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Don't know why, but lately I've been riding the Solar records catalog pretty hard, including these records:







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hang on... Gladys knight n the pips did an album for Solar? when?

IAintTheOne said:

No...It was on Columbia, they just used those same producer/writers....remember "Save the Overtime for Me?", and "Your'e Number #1" ...and they both had that classic Solar sound....I shoulda said, "I'm on a Leon Sylvers III, et al kick" , instead of Solar per se....






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Good stuff!

Those Lakeside covers are a trip.
I remember being in an adjacent rehearsal room to those cats in the '80s.
No wonder they used drawings for the album covers, they couldn't fit 'em all in a picture.
There must have been at least a thousand of them dudes.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

I know!! Man, I miss the days when a band lineup looked like a football team--just a whole gang o' MF's,




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paligap said:

The good ole days.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

I like all of that music.

They had a different theme every year ranging from Robin Hood, cowboys, jockeys, pirates, genies, The Untouchables, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, etc.

They used to come to my city every year with Shalamar and The Whispers. I never got the chance to see them live (in the 1980s) but I remember they came one year and everyone came to school the following Monday talking about their stage set. It was a pirate ship. I never personally got to see them live until 2001 and the clothes and stage were just "normal" by then.



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I knew I could count on the usual suspects on this thread...

Great music, love all of it, but was too young back then to see them live...I think they never even came over here.

I was around 12 but a hardcore SOLAR fan nevertheless.

vainandy said:

I’m gettin’ bugged driving up and down the same old strip
I gotta finda new place where the kids are hip

I Get Around - Beach Boys


or


Now you can tell from my everday fits, I ain't rich
So cease and desist with them tricks (tricks)
I'm just another black man caught up in the mix (mix)
Trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents

I Get Around - TuPac





tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

What songs were Carrie Lucas known for?

JazzyJ said:

her big single was pre-solar it was on "Soul Train" called Gotta Keep dancin'

"Dance With Me"

she also had a R&B hit with "Show Me Where You're Coming From" around 1982...



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paligap said:

you have to get teh Circumstancial Evidence Cd by the later version of Shalamar. that shit rocks!

I was just listening to "Take That To The Bank" by Shalamar yesterday.

vainandy said:

One of my favorite disco jams.The song sounds like they came up with a hot groove,but decided not to write any lyrics.The hook is repeated over and over,and it sounds as if Carrie is just making up ad libs on the spot...


feels real good now....so good,so good!
come on and "oh oh oh'
I like it...I like it!
I need ya...I need ya

sounds really funky and spontaneous

dreamfactory313 said:

whenever I play that song,it stays in my head for DAYS

I was listening to Shalamar's "Make that Move" segued into MJ's "Rock With You" on Monday,

Never heard of Carrie Lucas

CinisterCee said:

Yezzir. I love that one!

Midnight Starr and Klymaxx's 2nd album should be thrown in there somehwere

Besides the outside-Solar production of Gladys Knight's album ,
i've heard some other slammin' Sylvers,III projects :


Real To Reel released only 2 , but great maxi-singles , from their then-forthcoming but never-released album in 1983 .
The other maxi-single was the track " Can You Treat Me Like She Does " .
It had the co-operation of Jam & Lewis . This was the era when Jimmy & Terry just began to explore in the West Coast , which evolved in projects with artists like Cheryl Lynn , Klymaxx , The SOS Band and eventually their commercial break with Damita-Janet

" Can You ... " has been issued on a sampler-CD .


http://www.cduniverse.com...7360&BAB=M

The cd-title seems a little misleading , because " Can You ..." is far from a slowjam , besides a few other faster or mid-tempo tracks on there .

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This 1984 production has some solid Sylvers-trademarked jams
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I cant beleive u dont have a picture of the Whispers CLASSIC Solar records album HEADLIGHTS





"Olivia" was the CUT!!

..Lost and turned out....

LoveAlive said:

So many sleeves have been forgotten to be put here

I guess this one here is as unknown as well :


It also contains a version of " Olivia " .
One of Sunbear's members was Aghuana Sun , who drummed on early sessions with Maze & Frankie Beverly .


The album was released on Don Cornelius' " Soul Train "-label ... a project in which Leon had some input too .
This label later evolved into the eventual Sound Of Los Angeles Record Company , which was taken over by Dick Griffey .
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Paligap gets props for this thread. I had to show my friend... we're watchin for those album covers.

LoveAlive said:

here ya go...


I have this album on vinyl,my favorite track is "Let's Go All The Way"

let's take a drive to Santa Monica
you bring the wine and I'll bring my guitar

100MPH said:

Yeah, I had only listed the Solar stuff that I had been playing...Feel free to add your own!

Thanks for the Sunbear info! I wasn't hip to them....




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paligap said:

U're welcome Paligap

i'll start with a hall of fame gallery .....





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