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Old School Friday: Child Stars

13 Friday Mar 2009

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I decided to do a little spin on this week’s theme, which is child stars. Again, I’ll be featuring female artists for Women’s History Month.

My picks weren’t child stars although they should have been. My first pick, in particular, sent more chills up my spine with her sent-from-heaven voice at 11 than she does now at 22. Not surprising when you were singing with Stevie Wonder at age 13.

Watch Jazmine Sullivan singing “Home” in her elementary school production of The Wiz followed by her appearance on Showtime at The Apollo where completely destroyed me with “Accept What God Allows.”

Finally, for some reason, Babygirl has been on my mind this week…and in my iPod. Check out a clip of Aaliyah performing on Star Search.

Be sure to visit the other OSF participants picks for the week.

Enjoy your weekend!

Old School Friday: New Edition Members

06 Friday Feb 2009

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Great theme this week. Music by New Edition, collectively or solo as well as any groups they were apart of or produced. So many choices with this one. I went from LSG to just Johnny Gill. I thought about getting my Mr. Sensitivity on with Ralph. Maybe a little Poisionnnnnnnnn so I could feature my favorite New Edition member who I crushed on BIG time, Ronnie.

In the end, although he will be a popular choice, I decided to go with Bobby. He is celebrating his 40th birthday this week,  and has yet another crumbsnatcher on the way that he’ll be hard pressed to be able to afford Similac for. So let’s show him some love. And some prayer. He needs both. Let’s remember the good ole days before well, you know.

Three of my favorite solo tracks from Bob-bay!

Now this is definitely a week where you want to visit other OSF members and see what they pulled out of the vault.

Have a great weekend folks!

Old School Friday: 1994

09 Friday Jan 2009

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First to all my regular readers, please forgive the light posting this week. My laptop has the MAJOR cooties. I am currently posting this on my eight year old desktop. The Slowskys would LOVE Old Betsy. So until I’m back up, things will be a bit slow around here too.

The theme for this week is music from your graduation year.  I graduated from Abraham Clark High School in Roselle, NJ in 1994. I had just turned 17 and left for college in Charlotte, NC a few months later.

There were two albums released that year that I believe cannot be left out of any discussion about the history of hip hop and r&b.   Talk about “let my tape rock til my tape popped.” Both of these albums would be near the top of the list if I HAD to choose my top ten albums of all time. I still know every single lyric of every single song on both albums.

None other than Mary J. Blige’s “My Life” ( November 29, 1994) and Biggie’s “Ready to Die.” (July 13, 1994).

Since the 90s was also the decade of the remix, I’ll be posting my favorite remixes of songs from each of these albums.

First up, the Queen who should always come before the King.

Mary J. Blige, “Be Happy” Bad Boy Remix w/Keith Murray

Mary J Blige f/ L Boogie, “Be With You” remix

Ya’ll ready for Notorious? One week from today! If it wasn’t inauguration weekend, I’d be right up in NYC for opening weekend. Brooklyn, stand up! Here’s a couple of track from the King of New York and MY G.O.A.T.

Biggie, “Big Poppa” So So Def remix

Let’s bring it full circle.

Biggie, “One More Chance/Stay With Me” remix f/ Faith and Mary J. Blige (play spot the celebs in the video)

I’m way over the limit but I had fun! Be sure to stop by the other Old School Friday participants sites and revisit music from yesteryear.

Old School Friday: ‘Unsung’ Artists

02 Friday Jan 2009

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We have been given free reign for the first OSF of the year.

For those of you who have the station TV One, you may have already seen the ‘Unsung’ ‘series which spotlights artists whose lives and/or career were tragically shortened for one reason or another. So far they have shown the stories of Donny Hathaway, Phyllis Hyman, the Clark Sisters, and Debarge. If you haven’t caught it yet, it replays every so often so please make it a point to catch one or all of the episodes. There are plans for more shows and you can let them know who you think should be featured next.

Today, I decided to celebrate the music of Debarge, Phyllis Hyman and Donny Hathaway. Let me know your thoughts on this series and who you would like to see featured next (Lauryn Hill or Aaliyah anyone?) and some of your favorites from these artists.

Debarge, “I Like It” (“All This Love” is my ultimate favorite. Made my top fifty list)

Donny Hathaway, I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know (“A Song For You” is #1 on my list)

Do yourselves a favor and LISTEN to this song. Fellas, take notes!

Phyllis Hyman, “Living in Confusion” (her version of “Betcha By Golly Wow” with Norman Connors will be my wedding song. “You Know How To Love Me” and this song are tied for second.)

Be sure to stop by the othe OSF participants pages and see what they came up with this week. Looking at the upcoming themes, we are going to really get into some good music in these upcoming weeks so stay tuned!

Old School Friday: A Hip Hop Christmas

19 Friday Dec 2008

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year indeed! Tis my favorite season, although I’m always conscious that this time of year is rough for so many – my family included.

My favorite Christmas song ever is Donnie Hathaway’s “This Christmas” followed by “Silent Night” by The Temptations and “Let It Snow” by Boyz II Men and Brian McKnight tied for second. I figured we’d see a lot of those songs today so I decided to go a different way and present a few of my favorite classic hip hop Christmas songs.

Kurtis Blow, “Christmas Rappin”

Run D.M.C. “Christmas in Hollis”

TLC  “Sleigh Ride”

Enjoy more Christmas music with the other OSF participants.

Wishing you and yours a joyous and safe holiday season.