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One of my favorites on Piano and Keys!!!


Heart's Desire



Holding You, Loving You



Since You Been Away So Long







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I love it! Thanks for posting.

Bought this album last fall and I'm so glad I did because of these 3 songs.

EccentricLady said:

You're welcome!







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JazzyJ said:

My 3 favorites on the album, too!




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My absloute FAVE musician from the Jamaican State scene. His sound is so trippy, I can't get over it.

He 1st came to my notice through Twennynine's Peanut Butter/Morning Sunrise in which he composed both.

Simply put, truthfully stated,,,I love this cat!

Harlepolis said:

You're Right... I dig the entire Twennynine "Best Of Friends" album, but it's those two Cuts-- "Peanut Butter" and "Morning Sunrise"--that really knocked me on my ass, I was like, "hmmm...Don Blackman...I gotta investigate"...





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paligap said:

I found Twennynine/Lenny White's cover:



The original featuring Don Blackman as the vocalist:

Timmy84 said:

Ndeed!!!!





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If I'm not mistaken, the Twennynine version was actually sung by Don himself(being the fact that he was in the group during their 1st album).

The 2nd clip was by Weldon Irvine.

Pali could school us more on this since he's deep into the Jamaican State music scene more than anybody I could think of here

Harlepolis said:

Hehe, I didn't know Weldon could sing. I just thought he was an instrumentalist like Norman Connors.

Timmy84 said:

Oh Mr.C could sing his tail off too(You're My Starship ) better than Weldon IMO. But the fact that he featured some of the fiercest vocalists,,,,kinda overshadowed his singing talent

Timmy84 said:

Very Nice!

Harlepolis said:

Hold up! I thought it was Michael Henderson who sung "You Are My Starship"... how you know it was Norman? You discovered footage of NORMAN singing it?

I'm confucked right now.

Timmy84 said:

Michael's voice is alot rougher than Norman(Remember his duet with Phyllis Can't We Fall In Love Again)

Yep, thats def Mr.C on the vocals of Starship.

Harlepolis said:

Hehe, I'm gonna have to listen to those two but I'm inclined to finally see what you mean.

I didn't know Norman was singing that bad boy.

This is a good excuse to bring this up again:

Ok, Harley, you were right:



Weldon sounds fine here.

Whatever you do, don't ruin this thread by bringing up Don Blackmons follow up album - I just did!!!!

'dre

Harlepolis said:

You Are My Starship was penned by Michael Henderson and it features him on vocals, not Norman.
"The atmospheric title track represents a classic in the genre, with Michael Henderson's smooth vocals and bass playing"
allmusic.com

The CD liner notes on You Are My Starship also state that Michael Henderson sings the song. It's also included on Michael's best of collection.
It's definitely Mike, no doubt about it

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Haha, thanks for confirming otherwise. I thought I was going nuts for a minute.

Timmy84 said:

No probs, bro

Well damn I guess I'm the confused child, not you Timothy

DreZone said:

I bought that album and threw it in the garbage the same day.

It was like a LONG commercial of....



Ugh!

Harlepolis said:

Well damn

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Tell me about it!

'dre

DreZone said:

For Real!!! He had the nerve to call the album "Listen"...He should have thrown the word "Don't" right in front of that,

..and I agree, it was like the entire album was recorded on some little kid's Casio....the strange thing is, he was playing and recording with the likes of Sting and Lenny White that same year--I don't get it--how the hell do you go from that to such a bad second album?









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