Mtume / Lucas Picks

[Chris Turnbull]

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

 

[Daved]

On a similar tip. I love the Stephanie Mills stuff

 

[Mickey Finn]

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

 

[John Siret]

Stephanie Mills - Whatcha gonna do with my lovin '

[The Yank]

 

[Mickey Finn]

"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.

[Algsoul]

 

like this one

[Micksmix]

 

[Chris Turnbull]

7 hours ago, John Siret said:

Stephanie Mills - Whatcha gonna do with my lovin '

Great choice  Here it is below:-

 

[Chris Turnbull]

29 minutes ago, micksmix said:

 

Lovely that - new to me

[Chris Turnbull]

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

 

[Chris Turnbull]

Interesting film here, well worth a watch:-

 

[The Yank]

One of their best -

 

[Chris Turnbull]

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

[Chris Turnbull]

25 minutes ago, the yank said:

One of their best -

Never get tired of hearing that

[Sunnysoul]

 

[Mickey Finn]

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:

 

[Chris Turnbull]

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

[Mickey Finn]

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:

 

[Mickey Finn]

"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...

 

[The Yank]

Recently came across this-

 

[The Yank]

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

Hubert Eaves found fame writing/producing D Train.

 

Edited June 6, 2018 by the yank

[Thinksmart]

Sunfire. Both sides on the above Expansion comp.