Royalle Delite - (I'll Be A) Freak For You 1984

Streetwave Records MKHAN 51

Something of a boogie rare groove on Lonnie Johnson’s tiny Skyview label in 1984, over in the good ol' US of A, before, Morgan Khan, the man behind the UK’s seminal Streetsounds compilation series picked it up for wider release on his Streetwave label. A good thing too – this is a fantastic piece of lo-tech freakery that has had soulboys in a lather ever since.

Doe's anybody have any info on Royalle Delite, group members, etc. I know they followed this up with Spend A Little Time With Me buy I can't seem to find any information on them?

Lonnie Johnson also wrote and produced (I'll Be A) Freak For You but check The Good Groove Mix for a great echo of 80's London Pirate Radio. Remixed by Derek Boland for Froggy Productions, better known as Derek B, on the, LWR 92.5, airwaves and on the microphone as a rap artist. Boland's show's on LWR invariably feautured one of his 'Good Groove' mixes and they were always interesting at the least. He created remixes of a couple of Eric B & Rakim's releases, one of which I've posted. I'll find the, Stevie Wonder-based, Urban Respray of I Know You Got Soul later. Enjoy!

• (I’ll Be A) Freak For You
• Radio Edit
• The Good Groove Mix

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Filename: Royalle Delite.rar Filesize: 46.1 MB

Street Sounds Edition 7 1983

Street Sounds STSND 007

Another great release on the Street Sounds label. Michael Jackson's Billie Jean was phenomenal at the time and Lydia Murdock grabbed a whole heap of limelight with Superstar with a few surprises, first it ripped off Billie Jean's groove, secondly it was an 'answer back' song and finally it consists of a female rap. Extraordinary at the time but oh so dated now. Instant Funk & Billy Griffin were popular here but for me it was all about side one. Dayton's Sound Of Music, Tom Browne and The Jones Girls in particular but Curtis and Lillo also high on the list.

• Dayton - Sound Of Music
• Curtis Hairston - I Want You
• Tom Browne - Brighter Tomorrow
• The Jones Girls - Knockin'
• Lillo Thomas - I Love It
• Lydia Murdock - Superstar
• Second Image - Don't You
• Instant Funk - You'll Be Mine
• Billy Griffin - Respect
• Lew Kirton - Talk To Me

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Filename: Street Sounds.rar Filesize: 78.31 MB

Street Sounds Edition 15 1985

Street Sounds STSND 15

The most memorable Street Sounds Edition for me. Not because of the choice of tracks but because of the climate at the time it was released. Aleem's awesome Get Loose was so overplayed by this time that I always skipped the track when playing this album. Packed full of goodies, as usual and the longevity on this selection is as good as the day it was released. Caprice, 100% still sounds fresh to my ears, as does Evelyn 'Champagne' King's, Your Personal Touch in it's short but efficient Dance Mix format. The beautiful ballad, Mated by David Grant & Jaki Graham is here in it's Extended Version but my favourite tracks are Mr DJ by The Concept, simple but effective, and the track I bought the album for, Princess, After The Love Has Gone the Chief Inspector Remix, which is based on the Wally Badarou classic, Chief Inspector, which was huge at the time.

• The Concept - Mr DJ
• Aleem - Get Loose
• Colonel Abrams - Music Is The Answer
• Brass Construction - Give & Take
• David Grant & Jaki Graham - Mated
• Princess - After The Love Has Gone
• Evelyn King - Personal Touch
• B.T. Express - Uptown Express
• Caprice - 100%
• Masquerade - One Nation

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Filename: Street Sounds Edition 15.rar Filesize: 110.98 MB

Street Sounds Edition 14 1985

Street Sounds STSND 14

Another iconic release from the Street Sounds stable. Packed full of goodies, as usual, although some of the big tracks are not so cool now, Five Star - Love Take Over, Ready For The World - Oh Sheila and pretend the Three Degrees - The Heaven I Need (it's not a bad track!) is not a Stock, Aitken & Waterman production. Starpoint - What You Been Missin' and Tramaine - Fall Down (Spirit Of Love) are good songs but for me Frankie Kelly - Ain't That The Truth, Collage - Romeo Where's Juliet, Gardenia - Chiquita Linda and Jeff Tyzik - Sweet Surrender still sound more than just good and Bernard Wright - Who Do You Love simply rules. What a tune, now that's the cherry, that's what it's all about!

