Let's kick off this post with the inspiration for it, the brand new single
from Sheree Brown (not to be confused with Sherree Brown (Chicago)) released 5 Feb 2021 from a forthcoming album 'Messages From The Spirit...
The Collective' which is due 5 Mar 2021 on Expansion. It is the follow-up to
her 2013 album Messages From The Heart... An Extension Of Love' released by
Expansion in 2013.
I first 'discovered' her in the mid 80's after hearing 'Got To Get Away'
which literally blew me away. It's one of the most soulful songs
you'll hear. It moved me at the time and still does 35 years
later.
It is an album track only from 'My Music' released on Capitol in 1982 in US
only, and has never seen a single release (It did feature on an Expansion
compilation in 1993
'Soul Chasers'). I think it could do well if it was reissued on a 45!
Sheree released two albums on Capitol, 'Straight Ahead' in 1981 'My Music'
in 1982. The track 'It's A Pleasure', from her first album 'Straight Ahead', was
picked up on by the UK rare groove scene and it was released as a single in
UK only.
It wasn't until 2000 for another album to appear under the banner of SBPR
(Sisters Being Positively Real) which was a collaboration between Sheree and
her close friend Patrice Rushen, 'Beautiful Women' on her own Brown Baby
label (Note SBPR are also the initials of both artists). Another album
appeared on Brown Baby in 2004 tited '83 followed by a release on UK's
Expansion in 2013 'Messages From The Heart... An Extension Of Love'. Her
latest offering 'Messages From The Spirit... The Collective' is due on 5 Mar 2021 on Expansion.
Expansion also reissued both her Capitol albums on a combined CD in 2011
with a bonus track 'Just A Simple Love' which was a track featured on her
'Messages From The Heart'.
Discography
Albums
1974 - VA - Fifteenth Annual Battle of the Bands: Hollywood Bowl
1974 [Custom Fidelity #CFS-3577-2]
Sheree Brown - Here & There/You're Not Anything, Just My
Everything
1981 - Straight Ahead [Capitol #ST-12153]
It's been reissued a couple of times in Japan 1995, 2014 on CD and 2015
on vinyl and 20120 in US on CD.
A1 -
You'll Be Dancing All Night
(5:33)
A2 -
Happiness Flows
(3:55)
A3 -
You Are Beautiful
(3:23)
A4 -
Get Down, I'm So Bad
(3:33)
A5 -
Passing Thing
(3:47)
B1 -
Never Do You Wrong
(4:28)
B2 -
Everything You Do
(3:32)
B3 -
I Wanna Be By Your Side
(4:12)
B4 -
It's A Pleasure
(4:02)
B5 - Straight Ahead (3:12)
1982 - The Music [Capitol #ST-12229]
Reissued in Japan twice 1995 and 2002 and US in 2010. The album has
never been released in UK (except for the 2011 Expansion CD issue of
both albums).
A1 -
Happy Music
(5:45)
A2 -
Feelin' Crazy
(3:50)
A3 - Tonight (4:07)
A4 -
Got To Get Away
(4:38)
B1 -
Love Only Knows
(3:04)
B2 -
Feels So Good
(4:38)
B3 -
Can't Live Without Love
(4:03)
B4 -
That's The Way To Be
(3:19)
B5 -
On My Way Home
(3:34)
2000 - SBPR – Beautiful Woman - The Album [Brown Baby #80038-23580-2]
SBPR are the initials of Sheree Brown & Patrice Rushen who
collaborated on this album and also an acronym from Sisters Being
Positively Real.
01 -
Beautiful Woman
02 - Together
03 - I Got A Good Man
04 - Sisters Being Positivley Real
5 - Wish I Could Fly Away
06 - Ego Flight
07 - What If?
08 - Why?
09 - Gotta Hold On
10 - It's A Jam
11 - Walking In Central Park
12 - Beautiful Woman (Reggae Version)
2004 - '83 [Brown Baby #80038-23584-2]
01 - I'd Rather Be In Love With You
02 -
It's A Pleasure
03 - Grown Folk Blues
04 -
I Love You
05 - When Water Flows
06 -
Love Is Forever
07 - I Just Don't Get It
08 - Day Crazy
09 -
Little Boy Blue
10 - Interlude: If We Could Only See Through The Eyes Of Children
11 - Mother Drum
12 - Sometimes
13 - Interlude: No More Crying
14 - Why? Oh Why?
2013 - Messages From The Heart... An Extension Of Love [Expansion #XECD 60]
01 -
Time For The Party
(4:52)
02 -
Just A Simple Love
(3:58)
03 -
In My Heart
(3:18)
04 -
On The Other Side Of Through
(3:29)
05 -
It's Just Like Love
(4:16)
06 -
Messages From The Heart
(4:37)
07 -
Bein' In Love With You
(5:15)
08 -
You Can Shine
(4:42)
09 -
We Can Change The World (Jamal's Joint)
(3:39)
10 -
Love Is Forever
(4:39)
11 -
Gettin' Started
(5:16)
12 -
Where Love Goes
(4:31)
13 -
I Think I'm Gonna Pray
(4:42)
Bonus Track
14 -
Inside My Love
(4:01)
2021 - Messages From The Spirit.. The Collective [Expansion #XECD70]
01 - Take A Walk With Love
02 - I Choose Love
03 - Spirit
04 - Beautiful Girl
05 - Get Up, Stand
06 - We Can Make It
07 - I Want You To Know
08 - Her Blue Shoes
09 - Sorry 'Bout Bein' A Ghost
10 - I Wanna Thank You Love
11 - Do, I Really Do
12 - Can I Leave Next Friday?
13 - Lew Fleur
14 - It's All About Love
15 - Salt & Light (Rise Up)
16 - Spirit (Live At Conway Recording Studio)
Singles
1981 -
Get Down, I'm So Bad
/ Get Down, I'm So Bad [Capitol #P-A-5079]
1981 -
You'll Be Dancing All Night
/ Straight Ahead [Capitol #A-5026]
1982 -
Happy Music
/
Can't Live Without Love
[Capitol #B-5144]
1982 - Tonight /
Love Only Knows
[Capitol #B-5173]
1982 -
It's A Pleasure
/ Straight Ahead [Capitol (UK) #CL 232]
2021 -
Take A Walk With Love
[Expansion]
A few 'class' tracks from her:
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