I discovered this cut on a Garage Classics 12" & joined the ranks of listeners who will forever be grateful to that bootlegger for reissuing such amazing music. Not much is know about Billy & his friends, other than that they recoded this laid back disco tune and one other single. Thanks bootlegger and thanks Billy!
Billy Frazier And Friends - Billy Who? (Long Version)
This is a live mix I made for Disco Bits - a tribute to the great Larry Levan they asked me to put together for his birthday. LL had a unique way of DJing, and I'm not trying to emulate him here or trying to play the "Best Of" the Garage. Just some rad Garage Classics in tribute to a rad dude. Enjoy.
1. Minnie Ripperton – Adventures In Paradise 2. Carly Simon – Why (12″ Mix) 3. Aleem with Leroy Burgess – Confusion (12″ Mix) 4. Gayle Adams – Love Fever (12″ Mix) 5. Mona Rae – Do Me 6. Ashford and Simpson – Stay Free 7. Voyage – I Love You Dancer 8. Central Line – Walking Into Sunshine 9. Rockers Revenge with Donnie Calvin – Rocking On Sunshine 10. Tony Lee – Reach Up (Mastermix) 11. The System – You Are In My System (12″ mix) 12. Level 42 – Starchild 13. The Limit – She So Divine (Mastermix) 14. Dan Hartman – Vergito / Relight My Fire 15. Diana Ross – Love Hangover (DJ Apt One Edit)
I randomly gripped up the 45 of House Party some time ago and it just recently came to the top of the "To Rip" pile. I know there's a 12" of this out there with a "Full Length" version on it, presumably the one that got some run at the Loft, but I decided to edit it up for my own purposes, complete with a period appropriate drum pattern and a period appropriate drum break that I laced up.
Fred Wesley - House Party (DJ Apt One Edit) Zshare | YSI | 320 kbps
Make sure to drop this at your next house party, because, as the song says, you might have gone to the movies, but it's hard to afford the fare.
Gwen "The First Lady of the Paradise Garage" Guthrie got less credit than she deserved. She sang with Aretha, Madonna and Stevie. She wrote songs for Ben E. King, Roberta Flack and Gary Glitter. She kicked it with Larry Levan. Can't Love You Tonight is one of the first songs about AIDS. But she's best known for Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But the Rent, which isn't a bad thing, but it's not even close to a decent representation of her awesomeness.
I'm posting her first single, It Could Have Been You, an ill Sly and Robbie joint, it's mixed by Larry Levan. It came out first on Island later re-released on some of those 4th and Broadway electro comps.
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