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Sunday 5 June 2022

Sunfire [1982] - Sunfire [Warner Bros. #1-23730] (Full EP)


Sunfire was a one album 80s group consisting of Raymond Calhoun, Reggie Lucas, Rowland Smith. They released only three singles stateside (one was a pair of non-album tracks released on 12", one of which ("Never Too Late for Your Lovin'") is included on the extended version of the album reissued digitally). 

Just the one hit materialised with "Shake Your Body" which got flipped in the UK and peaked at #10 for "Young, Free And Single" on UK pop chart in 1983 on it's eighth week of a twelve week run. 

However, it was always "Step In The Light", only released as a single in the UK, which was always the better song but did absolutely nothing chart wise although it did appear on the second of Morgan Khan's Street Sounds compilations which always seemed to skip as they tried to cram 12" mixes onto an album so the grooves were too close together ... remember those?

In the 70s Reggie Lucas worked with Billy Paul, Roberta Flack and Miles Davis where he first met Mtume and began collaborating with him writing and producing from the likes of Stephanie Mills, Phyllis Hyman, Lou Rawls and The Spinners. In 1983 he produced Madonna's debut, self-titled album.

Raymond Calhoun wrote many songs for The Gap Band.


Details
Rating: 8.2
Explicit: N
Genre/Style: Modern Soul
Format: Album / Reissue
Media: Digital
Label: Warner Bros.
Cat No: 1-23730
Date: 15/09/1982 / 2022 Reissue
Price: £7.89
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