Tonight we have our first ever Camp Debonair! Mike, Stegs and myself have been itching to play together for quite some time and we’re excited to be sequestered in the back room of Tandem for such an occasion. We’ll be packing heavy in preparation for a lengthy stay. Now. Let the fun begin. Have some coke and gin!

10pm-4am
Free 21+

Tandem (back room)
236 Troutman St, btwn Wilson and Knickerbocker

L train to Morgan or M to Central

Last night was staff orientation. The ropes course team & trust building exercises were followed by a counselor only dance. Stegs started off with a set of even-keeled boogie. Mike and I step in with an hour to go, but that just wasn’t enough, so we’ve got a special late set for your enjoyment.

Part 1: Stegs

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Rosko “recites Desiderata” (Prelude) 12″
Juicy “Sugar Free” (Private I) 12″
Active Force “Give Me Your Love” (A& M) 12″
Midnight Star “Curious” (Solar) LP
Marvin Gaye “Sexual Healing” (Columbia) LP
Midnight Star “Close Encounters (Eddie Mars Edit)” (n/a)
Pieces Of A Dream “Mt. Airy Groove” (Elektra) 12″
The Fatback Band “I Found Loving” (Ma) 12″
Loose Ends “Hanging On A String” (Mca) 12″
World Premiere “Share The Night” (Easy Street) 12″
Michael Wycoff “Tell Me Love” (RCA) 12″
Terri Jones “Do It Again Tonight” (Mirage) 12″
Chops “Your Red Hot Love” (Atlantic) 12″
Fonzi Thornton “Be My Baby” (RCA) LP
Jessie “Nice & Slow” (Wand) 12″
Gwen Guthrie “Stop Holding Back” (Polydor) 12″
France Joli “Taking A Chance On Love” (Prelude) 12″
Serge “Out In The Night” (Wb) 12″
Richard John Smith “Gimme The Night” (Jive) 12″
High Inergy “I Can’t Help Myself” (Gordy) LP
The Dazz Band “Let It All Blow” (Motown) 12″
N/A “Jive Rhythm Tracks” (Jive) 12″
Cloud One “Flying High” (Traffic) LP
Glenn Jones “Finesse (Remix)” (RCA) 12″
Radiance feat. Andrea Stone “You’re My Number 1″ (are ‘n bee) 12″
Kashif “Stone Love” (Arista) 12″
Johnny Kemp “Just Another Lover” (Columbia) 12″
Smithcox Organization “Dancing In The Moonlight” (Red Rooster) 12″

Part 2 & 3: Mike McGill, Tackleberry & Stegs

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Tonight we’re up at Le Poisson Rouge with Snack n Cmish for our monthly party LIGHT UP THE NIGHT. We’ve been trying to get these guys to come down & play with us for a little while, so we are especially excited to see what’s in store! Stop by, we’ll be playing from 10pm onwards…

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A fitting counterpoint to our Boogie Lovers set, the Lovers Lost broadcast goes out to all those who are unlucky in love. We set aside most of these songs while putting together last week’s show, and it is always remarkable to me how often it is that tracks that are geared towards night clubs take on themes of infidelity and heartache. The evening starts off slow with a few wounded ballads before the pulse steadies and we head back to the dance floor. Enjoy.

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Krystal “False Alarm” (Magic Touch) 7″
Inez Foxx “Let Me Down Easy” (Stax) LP
Greg Perry “One For The Road” (Casablanca) LP
Jeffree “One Last Chance” (MCA) LP
Johnny Nash “Why Did You Do It?” (CBS) LP
First Class “Don’t Listen To Your Friends” (Park-Way International) 12″
The Jones Girls “You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else” (Philly) 12″
Garfield Fleming “Don’t Send Me Away” (Beckett) 12″
Affinity “Don’t Go Away” (Island) 12″
Chemise “She Can’t Love You” (Emergency) 12″
Colors “Am I Gonna Be The One (Dub)” (First Take) 12″
B.T. “You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too” (West End) 12″
Samson & Delilah “I Can Feel Your Love Slipping” (Saturn) 12″
Gwen Guthrie “It Should Have Been You” (Island) 12″
Tyrone Mac “Don’t Cut Back (On Your Love)” (Express) 12″
Barbara Mason “Another Man” (West End) 12″
Arlana “You Can’t Keep Breaking My Heart” (Peach Tree) 12″

