: LP/CD Sex And The
Single Man (Arista, 1985)
Ray Parker Jr.: LP/CD After Dark
(Geffen, 1987)
Other
contributions:
Alphonse Mouzon: LP/CD The Sky Is
The Limit (Pausa, 1985) - musician
Alphonse Mouzon: LP/CD Love
Fantasy (Optimism, 1987) - musician
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Sweet
Passion (Atlantic, 1977) - musician
Barry White: LP/CD Can't Get
Enough (Mercury, 1974) - musician
Barry White: LP/CD Let The Music
Play (Mercury, 1976) - songwriter, musician
Barry White: LP/CD The Man Is
Back! (A&M, 1989) - musician
Bill Withers: LP/CD Menagerie
(CBS, 1977) - musician
Billy Preston: LP Billy Preston
& Syreeta (Motown, 1981) - musician
Blackbyrds, The: LP/CD City Life
(Fantasy, 1975) - musician
Blackbyrds, The: LP/CD Action
(Fantasy, 1978) - musician
Bohannon: LP Phase II (Mercury,
1977) - musician
Bohannon: LP Make Your
Body Move (Compleat, 1983) - songwriter, arranger
Boz Scaggs: LP Down Two Then
Left (Columbia, 1977) - musician
Candi Staton: LP Young Hearts Run
Free (Warner Bros., 1976) - musician
Candi Staton: LP House Of Love
(Warner Bros., 1978) - musician
Creative Source: LP Migration
(Sussex, 1974) - musician
Dee Dee Bridgewater: LP Dee Dee
Bridgewater (Atlantic, 1976) - musician
Deniece Williams: LP/CD As Good As
It Gets (CBS, 1988) - musician
Diana Ross: LP/CD Baby It's Me
(Motown, 1977) - musician
Dionne Warwick: LP/CD Love At
First Sight (Warner Bros., 1977) - musician
Donna Summer: LP/CD She Works Hard
For The Money (Mercury, 1983) - musician
Dramatics, The: LP Shake It Well (ABC,
1977) - musician
Earl Klugh: LP Crazy For You
(Liberty, 1981) - musician
Four Tops, The: LP Meeting Of The
Minds (ABC/Dunhill, 1974) - musician
Gene Page: LP Hot City (Atlantic,
1975) - musician
Gene Page: LP Lovelock (Atlantic,
1976) - songwriter, musician
Harvey Mason: LP/CD Funk In A
Mason Jar (Arista, 1975) - musician
Harvey Mason: LP/CD Groovin' You
(Arista, 1979) - musician
Herbie Hancock: LP/CD V.S.O.P.
(CBS, 1976) - musician
Herbie Hancock: LP/CD Secrets
(CBS, 1976) - songwriter, musician
Herbie Hancock: LP/CD Feets, Don't
Fail Me Now (CBS, 1979) - musician
Herbie Hancock: LP/CD Monster
(CBS, 1980) - songwriter, musician
Herbie Hancock: LP/CD Magic
Windows (CBS, 1981) - songwriter, musician
Herbie Hancock: 12 INCH
"Rockit" - stretched version (CBS, 1983) - musician
Jeffree: LP/CD Jeffree (MCA, 1979)
- musician
Jermaine Jackson: LP/CD Jermaine
Jackson / Dynamite (Arista, 1984) - musician
Johnny Bristol: LP/CD Feeling The
Magic (Atlantic, 1975) - musician
Labelle: LP/CD Chameleon (Epic,
1976) - musician
Lamont Dozier: LP/CD Out Here On
My Own (ABC, 1973) - musician
Lamont Dozier: LP/CD Peddlin'
Music On The Side (Warner Bros., 1977) - musician
Lamont Dozier: LP/CD Right There
(Warner Bros., 1976) - musician
LaToya Jackson: LP/CD LaToya
Jackson (Polydor, 1980) - musician
Lee Ritenour: LP/CD Captain
Fingers (Epic, 1977) - musician
Lenny Williams: LP/CD Choosing You
(ABC, 1977) - musician
Leo Sayer: LP/CD Endless Flight
(Chrysalis, 1976) - musician
Leon Haywood: LP Intimate (CBS,
1976) - musician
Leon Haywood: LP Double My
Pleasure (MCA, 1978) - musician
Leon Ware: LP/CD Musical Massage
(Motown, 1976)- musician
Linda Lewis: LP Woman Overboard
(Arista, 1977) - musician
Love Unlimited: LP/CD In Heat
(Mercury, 1974) - musician
Love Unlimited Orchestra: LP/CD
Rhapsody In White (Mercury, 1974) - musician
Love Unlimited Orchestra: LP/CD
White Gold (Mercury, 1974) - songwriter, musician
Marvin Gaye: LP/CD I Want You
(Motown, 1976) - musician
Michael Henderson: LP/CD Goin'
Places (Buddah, 1977) - songwriter
Michael Henderson: LP/CD In The
Nighttime (Buddah, 1978) - musician
Michael Henderson: LP/CD Wide
Receiver (Buddah, 1980) - musician
Natalie Cole: LP Thankful
(Capitol, 1977) - musician
Originals, The: LP California
Sunset (Motown, 1975) - musician
Patti LaBelle: LP/CD Patti LaBelle
(Epic, 1977) - songwriter
Philip Bailey: LP/CD Inside Out
(CBS, 1986) - songwriter, musician
Pockets, The: LP/CD Take It On Up
(CBS, 1978) - songwriter
Pointer Sisters: LP/CD Having A
Party (Blue Thumb, 1977) - musician
Ronnie McNeir: LP Love's Comin'
Down (Motown, 1976) - musician
Rufus feat. Chaka Khan: LP/CD Rags
To Rufus (MCA, 1974) - songwriter
Stanley Turrentine: LP In The
Pocket (Fantasy, 1975) - musician
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD Talking Book
(Motown, 1972) - musician
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD Innervisions
(Motown, 1973) - musician
Stevie Woods: LP Take Me To Your
Heaven (Cotillion, 1981) - musician
Tease: LP Tease (RCA, 1983) -
musician
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Love
Language (Asylum, 1984) - songwriter, musician, arranger
Wah Wah Watson: LP Elementary
(Columbia, 1977) - musician
Darryl
Payne
Producer
facts in short:
From '80s disco-funk to garage and early house
Darryl Payne has showed what quality, dedication and determination was. At
the age of 17 he started up a successful record promotion business in N.Y. in
1978. Payne was doing the promotion of hot disco acts such as Grace Jones,
Dan Hartman, The Trammps and Loleatta Holloway. In 1981 he left the security
of a thriving business for the unsafe world of creativity, in this case
record production. His first deal was with Vanguard Records for the
production of "No One Can Do It (Like You)" by Carol Williams. This
record marked the birth of two major careers being Darryl Payne's first ever
production and Shep Pettibone's first ever mix. Major success didn't come
until "Feel Alright" by Komiko on SAM Records. From then on
production work came in thick and fast. He often teamed up with producers
Eric Matthew, Gary Turnier and André Booth for his various projects. Payne is
one of the only three producers in history who got 5 records in the
Billboard's Black Singles' Chart simultaneously: Sharon Redd "Beat The
Street", Sinnamon "Thanks To You", Carol Williams "Can't
Get Away (From Your Love)", Komiko "Feel Alright" and France Joli
"Your Good Lovin'". Further inspired by this success Darryl Payne
used his previous business experience to set up his own record label New
Image Records in 1985. Since the early '90s Darryl Payne's productions have
been low profile, but the work done in the '80s as an ambassador of the New York club sound
permitted him to gain the just respect for a major talent.
