- Compiled, produced, mixed and arranged by MJ for SoulUnique.net
- Sunday 6th April & Sunday 13th April 2008
 I'M GOING DOWN- A phrase now that has more meanings that I can mention!
- Transport yourself back to the mid seventies in our time machine, which I would willingly take a hammer to once there to right some wrongs, if I didn’t have a beautiful family and some pretty cool friends....
- "I'm going down", back then, meant life’s on the slide, a term often used by super talented singers, producers, and artists who knew all to well what struggle meant as America suffered yet another depression there songs captured the mood all too well: JAMES BROWN, BOOTSIE COLLINGS, PARLIEMENT all to name just a few portrayed the hard time but still fell on deaf ears.
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- It wasn’t until the heavenly vocals of GWEN DICKY, lead vocalist of the band ROSE ROYCE, cut the hit I'M GOING DOWN that the mainstream could not ignore the message any longer. How could they? This infectious tune cut straight to the hearts of hurting Americans and, backed up by an album, ripped straight from a major motion picture it became the smash hit of 1978.
- 1978 is where our mission starts to celebrate these pioneering artists, unsung heroes and lovers of the groove. For the next ten weeks we will, hopefully with your help to via the SPIN BIN, revive, recapture and most importantly celebrate all those rare gems presented to you via my show SOUL A M. Remember, the tunes you hear are always originals, only ON vinyl... CAN YOU DIGG IT?
- I know you can, as it all gets very interesting late seventies. This was when we felt the death of disco, sabotaged on purporse. But disco captured hearts, making all it touched happy, giving people hope, all of which was not on the menu. Disco music was adopted, mainstreamed, used in adverts and cheesy promotions - all intended to water down hope! And it did just that. This was America and so it didn’t stop there, such was ferocity in which the destruction of disco was orchestrated, they had more than a few believe all disco was the devil's music. In fact, we had mass bonfires in baseball stadiums to rid people's lives of this phenomenon, and many also say it was just a way to get rid of "BLACK MUSIC" and the message behond it.
- The artists slipped back into the underworld. But they soon re-emerged with something even powerful to coincide with a new decade...
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