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George Clinton just released the (mostly) covers album "George Clinton and his Gangsters of Love" which features lots of guest artists.

The track list:
Ain't That Peculiar (With Sly Stone & El DeBarge)
Never Gonna Give You Up (With El DeBarge)
Mathematics of Love (With Kim Burrell)
Let the Good Times Roll (With Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Pledging My Love
Gypsy Woman (With Santana)
It's All In the Game (With Belita Woods of p-funk)
Heart Trouble
Our Day Will Come (With Kendra Foster of P-Funk)
Sway (With Belita Woods)
A Thousand Miles Away
Heaven (With RZA)
As In
Stillness In Motion (With Shavo of System of a Down)
Fever (With Sly Stone)

You can listen to (and buy) the album by George Clinton and his Gangsters of Love at iTunes (US/UK/Germany). Or, for a lower price, at emusic.

There currently is a video with George Clinton's live performance of "Ain't That Peculiar" on September 17's Tonight Show at MySpace.

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The Other Side of Pain by DeBarge
http://www.mamadebarge.com/othersideofthepain.htm

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z275/2SerenityLife/Othersidefinal.jpg

Wow..

Honestly, I had no idea what to expect out of the book by the mother of the famous, DeBarge family.

If you do not remember their music, take a listen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK5y1wenkE8 El DeBarge performing All This Love (LIVE) AHHHHHHHHHH

Rhythm of the Night - DeBarge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXEKhLe0MY0

Who's Johnny - El DeBarge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jaWPQ3Z7FE

Who's Holding Donna (LIVE) - DeBarge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELq32-p6Vf0

Love Me in a Special Way - El DeBarge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kActy9R9xIE


As a kid growing up in the 1980s, I adored the music of the Debarge family for it made me happy and full of optimism but I honestly did not know there was a dark side until the 1990s when Chico Debarge was arrested and in jail for drug trafficking.
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For a streamable tag radio of all the artists listed here, click here for Motown records radio


Motown Records, also known as Tamla-Motown outside of the United States, is a record label originally based out of Detroit, Michigan ("Motor City"), where it achieved widespread international success. Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as the first record label owned by an African American and primarily featuring African American artists to regularly achieve crossover success and have a widespread, lasting effect on the music industry.

Incorporated on 12 January 1959 by Berry Gordy, Jr. as Tamla Records, Motown has, over the course of its history, owned or distributed releases from more than 45 subsidiaries in varying genres, although it is most famous for its releases in the musical genres of R&B, hip hop, pop, and soul. Motown left Detroit for Los Angeles in 1972, and remained an independent company until 1988, when Gordy sold the company to MCA. …