Remember these singers|groups?

The System
Dynasty
Bill Summers
Juicy
Jones Girls
Frankie Smith
Denroy Morgan
Instant Funk
Howard Johnson
Madame X
Michael Henderson
Lakeside
Newkirk (A+ if you know Delicious)
Princess
Terry Tate
Troop
The Boys
Tyrone Brunson
Unlimited Touch
Eugene Wilde
Nu Shooz

And if you know who Tawatha Agee is you get siskel and egghead's 2 thumbs up

Yes,I remember most of those artists/bands....

Dynasty---I really like their 1980 hit "I've Just Begun To Love You",which sounds alot like Shalamar.I used to have that album on vinyl.

Juicy ---"Give it up to me...baby,do the Beat Street Strut".Remember their other hit "Sugar Free" from 1986? I think they were a brother/sister duo.

Madame X ---produced by Bernadette Cooper,I always thought they sounded like a funkier Vanity 6.Their song "I Want Your Body" is outrageous! It has an early-80s Princely feel to it,as do a few other tracks on their album.

Bill Summers and Summer's Heat ---I can't believe that this band never gets talked about on this site (considering all the Old School funk fans we have around here,lol).Remember early-80s jams like "Call it What You Want" and "Jam The Box"? In 1982,they went New Wave with "17".

Howard Johnson ---his summer 1982 hit "So Fine" is one of my favs.
[This message was edited Wed Jul 14 2:01:31 2004 by DavidEye]

Good man, David. When i get around to it i'm going to have all of these songs up for people to listen to.

lots of great names u mentioned but sadly, nowadays they just don't make them like they used to

oh, and Tawatha was the lead singer for Mtume, also have a solo album from her (can't remember the year and name though)

RudeBoy said:

haha, I just was spinning "Fresh" and "Smurf" on my turntable 3 or 4 days ago

here's some other 80s R&B/funk bands and artists that rarely get mentioned...


Invisible Man's Band
Skyy
The Reddings
Process and The Doo Rags
Midnight Star
Sexual Harassment
Club Nouveau
Val Young
Mtume
R.J.s Latest Arrival
Deja
The Mac Band
Loose Ends
Skipworth and Turner
The Jamiaca Boys
LeVert
Tom Browne
Shock
Royalcash
Junior
Yarbrough and Peoples
Incorporated Thang Band

whatcha know about those folks?

Dancelot said:

If I recall correctly,her solo album came out in 1987,featuring the singles "Thigh Ride" and "Did I Dream You?".She's an amazing vocalist.

I loved Princess "Say im your number one" that was the cut.....

what about ?
Donna Allen(TALK!!! Talk about serious)and the late Gwen Gutherie(Ain't nothing going on but the rent & Paddlock)

Can you guys help me find out who sings these songs? I remember hearing them on the radio in the 80s,and I'm gonna go crazy if I don't find these tracks...


"Leave The Lights On" (1987) ---in the fall of 1987,this dreamy ballad was all over the radio in my area.It's a man and woman singing about keeping the lights on when they make love...."Girl,let me see your hairnet...your skin's so silky to the touch,I can hardly stand it"

In 1984,I remember hearing a song by a lady.She was singing about her breakdancing boyfriend,and you hear a guy throughout the song saying "Cut it up,wiz!" LOL...yeah,I know it sounds corny,but it was a cool jam.I'm sure Finess knows this song.

In 1982,I recall a song that sounded like Zapp or Roger,but it wasn't them.The guy is using a similiar voicebox,singing about the way a girl dances and how good she looks.Very funky tune.



anybody know what the hell I'm talking about?

RudeBoy said:

Tawatha is currently touring with Lenny Kravitz as background singer and can also be heard on 'Baptism'

DavidEye said:

Dude, who you talking to? I know every single one of these names. R.J.s Latest Arrival-Heaven In Your Arms is a cut!!!

RudeBoy said:

Yep. Remember most of them. Denroy Morgan's I'll Do Naything For You is still in regular rotation. The beginning of that song is killer.

TheOrgerFormerlyKnownAs said:

and don't forget "Shackles on my feet"

DavidEye said:

Excellent. I was just listening to Skyy, Club Nouveau and Mtume the other day! Club Nouveau's Why You Treat Me So Bad will forever be one of my fave 80s R&B tracks!