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Brian
Keith: 12
INCH "Touch Me (Love Me Tonight)" (New
Image, 1988)
Carol Douglas: LP Love Zone (Next
Plateau, 1983)
Carol Douglas: 12 INCH "When Love
Goes Wrong" (New Image, 1987)
Carol Williams: 12 INCH "No One Can
Do It (Like You)" (Vanguard, 1981)
Carol Williams: 12 INCH "Can't Get
Away (From Your Love)" (Vanguard, 1982)
Carol Williams: 12 INCH "You've Reached
The Bottom Line" (Vanguard, 1983)
Carol Williams: 12 INCH "Have You
For My Love" (New Image, 1983)
Carol Williams: 12 INCH "What's The
Deal?" (New Image, 1986)
Darryl Payne: LP/CD Past, Present
& Future (New Image, 1988)
Eazy: 12 INCH "Project
Funk" (Vanguard, 1981)
Electrik Funk: 12 INCH "On A
Journey (I Sing The Funk Electric)" (Prelude, 1982)
Fonda Rae: 12 INCH "Over Like A
Fat Rat" (Vanguard, 1982)
France Joli: LP/CD Now! (Prelude, 1982)
Katie Kissoon: 12 INCH "You're The
One (You're My Number One)" (Jive, 1983)
Komiko: 12 INCH "Feel
Alright" (SAM, 1982)
Kreamcicle: 12 INCH "Hold
On" (SAM, 1982)
Kreamcicle: 12 INCH "No News Is
News" (Starlite, 1983)
Kreamcicle: 12 INCH "No News Is
News" REMIX (New Image, 1986)
Kreamcicle: 12 INCH "Work Ya
Body" (New Image, 1986)
NV: 12 INCH "It's
Alright" (Sire, 1983)
NV: 12 INCH
"Haunted" (New Image, 1986)
Richard Jon Smith: LP/CD Richard
Jon Smith (Jive, 1983)
Sharon Redd: LP/CD Sharon Redd
(Prelude, 1980)
Sharon Redd: LP/CD Redd Hott
(Prelude, 1982)
Sharon Redd: 12 INCH "Second To
None" (Payne, 1988)
Sinnamon: 12 INCH "Thanks To
You" (Sutra/Becket, 1982)
Sinnamon: 12 INCH "He's Gonna
Take You Home" (Becket, 1982)
Sinnamon: 12 INCH "I Need You
Now" (Jive, 1983)
Sinnamon: 12 INCH "Send It
C.O.D." (New Image, 1987)
Other
contributions:
Dino
Terrell: 12
INCH "You Can Do It (It's So Easy)" (New
Image, 1985) - arranger, mixer
Richard
Perry
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
DeBarge: LP/CD Rhythm Of The Night (Motown, 1985)
Diana Ross: LP/CD Baby It's Me
(Motown, 1977)
Diana Ross: LP/CD Swept Away
(Capitol, 1984)
Donna Summer: LP/CD All Systems Go
(Geffen, 1987)
Greg Phillinganes: LP/CD Pulse
(Planet 1984)
Jeffrey Osborne: LP/CD Emotional
(A&M, 1986)
June Pointer: LP Baby Sister
(Planet, 1983)
Leo Sayer: LP/CD Endless Flight
(Chrysalis, 1976)
Leo Sayer: LP/CD Leo Sayer
(Chrysalis, 1978)
Leo Sayer: LP/CD Thunder In My
Heart (Chrysalis, 1977)
Marva King: LP Feels Right
(Planet, 1981)
Patti LaBelle: LP/CD Winner In You
(MCA, 1986)
Pointer Sisters: LP/CD Energy
(Planet, 1978)
Pointer Sisters: LP/CD Priority
(Planet, 1979)
Pointer Sisters: LP/CD Special
Things (Planet, 1980)
Pointer Sisters: LP/CD Black And
White (Planet, 1981)
Pointer Sisters: LP/CD So Excited
(Planet, 1982)
Pointer Sisters: LP/CD Break Out
(Planet, 1983)
Pointer Sisters: "Neutron
Dance" from LP/CD Beverly Hills Cop - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(MCA, 1984)
Pointer Sisters: LP/CD Contact
(RCA, 1985)
Pointer Sisters: LP/CD Hot
Together (RCA, 1986)
Pointer Sisters: LP/CD Serious
Slammin' (RCA, 1988)
Pointer Sisters: "He Turned
Me Out" from LP/CD Action Jackson - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(RCA-BMG, 1988)
Swing: LP Swing (Planet, 1981)
Syreeta: LP Syreeta (Motown, 1980)
Other contributions:
Greg Phillinganes: LP/CD Significant
Gains (Planet, 1981) - songwriter
Jacques Fred Petrus &
Mauro Malavasi (See M: Jacques Fred Petrus & Mauro
Malavasi)
Felton Pilate & Michael Cooper (See C: Felton Pilate & Michael Cooper)
Michael
J. Powell
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Anita
Baker: LP/CD Rapture (Elektra, 1985)
Anita Baker: LP/CD Giving You The
Best That I Got (Elektra, 1988)
Body: LP/CD Body (MCA, 1987)
Brick: LP/CD Too Tuff (Magic City,
1988)
Chapter 8: LP Chapter 8 (Ariola,
1979)
Chapter 8: LP/CD This Love's For
Real (Beverly Glen, 1985)
Chapter 8: LP/CD Forever (Capitol,
1988)
David Peaston: LP/CD Introducing…David Peaston (Geffen, 1989)
Grover Washington Jr.: LP/CD
Strawberry Moon (Columbia, 1987)
James Ingram: LP/CD It's Real
(Warner Bros., 1989)
Mini Curry: LP/CD 100% (Timeless,
1987)
Peabo Bryson: LP/CD Positive
(Elektra, 1988)
R.J.'s Latest Arrival: LP/CD
Tangled In Love (EMI America, 1989)
Randy Crawford: LP/CD Rich And
Poor (Warner Bros., 1989)
Regina Belle: LP/CD All By Myself
(CBS, 1987)
Prince
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Andre
Cymone: LP/CD AC (CBS, 1985)
Apollonia 6: LP/CD Apollonia 6
(Warner Bros., 1984)
Chaka Khan: LP/CD C.K. (Warner
Bros., 1988)
Jill Jones: LP/CD Jill Jones
(Paisley Park-Warner Bros., 1987)
Madonna: LP/CD Like A Prayer (Sire,
1989)
Mavis Staples: LP/CD Time Waits
For No One (Paisley Park-Warner Bros., 1989)
Patti LaBelle: LP/CD Be Yourself
(MCA, 1989)
Prince: LP/CD For You (Warner
Bros., 1978)
Prince: LP/CD Prince (Warner
Bros., 1979)
Prince: LP/CD Dirty Mind (Warner
Bros., 1980)
Prince: LP/CD Controversy (Warner
Bros., 1981)
Prince: LP/CD 1999 (Warner Bros.,
1982)
Prince & The Revolution: LP/CD
Purple Rain (Warner Bros., 1984)
Prince & The Revolution: LP/CD
Around The World In A Day (Paisley Park-Warner Bros., 1985)
Prince & The Revolution: LP/CD
Parade (Paisley Park-Warner Bros., 1986)
Prince: LP/CD Sign 'O' The Times
(Paisley Park-Warner Bros., 1987)
Prince: LP/CD Lovesexy (Paisley
Park-Warner Bros., 1988)
Prince: LP/CD The Black Album
(Warner Bros., 1988)
Prince: LP/CD Batman - Music From
The Motion Picture (Warner Bros., 1989)
Sheena Easton: LP/CD A Private
Heaven (EMI, 1984)
Sheena Easton: LP/CD The Lover In
Me (MCA, 1988)
Sheila E.: LP/CD The Glamorous
Life (Warner Bros., 1984)
Sheila E.: LP/CD Romance 1600 (Warner
Bros., 1985)
Sheila E.: LP/CD Sheila E. (Warner
Bros., 1987)
Taja Sevelle: LP/CD Taja Sevelle
(Paisley Park-Warner Bros., 1987)
Time, The: LP/CD The Time (Warner
Bros., 1981)
Time, The: LP/CD What Time Is It ?
(Warner Bros., 1982)
Time, The: LP/CD Ice Cream Castles
(Warner Bros., 1984)
Vanity 6: LP/CD Vanity 6 (Warner
Bros., 1982)
Other
contributions:
94 East: LP/CD Minneapolis
Genius (Hot Pink, 1977/1985) - songwriter, musician
Family, The: LP/CD The Family
(Paisley Park-Warner Bros., 1985) - songwriter
Nona Hendryx: LP/CD Female Trouble
(EMI America, 1987) - songwriter (Joey Coco)
R
Kenneth
"Babyface" Edmonds & Lou
Antonio "L.A."
