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