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  • For the UNSUNG crew

    Did you see Heatwave story last night?

    Tragic. I never really knew about the group. Very talented group but a lot of disaster.

    Next week it is Musical Youth. Should be interesting although we know some a the story.
    • Don't let negative things break you, instead let it be your strength, your reason for growth. Life is for living and I won't spend my life feeling cheated and downtrodden.

  • #2
    Didn't really know them either, just know thier songs.

    That breddah who write Off The Wall and Thriller for MJ must be sitting pretty eh? If I was in the music business I would want to be a writer. You don't get the groupie them but if you good you mek so much money for years and years, plus you life expectancy is much greater than if you are a performer.
    "‎It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men" - Frederick Douglass

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    • #3
      yeah if you don't give away your songs to the big label them you could be sitting pretty on royalties if you are a song writer or musician who get your royalties.

      If Sly and Robbie have some royalties on all the songs they made they could possible make more than Bob but I assume most of their work is work for hire. The man write "Off the Wall" and "Thriller" only a pity he had that tragedy.

      It was also refreshing to see the lead singer as his brother said wouldn't do anything to stop him from waking up at 8 in the morning. I respect that group more than ever now.
      • Don't let negative things break you, instead let it be your strength, your reason for growth. Life is for living and I won't spend my life feeling cheated and downtrodden.

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      • #4
        rod temperton...musically unnuh si the similarity between the songs? heatwave had an uptempo funk chune that was really popular figget the name now .....

        Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. Thomas Paine

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        • #5
          Boogie Nights

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n00ss4o68nY
          "‎It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men" - Frederick Douglass

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          • #6
            no man .... this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glrl4LcvU5g

            Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. Thomas Paine

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            • #7
              OK. yeah that was a popular tune too.

              Re Temperton, they said they got right of first refusal on ALL his songs and they passed on quite a few that became hits for other people like MJ.
              "‎It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men" - Frederick Douglass

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              • #8
                credits....some i didn't even know...STOMP by the brothers johnson was written by an english guy?!

                Songwriting credits
                Temperton wrote/co-wrote for the following singers/bands:[9][10]

                Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. Thomas Paine

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                • #9
                  that is a rhatid list
                  • Don't let negative things break you, instead let it be your strength, your reason for growth. Life is for living and I won't spend my life feeling cheated and downtrodden.

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                  • #10
                    Dyamnnnnnn!!!!!! What a list!!!!!! I am Gobsmacked!!!!


                    Hey Sass, what channel does the Unsung series come on? I need to set my dvr.
                    Hey .. look at the bright side .... at least you're not a Liverpool fan! - Lazie 2/24/10 Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015

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                    • #11
                      The ultimate

                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rodTpSVmSBQ




                      Heatwave (band)
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                      Heatwave

                      Heatwave, 1979
                      Background information
                      Origin London, England
                      Genres Funk, Disco
                      Years active 1975–1984
                      Labels GTO Records
                      Epic Records
                      Website Official Website
                      Former members
                      Johnnie Wilder, Jr.
                      Keith Wilder
                      Rod Temperton
                      Mario Mantese
                      Ernest Berger
                      Eric Johns
                      Roy Carter
                      Billy Jones
                      Derek Bramble
                      Calvin Duke
                      J.D. Nicholas
                      Heatwave was an international funk/disco musical band featuring Americans Johnnie Wilder, Jr. and Keith Wilder (vocals) of Dayton, Ohio, Englishman Rod Temperton (keyboards), Swedish Mario Mantese (bass), Czechoslovakian Ernest "Bilbo" Berger (drums), Jamaican Eric Johns (guitar) and Briton Roy Carter, (guitar).
                      They were known for their successful songs "Boogie Nights" and "Always and Forever" (from their 1976 debut album, Too Hot to Handle), and "The Groove Line" (from their 1978 follow-up album, Central Heating).
                      Contents [hide]
                      1 Heatwave's mainstream years
                      2 The post-Heatwave years
                      2.1 Various reunions/side projects
                      3 Discography
                      3.1 Studio albums
                      3.2 Remix albums
                      3.3 Compilation albums
                      3.4 Singles
                      4 References
                      5 External links
                      [edit]Heatwave's mainstream years