Reid (See B: Babyface & L.A. Reid)
William
Anderson & Raymond Reid (See C:
Crown Heights Affair-related)
Nile Rodgers
& Bernard Edwards
Productions
(and songs) appear on:
Carly
Simon: 12
INCH "Why" taken from LP Soup For One - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Mirage, 1982)
Chic: LP/CD Chic (Atlantic, 1977)
Chic: LP/CD C'est Chic (Atlantic,
1978)
Chic: LP/CD Risqué (Atlantic,
1979)
Chic: LP/CD Real People (Atlantic,
1980)
Chic: LP/CD Take It Off (Atlantic,
1981)
Chic: LP/CD Tongue In Chic
(Atlantic, 1982)
Chic: 12 INCH "Soup For One"
taken from LP Soup For One - Original
Motion Picture Soundtrack (Mirage, 1982)
Chic: LP/CD Believer (Atlantic,
1983)
Diana Ross: LP/CD Diana (Motown,
1980)
Diana Ross: LP/CD Diana (Motown,
1980, 2003) - Original Chic mix
Debbie Harry: LP/CD Koo Koo
(Chrysalis, 1981)
Fonzi Thornton: "I Work For A Livin'" from LP Soup For One - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Mirage, 1982)
Johnny Mathis: LP I Love My Lady
(CBS, 1981) - unreleased
Norma Jean Wright: LP/CD Norma
Jean (Bearsville, 1978)
Sheila & B. Devotion: LP King
Of The World (Carrere, 1980)
Sister Sledge: LP/CD We Are Family
(Atlantic, 1979)
Sister Sledge: LP/CD Love Somebody
Today (Atlantic, 1980)
Soup For One: LP Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack (Mirage, 1982)
Teddy Pendergrass: "Dream Girl" from LP Soup For One - Original
Motion Picture Soundtrack (Mirage, 1982)
Other
contributions:
Fonzi Thornton: LP/CD The Leader (RCA, 1983) - musicians
Odyssey: LP/CD Happy Together
(RCA, 1982) - songwriters, musicians
Stacy Lattisaw: LP/CD Let Me Be
Your Angel (Cotillion, 1980) - musicians
Nile Rodgers
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Al Jarreau: LP/CD L Is For Lover (Warner Bros., 1986)
Al Jarreau:
"Moonlighting" from LP/CD Moonlighting - Original TV Soundtrack
(MCA, 1987)
David Bowie: LP/CD Let's
Dance (EMI, 1983)
Diana Ross: LP/CD Workin' Overtime
(Motown, 1989)
Eddie Murphy: LP/CD So Happy (CBS,
1989)
Grace Jones: LP/CD Inside Story
(Manhattan, 1986)
Hall & Oates: LP/CD Rock 'N'
Soul, Pt. 1: Greatest Hits (RCA, 1983)
Jenny Burton: "People Have
Got To Move" from LP/CD White Nights - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Atlantic, 1985)
Madonna: LP/CD Like A Virgin
(Sire, 1984)
Michael Gregory: LP Situation X
(Island, 1983)
Nile Rodgers: LP/CD Adventures In
The Land Of The Good Groove (Mirage-Atlantic, 1983)
Nile Rodgers: LP/CD B-Movie
Matinee (Warner Bros., 1985)
Outloud: LP/CD Outloud (Warner
Bros., 1987)
Philip Bailey: LP/CD Inside Out
(CBS, 1986)
Sandy Stewart & Nile Rodgers:
"This Is Your Day" from LP/CD White Nights - Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack (Atlantic, 1985)
Sheena Easton: LP/CD Do You (EMI,
1985)
Sister Sledge: LP/CD When The Boys
Meet The Girls (Atlantic, 1985)
Southside Johnny & The Jukes:
LP Trash It Up (Mirage-Atlantic, 1983)
System, The: 12 INCH "Coming To
America" taken from LP/CD Coming To America - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack (Atco, 1988)
Terri Gonzalez: LP/CD Is There
Rockin' In This House (Atlantic, 1987)
Other
contributions:
Diana Ross: LP/CD Swept Away (Capitol, 1984) - musician
Linx: LP Go Ahead (Chrysalis,
1981) - musician
Luther: LP
This Close To You (Cotillion,
1977) - musician
Nona Hendryx: LP Nona (RCA, 1983)
- musician
Revelation: LP/CD Revelation
(Handshake, 1980) - musician
Will Powers: LP Dancing For Mental
Health (Island, 1983) - musician
Dave
Grusin & Larry Rosen (See G: Dave Grusin & Larry Rosen)
S
Skip Scarborough
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Alton McClain & Destiny: LP Gonna Tell The World (Polydor, 1981)
Autumn: LP Arrival (Compleat,
1984)
Bill Summers: LP/CD Feel The Heat
(Prestige, 1977)
Blue Magic: LP Message From The
Magic (Atco, 1978)
Bobbi Humphrey: LP Tailor Made
(Epic, 1977)
Chuck Cissel: LP Just For You
(Arista, 1979)
Con Funk Shun: LP/CD Secrets
(Mercury, 1977)
Con Funk Shun: LP/CD Loveshine
(Mercury, 1978)
Con Funk Shun: LP/CD Candy
(Mercury, 1979)
Con Funk Shun: LP/CD Spirit Of Love
(Mercury, 1980)
Freda Payne: LP Supernatural High
(Capitol, 1978)
Mother Finest: LP Mother Finest
(Epic, 1978)
Patti LaBelle: LP/CD It's Alright
With Me (Epic, 1979)
Phyllis Hyman: LP/CD Somewhere In
My Lifetime (Arista, 1978)
Rockie Robbins: LP/CD I Believe In
Love (A&M, 1981)
Webster Lewis: LP/CD Let Me Be The
One (Epic, 1981)
Lotti
Golden & Richard Scher (See G: Lotti Golden & Richard Scher)
Lonnie
Simmons
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Gabriella: 12
INCH "Bottom Line" (Total Experience, 1987)
Gap Band: LP/CD Gap Band I
(Mercury, 1979)
Gap Band: LP/CD II (Mercury, 1980)
Gap Band: LP/CD III (Mercury,
1981)
Gap Band: LP/CD IV (Mercury, 1982)
Gap Band: LP/CD V Jammin' (Total
Experience, 1983)
Gap Band: LP/CD VI (Total
Experience, 1984)
Gap Band: LP/CD VII (Total
Experience, 1985)
Gap Band: LP/CD 8 (Total
Experience, 1986)
Gap Band: LP/CD Straight From The
Heart (Total Experience, 1988)
Goodie: LP I Wanna Be Your Man
(Total Experience, 1985)
Krush Groove: LP/CD Music From The
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Warner Bros., 1985)
Prime Time: LP Flying High (Total
Experience, 1984)
Sparkle: 12 INCH "So
Inspired" (Total Experience, 1988)
Switch: LP Am I Still Your
Boyfriend? (Total Experience, 1984)
Yarbrough & Peoples: LP/CD The
Two Of Us (Mercury, 1980)
Yarbrough & Peoples: LP
Heartbeats (Total Experience, 1982)
Yarbrough & Peoples: LP Be A
Winner (Total Experience, 1984)
Yarbrough & Peoples: LP/CD
Guilty (Total Experience, 1986)
Ashford
& Simpson (See A: Ashford &
Simpson)
Rahni
Song a.k.a. Rahni P. Harris II (See H: Rahni P. Harris II a.k.a. Rahni Song)
Michael
Stokes
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Active Force: LP/CD Active Force (A&M, 1983)
Booker T. Jones: LP I Want You
(A&M, 1981)
Creative Source: LP/CD Creative Source
(Sussex, 1973)
Creative Source: LP Migration
(Sussex, 1974)
Creative Source: LP Pass The
Feeling On (Polydor, 1975)
Creative Source: LP Consider The
Source (Polydor, 1976)
Enchantment: LP Enchantment
(Roadshow, 1976)
Enchantment: LP Once Upon A Dream
(Roadshow, 1977)
Enchantment: LP Journey To The
Land Of Enchantment (RCA, 1979)
Enchantment: LP/CD Utopia (CBS,
1983)
Enchantment: 12 INCH "Feel Like
Dancing" (Prelude, 1984)
Gerald Mallory: 12 INCH "Lay It Down
On Me"/"Keep On Dancing" (Prelude, 1982)
Harari: LP Harari (A&M, 1981)
Herb Alpert: LP Magic Man
(A&M, 1981)
Keith Barrow: LP Physical
Attraction (CBS, 1978)
L.T.D.: LP/CD Love Magic (A&M,
1981)
Magic Lady: LP Magic Lady (Arista,
1980)
Magic Lady: LP/CD Hot 'N' Sassy
(A&M, 1982)
Magic Lady: LP/CD Magic Lady
(Motown, 1988)
Mark Radice: LP Intense (Roadshow,
1977)
Masterfleet: LP High On The Sea
(Sussex, 1973)
Morning, Noon & Night: LP
Morning, Noon & Night (United Artists, 1977)
Nature's Divine: LP In The
Beginning (Infinity, 1979)
Onyx: 12 INCH "I Want
Love" (Prelude, 1984)
Ozone: LP Glasses (Motown, 1983)
Ronn Matlock: LP/CD Love City
(Cotillion, 1979)
Rose Royce: LP The Show Must Go On
(Montage, 1985)
Segments Of Time: LP Segments Of
Time (Sussex, 1972)
Sharon Redd: 12 INCH "Undercover
Girl" (Prelude, 1985)
Sherrick: LP/CD Sherrick (Warner
Bros., 1987)
Shirley Caesar: LP First Lady
(Roadshow, 1977)
Shirley Caesar: LP From The Heart
(Roadshow, 1978)
Leon
F. Sylvers III
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
7th Wonder: LP Thunder (Chocolate City, 1980)
Brothers Johnson, The: LP/CD Out
Of Control (A&M, 1984)
Carrie Lucas: LP/CD Portrait Of
Carrie (Solar, 1980)
Carrie Lucas: LP/CD Still In Love
(Solar, 1982)
Dynasty: LP/CD Your Piece Of The
Rock (Solar, 1979)
Dynasty: LP/CD Adventures In The
Land Of Music (Solar, 1980)
Dynasty: LP/CD The Second
Adventure (Solar, 1981)
Dynasty: LP/CD Right Back At Cha !
