Tag: 1980’s R&B
Elfen’s TBT R&B 1882 and 1983 The S.O.S Band
What can I say about The S.O.S Band? They’re the finest? They’re musically good to me? They make sure to tell you that nobodies gonna love you like they do. They try to tell you that one of the girls is a weekend kinda girl. I had problems trying to pick an album from them. The S.O.S Band is one of those bands that’s really underrated. I do know one thing once you saw their album covers you knew who they were. See ya’ll next TBT week! I’m gonna come through with the group The Time.
Elfen’s TBT R&B Artist of the week Mtume
It’s July 1983 and the sexiest song blasting on the radio airwaves was a song called juicy fruit by Mtume. Juicy Fruit stayed #1 on the Billboard HOT Black singles Chart for 8 weeks. Here’s a little black history from 1983!
President of the U.S.A Ronald Reagan Vice President George H. W. Bush
Cassette tape’s and records cost about $10
Watching Saturday morning cartoons from 7am to 1pm was a treat in 1983
Local Programming The Best of Scooby-Doo The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show The Pac-Man/Rubik, the Amazing Cube Hour The Littles The Puppy’s Further Adventures The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show ABC Weekend Special American Bandstand.
Movies playing July 1983
- 4 day weekend July 4th 1983 Return of the Jedi
- Continued #1 at the box office July 10, 1983 Return of the Jedi
#OnThisDay in 1983, BET went from a programming block on @Nickelodeon to a 24-hour TV channel!
Here's to 34 strong years & more to come! pic.twitter.com/oE9Xa3L28U
— BET (@BET) July 1, 2017
Ebony magazine July 1983
1983 Timex Sinclair Color Computer
Price: $179.99
Description It’s got 48K of memory power with built-in BASIC programming language, eight vivid high-resolution color and four simultaneous sounds. It has special features to set it above the competitors. One-Touch Keyword lets you program an entire computer word with a single key. This saves typing time and computer memory as well. Includes AC power adapter.
Elfen’s TBT 1980s R&B Alexander O’Neal Hearsay
There’s something about some singers that just move you to tears. And Alexander O’Neal is just one of those singers who can just do that.
His singing partner cherrelle just adds the cookie to his cream. He was our Chris Brown of the 1980s. Alexander’s songs are for the romantic and in love.
Tracks Fake and criticize was one of the top R&B songs of 1987.
To buy a new house in 1987 cost $92,000 You could by a A dozen eggs for $.65 a carton. In 1987 we first see a cartoon short the Simpsons appear on a tv sketch comedy show called The Tracy Ullman show.
Sitting Presadent Ronald Reagan
News 1987
June 28 – An accidental explosion at Hohenfels Training Area in West Germany kills 3 U.S. troopers.
VH-3D landing on White House south lawn, July 1987
July 1 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan nominates former Solicitor General Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. The nomination is later rejected by the Senate, the first and only nominee rejection to date.
Movies playing in July 1987
- July 3 Adventures in Babysitting Comedy
Innerspace Action - July 10 Blood Diner Black Comedy
Maid to Order Comedy
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise Comedy
The Squeeze - July 17 Jaws 4: The Revenge Horror
Nowhere to Hide Action
RoboCop Action - July 22 Summer School Comedy
- July 24 La Bamba Drama
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace Action - July 31 The Living Daylights Action
The Lost Boys Horror
What was on the television in 1987?
Rank Program Network Rating
1 The Cosby Show NBC 27.8
2 A Different World 25.0
3 Cheers 23.4
4 The Golden Girls 21.8
5 Growing Pains ABC 21.3
6 Who’s the Boss? 21.2
7 Night Court NBC 20.8
8 60 Minutes CBS 20.6
9 Murder, She Wrote 20.2
10 ALF NBC 18.8
The Wonder Years ABC
12 Moonlighting 18.3
L.A. Law NBC
14 Matlock 17.8
15 Amen 17.5
16 Monday Night Football ABC 17.4
17 Family Ties NBC 17.3
18 CBS Sunday Night Movie CBS 17.2
19 In the Heat of the Night NBC 17.0
20 My Two Dads 16.9
Valerie’s Family
22 Dallas CBS 16.8
23 NBC Sunday Night Movie NBC 16.7
Head of the Class ABC
25 Newhart CBS 16.5
26 NBC Monday Night Movie NBC 16.4
27 227 16.3
28 Day by Day 16.2
29 Hunter 16.1
30 Aaron’s Way 16.0
Elfen’s TBT R&B Funk 1984 Music Video of the week The Gap Band I found my baby
I don’t remember this music video. I just don’t know what to write about it. You can tell it’s from 1984. I know And them outfits……
Elfen’s TBT R&B Funk 1984 The Gap Band VI
This week I had a hard time choosing a TBT R&B until one of my favorite R&B Funk bands of all times started playing on iPad The Gap Band. I believe The Gap Band is one of the best R&B Funk bands of the 20th century.