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Gino Soccio “So Lonely” (WB) LP
Up Front “Infatuation” (Silver Cloud) 12″
Frederick “Move On” (Heat) 12″
Dr. York “New” (York) LP
Sinnamon “Thanks To You” (Beckett) 12″
Questarr “She’s Got You Going Down” (Disconet) 12″
T.C. Curtis “You Should Have Known Better” (Sire) 12″
High Fashion “Break Up” (Capitol) 12″
Free Enterprise “Make It On My Own” (BMC) 12″
Sandy Barber “I Think I’ll Do Some Stepping On My Own” (Olde World) LP
Ramona Brooks “I Don’t Want You Back” (Q) 12″
Chantal Curtis “Get Another Love” (Key) 12″
Rare Pleasure “Let Me Down Easy” (Cheri) 12″
Donna McGhee “It Ain’t No Big Thing” (Red Greg) LP

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Tackleberry and I agreed that Valentine’s Day weekend surely is High Holiday for the kind of music we feature on A Downtown Affair, so this program comes with much anticipation. There are several new plays on here, but most of them were selected weeks in advance for a special Boogie Lovers program to commemorate this here special holiday. High, high heat on the dial last Friday. We hope you agree.

We’re not ones to neglect, so next week we’ll be bringing out those special plays to contrast the motifs found in the Boogie Lovers set, capturing their stories in a special Lovers Lost episode.

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Don Blackman “Holding You, Loving You” (Arista) LP
Eighties Ladies “Turned On To You” (Unomelodic) 12″
Womack & Womack “Baby I’m Scared Of You” (Elektra) 12″
Alfonzo Surrett “Gimme Your Love” (Mca) LP
Keith Killgo “Loving You Is Good” (BWI) LP
David McPherson “You Can’t Stop!” (SAM) LP
Starshine “All I Need Is You (Inst)” (Prelude) 12″
Side On “Magic” (Beggars Banquet) 12″
The Armed Gang “All I Want” (Chaz Ro) 12″
Larry Graham “Sooner or Later” (Wb) 12″
Scheer Music “Falling Back In Love” (tba) LP
Firefly “Love (Is Gonna Be By Your Side)” (Firefly) 12″
Kenix & Bobby Youngblood “There’s Never Been No One LIke You” (West End) 12″
Lisa Hill “I’m On The Real Side” (Q-It) 12″
Salsoul Orchestra “Take Some Time Out (For Love)” (Salsoul) 12″
Yvonne Gage “Lover of my Dreams” (BMC) 12″
Gwen Guthrie “Getting Hot” (Island) 12″
Laurice Hudson “Feel My Love” (Snowflake) 12″

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Laurice Hudson “Feel My Love” (Snowflake) 12″
Mike and Brenda Sutton “We’ll Make It (Instrumental)” (SAM) 12″
Fonda Rae “Heobah” (Posse Records) 12″
Joy “I Need Your Love” (Eastern) 12″
Second Image “Fall In Love” (Prelude) 12″
Al McCall “Lock It Up” (Profile) 12″
Surface “Falling in Love” (Salsoul) 12″
Sinnamon “I Need You Now” (Jive) 12″
Logg “You’ve Got That Something” (Salsoul) LP
Sabata “Man For My Lady” (Tsob) 12″
Candy Bowman “I Wanna Feel Your Love” (RCA) 12″
Taana Gardner “When You Touch Me” (West End) 12″
Charisma feat. Brenda Watts “Love Treatment” (A& B) 12″
Goldie Alexander “Show You My Love” (Chaz Ro) 12″
Tony Sherman “ELLOVEE-EE” (Lakeside) 12″
Rafael Cameron “You’re All That’s Good to Me” (Salsoul) 12″
Passionate Breeze passes through
Luther Vandross “Never Too Much (12″ mix)” (Epic) 12″

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Happy Valentine’s Day Y’all! Here’s a mix I put together almost a year ago for the Waxidermy mix swap. Well, actually, this is a revised version that shares a few of the more pivotal tracks. Much of the inspiration comes from my trips to Birdell’s in Bed Stuy where I’d uncover single after single of falsetto-laden R&B. I couldn’t help but imagine Fulton Street 30 years ago where songs like these would blare from car stereos. Consider this the hot spiced counterpart to Bennett4$enate’s Wine Coolers. Snuggle up and enjoy.

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Track List:

Dr. York “Let Me Be The One On Christmas” (Intro)
Robert J. Riggins “You Can Love Her (If You Try)”
The Conservatives “Happiness (Take Your Time)”
Leon Ware “Rockin’ You Eternally”
Prince Phillip Mitchell “Make It Good”
Rocket “Love Chain”
Gene Van Buren “I Give Good Love”
Amuzement Park “So Inspired”
Gene Chandler “I’ll Make The Living If You Make The Loving Worth While”
High Fashion “I Want To Be Your Everything”
Terry Huff “Come On Around”
C# Sharp “My Turn To Shine”
Larry Nevilles “This Time It’s Real”
Victor “Lonely Girl”

All of the guys, they think I’m crazy, but you’re all I keep dreaming of – Victor

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Coming up next weekend is the latest edition of Fineline at The Knitting Factory.