(Solar, 1982)
Evelyn "Champagne" King:
LP Face To Face (RCA, 1983)
Evelyn "Champagne" King:
LP/CD Flirt (Manhattan/EMI, 1988)
Evelyn "Champagne" King:
LP/CD The Girl Next Door (EMI-USA, 1989)
Five Star: LP/CD Rock The World
(RCA, 1988)
Foster Sylvers & Hy-tech:
LP/CD Plain And Simple (1987, EMI-America)
Gina Foster: LP/CD Love Is A House
(Deconstruction/BMG-RCA, 1989)
Gladys Knight & The Pips:
LP/CD Visions (CBS, 1983)
Gladys Knight & The Pips:
LP/CD Life (CBS, 1985)
Glenn Jones: LP/CD Finesse (RCA,
1984)
Howard Hewett: LP/CD I Commit To
Love (Elektra, 1986)
Janet Jackson: LP/CD Janet Jackson
(A&M, 1982)
Jesse's Gang: LP/CD Center Of
Attraction (Geffen, 1987)
Joyce Kennedy: LP Lookin' For
Trouble (A&M, 1984)
Krystol: LP Gettin' Ready (Epic,
1984)
Lakeside: LP/CD Shot Of Love
(Solar, 1978)
Lakeside: LP/CD Rough Riders
(Solar, 1979)
Lakeside: LP/CD Power (Solar,
1987)
Leon F. Sylvers III: LP/CD Leon F.
Sylvers III (Motown, 1989)
Living In A Box: LP/CD
Gatecrashing (Capitol, 1989)
Lushus Daim & The Pretty Vain:
LP More Than You Can Handle
(Motown, 1985)
Marva King: 12 INCH
"Back Up" (Tri-World, 1988)
Midnight Star: LP/CD The Beginning
(Solar, 1980)
Midnight Star: LP/CD Standing
Together (Solar, 1981)
Real To Reel: 12 INCH "Can You
Treat Me Like She Does" (Arista, 1983)
Real To Reel: 12 INCH "Love Me
Like This" (Arista, 1983)
Rockie Robbins: LP/CD Rockie
Robbins (MCA, 1985)
S.O.S. Band, The: LP III (Tabu,
1982)
Shalamar: LP/CD Disco Gardens
(Solar, 1978)
Shalamar: LP/CD Big Fun (Solar,
1979)
Shalamar: LP/CD Three For Love
(Solar, 1980)
Shalamar: LP/CD Go For It (Solar,
1981)
Shalamar: LP/CD Friends (Solar,
1982)
Shalamar: LP/CD The Look (Solar,
1983)
Spinners, The: LP Cross Fire
(Atlantic, 1984)
Stacy Lattisaw: LP Take Me All The
Way (Motown, 1986)
Sylvers, The: LP Forever Yours
(Casablanca, 1978)
Sylvers, The: LP/CD Concept
(Solar, 1981)
Sylvers, The: LP Bizarre (Geffen,
1984)
Tavares: LP Words And Music (RCA,
1983)
Whispers, The: LP/CD Whisper In
Your Ear (Solar, 1979)
Whispers, The: LP/CD The Whispers
(Solar, 1979)
Whispers, The: LP/CD Imagination
(Solar, 1980)
Whispers, The: LP/CD This Kind Of
Lovin' (Solar, 1981)
Whispers, The: LP/CD Love Is Where
You Find It (Solar, 1981)
Whispers, The: LP/CD Love For Love
(Solar, 1983)
Whispers, The: LP/CD So Good
(Solar, 1984)
Whispers, The: LP/CD Just Gets
Better With Time (Solar, 1987)
Other
contributions:
Foster Sylvers: LP Foster Sylvers (Pride, 1973) - songwriter
Gene Page: LP Love Starts After
Dark (Arista, 1980) - songwriter
T
Rod
Temperton
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Jeffrey Osborne: LP/CD Emotional (A&M, 1986)
Klymaxx: LP/CD Klymaxx (MCA, 1986)
Michael McDonald: LP/CD No Lookin’
Back (Warner Bros., 1985)
Michael McDonald: 12 INCH "Sweet
Freedom" taken from LP/CD Running Scared - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack (MCA, 1986)
New Edition: 12 INCH "Once
In A Lifetime Groove" taken from LP/CD Running Scared - Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack (MCA, 1986)
Quincy Jones: LP/CD Back On The Block (Qwest, 1989)
Running Scared: LP/CD Original
Motion Picture Soundtrack (MCA, 1986)
Siedah Garrett: LP/CD Kiss Of Life
(Qwest, 1988)
Other contributions:
Anita Baker: LP/CD Rapture (Elektra, 1986) - songwriter
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Love All
The Hurt Away (Arista, 1981) - songwriter
Bob James: LP/CD Sign Of The Times
(Tappan Zee, 1981) - songwriter, arranger
Bob James: LP/CD Hands Down
(Tappan Zee, 1982) - songwriter, arranger
Brothers Johnson, The: LP/CD Light
Up The Night (A&M, 1980) - songwriter, arranger, musician
Donna Summer: LP/CD Donna Summer
(Warner Bros., 1982) - songwriter, arranger
George Benson: LP/CD Give Me The
Night (Warner Bros., 1980) - songwriter, arranger
Heatwave: LP/CD Too Hot Too Handle
(Epic, 1977) - songwriter, musician
Heatwave: LP/CD Central Heating
(Epic, 1978) - songwriter, musician
Heatwave: LP/CD Hot Property
(Epic, 1979) - songwriter, musician
Heatwave: LP/CD Candles (Epic, 1981)
- songwriter, musician
Heatwave: LP/CD Current (Epic,
1982) - songwriter
Herbie Hancock: LP/CD Lite Me Up
(CBS, 1982) - songwriter, arranger
James Ingram: LP/CD It's Your
Night (Qwest, 1983) - songwriter, arranger, musician
Karen
Carpenter: LP/CD Karen Carpenter (A&M, 1996) - songwriter, arranger
Lou Rawls: LP/CD Close Company
(Epic, 1984) - songwriter
Manhattan Transfer: LP/CD Bodies
And Souls (Atlantic, 1983) - songwriter, arranger
Michael Jackson: LP/CD Off The
Wall (Epic, 1979) - songwriter, arranger
Michael Jackson: LP/CD Thriller
(Epic, 1982) - songwriter, arranger, musician
Patti Austin: LP/CD Every Home
Should Have One (Qwest, 1981) - songwriter, arranger, musician
Quincy Jones: LP/CD The Dude
(A&M, 1981) - songwriter, arranger
Rufus & Chaka Khan: LP/CD
Masterjam (MCA, 1979) - songwriter, arranger
Second Image: LP/CD Strange
Reflections (MCA, 1985) - songwriter, arranger
Stanley Jordan: LP/CD Magic Touch (Blue Note,
1985) - songwriter
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD Stephanie
Mills (MCA, 1985) - songwriter
The Color
Purple: LP/CD Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Warner Bros., 1985) -
songwriter
The Stud: LP Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack (CBS, 1978) - songwriter
Russell
Timmons Jr.
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Lew Kirton: LP/CD Talk To Me (BID/CBS, 1983)
Reddings, The: LP The Awakening
(BID/CBS, 1980)
Reddings, The: LP Class (BID/CBS,
1981)
Reddings, The: LP Steamin' Hot
(BID/CBS, 1982)
Reddings, The: LP Back To Basics
(BID/CBS, 1983)
Reddings, The: LP/CD If Looks
Could Kill (Polydor, 1985)
Tyrone Brunson: LP Sticky
Situation (BID/CBS, 1983)
Tyrone Brunson: LP Fresh (BID/CBS,
1984)
David
"Pic" Conley & David Townsend (See C: David "Pic" Conley & David Townsend)
Roger
Troutman
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Bobby Glover: LP/CD Bad Bobby Glover (CBS, 1984)
Dayton: LP/CD Feel The Music
(Capitol, 1983)
Dick Smith: LP Initial Thrust
(Warner Bros., 1983)
Jesse Rae: LP/CD The Thistle
(Warner Bros., 1987)
Lynch: LP/CD A Pinch Of Lynch
(Capitol, 1989)
New Horizons: LP Something New
(Columbia, 1983)
New Horizons: LP Gonna Have Big
Fun (Columbia, 1984)
Roger & The Human Body: LP
Truth Be Known (Capitol, 1976)
Roger: LP/CD The Many Facets Of
Roger (Warner Bros., 1981)
Roger: LP/CD The Saga Continues
(Warner Bros., 1984)
Roger: LP/CD Unlimited! (Reprise,
1987)
Shirley Murdock: LP/CD Shirley
Murdock (Elektra, 1986)
Shirley Murdock: LP/CD A Woman's
Point Of View (Elektra,1988)
Sugarfoot: LP Sugar Kiss (Warner
Bros., 1985)
The Human Body: LP/CD Make You Shake
It (Columbia, 1984)
The Human Body: LP Cosmic Round Up
(Elektra, 1985)
Zapp: LP/CD Zapp (Warner Bros.,
1980)
Zapp: LP/CD II (Warner Bros.,
1982)
Zapp: LP/CD III (Warner Bros.,
1983)
Zapp: LP/CD New Zapp IV U (Warner
Bros., 1985)
Zapp: LP/CD V (Warner Bros., 1989)
Other
contributions:
Sun: LP/CD Wanna Make Love (Capitol, 1976) - musician
Funkadelic: LP/CD The Electric
Spanking Of War Babies (Warner Bros., 1981) - musician
Scritti Politti: LP/CD Provision
(Warner Bros., 1988) - musician
V
Luther
Vandross
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Jump To It (Arista, 1982)
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Get It
Right (Arista, 1983)
Cheryl Lynn: LP/CD Instant Love
(Columbia, 1982)
Diana Ross: LP/CD Red Hot Rhythm
& Blues (Capitol, 1987)
Dionne Warwick: LP/CD How Many
Times Can We Say Goodbye (Arista, 1983)
Gregory Hines: LP/CD Gregory Hines
(Epic, 1988)
Luther: LP Luther (Cotillion,
1976)
Luther: LP This Close To You
(Cotillion, 1977)
Luther Vandross: LP/CD Never Too
Much (Epic, 1981)
Luther Vandross: LP/CD Forever,
For Always, For Love (Epic, 1982)
Luther Vandross: LP/CD Busy Body
(Epic, 1983)
Luther Vandross: LP/CD The Night I
Fell In Love (Epic, 1985)
Luther Vandross: LP/CD Give Me The
Reason (Epic, 1986)
Luther Vandross: LP/CD Any Love
(Epic, 1988)
Luther Vandross: LP/CD The Best Of
Luther Vandross…The Best Of Love
(Epic, 1989)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Love
Language (Asylum, 1984)
Other
contributions:
Donna Washington: LP Going For The Glow (Capitol, 1981) - songwriter
Roberta Flack: "You Stopped Lovin' Me" from LP Bustin'
Loose - Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (MCA, 1981) -
songwriter, vocal arranger
Temptations, The: LP/CD Touch Me
(Motown, 1985) - songwriter
The Main Ingredient: 12 INCH "Party
People" (RCA, 1982) - songwriter
The Wiz: LP/CD Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack (MCA, 1978) - songwriter
W
Narada
Michael Walden
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Amii Stewart: LP I'm Gonna Get Your Love (Handshake, 1981)
Amii Stewart: LP Images (Hansa International,
1981)
Angela Bofill: LP/CD Something
About You (Arista, 1981)
Angela Bofill: LP/CD Too Tough
(Arista, 1982)
Angela Bofill: LP/CD Teaser
(Arista, 1983)
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Who's
Zoomin' Who (Arista, 1985)
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Aretha (Arista,
1986)
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Through The
Storm (Arista, 1989)
Carl Carlton: LP The Bad C.C.
