Hi everyone - just joined the forum. I'm thrilled to realize that Freestyle is still in the hearts and minds of many people and that this unique style of music still lives on to this day, be it underground or through scattered revivals. I have always been a huge fan of the genre ever since I was a child growing up through the 80's and early 90's. Freestyle is pretty much the only type of music I listen to, and I consider it the only great music genre of any genre, of all time! There's so much great stuff by so many great artists. Many of those performers unfortunately were one-hit-wonders while others only have a handful of hits to their credits. Which means, basically, that there were limited first-run pressings of their music on vinyl. I thought I had a definitive library of the better-known Freestyle hits in my collection until I came across a box of old cassette tapes and played some of them. I discovered a treasure trove of awesome tunes (mostly recorded off of radio broadcasts 15 to 20 years ago) that now I'm frantically looking for but am having a hell of a hard time locating anywhere. I hadn't realized all the stuff I'd been missing until I played those tapes. I've been lucky and have been able to find a song or two here and there but for the most part I've been hitting nothing but roadblocks in my quest to track this stuff down. Some of this material never even made it to CD! So I'm appealing to all my fellow Freestyle fanatics - I need your help finding some of this stuff. I'm gonna list what I believe are the song titles (to the best of my ability - some of these tapes only contained part of a song, some were unintelligible) and if anyone knows who the performer, album, or song is and can tell me where I can buy a CD/CD-R, I'll be forever in your debt. Here goes:
1) "(My) Special Love". This was more like a Freestyle ballad - it was slow, the female artist sounds a bit like Nocera, who performed "Let's Go" and whoever it was, sounded very young. The "My" in the title is in parenthesis because I'm not sure if that's the actual title of the song. Also, there's a song by LaToya Jackson with the same title (It's not the one I want). Some of the lyrics are similar to the lyrics for "Let's Go".
2) "I Don't Need A Sugar Daddy". All I kept hearing was "I Don't Need A Sugar, Sugar, Daddy (to find my way home) on this tape but there are literally dozens of songs with "Sugar Daddy" in the title out there, beginning with the Jackson Five. I'm classifying this a Freestyle song even though my feeling is the performer might be African-American, very young, female, and quite possibly a member of a singing duo or group from the late 80's or early 90's. The song could very well be a Jackson Five remake, who knows? I gotta have it!
3) "Who Will It Be?". Some of the lyrics: "What one has, the other has not; what one gives me, the other does not". Could be by Sasha or Arlene.
4) "It's Too Late" (to change my mind, we can't turn back the hands of time, it's too late to be with you, 'cause you have found somebody new...") ????
5) "Soaking Wet", (you've got me soaking wet..."). Arlene????
6) "Don't Go Away (From Me)". Freestyle/pop.
7) "When the Time Is Right". More like a freestyle ballad. Performer could be Alisha or Sasha.
8) "I Want You Loving Me". Pop-ish Dance, touch of Freestyle.
9) I don't know if there's a song called "Love Is A Four-Letter Word" but that's what I thought I heard on a tape. It sounded like Samantha Fox.
10) This one is a bit of a mystery. The song title, I believe, is "Persuasion". Some of the lyrics are: "I know you know me, I know you care, I know you'll set me free, --- --- Persuasion..." The mystery stems from the fact that it's not really Freestyle, more like Depeche Mode or Information Society. The point is, the performer is a British male,and I distinctly remember the radio station having a "Freestyle Weekend" and playing this song a couple of times over the show.
Well, folks, what do you think? Am I making these songs up out of an analog tape-induced fever dream or do they really exist. Long live Freestyle! Thanks for you help.
1) "(My) Special Love". This was more like a Freestyle ballad - it was slow, the female artist sounds a bit like Nocera, who performed "Let's Go" and whoever it was, sounded very young. The "My" in the title is in parenthesis because I'm not sure if that's the actual title of the song. Also, there's a song by LaToya Jackson with the same title (It's not the one I want). Some of the lyrics are similar to the lyrics for "Let's Go".
2) "I Don't Need A Sugar Daddy". All I kept hearing was "I Don't Need A Sugar, Sugar, Daddy (to find my way home) on this tape but there are literally dozens of songs with "Sugar Daddy" in the title out there, beginning with the Jackson Five. I'm classifying this a Freestyle song even though my feeling is the performer might be African-American, very young, female, and quite possibly a member of a singing duo or group from the late 80's or early 90's. The song could very well be a Jackson Five remake, who knows? I gotta have it!
3) "Who Will It Be?". Some of the lyrics: "What one has, the other has not; what one gives me, the other does not". Could be by Sasha or Arlene.
4) "It's Too Late" (to change my mind, we can't turn back the hands of time, it's too late to be with you, 'cause you have found somebody new...") ????
5) "Soaking Wet", (you've got me soaking wet..."). Arlene????
6) "Don't Go Away (From Me)". Freestyle/pop.
7) "When the Time Is Right". More like a freestyle ballad. Performer could be Alisha or Sasha.
8) "I Want You Loving Me". Pop-ish Dance, touch of Freestyle.
9) I don't know if there's a song called "Love Is A Four-Letter Word" but that's what I thought I heard on a tape. It sounded like Samantha Fox.
10) This one is a bit of a mystery. The song title, I believe, is "Persuasion". Some of the lyrics are: "I know you know me, I know you care, I know you'll set me free, --- --- Persuasion..." The mystery stems from the fact that it's not really Freestyle, more like Depeche Mode or Information Society. The point is, the performer is a British male,and I distinctly remember the radio station having a "Freestyle Weekend" and playing this song a couple of times over the show.
Well, folks, what do you think? Am I making these songs up out of an analog tape-induced fever dream or do they really exist. Long live Freestyle! Thanks for you help.