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“Do You Love Me” by Patti Austin (1981) | “Do You Love What You Feel” by Rufus & Chaka (1979)

Let’s give it up for Quincy Jones and two of the finest vocalists he ever worked with. Patti was an actual Quincy protege. She’d been a professional singer for a full decade, making one-off singles, cutting jazz records, doing a ton of jingle work. She finally leveled up by duetting with MJ on ‘79′s “It’s The Falling… Read More “Do You Love Me” by Patti Austin (1981) | “Do You Love What You Feel” by Rufus & Chaka (1979)

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“Boogie Nights” by Heatwave (1977)

Heatwave shows off some pretty nifty jazz chops in “Boogie Nights”’ intro, suggesting something akin to the fusion records that were charting with regularity in the mid Seventies. PSYCH! The band launches into a full-on disco/funk jam that you can’t help but dance to. “Boogie Nights” is interesting because it doesn’t really have a chorus,… Read More “Boogie Nights” by Heatwave (1977)

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“Baby, Come To Me” by Patti Austin (duet with James Ingram), 1981

Similar to “At This Moment”, which we profiled a bit earlier, here’s another song that performed modestly in its original chart run before being resurrected years later (in this case, about a year and a half) thanks to TV exposure. In “Baby, Come To Me”’s case, it was used in a storyline on the daytime… Read More “Baby, Come To Me” by Patti Austin (duet with James Ingram), 1981

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“Baby Be Mine” by Michael Jackson (1982)

There was a quote attributed to Chris Rock, in which the conversation revolved around Prince being a better musician than Michael Jackson (he is.) When comparing the albums that represented the commercial peaks for each (Mike’s Thriller and Prince’s Purple Rain), Rock’s reasoning for picking Purple Rain as the better of the two albums (it… Read More “Baby Be Mine” by Michael Jackson (1982)

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