Skyy

Four CD set of the complete Salsoul Collection by Soul Funk and Disco Band Skyy plus bonus tracks of 12" and 7" versions of key repertoire. Including the albums Skyy, Skyway, Skyyport, Skyyline, Skyyjammer, Skyylight and Inner City plus bonus tracks from 1979 through 1984. Featuring all of the big floor fillers, including 'Here For You', 'First Time Around', 'Call Me', 'Let's Celebrate', 'Bad Boy', 'This Groove Is Bad' plus many, many more. Skyy was the brainchild of Randy Muller, a multi-talented musician originally from Guyana. Muller worked with B. T. Express before forming Brass Construction. Skyy consisted of Solmon Roberts Jr, Anibal Sierra, Gerald Lebon, Tommy McConnell, Wayne Wilentz, Denise Dunning, Bonne Dunning and Delores Dunning, along with help from Randy Muller, who with Solmon Roberts Jr produced all the Skyy Salsoul Albums.

2014 two CD set. SKYYHIGH: THE Skyy ANTHOLOGY gathers together the best singles and album cuts credited to the group from a chart career spanning three decades and including many bone-fide classics such as 'First Time Around,' 'High,' 'Here's to You,' 'Let's Celebrate,' 'Movin' Violation,' and 'Show Me the Way' as well as their biggest R&B hit, the #1 'Call Me.' SKYYHIGH: THE Skyy ANTHOLOGY, is presented as a double CD package inside a super jewel case complete with extensive liner notes, archive pictures and full credits for every track. Featuring all of the groups R&B charted singles from their Salsoul period - SKYYHIGH: THE Skyy ANTHOLOGY, is a definitive anthology of an incredible group who became one of the leading lights of the Disco and Dance scene in the 1970's and 1980's making this a must have for all R&B, Soul, Funk, Disco and Dance fans out there!

"Skyy Line" is the 4th album by New York City based group Skyy released in 1981. In the late 70's Skyy landed a deal with the legendary Salsoul Records. Skyy released three albums with some R&B success, but it wasn't until the release of "Skyy Line" in 1981 that the group achieved cross over popularity. The album was their biggest Pop chart placement, climbing all the way to #18 while rocketing to the top spot on the US R&B chart and later winning a coveted RIAA Gold Certification.

Above the album worked the 'Salsoul Original 100', and his release took place on 2021. The album has got songs with a total duration of more than an hour. A compilation is a compilation of original music.

Over the last few months, I’ve been reviewing just a few of the Backbeats series of compilations released by Harmless since 2009. This is a comprehensive overview of various genres of music that numbers everything from Deep Soul, Eighties Garage and Northern Soul to Philly Soul, Disco and House music. One of my favorites of the thirty compilations that Backbeats, a subsidiary of Harmless have released is The Big Apple Bites Back-New York House and Remix Culture, released in July 2010. This is compilation that contains a combination of Salsoul and house music, many of which are remixed by various DJs. Among the DJs remixing tracks are Frankie Knuckles, Kerri Chandler, Joe Clausell and Blaze.

Enjoy this Compilation with the most successful 100 Greatest 90s R&B singers like Changing Faces, Faith Evans, Karyn White and many more!

Dimitri From Paris present Salsoul Mastermix sees the world’s foremost purveyor of quality disco get to grips with a catalogue of undeniable depth and quality, presenting both a DJ mix and a collection of exclusive re-edits. CD1 sees Dimitri select not only a number of seminal disco classics, but also a who’s who of remix pioneers. From Frankie Knuckles, Shep Pettibone and Larry Levan to Walter Gibbons, Francois K and Tom Moulton: the tracklist includes reinterpretations that set the remix blueprint for generations, and are still heavily influential to this day.

Salsoul Records is an American New York City based record label, founded by three brothers, Joseph Cayre, Kenneth Cayre, and Stanley Cayre (the Cayre brothers). Salsoul issued about 300 singles, including many disco/post-disco 12-inch releases, and a string of albums in the 1970s and early 1980s.The label started in business in 1974, went defunct in 1985 and was relaunched in 1992. Artists such as The Salsoul Orchestra (led by Vincent Montana Jr), Aurra, Skyy, Inner Life, Rafael Cameron, Edwin Birdsong, Instant Funk, Loleatta Holloway, Civil Attack, Double Exposure, Love Committee(Gold Mind), First Choice, Joe Bataan, The Strangers, Moment of Truth, Vaughan Mason & Butch Dayo, Carol Williams, Jocelyn Brown, and Charo were at one time part of their roster.Bethlehem Music Company's catalogs, which included Salsoul Records, Bethlehem Records (a jazz label) and others, were licensed by Verse music group from 2010 for five years, before Verse's catalogs were bought out by BMG Rights Management in 2015.

When he played his revamp of Gwen McCrae's "Funky Sensation" during a 1981 DJ slot on New York's WBLS, Shep Pettibone perked the ears of then-emergent producer Arthur Baker. The presenter and co-producer of this boxed set consequently initiated a collaboration on the answer record "Jazzy Sensation," the first 12" crediting Pettibone. By the end of the next year, Pettibone's solo "mastermixes" had become so numerous and prized that a dozen for the Prelude label alone were rounded up for commercial release on double vinyl. The DJ and remix artist soon diversified as a pop producer, most notably as an indispensable Madonna associate. The four-disc Classic 12" Master-Mixes features neither "Funky Sensation" nor "Jazzy Sensation," and doesn't include anything Pettibone did for Prelude or with Madonna.