FRANKIE KNUCKLES MIXES, THE PARADISE GARAGE 1978, WAREHOUSE 1981, more mixes and some reminiscing

WAREHOUSE CHICAGO 1981 MIX  YOUR LOVE  
So I'm a little late to the Frankie tribute game.  But I'd have to say that it's because I've been beside myself.  But by now I've cried it out and I'm ready to share, like I always do here in Disco Vinyl.
YOUR LOVE DUSTY KID EDIT

I feel like Frankie Knuckles is the soundtrack to my years in New York City.  He was freshly back from Chicago and spinning in The Crystal Room at The World in 1988 when I was just coming up in the club kid scene and working the ticket ripping post at The World's v.i.p. club IT.
FRANKIE MIX SOUND FACTORY 1991
Then magically he got to take over the wheels of steel at The Sound Factory for a period in 1990 to 1991.  Definitely the period in which I went to factory the most.  Why?  Because with Frankie you could be insured the pretty.  You knew you'd get female vocals and not just bitch tracks.  You knew you'd never get pots and pans.  Frankie had a dreamer's touch.  The magic of a man who loved what he played and wanted you to love it too.

And when the spot got snatched back and returned to Junior Vasquez, Frankie made the ex Private Eyes, Sound Factory Bar Fridays into the primo dance spot that it was for those years in the early 90's.  A cozy spot and a great night out with his sweet buddy Manny Ward spinning downstairs.
SOUND FACTORY BAR 1993
He got a gig in Philadelphia at a circuit party.  I can't remember the name other then it had colors in the title.  But I do know that agroup of my friends and I went down and had a great time.
THIS TIME FRANKIE KNUCKLES BOMB MIX
I remember I went up to the booth once at Sound Factory Bar and even though Frankie and I had only said a few words in passing over the years, he knew exactly who I was.  And when I handed him a cassette he gladly recorded the next 90 minutes and what a 90 minutes that it was.  I played that tape out!  If only I could figure out what I did with it.
A HOT ZIP OF FRANKIE MIXES
Oh and the tears on that last Friday night in 1995.  I remember a gorgeous moment when rose petals fell from the ceiling during the peak of This Time by Chante Moore.  One of the definitive Frankie Knuckles mix masterpieces.
NOTGONNACHANGE CLASSIC CLUB MIX
I also remember that night at The Roxy on a Saturday when Frankie debuted his mix of Swing Out Sister's NOTGONNACHANGE.  Oh my God it was simply astonishing.  I was dancing yet I felt like I was being transported into the heavens.  I might've had a little help in reaching those celestial heavens but I was in my 20's and that was then.
GROOVE ON wild pitch mix...another dance floor fave from that era

LIVE AT THE PARADISE GARAGE

SOUND FACTORY BAR 1991

Tracklist Sound Factory Bar mix from 1991.

1. Michael McDonald - All We Got (Shep Pettibone Remix) [Reprise]
2. Frankie Knuckles - Workout (Original Demo) [Virgin]
3. Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives (Red Zone Mix) [Arista]
4. Basscut - I'm Not In Love [Charisma]
5. C&C Music Factory - I wanna Rock and Roll ]Sony]
6. Sounds Of Blackness - The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles Classic Mix) [Perspective/AM:PM]
7. Mike Wilson Feat. Shawn Christopher - Another Sleepless Night (Red Zone Mix) [BMG]
8. Fast Eddie - Let's Go [D.J. International]
9. Trilogy - Love Me Forever Or Love Me Not [ACTO]
10. Frankie Knuckles - The Whistle Song [Virgin]

5 DEFINING TRACKS FROM FRANKIE'S CAREER ROLLING STONG MAGAZINE

What other DJ has his own street name?

And how many DJ's have ever been photographed with the President and the First Lady?

And what D.J. did they mention in the N.Y. Times?
N.Y. TIMES FASHION AND STYLE SECTION

Loving You, Losing You Phyllis Hyman

Loving You, Losing You the first track on Phyllis Hyman's self-named 1977 l.p. has become one of the definitive morning music/sleaze tracks.  I've included it in a previous mega-post about morning music.  Here I have a zip with more versions including the Lary Sanders edit.  LOVING DOWNLOAD

Written and composed by the genius Tom Bell who is responsible for so much great music, the song has more of a bittersweet feel then ever due to Phyllis Hyman's suicide on June 30, 1995.  Though the song is from her debut l.p. it's not her first single.  Tall dark and lovely Phyllis was quite the looker!  I really hate to think about the pain she was going through to have taken her own life.  She did have a difficult career.  I think she had some bitterness over the fact that no label ever really was able to give her the huge success that she deserved.  Though she did have a few R and B hits, even a #1 in the early 90's and her talent and constant touring brought her to play at some prestigious venues.  I remember when living in N.Y.C. in the 90's she seemed to play pretty often.  I regret never having gone to one of her shows as I also greatly regret never seeing Angela Bofill another songbird who I adore.  Angela too had a hard time and suffered from a paralyzing stroke, that left her hardly able to speak.

That honor goes out to the one off single on Private Stock from 1975 called Leaving the Good Life Behind.  Mixed by the master Tom Moulton it only came out on a 7" single and remains highly collectible and mostly unknown.  Her second album Sing a Song from 1978 is the most collectible Phyllis costing hundreds of dollars if you can even find it.  Expensive even as a re-issue

Of course it took until 1979 to make her disco legendary the Mtume and Lucas produced and written gem You Know How to Love Me is certainly considered one of the best records of the disco era.

You're the One is a previously unreleased track from her disco years.  It has recently seen the light of day and can even be downloaded on Amazon.  YOU'RE THE ONE

There's a Monsoon blowing in and it's not even scary or dangerous (ever so lonely)

EVER SO LONELY
MY COPY FOR SALE 

Monsoon was a tasty melding of alternative, Indian and experimental music. Developed in 1980, their first release in 1981 featured the vocals of a young U.K. soap actress Sheila Chandra. Ever So Lonely was originally ignored but later picked up steam being re-mixed and added to other songs to form an ep. The Indy pop act only lasted just over two years but had several enjoyable releases. I suspect they were embraced by the same audience that would later embraces genres like trip-hop and ambient. Real college dorm light an incense stoner music.

There is a 1995 cd re-release which featured all the singles and a couple remixes.

01. Wings Of Dawn (Prem Kavita)
02. Tomorrow Never Knows
03. Third Eye And Tikka T.V.
04. Eyes
05. Shakti (The Meaning Of Within)
06. Ever So Lonely
07. You Can't Take Me With You
08. And I You
09. Kashmir
10. Watchers Of The Night
11. Indian Princess
12. Sunset Over The Ganges
13. Ever So Lonely (Hindi Version)
14. Wings Of Dawn (Prem Kavita) (Hindi Version)
15. Ever So Lonely Remix
16. Ever So Lonely Instrumental Remix

Sheila Chandra has also had several solo releases. The song I included below Sacred Stones is one of her solo singles. It's from her 1992 release Weaving my Ancestors Voices.

If you click the title of this blog it will take you directly to my ebay listing for the 12" of Ever So Lonely. Their first hit which shot all the way up to #9 in the U.K. pop charts.