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Showing posts with label "The Paradise Garage". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "The Paradise Garage". Show all posts

Friday, June 12, 2009

Paul Simpson, Barbara Roy, and the sound of the Paradise Garage







The 1982 12" release on on StreetWise Records by the Paul Simpson Connection, Use Me, Lose Me is a Garage classic. So is the Paul Simpson remix of Barbara Roy's Gotta See You Tonight from 1985.

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Barbara Roy was a prominent vocalist in the 70's R&B group Ecstasy, Passion and Pain who had a string of hits including Ask Me and the Garage classic Touch and Go.

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Paul Simpson had a fruitful career including working with the legendary Vince Montana on a Goody Goody record, "Let Me Work on You," R&B groups Deja and Surface, and even Rick James. Later he went on to produce and mix house music too. A couple noteworthy releases were collaborations with Adeva (Patricia Daniels). Musical Freedom (Free at Last) by Paul Simpson featuring Adeva and Adeva's house anthem Respect from 1988 which were highpoints in her dance output. Adeva later worked most often with Frankie Knuckles quite often but she never really broke big other then in the club scene.

As usual I invite you to come check out my Ebay store. It's going through all sorts of changes as I lower some prices, add a make an offer tab to almost every listing and constantly refresh the inventory. Help keep Vinyl alive!

Monday, April 6, 2009

Love Money a Paradise Garage Classic BO KOOL or LOVE MASTERS







Love Money is one of those definitive Paradise Garage classics. In all it's inceptions. There is the original from 1981 released on a few different labels. Money (No Love) by Bo Kool and Love Money by the FunkMasters.

The lyrics about wearing a rubber glove were quite timely.

MONEY (NO LOVE)

There is also the 1986 re-mix which also includes the funky dubby Fort Knox.  In the next few days I will refresh the link for the 1986 remix.

Juliet Roberts who had several huge house records including Caught in the Middle was a vocalist in Funk Masters. Juliet also had several releases on Bluebird records U.K. which are relatively obscure. One of which was produced by John Rocca and another written by Sting.