However it will take a full sector effort to make sure change is fully committed to and plans delivered on to make a sizeable change. I'd do anything for you, your wish is my command They were, as they say themselves, pioneers in soul, funk, and dance music. The question is whether this talent will fare better in establishing themselves solidly amongst their peers who are reaping the fruits of an Urban music hungry industry. We celebrate our status as a port and the mix of cultures that’s a direct result of this. They put out a number of records but failed to achieve the success they deserved. Everything that I possess I'd gladly sacrifice. It was the same situation with a group of MC’s who were making a bit of a name for themselves in the city at the time but never seemed to break out. Some of the chorus: Meet me after sunset, summer will be over? I hear a song at WalMart (Canada) every day. Meanwhile Lloyd Massett who had provided his bass playing/songwriting prowess to a number of other Liverpool groups was a having a shot of his own with Raw Unltd. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. As with Bantu it wasn’t to be. There must be some other way to make you see. But one that is not just overdue but necessary.”, Kev McManus, Head of UNESCO City of Music with contributions from Yaw Owusu, LIMF Music Curator, Inside the Messy World of U.S. Publishing Rights, Taylor Swift’s Lackluster Attempt At Being Indie on “folklore”: A Review, Rappers will become more accountable for their lyrics, Rihanna’s Dark & Deeply Personal ‘Rated R’: 10 Years Later, ‘Does Your Mother Know’: The Story Behind The ABBA Song | uDiscover. There was a decent local reggae group around this time as well, called Jah Deanko who I reviewed a few times but who ultimately failed to make a mark and disbanded. Join Yahoo Answers and get 100 points today. (Your the sweetest song that I could sing. Why don’t we make more of the success stories that we have had? It's a 1976 song, and one of the few hits for The Real Thing, a soul act from the UK. Again, the will was there but the flagship talent to be the face of it wasn’t. There lies the challenge. ), Brittany Spears-Hit Me Baby One More Time. The questions that keep coming up are along the lines of: why haven’t there been more musical success stories from Liverpool’s black communities and what can we do to change this? Tremz even has Drake courting him for a collaboration. We have enjoyed generations of Irish immigration here from those escaping the potato famine in the mid nineteenth century through to people like my Mum and Dad who came here in the 1950s to find work and ended up exchanging the picturesque farmland where they’d grown up for the dockside bleakness of beautiful Bootle. One of the proposed measures include looking at how black music, both contemporary and historical, can be incorporated in the City’s music narrative and given its relative kudos. http://www.lyricsdownload.com/real-thing-the-you-t... What song title do you like that starts with the letter R? Related . But it does beg the question why they aren’t front and centre when we celebrate Liverpool’s musical greatness? There was a real buzz about them for a time but the initial industry interest waned and sadly came to nothing. You can easily find plenty of their music online so have a listen. She tends to get mentioned more for her football career but as well as being an artist in her own right (signed to RCA) she has written songs for many major industry names including Dua Lipa, and Kylie Minogue. "You To Me Are Everything". Hmmm, I would take the stars out of the sky for you. I had a particular fondness for Bantu, who I saw loads of times and got to know a little bit. I haven’t got the stats to hand but music of black origin must easily be the biggest selling/streaming music of the last ten years. (There’s another documentary that Yaw Owusu, co-writer of this piece was involved in producing called L8: A TimePiece which is well worth checking out too on Vimeo). Hopefully you will watch the documentary, discover or rediscover how good The Real Thing actually were and wonder why we don’t hear more about their remarkable career. It’s a challenge. This album contained the wonderful Amoo brothers track Children of the Ghetto, a beautiful song and a powerful piece of social commentary that’s just as relevant now as it was back in the 1970s. A couple of things prompted me to write this piece. While Jetta — who was born and raised in Liverpool — had a song produced by Pharrell Williams on the back of having her song used as the theme of the Super Bowl in the U.S — she is now signed with 3Beat. What does the song it’s oh so quiet by bjork means. The Chants were a vocal harmony group who according to some stories impressed Paul McCartney so much when he saw them that he invited them to audition at the Cavern where The Beatles themselves backed them on stage. You to me are everything - The Real Thing, To you i guess i'm just a clown .who picks you up each time your down....oh baby.