scriptgirl said:

I. Joking.

scriptgirl said:

She told me.

She say who else was on there?

daytonohioplayer said:

I could see that being one. I remember years ago she stated she
gave up singing secular music because all she used to have
to show for it was a closet full of clothes. Thus she gave her life
to the lord and was supposedly going into gospel but i never
heard anything from her in that arena.

The Ohio Players are certainly Unsung.

scriptgirl said:

That was a joke and Edie married Paul Simon lol

stacey sounds boring. I want some more tragic eps.

daytonohioplayer said:

Cool.

scriptgirl said:

Actually, she married Paul Simon. It would be funny if they did profile her. Imagine a whole hour of "what I am is what I am..."

kimberly1 said:

Nope.

Ohio Players


The Bar-Kays


Steel Pulse


Sly & Robbie


Chuckii Booker


Digital Underground


Dave Hollister


Fishbone

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Unsung doesn't do pieces on record labels
The Deele are obscure and hardly memorable. They were overshadowed by better bands like The Time. They weren't influential and just cause LA and Babyface came from them, doesn't make them important
The Ohio Players are Unsung. People might know their sogs, but they are totally unknown outside of rnb circles

Fishbone is not gonna be on there and Digital Underground-what are you smoking?
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scriptgirl said:

Digital Underground would actually be a cool story, I still don't see them as being Unsung, maybe.

scriptgirl said:

lol Baby,Tabu Records had some the baddest R&B of the late 70's 80's and early 90's, many of the artists haling from Detroit and Minneapolis.

Now if it wasn't 4 "The Deele" Babyface wouldnt've had a place 2 craft his signature sound, there'd be no LaFace Records, and Atlanta wouldnt've become the "Motown Of The South" that it became and is 2day thanks 2 him.

Fishbone was like the black Red Hot Chilli Peppers without George Clinton's seal of approval, and were one of the few black rock bands along with Living Colour and Bad Brains

Digital Underground and their fearless leader Gregory "Shock-G/Humpty Hump" Jacobs like his uncles George, Bootsy, Prince, and Sly did 10-20 years before flew his freak flag sky high and laid the ground work 4 bands like "Outkast" and "The Knux" and oh yeah gave the world.....


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I used to see Shock G all the time
Anyway, there are far more deserving and interesting stories to be told than The Deele and Digital U
I think Unsung should just concentrate on 60s, 70s, and 80s acts-anything after 85 is too recent

scriptgirl said:

Well goddamn you's a fincky/picky cat from the Yay Area aintcha? lol The numbers of the years may change but what never will is the fact that for everyone that made some noise/had some piece of fame, there are so many bands/musicians/singers who's stories remain untold from 85' 2 infinity.

But Unsung is going for a certain type of audience and I guarantee you their audience is not gonna have love for Fishbone.

scriptgirl said:

Maybe not to you script, but there's plenty of people who are fans of 80's R&B that like the Deele and are interested in hearing the story behind them. Same went for Bootsy & Klymaxx, two acts that from reading your post's you had no interest in seeing they're Unsung's either.

I'm not trying to be a wise guy script but I gotta ask how old are you? I remember you saying that your an 80's baby, just how late in the 80's were you born?

The only reason I said Bootsy didn't fit is that he wasn't tragic. I mean, unsung's template is an act didn't make it big cause of tragedy. Where was Bootsy and Klymaxx's tragedy?

scriptgirl said:

Maybe in some of the Unsung's but not all, I'd say the only ones where tragedy happened were, Debarge, Flo Ballard, Minnie Riperton and the upcoming Roger & Zapp, the rest not so much. With those other acts it was more a show on the ups and downs of being an R&B act in the 60's, 70's and 80's

scriptgirl said:

That's not their template. The template is telling a story of an act that was on the verge of superstardom or is underrated to this day to some extent

I would be interested in seeing one on The Deele. I think they would qualify to some extent because they broke up right after the released their biggest hit, "Two Occasions," which was a huge single. I think they are a very underrated group. "Street Beat" is a slammin album from beginning to end as is Eyes of a Stranger. Who knows what the would have done if Babyface had not went solo.

MissEmeraldCity said:

He damn sure wouldn't be "Babyface".

All those great songs he wrote would've gone to The Deele and nobody would've heard them.

If L.A. hadn't gone behind the scenes to be who he his. I think that music and maybe the world would be better off.

At least if he hadn't left The Deele if Douchebag Son wouldn't be so Douchetastic!!!

scriptgirl said:

I didn't know get into all that, I'll ask her tonite. She did say that her kids sung on it. She didn't know how it will turn out after they edited. I'll hit her up.

Paris9748430 said:

That's up for debate, because he was already writing and producing songs for other artists while he was with the group, so all his good material was not necessarily going to them. Also, while I love his solo stuff, I will agree with some others that he did lose some of his funky edge when he left the group, going more middle-of-the-road pop. So, like I said...who knows?

scriptgirl said:

I don't think Unsung is just relegated to the artist having personal tragedy
as much as it is how close the artist came to superstardom
before disbanding due to intergroup conflict,drugs,poverty,
or a tragedy. Everyone has a favorite Unsung or one that they
didn't dig too much. The only Unsung that was done that i would
question is Teena Marie's. I love Teena to death but how was she
Unsung. She is an r&b icon. There was nothing that derailed her
success. Bootsy certainly deserved an Unsung but it didn't really
move me because there was very little that was uncovered that i
didn't already know.

Yeah, I am not happy that Teena got an Unsung

I also wanted to add Deniece Williams.

Has anybody said Shirley Murdock yet?

So far I've thought the 'Unsung Series' has been pretty good to OK. As I mentioned prior to the series debut, I'm not interested in the watching the trainwreck. I wanna know more about the process of making the music, the musicianship , the business decision made pro and con. I'm aware that personal foibles at times underminded careers but in some instances damn good artist were "Unsung" because of other circumstances. Tavis has done some of the best interviews of his life in past year with the folks at Motown. I really learned alot hearing the stories told by Ashford & Simpson for example, as they spoke about the "process" didn't dog anyone, didn't dish any dirt or gossip they spoke about creating.... performing music. That's what I wanna hear more but that's just me.


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