Get ready to shadow dance your Friday away with the help of Ndugu and this week’s Jheri Curl Fridays column.
Jheri Curl Fridays
Jheri Curl Fridays: “Piano In The Dark”
Put your feet up and get smooth with Brenda Russell in the latest installment of Jheri Curl Fridays.
Jheri Curl Fridays: “I Love You Babe”
Musically, Babyface has always been smooth. Visually? Not so much. Let’s take it back in this week’s Jheri Curl Fridays column.
Jheri Curl Fridays: “Behind The Mask”
The man behind the keyboard is pretty “Bad” himself. Find out more in this week’s installment of JCF!
Jheri Curl Fridays: “Love Always”
El DeBarge rings in this week’s installment of Jheri Curl Fridays.
Jheri Curl Fridays: “Mama Used To Say”
Mama probably wants you to get down with Junior’s funk jam from 1982!
Jheri Curl Fridays Presents The Definitive Guide to ’80s R&B: Gregory Abbott
With dashing good looks (like a singing version of Philip Michael Tho—oh, wait…) and a suave demeanor, Gregory Abbott briefly topped the charts in the mid-late Eighties with hits like the smash slow jam “Shake You Down.” Born in New York City of Venezuelan and Antiguan parents (accounting for his exotic good looks,) Gregory took to music at a young age—in addition to a variety of other pursuits. The vocalist and multi-instrumentalist majored in psychology, and taught English at U-Cal/Berkeley […]
Jheri Curl Fridays: “Too Late” by Junior
Although he’s most fondly remembered for 1982’s dance jam “Mama Used to Say”, British singer/songwriter Junior Giscombe followed that hit up with the arguably better morality tale “Too Late”. The song is an interesting study in contrasts: Junior’s fey vocals are telling an emotionally wrenching story about a man who mistreats his woman while their children watch. The woman being mistreated is summoning up the courage to grab the kids and get the hell out. The instrumentation is similarly tough-the […]
