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Richard Challen
Jul 27, 20209 min read
Bonnie Pointer – “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)”
Bonnie made four albums with her siblings, and then, in 1977, she went solo—just as the remaining Sisters went nuclear.
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Richard Challen
Jun 12, 20207 min read
Shalamar – “The Second Time Around”
This is discofied pop at its buoyant best, fizzy and funky in a way that epitomizes the whole of its parent album’s title, Big Fun.
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Richard Challen
Apr 6, 20208 min read
Herb Alpert – “Rotation”
As one of the earliest "chillout" tunes, you could expand this track to a full half-hour and lose none of its hypnotic pull.
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Richard Challen
Mar 18, 20205 min read
Isaac Hayes – “Don’t Let Go”
A chewy morsel of glitter-ball silliness that returned the soul legend to the Top 40 for the first time since 1973.
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Richard Challen
Mar 11, 20204 min read
Pablo Cruise – “I Want You Tonight”
“I Want You Tonight” sounds like Pablo Cruise decided to glom onto every trend that was happening in late ’79. At the exact same time.
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Richard Challen
Jan 30, 20205 min read
KC and the Sunshine Band – “Please Don’t Go”
No one thought “Please Don’t Go” was the end. Not Harry Wayne Casey, the "KC" in the Sunshine Band, and certainly not TK Records.
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