LyraB said:

funkaholic1972 said:

My oh my, 2016 is mercyless! RIP Rod Temperton and thank you for the music. Your contributions to popular music will not be forgotten.

Funnily I've always assumed Rod Temperton to be a black man. Not sure why actually, but only today I've learnt he was a white dude from England.

And from Cleethorpes of all places. For those of you not from the UK you simply cannot appreciate the added weirdness of that.

Imagine the most dated and least funky place you can think of - that's Cleethorpes!

Dude had monster talent, a great ear, and given your description of his hometown, was determined to stand out from that ole' crowd. Good on him! Condolences to all his friends and family. I enjoy his music.

This is too much smh. Kashif and Rod now this week already. Fuck! Rest in peace, his tunes will always be timeless

After all these years, "The Groove Line" still kicks butt. Rod was a songwriting machine who had a way with a melody that was darn near unmatched by the competition.

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2016 can't end fast enough, RIP Rod

cherishtheday said:

laurarichardson said:

Nah Rod was five times the writer that MJ was. I don't even think Mike's songs are even covered by other artist. In fact Prince was a better songwriter than Mike along with loads of other people.

It takes a really small minded person to start some MJ vs Prince bs in a thread honoring Rod Temperton's work. Can you get back on topic please or exit the thread.

The truth is hard and the last time I looked this is Prince.org Oh topic miser I am not going anywhere.

cherishtheday said:

Identity said:

Damn didn't know he wrote this one too. His work speaks for itself.

R.I.P Rod Temperton.

Identity said:

After all these years, "The Groove Line" still kicks butt. Rod was a songwriting machine who had a way with a melody that was darn near unmatched by the competition.

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Classic!

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On another note: This little groove was one of my favorites from him. I don't remember how popular it was but I loved it. I don't have one favorite from Rod. The synth has some of his classic signatures. Especially that dark, eerie sound. Not to mention the message still rings true today....

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PatrickS77 said:

interestingly,the song "Mystery",which Rod Temperton wrote (it appears on Anita Baker's Rapture album),was originally offered to Michael Jackson during the Thriller sessions.

laurarichardson said:

PatrickS77 said:

Exactly, but that are Prince fans. Petty, small minded and ignorant people, who seldomly let a situation to slag off Mj go. [Edited 10/5/16 13:20pm]

--- MJ is on a tape wishing death on Prince for whatever fuckwad reason we don't know. We know from Latoya that Prince visited Katherine all the time after Mike died and was super nice to her. Contrast that with wishing death on someone or trashing Prince in front of Babyface and LA Reid. Like I said the truth hurts.

STOP IT!! Don't you guys dare turn this into a Prince vs.Michael Jackson thread!! This thread is to pay tribute to a talented musician/songwriter,Rod Temprton.If you wanna act like children,go elsewhere please!!

Musicslave said:

SoulAlive said:

interestingly,the song "Mystery",which Rod Temperton wrote (it appears on Anita Baker's Rapture album),was originally offered to Michael Jackson during the Thriller sessions.

Actually Manhattan Transfer did this before Anita Baker.

SoulAlive said:

laurarichardson said:

PatrickS77 said: --- MJ is on a tape wishing death on Prince for whatever fuckwad reason we don't know. We know from Latoya that Prince visited Katherine all the time after Mike died and was super nice to her. Contrast that with wishing death on someone or trashing Prince in front of Babyface and LA Reid. Like I said the truth hurts.

STOP IT!! Don't you guys dare turn this into a Prince vs.Michael Jackson thread!! This thread is to pay tribute to a talented musician/songwriter,Rod Temprton.If you wanna act like children,go elsewhere please!!

I'm not the one, who started with the snide comments, spreading shit, leave that to the Prince fans. But I will stop it.

PatrickS77 said:

it's got a Beach...

I can think of FAR worse places in the Uk.

LyraB said:

funkaholic1972 said:

My oh my, 2016 is mercyless! RIP Rod Temperton and thank you for the music. Your contributions to popular music will not be forgotten.

Funnily I've always assumed Rod Temperton to be a black man. Not sure why actually, but only today I've learnt he was a white dude from England.

And from Cleethorpes of all places. For those of you not from the UK you simply cannot appreciate the added weirdness of that.

Imagine the most dated and least funky place you can think of - that's Cleethorpes!

Still need to hear Rolling The Dice and if there was a demo to Groove of Midnight... And don't forget about Hot Street

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I could listen to this on repeat for hours on end.

