TEAM RNS PRESENTS

LABEL: S.O.L.A.R. (Sounds Of Los

RIPPER: Team RNS

199kbps avg - R&B
2hr 26min total-219.6mb

RELEASE DATE: 2004-04-20
RIP DATE: 2004-04-25

01 Uptown Festival (Single Edit)  4:00
02 Take That To The Bank          6:10
03 Stay Close To Love             3:48
04 Right In The Socket (Remix)    4:42
05 The Second Time Around         7:15
06 Let's Find The Time For Love   4:38
07 Make That Move                 6:19
08 Full Of Fire                   6:20
09 Attention To My Baby           4:34
10 This Is For The Lover In You   5:06
11 Sweeter As The Days Go By      3:45
12 Somewhere There's A Love       4:25
13 Pop Along Kid                  4:50
14 Go For It                      5:24

01 A Night To Remember            5:13
02 I Just Stopped By Because I    4:11

03 Don't Try To Change Me         4:11
04 I Don't Wanna Be The Last To   4:02

06 I Can Make You Feel Good       4:22
07 Disappearing Act               5:29
08 You Can Count On Me            3:49
09 You're The One For Me          5:01
10 Over And Over                  4:37

13 Dancing In The Sheets          4:05

15 Born To Love                   3:49
16 Worth Waitin' For              5:26

This act was created by Dick Griffey,
booking agent for US television's Soul
Train show, and Simon Soussan, a veteran
of UK's northern soul scene. The latter
produced "Uptown Festival", a medley of
popular Motown Records favourites,
which was issued on Griffey's Solar
label. Although credited to "Shalamar",
the track featured session musicians, but
its success inspired Griffey to create a
performing group. Jody Watley (b. 30
January 1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA),
Jeffrey Daniels (b. 30 January 1959,
Chicago, Illinois, USA) and Gerald Brown
were recruited via Soul Train in 1977,
although Brown was replaced the
following year by Howard Hewett (b. 1
October 1955, Akron, Ohio, USA). "The
Second Time Around" gave the trio an R&B
chart topper in 1979, but subsequent
releases were better received in the
UK, where lightweight soul/disco
offerings, including "I Can Make You Feel
Good", "A Night To Remember" and "There
It Is", provided three Top 10 entries

Daniels and Watley left the group to
pursue solo careers. Their replacements,
Delisa Davis and Micki Free, joined in
1984. The group won a Grammy award for
"Don't Get Stopped In Beverly Hills", a
track from Heartbreak used in the Eddie
Murphy movie Beverly Hills Cop, but
Hewett's departure in 1986 eroded any
new-found confidence. Sidney Justin
restored the group to a trio, and they
continued to have further, albeit
minor, hit singles. By now, Shalamar's
golden, if brief, period had ended;
nevertheless, the trio staggered on for
a few more years into the early 90s
when Justin, along with Free and Davis,
recorded Circumstantial Evidence (produced
by L.A. And Babyface) and Wake Up.