Top Of The Box

Back in 1985 when Whitney Houston released her self titled debut album she took the popular music market by storm, creating the biggest selling debut album by a female artist, spawning the hits  You Give Good Love, HowWill I Know, Saving All My Love For You and The Greatest Love Of All.
The follow up in [...]

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The Fugees live on Later with Jools Holland in 1996, performing Killing Me Softly, the song that brought the band to the attention of the UK public and bringing hip hop into mainstream R&B music.
Taken from the classic album The Score which launched the careers of the band’s members, Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras [...]

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This is Quincy Jones featuring the vocals of James Ingram on the 1980’s song One Hundred Ways. This performance is shot at the Paramount Theater,  Seattle in 1983.
Quincy Jones and James Ingram – One Hundred Ways

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Like A Star is the beautiful opening track on Corinne Bailey Rae’s outstanding eponymous debut album in 2006.
Corinne Bailey Rae has an incredible voice, sweet and sexy at the same time and in this video she looks like she sounds.
Corinne Bailey Rae – Like A Star

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From the brilliant Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill album from 1998, this is Doo Wop (That Thing), Lauryn’s best selling UK single, having reached number three here, but number one in the US.
It’s a great track with a great video.
Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing)

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