Group members Charlie, Ronnie and Robert Wilson giving props to their home town street Greenwood, Archer, and Pine) in the historic Greenwood neighborhood in the brothers’ hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The group shortened its name to The Gap Band in 1973. Sadly brother Robert Wilson passed away in 2010.
Hits include:
- Party Train
- Early Morning
- Oops Upside ya head
If you’re reading this and you’re a gamer You probably heard
“You Dropped a Bomb on Me” was featured in the hit 2004 videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004), playing on the fictional funk radio station Bounce FM.
“Burn Rubber On Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)” was featured in DiRT 3 (2011).
“You Dropped a Bomb on Me” was featured in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Zombies In Spaceland (2016)
The Gap Band songs have been sampled by many hip hop artists like Snoop Dog.
Since the 1990s, many of The Gap Band’s hits have been sampled and covered by R&B and hip hop artists such as II D Extreme, Brand Nubian, Tyler, the Creator, 69 Boyz, Ashanti, Big Mello, Blackstreet, Mary J. Blige, Da Brat, Ice Cube, Jermaine Dupri, Mia X, Nas, Rob Base Shaquille O’Neal, Snoop Dogg, Soul For Real, and Vesta. Other musicians inspired by The Gap Band include Guy, Aaron Hall, Jagged Edge, Bill Heausler, Mint Condition, R. Kelly, Ruff Endz, Keith Sweat, Joe Miller, GRiTT, The Delta Troubadours, and D’Extra Wiley.
Producer Heavy D sampled “Outstanding” for “Every Little Thing” a 1995 hit single by his boy band prodigies Soul For Real which reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Lead singer Charlie Wilson who affectionately nick named Uncle Charlie has a successful solo career teaming up with Snoop Dog and many others.
But anyway ya’ll give The Gap Band a listen!! Next week Alexander O’Neal
Bio Source Wikipedia : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gap_Band
Elfen’s TBT R&B Album 1982 D Train You’re The One For Me
The year was 1982. 1982 folks was takin’ the car, bus to go get the latest album from D Train’s You’re The One For Me. As an official 1980s blackgirl this album was one of my and my sisters favorites.
If you ever need some inspiration to follow your dreams or move forward in life play track 7 keep on. He tells you to keep on stepping and reach higher ground.
1982 D Train had some competition when Michael Jackson’s second solo album thriller came out. Keep On reached #2 on the dance charts and #15 on the R&B singles chart
Songs like this back in the 1980s was our black anthem. 1982 was the year for Bryant Gumbel he became the first African-American to be an anchor on a major network when he joins The Today Show.
Also that year saw the United States — AT&T Ordered to Break Up
1. The break-up of the AT&T monopoly was ordered during January of 1982.
2. The US government’s deal with the AT&T Corporation stated that AT&T would give up control of the Bell System (colloquially called Ma Bell) that had owned most of the telephone services in the United States and Canada since the 1940s.
3. The agreement came as the result of an anti-trust case brought against the company in 1974 by the US Department of Justice.
4. The break-up of the Bell System officially became effective two years later in 1984 when it was split into seven different independent Regional Bell operating Companies, informally known as “Baby Bells.”
Movies playing in theaters was…..
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Rocky III,
On Golden Pond
Porky’s
An Officer and a Gentleman
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Poltergeist
Annie
Chariots of Fire
Gandhi
1982 we saw Reaganomics
Source: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1982.html
Elfen’s R&B TBT Music Video of the week George Benson Give Me The Night musical performance Music Video
George Benson at work Give Me The Night
Elfen’s TBT R&B 1980 George Benson give me the night
I remember this album playing on my mama’s record player. I loved the song blasting Give Me The Night. Years later I discovered she owned almost all his albums. As an 80sblackgirl my home was filled with music all day everyday. George Benson is one of the best Jazz musicians of the 20th century. Mainstream Radio needs give the POWER BACK to Radio Personality AKA Disc Jocky AKA DJ. Because of the DJ George Benson was heard and recognized world wide. If the Gorillaz choose to have George Benson on their new album. Then you know you are collaborating with greatness.
See you next Throwback Thursday! Next week I got some D Train….
Bio
Benson was born and raised in the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the age of seven, he first played the ukulele in a corner drug store, for which he was paid a few dollars. At the age of eight, he played guitar in an unlicensed nightclub on Friday and Saturday nights, but the police soon closed the club down. At the age of 9, he started to record. Out of the four sides he cut, two were released: “She Makes Me Mad” backed with “It Should Have Been Me”, with RCA-Victor in New York; although one source indicates this record was released under the name “Little Georgie”,while the 45rpm label is printed with the name George Benson.The single was produced by Leroy Kirkland for RCA’s rhythm and blues label, Groove Records.As he has stated in an interview, Benson’s introduction to showbusiness had an effect on his schooling. When this was discovered (tied with the failure of his single) his guitar was impounded. Luckily, after he spent time in a juvenile detention centre his stepfather made him a new guitar.*
Benson attended and graduated from Schenley High School.[8][9] As a youth he learned how to play straight-ahead instrumental jazz during a relationship performing for several years with organist Jack McDuff. One of his many early guitar heroes was country-jazz guitarist Hank Garland.
