missfee said:

Blair Underwood more of a household name than Joe Morton? Oh goodness. That's laughable. We'll just have to agree to disagree, but really, you should come up on your knowledge of actors. Just because you had to say "who's this guy" doesn't mean the whole world does. You're the one who's missing out.

Think about it for a minute...Most people would know the Black Actor Blair Underwood before knowing the Black Actor Joe Morton...Blair still gets cast as Lead in Primetime Dramas...Blair is younger than Joe and Hollywood Likes his Pretty face...I'm glad Joe plays the Hell out of Papa Pope becuz now he's getting Primetime work...

Can't wait to see the Patrice Rushen episode.She is so talented! I have several of her albums and her music is superb."Forget Me Nots" is a true classic 80s jam.

hardwork said:

datdude said:

1sotrue said: Except she could sing, arrange, and produce

And had the funk (a TOTAL deal-breaker in her day if you were lacking) and could play real instruments (well) and could move grown seasoned adult people emotionally and spiritually and on top of that was a very good looking woman. I submit the following for anyone else who may be confused and is getting these two mixed up (gasp!):

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Puff sure didn't try to hide his samples back then....

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At least they only borrowed her vocal in the chorus on this one...

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Kirk was guilty too....

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UnderMySun said:

I look forward to the Patrice Rushen episode as well as Johnny Taylor's.

Patrice picked up where Roberta Flack left off as far as female musician/composers go.

It's hard to believe she is 61 now. We as fans tend to think as we age our musical superstars

don't. It's shocking to see how they look now as opposed to how they looked in their prime

particularly if they haven't been in the spotlight regularly.

hausofmoi7 said:

MickyDolenz said:

I don't know who Donell Jones is.

Go. out! door is to your left.

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"You Know What's Up" and "Where I Want To Be" are his biggest hits I think....

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Here's another song that didn't do anything for him but had nice elements to it.

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Just because...

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Well truth is I don't know anything by Donnell Jones outside of You Know What's Up and

Where I Wanna Be two good songs. I know he's come out with other stuff but nothing

that kept my interest. The one time I saw the dude back in 2002 on a summerfest tour (for free

thank god) dude was horribe. Dude sung to his own tracks and still sounded horrible. Maybe he's improved his stage show since but I wouldn't want to see this guy perform live again if it was free.

phunkdaddy said:

Well truth is I don't know anything by Donnell Jones outside of You Know What's Up and

Where I Wanna Be two good songs. I know he's come out with other stuff but nothing

that kept my interest. The one time I saw the dude back in 2002 on a summerfest tour (for free

thank god) dude was horribe. Dude sung to his own tracks and still sounded horrible. Maybe he's improved his stage show since but I wouldn't want to see this guy perform live again if it was free.

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Dag! Studio magic huh? I never thought he would have been one who didn't sound like his records live.

Musicslave said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Musicslave said:

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Dag! Studio magic huh? I never thought he would have been one who didn't sound like his records live.

You let that acoustic guitar in the video fool you, lol.

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Nah man.

Musicslave said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

woogiebear said:

Slave/New Birth/Joe Tex/Johnny Guitar Watson/Jesse Johnson

Is this next seasons!

It SHOULD BE!!!!

no one cares about JOE TEX.

getxxxx said:

Chancellor said:

Whatever happened to Ace of Base? The GRAMMYS would nominate them all the time during the 90's...

Don't know. The last time I saw them, the sisters were gone and there were 2 different girls in the group.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Everyone loves JOE TEX!

What about Tex Ritter?

LittleBLUECorvette said:

phunkdaddy said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Everyone loves JOE TEX!

Ironically my mom had the only 2 Joe Tex songs I know and probably most
people know I Gotcha and Ain't Gonna Bump No More. Those songs sound old
and stank now.

phunkdaddy said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Everyone loves JOE TEX!

Ironically my mom had the only 2 Joe Tex songs I know and probably most
people know I Gotcha and Ain't Gonna Bump No More. Those songs sound old
and stank now.

laurarichardson said:

phunkdaddy said:

Ironically my mom had the only 2 Joe Tex songs I know and probably most
people know I Gotcha and Ain't Gonna Bump No More. Those songs sound old
and stank now.