(RCA, 1982)
Carl Lewis: 12 INCH "Goin’
For The Gold" (RCA, 1984)
Clarence Clemons: LP Hero
(Columbia, 1985)
Clarence Clemons: LP/CD A Night
With Mr. C (Columbia, 1989)
D'Atra Hicks: LP/CD D'Atra Hicks
(Capitol, 1989)
Eddie Murphy: LP/CD So Happy
(Columbia, 1989)
Evan Rogers: LP/CD Faces Of Love
(Capitol, 1989)
Four Tops, The: LP/CD
Indestructible (Arista, 1988)
George Benson: LP/CD While The
City Sleeps (Warner Bros. 1986)
Gladys Knight: single
"License To Kill" taken from LP/CD License To Kill - Original
Motion Picture Soundtrack (MCA, 1989)
Herbie Hancock: LP/CD Lite Me Up
(Columbia, 1982)
Jermaine Stewart: LP/CD Frantic
Romantic (Arista, 1986)
June Pointer: LP/CD June Pointer
(CBS, 1989)
Kenny G: LP/CD Duotones (Arista,
1986)
Lionel Richie: LP/CD Dancing On
The Ceiling (Motown, 1986)
Masayoshi Takanaka: LP/CD Saudade
(Kitty/Polydor, 1982)
Narada Michael Walden: LP/CD I
Cry, I Smile (Atlantic, 1976)
Narada Michael Walden: LP/CD
Awakening (Atlantic, 1977)
Narada Michael Walden: LP/CD The
Dance Of Life (Atlantic, 1979)
Narada Michael Walden: LP/CD
Victory (Atlantic, 1980)
Narada Michael Walden: LP/CD
Confidence (Atlantic, 1982)
Narada Michael Walden: LP/CD
Looking At You, Looking At Me (Atlantic, 1983)
Narada Michael Walden: LP/CD The
Nature Of Things (Warner Bros., 1985)
Narada Michael Walden: LP/CD
Divine Emotions (Reprise, 1988)
Natalie Cole: LP/CD Good To Be
Back (EMI, 1989)
Patti Austin: LP/CD Patti Austin
(Qwest, 1984)
Patti LaBelle: LP/CD Be Yourself
(MCA, 1989)
Phyllis Hyman: LP/CD Goddess Of
Love (Arista, 1983)
Pointer Sisters: "Be
There" from LP/CD Beverly Hills Cop II - Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack (MCA, 1987)
Regina Belle: LP/CD Stay With Me
(Columbia, 1989)
Sheena Easton: "So Far So
Good" from LP/CD About Last Night… - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (EMI, 1986)
Siedah Garrett: 12 INCH
"Curves" (Qwest, 1985)
Sister Sledge: LP/CD All American
Girls (Cotillion, 1981)
Stacy Lattisaw: LP/CD Let Me Be
Your Angel (Cotillion, 1980)
Stacy Lattisaw: LP/CD With You
(Cotillion, 1981)
Stacy Lattisaw: LP/CD Sneakin' Out
(Cotillion, 1982)
Stacy Lattisaw: LP/CD Sixteen
(Cotillion, 1983)
Stacy Lattisaw & Johnny Gill:
LP Perfect Combination (Cotillion, 1984)
Stacy Lattisaw: LP/CD Take Me All
The Way (Motown, 1986)
Wanda Walden: LP Searchin' For
Love (Elektra, 1981)
Whitney Houston: LP/CD Whitney
Houston (Arista, 1986)
Whitney Houston: LP/CD Whitney
(Arista, 1987)
Other
contributions:
Dance Like A
Mother: 12 INCH "You Ain't
So Tough" (Virgin, 1987) - songwriter
Dionne Warwick: LP/CD Friends
(Arista, 1985) - arranger, songwriter
Hall & Oates: LP/CD Ooh Yeah!
(Arista, 1988) - musician, arranger
James Mason: LP/CD Rhythm Of Life
(Chiaroscuro, 1977) - musician
Margie Joseph: LP/CD Ready For The Night (Cotillion, 1984) -
supervision
Narada Michael Walden: LP/CD
Garden Of Love Light (Atlantic, 1975) - musician
Teena Marie: LP/CD Starchild
(Epic, 1984) - musician
Dexter
Wansel
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Billy Paul: LP/CD Let 'Em In (PIR, 1976)
Billy Paul: LP/CD Only The Strong
Survive (PIR, 1977)
Dee Dee Sharp: LP/CD What Color Is
Love (PIR, 1977)
Dee Dee Sharp: LP/CD Dee Dee (PIR,
1980)
Dexter Wansel: LP/CD Life On Mars (PIR,
1976)
Dexter Wansel: LP/CD What The
World Is Coming To (PIR, 1977)
Dexter Wansel: LP/CD Voyager (PIR,
1978)
Dexter Wansel: LP/CD Time Is
Slipping Away (PIR, 1979)
Dexter Wansel: LP Captured
(Virgin/10, 1986)
Grover Washington Jr.: LP/CD The
Best Is Yet To Come (Elektra, 1982)
Jacksons, The: LP/CD The Jacksons
(Epic/PIR, 1976)
Jacksons, The: LP/CD Goin' Places
(Epic/PIR, 1977)
Jean Carn: LP/CD Jean Carn (PIR,
1976)
Jean Carn: LP/CD Happy To Be With
You (PIR, 1978)
Jean Carn: LP/CD When I Find You
Love (PIR, 1979)
Jerry Butler: LP/CD The Best Love
(PIR, 1979)
Joanna Gardner: LP/CD Joanna
Gardner / I Never Thought (Philly World, 1985)
Jones Girls, The: LP/CD At Peace
With Woman (PIR, 1980)
Jones Girls, The: LP/CD Get As
Much Love As You Can (PIR, 1981)
Jones Girls, The: LP/CD Keep It
Comin' (PIR, 1984)
Junior: LP/CD Acquired Taste
(Mercury/Phonogram, 1985)
Levert: LP I Get Hot (Tempre,
1985)
Lou Rawls: LP/CD All Things In
Time (PIR, 1976)
Lou Rawls: LP/CD Unmistakably Lou
(PIR, 1977)
Lou Rawls: LP/CD Let Me Be Good To
You (PIR, 1979)
Lou Rawls: LP/CD Sit Down And Talk
To Me (PIR, 1980)
Lou Rawls: LP/CD Close Company
(Epic, 1984)
Lou Rawls: LP/CD Family Reunion
(Gamble & Huff Records, 1987)
M.F.S.B.: LP Philadelphia Freedom
(PIR, 1975)
M.F.S.B.: LP/CD The Gamble-Huff
Orchestra (PIR, 1978)
M.F.S.B.: LP/CD Mysteries Of The
World (PIR, 1980)
Michelle Goulet: LP Michelle
Goulet (Island, 1986)
Miles Jaye: LP/CD Miles (Island,
1987)
Nat Augustin: 12 INCH "That
Girl" (Breakout, 1987)
O'Jays, The: LP/CD Love And More
(PIR, 1984)
Patti LaBelle: LP/CD The Spirit's
In It (PIR, 1981)
Patti LaBelle: LP/CD I'm In Love
Again (PIR, 1983)
Patti LaBelle: LP/CD Patti (PIR,
1985)
Phyllis Hyman: LP/CD Living All
Alone (PIR, 1986)
P.P. Arnold feat. Loose Ends: 12 INCH "A Little
Pain" (Virgin/10, 1985)
Sasss: 12 INCH "I Didn't
Mean It At All" (Virgin/10, 1985)
Shirley Jones: LP/CD Always In The
Mood (PIR/Manhattan, 1986)
Stylistics, The: LP/CD Hurry Up
This Way Again (PIR, 1980)
Stylistics, The: LP/CD Closer Than
Close (PIR, 1981)
Stylistics, The: LP/CD 1982 (PIR,
1982)
Sylvester: LP Rock The Box
(Megatone, 1984)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD TP (PIR,
1980)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD It's Time
For Love (PIR, 1981)
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Heaven
Only Knows (PIR, 1983)
Tenita Jordan: LP/CD Tenita (Top
Priority/CBS, 1986)
Other
contributions:
Brandi Wells: LP/CD Watch Out (WMOT, 1981) - arranger, songwriter
Evelyn "Champagne" King:
LP/CD Smooth Talk (RCA, 1977) - musician, songwriter
Evelyn "Champagne" King:
LP/CD A Long Time Coming (A Change Is Gonna Come) (RCA, 1985) - musician
Heaven & Earth: LP/CD That's
Love (WMOT, 1981) - arranger, musician
Pieces Of A Dream: LP/CD Pieces Of
A Dream (Elektra, 1981) - songwriter, musician
Pieces Of A Dream: LP/CD We Are
One (Elektra, 1982) - songwriter, musician
Teddy Pendergrass: LP/CD Teddy
(PIR, 1979) - arranger
Richie
Weeks
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Hudsons, The: 12
INCH "Don't Try To Fight It" (Epic, 1983)
