Gwen Guthrie - Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent 12 inch

Ok. I finally have a download to share to go with the main video here. Everyone should know this as a bonified classic. Its a smooth mid-tempo Garage style boogie wall shaker. I have loved this song ever since I first heard it on Soul Train in 1986. Ok I'm dating myself, i was 11. LOL. Sadly Ms. Guthrie passed away all too soon from Cancer in 1999. Its so sad when great voices leave the earth.

So as always please click the pic to enjoy.

Dr. York - York

Love this rare groove movement. So hard to find. This is the 1985 reissue of the album. Not sure when the original came out.

Dr. York was the man behind the group Passion of Prelude Records fame. He also founded the fraternal order The Ancient Egiptian Order.

I was surprised to find it on ebay since it is so rare. I want the red vinyl copy too. Anyone care to send me a gift? LOL. Click the Pic to Enjoy.

Dr. York - New on Discogs.

Abstract Fusion 2

Classic Detroit compilation of Deep House and Beatdown sounds. Enjoy the deepness.

American Boogie Down Compilation

Excellent compilation or rare boogie and funk. Totally unique. Not your typcial recycled rarities on most comps. Enjoy. Click the pic to DnD for the download.

New working link. Sorry about the previous links not working.

Fingers 1979 LP Disco Jazz

http://www.discogs.com/Fingers-Fingers/release/1258591

Unfortunately there isn't a whole lot of information about this one off pairing of Michael Ford (6) & Chris Adams (6).

They made this Disco Jazz album and must have made this classic and fallen off the earth. There is a lot of funk and jazz influence and no ballads here. Just pure dancing bliss for all.

Apparently this was a New York underground gay classic. However that suggestion brought up some controversy on Discogs. I was able to snag a copy of it for myself on eBay for a really good price. Now a month or 2 later you all will be able to hear it in its complete grandeur. Sadly because they used such a common name its really difficult to find any info online about them. Its damn near impossible to find on Discogs let alone any other website. So hope you all enjoy this one off NYC dance classic as much as I do. Besides loving the cover, I mean what's not to love about a sexy glow in the dark banana phallic symbol?

Click the pic do download

New working link.

Viola Wills: Disco Diva Passes from Leukemia

Viola Wills (December 30, 1939—May 6, 2009) was an American pop singer, best known for the 1979 UK Singles Chart #8 and U.S. Hot Dance Club Play #52 [3] hit, "Gonna Get Along Without You Now". Other hits included further covers of the songs, "Both Sides Now" (#35 UK) (1986), and "If You Could Read My Mind" (#2 U.S. Hot Dance Club Play) (1980).

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Viola Wills
December 30, 1939—May 6, 2009

She was born Viola Mae Wilkerson in Watts - Los Angeles,CA. In 1965 the married mother of six children, she was discovered by Barry White who signed her to Bronco Records and rechristened her with the shorter stage name Viola Wills. She started her career at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and, over the following years, in addition to working with Barry White, also performed with Joe Cocker, Smokey Robinson and many other established recording artists of the era. While working in London as one of Cocker's backing vocalists (dubbed the "Sanctified Sisters") she worked on, and released her solo debut album entitled Soft Centers, backed by Cocker's session players.

Viola passed away from leukemia, May 6th, 2009 8:27am Pacific Time in Arizona. She will be missed.

Been Lazy Lately

Disco lovers forgive me, for I have sinned. Its been countless weeks since my last vinyl rip and Blog post. LOL. I just havn't been taking the time to devote to ripping any of my records. I'm an avid Discogs.com contributor and still have a ton of scans to do of the covers of records I own that have either no artwork or very poor image quality and size. Oh, not to mention I have over 5,000 MP3 files in iTunes and probably another couple hundred MP3s I still need to organize into my Soulseek sharing files and I'm like way meticulous with music organization. LOL.

Plus I snoozed on an opportunity to publish some tracks for Sky Covington's upcoming Nikki-O Project album. At the same time as one of my own releases is coming out. 2 tracks feature my vocals and 2 tracks are my productions. This will be my second vinyl release on Deep Explorer Records out of Spain. You know I'm excited about that. Nice to be a vinyl lover and have your own stuff pressed on vinyl!!

A music lover's work is never done in the Digital age