TOP 500

SOLAR RADIO TOP 500 – 2020…

At the end of 2019, TONY MONSON asked all connected with SOLAR RADIO, including DJs, listeners, artists and all friends of the station to submit their ALL TIME TOP 10 favourite tracks and albums. Contributors totalled some 500 people, from whose suggestions the TOP 500 chart was compiled, the top 300 are listed below:

1  MARVIN GAYE – LP What’s going on – What’s going on/Inner city blues etc

2  DONALD BYRD – LP Places & spaces – Places and places/Change (makes you want to hustle) etc

3  MAZE ft FRANKIE BEVERLY – – Live in New Orleams – Before I let go

4  EARTH WIND & FIRE – LP That;s the way of the world -That’s the way of the world/Shining star etc

5  STEVIE WONDER – LP Songs in the key of life – As/Another star/I wish etc

6  CHANGE – LP The glow of love – Glow of love/Lovers holiday

7  LUTHER VANDROSS – Never too much

8  EARTH WIND & FIRE – LP All n all – Fantasy/Running etc

9  DAVID RUFFIN – Walk away from love

10 ANITA BAKER – LP Rapture – Caught up in the rapture of love/Sweet love etc

11 BOBBY WOMACK – How can you break my heart

12 MICHAEL JACKSON – LP Off the wall – Don’t stop til you get enough/I can’t help it etc

13 LIGHT OF THE WORLD – London town

14 LUTHER VANDROSS – LP Forever for always for love – You’re the sweetest one/Promise me etc

15 ANITA BAKER – LP Songstress – Angel/You’re the best thing yet/Feel the need etc

15 MAZE – Joy and pain

17 MARVIN GAYE – LP I want you – I want you/Come live with me angel etc

18 LEON WARE – Why I came to California

19 BOBBY WOMACK – LP The poet – If you think you’re lonely now/Where do we go from here etc

20 LONNIE LISTON SMITH – Expansions

21 MARVIN GAYE LP Let’s get it on – Let’s get it on/Come get to this etc

22 HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUENOTES – The love I lost

23 TEENA MARIE – Portuguese love

24 PHYLLIS HYMAN – You know to love me

25 MAXWELL- LP Urban hang suite – Ascensions/Something something etc

26 DEXTER WANSEL – Sweetest pain

27 CRUSADERS – Street life

28 CURTIS MAYFIELD – Move on up

29 STEVIE WONDER – LP Innervisions – Too high/Golden lady/Living for the city etc

30 RONNIE LAWS LP – Every generation – Every generation/Young child/OTBA law etc

31 TEMPTATIONS – Just my imagination

32 DONNY HATHAWAY – LP Extensions of a man – Someday we’ll all be free/Love love love etc

33 BOBBY WOMACK – Poet 2 LP – Tell me why/Love has finally come at last etc

34 STEVIE WONDER- LP Talking book – Superstition/You got it bad girl etc

35 BRASS CONSTRUCTION –  LP Brass Construction  – Moving/Changing etc

36 ISLEY BROTHERS – LP 3 + 3 – That lady

37 IDRIS MUHAMMED – Could heaven ever be like this

38 SAM DEES – After all

39 QUINCY JONES – Secret garden

40 ALEXNADER O’NEAL LP  If you were here tonight.What’s missing/A broken heart can mend

41 JOHNNIY TAYLOR – LP Just ain’t good enough – What about this love/Just ain’t good enough etc

42 SUNBURST BAND – Everyday

43 SOUNDS OF BLACKNESS – Optimistic

44 LAMONT DOZIER – LP Lamont – I ain’t playing/You ought to be in pictures etc

45 STEVIE WONDER – LP Music of my mind – Superwoman/I love every little about you etc

