What's your top Mtume / Lucas tracks, either written or produced? Love their distinctive sound

Currently this one for me, Stephanie Mills 'Top of my list' from the 'Stephanie' album - cheap as chips and totally brilliant

 

On a similar tip. I love the Stephanie Mills stuff 😀

 

Ralph Tee played this yesterday on his monthly Solar show - brilliant arrangement:

 

Stephanie Mills - Whatcha gonna do with my lovin '

 

"Give it on up" quite similar in style and arrangement to Stephanie's "Put your body in it" from the previous year ... and always good to hear Tawatha.

 

like this one

 

7 hours ago, John Siret said:

Stephanie Mills - Whatcha gonna do with my lovin '

Great choice 👌 Here it is below:-

 

29 minutes ago, micksmix said:

 

Lovely that - new to me

Didn't realise when I posted this morning that Reggie Lucas died only a couple of weeks ago. Interesting piece here from Rolling Stone - didn't know him and Mtume were in Miles Davis' band together:-

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/reggie-lucas-madonna-producer-dead-at-65-w520529

 

Interesting film here, well worth a watch:-

 

One of their best -

 

9 hours ago, daved said:

On a similar tip. I love the Stephanie Mills stuff 😀

 

Didn't know this either - great post, thanks - bought the 12" just now👍

25 minutes ago, the yank said:

One of their best -

Never get tired of hearing that

 

Chris, I strongly recommend you get yourself a copy of this great compilation on Expansion:

Most of the tracks featured here are on this, including this floor filling cracker:

 

10 minutes ago, Mickey Finn said:

Chris, I strongly recommend you get yourself a copy of this great compilation on Expansion:

Cheers Mickey, I've got a lot of them on vinyl already but quite a few I don't know - luckily none seem too hard to pick up on original

Used to play Rena Scott loads years ago on the Kent Mecca / Buddah compilation but didn't realise it was Mtume Lucas

Just spotted your post from a couple of weeks ago re. Reggie Lucas - totally missed that

That comp steered me much deeper into their output than I had been previously. Everything seems to be available cheap as chips on vinyl or on cd reissue which makes for a very nice price/quality ratio.

I'll never forget seeing Shaun Robbins pack the Blackpool Hilton lounge twice in the same weekend with that Sadane track. But Ralph Tee and Paul Clifford have been two of the biggest champions of this production team, representing what Ralph means by the whole luxury soul concept. This tune regularly gets described as the best Mtume-Lucas production that wasn't produced by the great men themselves - Michael Lovesmith gets the credit:

Vinyl only for the album (easily her best for me - the others too eurodisco but all reissued), but this tune appears on another Expansion comp well worth acquiring:

 

"Keep going on" by Gary Bartz feat. Tawatha appears on the Expansion Mtume-Lucas comp but this mainly instrumental is on the "Bartz" LP, also cheap as chips, and reissued on cd a few years back. Classy classy classy...

 

Recently came across this-

 

Short clip from an hour long Mtume documentary that was on TVONE .

Hubert Eaves found fame writing/producing D Train.

 

Edited June 6, 20187 yr by the yank

Sunfire. Both sides on the above Expansion comp.