T-Connection's funkiest jams ever recorded! Just check out that bass solo at 2.09 mins. by Kirk Coakley! This is taken from their 1977 LP "On Fire", produced by Cory Wade, Alex Sadkin and T-Connection. The title track was released as a 12" single and the song reached #27 on the American Billboard R&B chart in 1978.
T-Connection is one of my all-time favorite bands.
They were originally formed in the Bahamas and recorded eight albums in total between 1977 and 1984 and are still performing together, at least re-uniting occasionally to the delight of their many fans. In my view, their finest moments were captured on vinyl in the 70's and released on T.K. records, even if their Capitol albums are nice too. My view is based on the fact that they dropped the heaviest funk elements after "Pure And Natural" in 1982 for a more laid-back soul approach to their music. The quality never dropped, just a slight change of musical direction.
T-Connection were:
Theophilus Coakley, bandleader, main songwriter, producer, piano, keyboards, vocals.
His brother Kirk (Kirkwood) Coakley on bass, Monty Brown (guitar), Anthony "Tony" Flowers (percussion, later in the Baha Men), Berkley Van Byrd (drums) and David Mackey (guitar).
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Cory Wade bio from Wikpedia:
Cory Wade is a former American record producer and songwriter, known for producing some of the biggest hits in disco in the 1970s. A producer for TK Records, Wade co-produced the 1977 single "Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me" by Peter Brown, which became the first 12-inch single to sell a million copies. Wade also produced hit recordings for KC and the Sunshine Band, T-Connection, Foxy and made a comeback in the 1990s with a remake of Peter Brown's "Crank It Up" by Lawrence Leritz, released on Spectrum Records.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Wade_%28music_producer%29
Alex Sadkin bio from Wikpedia:
Alex Sadkin (Florida 1949 - 25 July 1987) is best remembered as a record producer in the early 1980s, but actually got his start in the music industry as a saxophonist for the Las Olas Brass in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Sadkin grew up in Fort Lauderdale across the street from Bennett Elementary School, and played saxophone in Sunrise Junior High School and Fort Lauderdale High School. He attended Florida State University in Tallahassee where he played bass guitar with childhood friends Lyle LaBarbera (rhythm guitar) and Jim Hendee (drums), and singer Phil Turk. He eventually received his Bachelor of Science degree in geology in 1971.
After graduation, Sadkin worked with Jim Hendee at a sea turtle farm called Mariculture, Ltd. on Grand Cayman Island, where they both lived on Seven Mile Beach, a few miles from the town of Hell. During their six months of living and SCUBA diving there, they got their first taste of playing reggae at several clubs around the island.
When Sadkin returned to South Florida he began his recording career. He was first trained as a mastering engineer but eventually moved into recording studio work as a "tape-op" (Assistant Engineer) at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida. He got his first big break after impressing Neil Young with his mixing ability, and he eventually became head engineer at Compass Point Studio in Nassau, Bahamas. He worked alongside Island Records boss Chris Blackwell on many of the label's projects, most famously with Bob Marley & The Wailers, including the seminal Rastaman Vibration.
A full member of the Compass Point All Stars from day one, he began producing artists for Island Records (Grace Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Robert Palmer, Joe Cocker), while doing mixing work for other labels (Talking Heads). Among the other artists he produced in the 1980s are James Brown, the J. Geils Band, Thompson Twins, Classix Nouveaux, Foreigner, Duran Duran, Simply Red, Arcadia and Paul Haig.
Alex Sadkin was a mentor to engineer and producer Phil Thornalley, who would go on to work with The Cure, Johnny Hates Jazz, and Natalie Imbruglia. He had a special gift of being able to sense and analyze an artist's inner creative abilities and talents, even if the artist couldn't.[citation needed] Composer-keyboardist Wally Badarou had this about Sadkin: "His dedication to maintain genuine 'mixes in progress' from the word go, was a great lesson. I made it a system for my subsequent production from then on."
Sadkin died in a motor accident in Nassau at the age of 38, shortly after completing production work on Boom Crash Opera's eponymous 1987 album, and just before he was due to begin working with Ziggy Marley. The Duran Duran song "Do You Believe In Shame", Robbie Nevil's "Gone Too Soon" and Grace Jones' "Well Well Well" are dedicated to his memory. Also Joe Cocker's album Unchain My Heart (1987) is dedicated to the memory of Alex Sadkin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Sadkin
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Thanks for uploading. They are one of the best.
scarpien 5 months ago