- Yeah, I loved her introduction to the music world. At least, Stateside. I thought she was playfully sexy in that video.
Rod was a master songwriter. | |
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This is so heartbreaking, may he rest in peace. Erin Smith | |
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Tamia doesnt have that IT factor.Nick Ashford was someone I greatly admired, had the honor of knowing, and was the real-life inspiration for Cowboy Curtis' hair. RIP Nick. - Pee Wee Herman | |
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I'd disgree...
Tamia music career got sidetrack because of chronic health issues. | |
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Aw RIP and he helped made Thriller great. | |
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TD3 said:
I'd disgree...
Tamia music career got sidetrack because of chronic health issues. Truth spoken. She certainly had IT on her first two releases. Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint | |
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Rest in Peace to a great musical pioneer and genius. He will be greatly missed and thank you for sharing your amazing talent and gift with us! | |
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I disagree. She definitly has IT. | |
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RIP what a great legacy. Keep Calm & Listen To Prince | |
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It was her health issues. | |
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Wow you learn something new everyday. Love this song. | |
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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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According to Q, they had been working on this track for three months. Benson thought the Album was done, then Q had him listen to the song and record it. It was a last minute addition to the album. Amazing Amazing track. And looking back of course it took them three months to create it, that's a lot of badass crammed into one track. I remember reading how long it took to EW&F to write Fantasy. Also three months of constant work on it. These amazing tracks don't aren't just whipped up. I think some of us take for granted how much work and dedication goes into tracks like these. You can hear it in them. Again a mother amazing track, amazingly written produced and recorded. It's a fine as art can get. | |
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Quincy Joes, Rod Temperton, engineer Bruce Swedien
Artist: An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the art or demonstrating an art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3rC94lssKQ
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"Seems so wrong, how all the good times seem to live inside of yesterday." I have always ADORED how this lyric was constructed and I have the most profound and powerful childhood connections to it. I had NO IDEA Rod Temperton wrote this. I have lost a piece of my hold on my childhood with his passing. [Edited 10/8/16 13:18pm] | |
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Love this track.I remember hearing it back then and thinking "Donna is finally doing funk" this track is more R&B/funk than anything she had done before and it was great to hear her in that setting. | |
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It's an outstanding song,isn't it? Smooth,breezy and mesmerizing | |
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Such a loss. The list of songs posted earlier demonstrates that. "I would say that Prince's top thirty percent is great. Of that thirty percent, I'll bet the public has heard twenty percent of it." - Susan Rogers, "Hunting for Prince's Vault", BBC, 2015 | |
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this Thread should be a Sticky!
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Rest In Peace, Rod Temperton. Listening to one of my all time favorites - Always and Forever. Thanks for the brilliant work. | |
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My favorite, "Star of a Story"...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JuIRY-8VNh4 https://youtube.com/watch?v=BbetLJUb--E . [Edited 10/10/16 21:55pm] | |
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Heard in an interview Rod submitted 5 songs for Thriller. They must have been Baby Be Mine, Starlight (Thriller), Lady In My Life, Slapstick (Hot Street), and Rolling The Dice. | |
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Yes Rod wrote all the songs on Heatwave's first album, but Johnny Wilder's interpretation of the song's lyrics just took it to another level. I love this live version, especially Johnny's vocalizations towards the end. He graciously thanks Rod at the start:
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Love this song! Rip Rod Temperton. Live 4 Love ~ Love is God, God is love, Girls and boys love God above | |
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You can't get MJ fans to give Rod or Quincy credit. . Nothing childish about what I typed above it is all true and you can look it up yourself. Would be great if people stopped living in la la land about MJ at least Prince fans know that P could be a butt face even he knew it. | |
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Weren't Spice of Life and Mystery (which were both recorded by Manhattan Transfer) initially intended for Thriller? Heatwave's Derek Bramble confirmed that the former was. | |
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