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Rod Temperton songs There are loads of great songs written by Rod Temperton. Some of my favourites are:
Star of a story http://www.youtube.com/wa...5NAxBDqbZ0 Sweet Freedom http://www.youtube.com/wa..._e5UjZaRQo Grooveline http://www.youtube.com/wa...HzgsqKyUCI Any others anyone want to add? | |
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Rod has definitely penned some masterpieces
 It is not known why FuNkeNsteiN capitalizes his name as he does, though some speculate sunlight deficiency caused by the most pimpified white guy afro in Nordic history.
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Rock With U - MJ
Slow Jams - Q featuring Tamia Always and Forever - Heatwave Aint No Half Steppin - Heatwave Baby Come To Me - Patti Austin and James Ingram You Put A Move On My Heart - Tamia and the best one (imo) Lady In My Life - MJ **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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Exetergirl said: Star of a story 
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Exetergirl said: There are loads of great songs written by Rod Temperton. Some of my favourites are:
Star of a story http://www.youtube.com/wa...5NAxBDqbZ0 Gorgeous song! I really don't care for Sweet Freedom at all. My fave of his is probably The Lady in My Life. | |
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Light Up The Night
http://www.youtube.com/wa...8PuGftLjOE Stomp http://www.youtube.com/wa...tgWS9c4kI8 Burn This Disco Out http://www.youtube.com/wa...l4sdDhIzs4 Masterjam http://www.youtube.com/wa...x0mAkBkDw4 | |
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Whatever happened to Rod Temperton? | |
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BabyBeMine said: Whatever happened to Rod Temperton?
Good question. The last I heard anything from him was on the reissue of Thriller. At the time, the interview with Rod and Q were recently done. **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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Some more of my Rod penned favs:
Razzamatazz http://www.youtube.com/wa...WEgKufTNFY Boogie Nights http://www.youtube.com/wa...ZIt9-Rih3o Too Hot To Handle http://www.youtube.com/wa...-kbVZi8J5g Gangsters Of The Groove http://www.youtube.com/wa...fmEqMRWmsg Give Me The Night http://www.youtube.com/wa...eI_h1fY7Kk Off Broadway http://www.youtube.com/wa...t6gVhLegbs [Edited 11/2/07 23:59pm] | |
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daPrettyman said: You Put A Move On My Heart - Tamia
Originally performed by Mica Paris "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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Rod produced just about all that funky music from MJ's "Off The Wall" album. The title track, "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" and "Working Day And Night" alone are enough to put him in the funk Hall Of Fame. His work on "Thriller is good too. And the Heatwave stuff? All good music. | |
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Exetergirl said: There are loads of great songs written by Rod Temperton. Some of my favourites are:
Hey I just finished watching the Grooveline video. Heatwave stole the Jackson 5's dance moves! Star of a story http://www.youtube.com/wa...5NAxBDqbZ0 Sweet Freedom http://www.youtube.com/wa..._e5UjZaRQo Grooveline http://www.youtube.com/wa...HzgsqKyUCI Any others anyone want to add?  | |
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What a badass this guy is. Where the fuck is he? lol All you others say Hell Yea!!  | |
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its ironic that a white english dude made some of the most funkiest and amazing music ever!
a legend. | |
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He makes disco beats seem as great as any rock drum. All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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He is an old white english guy. See, we should never judge. Ok. I will stop All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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Did I say I really like his songs. Yes, shut the fuck up. All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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ThePunisher said: Rod produced just about all that funky music from MJ's "Off The Wall" album. The title track, "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" and "Working Day And Night" alone are enough to put him in the funk Hall Of Fame. His work on "Thriller is good too. And the Heatwave stuff? All good music.
Michael Jackson wrote "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" and "Working Day and Night" and co-produced them with Quincy Jones. Rob Temperton wrote "Rock With You," "Off The Wall," and "Burn This Disco Out." I do not think he produced these songs, or the songs he wrote on Thriller. "Rock With You" and "Burn This Disco Out" -- I love these two songs. He is a fantastic songwriter, and seems like a nice man. [Edited 11/3/07 8:38am] | |
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Yeah he's a very good writer who's melodically conscious when writing, and has the perfect support harmonies and percussion that just melt into one another and gets the listener moving
in addition to the off the wall & thriller songs, I like Sweet Freedom, Stomp, Masterjam and the George Benson ones. They're all good, but the ones I listed are my favourites. | |
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He does prove that color has nothing to do with soul. All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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Rodya24 said: ThePunisher said: Rod produced just about all that funky music from MJ's "Off The Wall" album. The title track, "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" and "Working Day And Night" alone are enough to put him in the funk Hall Of Fame. His work on "Thriller is good too. And the Heatwave stuff? All good music.