                      Founder member Johnnie Wilder was an American serviceman based in West Germany when he first began performing, upon his discharge from the U.S. Army, he stayed in Germany. He sang in nightclubs and taverns with an assortment of bands while still enlisted. By mid-year, he decided to relocate to the United Kingdom and through an ad placed in a local paper he linked up with songwriter/keyboardist Rod Temperton.
                      Touring the London nightclub circuit billed as Chicago's Heatwave during the mid-1970s allowed them to refine their sound, adding a funk groove to disco beats. In search of a fuller sound vocally, Johnnie Wilder called upon his brother Keith Wilder (who was performing in a local band in Dayton, Ohio) to join the band on vocals. The group signed to GTO Records in 1976. They were paired in the studio with GTO house producer/session guitarist Barry Blue and rhythm guitarist Jesse Whitten. Rhythm guitarist Roy Carter replaced Whitten after Whitten was stabbed to death in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. They began creating their first album Too Hot to Handle in the fall of 1976.
                      Their third single, "Boogie Nights" from their debut album, scored number two on the British popular music charts in January, and also became a number 2 success in America in November. The group's debut album, Too Hot to Handle, was released in the spring of 1977, giving Heatwave a number eleven success in the U.S. - reaching number five on the R&B charts, while the next single, the soul ballad "Always and Forever", closed out the year with a number two U.S. R&B success and #18 pop success in December.
                      Continuing to use Barry Blue's production skills, Heatwave released their second album Central Heating in April 1978. Lead single "The Groove Line," reached number seven in the charts.
                      During the late 1970s the band changed. At first Eric Johns quit the band and Billy Jones was his replacement as guitarist. Then Rod Temperton quit the band. Although Temperton would continue writing new songs for Heatwave, he soon became better-known for his songwriting for other artists, penning award-winning songs for some of funk's biggest names, including Rufus and The Brothers Johnson. He also wrote for Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones, but his most famous partnership remains the one forged with Michael Jackson, writing three songs for his 1979 Epic debut Off The Wall - "Rock With You," "Off The Wall" and "Burn This Disco Out", and three songs for the 1982 Thriller LP, including the title track.
                      Despite these changes Heatwave were about to return to the studio, only to suffer a tragedy: Mantese attended a party at Elton John's house in London. He was with is girlfriend, who decided to go home early from the party, reason unknown. When Mantese arrived home, she was furious with him, perhaps from an incident that happended at the party and stabbed him. The knife hit him in the heart and for several minutes, he was clinically dead. When, after several months, he awoke from coma, he was blind, mute and paralysed in his entire body. To date, he has no memory of this tragic event. He decided not to press charges against his girlfriend, and moved in with her after leaving the hospital. Mantese was replaced by bassist Derek Bramble. Adding keyboardist Calvin Duke to the group, and now working with new producer Phil Ramone, Heatwave cut Hot Property, released in May 1979.
                      During the spring of 1979, lead-vocalist and songwriter Johnnie Wilder, Jr., also suffered injuries in an auto accident while visiting family and friends in Dayton, Ohio. Although he survived, the accident left him paralyzed from the neck down and unable to continue performing with the group. After the accident, Johnnie remained a co-producer of the group, along with Blue.
                      Determined to continue working with the band he had nurtured since the very beginning, Wilder participated with studio work and, during 1980, Heatwave recorded the Candles LP, with Temperton again providing the songs, except stand out track "All I Am", written by Blue's former writing partner Lynsey de Paul. The group recruited James Dean "J.D." Nicholas, who later became a member of the Commodores, to handle vocals in concert.[1]
                      Heatwave's popularity was on the wane, though, as the November single "Gangsters of the Groove" proved to be their last popular music success, scoring number twenty-one in the U.S., and number twenty in the United Kingdom early in the New Year. But the album peaked at a mere number seventy-one in the United States in December 1980.
                      Heatwave's 1982 LP, Current, marked yet another new era for the band, as they returned to producer Blue. The album managed only number 156 on the U.S. Billboard 200, although it scored the band a number twenty-one success on the R&B charts, where Heatwave continued to be a strong presence. A Rod Temperton penned single, "Lettin' It Loose," proved a minor success during August.
                      [edit]The post-Heatwave years

