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  • The Only Ones – Live In London
    The Only Ones – Live In London
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    This live set from The Only Ones features rawer & more ragged arrangements of some of their best tracks, including Another Girl, Another Planet. Label: Skyclad Records – GOD 67 […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Gene Dunlap ‎– Party In Me
    Gene Dunlap ‎– Party In Me
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    Hard-hitting and heavy Disco/Soul, ala Roy Ayers, from one of the most underrated percussionists of 70’s & 80’s. Label: Capitol Records – ST-12190 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The New Lee Dorsey – Working In The Coal Mine – Holy Cow
    The New Lee Dorsey – Working In The Coal Mine – Holy Cow
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    “Lee Dorsey epitomized the loose, easy-going charm of New Orleans R&B perhaps more than any other artist of the ’60s. Working with legendary Crescent City producer/writer Allen [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Patti Smith Group – Easter
    Patti Smith Group – Easter
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    “Patti Smith came back from the year-and-a-half break caused by her fall from a stage in January 1977 without having resolved the art-versus-commerce argument that had marred her second [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Devo – Freedom Of Choice
    Devo – Freedom Of Choice
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    “With Freedom of Choice, Devo completed their transition into a full-fledged synth-pop group, producing arguably their most musically cohesive effort in the process. Synthesizers are now [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Tom Waits ‎– Swordfishtrombones
    Tom Waits ‎– Swordfishtrombones
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    “Between the release of Heartattack and Vine in 1980 and Swordfishtrombones in 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. And he drastically altered […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Tom Waits – Heartattack And Vine
    Tom Waits – Heartattack And Vine
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    “Heartattack and Vine is Tom Waits’ seventh and final album for Asylum. As such, it’s transitional. As demonstrated by its immediate predecessors, 1978’s excellent Blue [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Tom Waits – Closing Time
    Tom Waits – Closing Time
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    “Tom Waits’ debut album is a minor-key masterpiece filled with songs of late-night loneliness. Within his chosen narrow range of the cocktail bar pianistics and muttered vocals, Waits [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Fontella Bass – Free
    Fontella Bass – Free
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    “If Fontella Bass’ “Rescue Me” is the best soul single that Aretha Franklin never made, then Free is the lost classic that deserves space in any record collection housing [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Devo ‎– Duty Now For The Future
    Devo ‎– Duty Now For The Future
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    Devo begins to embrace poppier leanings on their second album. Particular highlight is their cover of Johnny Rivers’ Secret Agent Man. Label: Warner Bros Records – BSK 3337 Format: Vinyl, [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Kinks – Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire
    The Kinks – Arthur Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire
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    “Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) extends the British-oriented themes of Village Green Preservation Society, telling the story of a London man’s decision to move [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Wilson Pickett – The Wicked Pickett [white label promo]
    Wilson Pickett – The Wicked Pickett [white label promo]
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    “A fabulous album, done when Pickett was in the midst of his best period at Atlantic. It had everything — great songs, wonderful production and arrangements, and a hungry, galvanizing [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Yuma Abe – Hotel New Yuma
    Yuma Abe – Hotel New Yuma
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    Yuma Abe presents “Hotel New Yuma,” the latest album from the vocalist and guitarist of Tokyo-based band never young beach. Japan of the 1950s and 1960s has had such a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Frederick Knight – I’ve Been Lonely For So Long
    Frederick Knight – I’ve Been Lonely For So Long
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    The Bessemer, AL native has his finest hour with this, his first and only album for Stax Records. The title track, co-written by his wife Posie, was his biggest hit […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Herbie Hancock – Sextant
    Herbie Hancock – Sextant
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    When Herbie Hancock left Warner Bros. in 1971 after releasing three musically sound but critically and commercially underappreciated albums — Crossings, Mwandishi, and Fat Albert Rotunda [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Chiemi Manabe – 不思議・少女
    Chiemi Manabe – 不思議・少女
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    Haruomi Hosono produced city-pop/disco Label: Savers -04 Format: CS, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release Country: US Released: 2021 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: International, Rock / Pop
  • Pyrolator / Sharrock* / Samba* AS Every 2nd – Every 2nd
    Pyrolator / Sharrock* / Samba* AS Every 2nd – Every 2nd
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    “Originally commissioned for the 1988 Seoul Olympic games, this one-off collaboration of Pyrolator, Linda Sharrock and Frank Samba (as Every 2nd) is an all too obscure gem of blasted [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Nancy Priddy – You’ve Come This Way Before
    Nancy Priddy – You’ve Come This Way Before
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    “Released just a year after her vocals graced Leonard Cohen’s debut, Nancy Priddy’s lone album is a sweeping odyssey across avant garde arrangements rife with experimental pop [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Rock / Pop
  • Madelaine ‎– Who Is She..
    Madelaine ‎– Who Is She..
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    Amazing rewrite/cover of the Bill Withers track “Who Is He?”. Absolute smoker. Label: Chi Sound Records – CH-LA863H Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1978 VG+/VG+. [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Various – The Chicago Boogie Volume 3: Set It Out
    Various – The Chicago Boogie Volume 3: Set It Out
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    “Chicago’s Boogie Munster Crew teams up with Star Creature for it’s third reissue compilation and it’s another major piece of work. Compiled by Tim Zawada and Kool Hersh, [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Skeme Richards – Jazz All Days
    Skeme Richards – Jazz All Days
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    Limited release directly sourced from the Nostalgia King Himself A true Jazz Funk Mixtape The Jazz All Days cassette released in conjunction with fRUITY Shop in Shanhai. The cassette is […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Bobby Callender – Rainbow (promo)
    Bobby Callender – Rainbow (promo)
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    “This bizarre, Alan Lorber-produced psychedelic album appeared originally in 1969 on Boston Sound. Bobby Callendar was an incredibly gifted poet and lyricist whose complex texts could only [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Chronicle Church* ‎– Mystery / Bionic Movement
    The Chronicle Church* ‎– Mystery / Bionic Movement
    $72.00 | , , Add to cart

