D.J. Rogers [1980] - Love Cycles [Arc #AS 711] v Macka & Lowree [2022] - Chorin' Love [Fresh Take]

This may seem like a bit of a random post but it is inspired by an email received from a blog visitor from Milan, Italy, with an attachment asking if we could help identify the track as he didn't know what it was. It turned out to be a nice dance track by D.J. Rogers "Love Cycles" from 1980 which I'd long forgotten about, so thought it well worth sharing for others who may not be aware of it. It was released on 7", 12" (promo only) and appeared on the album "The Message Is Still The Same".

It was sampled last year by a Glasgow house duo Macka & Lowree titled "Chorin' Love" featuring Last Days of Pompeii on an album "Without The Music (I Don't Know Where I'd Be Dancin')" which was released on 4 Jun 2022 by Edinburgh based Fresh Take Records.

D.J. (DeWayne Julius) Rogers is not an artist whose work I'm particularly familiar with. He was born in L.A. in 1948 and died just over two years ago in Aug 2020 aged 72. He had eight entries into the R&B chart with only the first, "Say You Love Me", crossing over to the pop Hot 100, scraping in at #98. The song, like many of his, has a gospel feel and was covered by several gospel acts including Glenn Jones (before he went secular) & The Modulations in 1977 (single only), Jennifer Holliday (1985), Leon Haywood (1996) and Natalie Cole (1999) amongst others. 

"Love Cycles" was his second biggest hit reaching #44 (seven places higher than "Say You Love Me" (#51)) but behind "Love Brought Me Back" which was his highest charting single at #20 in 1978.

It may be fair to say he was an album artist as he released eight albums between 1973 and 1982 with a final one appearing in 1993.

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