At the age of 21, he recorded his first album as leader, The New Boss Guitar, featuring McDuff. Benson’s next recording was It’s Uptown with the George Benson Quartet, including Lonnie Smith on organ and Ronnie Cuber on baritone saxophone. Benson followed it up with The George Benson Cookbook, also with Lonnie Smith and Ronnie Cuber on baritone and drummer Marion Booker.Miles Davis employed Benson in the mid-1960s, featuring his guitar on “Paraphernalia” on his 1968 Columbia release, Miles in the Sky before going to Verve Records.
Benson then signed with Creed Taylor’s jazz label CTI Records, where he recorded several albums, with jazz heavyweights guesting, to some success, mainly in the jazz field. His 1974 release, Bad Benson, climbed to the top spot in the Billboard jazz chart, while the follow-ups, Good King Bad (#51 Pop album) and Benson and Farrell (with Joe Farrell), both reached the jazz top-three sellers. Benson also did a version of The Beatles’s 1969 album Abbey Road called The Other Side of Abbey Road, also released in 1969, and a version of “White Rabbit”, originally written and recorded by San Francisco rock group Great Society, and made famous by Jefferson Airplane. Benson played on numerous sessions for other CTI artists during this time, including Freddie Hubbard and Stanley Turrentine, notably on the latter’s acclaimed album Sugar.
1970s and 1980s
By the mid-to-late 1970s, as he recorded for Warner Bros. Records, a whole new audience began to discover Benson. With the 1976 release Breezin’, Benson sang a lead vocal on the track “This Masquerade” (notable also for the lush, romantic piano intro and solo by Jorge Dalto), which became a huge pop hit and won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year. (He had sung vocals infrequently on albums earlier in his career, notably his rendition of “Here Comes the Sun” on the Other Side of Abbey Road album.) The rest of the album is instrumental, including his rendition of the 1975 Jose Feliciano composition “Affirmation”.
In 1976, Benson toured with soul singer Minnie Riperton, who had been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer earlier that year and, in addition, appeared as a guitarist and backup vocalist on Stevie Wonder’s song “Another Star” from Wonder’s album Songs in the Key of Life.
During the same year, 1976, the top selling album ‘Breezin’ was released on the Warner Brothers label featuring the Bobby Womack penned title track and the Leon Russell penned This Masquerade which is now a jazz standard. Both tracks won Grammy awards that year and the LP put Benson into the musical limelight both in the USA and in Europe. Ironically, Benson had been discouraged up until this time, from using his singing skills, mainly as the company decision makers felt he wasn’t competent enough vocally, and he should stick to playing the guitar. It was here that he clearly proved them wrong.
He also recorded the original version of “The Greatest Love of All” for the 1977 Muhammad Ali bio-pic, The Greatest, which was later covered by Whitney Houston as “Greatest Love of All”.[12] During this time Benson recorded with the German conductor Claus Ogerman. The live take of “On Broadway”, recorded a few months later from the 1978 release Weekend in L.A., also won a Grammy. He has worked with Freddie Hubbard on a number of his albums throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
The Qwest record label (a subsidiary of Warner Bros., run by Quincy Jones) released Benson’s breakthrough pop album Give Me The Night, produced by Jones. Benson made it into the pop and R&B top ten with the song “Give Me the Night” (written by former Heatwave keyboardist Rod Temperton). He had many hit singles such as “Love All the Hurt Away”, “Turn Your Love Around”, “Inside Love”, “Lady Love Me”, “20/20”, “Shiver”, “Kisses in the Moonlight”. More importantly, Quincy Jones encouraged Benson to search his roots for further vocal inspiration, and he rediscovered his love for Nat Cole, Ray Charles and Donny Hathaway in the process, influencing a string of further vocal albums into the 1990s. Despite returning to his jazz and guitar playing most recently, this theme was reflected again much later in Benson’s 2000 release Absolute Benson, featuring a cover of one of Hathaway’s most notable songs, “The Ghetto”. Benson accumulated three other platinum LPs and two gold albums.
Cherelle with Alexander O’Neal Saturday Love
Okay these two together is like cookies and cream!
Elfen’s TBT Music Video of the Week Rebbie Jackson Centipede
Rebbie Jackson Centipede. You can tell she had a little help from her baby brother Michael!!