    Label: Pashlo Records – PH-1006, Pashlo Records – PH-1007 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Stereo, Rainbo Pressing Country: US Released: 1976 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Funk VG+ / GEN

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Sonic Youth – Master=Dik / Beat On The Brat
    Sonic Youth – Master=Dik / Beat On The Brat
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    “A slight hiccup in our production? This is the infamous EP that Blast First label head Paul Smith begged us not to release. It has long been reviled or misunderstood […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Tony Talent – Gotta Tell Somebody (About My Baby)
    Tony Talent – Gotta Tell Somebody (About My Baby)
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    Label: Vando – VAN 3001 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: 1967 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul   Media Condition: G+ Some large marks & scuffs, […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Arthur K. Adams* – I’m Lonely For You
    Arthur K. Adams* – I’m Lonely For You
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    Label: Modern Records (2) – 45xM 1050 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo Country: US Released: 1967 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul Media Condition: VG Looks like G+ but […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Rose Hargrove – Once A Day
    Rose Hargrove – Once A Day
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    Label: AFCO Records – AFDJ-523 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: 1965 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Rhythm & Blues, Soul Media Condition: VG

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Gloria Gaynor – This Love Affair
    Gloria Gaynor – This Love Affair
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    Label: Polydor – PD 14472, Polydor – 2066 922 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul, Disco Media Condition: G+ Looks […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Moments – You Really Got Me / Money Money
    The Moments – You Really Got Me / Money Money
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    Label: World Artists (4) – 1032 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo Country: US Released: 1964 Genre: Funk / Soul Media Condition: G+ Looks G+ but plays closer to VG

