Dedications: My four late friends Rory, Stan, Bryan, Jeff - shine on you crazy diamonds, they would have blogged too. Then theres Garry from Brisbane, Franco in Milan, Mike now in S.F. / my '60s-'80s gang: Ned & Joseph in Ireland; in England: Frank, Des, Guy, Clive, Joe & Joe, Ian, Ivan, Nick, David, Les, Stewart, the 3 Michaels / Catriona, Sally, Monica, Jean, Ella, Anne, Candie / and now: Daryl in N.Y., Jerry, John, Colin, Martin and Donal.

Wednesday 11 June 2014

Top 5: Five disco divas ...

Another Top 5: Disco divas .... not the Disco superstars, but those divas whose club classics and huge tunes (or choons) kept us bopping through the '90s and into the new millennium - literally, in the case of Adeva,who was in de club that Millennium night back at Crash in 2000, or that night at Heaven when she appeared with Rosie Gaines and Ultra Nate ...

We loved Soul II Soul and "Back to Life" with Caron Wheeler ..

Shara Nelson and that marvellous video for Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy".

Donna Allen's versions of Maze & Frankie Beverly's "Joy and Pain" ...

German uber-diva Billie Ray Martin and those mixes for her "Running Around Town" and her first album "Deadline For My Memories" ...

sweet Joyce Sims with her "Come Into My Life" album, with "All and All", "Lifetime Love" etc

Regina Belle's "You Got The Love" album ...

Jennifer Holliday's "Hard Time For Lovers" - and Alison Limerick's "Where Love Lives" ...
Angela Bofill's "Too Tough" ....   
Jody Watley's mixes on "When A Man Loves A Woman"....
Eve Gallagher's "Love Come Down"
and CeCe Peniston's "Finally" (below) ... then there is Paris Gray from Inner City, 

There must be lots more, must check my iPod playlists ... 


and Sade's live version of "Paradise" from her Live concert tour. 

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