"Love Jones '75" by Imaginations

and I don't know what to think about this one

"Basketball Jones" by Cheech and Chong (1974)

on their album,the Brighter of Darkness included an instrumental version of "Love Jones" that is just HEAVENLY stop what you're doing and listen to this!! A modern-day R&B song would never have music this beautiful.

"Love Jones" instrumental

It's so ironic you posted the Brighter Side of Darkness performing on Soul Train. What was suppose the begining of a great career, their appearence ended their careers. I hope someone knows or Don told someone why were Ralph Eskridge, Randolph Murph, and Larry Washington were fired for unprofessional behavior related their appearence on Soul Train. Lead singer: 12 year old Darryl Lamont.

"unprofessional behavior"?

SoulAlive said:

"unprofessional behavior"?

yeah whatever ever that means.

They record company and their manager tried to build another group about Darrly but it didn't go anywhere, it's funny how things workout sometimes. Guys were a staple of the talent show around Chi-Town.

This is another song from them I like.

Had to text my brother... I recalled an interview Mr. Murphy did a couple of years ago. Though Ralph skirted the issue or issues of why the group broke up.

http://www.sittinginthepa...5-2008.mp3

Wow,I never knew about all this.I always wondered why there wasn't a second album.

I found some information on what happened with Brighter Side of Darkness.....

Brighter Side of Darkness: a love note.

Don’t confuse this group with the Jackson Five, as they are aren’t a family act. They were just one in a rich history of Chicago-a...oul groups. The nucleus of the group came from Calumet High School here in Chicago, but 12 year old Darryl Lamont was added by manager Anna Preston to give some Jacksonesque kiddie appeal. Word on the street says that two members of the group were forcibly dropped from the ensemble “for [their] reputed misbehavior” while in L.A. for the taping of the Soul Train episode excerpted below, effectively killing the star turns of the members of Brighter Side of Darkness.

A version of the group would return briefly in 1975 as “The Imaginations”, still jonesing on a cut called “Love Jones ’75″ that begged, “But if you LOVE me……” The group also resurfaced a few years later on Lennie LaCour’s Magic Touch Records under the Brighter Side of Darkness moniker for the creatively-titled Disco cash-in “Disco Ball”; but they never even inched towards the hit status of “Love Jones”. The record was so famous, in fact, that Cheech and Chong at one point recorded a parody….called “Basketball Jones“. Trippy as hell.

love(d) this song. what i also remember is sitting in the movie theater with my mom's friend who took me, my brother and her kids (we were all underage!) to the r-rated version of 'sat nite fever' and 'basketball jones' came on before the feature. the whole theater was rolling!