Supremes - Anthology 3 albums all in mint condition for
3 bucks with a little sleeve booklet with pictures of the
girls touring all over the world.

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam - Spanish Fly
Raydio - Rock On
Teddy Pendergrass - Life is a song worth singing


Gap Band - Gap Band 4
Shalamar- Dead Giveaway
Midnight Star- No Parking on the Dance Floor
Commodores - Movin on

I've only gotten the opportunity to listen to a few thus far.
I got dat ebonee webb finally. Something about you is the shit.
Sun's sunburn is hot. Sun is here, dance(do what you wanna do),
and the ballad put your hand in mine is fire. Thanx funkenstein
for the inspiration. Now i've just got to get that yellow sun album.
Thanx timmy 84 for that motown inspiration brotha. Finally got me
some supremes musak.

my mama got this one

and I have Rock On
(gonna rip the vinyl soon
my mp3 for "More Than One Way To Love A Woman"
starts off funny... so I'ma see if I can do a better rip)

cool dig!
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phunkdaddy said:

No probs, bro

It is indeed a very solid album
I also like the cover

phunkdaddy said:

Haven't seen Sunburn before

DirtyChris said:

This is a beautiful album
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whenever I go on vinyl digs,I never find any albums by Sun

DirtyChris said:

love that song! 'Rock On' has been remastered recently.

phunkdaddy said:

One of my favorite late-80s albums.This album was part of my 1987 soundtrack! I wore this record out.In the summer of '87,I was jamming to this record everyday.I like every song on it,except for the draggy ballad ("Someone To Love Me For Me").It's not a bad song but I think it slows down the album.My favorites are "Everything Will B-Fine","A Face In The Crowd","Lost In Emotion" and the Prince/Minneapolis-like "I Promise You".Producers Full Force did their best work here...they brought the JAMS! I also like the 60s/Supremes-styled vibe that they brought to a few songs.An amazing album!

Last year,I bought a 2-CD set featuring 'Spanish Fly' and their 1989 follow-up 'Straight To The Sky'.While the former is a masterpiece,the follow-up is disappointing.It's an over-long album of New Jack Swing grooves that didn't really age well.A few songs stand out,but it's not an album that I can listen to all the way through.

You are going to love that Ebonee Webb album. It is pure "Old Prince".

SoulAlive said:

You're dead on about the spanish fly album. Head to toe and Lost in Emotion
carried that album. During the summer of 1987 my family had a family reunion
in Hilton Head, SC. Every radio format there besides country was spinning
lost in emotion. I like the 12 inch version of everything will b-fine. Someone
to love me for me was just alright for me too. I actually like the ballad kiss your tears away off of straight from the sky better although the album was
disappointing.

phunkdaddy said:

Yeah,"Kiss Away Your Tears" is a nice song.I also like "Dance Forever" and the title track,but not much else on that album.

vainandy said:

I know nothing about this group! Give me some details,please.When did their album come out? What was ths single?

SoulAlive said:

The single off that first one was "Something About You" and it came out in 1981 and musically it sounds like a sped up version of Prince's "Head"
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You beat me to it. That's exactly what it sounded like. It came out right around the time of The Time's "Get It Up". Everyone thought "Something About You" was Prince's new song at the time because it sounded that much like Prince from the voice, right down to the music. Then, everyone thought "Get It Up" was Prince's new song. When "Controversy" came out a few weeks later, we were starting to wonder if it was really Prince or was it another imposter to fool us.

SoulAlive, Ebonee Webb is definately one that you need to get.
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I like anybody wanna dance from this album too. I'm about
to do some research on these guys. It seems like back in the
day a schoolmate of mine had an ebonee webb album before this one
with the band dressed up in suits on the front cover and the lead
singer was standing in the middle. It seemed like they had a song
that sounded like prince's uptown. I heard these guys on the radio a
few times but they were buried behind a lot of other r&b bands then.
I didn't even realize they had a connection with the barkays and
allen jones back then.

phunkdaddy said:

Never mind. The album i'm talking about was Too Hot. I think that was the
followup to this one.
Sorry guys. I meant to edit my quote instead of responding to it.
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finds phunkdaddy...I vinyl.

Okay,I'm gonna listen to Ebonee Webb and see what it sounds like Wanna see if it's as funky as you guys say it is.

"Something About You" by Ebonne Webb (1981)

damn,that sounds just like a Prince song! It's got that Dirty Mind/Controversy sound! I like it.

You definitely check that album out, SoulAlive

Here's another cool cut from the album,

Anybody Wanna Dance

FuNkeNsteiN said:

I'm gonna have to find this album too! Is it on CD?

SoulAlive said:

Apparently, yes. I didn't even know it was released on CD (I have it on LP), but I found this on Ebay, http://cgi.ebay.com/CD-al....m20.l1116

FuNkeNsteiN said:

cool

SoulAlive said:

I also found something else from that seller that I'm sure will interest you,

http://cgi.ebay.com/CD-al...dZViewItem

I had always assumed that this was the first album by Ebonee Webb but it wasn't. A few years ago, there was a very cool orger by the name of 100MPH who used to absolutely amaze me with his knowledge of rare music. I mean, he was overseas but he even knew about the local bands from Jackson, MS from back in the day such as Freedom, Sho-Nuff, and Wynd Chymes. I don't know where 100MPH disappeared to but I wish he would come back.

Anyway, he posted a picture of an Ebonee Webb album that was from the late 1970s. He said that very first album didn't sound anything like the material that Ebonee Webb released in the 1980s.




I could have told you that.
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Yeah, "Too Hot" was their 1983 release. I don't have the album but I have a copy of the song "Too Hot To Be Cool" and it continues on with that Prince falsetto and music. I've been looking for the album for years.
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I told you. I always like to hip people to Ebonee Webb whenever I can, especially Prince fans. "Something About You" almost sounds more "Princey" than Prince does.

And another hot one from that album is "Keep On Steppin". When that album was out, the second song they used to play on the radio was the slow jam, "Woman".