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Artist: Soirée Title: Soirée Label:   Funky Town Grooves Country: UK Date: 1 Nov 2009 Catalogue: FTG-196 Barcode: 5060196460861 Format: CD Album Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	Soirée Featuring Luther Vandross	You Keep Me Hanging On	Holland, Dozier, Holland	Rate
02	Soirée	Close To You	Bacharach, David	Rate
03	Soirée	Everlasting Love	Cason, Gayden	Rate
04	Soirée	Do You Love Me	Gordy	Rate
05	Soirée	Come A Little Bit Closer	Hart, Boyce, Farrell	Rate
06	Soirée Featuring Luther Vandross	You Are The Sunshine Of My Life	Wonder	Rate

Notes

Easily overlooked at the time- a rare gem of early developing superstar and almost superstar artists: Luther Vandross, Ron Richardson, Kleeer’s Norman Durham and Woody Cunningham, Sharon Redd, Jocelyn Brown, Melvin Sparks and those gorgeous Arthur Clark strings-all dynamically rearranging a host of R&B and POP standards in a Disco/Dance style. Not as corny or limiting as you might suspect- as there is enough genuine genius going on here to rescue what could be seen as a lame disco cash-in and instead turning it into a proto-remixed/reimagined project filled with top musicians~!

It all comes across very nicely in that style popularized on the Bionic Boogie albums by mixer Godfrey Diamond and vocal arrangements by Luther Vandross. Don’t believe what the credits say, that Luther only sings on one track. He is very much ALL OVER this record- giving the same sort of quality soulful kick he gave to Mascara, New York City Band or Change!

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The Cool Notes - Have A Good Forever - Funky Town Grooves - UK (2009)

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