Jammers, The: LP/CD The Jammers
(Salsoul, 1982)
Richie Weeks & Centerfold: 12 INCH "Forbidden
Fruit" (Streetwave, 1985)
Weeks & Co.: 12 INCH "Rock Your
World" (Ariola, 1981)
Weeks & Co.: 12 INCH "Go With The
Flow" (Ariola, 1982)
Weeks & Co.: LP Weeks &
Co. (Salsoul, 1983)
Weeks & Co.: 12 INCH "Let's B-B
Break" (Salsoul, 1984)
Other
contributions:
Instant Funk: LP/CD V (Salsoul, 1983) - arranger
Phreek: LP Patrick Adams Presents
Phreek (Atlantic, 1978) - songwriter
Maurice
White
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Atlantic Starr: LP/CD All In The Name Of Love (Warner Bros., 1987)
Deniece Williams: LP/CD This Is
Niecy (CBS, 1976)
Deniece Williams: LP/CD Songbird
(CBS, 1977)
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD
Earth, Wind & Fire (Warner Bros., 1970)
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD Last
Days And Time (CBS, 1972)
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD Head
To The Sky (CBS, 1973)
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD Open
Our Eyes (CBS, 1974)
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD
Gratitude (CBS, 1975)
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD
That's The Way Of The World (CBS, 1975)
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD
Spirit (CBS, 1976)
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD All
'N' All (CBS, 1977)
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD I Am
(CBS, 1979)
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD
Faces (CBS, 1980)
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD
Raise (CBS, 1981)
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD
Powerlight (CBS, 1982/83)
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD
Electric Universe (CBS, 1983)
Earth, Wind & Fire: LP/CD
Touch The World (CBS, 1987)
Emotions, The: LP/CD Flowers (CBS,
1976)
Emotions, The: LP/CD Rejoice (CBS,
1977)
Emotions, The: LP/CD Sunbeam (CBS,
1979)
Emotions, The: LP/CD Come Into My
World (CBS, 1979)
Jennifer Holliday: LP/CD Feel My
Soul (Geffen, 1983)
Maurice White: LP/CD Maurice White
(CBS, 1985)
Pieces Of A Dream: LP/CD Joyride
(Manhattan-EMI, 1986)
Ramsey Lewis: LP/CD Sun Goddess
(CBS, 1974)
Ramsey Lewis: LP/CD Salongo (CBS,
1976)
Ramsey Lewis: LP/CD Fantasy (CBS,
1985)
Ramsey Lewis: LP/CD Keys To The
City (CBS, 1987)
Other
contributions:
Afterbach: LP/CD Matinee (ARC-CBS, 1981) - executive producer
Emotions, The: LP/CD New Affair
(CBS, 1981) - songwriter, executive producer
Pieces Of A Dream: LP/CD Pieces Of
A Dream (Elektra, 1981) - songwriter
Gene
Mc Fadden & John Whitehead (See M: Gene Mc Fadden & John Whitehead)
Kae Williams Jr.
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
B.B.&Q. Band, The: LP/CD Genie (Break/Cooltempo, 1985;
Elektra, 1986)
Breakwater: LP/CD Splashdown
(Arista, 1980)
Cashmere: LP/CD Let The Music Turn
You On (Philly World, 1983)
Curtis Hairston: LP/CD Curtis
Hairston (Atlantic, 1986)
George Howard: LP Asphalt Gardens (TBA, 1982)
George Howard: LP Dancing In The Sun (TBA/GRP, 1985)
G-Five: 12 INCH "Keep It On"
(Novarro, 1983)
G-Five: 12 INCH "Drive My Car"
(Novarro, 1984)
Mason: LP/CD Livin' On The Edge (Elektra, 1987)
Pretty Poison: LP/CD Catch
Me I'm Falling (Virgin, 1987)
Pretty Poison: "Catch Me (I'm Falling)" from Hiding Out
- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Virgin, 1987)
Sister
Sledge: "Keep Good
Loving" from Action Jackson - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(Atlantic, 1988)
Other contributions:
B.B.&Q. Band: LP/CD All Night Long (Capitol, 1982) - musician,
songwriter
Bootsy's Rubber Band: 12 INCH "Body
Slam" (W.B., 1982) - musician
Breakwater: LP/CD Breakwater (Arista, 1978) -
musician, arranger, songwriter
Change: LP/CD Sharing Your Love (Atlantic,
1982) - musician, songwriter
Cosmetic with Jamaladeen Tacuma: LP So
Tranquilizin' (Gramavision, 1985) - musician
Five Star: LP/CD Luxury Of Life (RCA, 1985) -
musician
France Joli: LP/CD Now! (Prelude, 1982) - songwriter
George Howard: LP/CD Dancing In The Sun (TBA,
1985) - musician
Hi-Gloss: LP/CD You'll Never Know (Prelude,
1982) - musician
Ian Foster: LP/CD Ian Foster (MCA, 1987) -
musician
Joanna Gardner: LP/CD Joanna Gardner / I Never
Thought (Philly World, 1985) - musician
Loose Ends: LP/CD A Little Spice / So Where Are
You? (MCA, 1985) - musician
Miki Howard: LP/CD Love Confessions (Atlantic,
1987) - musician
Peggi Blu: LP/CD Blu Blowin’ (Capitol, 1987) - musician, songwriter
Phyllis Hyman: LP/CD Living All Alone (PIR, 1986) - musician
Shirley Lites: 12 INCH "Heat You Up (Melt
You Down)" (West End, 1983) - musician
Sybil Thomas: 12 INCH "Rescue Me"
(West End, 1983) - musician
Terri Wells: LP/CD Just Like Dreamin' (Philly
World, 1984) - musician
René
Moore & Angela Winbush
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Evelyn "Champagne"
King: LP/CD A Long
Time Coming (A Change Is Gonna Come) (RCA, 1985)
Janet Jackson: LP/CD Janet Jackson
(A&M, 1982)
Plush: LP/CD Plush (RCA, 1982)
René & Angela: LP Rene &
Angela (Capitol, 1980)
René & Angela: LP/CD Wall To
Wall (Capitol, 1981)
René & Angela: LP/CD Rise
(Capitol, 1983)
René & Angela: LP/CD Street
Called Desire (Mercury, 1985)
Ronnie McNeir: LP The Ronnie
McNeir Experience (Capitol, 1984)
Rufus: LP/CD Camouflage (MCA,
1981)
Other
contributions:
Alton McClain & Destiny: LP Alton McClain & Destiny (Polydor, 1978) -
songwriters
Edmund Sylvers: LP Have You Heard
(Casablanca, 1980) - songwriters
Lamont Dozier: LP/CD Bittersweet
(Warner Bros., 1979) - songwriters
Lenny Williams: LP/CD Spark Of
Love (ABC, 1978) - songwriters
Odyssey: LP Happy Together (RCA,
1982) - songwriters
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD Stephanie
Mills (MCA, 1985) - songwriters
Stevie Woods: LP Take Me To Your
Heaven (Cotillion, 1981) - songwriters
Tavares: LP Love Uprising (Capitol, 1980) – songwriters
Angela Winbush
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Angela Winbush: LP/CD Sharp (Mercury, 1987)
Angela Winbush: LP/CD It's The
Real Thing (Mercury, 1989)
Isley Brothers, The: LP/CD Smooth
Sailin' (Warner Bros., 1987)
Isley Brothers, The: LP/CD Spend
The Night (Warner Bros. ,1989)
Sheena Easton: LP/CD The Lover In
Me (MCA, 1989)
Stephanie Mills: LP/CD Home (MCA,
1989)
Stevie
Wonder
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Betty Wright: LP Betty Wright (Epic, 1981)
