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Cat: EXLPM 66. Rel: 9 Mar 20
Funk/Rare Groove

Side 1 - Track 1. Ladies Of The Eighties Side 1 - Track 2. Tell Him Side 1 - Track 3. He Is Mine Forever Side 1 - Track 4. Ladies Of The Eighties (instrumental) Side 2 - Track 1. I Knew That Love Side 2 - Track 2. It's Easy To Move Side 2 - Track 3. Sing Me Side 2 - Track 4. Turned On To You

Back in 1980, Roy Ayers assembled the Eighties Ladies - a soulful vocal quintet whose members included sometime Aquarian Dream vocalist Sylvia Striplin. Sadly the group didn't last long, but their vibrant "Ladies Of The Eighties" single - a fine disco-tinged slab of boogie/jazz-funk fusion - became a big club hit. Their debut album, which is here reissued for the first time, is equally as impressive, with highlights including the rushing, part-rapped, attitude-laden "Tell Him" - later covered in the bruk era by West London outfit BB Boogie - cheery "I Knew That Love" and the liquid slap bass-propelled intergalactic space funk jam "It's Easy To Move" standing out. Throughout, Roy Ayers' production and arrangements are as tidy as you'd expect.