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Insights – Jumpshot / Falling
    Insights – Jumpshot / Falling
    $80.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: AMG – 6031-25 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Stereo Country: US Released: 1976 Genre: Funk / Soul Media Condition: VG+ Looks VG, plays VG+

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Johnny And The Debonaires ‎– The Bonecracker
    Johnny And The Debonaires ‎– The Bonecracker
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    Label: Fenway Records – 1711 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: Dec 1961 Genre: Rock Media Condition: VG+ Looks G+, but plays G+. Drill in label.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Louis Gray – Wobblin’/Up Above Our Knees
    Louis Gray – Wobblin’/Up Above Our Knees
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    Label: ERA Records – 3072 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo Country: US Released: 1962 Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul Media Condition: VG Looks G+, but plays closer to […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Marvin Smith – Time Stopped / Have More Time
    Marvin Smith – Time Stopped / Have More Time
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    Label: Brunswick – 55299 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: Aug 1966 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul Media Condition: G+  

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Eddie Palmieri ‎– Spirit Of Love
    Eddie Palmieri ‎– Spirit Of Love
    $45.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Epic – 8-50643 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo, Stereo, Mono Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Latin, Funk / Soul Style: Disco Media Condition: VG+ Record plays low end […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The V.I.P.’s – Strange Little Girl / My Girl Cried
    The V.I.P.’s – Strange Little Girl / My Girl Cried
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    Label: Congress – CG-211 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo Country: US Released: 1964 Genre: Funk / Soul, Pop Style: Soul Media Condition:G+ Solid G+ with surface noise noticeable. [...]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Freddie Gorman – Take Me Back / Can’t Get It Out Of My Mind
    Freddie Gorman – Take Me Back / Can’t Get It Out Of My Mind
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    Label: Ric-Tic Records – RT-102 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo Country: US Released: Mar 1965 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul Media Condition: VG Looks very rough, close […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Pat Johnson – Love Brought You Here
    Pat Johnson – Love Brought You Here
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    Label: Win Or Lose – WL-221 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo, Stereo, Mono, SP Country: US Released: 1972 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul Media Condition: VG+ In between […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Pages – If I Saw You Again
    Pages – If I Saw You Again
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    Label: Epic – 8-50639 Format: 7″ Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Funk / Soul Media: VG Notable light marks & label wear

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • El Coco – Afrodesia
    El Coco – Afrodesia
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    Label: AVI Records ‎– AVI-249-S Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Funk / Soul Media: VG+

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Willie Bobo – Always There
    Willie Bobo – Always There
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    Label: Columbia ‎– 3-10862 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Promo Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Jazz, Latin, Funk / Soul Media: VG Light marks along both sides, and label wear.

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Larry Bright – Shake That Thing
    Larry Bright – Shake That Thing
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    Label: Del-Fi Records – 4214 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Promo, Styrene Country: US Released: 1963 Media: VG Noticeable light marks & label wear

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Prince Phillip Mitchell* – You’re All I Got In The World
    Prince Phillip Mitchell* – You’re All I Got In The World
    $10.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Atlantic – 3506 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Promo Country: US Released: 1978 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul Media Condition: VG+  

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Tommy Trojan ‎– Leo I Am / Love Has The Power
    Tommy Trojan ‎– Leo I Am / Love Has The Power
    $200.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: JC Records (3) – JC 100 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: Genre: Funk / Soul Media Condition:VG+ Some noticeable light marks, but plays through VG+

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Ann Fleming – Beside You / You’re Just One Man
    Ann Fleming – Beside You / You’re Just One Man
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    Label: Cookin’ Records (2) – 605 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Rhythm & Blues Media: G+ Noticeable scuffing and marks, along with […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Bobbie Smith – Miss Stronghearted
    Bobbie Smith – Miss Stronghearted
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    Label: American Arts – AA-2 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1964 Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Soul Media: VG A side plays low-end VG with some surface […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Epicycle – You’re Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81
    Epicycle – You’re Not Gonna Get It: 1978-81
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    “Like a snotty bottle rocket shot out of The Damned’s dressing room and straight into the gut of Cheap Trick, suburban Chicago’s sorely under appreciated teen punk pioneers, EPICYCLE, were [...]

