Tuesday, 30 August 2022

R.J.'s Latest Arrival [1986] - Heaven In Your Arms [Manhattan #B-50040]


Each Monday Spotify presents a playlist called Discover Weekly which theoretically selects 30 tracks based upon your listening habits. This long time favourite appeared this week which you may or may not be familiar with.

It's by Detroit group R.J.'s Latest Arrival (name after founder R.J. Rice) with "Heaven In Your Arms" from their 1986 album "Hold On" and was also released as a single 7" and 12". The song was written by Garry Glenn and Dianne Quander who wrote for many artists including, most famously, Anita Baker's "Caught Up In The Rapture" the title track of her 1986 breakthrough album "Rapture" which followed "The Songstress" (1983).

Details
Rating: 8.6
Explicit: N
Genre/Style: Modern Soul
Format: Single
Media: 7"
Label: Manhattans
Cat No: None
Date: 06/1986
Key/BPM: 4A/93
Price: £4-£8 approx.
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1 comment:

  1. Excellent group that I advise you to discover on their first eponymous opus released on Ariola in 1979.

    Yves

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