46 FUNKADELIC – One Nation Under a Groove

47 DONNY HATHAWAY – The ghetto

48 GROVER WASHINGTON JR – LP Live at the Bijou – Sausalito

40 EARTH WIND & FIRE – LP I am – In the stone/After the love is gone/Boogie wonderland etc

50 ROY AYERS – Running away

51 PARLIAMENT – LP Mothership connection – Give up the funk/P. Funk etc

52 DONALD BYRD – VA LP Bluenote live at the Roxy – Falling like dominoes

53 GIL SCOTT-HERON – The bottle

54 GWEN McCRAE – Keep the fire burning

55 CHAPTER 8 – LP This love’s for real – How can I get next to you/It’s my turn etc

56 PATRICE RUSHEN LP Straight from the heart – Remind me/Forget-me-nots/Number one etc

57 HOLLAND-DOZIER – Why can’t we be lovers

58 ISLEY BROTHERS – LP The heat is on – For the love of you/Hope you feel better love etc

59 LUTHER VANDROSS LP Give me the reason – Give me the reason/See me/Stop to love etc

60 CURTIS MAYFIELD – LP Superfly – Give me your love/Superfly/Pusherman etc

61 JONES GIRLS – Nights over Egypt

62 ASHFORD & SIMPSON – It seems to hang on

63 LONNIE HILL – Galveston bay

64 LEROY HUTSON – LP Hutson – All because of you/Lucky fellow

65 TANIA MARIA – Come with me

66 D-TRAIN – LP You’re the one for me – You’re the one for me/Trying to get over/Keep on etc

67 FRANKIE KNUCKLES – Tears

68 GEORGE DUKE – Brazilian love affair

69 MARIO BIONDI – This is what you are

70 TEDDY PENDERGRASS – LP  – The more I get the more I want/You can’t hide from yourself

71 PLAYERS ASSOCIATION – Turn the music up

72 DONALD BYRD – Love has come around

73 TEENA MARIE  LP Live and Peaceful –  I need your loving/Deja Vu (I’ve Been here before/Sucker for your love

74 ARETHA FRANKLIN – Until you come back to me

75 JEAN CARN – Don’t let it go to your head

76 CANDI STATON – Young hearts run free

77 MAZE – LP We are one – We are one/Love is the key/Right on time etc

78 WILLIAM DeVAUGHN – Be thankful for what you got

79 TEMPTATIONS – Papa was a rolling stone

80 DRIZABONE – Real love

81 STEVIE WONDER – LP Original musiquarium – Do I do/That girl

82 ARETHA FRANKLIN – Angel

83 LUTHER VANDROSS – LP Night I fell in love – My sensitivity/Creeping/Night I fell in love etc

84 HERBIE HANCOCK – LP Head hunters – Chameleon

85 GEORGE BENSON – Breezing

86 GREG HENDERSON – Dreaming

87 SPINNERS – It”s a shame

88 KLEEER – Open your mind

89 MICHAEL WYCOFF – Looking up to you

90 LOOSE ENDS – Hanging on a string

91 KOOL & THE GANG – Summer madness

92 DONNY HATHAWAY – LP Donny Hathaway – A song for you/Giving up

93 STEVIE WONDER – LP Hotter than July – Masterblaster jammin’/All I do etc

94 JILL SCOTT – LP Who is Jill Scott – A long walk/Getting in the way etc

95 WILTON FELDER – Inherit the wind

96 KENI BURKE -Rising to the top

97  LEON WARE-LP Rocking you eternally – Rocking you eternally

98  MAZE LP – Golden time of day – Golden time of day

99  L.J. REYNOLDS Key to the world

100 ARCHIE BELL & DRELLS – Where will you go when the party is over

101 KENI BURKE LP – Let somebody love you/You’re the best/Love is the answer etc

102 EUGENE RECORD – Overdose of joy

103 CAMEO – The Soundtable

104 MAZE – LP Maze ft Frankie Beverly – Happy feelings/While I’m alone etc

105 BOBBY CALDWELL – What you won’t do for love/Down for the third time

106 BOBBY WOMACK – Harry Hippie

107 GROVER WASHINGTON JR – Mr Magic

108 MARVIN GAYE – LP Midnight love – Heavy love affair/Praise etc

109 YUSAKA AGAWA – LA nights

110 WAR – Galaxy

111 GEORGE BENSON – Love ballad

112 OTIS REDDING – I’ve been loving you too long

113 SLAVE – Wait for me

114 LOWRELL – Mellow mellow (right on)

115 ARNIE’S LOVE – I’m out of your life

116 RICK JAMES – LP Street songs – Give it to me baby/Super freak/Fire and desire etc

117 DON BLACKMAN – LP  – Hearts desire/Holding you loving you etc

118 COLLINS & COLLINS – Top of the stairs

119 RUFUS ft CHAKA KHAN – Ain’t nobody

120 BROTHERS JOHNSON  – Stomp

121 SLAVE – LP Slave – You and me. Slide/Son of slide etc

122 UNIVERSAL ROBOT BAND – Barely breaking even

123 SOS BAND – The finest

124 INSTANT FUNK – Got my mind made up

125 D’ANGELO – LP Brown sugar – Brown sugar/Cruising etc

126 O’JAYS – Back stabbers

127 PARIS – I choose you

128 VAN McCOY – The hustle

129 NEW JERSEY CONNNECTION – Love don’t come easy

130 JONES GIRLS – LP Jones Girls – Who can I run to/This feeling’s killing me etc

131 SURFACE – Falling in love

132 TERRY CALLIER – Ordinary Joe

133 MARVIN GAYE – Midnight love LP – Sexual healing/Turn on some music/My love is waiting etc

134 ROBERTA FLACK/DONNY HATHAWAY – Back together again

135 JAMES BROWN – Funky drummer

136 TOM BROWNE – Funking for Jamaica

137 ARETHA FRANKLIN – I say a little prayer

138 WILLIE HUTCH -In and out

139 MYSTIC MERLIN – Just can’t give you up

140 BILLY GRIFFIN – Hold me tighter in the rain

141 ESTHER PHILLIPS – LP Home is where the hatred is/From a whisper to a scream etc

142 RANDY BROWN – LP Welcome to my room – I’m always in the mood/Love is all we need etc

143 EARTH WIND & FIRE – Can’t hide love

144 HEATWAVE – LP Always & forever/Ain’t no half stepping/Boogie nights/Too hot to handle

145 KOOL & THE GANG – Open sesame

146 GENE DUNLAP & THE RIDGEWAYS – LP Before you break my heart/It’s just the way I feel etc

147 PRINCE – LP Purple rain – Purple rain/When doves cry etc

148 GAP BAND – Outstanding

149 ATLANTIC STARR – Circles

150 FATBACK BAND – LP Raising hell – Bus stop/Groovy kind of day/Spanish hustle etc

151 SLICK – Space bass

152 MARK JOHNSON – Daydream

153 TEMPTATIONS – LP Masterpiece – Law of the land/Ma/Masterpiece etc

154 SPINNERS – I’ll be around

155 TASHAN – LP Chasing a dream – Read my mind/Got the right attitude/Thank you Father

156 GARY BARTZ – LP Music is my sanctuary – Music is my sanctuary/Carnaval de L’Esprit etc

157 ADRIANA EVANS – LP Adriana Evans – Seeing is believing/Reality/Swimming etc

158 TEENA MARIE – I need your loving

159 LONNIE LISTON SMITH – LP A song for the children – A song for the children/A gift of love etc

160 GARFIELD FLEMING – Don’t send me away

161 JOHNNY HAMMOND – LP Gears – Shifting gears/Los conquistador chocolates etc

162 SAM DEES – LP The show must go on – The show must go on/ Worn out broken heart etc

