WORLD PREMIERE - SHARE THE NIGHT

World Premiere consisted of Douglas Pittman, Bernard Bullock and brothers Norman 'Skip' Wright (also the lead singer) & Anthony Lamar Wright. Share The Night was released in 1983 on New York's Easy Street Records. It's an excellent boogie track, however it proved to be the bands only release. I've included both the club mix and the breakdown instrumental version of the track because they are both quite excellent, and also because this is a great example of a really good instrumental version which offers something different to the standard instrumental B-side found on a lot of 12"s

World Premiere - Share The Night (Club Mix)



World Premiere - Share The Night (Breakdown Mix)

XAVIER - WORK THAT SUCKER TO DEATH

Xavier Rahni Harris named his band after himself and released a well received LP called Point Of Pleasure in 1982. Work That Sucker To Death is the opening track and was also released as a 12" (backed with Love Is On The One, itself a boogie classic). Work That Sucker To Death has a heavy P-Funk influence which is natural considering it features a special guest appearance from George Clinton as Sir Nose D'voidoffunk and Bootsy Collins tearing things up and letting rip with his spacebass. All in all a slamming funk groove with a healthy dose of P-Funk madness.


Xavier - Work That Sucker To Death

SATIN, SILK & LACE - YOUR LOVE

Written by Leroy Burgess and produced by Greg Carmichael who were by this stage long time collaborators, Your Love was the very last Prelude 12". It was released in 1986 and it's a beauty. It's got that signature sound of Burgess and Carmichael's previous guises as the Universal Robot Band, Logg and Convertion and even though by this point they could make this type of tune in their sleep it doesn't detract from the fact that Your Love is a classic, wonderful, mid-tempo boogie track. In it's own way a fitting end to the Prelude Records catalogue.


Satin, Silk & Lace - Your Love (Long Vocal)

ARTHUR ADAMS - YOU GOT THE FLOOR

Another Jazz-Funk classic today. A veteran blues guitarist of the 1950's and 60's, Arthur Adams turned to soul and funk in the 70's. You Got The Floor was released on small independent label Inculcation Records, but was eventually licensed out to RCA Records and went on to become a big Jazz-Funk tune in the UK. And rightly so. You Got The Floor features a deadly bassline, an infectious groove, killer sax and is generally irresistible. As usual, enjoy...


Arthur Adams - You Got The Floor