Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Put your body in it

Stephanie Mills got her first break when Jermaine Jackson referred her to Motown head honcho Berry Gordy, who signed her to his label. Her Motown debut was For the First Time and was written and produced by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. She later went on to achieve commercial success with the disco anthem 'Never knew love like this before' and even found time to briefly marry former Soul Train dancer Jeffrey Daniels of the group Shalamar.

I first heard of her when listening to the seminal Larry Levan 'live at the Paradise Garage mix' which features the track 'put your body in it'. And once the bassline is brought into the mix , it instantly became a favourite of mine and it never fails to make people dance. You can download it here.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3863541e81fd14/

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