163 LEROY HUTSON – LP Love oh love – Love oh love/So in love with you etc

164 JACKIE MOORE – This time baby

165 ELGINS – Heaven must have sent you

166 SHERRICK – Just call

167 JACKSONS – Heartbreak (this place) hotel

168 HIROSHI FUKUMURA – Hunt up wind

169 JACKIE WILSON – I get the sweetest feeling

170 STANLEY CLARKE ft HOWARD HEWETT – Heaven sent you

171 BOBBY WOMACK – I wish I didn’t trust you so much

172 MARVIN GAYE – Got to give you up

173 ODYSSEY – Native New Yorker

174 WILLIE BOBO – Always there

175 HAROLD MELVIN & BLUENOTES – Wake up everybody

176 GEORGE BENSON – Love x love

177 SAM COOKE – Change is gonna come

178 KEITH SWEAT – LP Make it last forever – I want you/Make it last forever

179 McFADDDEN & WHITEHEAD – Ain’t no stopping us now

180 CHANTE MOORE – LP Precious – Love’s taken over/It’s alright etc

181 JAMES BROWN – It’s a man’s world

182 BRENDA RUSSELL – In the thick of it

183 SISTER SLEDGE – LP We are family – Lost in music/We are family/Easier to love etc

184 ANGIE STONE – Wish I didn’t miss you

185 UNLIMITED TOUCH – I hear music in the streets

186 BB&Q BAND – On the beat

187 DONALD BYRD – LP Stepping into tomorrow – Think twice/Stepping into tomorrow

188 GEORGE BENSON – Give me the night

189 CHERYL LYNN/LUTHER VANDROSS – If this world were mine

190 WAYNE HENDERSON – Dancing love affair

191 SKYY – Here’s to you

192 WOMACK & WOMACK – LP Love wars – Baby I’m scared of you/Love wars etc

193 TEMPTATIONS – Ain’t too proud to beg

194 QUINCY JONES – LP The dude – Betcha wouldn’t hurt me/Somethin special/Razzamatazz etc

195 EARTH WIND & FIRE – September

196 JACKSON SISTERS – I believe in miracles

197 RAW SILK – Just in time

198 BLACKBYRDS – Walking in rhythm

199 LOUIE VEGA – Elements of life

200 LOU RAWLS – You’ll never find (another love like mine)

201 ROSE ROYCE – Still in love

202 HOWARD JOHNSON – Keeping love new

203 EDDIE RUSS – LP See the light – Zaius/See the light

204 BOBBY WOMACK – Across 110th street

205 TEENA MARIE – It must be magic

206 MASTERS AT WORK – To be in love

207 ROSE ROYCE – Is it love you’re after

208 BARRY WHITE – Let the music play

209 MFSB – Mysteries of the world

210 JOHNNY GILL – My my my

211 SUGARHILL GANG – Rappers delight

212 PRINCE – I wanna be your lover

213 SEAWIND – LP Seawind – He loves you

214 ALPHONSE MOUZON – LP By all means – By all means/Do I have to

215 LENNY WELCH – Since I fell  you

216 KLEEER – LP Intimate connection – Intimate connection/You did it again/Next time it’s for real etc

217 MARLENA SHAW – Go away little boy

218 GEORGE SOULE – Get involved

219 ORIGINALS – Baby I’m for real

220 KAZU MATSUI PROJECT LP Standing on the outside – Time flies/Sunset memories etc

221 HERBIE HANCOCK – I thought it was you

222 BROTHERS JOHNSON – Streetwave

223 AQUARIAN DREAM – You’re a star

224 EARTH WIND & FIRE – LP Gratitude – Reasons/Africano etc

225 CHUCKII BOOKER – Games

226 WORLD PREMIERE – Share the night

227 THELMA HOUSTON – Saturday night Sunday morning

228 McCRARYS – Love on a summer night

229 LOU RAWLS – Stop me from starting this feeling

230 DARRELL BANKS – Open the door to your heart

231 CARL ANDERSON – Buttercup

232 EMOTIONS – Don’t ask my neighbours

233 O’JAYS – Extraordinary girl

234 ROY AYERS – LP Mystic moment – Evolution/Life is just a moment etc

235 DONALD BYRD – LP Street lady – Street lady

236 JOHNNY GUITAR WATSON – I need it

237 BLUE ZONE – Big thing

238 ARETHA FRANKLIN – LP Lady soul – Ain’t no way/Since you’ve been gone

239 TEMPTATIONS – My girl

240 TEENA MARIE – Behind the groove

241 JIMMY COBB – So nobody else can hear

242 SLY & THE FAMILY STONE –  If you want me to stay

243 MTUME -So you wanna be a star

244 ISLEY BROTHERS – My love is your love

245 4 HERO – Les fleur

246 ROSE ROYCE – Wishing on a star

247 O’JAYS – For the love of money

248 JAMIROQUAI – Space cowboy

249 MANHATTANS – Crazy

250 INCOGNITO – Always there

251 CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD – Give me just a little more time

252 ARETHA FRANKLIN – Daydreaming

253 PLEASURE – LP Accept no substitutes – Ghettos of the mind

254 JEAN CARN – Was that all it was

255 SHARON REDD – Never give you up

256 CHI-LITES – Changing for you

257 JAMES BROWN – Get up offa that thing

258 CONTOURS – Just a little misunderstanding

259 MANU DIBANGO – Big blow

260 STEVE PARKS – Moving in the right direction

261 BILLY PAUL – Me & Mrs. Jones

262 BREAKWATER – Say you love me girl

263 PEOPLES CHOICE – Do it anyway you wanna

264 EUGENE WILDE -Gotta get you home tonight

265 WINDJAMMER – Tossing and turning

266 BERNARD WRIGHT – Who do you love

267 SHAUN ESCOFFERY – Space rider

268 CON FUNK SHUN – Got to be enough

269 FATBACK – She’s my shining star

270 ROY AYERS –  LP- Can’t you see me/You send me/Get on up get on down/And don’t you say no

271 STEVE ARRINGTON’S HALL OF FAME – LP   – You meet my approval/Weak at the knees etc

272 DAVID BENDETH – Feel the  real

273 POCKETS – Come go with me

274 T-CONNECTION – Do what you wanna do

275 PLEASURE – Glide

276 JEFFREY OSBORNE – I really don’t need no light

277 BOBBY McFERRIN – LP Bobby McFerrin – Moondance/Dance with me etc

278 AL GREEN – LP Love and happiness/I’m still in love with you/For rhe good times etc

279 LAURYN HILL – LP Miseducation of Lauryn Hill – Ex-factor/Doo-wop etc

280 JOHN LEGEND – Ordinary people

281 CHI-LITES – You don’t have to go

282 CHIC – Good times

283 DONALD BYRD – Loving you

284 ARETHA FRANKLIN – LP Jump to it – Jump to it/It’s just your love/Love me right etc

285 MINNIE RIPPERTON – Inside my love

286 GREGORY PORTER – LP Take me to the alley – Insanity/Holding on/French African queen etc

287 OMAR – There’s nothing like this

288 WEBSTER LEWIS – LP Touch my love – Barbara Ann

289 INCOGNITO – Parisienne girl

290 MARVIN GAYE – Abraham Martin & John

291 MASURRATI & HUEY HARRIS – Super duper lovin’

292 FRIENDS OF DISTINCTION – Grazing in the grass

293 JAMES BROWN  Sex machine

294 O’JAYS – Used to be my girl

295 OHIO PLAYERS – LP Honey – Sweet sticky thing/Love rollercoaster etc

296 HUDSON PEOPLE – Trip to your mind

297 NOLAN PORTER – If I could only be sure

298 ALICIA MYERS . I want to thank you

299 JONES GIRLS – Keep it coming

300 JOCELYN BROWN – Somebody else’s guy