We were into the Last Couple of Days of June 1987, it was the Day of my Father's Funeral he was being Cremated at the Local Crematorium. What a Week that was before the Funeral, Probably (up until then) the Worst week of my Life, I had Not experienced too many Death's in the Family before this, I Remember about a Year before my Father's Death, his Father Died (my Grandad) but I Never went to his Funeral and I Cant Remember Why I Did Not, it's Funny How you Remember Somethings and Not Others!
One thing I always Remember was when Leaving the Family's House on the Day of his Funeral, in the Procession Car, I was Looking at all the People going about their Business Laughing and Joking as we Passed them, and I recall Thinking to myself, you are all Laughing about etc and my Father has just Died! I really cant Remember to much about the Service, in fact I cant Recall Hardly Anything, I don't know why this is the case, you would have thought on such a Day like this, I should Remember Everything!
But One thing I do recall, (and it always Stuck in my Mind) was Something I was told by a Married Couple at the Funeral, who had Known my Parents for Years (in fact as a Child I stayed at their House for a Couple of Weeks in the early 70's) They Both told me that "Your Father has Died from a Broken Heart" The Couple who Told me this, I have Always gotten Along With, and I Believed what they said, but Never Understood them at that Time!
Now they Obviously Knew Something (about my Parents) I Didn't know Back then, but in the Coming Month's and Year's, I was to find a lot that I Did Not Like about my Mother and Her Life, and Within the Following Year of my Father's Death, my Mother was to Re-Marry and we were to Stop Talking for Years to come! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
As for some Music, a Band I Really Liked in the Late 70's was Raydio, they had some Great Music back then, One of my Favorites Track's was "You Cant Change That" Released in 1979 and Taken from their Second "Arista" Album "Rock On" It Featured Ray Parker Jr and Arnell Carmichael ( and Here) on Vocals, it Reached Number 9 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart and Number 3 on the US R&B Chart. Between 1978 and 1981 Raydio Released a Total of 4 Albums, before Ray Parker Jr Broke up the Band and go on and have a Successful Solo Career!
The other Single was "What am I gonna do with you" U.S Pop number 8, U.S R&B number 1 and number 5 in U.K Pop Singles!
"Let The Music Play" Album was released in 1976 once again on the 20th Century Record Label, it reached number 42 on U.S Pop Albums & number 8 on the U.S R&B Chart and number 22 in U.K!
During 1976 Barry White released another Album entitled "Is This Wotcha want" apart from one other Album, this was Barry White's worse Chart Performing Album of the 70's, number 125 in U.S Pop Chart, number 25 in U.S R&B and it never Charted at all in U.K!
During 1977, Barry White released his 7th LP called "Barry White sings for someone you love" it turned out to be B.W's First Platinum Selling Album and His 2nd Biggest Selling LP of all time on the U.S Pop Chart!
It reached number 8 on U.S Pop Chart and number 1 on R&B Chart, but in U.K it never even Charted!
Here's the 2nd Mix for F.S.V.B, DixMix Disco Mix , Its been Mixed by Ex Club DJ, Dick G , there's some classic Disco Tracks on here, including Chic, Lenny White, Raydio, C.H.A and Rose Royce, to name but a few!
Have a look at Dick's Podmatic page!
Either press play to listen or press link to go to Podomatic page and download to your pc.
1978 had some Great Vinyl, including Debut Albums from "Raydio, "Atlantic Starr, " Rick James, and it was also the start of "BRIT FUNK" with the release of the Debut Album from "Hi Tension! At last the UK had an answer to all the Soul/ Funk Music from the USA!
Over the coming years the UK had some Great Bands and Albums, I will doing being a Blog entry concerning "Brit Funk" in the future!
Check out the Player below, I have put a few of my Favorite Tracks from the above Albums!
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