Kashif – Say Something Love 1983
From Kashif’s Debutalbum ‘Kashif’ 1983 For a full story on Kashif’s past present and future watch my comments at the video for Stone Love by Kashif watch?v=ZBSxtLCMKKw ______ Singer/songwriter/keyboardist/producer Kashif wrote and played on Evelyn King’s (aka Evelyn “Champagne” King) number one R&B hits “I’m in Love” and “Love Come Down,” Whitney Houston’s first hit “You Give Good Love” and one of its follow-ups, “Thinking About You” from her 17-million-selling debut album Whitney Houston. He also contributed to her 17-million selling Whitney LP. His own recording career yielded 17 R&B hit singles and four Top 40 albums. He recorded several duets: “Love Changes” with Mel’isa Morgan, “Love the One I’m With” with Melba Moore, and “Reservations for Two” with Dionne Warwick. Part of the vanguard that includes early pioneers Stevie Wonder and Ronnie McNeir and his ’80s contemporaries the System, Kashif helped to revolutionized R&B music through the infusion of the then-emerging affordable, MIDI/synth technology of the ’80s. Music synthesizers at one point could easily fill a room. With the advent of the microchip, synths became more portable and had tonal stability and pricing (though most professional-level synths cost a couple thousand dollars or more) during the ’80s. Like McNeir, Kashif shares the distinction of having two self-titled albums in his catalog. Born Michael Jones in Brooklyn, NY, in 1959, Kashif was orphaned at an early age, growing up in eight foster homes …
From 1955 to 1964, John Lee Hooker was mainly under contract with Vee Jay, although he recorded some sessions for other labels in the meantime. This partnership will bring him some success but his production will be uneven, Vee Jay often trying to make of him a follower of fashion, leading to some industrial disaster in the sixties. The relationship began with a little difficulty, as with this session, recorded on the 10th of June 1958 at Chicago, in which, for the first time, he recorded enough songs in a one session to make an LP, beginning with 2 intended hits (“I Love You Honey” (a cover and a quite bad result) and “You’ve Taken My Woman” (a not better original, miming more than being rock ‘n roll)). After that, John Lee did what he did best, play his raw and rough blues with a backing band that seemed to understand his idiosyncrasic conception of beat. These songs will be spread on various compilations years later (on House Rent Boogie and Travellin’ for example). So here’s is the album (I gave it the name of “Lou Della” cos’ it’s an occasion to honor women) that could have been at the end of 1958. The first album Vee Jay will release will be I’m John Lee Hooker in 1959, but only after John Lee Hooker will record a rural blues one for Riverside, due to a sudden interest by young white students for the roots of blues. Whether John Lee will played this old style for a white audience with pleasure or for money is a question never answered. The fact is that his true …
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