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Spirit/funk journeyman Leon Haywood periodically dented the graphs in the 1970s with strikes that tapped in to the grooves and music hooks from the day’s tendencies. An achieved songwriter and arranger, Haywood hardly ever pretended to become an innovator, and his strikes are cheerful derivations of ’70s midtempo funk and …

Pianist Walter Murphy studied jazz and classical piano in the Manhattan College of Music and was an arranger for Doc Severinsen as well as the Tonight Display orchestra. He previously an instant of pop stardom in 1976 using the track “A Fifth of Beethoven.” It topped the pop graphs and …

Vicki Sue Robinson turned the disco and pop music world ugly with her rousing 1976 TOP Pop smash “Convert the Defeat Around.” A solid, radiant vocalist, Robinson’s information were among among the better produced and organized ’70s disco produces, with solid beats constructed on solid music. Blessed in Harlem in …

The creation of producer/label-head Dick Griffey and Leon Sylvers, this LA band did light funk and smart dance-pop numbers in the past due ’70s and ’80s. Bassist Kevin Spencer and vocalists Nidra Beard and Linda Carriere comprised the group. They got off to an easy focus on the solitary “I …

Jamaica-born, Toronto-raised Claudja Barry was a disco singer from the past due ’70s and ’80s following a stage profession that included assignments in Hair and Capture My Soul. Her biggest strike was “Boogie Woogie Dancin’ Sneakers” in 1979.

Deep-voiced Latimore’s sultry middle-’70s output for Miami’s Glades label was a steamy marriage of soul and blues. Originally billed as Benny Latimore, the Tennessean started documenting for Miami mogul Henry Rock in 1965, and his past due-’60s Dade singles are solid deep spirit. Falling his first name on Glades, Latimore …

There may be small argument that Chic was disco’s greatest band; and, employed in a intensely producer-dominated field, these were most surely a music group. By enough time Chic made an appearance in the past due ’70s, disco had been slipping in to the surplus that eventually triggered its downfall. …