    GENRE: Punk / Hardcore, Rock / Pop
  • Winter Bear – Jump In The Fire / Should I Leave?
    Winter Bear – Jump In The Fire / Should I Leave?
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    Delightful & catchy power-pop

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Velveteen Rabbit – Mind-Numbing Entertainment
    Velveteen Rabbit – Mind-Numbing Entertainment
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    “As sad it was to hear about the demise of The Jeanies, by far NYC’s most addictive power pop band of the last half decade, we’re happy to announce their […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Happy Thoughts – The Happy Thoughts
    The Happy Thoughts – The Happy Thoughts
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    “We’ll admit, this finished album landed at our headquarters late last summer, but it just seemed unfair to release it in the Fall or Winter months, since this debut LP […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Oister – Pre-Dwight Twilley Band 1973-1974 Teac Tapes
    Oister – Pre-Dwight Twilley Band 1973-1974 Teac Tapes
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    “The legendary 1973-74 ‘Teac Tapes’ from deep inside the Dwight Twilley Band vault have been unleashed, never before available in any format, OISTER was the primary name of the Dwight […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Patrice Rushen – Prelusion LP
    Patrice Rushen – Prelusion LP
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    Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series Reissue of Patrice Rushen’s 1974 Debut Album Prelusion on 180g LP. Available on Vinyl for the First Time Since Its Original Release 50 Years Ago. Mastered [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz, Soul / Funk / Disco
  • The Prisoners – The Last Fourfathers
    The Prisoners – The Last Fourfathers
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    Garage/mod rock at its best

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Prisoners – A Taste of Pink
    The Prisoners – A Taste of Pink
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    The Prisoners, contemporaries of Billy Childish, epitomize the garage punk sound of the Medway Delta. This reissue of their 1982 debut album is re-mastered from the original tapes & is […]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Prisoners – In from the Cold
    The Prisoners – In from the Cold
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    The Prisoners got their start in the same Medway River delta area of Britain as Billy Childish’s Pop Rivets. After the band’s demise singer/guitarist/songwriter Graham Day went on to [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • The Stooges – The Stooges
    The Stooges – The Stooges
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    “Everything the peace and love vibe of the ’60s wasn’t the Stooges 1969 debut record was: dangerous, violent, chaotic, mean-spirited, and sex crazed. Iggy Pop’s monotone [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
    MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
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    Heavy beyond heavy, hard beyond hard. MC5 did it all on this one.

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • David Bowie ? Lodger
    David Bowie ? Lodger
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    The third (and arguably most underrated) of Bowie’s Berlin trilogy, demonstrating his interest in both world music & krautrock Label: RCA – RVP-6390 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: [...]

    GENRE: Rock / Pop
  • Eiichi Ohtaki ? Niagara CM Special Vol. 2
    Eiichi Ohtaki ? Niagara CM Special Vol. 2
    $15.00 | , , Add to cart

    City Pop 12″ with some solid melodies and grooves Label: Niagara Records – 15AH 1515 Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Mini-Album Country: Japan Released: 1982 VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: International, Rock / Pop
  • V/A – Skyway Soul: Gary, Indiana
    V/A – Skyway Soul: Gary, Indiana
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    A sonic snapshot of America’s steel capital, developed in the prosperous cavern between the departure of the Jackson 5 to Motown and the collapse of U.S. Steel, Skyway Soul is […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • V/A – Eccentric Soul: The Saadia Label
    V/A – Eccentric Soul: The Saadia Label
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    After the fall of the Deep City label, Rocketeers bandleader Frank Williams set up shop under the name of his twin daughters Saadia and Giwada and got to work reinventing […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco