MUSIC WEEK NOVEMBER 16 1985 Edited by .BARRY LAZELL
RADIO JAMES HAMILTON UK release of BRASS CONSTRUCTION; Give And Take Capitol THE FATBACK BAND; Is This The Future Important/Towcrbcll 52nd STREET; Tell Me (How It Feels) 10/Virgin DOUG E. FRESH; The Show Cooltcmpo/Chrvsolis '£45' import todlSj/dtllSou to. » tototo » DAVID GRANT & JAKI GRAHAM; Mated EMI FOLLOWING RENE and Angela's major pop success this year on Phonogram with Zekly radio slots and discotheque play to reach any aud,- ISLEY JASPER ISLEY: Caravan 01 Save Your Love (For Number One) and I'll Be Good, their former label Capitol has Love Epic just bowed to public demand and given a belated UK release to the duo s ISol ^However by no means do all discos play nothing but black FRANKIE KELLY; AinT That The Truth 10/virgin album Wall To Wall (EMS 1118). This was their second US LP release, and dance mus e, and many play very little if any at all unless EVELYN CHAMPAGNE" KING; Your spawned the American hit single I Love You More; according to the label, original Personal Touch RCA import copies of it have been changing hands for up to £45 here. maybe it's already in the charts. The reason for ths needs to be READY FOR THE WORLD: A lot of the interest in the set obviously hinges on the track Secret Rendezvous, aired as, although far from new, it's usually kept out of public Oh Sheila MCA which has achieved classic dancefloor status over the years, and until recently has TOTAL CONTRAST: Hit And Run London been one of the Great Unobtainables. . , CLIMBERS It finally reappeared on 12-inch just two weeks ago, together with its original ^Inmany clubs, even in London, whether the DJ 1^%"°'' MIQUEL BROWN; On The coupling Bangin' The Boogie (which was the A-side first time around) via the black music is barred by the management m thebelmfihatit Radio Record Shack PRT-distributed Champion label (CHAMP 125). THE CONCEPT; Mr DJ attracts the wrong sort of clientele: mother words black kids (US Import — Tuckwood) Clearly, the near-simultaneous release of LP and single will take a bit of the sales THE FAMILY; Screams 01 gloss off each, but while the Capitol album does not feature Bangin The Boogie with no money to spend of the bar and a penchant for bother. Passion Warner Brothers (and thus avoids total overlap anyway), it also has a very low suggested retail price Even where black music and black dancers ore allowed, here is JUNIOR: Oh Louise London (£3.99) in its favour, comparing very favourably with current 12-inch prices. PATRIS: Love Oasis often a very vigorous ban on reggae to discourage0 1 poll they Rost°fanana S (US Import — Emergency) element (this always goes hand in hand with a 'j ? ' F ^ ' °T'f L TONY RANSOM: Stay It You Wanna the wearing of wooly hats and sneakers!), which probably explains ^ (US Import — Expansion) Vdue-for-money ROCHELLE; My Magic Man why it's so rare for a reggae hit to cross over without having some (US Import — Warner Brothers) spurious gimmicky safe "pop appeal. , . . » TEMPTATIONS: Do You Really Love revivciS for Your Baby (US Import ~ Gordy) A provincial audience less exposed to soul than Londoners are YARBOROUGH & PEOPLES: Guilty Recent Future obviously has every right to enjoy the music that they do get to hear (US Import — Total Experience) and know, as likely as not via Radio One and Top Of The Pops STEVIE WONDER: Go Home Motown RECENT FUTURE is a label name (which is why the /offer's TV exposure is so significant in the wider As feawred on the which will probably ring a bell, having WHY BLACKBURN SHOW — debuted about a year ago with Laurice acceptance of any black hits that do get on it), so it's not the public Radio London 9am- 12noon Hudson's Automatic Lover and Tia which is to blame for its own unwitting ignorance. Monday-Friday l206m/94.9 VHP) Monae's Don't Keep Me Waiting, both In fact in many clubs not only black music is denied proper of which stirred up a bit of attention. With distribution via PRT, the label exposure, but also anthing new that isn't already in the charts — and is now back in action again with a THE LONG-AWAITED debut album by "charts" can mean something as restrictive as the Top 20! 12-inch release which is unusual in The Cool Notes (above), Have A Good Unbelievable, there are still places where the manager, the mana- coupling two tracks by different Forever, has just been released by ger's girlfriend, the barmen and even the bouncers have more soy artists, from different US record Abstract Dance (ADLP V nicely in time than the poor cowering DJ in what does or does not get played! labels, on the same disc (12RFR 001). for the big album sales run-up to Recent Future is pushing the value- Christmas. Included are most of The No wonder that large pockets of the population hove no interest in, for-money aspects of two quite dis- Cool Notes' hit singles to date, but and DJs have no demand for, a type of music whose enduring appeal TOP • ALBUMS tinct A-sides, and also the fact that the perhaps of special note, again bearing nevertheless keeps being proven time and time again the charts purely 2 4 THE LOVE SONGS: George Benson original import copies of each are now in mind time of year and the extra from the reaction of more enlightened citizens. With so much stacked 1 K-tcl NE 1308 (K) deleted at source(s) in the US. sales potential thereof, is the fact that against it, it's a wonder there are any soul hits at all! 2 1 3 YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED: The tracks are After Loving You by the cassette version (ADCASS V has That said, at the time of writing last week, the biggest noisemokers RoyAyers CBS 26553 (0 Omari, and Hooked On Your Love two extra tracks: Natural Energy and 3 3 5 CARAVAN OF LOVE; Isley Jasper from Lisa Richards. the former single hit I Forgot were all probably albums: on import LP, Evelyn "Champagne" Isley Epic EPC 26656(C) King's A Long Time Coming (RCA Victor AFL1-7015), Cherrelle's 4 4 3 WORLD MACHINE: Level 2 Polydor POLH 25 (F) High Priority (Tabu BFZ 40094), Kashif's Condition Of The Heart 5 NEW A LONG TIME COMING: (Arista AL8-8385), and on domestic LP, Patti Austin's Ceftin' Away Evelyn 'Champagne' King With Murder (Qwest 925 276-1), Sade's Promise (Epic EPC 86318), RCA Victor AFL1-7015 (Import) 6 5 10 SO MANY RIVERS: Skip worth & Turner's Skipworth & Turner (4 th + B'way BRLP 508), Bobby Womack MCA MCF 3282 (F) Zapp's The New Zapp IV U (Warner Bros 925 327-1). 7 NEW HAVE A GOOD FOREVER ...: Twelve-inch imports I fdft worth buying were the new interest- Cool Notes Abstract Dance/Priority ADLP1 (E) generating US remix of Loose Ends' Tell Me What You Wont (MCA 8 7 28 ROCK ME TONIGHT: 1 1 THE CURE; In Between Days Elektra Records MCA-23596), Yarbrough & Peoples' Guilty (Total Experi- Freddie Jackson Capitol FRED 1 (E) KATE BUSH: Running Up That Hill EMI ence TED 1 -2623), Base's Big Noise (PjJsw PS 2005 — in fact the old 3 8 16 LUXURY OF LIFE: five Star 2 2 Tent/RCA PL 70735 (R) 3 9 DEAD OR ALIVE: YouthquakeLP Epic Big Noise From WmneTi
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