random old r&b you are loving

I'd like to go back to the classics for a moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iguZCP8J8s

Lowrell — "Mellow Mellow Right On" (1979)

https://i.imgur.com/HLkNZOL.jpg

nice!

Monica - "With You" (1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv6RHcI_rW8

💙

Austin, what was that ‘90s R&B album you started a poll on over the weekend? I wanted to check it out

yes, everyone go listen and vote!

Yvette Michele — "My Dream" (1997)

☺☺☺☺☺

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly4KqNdBgO8
Today, “Why You Get Funky on Me” (from the soundtrack to House Party)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKeLnar5SII

Rokk — "Patience" (1976)

Digging back into Numero Group's Eccentric Soul series and found this LA group and they're hitting some sweet notes for me today. This was the highlight of the album, but would very much recommend the whole thing. I especially like the one about wanting to live high whilst eating apple pie. Can't say I blame you, friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsZMG9JVRI

Willie Tee — "Reach Out For Me" (1970)

Some rare David Axelrod / HB Barnum jams this morning. Such an odd variation on this tune. What a stellar arrangement though! Never really checked for Willie Tee outside of this album; maybe I should. This one is kind of Memphis style, but with that Capitol studio B sheen. Doesn't get much better.

xposting from the All Those POLLS Ago: American Top Ten 7/4/1981 thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TETznfG-O-s
Cheryl Lynn • Shake It Up Tonight

(produced by Ray Parker, Jr.!)

>>>BONUS random old reggae&dancehall you are loving:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZg1AtmXGk
Luciano • Shake It Up Tonight (1993)

…but back to 1981:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-39yEHFlc8
Slave • Snap Shot

absolutely no one:

me: ayo, speaking of solid vocoder jams. . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hlBDyKVn0

leon ware — "don't stay away" (1981)

Smooth

A lot of r&b from that era just sounds like potential vaporwave samples to me now

Austin you might enjoy this:
https://soundcpu.bandcamp.com/album/reflections

Favourite old r&b discovery of the year for me probably has been Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove

My favourite song on it I've known quite a bit longer though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od7PG4CZ3SM

cal, sorry for the late reply, but i listened to that whole album and a couple of the others - wonderful background "environment" listening stuff. thank you for the word!

really into the swing of this beat-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE4HYCzyrOg

cooly g - "obsessed"

don't know when it initially came out. i know it from the hyperdub 10.2 compilation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqxrxBjfJ94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd0uuy4mDrE

those are:

Atlantic Starr • Silver Shadow (1985)

and:

Tamia • So Into You (1998)

labeling YouTubes and other song links you post is very useful (really!) and therefore highly appreciated. thanx in advance

that Tamia jam is all time, fabolous version too

excellent, sub shaking bass heavy vapor version of So Into You:

https://nethervapor.bandcamp.com/track/--60

nice!

and a 2 chilled slush version of Silver Shadow:

https://memorymemori.bandcamp.com/track/--167

when the groove is so killer that the misogyny doesn't even register until two decades later—

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDVZgadJs4M

the ambassadors — "ain't got the love (of one girl on my mind)" (1969)

also a very famous sample xpost to random old rap you are loving

find em fool em forget em is my philosophy — sing that shit to yourself in the shower lol

surface — "closer than friends" (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL2k9Rf72Nw

wednesday night is when we serve some of our finest cheese.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8lO4UQVrsA

Such classic

Vanessa Williams • Dreamin' (1988)

Austin -- this doesn't relate to something old, but I wanted to get your attn... are you familiar w/a group from TX called Luna Luna? I think you'd like 'em... check out their 2019 EP, Carousel: https://lunalunaband.bandcamp.com/album/carousel

I can't stop listening to this song. Jazz's voice, in the beginning, is beautiful and Sisqo is so damn soulful. I still don't know what Case actually did on this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ePbn-Qt4os

Lovely

Austin -- this doesn't relate to something old, but I wanted to get your attn... are you familiar w/a group from TX called Luna Luna? I think you'd like 'em... check out their 2019 EP, Carousel: https://lunalunaband.bandcamp.com/album/carousel

― Panda bear, my gentle friend (morrisp), Tuesday, August 16, 2022 9:36 AM

hi. thank you for the recommendation! just a few songs into the link shared but first listen love on "commitment." it is bilingual and it is quite wonderful.☺♥

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsGTTEb_7O8

luna luna — "commitment" (2019)

undertow by goapele is one of my favorite r&b tracks of the 10s. Could say that about the first three songs on break of dawn tho. I just listened again and my immediate thought was wow i bet the producer of frank oceans 'pyramids' lifted this full stop for the 2nd half of that song. checked it out and... its the same producer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4y3sCh2zN0

“Undertow” is so so great, and “Play”, wow…

never knew about the “Pyramids” connection

“Play” not produced by Malay tho - but I see he also did Lorde’s “Supercut” - and that his first stand-alone production work was for… Danity Kane and Day26 #onethread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqmgEGCVEzI

k-maxx - my medicine

only just found out this guy died during the first wave of the pandemic :(

“Play” not produced by Malay tho - but I see he also did Lorde’s “Supercut” - and that his first stand-alone production work was for… Danity Kane and Day26 #onethread

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, August 19, 2022 12:50 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

play is a whole different thing completely, yeah. slinky. produced by electric thunderbolt? cant find anything on them.

“Undertow” is so so great, and “Play”, wow…

never knew about the “Pyramids” connection

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, August 19, 2022 12:42 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

dont sleep on tears on my pillow, that bridge >

chico debarge - iggin me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JhcNc2wWRc

some rare jam and lewis for your thursday evening—

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAc-pBTsUK4

the sos band — "no one's gonna love you" (1984)

later repurposed by maxwell about a decade later—

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-NPlsM_l74

maxwell — "ascension (no one's gonna love you, so don't ever wonder)" (1996)

LATER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IScfrFjHK_4

Vapor version of No One by bbrainz
Love the lion roar

vaporwave?

here’s a classic feel good friday jam courtesy of Christopher Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gXFR14b3x8

random old bachata that bookmarkers will hopefully enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_QY5gFQUTg

Aventura - Obsesión (ft. Judy Santos)

stretching the parameters of r&b to the utmost there, but that’s a brilliant track. I was in fact totally obsessed with it at the time, pun not intended at all.

was it inspired by this newness?

theme music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klxjP2JYv7M

dva feat fatima - "jus vybe (soule power remix)" [2010]

Solid

roy ayers production.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSg2nZgJmyw

ethel beatty - "it's your love" (1981)

one of the more niche things that stones throw ever did was the soul cal label, which was reissues of disco obscutities from southern california. i paid attention to the first couple releases, but it eventually got lost in the shuffle. revisiting now; highly recommend across the board. a more disco-fied eccentric soul kind of vibe. really hitting the spot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i631TXkD3Yk

luther davis - "you can be a star" (1982)

made a playlist of everything from the series that's on spotify.

trying really hard to channel this energy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0tr5BUgcDQ

Viola Wills - Dare To Dream