• Ready For The World
• The Three Degrees
• Frankie Kelly
• Bernard Wright
• Jeff Tyzik
• Starpoint
• Five Star
• Collage
• Tramaine
• Gardenia

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Filename: Street Sounds Edition 14.rar Filesize: 103.38 MB

Street Sounds Edition 13 1985

Street Sounds STSND 13

Another iconic release from the Street Sounds stable. Packed full of goodies, as usual, although the big tracks Steve Arrington - Dancing In The Key Of Life, Atlantic Starr - Silver Shadow, Colnel Abrams - Trapped, Cool Notes - In Your Car and BB & Q - Genie are all fairly common place nowadays, I think Cheryl Lynn - It's Gonna Be Alright (yeah, I know?), Skool Boyz - Superfine (From Behind), One Way - Let's Talk and Rodney Franklin - Fiesta are not heard enough and Billy Griffin's Electrified still sounds so fresh!

• Steve Arrington
• Atlantic Starr
• Cheryl Lynn
• Billy Griffin
• Change
• Colnel Abrams
• The Cool Notes
• Skool Boyz
• Brooklyn Bronx & Queens
• One Way
• Rodney Franklin

...and Oh My Gosh!

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Filename: Street Sounds Edition 13.rar Filesize: 105.54 MB

Street Sounds Edition 5 1983

Street Sounds Records STSND 005

Another iconic release from the Street Sounds stable. Packed full of goodies, as usual, and a quarter of a century later there are still healthy tracks here. Oliver Cheatham's Linx ad is here. The first three tracks on each side do it for me but the jewel in this crown is The Funk Masters - It's Over.

• Freeez - I.O.U. (Megamix)
• Aretha Franklin - Get It Right
• Terri Wells - You Make It Heaven
• Kenny Lynch - Half The Day's Gone...
• La Famille - All Night Long
• The Funk Masters - It's Over
• Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday Night
• MCB - I'm The One, You're The One
• Brass Construction - Walkin' The Line
• Wickett - Can't Get Enough Of You

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Filename: Edition 5.rar Filesize: 85.52 MB

Arnie's Love - I'm Out Of Your Life 1983

Streetwave WAVEL 9

• I'm Out Of Your Life
• I'm Out Of Your Life (Instrumental)

Arnold Joseph a.k.a. Arnie's Love released I'm Out Of Your Life on Radar Records back in 1983 which went Top 10 in the US before Streetwave Records picked it up for a British release. Pure class, real music with mournful lyrics over a slow shuffle, strings, brass and even a harmonica solo. Produced and arranged by Eric Matthew (Sharon Redd and Betty Lavette). After a brief spell on Profile Records in 1986 Arnie disappeared which was a real shame. He is now recording Gospel music.

Sad act that I am, I noticed that the Instrumental is not the same format as the Vocal version. So what? Well, if you wanted to sing it karaoke style, it would make life difficult. Included in the rar file is my own lame attempt to reproduce the Karaoke Backing Track. The ending isn't quite right so you will have to improvise. I've transcribed the lyrics for those with a brave heart.

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Filename: Arnies Love.rar Filesize: 28.04 MB

I'm Out Of Your Life
by K. Gold & M. Denne

Sometimes Baby, It gets so hard
I sit and watch the rain that falls in my back yard
Sometimes Baby, It seems to me
Our situation ain't what it used to be
Everywhere, I'm hearing people talking 'bout you Baby
And they don't mention me

I figure I'm out of your life now girl
I'm so far out of touch
I figure I'm out of your life now girl
And it's hurting me so much

I remember, You used to care
You always worried about which dress to wear
(Didn't ya girl)
I remember, A different girl
Who made me feel I meant something in this world
Everyday, I find I'm living more without you Baby
You got no time for me

I figure I'm out of your life now girl
I'm so far out of touch
I figure I'm out of your life now girl
And it's hurting me so much (so much)

(Harmonica break)

Everywhere
I'm hearing people talking bout you Baby
And they don't mention me

I figure I'm out of your life now girl
I'm so far out of touch
I figure I'm out of your life now girl
And it's hurting me so much

(Break)

It's making me, it's making me sad, so sad
It's hurting me, it's hurting so bad

Everyday,
I find I'm living more without you Baby
You got no time for me

I figure I'm out of your life now girl
I'm so far out of touch, (so far out of touch)
I figure I'm out of your life now girl
And it's hurting me so much (so much)

I figure I'm out of your life now girl
I'm so far out of touch,
Ooh Baby
I figure I'm out of your life now girl
And it's hurting me so much,
Oooooh Babyyyy, girrrrllll