Joining me this month is DJ Ghostdad – NJ native, Boston affiliate, choice selector. He’s between cities right now but promised to load up a crate of goods to bring back this way on his next return trip. Check him out on Fully Fitted for a taste of the diverse content he’s gonna provide. Call the party line (1-800-988-7361) for info on his new First Fridays at Coco 66 (with XXXchange), or hit the archives if you can’t wait for the weekend to get loose.

See you next Saturday.

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We had a blast this past Friday with Frantz Barosy in the studio. The board in the studio was monitoring the broadcast signal in the Bronx for the first half of his set, which explains the latency and a couple of bumps along the start of the mix (Frantz – our bad!!!); but dude was nonplussed and put down some nice outsider selections alongside some of our favorite program staples. I was especially feeling some of the last couple (Lisa Warrington’s I Like The Way You Do It!!!, and closing with some TSOV). Tackleberry and myself played a bunch of program premiers in the second half – look out for the joint by Noel Williams of Connie Case fame, Do YOU Wanna Dance?, Southern Freeze on BB, the kosmiche club burner Disco Drum, the promo-only J.T. cut I Love Music and Frantz’s slip of the beautiful Put A Little Love Into It When You Do It done by Eloise Laws.

Thanks again Frantz!

Part 1 w/Frantz Barosy:

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INTRO
The Bobbettes “Love Rhythm” (Radio Records) 12″
The Paul Simpson “Use Me, Lose Me” 12″
OVS “Crimes of Passion” (Potrait) 12″
Jimmy Williams “All of My Lovin’ (Extended Club Version)” (Salsoul) 12″
Alexander O’Neal “Saturday Love (Jacques de Booty rmx)” (w/l) 12″
Chocolette “It’s That Easy Street” (Atlantic) 12″
Raphi Rosario “Get Up, Get Out” (Hot Mix 5) 12″
Escort “Karawame” (Escort) 12″
Wandra “Sex Attack” (THO Records) 12″
Elias Rahbani and his Orchestra “Liza (Sexican version in C#)” (Golf Channel) 12″
Jo Bisso “Desires” (Jobiss) 12″
Universal Robot Band “Freak with Me” (Red Greg) 12″
Sekou Bunch “Can’t Stop Lovin’ You” (Sugar Hill) 12″
Lisa Warrington “I Like The Way You Do It” (Sound Modification) 12″
4 Reel “One Life To Live” (People’s Potential Unlimited) 7″
Danny Gold “TSOV Groove” (The Sound of Virginia) 12″

Part 2 – Mike McGill & Tackleberry take over, Frantz slips in a couple as well:

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King Sporty & The Ex Tras “Do You Wanna Dance?” (Dancefloor) 12″
Richard von Smith “Love Is What I’m After” (Jive) 12″
Sharon Redd “Love How You Feel” (Prelude) 12″
Azoto “Anytime or Place” (Modulation) 12″
Cloud 7 “Dance To The Music” (EMI) 12″
The Freeze “Southern Freeze” (Beggars Banquet) 12″
Jackie Stoudemire “Invisible Wind” (Numero) 12″
Lou Rawls “I’ll See You When Get There” (Philadelphia International) LP
Amuzement Park “So Inspired” (Our Gang Entertainment) LP
The Passion “Don’t Stop My Love” (Prelude) 12″
Taana Gardner “No Frills” (West End) 12″
The Glass “Let Me Feel Your Heartbeat” (West End) 12″
Eloise Laws “Put A little Love Into It When You Do It” (Invictus) 12″
Esther Williams “I’ll Be Your Pleasure” (RCA) 12″
Wild Fire “Try Making Love (inst.)” (Strakers) 12″
The Cats ‘n Jammer Kids “Disco Drum” (Ebony) 12″
J.T. “I Love Music” (Vanguard) 12″
Voyage “I Love You Dancer” (Marlin) LP
Stephanie Mills “You Can’t Run From My Love” (Casablanca) 12″

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We’ve had this set languishing in the WNYU archives for quite a while, but now I’ve finally gotten around to posting it up for your enjoyment. Johnny Paycheck of Good Records came through shortly after I joined the program. He had previously guested on Rotation, which formerly occupied the 10:30pm-1am slot on Friday nights. Johnny brought in a bunch of rarities from the shop, many of which have eluded me after some years. I hope to dig up the Rotation archive and possibly a marathon set where Johnny and I hijacked the airwaves for both Passport and Plastic Tales from The Marshmallow Dimension.

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