Another piece of my childhood AND teenage years is gone!

2freaky4church1 said:

He proved that white men can have soul.

......and be funky.

Quincy Jones Remembers Rod:



Quincy Jones, the producer on Michael Jackson's Off the Wall and Thriller, has paid tribute to Rod Temperton, the songwriter behind the King of Pop hits "Thriller," "Off the Wall," "Rock With You" and more. Temperton died last week in London following a short battle with cancer.

''There are simply no words to express how heavy my heart is at the news of the passing of my friend, brother and colleague Rod Temperton," Jones tells Rolling Stone. "It all starts with the song, and Rod was one of my go-to songwriters. He was one of the best, period.

"Not just for Michael [Jackson], but for James Ingram, Patti Austin, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Herbie Hancock and a host of others," he adds. "His creativity just never stopped. He had an excellent compositional instinct and wrote great music because he had absorbed it to such an extent that it just came straight out of him as if it were second nature."

Temperton also penned hits for Michael McDonald, George Benson and his own funk outfit Heatwave. But it's his contribution to Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, that Jones remembers most about the songwriter.

"He wrote three songs for Thriller…'Baby Be Mine,' 'The Lady in My Life' and 'Thriller'; and wrote the Vincent Price intro to 'Thriller' in the car on the way from the airport to the studio," Jones added. "To say his talent was insane is an understatement. He was the best friend and brother you could ever work with, and I will forever treasure our friendship and all those decades together in the studio."

a supreme talent

Tragic. Rod was one of the best songwriters that ever lived.

Man for the past number of years, the music world has taken some major hits.

Identity said:

Thanks go out to Graecophilos for this list of songs penned by Rod:

Heatwave

01 Too Hot to Handle 3:44 Rod Temperton -
02 Boogie Nights 5:03 Rod Temperton -
03 Ain't No Half Steppin' 5:12 Rod Temperton -
04 Always and Forever 6:18 Rod Temperton -
05 Super Soul Sister 3:56 Rod Temperton -
06 All You Do Is Dial 4:12 Rod Temperton -
07 Lay It on Me 3:19 Rod Temperton -
08 Sho'nuff Must Be Luv 4:06 Rod Temperton -
09 Beat Your Booty 3:02 Rod Temperton

01 Put the Word Out 6:35 Rod Temperton -
02 Send Out for Sunshine 4:28 Rod Temperton -
03 Central Heating 4:42 Rod Temperton -
05 The Groove Line 4:14 Rod Temperton -
07 The Star of a Story 5:35 Rod Temperton -
08 Party Poops 3:51 Rod Temperton -
09 Leavin' for a Dream 3:24 Rod Temperton

01 Razzle Dazzle Rod Temperton -
02 Eyeballin' Rod Temperton -
03 This Night We Feel Rod Temperton -
04 Raise a Blaze Rod Temperton -
05 First Day of Snow Rod Temperton -
06 One Night Tan Rod Temperton -
07 Therm Warfare Rod Temperton -
08 All Talked Out Rod Temperton -
09 That's the Way We'll Always Say Goodnight Rod Temperton -
10 Disco Rod Temperton

1981

01 Gangsters of the Groove Rod Temperton -
02 Jitterbuggin' Rod Temperton -
05 Posin' Til Closin' Rod Temperton

1982

01 Lettin' It Loose Rod Temperton -
02 State to State Rod Temperton -
03 Look After Love Rod Temperton -
04 Naturally -
05 Big Guns Rod Temperton


Siedah Garret (Kiss Of Life, 1988)

Groove of Midnight 4:40 Rod Temperton
08 Baby's Got It Bad 4:43 Rod Temperton, Siedah Garrett -
09 Nobody Does Me 6:11 Rod Temperton

Quincy Jones

15 - The Dude 5:35 Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton, Patti Austin
16 - Somethin' Special 4:03 Rod Temperton -
17 - Razzamatazz 4:20 Rod Temperton
18 - Turn on the Action 4:17 Rod Temperton
Back on the Block 6:34 Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton, Big Daddy Kane, Siedah Garrett, Caiphus Semenya, Ice-T, Kool Moe Dee, Melle Mel
The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite) 6:41 Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton, Siedah Garrett, El DeBarge
You Put a Move on My Heart 6:13 Rod Temperton
Slow Jams 7:30 Rod Temperton


