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 third segment of which- 201 to 300 – is below…
201 ROSE ROYCE – Still in love
202 HOWARD JOHNSON – Keeping love new
203 EDDIE RUSS – LP See the light – Zaius/See the light
204 BOBBY WOMACK – Across 110th street
205 TEENA MARIE – It must be magic
206 MASTERS AT WORK – To be in love
207 ROSE ROYCE – Is it love you’re after
208 BARRY WHITE – Let the music play
209 MFSB – Mysteries of the world
210 JOHNNY GILL – My my my
211 SUGARHILL GANG – Rappers delight
212 PRINCE – I wanna be your lover
213 SEAWIND – LP Seawind – He loves you
214 ALPHONSE MOUZON – LP By all means – By all means/Do I have to
215 LENNY WELCH – Since I fell you
216 KLEEER – LP Intimate connection – Intimate connection/You did it again/Next time it’s for real etc
217 MARLENA SHAW – Go away little boy
218 GEORGE SOULE – Get involved
219 ORIGINALS – Baby I’m for real
220 KAZU MATSUI PROJECT LP Standing on the outside – Time flies/Sunset memories etc
221 HERBIE HANCOCK – I thought it was you
222 BROTHERS JOHNSON – Streetwave
223 AQUARIAN DREAM – You’re a star
224 EARTH WIND & FIRE – LP Gratitude – Reasons/Africano etc
225 CHUCKII BOOKER – Games
226 WORLD PREMIERE – Share the night
227 THELMA HOUSTON – Saturday night Sunday morning
228 McCRARYS – Love on a summer night
229 LOU RAWLS – Stop me from starting this feeling
230 DARRELL BANKS – Open the door to your heart
231 CARL ANDERSON – Buttercup
232 EMOTIONS – Don’t ask my neighbours
233 O’JAYS – Extraordinary girl
234 ROY AYERS – LP Mystic moment – Evolution/Life is just a moment etc
235 DONALD BYRD – LP Street lady – Street lady
236 JOHNNY GUITAR WATSON – I need it
237 BLUE ZONE – Big thing
238 ARETHA FRANKLIN – LP Lady soul – Ain’t no way/Since you’ve been gone
239 TEMPTATIONS – My girl
240 TEENA MARIE – Behind the groove
241 JIMMY COBB – So nobody else can hear
242 SLY & THE FAMILY STONE – If you want me to stay
243 MTUME -So you wanna be a star
244 ISLEY BROTHERS – My love is your love
245 4 HERO – Les fleur
246 ROSE ROYCE – Wishing on a star
247 O’JAYS – For the love of money
248 JAMIROQUAI – Space cowboy
249 MANHATTANS – Crazy
250 INCOGNITO – Always there
251 CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD – Give me just a little more time
252 ARETHA FRANKLIN – Daydreaming
253 PLEASURE – LP Accept no substitutes – Ghettos of the mind
254 JEAN CARN – Was that all it was
255 SHARON REDD – Never give you up
256 CHI-LITES – Changing for you
257 JAMES BROWN – Get up offa that thing
258 CONTOURS – Just a little misunderstanding
259 MANU DIBANGO – Big blow
260 STEVE PARKS – Moving in the right direction
261 BILLY PAUL – Me & Mrs. Jones
262 BREAKWATER – Say you love me girl
263 PEOPLES CHOICE – Do it anyway you wanna
264 EUGENE WILDE -Gotta get you home tonight
265 WINDJAMMER – Tossing and turning
266 BERNARD WRIGHT – Who do you love
267 SHAUN ESCOFFERY – Space rider
268 CON FUNK SHUN – Got to be enough
269 FATBACK – She’s my shining star
270 ROY AYERS – LP- Can’t you see me/You send me/Get on up get on down/And don’t you say no
271 STEVE ARRINGTON’S HALL OF FAME – LP – You meet my approval/Weak at the knees etc
272 DAVID BENDETH – Feel the real
273 POCKETS – Come go with me
274 T-CONNECTION – Do what you wanna do
275 PLEASURE – Glide
276 JEFFREY OSBORNE – I really don’t need no light
277 BOBBY McFERRIN – LP Bobby McFerrin – Moondance/Dance with me etc
278 AL GREEN – LP Love and happiness/I’m still in love with you/For rhe good times etc
279 LAURYN HILL – LP Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – Ex-factor/Doo-wop etc
280 JOHN LEGEND – Ordinary people
281 CHI-LITES – You don’t have to go
282 CHIC – Good times
283 DONALD BYRD – Loving you
284 ARETHA FRANKLIN – LP Jump to it – Jump to it/It’s just your love/Love me right etc
285 MINNIE RIPPERTON – Inside my love
286 GREGORY PORTER – LP Take me to the alley – Insanity/Holding on/French African queen etc
287 OMAR – There’s nothing like this
288 WEBSTER LEWIS – LP Touch my love – Barbara Ann
289 INCOGNITO – Parisienne girl
290 MARVIN GAYE – Abraham Martin & John
291 MASURRATI & HUEY HARRIS – Super duper lovin’
292 FRIENDS OF DISTINCTION – Grazing in the grass
293 JAMES BROWN Sex machine
294 O’JAYS – Used to be my girl
295 OHIO PLAYERS – LP Honey – Sweet sticky thing/Love rollercoaster etc
296 HUDSON PEOPLE – Trip to your mind
297 NOLAN PORTER – If I could only be sure
298 ALICIA MYERS . I want to thank you
299 JONES GIRLS – Keep it coming
300 JOCELYN BROWN – Somebody else’s guy