Jamiroquai – When You Gonna Learn?
When You Gonna Learn? introduced Jay Kay and Jamiroquai in October 1992 on Acid Jazz Records before the Sony deal.
Donna Summer – I Feel Love
Donna Summer’s 1977 Casablanca hit I Feel Love, built on Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte’s Munich Moog sequence, rewired disco toward electronic dance music.
Prince – Purple Rain
Purple Rain, the 1984 Warner title cut, opens on a held organ and climbs into Prince's long guitar solo with The Revolution.
Donna Summer – Disco’s voice with a songwriter’s spine
From Munich studios with Giorgio Moroder to Hot Stuff, Donna Summer made a steady dance beat carry melody, drama, and her songwriting.
Lovesexy – Seven weeks that buried the Black Album
In May 1988, Lovesexy replaced a scrapped Black Album with seven weeks of Paisley Park sessions and a flowerbed cover.
Average White Band – Pick Up the Pieces
Average White Band’s Pick Up the Pieces (Atlantic, 1974): Arif Mardin, Hot 100 No. 1 in 1975, near-instrumental funk.
Imagination – Changes
In November 1982 Imagination issued Changes, the fourth single from In the Heat of the Night. Jolley and Swain mixed it. It reached UK No. 31.
Jamiroquai – Love Foolosophy
Love Foolosophy is track five on Jamiroquai's A Funk Odyssey (August 2001, Sony Soho Square). Jay Kay and Toby Smith wrote it. Rick Pope produced it.
Imagination – Just an Illusion
In February 1982 Just an Illusion was the lead single from Imagination's second album, In the Heat of the Night, on R&B Records (MCA in the US).
Prince – Minneapolis funk that rewrote the rules
Minneapolis, late seventies: Prince Rogers Nelson signed to Warner Bros. as a teenager who could play most of the parts himself.