Send Out For Sunshine

Inspired by this warm Cali day (along with a slow work day) I've put together some feel good summer jams with a few mixes thrown in.

If you're looking for some top down driving music this is the one.... enjoy. ~OP







Send Out For Sunshine - Heatwave
Sugar Honey Iced Tea - Kelis
Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Don't Talk - Jon B
Do Today - Dj Quik Feat Jon B
I Want It - Mint Condition
Never Got Enough - Charlie Wilson
Shake A Leg - The Gap Band
Breakdown - Brass Construction
Walk Right Now - The Jacksons
Lettin' Go - Janelle Monae
Fragile... Handle With Care - Cherrelle
(Uh Oh) There Goes My Heart - Fonzi Thornton
Say Something Love - Kashif

DJ Quik – Luv Of My Life

Freckles thewriter - Uh Huh

 New artist, you might dig.

Silky's 70s Weekend

Silky1 takes us into the weekend with some 70s Funk & Soul

 















A Taste Of Honey - Rainbow's End
Silk - Midnight Dancer
The Brothers Johnson - Get The Funk Out Ma Face (extended mix)
Brass Construction - We
Brick - Livin' From The Mind
The Chocolate Jam Co. - This Time
Loleatta Holloway - I May Not Be There When You Need Me, But I'm Right On Time
Donna Summer - Walk Away
Side Effect - Always There
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Blue Love
Ronnie Laws - Saturday Evening
Angela Bofill - Angel Of The Night
The Commodores - Sweet Love
Willie Hutch - Sunshine Lady
Al Green - You Oughta Be With Me
Parliament - Unfunky U.F.O.
Brainstorm - We're On Our Way Home

80m 20s

Music is Life

A new Silky1 Podcast featuring recent and classic R&B











King - The Story
Miguel - To The Moon
Kashif - Baby, Don't Break Your Baby's Heart
The Headhunters - I Remember I Made You Cry
Graham Central Station - Water
Eric Benet - Paid (feat. Eddie Levert)
Reggie B. - Cold Cold World
Womack & Womack - Living In A Different World
Willie Hutch - The Mark Of The Beast
Don E. - Peace In The World
Georgia Ann Muldrow - Wrong Way
Faith Evans - Everyday Struggle (feat. Raekwon)
El DeBarge - 5 Seconds (feat. Fabulous)
Mint Condition - Look What You Done To Me (double play)/Caught My Eye
Raphael Saadiq - Good Man
The Time - I Don't Want To Leave You

78m 18s

Steve Arrington’s Revival

Timothy Bloom - 'Til The End Of Time ft. V

Slave Live on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (1981)

Slave - Watching You by PeteRock



slave - just a touch of love by papafonk



Slave - Wait For Me by PeteRock

New Steve Arrington produced by Dam-Funk

Blow Your Mind 

Slave Tribute (R.I.P. Mark L. Adams)

Legendary bassist Mark L. Adams of Slave passed away today. One of the true greats of the funk band era, Mark "The Hansolor" Adams gave Slave a sound unlike any other at the time. His rumbling bass-lines would be remembered and sampled by numerous generations that followed. He will be greatly missed... please join Reunion Radio in paying tribute to an all time funk great.



Slide
Snap Shot
Turn You Out (In and Out)
Just a Touch of Love
Stone Jam
Spice of My Life
Baby Sinister
Sizzlin' Hot
Steal Your Heart
Watching You
Wait For Me
The Word is Out
Party Lites

R.I.P. Mark L Adams of Slave

"...My friend since high school has passed early this morning. The great Mark Adams bass player of Slave. I can't believe it..." ~ Steve Arrington

His legacy will live forever

Oakland CA 2-24-11

Silk's Love Lounge Presents : The Lust Letter

Get your freak flags out, and wave them high

~Silky1 










The Family - The Screams Of Passion (extended version)
Chocolate Milk - Comin'
Chaka Khan - Come To My House
Ne-Yo - Telekinesis
Reggie B. - Consumate
Horace Brown - Taste Your Love
Omar - Confection
Jeannie Reynolds - The Fruit Song
Brandy - Like This
Miguel - Teach Me
Prince - Ripopgodazipa
Melvin Riley - I'm All In
@BSlade - Tempo
Gwen McCrae - He Don't Ever Lose His Groove
Donnell Jones - Just A Little
R Kelly - Just Can't Get Enough
Barry White - Love Makin' Music

Silk's Love Lounge Presents: The Love Letter

"Happy valentines day, beautiful people"

