ALOHA! PLEASE LET ME KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT WHAT I'M DOING 👍🏾 I APPRECIATE YOU!LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THIS IS A SPECIAL EPISODE. DURING MY TIME ON THIS PODCAST, WE’VE HAD MANY GREAT MOMENTS & SHARED MEMORIES. I’VE SHARED WITH YOU THE MUSIC & THE ARTISTS THAT FOR ME HAVE CREATED IN ME A LOVE OF MUSIC THAT’S STRONG, LASTING, PASSIONATE, & JUST PLAIN OLE - FUN.IN DOING SO, THERE’S ALSO THOSE TIMES WHEN - THE JOURNEY OF LIFE WILL CALL HOME ONE OF THOSE ARTISTS WHO I’M SO ENDEARED TO & WHOM I JUST SIMPLY BELIEVE CREATED MUSIC THAT FOREVER CHANGED MY LIFE. AND SO, HERE I AM AGAIN, TO TAKE TIME & PAY TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THOSE SUCH ARTISTS. DEXTER WANSEL. I CAN ONLY SAY FROM WHAT I KNOW, AND THAT IS, IN 1976, DEXTER WANSEL CREATED ONE OF THE MOST FUNKY, LUSCIOUS, SPACE-FUNK, GROOVY JAZZ FUSION FUNK ALBUMS EVER MADE , THE RELEASE NAMED “LIFE ON MARS.” IN THIS PODCAST I WILL PUT TOGETHER SOME OF THE BEST SONGS THAT DEXTER WAS INVOLVED IN, EITHER AS A PRODUCER, OR SONGWRITER, OR BOTH, TO SHOW HIS INCREDIBLE RANGE AS A KEYBOARDIST, LYRICIST, R&B AND DISCO VISIONARY DURING AN INCREDIBLE RUN DURING THE 70’S BUT NOT AT ALL LEAVING OUT HIS INFLUENCE ON JAZZ FUSION, ALL DURING THE SAME TIME. ‘LIFE ON MARS’ IS ONE OF THE 50TH GREATEST ALBUMS AND RECORDS OF MY LIFETIME SIMPLY BECAUSE WHEN IT WAS RELEASED IN 1976, IT WAS AN ALBUM THAT WAS PLAYED ON BLACK RADIO. IT WAS ALSO A RECORD THAT I WAS ABLE TO LISTEN TO FIRST HAND; MY DAD BORROWED THE LP FROM A FAMILY MEMBER AND I WAS ABLE TO LISTEN TO DURING MANY, MANY LATE NIGHT LISTENING SESSIONS ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAYS NIGHTS. TO ME, THIS ALBUM IS A STONE COLD CLASSIC. SO LETS GET STARTED. HERE IS MY TRIBUTE TO THE LEGENDARY, THE INCOMPARABLE, COOLEST, SMOOTHEST - DEXTER WANSEL. BLAZE STREET MUSIC IS IN THE HOUSE. “LIVING ALL ALONE”- PHYLLIS HYMAN (FROM HER RELEASE, “LIVING ALL ALONE”, 1986)DEXTER PRODUCED & CO-WROTE THIS SONG WITH CYNTHIA BIGGS AND KENNETH GAMBLE “IF ONLY YOU KNEW”- PATTI LABELLE (1983)“LOVE TKO”- TEDDY PENDERGRASS (1980, FROM THE LP, “TP”). THIS SONG WAS WRITTEN BY CECIL WOMACK. PRODUCED BY DEXTEL WANSEL, CYNTHIA BIGGS, & CECIL WOMACK“HURRY UP THIS WAY AGAIN” -THE STYLISTICS (1980)“MORNING TEARS”- MFSB (FROM THE 1975 LP “PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM”)“ONE MILLION MILES FROM THE GROUND” - DEXTER WANSEL (FROM “LIFE ON MARS”, 1976)“THEME FROM THE PLANETS”-- DEXTER WANSEL (FROM “LIFE ON MARS”, 1976)”NEW BEGINNING”- DEXTER WANSEL (TIME IS SLIPPING AWAY, 1979)“SOLUTIONS”- DEXTER WANSEL (“VOYAGER”, 1978)“DISCO LIGHTS”- DEXTER WANSEL (WHAT THE WORLD IS COMING TO, 1977)“NIGHTS OVER EGYPT”- THE JONES GIRLS (WRITTEN WITH CYNTHIA BIGGS, 1981)“DANCE WITH ME TONIGHT”- MFSB (1978) “YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU”- THE JONES GIRLS (FROM THEIR DEBUT 1979 LP; SONG PRODUCED BY WANSEL, CO-WRITTEN BY HIM AND CYNTHIA BIGGS EL)“VOYAGE”- DEXTER WANSEL “TOGETHER ONCE AGAIN” (FROM ‘LIFE ON MARS, 1976) - DEXTER WANSELTHANKS FOR LISTENING! I APPRECIATE YOU ALL! Call my studio hotline: 808-391-5394, leave me a message!Please SUBSCRIBE to my You Tube channel: @djceejaay IG: @cjaaybeats; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carl.r.johnsonjr1;

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