Steve Aggasild [2023-03-15] - SoulAndJazzFlavas (The Soul Library) [SOTAR]

Steve Aggasild's midweek show for State Of The Art Radio (SOTAR) broadcast on Wed. 15th Mar 2023 between 20:00-22:00 GMT.

A mixture of oldies in tonight's show from Steve's Soul Library.

Steve now does a show Fri 21:00-23:00 (GMT) on Soul Music Radio and two shows a week on SOTAR Sun 20:00-22:00 (GMT) and Wed 20:00-22:00 (GMT). If you have yet to listen then please do take a listen as he is one of the best UK soul radio presenters around with a 40 year pedigree. 

Catch up with other SoulAndJazzFlavas podcasts at Mixcloud or from 27 Jun 2022 onwards Podbean

Playlist:

Artist	Title (Album)	Year
Blackwell	Put Back The Funk (Boogie Down LP)	1978
Arrested Development	People Everyday (3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days In The Life Of... CD)	1992
Jill Scott	Golden (Original West Coast Mix) (Beautifully Human: Words & Sounds Vol. 2 CD)	2004
Brownstone	If You Love Me (From The Bottom Up CD)	1995
Frayne	Aphrodisiac (12'')	2004
Deborah Cox	Sentimental (Deborah Cox CD)	1995
TLC	Creep (CrazySexyCool CD)	1994
Intro	Love Thang (RnB Club Mix) (12'')	1993
John Legend	Live It Up (Get Lifted CD)	2004
Horace Brown	Things We Do For Love (Horace Brown LP)	1996
Dwele	Find A Way (Subject CD)	2003
Guru Feat. Sweet Sable	Living In This World (R&B Radio Edit By Cutfather & Jo) (CDS 12'')	1996
Usher	It Is What It Is (Rhythm City Volume I Caught Up CD)	2005
Anthony Hamilton	Best of Me (Back to Love CD)	2011
The JB's Feat. James Brown, Maceo Parker & Fred Wesley	Doing It To Death (Doing It To Death LP)	1973
Teddy Pendergrass	Joy (Joy LP)	1988
Jean Carne	Heartache (You're A Part Of Me CD)	1988
Leroy Hutson	All Because Of You (Hutson LP)	1975
LJ Reynolds	Don't Let Nobody Hold You Down (Lovin' Man LP)	1984
Maze Feat. Frankie Beverly	The Morning After (Back To Basics CD)	1993
Maze Feat. Frankie Beverly	Love Is (Back To Basics CD)	1993
Maze Feat. Frankie Beverly	You (Maze Feat Frankie Beverly LP)	1977
LTD	(Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love  Again (Something To Love LP)	1977

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Tammi Terrell - A Profile

Tammi Terrell (Thomasina Winifred Montgomery 29 Apr 1945 - 16 Mar 1970) is perhaps best know for her duets with Marvin Gaye as she released three albums with him between 1967-69 and prior to that a dual album with the recently departed Chuck Jackson on Wand.

Tammi was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1945 and tragically died on this day in 1970 of brain cancer aged only 24.

She was signed to Specter Records by Luther Dixon in 1960 aged 15 where she sang on demos for The Shirelles. Her first single was released as Tammy Montgomery on Specter in 1961 when she was just 16 followed by one on Wand in 1962. She then spent nine months as a member of James Brown's Revue and released a Brown written and produced single, "I Cried", on Brown's Try Me label (named after his hit record) in May 1963. The chord progression on "I Cried" would later become the template for "It's A Man's, Man's Man's World". A final single as Tammy Montgomery appeared on Checker a year later in 1964 (which was an uncredited duet with Jimmy Radcliffe).

In 1961-62 she was briefly a member of The Sherrys. Northern Soulies will know the group as they consisted of the daughters and niece of Little Joe Cook and their 1966 record "Put Your Arms Around Me" (which has the same backing as Cooke's 1965 song "I'm Falling In Love With You Baby") was the first record ever played at Wigan Casino when it opened its doors on 23 Sep 1973 (so is celebrating it's 50th anniversary this year).

After the Checker single Tammi was invited to tour with Jerry Butler and it was during one of these shows at The 20 Grand Hotel in Detroit that she was spotted by Berry Gordy who signed her to Motown on her 20th birthday on 29 Apr 1965 and changed her name to Tammi Terrell.

Terrell released only two solo singles on Motown before she was paired up with Marvin Gaye with only another two interspersed within the nine duets released. So, Motown only released four solo singles for her: "I Can't Believe You Love Me" / "Hold Me Oh My Darling" (1965), "Come On And See Me" / "Baby Don'tcha Worry" (1966), "What A Good Man He Is" / "There Are Things" (1967) and "This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)" / "Just Too Much To Hope For" (1968). I guess that the company didn't want to interrupt a winning run as five of the duet singles were Top 3 R&B (two of them reaching #1).