Don't leave me girl,
All alone
I'm so far out of touch
I'm so far out of touch

I don't see ya
You don't call me
We don't even talk anymore

Please don't leave me
Don't leave me all alone
I love you

Street Sounds Edition 1 1982

Street Sounds Records STSND 001

This was the moment that redefined the compilation album. Morgan Khan had worked in the UK record industry since the mid 70's. An Indian, born in Hong Kong, who grew up in London, Khan started the Streetwave record label in 1981 and within a year, Street Sounds was born Compiled from the hottest 12" imports of the day, these releases made the dance floor hits of the time available to the normal guy on the street. In the early 80's a 12" single was priced around £2 and you would pay over £4 for an import 12". The Street Sounds series offered usually 8 to 12 full-length 12" mixes for under a fiver. Understandably, the Street Sounds series was met with considerable enthusiasm and ran for over 6 years. They released 50 albums across the various series, Street Sounds and Electro being the most successful, reaching Edition 20 before restyling and losing the plot.

Strangely enough, the dodgey compilations that resulted from the advent of the House and Rave scene was not the cause of Street Sounds downfall. It was the labels magazine venture that caused them to go bust. It did mean that the label never got to suffer a slow lingering demise though. Respect to Morgan Khan!

On this debut release, Raw Silk & Peech Boys are both special mixes, Don't Make Me Wait is an exclusive 10 minute epic beginning with a long acappella that has been sampled to death. Northend's Tee's Happy is a remix and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five are the hottest news of 1982.

• Raw Silk - Do It To The Music
• Grandmaster Flash - The Message
• Inner Life - Moment Of My Life
• Northend - Tee's Happy
• Greg Henderson - Dreamin'
• Dunn & Bruce Street - Shout For Joy
• Kadenza - Let's Stay Together
• Peech Boys - Don't Make Me Wait

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Filename: Streetsounds Edition 1.rar Size: 72.17 MB

Wish - Nice And Soft 1981

Excaliber Records EXCL 511

• Special Disco Mixer
• Uptown Mix
• Downtown Mix

An early eighties dancefloor classic with vocals by La-Rita Gaskins and a mixes by John Morales (later of M&M fame). Produced & arranged by the infamous Greg Carmichael (apparently solo with no Adams credited) and a special remix by Morgan Khan & Alan James Jewell. The Special Disco Mixer is interesting but not up to par. As an evolutionary observation of Soul & Dance development it is worth listening to but oh, how our expectations have changed.

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Filename: Wish.rar Filesize: 47.92 MB

Ingram - Smoothin Groovin 1983

Streetwave Records WAVEL 3

• Smoothin Groovin
• D.J.'s Delight
• D.J.'s Delight Medley

Ingram were a family group that came from Camden, (NJ not UK). Siblings, Norman (bass and trumpet), James or Jimi (vocals, keyboards, sax, flute), Barbara (vocals), Billy (guitar, bass, trombone), John (lead vocals, drums, tuba), Timmy (drums, percussion, trumpet) and Francis, Edith, and Virginia Ingram (vocals) had their roots are in gospel as their father was a minister. Recording under various names such as Ingram, The Ingram Kingdom & The Ingram Family, they wrote, arranged, produced and published their own material and other artists. They were mostly active in the US during the 1970's but never really got the recognition they deserved.

Ingram resurfaced in 1983 for two more albums, Would You Like to Fly (1983) and Night Stalkers (1985). Smoothin' Groovin' (U.K. Top 75), and D.J.'s Delight came from the 1983 album and Streetwave Records licensed the tracks for the U.K where they enjoyed a measure of success.

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Filename: Ingram.rar Filesize: 30.59 MB

A.B.'s - Deja Vu 1983

Streetwave XKHAN 503

• Deja Vu
• Asian Moon

A Jazz Funk release on Morgan Khan's Streetwave label, this is Tokyo Jazz from the Alfa Moon stable. This Japanese instrumental funk group was formed in '82 by bass player Naoki Watanabe and Atsuo Okamoto from the group Spectrum, guitarists Fujimal Yoshino and Makoto Matsushita, and keyboard player Yoshihiko Ando. Yoshino came from a band called Shogun while Matsushita and Ando were studio session musicians. Its fair to say that all members worked as studio musicians at some point though. Watanabe and Yoshino had also made aquaintance via the Moon Records Fujimaru Band.

Produced by Toshio Oguri and engineered by Tatsuo Umetsu for 'From East'. All very interesting I'm sure but hearing it is far more impressive, Deja Vu is a beautiful piece of soulful jazz with an oriental edge. If you haven't, then you should!

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Filename: ABs.rar Filesize: 19.92 MB