One Way feat. Al Hudson

[dreskieboogie]

I just bought this album the other week. So cheap and so good! Really! It doesn't get much deeper than "something in the past". This album also has "pop it" - an amazing disco boogie song and many other worthy tunes.

Am I the only one loving this fantastic album?

Dress

 

[james]

I can't remember which lp it's on, but "Guess You Didn't Know" is my jernt. The twilit bridge between "Summer Madness" and Fatback's "Baby Doll." Get your jaw dropped for pennies.

 

[dreskieboogie]

The one I am talking about is on MCA 1980. How many does One Way feat. Al Hudson have? Two?





Something in the past:





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTUOgrMEe-g





Thanks,





Dress

 

[Jonny_Paycheck]

These guys have a lot of records, definitely

 

[Big_Chan]

One Way





* 1979: One Way Feat. Al Hudson (six-track EP featuring "You Can Do It") (1979)


* 1980: One Way Feat. Al Hudson (full-length album) (1980)


* 1981: Love Is...One Way


* 1981: Fancy Dancer


* 1982: Who's Foolin' Who


* 1982: Wild Night


* 1983: Shine On Me


* 1984: Lady


* 1985: Wrap Your Body


* 1986: IX


* 1988: A New Beginning

 

[dreskieboogie]

Ok, I had no idea that they had so many albums. Which ones are recommended?





Thanks,





Dress

 

[white_tea]

dreskieboogie said:I just bought this album the other week. So cheap and so good! Really! It doesn't get much deeper than "something in the past". This album also has "pop it" - an amazing disco boogie song and many other worthy tunes.





Am I the only one loving this fantastic album?





Dress




I'll show my ass here a bit but I first heard "Pop It" when Missy Elliott sampled (read: practically covered) the tune on the album with "Get Ur Freak On." Such a good tune.

 

[stratasphere]

They also recorded an album as Al Hudson and the Soul Partners on ABC around 76-77. I've seen that one a couple of times, but it doesn't pop up nearly as often as the MCA lps and each time I saw it those copies were sealed.

 

[Jimster]

UK Norvern Icon Richard Searling loves them, that's where I first heard them in the mid 80s. I ride, this is my jernt:











(Worst audio on youtube evar... but it has that groove.)

 

[Big_Chan]

GREAT band.........

 

[hertzhog]

dreskieboogie said:





Something in the past:





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTUOgrMEe-g







Great song, I also love what Pimp C did with it:

 

[novocaine132]

now that i found you...





i'm gonna spend all my time just...





being around you...











light as a feather...





i never touch the ground when...





we are together...

 

[batmon]

Decent album. I played out a good 3 tracks off that shit IIRC.

 

[Mongo_Slade]

james said:I can't remember which lp it's on, but "Guess You Didn't Know" is my jernt. The twilit bridge between "Summer Madness" and Fatback's "Baby Doll." Get your jaw dropped for pennies.




I think there's some Roy Ayers "The Third Eye" in there somewhere, too.





I've been planning to do a One Way mix for a while. Their catalog has serious joints in so many styles and it only gets deeper when you factor in the stuff that they spun off or produced, like Alicia Myers, Oliver Cheatham, etc.

 

[TDLT02]

"Spread Love" (LP version) is one of my all time favourate soulful disco tunes.





The way it starts with the soft keys, and then full on strings, before the guitar riff comes in and 'slam' into the smooth groove with those sweet vocals....

 

[billbradley]

Cutie Pie has been a longtime favorite

 

[RAJ]

J i m s t e r said:UK Norvern Icon Richard Searling loves them, that's where I first heard them in the mid 80s. I ride, this is my jernt:











(Worst audio on youtube evar... but it has that groove.)




This is NOT One Way.





It's from a group called Round Trip:



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[RAJ]

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[Jimster]

RAJ said:J i m s t e r said:UK Norvern Icon Richard Searling loves them, that's where I first heard them in the mid 80s. I ride, this is my jernt:











(Worst audio on youtube evar... but it has that groove.)




This is NOT One Way.





It's from a group called Round Trip:




LOL I guess my mid-80s memory game is mad wheak... Thanks for that.

 

[pickwick33]

They also recorded an album as Al Hudson and the Soul Partners on ABC around 76-77. I've seen that one a couple of times, but it doesn't pop up nearly as often as the MCA lps and each time I saw it those copies were sealed.

And even earlier than that...Al Hudson covered the Chi-Lites'"Love Is" on an Atco single. He may have other early records besides this, but this is the one I have.





Jspr said:


I assumed One Way were Official Little Dude Status bc of the obvious pop hits Let's Talk and You Can Do It. Guess there's more to them...




Wasn't nothing "pop" about One Way. Like Frankie Beverly & Maze or Phyllis Hyman, their popularity was strictly in the hood. I think I remember reading some chart in The Book Of Rock Lists of top-selling soul artists who never made the white pop singles charts; Hyman, Maze and One Way were right in there. One Way's ubiquity in used record stores doesn't surprise me.





Those guys were massive in the early eighties. When I was a teenager, it seemed like somebody was always walking around with one of their LP's under their arms.