                      Derek Bramble quit the band at the end of 1982, like Roy Carter, for a career in production (he would go on to work with David Bowie on 1984s Tonight LP, and later masterminded Jaki Graham's breakthrough). J.D. Nicholas left to replace Lionel Richie as the lead singer of the Commodores. After this long series of departures, the remaining members of Heatwave effectively disbanded.
                      [edit]Various reunions/side projects
                      Silent since early 1983, Heatwave reconvened in a new line-up to record and release the album The Fire in 1988. However, Keith Wilder was the only original member of the band present in this incarnation (although Billy Jones, who had joined the band in the late 1970's returned as well)[2]. Meanwhile, that same year, Johnnie Wilder released a solo spiritual album My Goals on Light. The Wilder brothers once again teamed up the following year for the gospel album, Sound of Soul. None of these late-80's albums sold well, but Heatwave's recognition was revitalized in 1991, when a remix version of their "Mind Blowing Decisions" charted in the UK. By the middle of the 1990s, Keith Wilder had again reformed the band. Joined by bassist Dave Williamson, keyboardists Kevin Sutherland and Byron Byrd, guitarist Bill Jones, and original drummer Ernest Berger, the reborn Heatwave launched an American tour with a live album recorded at the Greek Theater in Hollywood, arriving in 1997.
                      Heatwave released an extended club remix of "Boogie Nights" in 2002. Keith Wilder is the lead singer of the current line-up (and the only remaining original member). The current touring line-up includes a host of lesser known musicians, including New Orleans keyboardist Jeremy Crump.
                      Johnnie Wilder died in his sleep at his home in Dayton, Ohio in May 2006.
                      [edit]Discography

                      [edit]Studio albums
                      Year Album Chart Positions[3] US
                      certifications[4] Record label
                      US
                      Pop US
                      R&B UK
                      Pop[5]
                      1977 Too Hot to Handle 11 5 46 Platinum Epic
                      1978 Central Heating 10 2 26 Platinum
                      1979 Hot Property 38 16 — Gold
                      1980 Candles 71 24 29 —
                      1982 Current 156 21 — —
                      1988 The Fire — — — — Soul City
                      "—" denotes the album failed to chart or was not certified
                      [edit]Remix albums
                      Year Album Chart Positions Record label
                      US
                      Pop US
                      R&B UK
                      Pop[5]
                      1991 Gangsters of the Groove - '90s Mix — — 56 Telstar
                      "—" denotes the album failed to chart
                      [edit]Compilation albums
                      Year Album Chart Positions Record label
                      US
                      Pop US
                      R&B UK
                      Pop
                      1988 Heatwave's Greatest Hits — — — Epic
                      1996 The Best of Heatwave: Always & Forever — — — Legacy
                      "—" denotes the album failed to chart
                      [edit]Singles
                      Year Single Chart Positions[6]
                      US
                      Pop US
                      R&B US
                      Dance UK
                      Pop[5]
                      1977 "Boogie Nights" 2 5 36 2
                      "Too Hot to Handle" (A-side) — — — 15
                      "Slip Your Disc to This" (B-side) — — —
                      "Always and Forever" (A-side) 18 2 — 9
                      1978 "Mind Blowing Decisions" ('78 remix) (B-side) — — —
                      "The Groove Line" 7 3 — 12
                      "Mind Blowing Decisions" (original version) — 49 — 12
                      1979 "Eyeballin'" — 30 — —
                      "Razzle Dazzle" — — — 43
                      1980 "Gangsters of the Groove" 110 21 74 19
                      1981 "Where Did I Go Wrong" — 74 — —
                      "Jitterbuggin'" — — — 34
                      1982 "Lettin' It Loose" — 54 — —
                      1990 "Mind Blowing Decisions" ('90 remix) — — — 65
                      "Feel Like Making Love" (featuring Jocelyn Brown) — — — 90
                      "—" denotes the single failed to chart
                      THERE IS ONLY ONE ONANDI LOWE!

                      "Good things come out of the garrisons" after his daughter won the 100m Gold For Jamaica.


                      "It therefore is useless and pointless, unless it is for share malice and victimisation to arrest and charge a 92-year-old man for such a simple offence. There is nothing morally wrong with this man smoking a spliff; the only thing wrong is that it is still on the law books," said Chevannes.

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                      • #12
                        gob well an' fi smack yuh yes!!!

                        Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. Thomas Paine

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                        • #13
                          TV One.

                          http://www.tvoneonline.com/
                          "‎It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men" - Frederick Douglass

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                          • #14
                            Jamaicans always in the mix!


                            BLACK LIVES MATTER

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                            • #15
                              wow! wow! and wow!


                              BLACK LIVES MATTER

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