D-Train's "You the one for me"

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how many keyboards did Hubert Eaves of "D-Train" use in the 1981 song "Your the one for me" and what were they?

― startrekman, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 05:20 (twenty years ago) link

checked the 1982 LP cover and it just says "all keybs programmed played and arranged by HE III." it's one of my all-time faves.

― lovebug starski, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 12:08 (twenty years ago) link

I would guess at Sequential Circuits Prophet V for the main stabby chords. Something about the crispness of it. He was probably using Rolands (eg Jupiter 8) and Oberheims as well. That's what most people did in those days - use a selection of sounds off the popular models.

― David (David), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

I don't know about all that but I think it's probably the greatest dance record ever.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 17:11 (twenty years ago) link

One of the greatest records ever, regardless of style!

― Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

Incredible song. The extended vocal version of "Keep On" (from The Loft comp) is up there too...

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 4 March 2004 01:21 (twenty years ago) link

oh i seen this 12" yesterday second for a fiver - i shouldda bought it, damn!

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 4 March 2004 02:22 (twenty years ago) link

I recall "Music" being kind of nice a year or two later.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 4 March 2004 03:20 (twenty years ago) link

did anyone hear "Hustle and Bustle of the city" or "Walk on By"

― startrekman, Thursday, 4 March 2004 03:44 (twenty years ago) link

"walk on by' is on the first D Train LP. Not up to the title track or the great "Keep On" though. "Music" was a decent follow-up. what happened to the singer? did he go back to church?

― lovebug starski, Thursday, 4 March 2004 12:04 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...

All of the D-train material was soley Prophet 5: bass, leads, strings, brass, F/X. You can recognize it after having one for awhile, plus he said this in an interview. Prophet 5 in particular was the central analog synth in NY club music for the first half of the 80s.

― Wil, Sunday, 23 April 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

there's a patrick cowley article on a website saying most of his stuff was just a single Prophet 5 overdubbed over and over again...so credit it to the Frisco sound as well.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 23 April 2006 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

funny, i just downloaded "You're the One for Me" today.

― BROSAMA (jaxon), Sunday, 23 April 2006 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link

the You're The One For Me album is "all good." I like "Keep On" even more than the title track. hey Jaxon you might love D-Train keyboardist Hubert Eaves' Esoteric Funk album from 1976.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 24 April 2006 09:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I liked "Music" better.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link

is this some sort of electro disco funk tune? i think i need to hear it

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Downtown, let's go downtown, girl.

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 24 April 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link

five years pass...

What a great song

― boxedjoy, Friday, 6 April 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link

So life-affirming. I would karaoke the hell of this song.

― neutral sequence for flute (blank), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

out

― neutral sequence for flute (blank), Friday, 6 April 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link

The history of d-train confuses me. So it was originally a duo, with andre "d-train" Williams on vocals and Hubert eaves doing the production? Then Andre goes solo but Eaves still works with him? Why not just stick with the catchy name D-Train?

― neutral sequence for flute (blank), Friday, 6 April 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

always Prophet 5 in all their early production like paul hardcastle

― analogsynthmuseum, Sunday, 31 August 2014 13:27 (nine years ago) link

Radtastic

― rockist raccoon (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 1 September 2014 05:43 (nine years ago) link

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