Tag Archives: 1970s – 1980s

The venerable CCM group Farrell & Farrell was fronted by couple Bob and Jayne Farrell, who together emerged through the Houston, Texas music scene through the early 1970s. In 1974 Bob became a member of the group Dove, among the first functions authorized to the fledgling Myrrh label; in those …

During his heyday like a bandleader and organizer, George Clinton got several components of his Parliament/Funkadelic empire authorized with record labeling. The Brides of Funkenstein had been a lady group who followed his other rings on trips. They documented for Atlantic from 1978 to 1980. While Chaka Khan’s sister Taka …

Among the initial rap groupings on record, Treacherous Three recorded for both of the main old school brands (Enjoy, Glucose Hill) and introduced a faster design of rapping (dubbed quickness rapping) that influenced the afterwards span of hip-hop. Produced by way of a trio of Harlem high-school close friends — …

Brick was an Atlanta music group that created an effective merger of disco and jazz within the ’70s they called “dazz.” Brick’s roster included business lead vocalist/saxophonist/flutist Jimmy Brownish; guitarist/bassist/vocalist Regi Hargis Hickman; lead vocalist Ray Ransom, who doubled like a bassist/keyboardist/percussionist, and Eddie Irons, who sang lead vocals and …

Dubbed “The Nick Lowe of Canada,” singer/songwriter Bob Segarini was a cult hero of the fantastic White colored North’s power pop underground. A Western Coast indigenous, Segarini in the beginning fronted the short-lived Ratz, which also included potential Quicksilver Messenger Support creator Gary Duncan. He 1st earned widespread see as …

For a short minute, Stomu Yamashta was enormously popular being a harbinger of increased reputation in globe/international music.

Brooklyn Dreams combined the harmonies of classic doo wop using the electronic textures and rhythms of modern dance music to emerge among the more distinctive works from the disco period. People Bruce Sudano, Eddie Hokenson, and Joe “Bean” Esposito was raised within the same Brooklyn community and started collaborating as …

Of the many tasks produced, arranged, and/or overseen by Harlem disco wizard Patrick Adams (Inner Lifestyle, Cloud One, Dark Ivory, Bumblebee Unlimited, etc.), non-e of these quite reached the mainstream reputation of Musique, because of their suggestive 1978 one “Within the Bush.” The melody became a shock strike and sparked …

Dubbed “the bad boy of East German rock and roll & move,” Klaus Renft epitomized youth rebellion within the Communist-controlled German Democratic Republic. Given birth to Klaus Jentzsch on June 30, 1942, in Jena, Germany, he put together the Klaus Renft Combo at age group 16, presuming his mother’s maiden …

Though they ultimately achieved much less notoriety (both bad and the good) than cross-town rivals Venom, Newcastle’s Atomkraft were actually formed also sooner than the fearsome black steel pioneers — in the past in 1979, as a matter of known fact. Area of the initial surge of New Influx of …