BROTHERS JOHNSON Light Up The Night SWEET THUNDER HALF-SPEED Audiophile SEALED
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THE BROTHERS JOHNSON Light Up The Night
New & Sealed Vinyl Record
Record Label: Sweet Thunder Edition 10
Classic 1980 funk LP produced by Quincy Jones and featuring a song and background vocals by Michael Jackson. Features the hit single "Stomp!"
Authentic, ultra-rare SWEET THUNDER audiophile LP. Half Speed mastered from the original analog tapes and custom pressed on Teldec high quality, high density, virgin vinyl.
Record is new and sealed in it's original shrink-wrap. Both corners opposite the spine are slightly stubbed.
Side 1
1. Stomp!
2. Light up the Night
3. You Make Me Wanna Wiggle
4. Treasure
Side 2
5. This Had to Be
6. All About the Heaven
7. Smilin' on Ya
8. Closer to the One That You Love
9. Celebrations
Review: Light Up the Night marked the end of an era for the Brothers Johnson... it was the last of four albums that Quincy Jones produced for the Los Angeles siblings, and it was the last time a Brothers Johnson album was truly excellent instead of merely decent. When Jones was producing the Brothers Johnson's albums from 1976-1980, he gave them something their subsequent albums lacked... consistency. Even though George and Lewis Johnson recorded some decent material after Light Up the Night, none of their post-Jones albums had the type of consistency that Jones gives this 1980 release.
The album gets off to an impressive start with the major hit "Stomp!" (a definitive example of the smooth, sleek brand of funk that was termed sophisticated funk in the late '70s and early '80s), and the tracks that follow are equally memorable. From the sleek sophisti-funk of "You Make Me Wanna Wiggle," "This Had to Be" (which was co-written by Michael Jackson and employs him as a background vocalist), and the title song to the tender R&B/pop ballads "Treasure" and "All About the Heaven," Light Up the Night is without a dull moment.
Sweet Thunder was an audiophile label specializing in re-issues of the late seventies, early eighties. half-Speed Mastered only from First Generation analog masters, Sweet Thunder paid meticulous attention to detail and sonic nuances like few other high end labels of the era. Their releases are characterized by the massively extended dynamic and frequency range, near-compulsive attention paid to the integrity of the pressing and highest quality of the material: only the "virgin" (audiophile-grade) vinyl was used, and most LP albums were pressed at RCA/Victor and/or Warner-Pioneer corporations of Japan... both known for extremely fine sounding records.
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