Dionne Warwick: LP/CD Friends
(Arista, 1985)
Dionne Warwick: LP/CD Without Your
Love (Arista, 1985)
Eddie Murphy: LP/CD How Could It
Be (Columbia, 1985)
Gary Byrd & The G.B. Experience:
12 INCH
"The Crown" (Motown, 1983)
G.C. Cameron: LP Love Songs And
Other Tragedies (Motown, 1974)
Grady Harrell: LP/CD Come Play
With Me (RCA, 1988)
Jermaine Jackson: LP/CD Let's Get
Serious (Motown, 1980)
Minnie Riperton: LP/CD Love Lives
Forever (Capitol, 1980)
Originals, The: LP Game Called
Love (Motown, 1974)
School Daze: LP/CD Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack (EMI-Manhattan, 1988)
Smokey Robinson: LP/CD Where
There's Smoke… (Motown, 1979)
Smokey Robinson: LP Warm Thoughts
(Motown, 1980)
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD Signed,
Sealed And Delivered (Motown, 1970)
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD Where I'm
Coming From (Motown, 1971)
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD Music Of My
Mind (Motown, 1972)
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD Talking Book
(Motown, 1972)
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD Innervisions
(Motown, 1973)
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD
Fulfillingness' First Finale (Motown, 1974)
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD Songs In The
Key Of Life (Motown, 1976)
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD Stevie
Wonder's Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants (Motown, 1979)
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD Hotter Than
July (Motown, 1980)
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD Stevie
Wonder's Original Musiquarium I (Motown, 1982)
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD The Woman In
Red - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Motown, 1984)
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD In Square
Circle (Motown, 1985)
Stevie Wonder: LP/CD Characters
(Motown, 1987)
Supremes, The: single "Bad
Weather" (Motown, 1973)
Syreeta: LP/CD Syreeta (MoWest,
1972)
Syreeta: LP/CD Stevie Wonder
Presents Syreeta (Motown, 1974)
Syreeta: LP/CD One To One (Motown,
1975/1977)
The Last Dragon: LP/CD Original
Motion Picture Soundtrack (Motown, 1985)
Third World: LP/CD You've Got The
Power (CBS, 1982)
Tyler Collins: LP/CD Girls Nite
Out (RCA, 1989)
Other
contributions:
Aretha Franklin: LP/CD Let Me In Your Life (Atlantic, 1974) -
songwriter
Billy Preston: LP It's My Pleasure
(A&M, 1975) - musician
Buddy Miles: LP More Miles Per
Gallon (Casablanca, 1975) - musician
Carl Anderson: LP AWOL - Absence
Without Love (Epic, 1982) - songwriter
Chaka Khan: LP/CD I Feel For You
(Warner Bros., 1984) - musician
Chaka Khan: LP/CD C.K. (Warner
Bros., 1988) - musician
Dan Hartman: LP Images (Blue Sky,
1976) - musician
Dionne Warwick: LP/CD Friends In
Love (Arista, 1982) - songwriter, musician
Finis Henderson: LP/CD Finis
(Motown, 1983) - songwriter
Gap Band, The: LP/CD Gap Band V -
Jammin' (Total Experience, 1983) - musician
George Benson: LP/CD Weekend in
L.A. (Warner Bros., 1978) - songwriter
George Duke: LP/CD Thief In The
Night (Elektra, 1985) - songwriter
Herbie Hancock: LP/CD Man-Child
(CBS, 1975) - musician
Jermaine Jackson: LP/CD Precious
Moments (Arista, 1986) - songwriter
Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams:
LP/CD That's What Friends Are For (CBS, 1978) - musician
Labelle: LP Pressure Cookin' (RCA,
1973) - songwriter, musician
LaToya Jackson: LP/CD LaToya
Jackson (Polydor, 1980) - musician
Main Ingredient, The: LP/CD
Afrodisiac (RCA, 1973) - songwriter
Manhattan Transfer, The: LP/CD
Bodies And Souls (Atlantic, 1983) - musician
Martha Reeves & The Vandella's:
CD Spellbound - Motown Lost And Found (Hip-O Select/Motown, 2005) -
songwriter (unpublished songs recorded in 1970 and 1971)
Mari Nakamoto: LP/CD Aphrodite
(Zen, 1979) - songwriter
Michael Jackson: LP/CD Off The
Wall (Epic, 1979) - songwriter, arranger
Michael Jackson: LP/CD Bad (Epic,
1987) - musician
Minnie Riperton: LP/CD Perfect
Angel (Epic, 1974) - songwriter, musician
Minnie Riperton: LP/CD Stay In
Love (Epic, 1977) - songwriter
Musical Youth: LP Different Style!
(MCA, 1983) - arranger
Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder:
LP/CD Tug Of War (Parlophone, 1982) - songwriter, musician
Pointer Sisters: LP/CD Steppin'
(Blue Thumb, 1975) - songwriter, musician
Pointer Sisters: LP/CD Having A
Party (Blue Thumb, 1977) - songwriter, musician
Quincy Jones: LP/CD The Dude
(A&M, 1981) - songwriter, musician, arranger
Ramsey Lewis: LP/CD The Piano
Player (Cadet, 1970) - songwriter
Ramsey Lewis: LP/CD Love Notes
(Columbia, 1977) - songwriter, musician
Roberta Flack: LP/CD Feel Like
Makin' Love (Atlantic, 1975) - songwriter
Roberta Flack: LP/CD Roberta Flack
Featuring Donny Hathaway (Atlantic, 1979) - songwriter
Ronnie Foster: LP Love Satellite
(CBS, 1978) - musician
Rufus Feat. Chaka Khan: LP/CD Rags
To Rufus (ABC-MCA, 1974) - songwriter
Sergio Mendes: LP/CD Sergio Mendes
And The New Brasil '77 (Elektra, 1977) - songwriter, musician
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles:
LP The Season For Miracles (Motown, 1970) - songwriter
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles:
LP Flying High Together (Motown, 1972) - songwriter
Smokey Robinson: LP/CD Smoke
Signals (Motown, 1986) - arranger
Spinners, The: LP/CD 2nd Time
Around (Motown, 1970) - songwriter
Spinners, The: 7 INCH "We'll
Have It Made" (Motown, 1971) - songwriter
Stanley Turrentine: LP/CD
Wonderland (Blue Note, 1987) - musician
Trammps, The: LP The Whole World's
Dancing (Atlantic, 1979) - musician
Robert
Wright
Producer facts in
short:
During the '70s Robert Byron Wright was employed as
an independent writer and producer by Maurice White and his Kalimba
Productions. At this time he co-wrote songs for The Emotions and Deniece
Williams and also wrote and produced all the albums of The Pockets together
with Verdine White of Earth Wind & Fire. In 1980 he joined RCA as an
in-house R&B producer, becoming vice-president of A&R in 1983. Here
he wrote and/or produced for Glenn Jones (hit: "I Am Somebody"),
The Jones Girls, Fonzi Thornton, Pleasure and Genobia Jeter, among many
others. In 1985 he wrote and produced the R&B hits "Fall Down"
and "In The Morning Time" for Tramaine Hawkins, after which he
developed cancer and died in 1987.