RudeBoy said:

I love most of those. Off hand, the only ones I'd take out would be The Boys and Troop.

Unlimited touch -Prelude Records Searchin to find the one and i hear music in ths streets
The Strikers- Prelude Body Music Inch By Inch
Dolly Dots- Atlantic PS I love you
Suzy Q- Atlantic -Get on up and do it again
D-Train- Prelude You're the one for me, Keep On,Walk on by, Music
Tony Lee- Radar Records- Reach up
Jimmy Ross- Quality- First true Love affair
Imagination-R&S -Just an Illusion, Music and Lights
Vin Zee-Emergency-Funky Bebop

DavidEye said:

I never will. I went to a used record store looking for Heaven...and all they had was Shackles.

TheRealFiness said:

Searchin' to find the one. Whoo, Finess. You is a bad mothafucka. D-Train: You remember Missunderstanding? You remember Serge Ponsar?

RipHer2Shreds said:

Can't leave Troop out! I grew up with these dudes

DavidEye said:



They were interesting because if you remember, the whole family (The Burke family)was originally the Five Stairsteps("Ooh Child"), in the midseventies they stripped down to just Stairsteps( "2nd Resurrection" with tunes like "Pasado") and in the early eighties, they mutated into the Invisible Man's Band( "All Night Thing"), then bassist Keni Burke broke out and did his own thing, scoring a hit with "(Keep)Rising To The Top"...

What about the group Sun, or Oran "Juice" Jones.

RudeBoy said:

Loved the system. I will have to go to the basement to look up the vinyl. I bought a 12 inch by them... haven't heard it in years... what was it again?

Michael Henderson, you don't need to "remember" him if you know anything about RB. You are my starship is a classic got that on vinyl too.

Lakeside, you can't go to an old skool jam party and not hear Fantastic Voyage.

Nu Shooz on 45 "I can't wait".
Troop to me is the beginning of hip hop as was Terry Tate

Jones Girls, Nights over Eygpt
Gosh you are making me want to sneak behind my husband's back and go to Kaaza.

What about Toni, Tony, Tone??

DavidEye said:

aww COME ON! Are you saying this is OLD SCHOOL?? When I want to listen to some jam music, I wish I could hear some of this!

Loose Ends... bought the first 2 or 3 albums, didn't like them when lead singer Jane left.
Levert They are still charting.. are they considered old skool?

Club Nouvea well they ruled the radio for 2 hot summers Why you treat me so bad one summer and Rumors the next.

Midnight Starr AND Atlantic Starr. 2 great bands.

What ever happened to bands?? Ya know a lead singer and people playing real instruments. Wow now I am starting to sound like you know who.

paligap said:

I especially like this song because my husband calls me Sugar Booger and he thinks he made it up and I tell him "no there is this song called "all night thang"

DavidEye said:

"I Just Begun To Love You" was the beginning of the whole "Solar" sound. Leon Sylvers penned many of the Whipers and Shalamar classics that have that same sound. But David I'm sure you know that.

Bill Summers was great. Another one that was a jam was "At The Concert"

I have Howard Johnsons first two albums (don't know if he released any others) His second album is really slept on. "Let's Take Time Out" produced by the System, is slammin.

prodigalfan said:

Rumors was actually "Timex Social Club". That was the group Jay King had before he ran Tommy and Denny off. I was pretty connected to the Sac music scene during that whole time and could tell you some crazy stories about CN and Jay King.

WHAT CHA'LL KNOW ABOUT CHOCOLATE MILK!!!

JANFAN4L said:

u mean that god awful song Emma and u sexy thing? lol...

JANFAN4L said:

Wasn't really into their 70's stuff but their 1983 album "Friction" was poppin. "Who's Gettin It Now" and "Take It Off" were both jams. They was on some Bar-Kays shit with that album.

I know some of these overlap with the late 70's, but we also grooved to :

Aurra
Steve Arrington's Hall Of Fame
Ebonee Webb
Mission
Surface
Eddy Grant
Renee and Angela
Con Funk Shun
Jonzun Crew
Chuckii Booker ( Turned Away)
Newcleus( Jam On It)
Change
Starpoint
Bryan Loren (Lolipop Luv)