La Famille & Caron Wheeler - DANCER

DANCER

12 Inch

Freestyle Records / FSR116

Front View : La Famille & Caron Wheeler - DANCER - Freestyle Records / FSR116
Back View : La Famille & Caron Wheeler - DANCER - Freestyle Records / FSR116

Soul / Boogie Funk, Reissue , Original Released in 1982

Freestyle comes with it again - presenting the first officially licensed reissue for a previously white label-only slice of fantastic 1982 UK boogie funk, featuring the vocal talents of a then 19 year-old Caron Wheeler!

La Famille were a group put together at the turn of the 1980s by seasoned reggae & jazz guitarist (and later band-member with the award-winning Jazz Jamaica) Alan Weekes. The band's main line-up consisted not only of a young Wheeler, but also a young Cleveland Watkiss - as well as the late Claudia Fontaine (who would go on to pair with Caron as Afrodiziak) & Roy Hamilton - with guitar, arrangement and production provided by Weekes.

While the group was short-lived - recording only this 12" alongside a couple of singles for Leonard "Santic" Chin's Sanity label (a stellar cover of the Mary Jane Girl's classic All Night Long) and Alan's later Bpop label (the down-tempo groover Lost in Paradise, co-arranged alongside Watkiss) - there is no denying the talent on display here, as the years and decades that followed can surely attest.
in stock
12.18 EUR *
House
SKU:
cjy-5j
VÖ:
14.07.2022
wieder da:
19.04.2023

Customers who bought this item also bought :

* All prices are including 0% VAT excl. shipping costs.