At the end of 2019, TONY MONSON asked all connected with SOLAR RADIO, including DJs, listeners, artists and all friends of the station to submit their ALL TIME TOP 10 favourite tracks and albums. Contributors totalled some 500 people, from whose suggestions the TOP 500 chart was compiled, the second segment of which- 101 to 200 – is below…
101 KENI BURKE LP – Let somebody love you/You’re the best/Love is the answer etc
102 EUGENE RECORD – Overdose of joy
103 CAMEO – The Soundtable
104 MAZE – LP Maze ft Frankie Beverly – Happy feelings/While I’m alone etc
105 BOBBY CALDWELL – What you won’t do for love/Down for the third time
106 BOBBY WOMACK – Harry Hippie
107 GROVER WASHINGTON JR – Mr Magic
108 MARVIN GAYE – LP Midnight love – Heavy love affair/Praise etc
109 YUSAKA AGAWA – LA nights
110 WAR – Galaxy
111 GEORGE BENSON – Love ballad
112 OTIS REDDING – I’ve been loving you too long
113 SLAVE – Wait for me
114 LOWRELL – Mellow mellow (right on)
115 ARNIE’S LOVE – I’m out of your life
116 RICK JAMES – LP Street songs – Give it to me baby/Super freak/Fire and desire etc
117 DON BLACKMAN – LP – Hearts desire/Holding you loving you etc
118 COLLINS & COLLINS – Top of the stairs
119 RUFUS ft CHAKA KHAN – Ain’t nobody
120 BROTHERS JOHNSON – Stomp
121 SLAVE – LP Slave – You and me. Slide/Son of slide etc
122 UNIVERSAL ROBOT BAND – Barely breaking even
123 SOS BAND – The finest
124 INSTANT FUNK – Got my mind made up
125 D’ANGELO – LP Brown sugar – Brown sugar/Cruising etc
126 O’JAYS – Back stabbers
127 PARIS – I choose you
128 VAN McCOY – The hustle
129 NEW JERSEY CONNNECTION – Love don’t come easy
130 JONES GIRLS – LP Jones Girls – Who can I run to/This feeling’s killing me etc
131 SURFACE – Falling in love
132 TERRY CALLIER – Ordinary Joe
133 MARVIN GAYE – Midnight love LP – Sexual healing/Turn on some music/My love is waiting etc
134 ROBERTA FLACK/DONNY HATHAWAY – Back together again
135 JAMES BROWN – Funky drummer
136 TOM BROWNE – Funking for Jamaica
137 ARETHA FRANKLIN – I say a little prayer
138 WILLIE HUTCH -In and out
139 MYSTIC MERLIN – Just can’t give you up
140 BILLY GRIFFIN – Hold me tighter in the rain
141 ESTHER PHILLIPS – LP Home is where the hatred is/From a whisper to a scream etc
142 RANDY BROWN – LP Welcome to my room – I’m always in the mood/Love is all we need etc
143 EARTH WIND & FIRE – Can’t hide love
144 HEATWAVE – LP Always & forever/Ain’t no half stepping/Boogie nights/Too hot to handle
145 KOOL & THE GANG – Open sesame
146 GENE DUNLAP & THE RIDGEWAYS – LP Before you break my heart/It’s just the way I feel etc
147 PRINCE – LP Purple rain – Purple rain/When doves cry etc
148 GAP BAND – Outstanding
149 ATLANTIC STARR – Circles
150 FATBACK BAND – LP Raising hell – Bus stop/Groovy kind of day/Spanish hustle etc
151 SLICK – Space bass
152 MARK JOHNSON – Daydream
153 TEMPTATIONS – LP Masterpiece – Law of the land/Ma/Masterpiece etc
154 SPINNERS – I’ll be around
155 TASHAN – LP Chasing a dream – Read my mind/Got the right attitude/Thank you Father
156 GARY BARTZ – LP Music is my sanctuary – Music is my sanctuary/Carnaval de L’Esprit etc
157 ADRIANA EVANS – LP Adriana Evans – Seeing is believing/Reality/Swimming etc
158 TEENA MARIE – I need your loving
159 LONNIE LISTON SMITH – LP A song for the children – A song for the children/A gift of love etc
160 GARFIELD FLEMING – Don’t send me away
161 JOHNNY HAMMOND – LP Gears – Shifting gears/Los conquistador chocolates etc
162 SAM DEES – LP The show must go on – The show must go on/ Worn out broken heart etc
163 LEROY HUTSON – LP Love oh love – Love oh love/So in love with you etc
164 JACKIE MOORE – This time baby
165 ELGINS – Heaven must have sent you
166 SHERRICK – Just call
167 JACKSONS – Heartbreak (this place) hotel
168 HIROSHI FUKUMURA – Hunt up wind
169 JACKIE WILSON – I get the sweetest feeling
170 STANLEY CLARKE ft HOWARD HEWETT – Heaven sent you
171 BOBBY WOMACK – I wish I didn’t trust you so much
172 MARVIN GAYE – Got to give you up
173 ODYSSEY – Native New Yorker
174 WILLIE BOBO – Always there
175 HAROLD MELVIN & BLUENOTES – Wake up everybody
176 GEORGE BENSON – Love x love
177 SAM COOKE – Change is gonna come
178 KEITH SWEAT – LP Make it last forever – I want you/Make it last forever
179 McFADDDEN & WHITEHEAD – Ain’t no stopping us now
180 CHANTE MOORE – LP Precious – Love’s taken over/It’s alright etc
181 JAMES BROWN – It’s a man’s world
182 BRENDA RUSSELL – In the thick of it
183 SISTER SLEDGE – LP We are family – Lost in music/We are family/Easier to love etc
184 ANGIE STONE – Wish I didn’t miss you
185 UNLIMITED TOUCH – I hear music in the streets
186 BB&Q BAND – On the beat
187 DONALD BYRD – LP Stepping into tomorrow – Think twice/Stepping into tomorrow
188 GEORGE BENSON – Give me the night
189 CHERYL LYNN/LUTHER VANDROSS – If this world were mine
190 WAYNE HENDERSON – Dancing love affair
191 SKYY – Here’s to you
192 WOMACK & WOMACK – LP Love wars – Baby I’m scared of you/Love wars etc
193 TEMPTATIONS – Ain’t too proud to beg
194 QUINCY JONES – LP The dude – Betcha wouldn’t hurt me/Somethin special/Razzamatazz etc
195 EARTH WIND & FIRE – September
196 JACKSON SISTERS – I believe in miracles
197 RAW SILK – Just in time
198 BLACKBYRDS – Walking in rhythm
199 LOUIE VEGA – Elements of life
200 LOU RAWLS – You’ll never find (another love like mine)