Don Downing - Doctor Boogie(1978-Roadshow)Expanded Edition(2016- Octave Lab) - Soul

Though singer Don Downing's lone charting single was the Memphis soul-tinged "Lonely Days, Lonely Nights," which charted at number 65 R&B in summer 1973, he's a longtime favourite of dance music devotees for "Dream World" The pumping number was a huge hit in Northern Soul clubs in the uk,where as "Doctor Boogie" found its way onto the play list of major market radio stations in Chicago and elsewhere in 1978. Downing is the brother of singer Al Downing who had a double-sided Billboard-charting hit on Chess Records with "I'll Be Holding On." From Texas,The Doctor Boogie album featured some top New York session musicians: drummers Jimmy Young and Alan Schwartzberg, bassists Bob Babbitt and Wilbur Bascomb, guitarist Jeff Mironov, pianist Pat Rebillot, and percussionist Jimmy Maelan.The Doctor Boogie LP cover is vintage '70s with Downing and two of the three lovelies draped around him sporting huge Afros amid a dark and silvery disco club background with multi-colored star-bursting floodlights. Although this is fairly well known to old soulies some may be in for a pleasant surprise!...defying its age still a very good solid album with strong vocals from Don.Rather than post the Roadshow LP here,s the japanese release with 4 Bonus tracks.

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