Only one solo album was recorded "Irresistible" in 1968 which featured six of the eight sides of the singles in addition to another five songs not released on singles including "Tears At The End Of A Love Affair".

Terrell collapsed on stage in 1967 which led to her diagnosis for brain cancer and underwent eight surgical operations to have a tumour removed. It was following the last operation that she fell into a coma and eventually died on 16 Mar 1970 at the very tender age of 24.

It is said that Tammi had romantic relationships with James Brown, when she was 17, and later David Ruffin, both allegedly abusive. When she died, Gaye went into a depression resulting in drug abuse, however, it was during this period that he wrote and recorded his iconic album "What's Going On".

For her last duets album with Gaye, "Easy" (1969), Valerie Simpson stepped in to do Tammi's vocals when she was too ill to do them. There are conflicting stories between Simpson and Gaye as to whose vocals ended up on the final release.

In Jun 2005 Tammi's sister Ludi Montgomery had her book "My Sister Tommie - The Real Tammi Terrell" published. She was called Tommie as a child (short for Thomasina) and later changed it to Tammi. There have been rumours for the last few years that the book was being made into a film but as far as I can tell it has not materialised yet.

The playlist below is 50/50 solo material and duets with Marvin Gaye.

Thanks to Yves Lambert for the suggestion to do this profile.

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LaTasha Lee [2023] - I Don't Want You [Industry Music Group]

The new single from LaTasha Lee from Austin, TX, is "I Don't Want You" released today (16 Mar '23. It's her first for almost two years since "I Don't Know" which, as always, has a retro feel. 

It seems that she has joined Industry Music Group whose releases are generally on Bandcamp but not this one so far. Neither is it available on Amazon so that just leaves Apple for downloads.

Her last single was also rather elusive to track down which doesn't help much as far as sales are concerned!

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Details

Rating:	8.5
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Retro Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Industry Music Group
Cat No:	None
Date:	16/03/2023
Key/BPM:	9B/77
Price:	£1

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Alex Vaughn & Summer Walker [2023] - So Be It (Remix) [LVRN/Interscope Records]

In October last year, Alex Vaughn released her second album "The Hurt Book". This Friday (17 Mar) a new version "The Hurtbook (Homegirl Pak)" will be released.

Over the last few days three of the tracks have been released as singles i.e. "IYKYK (with Muni Long)" (14 Mar), "Demon Time (with Ari Lennox) - Remix" (15 Mar) and today (16 Mar) "So Be It (with Summer Walker) - Remix".

Two of the three tracks are remixes from the original album and all include high profile guest artists, so this looks like the way the new edition is going.

The video below is the original, not the remix, version.

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Details

Rating:	8.4
Explicit:	Y
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	LVRN/Interscope Records
Cat No:	None
Date:	16/03/2023
Key/BPM:	2A/66
Price:	£1

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Love Moor [2023] - LOVE [Human Re Sources] (Full EP)

Love Moor (Erica Andrew) is an alternative neo soul artist from Birmingham, AL, with island roots. She featured here with "Fantasies" in Nov '22 which is the opening track of her debut six track EP "LOVE" released yesterday (15 Mar '23).

To date she has released four singles and a full album "Motions" (2020). The EP includes three of the four singles, her latest "Pacifier" (Feb '23), "Fantasies" (Nov '22) and "Gentle" (Jul '22). 

It has hip-hop, jazz and island undertones which is reminiscent of NAVY's material, what's happened to her as we haven't had anything by her since Feb '22?

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Details

Rating:	8.1
Explicit:	Y Tracks 1, 2 & 6
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	EP
Media:	Digital
Label:	Human Re Sources
Cat No:	None
Date:	15/03/2023
Price:	£4.99

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Slowe Feat. Rachai [2023] - Fix Me Up [Tru Thoughts]

Bristol based producer Sophie Hawes aka Slowe, released her debut single "WYLTK" (wouldn't you like to know) for Brighton's Tru Thoughts label in Nov '22. Since then she released another single "Superego" (24 Jan '23) and her third single "Fix Me Up" feat. Rachai (Rachel Bowen) is out today (16 Mar '23).

The song, which she co-wrote with Rachai, is from her forthcoming debut album "Where The Mind Wanders".

Rachai released her debut single "Stuck" on 28 Jan '23.

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Details

Rating:	7.9
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Neo Soul
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Tru Thoughts
Cat No:	None
Date:	16/03/2023
Key/BPM:	11A/78
Price:	£1

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