~ Silky1 











Blackstreet - Ticket To Ride
R Kelly - Love Letter
Glenn Lewis - The Greatest Love Of All
A Taste Of Honey - I Love You
El DeBarge - Serenading
Bobbi Humphrey - Just A Love Child
Syreeta - What Love Has Joined Together
Michael Jackson - Best Of Joy
L.T.D. - Elegant Love
Reggie B. - Forever In A Day
Frank McComb - Wouldn't Trade You At All
Osunlade - Umakemesmile
The Beatles - I Will
Tonex - Barbara Green (Don't Live Without Love)

59m 21s

Hood Classics Vol 1

We're taking this one back to the streets of the early to mid 80s. These are the jams you would have heard in the park during a pick up game of hoop or sitting out back playing dominoes... coming out of cars on your block and in the underground warehouse clubs on a Saturday night. These cuts were validated by the streets not radio program directors and charts. So break out the boombox and put on your adidas and jam to 18 Hood Classics from 82-86.
(please excuse the sound quality of a couple of these cuts as they are rare vinyl rips)




The Smurf - Tyrone Brunson
Hand Dance - The Reddings
Trippin' Out - The Bar Kays
Hard to Get - Rick James
Mirda Rock - Reggie Griffin & Technofunk
Shackles - RJ's Latest Arrival
Kinky Nation - Egyptian Lover
I'm The One Who Loves You - Ready For The World
Can You Help Me - Jesse Johnson
Raid - Lakeside
Straight Out Of School - The Dazz Band
Wild Night - One Way
You Meet My Approval - Steve Arrington
Weak The Knees - Steve Arrington
So Ruff, So Tuff - Roger
We Got The Juice - Attitude
It's Passion - The System
Jump Into Fire - Howard Johnson

72m 58s

Searching 4 Funk's Future

Some say funk is gone but the truth is it never left.... evolving and changing over the years but still funky at it's core... this OP produced set is a collection of new and recent jams that are helping keep the funk flame burning bright today and on into the future.


Special thanks to Eric aka Warren Coolidge for contributing tracks to this show









Searchin' 4 Funk's Future - Dam Funk
Home Going Celebration - Reggie B
Do For You - Hawthorne Headhunters
Jump Up In The Air & Stay There (Reunion Radio Mix) - Erykah Badu
I Be Trippin - Steve Arrington
Glide - Opolopo
Easier Said Than Done (Reunion Radio Mix) - Rahsaan Patterson
Odyssey Lover - Hawthorne Headhunters
Give Me The Love - Space Invadas
Just Right - Ryan Leslie
She Knows - Reggie B
The Traveler - Reggie B
Hood Pass Intact (Remix Featuring MC Eiht) - Dam Funk
Hero - Miguel
I Bet U Fall N Love - Dustin Phelps

New Video and Music from Masha Ambrosius - So Far Away

"Vanilla Child"

 R.I.P. Teena Marie



















1. I Need Your Lovin'
2. Warm As Mama's Oven
3. Work It
4. The Pressure feat. M.C. Lyte
5. Now That I Have You
6. We've Got To Stop Meeting Like This feat. Ronnie McNeir
7. Ooo La La
8. I'm Just A Sucker For Your Love
9. You Make Love Like Springtime
10.Revolution
11.Starchild
12.Happy
13.Fire And Desire
14.Ivory (A Tone Poem)
15.If I Were A Bell
16.Lips To Find You
17.Ear Candy
18.The Ballad Of Cradle,Rob & Me
19.Square Biz
20.Alladin's Lamp

Rest In Peace Teena Marie

Tragic news over the weekend. Teena Marie passed in her sleep at the age of 54. My heart sank when I heard the news as Lady T is not only a soul legend but one of my all time favorite artists. Peace and blessings sent out to her daughter Rose and the rest of Teena's family.

