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Uptown Festival ... LP
Soul Train/RCA,
1977. Used ....
$1.99Temporarily Out Of Stock
Possibly the group's biggest hit – and proof that the Soul Train formula of pop/soul could prove to be a winner! Don Cornelius is firmly at the helm as he pilots that band through the classic "Uptown Festival", a club oriented medley of Motown classics, all strung together in one... read more
Although Don Cornelius was at the height of his powers during the mid 70s – what with the Soul Train TV show blasting away regularly on the airwaves – he wasn't nearly as good a record producer as he was a TV emcee. Fortunately, he had a bit of help on this record, which features a... read more
A great batch of lost funky club tracks – heavy moog in the mix, making some great wikki-wikki sounds over the album's smoothly grooving tunes! The group's got Gregg Phillinganes and Roger Smith in the frontline on keyboards – they also play Arp and Fender Rhodes next to moog –... read more
Fantastic Norman Harris production makes this one of the best-ever efforts from The Whispers at this time! Norman put together the incredible "Living Together (In Sin)", and plays some excellent guitar on the track – and he takes the sweet west coast harmonies of The Whispers into... read more