Michael Jackson wrote "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" and "Working Day and Night" and co-produced them with Quincy Jones. Rob Temperton wrote "Rock With You," "Off The Wall," and "Burn This Disco Out." I do not think he produced these songs, or the songs he wrote on Thriller. "Rock With You" and "Burn This Disco Out" -- I love these two songs. He is a fantastic songwriter, and seems like a nice man. [Edited 11/3/07 8:38am] | |
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Whooooaaa!! I didn't know this, But Rod has written and produced songs for Karen Carpenter (Lovelines and If We Try) Boys II Men (Hey Lover) Ad he also co-wrote "Miss Celies Blues" for the soundtrack of the movie Colour Purple. Interesting. | |
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ThePunisher said: Boys II Men (Hey Lover)
That is actually an LL Cool J song that features Boyz II Men on backing vocals. It features a sample of "The Lady in My Life," so that's why Rod gets a writing credit. "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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AlexdeParis said: ThePunisher said: Boys II Men (Hey Lover)
That is actually an LL Cool J song that features Boyz II Men on backing vocals. It features a sample of "The Lady in My Life," so that's why Rod gets a writing credit. | |
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This is all I can find out about him. The good news is that he is still alive
http://www.yorkshirepost....1331327.jp Sorry it is too long to cut and paste, but here is a snippet. After school Rod went to work for Ross Foods in Grimsby and played with a band doing gigs in South Yorkshire. He moved on from frozen fish after answering an advert for a keyboard player (he had switched from drumming) in Melody Maker. The recruiting band, based in Hamburg , was called Heatwave and working with them soon showed up the limitations of Rod's self-taught technique. "I got so bored doing scales and thought, 'you can forget this as a musician player'. But I did have a strong leaning towards writing melody." So strong in fact that for the band's first album in 1976 he wrote Boogie Nights. If there is one single number which sums up that era, this is probably it. On the other side of the Atlantic, Quincy Jones liked what he was hearing, and when the two met to talk about working together, they hit it off straight away. "I'm from Cleethorpes and he's from Seattle – where's the meeting of minds there?" says Rod. "But as soon as we met it was like I'd known him all my life. I love him to death." The two collaborated with Michael Jackson to create his first solo album in four years, Off the Wall, in 1979. How the follow-up, Thriller, came together in 1982 indicates Rod's relish for the challenge of tight deadlines. He had sketched out 35 to 40 ideas, boiled those down to five tunes and then set off with Quincy Jones for Michael Jackson's house to make a demo and put a voice on it. Three of Rod's pieces were eventually selected for recording but what was to be the title track still needed more work. I live in England, and even I was surprised that he was English! There is mention of a BBC Radio 2 radio program about his work contained in that link, but I can't get it to work. [Edited 11/4/07 13:28pm] [Edited 11/4/07 13:29pm] | |
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Rodya24 said: ThePunisher said: Rod produced just about all that funky music from MJ's "Off The Wall" album. The title track, "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" and "Working Day And Night" alone are enough to put him in the funk Hall Of Fame. His work on "Thriller is good too. And the Heatwave stuff? All good music.
Michael Jackson wrote "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" and "Working Day and Night" and co-produced them with Quincy Jones. Rob Temperton wrote "Rock With You," "Off The Wall," and "Burn This Disco Out." I do not think he produced these songs, or the songs he wrote on Thriller. "Rock With You" and "Burn This Disco Out" -- I love these two songs. He is a fantastic songwriter, and seems like a nice man. [Edited 11/3/07 8:38am] U r correct. Rod did not product these songs, but he did write them. The same thing goes for "Thriller". He wrote the title track to the album, along with "Baby Be Mine", and "The Lady In My Life". **--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••--**--••**--••-
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dirtyman2005 said: its ironic that a white english dude made some of the most funkiest and amazing music ever!
a legend. As the Second Funkiest White Man in America, I have to agree. | |
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