Productions (and
songs) appear on:
Chandra Simmons: 12
INCH "Never Gonna Let You Go" (Fresh, 1987)
Fonzi Thornton: LP/CD The Leader
(RCA, 1983)
Fonzi Thornton: LP Pumpin' (RCA,
1984)
Genobia Jeter: LP/CD Genobia (RCA,
1986)
Glenn Jones: LP/CD Everybody Loves
A Winner (RCA, 1983)
Jones Girls, The: LP On Target
(RCA, 1983)
Michael Wycoff: LP/CD On The Line
(RCA, 1983)
Pleasure: LP Give It Up (RCA,
1982)
Pockets, The: LP/CD Come Go With
Us (ARC-CBS, 1977)
Pockets, The: LP/CD Take It On Up
(ARC-CBS, 1978)
Pockets, The: LP So Delicious
(ARC-CBS, 1979)
Stargard: LP The Changing Of The
Gard (Warner Bros., 1979)
Tramaine: LP/CD The Search Is Over
(A&M, 1986)
Tramaine: LP/CD Freedom (A&M,
1987)
Other
contributions:
Alfie Silas: LP Be Yourself (RCA, 1983) - songwriter
Daryl Hall & John Oates: 12 INCH "I Can't Go
For That (No Can Do)" (RCA, 1981) - remixer
Deniece Williams: LP/CD Songbird
(CBS, 1977) - songwriter
Deniece Williams: LP/CD When Love
Comes Calling (Columbia,1979) - songwriter
Emotions, The: LP/CD Rejoice (CBS,
1977) - songwriter
Leon Haywood: 12 INCH "Don't Push
It Don't Force It" (20th Century Fox, 1980) - remixer
COMMENTS COMMENTS COMMENTS COMMENTS COMMENTS COMMENTS COMMENTS
Leanard Jackson:
Thanks in advance, I enjoyed reading your article, very factual and well
versed. Your view of that era informs and entertains as well. A pleasure to
read. It brought back memories of my youth. I smiled when you wrote of the
"Death of Disco" I was tagged with the nickname "Colonel
Disco" in my 20's when I mixed the Undisputed Truth and other Norman
Whitfield groups such as Rose Royce, Stargard, Willie Hutch and many more
great talents no longer with us, fond memories to say the least. "That
Darn!" Disco label followed me for a long time. Kraft Werk didn't really
know how I felt about it when they used it in their LP credits for mixing the
LP The Man Machine in Dusseldorf,
boy that was fun too.
I was so pleased when I read the sections on Leon Sylvers III and other Solar
Record artists,especially the mention of Lakeside and Midnight Star. I
started mixing Lakeside LP'sin my 30's. The first LP I recorded with them was
Untouchables in 1983, from then on
I have been recording the albums and mixing the live concerts some 29 years.
Again thanks for the walk back down memory lane.
Sincerely, Leanard Jackson
Chief Recording Engineer, Whitfield Records, 1978 till closing / 2009.04.03
Zack Vaz:
Recently I ran across your web page which paid homage to some of the top
producers of soul and R&B for the '80s and I was fascinated the the amount
of work and the research you did to complete that awesome web page. My name
is Zack Vaz and I would like to clarify, if I can, some of your thoughts in
regards to some of the work mentioned there. Some additional research may
bring up why I am writing and maybe you can amend your works with a page of
astericks for some of the unsung heroes of R&B Soul during the '80s .
I worked at Hush Productions/Orpheus Productions for and with Beau &
Charles Huggins during the period of 1982-1988 during their hey day soul
music. You will notice my name on just about every hit record that came out
of HUSH as Production Coordinator, but don't let that title fool you, I was
much more instrumental than that. I was the mesh that held most of the stuff
together. I was responsible for making sure the myrid of producers got into
the studio and their productions recorded to ensure to capture what came to
be know as the HUSH sound. I worked closely with Beau (Charles was more of
the manager of the acts and head of the company - it was Beau that selected
the music and it was my job with him to get it recorded and produced for
delivery to the record companies that we were involved with. Thus leaving the
producers with song writing and producing. It was also my responsibility to
master the records to ensure that the sound did get carried through to disk.
(If you check most recorded vinyl you will see my intials and name on each
one, it is indicated with a "z/j ack" because it was mostly Jack
Skinner of Sterling Sound and myself making sure the records themselves
sounded great. And history shows that we were correct.
As for myself you can also see that alot of the hit songs that came out of
Hush I either mixed or remixed I have included links for to respected web
organizations which sell 12 inches or vinyl from that era to confirm what I
am telling you. I never wanted to be in the forefront and a lot of what I did
went on after the procducer finishsed production so most of the time my
information was left off the album credits. So most of my credits were listed
on the actual singles or 12"s as either mixed, remixed or any other part
that I may have played. If you listen you can hear my work throughtout the
different songs that I worked on. It was my job to ensure that HUSH's sound
stayed true. I worked with all the engineers and producers and they not only
can vouch for my work, they will usually praise me for my work. I not only
worked on Hush material, but I worked with Nile Rodgers/Diana Ross, mixing
"Bottom Line" and "Take The Bitter With The Sweet";
Johnnie Gill where I co-produced and mixed "Just Another Lonely
Night" as well as hits for The Good Girls, The Boys, Smokey Robinson, MC
Trouble, Ada Dyer and Marvin Gaye ( I co-produced and mixed his last charted
single - "My Last Chance" in 1989. This song was done after his
death from a demo which my co-producer and myself shaped during a night we
were working on Johnnie Gill - all have my distinctive sound on them.
Please feel free to contact me for any clarification on a general conversation
about any of the producers I worked with and my contribution to them. Fellows
like myself and Louil Silas, Timmy Regisford seems to have become forgotten
in the history of Soul music in the ’80s. The best recorded R&B ever. I
agree with your analysis of what transpired there and then. And that the
music business would not be in such dire straits now if the hadn't killed of
this genre of music.
Yes I would love to do an interview... and not just for the notoriety, but to
add clarification. Probably more important is the fact that my son keeps
telling me I should do something, because as he gets older he keeps finding
things about me on the internet or on records that his friends find and say
"How did you do this?? You are to young!" and he would say
"not me, that was my father" - of course he is Zack Vaz II. But he
and his friends are now finding all the wonderful music that was done about
the time he was born and they are all getting into now because music today
by-in-large doesn't have the depth or the sound quailty that me and some of
my contemporaries wanted to include.
I also read your profile on Dayton, which was a group my friend Ronnie Harris
(Rahni Song) was a part of. You are accurate to a "t" about the
development of the group musically. I used to convey to Rahni all the time
about being a producer and musician and how that sometimes you can be such a
great musician that it inhibits your objectivity as a producer. Meaning that
as a musician you want to hear your instument more than you care to hear the
other instrument or artist. I worked a lot with Rahni on remixes, because I
liked his feel on keyboards and I could always tell him my thoughts of
arrangements and he could execute them. Like on the Beau Williams song
"All Because Of You" even though Will Rhinehardt produced I felt
Rahni had the right touch. Also regarding this great track, you told a nice
anecdote in your email: “My friend EZ
wrote the following on his music webpage, and you’ll like it Zack: “When some
of my friends want to demonstrate me a new piece of audio equipment, I always
say: "Ok, EZ will do the "Beau Williams Twelve-test" and then
it's time for "All because of you"! Featuring an insanely perfect
continuously driving deep subbass and extremely dynamic stretched complex
hihat, this will stress test all parts of your audio equipment. From
turntable needle stability to speaker dynamics, everything gets into play
here. In the first 15 seconds of this track, everything explodes into a warm
overwhelming sound only true music enthousiasts and perfectionists can fully
appreciate. Needless to add this is a masterpiece of eighties synth
soulfunk!” … And there in you can discover a secret to how I performed
the start of most of my R&B mixes, especially the ballads... The first 16
bars are the most unforgettable part of a song... from being a DJ in my youth
I discovered that (possibly from studying the Motown approach in headphones
all my early years laying in bed). Usually its like "name that
tune" for real R&B records... make the intro memorable, then people
can remember the song.
Please feel free to check out the Zack Vaz page on imeen.com because it is
there that I have started to chronicle the things I am talking about.
(another push by my son). I have done this because there have been a lot of
people who wanted to know why I stopped mixing and I would always say that I
will start again by the year 2010 (an arbitrary number) because that’s when
people will really start missing great sounding music. For me it was always
about the sound, being a quasi audiophile, I always wanted to make the
records sound as if the performance was right in the stereo spectrum and the
top and bottom were respected. Thats why we all bought the expensive stereo
equipment for in the first place. (I was an avid reader of Stereo Review in
my youth) and loved the reviews that always told about the sound aspect of
the recordings which is why Jack Skinner (of Sterling Sound) and I wanted to
make the masterings sound alive on the turntable by making sure we got the
right amount of dynamic range on the vinyl. Something most people neglected
was the mastering of the songs because they didn't understand the process.
Sorry to be so verbose, but as you can see this excites me!
Thank you, Zack Vaz / 2009.01.30
Randy Muller:
Got a chance to look at your extensive list of producers. Obviously you did a
great job putting all the info together. However, perhaps you might want to
add to my list the albums "Boys Night Out" by the group First
Circle back in 1987 on the EMI label, and the self-titled album
"Rapper's Convention" also on EMI in 1986. Finally, although it's
not an '80s album, the "Makin' Moves" album by artist Robyn
Springer, on the Cardiac Records label could be noted, as well.
Regarding the paucity of Brass Construction CD reissues, I think your guess
is somewhere close to the mark (“Is no
executive at EMI interested in the valuable Brass Construction back
catalogue?”). In addition, there has always been some contention
between the former partners that had some rights to the Brass masters. I
suppose the record company apparently does not have the will nor desire to
get involved in any potential litigation in connection with this matter. So,
the obvious caution. But, on the bright side, I am now in the process of
obtaining the rights to release the entire catalog of my works, from both
Capitol and Salsoul. So wish me luck in this endeavor.
Cheers, Randy Muller / 2009.03.11
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