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:



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:

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:

Attached files

RAJ

Classique:

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.

Phill_Most

J i m s t e r said:

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.

Nah, Raj... that is One Way. Roundtrip has a version too

RAJ

Thanks for clarifying. Great tune!

docfish

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.

this here (and two more I think on Atco)

stratasphere

docfish said:

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.

this here (and two more I think on Atco)

Yeah! I forgot about the Atco singles. I was thinking about the lp releases at the time.