--- No they are classic 60 soul records and he had many other hits. He toured with James Brown and James actually ran off with Joe Tex's wife. James wrote a letter taunting Joe and Joe took the letter and turned it into a song!!! Prior to that in incident James got angry over some comments Joe made and took a shot at him. Joe also left music to join Nation of Islam but quit and came back to music and continued to have hits until he had a heart attack. I think this would be a really good Unsung.

laurarichardson said:

phunkdaddy said:

Ironically my mom had the only 2 Joe Tex songs I know and probably most
people know I Gotcha and Ain't Gonna Bump No More. Those songs sound old
and stank now.

--- No they are classic 60 soul records and he had many other hits. He toured with James Brown and James actually ran off with Joe Tex's wife. James wrote a letter taunting Joe and Joe took the letter and turned it into a song!!! Prior to that in incident James got angry over some comments Joe made and took a shot at him. Joe also left music to join Nation of Islam but quit and came back to music and continued to have hits until he had a heart attack. I think this would be a really good Unsung.

phunkdaddy said:

phunkdaddy said:

Well truth is I don't know anything by Donnell Jones outside of You Know What's Up and

Where I Wanna Be two good songs. I know he's come out with other stuff but nothing

that kept my interest. The one time I saw the dude back in 2002 on a summerfest tour (for free

thank god) dude was horribe. Dude sung to his own tracks and still sounded horrible. Maybe he's improved his stage show since but I wouldn't want to see this guy perform live again if it was free.

Wow! That's kind of surprising. Most of his albums sound pretty good.

Only interested in the Patrice Rushen episode. Never really knew alot about her. Even when she was at the height of her vocal career back in the early 80's, I don't recall reading or hearing much about her story. I'm interested in finding out what her time at Elektra Records was like. I know she was very unhappy about her last vocal album she did in 1987 on Arista Records. She did not speak well of Clive Davis. She said that was the first time she had someone standing over her shoulder critiquing every move she made.

phunkdaddy said:

Well truth is I don't know anything by Donnell Jones outside of You Know What's Up and Where I Wanna Be two good songs. I know he's come out with other stuff but nothing

that kept my interest. The one time I saw the dude back in 2002 on a summerfest tour (for free

thank god) dude was horribe. Dude sung to his own tracks and still sounded horrible. Maybe he's improved his stage show since but I wouldn't want to see this guy perform live again if it was free.

That's fine..The bottom line is you've heard of him and you remember him from the 90's....A lot of Artists from the 90's did not carry over into the 2000's...

kitbradley said:

Only interested in the Patrice Rushen episode. Never really knew alot about her. Even when she was at the height of her vocal career back in the early 80's, I don't recall reading or hearing much about her story. I'm interested in finding out what her time at Elektra Records was like. I know she was very unhappy about her last vocal album she did in 1987 on Arista Records. She did not speak well of Clive Davis. She said that was the first time she had someone standing over her shoulder critiquing every move she made.

Her story should be really interesting.I recall hearing about how,in the early 80s,she was disappointed with the lack of promotion most of her singles were getting.So when she recorded "Foget Me Nots" in 1982,she asked her friend Quincy Jones for advice and he told her to hire an outside promotional team and it worked....the song became a huge hit for her.It became her signature hit.I'm sure she will talk about this in her Unsung episode.

As for Clive Davis.....all he cares about is making money.He doesn't let his artists be themselves.He tries to get them to make the most "commercial" music possible,just to sell alot of records.Patrice strikes me as a strong,true-to-herself type artist so I'm not surprised that she had problems at Arista.

Chancellor said:

missfee said:

Blair Underwood more of a household name than Joe Morton? Oh goodness. That's laughable. We'll just have to agree to disagree, but really, you should come up on your knowledge of actors. Just because you had to say "who's this guy" doesn't mean the whole world does. You're the one who's missing out.

Think about it for a minute...Most people would know the Black Actor Blair Underwood before knowing the Black Actor Joe Morton...Blair still gets cast as Lead in Primetime Dramas...Blair is younger than Joe and Hollywood Likes his Pretty face...I'm glad Joe plays the Hell out of Papa Pope becuz now he's getting Primetime work...

Naw...Joe has a more detailed and longer resume than Blair.

phunkdaddy said:

Damn no Slave yet!

I'm going to share this with you....

they AIN'T UNSUNG bro.

SoulAlive said:

missfee said:

Naw...Joe has a more detailed and longer resume than Blair.

Joe has a longer resume but most people in their 30's remember Blair from the 80's/90's Mainstream Hit Drama L.A Law...After the show ended Blair continued to get Primetime work which made him more visible than Joe...TV TRUMPS Broadway every single time..Keep in mind Blair is 51 & Joe is 68...Not too far in age...