George Benson (1980)

10 Love X Love 4:43 Temperton, Rodney
11 Off Broadway 5:23 Rod Temperton
12 Give Me the Night 4:58 Temperton, Rodney
13 Star of a Story (X) 4:40 Rod Temperton
14 Turn Out the Lamplight 4:43 Rod Temperton

Brothers Johnson (1980)

06 Stomp! 6:20 Rod Temperton, Louis Johnson, Valerie Johnson, Jophnson, G. -
07 Light up the Night 3:45 Rod Temperton, Louis Johnson, George Johnson
08 Treasure 4:11 Rod Temperton
09 All About the Heaven 3:59 Rod Temperton

Rufus (1979)

04 Live in Me 3:54 Rod Temperton
05 Masterjam 3:37 Rod Temperton

* Michael Jackson:

01 Rock With You 3:40 Rod Temperton -
02 Off the Wall 4:06 Rod Temperton -
03 Burn This Disco Out 5:24 Rod Temperton

02 Baby Be Mine 4:20 Rod Temperton --
04 Thriller 5:57 Rod Temperton -
09 The Lady in My Life 5:00 Rod Temperton
Something In The Dark
Hot Street

Patti Austin 1981

01 Do You Love Me 3:24 Rod Temperton -
02 Love Me to Death 4:08 Rod Temperton -
03 Baby, Come to Me 3:30 Rod Temperton -
04 The Genie 3:57 Rod Temperton -

* Aretha Franklin: (1981)

05 Living in the Streets 3:53 Rod Temperton

Bob James (1981)

06 Hypnotique 5:49 Rod Temperton -
07 The Steamin' Feelin' 5:22 Rod Temperton -
08 Sign of the Times 5:38 Rod Temperton
09 Macumba 5:13 Rod Temperton, Bob James


* Donna Summer: (1982)

10 Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger) 4:20 Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton, Merria Ross -
11 Livin' in America 4:43 Quincy Jones, Steve Lukather, Donna Summer, David Foster, Rod Temperton -
12 Love Is Just a Breath Away 3:55 Donna Summer, David Foster, Rod Temperton

Herbie Hancock (1982)

01 Lite Me Up! 3:41 Rod Temperton -
02 The Bomb 3:58 Herbie Hancock, Rod Temperton -
03 Gettin' to the Good Part 6:13 Herbie Hancock, Rod Temperton -
06 The Fun Tracks 4:03 Rod Temperton -
07 Motormouth 3:58 Rod Temperton -
08 Give It All Your Heart 7:40 Herbie Hancock, Rod Temperton


Manhattan Transfer (bodies and souls, 1983)

Spice of Life 3:40 Rod Temperton, Derek Bramble
Mystery 5:00 Rod Temperton


James Ingram (1983)

Yah Mo B There 4:40 James Ingram, Quincy Jones, Michael McDonald, Rod Temperton
One More Rhythm 4:05 Rod Temperton

* Jeffrey Osborne (1986)

We Belong to Love 4:35 Rod Temperton



* Michael McDonald: "Sweet Freedom".



* Stephanie Mills (1985)

04 Time of Your Life -
05 Hold on to Midnight


C+C Music Factory 1994

12 Share That Beat of Love 4:28 Duran Ramos, David Cole, Rod Temperton


Mica Paris (1993)

04 We Were Made for Love 4:53 Rod Temperton -
08 Two in a Million 3:53 Rod Temperton -
12 Love Keeps Coming Back 7:26 Rod Temperton


Karen Carpenter (1996)

01 Lovelines 5:06 Rod Temperton -
05 If We Try 3:47 Rod Temperton


Anita Baker (Rapture, 1986)

Mystery 4:56 Rod Temperton

Wow. I'm speechless and that's the honest truth. I've always known about the Heatwave and MJJ stuff and that was enough for eternal praise and admiration, but I DIDN'T know about the George Benson stuff (Broadway and Give Me The Night?!?!?), Quincy Jones, Brothers Johnson, Patti Austin, James Ingram, and Michael McDonald joints.

This dude was the motherfuckin' man! Talk about talent...

Superstition said:

Before I knew who Rod Temperton was, I always wondered why Spice of Life by Manhattan Transfer sounded so much like Baby Be Mine, and why I loved it so much. I soon found out why; RIP.

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The mystery of why Tamia is not big.

Rod Temperton (far left standing) with the other members of Heatwave.

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