~OP







AP, Dec 27, 2010 4:44 am PST
No matter that Marie, 54, was white. The R&B legend revered and fully immersed herself in black culture — and in turn was respected and adored by black audiences, not only for her immense soulful talents, but for her inner soul as well.
"Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul," she told Essence.com in an interview last year while promoting "Congo Square." That album would turn out to be her last.
The self-proclaimed "Ivory Queen of Soul," whose many classic hits included "Lovergirl," Square Biz" and the scorching duet "Fire and Desire" with mentor Rick James, was found dead in her Pasadena home on Sunday at the age of 54. Authorities said her death appeared to be of natural causes.
In an interview with The Associated Press last year, Teena Marie said she had successfully battled an addiction to prescription drugs; she had been performing over the last year.
"The enduring influence of Teena's inspirational, trailblazing career, could only have been made possible through her brilliant song-writing, showmanship and high energy passion which laid the ground work for the future generations of R&B, hip-hop, and soul," said Concord Music Group chief label officer, Gene Rumsey; Concord's Stax Records released her last album.
"We feel extremely fortunate to have worked with a visionary who changed music in indelible ways. Our deepest sympathies go out to her family, friends and of course, millions of fans around the world."
Marie certainly wasn't the first white act to sing soul music, but she was arguably among the most gifted and respected, and was thoroughly embraced by black audiences, and beyond.
Even before she started her musical career, she had a strong bond with the black community, which she credited to her godmother. She gravitated to soul music and in her youth decided to make it her career.
Marie made her debut on the legendary Motown label back in 1979, becoming one of the very few white acts to break the race barrier of the groundbreaking black-owned record label that had been a haven for black artists like Stevie Wonder, the Jackson Five, the Supremes and Marvin Gaye.
The cover of her debut album, "Wild and Peaceful," did not feature her image, with Motown apparently fearing black audiences might not buy it if they found out the songstress with the dynamic, gospel-inflected voice was white.
"(Motown founder Berry) Gordy) said that is was so soulful that he wanted to give the music an opportunity to stand on its own merit. Instead of my face, they put a seascape, so by the time my second album came out people were like, Lady T is White?" she told Essence.com.
Marie was the protege of the masterful funk wizard James, with whom she would have long, turbulent but musically magical relationship.
Marie notched her first hit, "I'm A Sucker for Your Love," with the help of James on that album. But the time her second album was released, her face was known — and on the cover of the record. But there was not a backlash — she would only get more popular on her way to becoming one of R&B's most revered queens. During her tenure with Motown, the singer-songwriter and musician produced passionate love songs and funk jam songs like "Need Your Lovin'," "Behind the Groove."
Marie's voice was the main draw of her music: Pitch-perfect, piercing in its clarity and wrought with emotion, whether it was drawing from the highs of romance or the mournful moments of a love lost. But her songs, most of which she had a hand in writing, were the other major component of her success.
Tunes like "Cassanova Brown" "Portuguese Love" and "Deja Vu (I've Been Here Before)" featured more than typical platitudes on love and life, but complex thoughts with rich lyricism. "Deja vu" was a song about reincarnation.
And "Fire and Desire," a duet with James about a former couple musing about their past love, was considered a musical masterpiece and a staple of the romance block on radio stations across the country.
Marie left Motown in 1982 and her split became historic: She sued the label and the legal battle led to a law preventing record labels from holding an artist without releasing any of their music.
She went to Epic in the 1980s and had hits like "Lovergirl" and "Ooo La La La" but her lasting musical legacy would be her Motown years.
Still, she continued to record music and perform. In 2004 and 2006 she put out two well-received albums on the traditional rap label Cash Money Records, "La Dona" and "Sapphire."
James, who had a romantic relationship with Marie but also a long friendship, died in 2004. His death shook her so she said she became addicted to Vicodin, which she had been taking for pain, for about a year.
But Marie said she successfully battled that addiction.In 2008, she talked about her excitement of being honored by the R&B Foundation.
Marie was the mother of a teenage daughter who was budding singer; she would sometimes bring her daughter onstage to sing during her shows.
In 2009, she celebrated 30 years in the recording industry, and planned for many more.
"All in all, it's been a wonderful, wonderful ride," she told The Associated Press in 2008. "I don't plan on stopping anytime soon."

 

The 2010 Reunion Radio Christmas Show

New and classic Christmas songs from R&B legends past and present



 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from OP and Silk











A Love Letter Christmas - R Kelly
Christmas Without You - El DeBarge
When Christmas Comes - Mariah Carey
This Christmas - Alexander O'Neal
Be There - Donnie Hathaway
Someday At Christmas - The Jackson 5
Soulful Christmas - James Brown
Be-With-You - Bootsy Collins
Another Lonely Christmas - Prince
Wonderful Christmastime - Rahsaan Patterson *
Mistletoe Jam Everybody Kiss Somebody) - Luther Vandross
A Kiss For Christmas - Luther Vandross
Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) Mariah Carey
Up On The Housetop (DJ Spinna Re-Edit) - The Jackson 5
What Christmas Means To Me - Stevie Wonder
My Favorite Things - Anita Baker
Frosty's Rag (Frosty The Snowman) - Anita Baker

*Yeah we played this on last year's show too... it's just so dope we had to play it again

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