Change
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Biography
[Edit]European-American collaborations were not uncommon during the disco and post-disco eras. Donna Summer's work with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte was most prominent and groundbreaking, while Change was among the most noteworthy — yet somewhat overlooked — international acts to spring up during the early ‘80s. Driven by Guadeloupian producer Jacques Fred Petrus and Italian partner Mario Malavasi, Change is most commonly associated with “The Glow of Love,” a 1980 single featuring Luther Vandross over a wistful Chic-like production. Through a series of minor transformations — a shifting array of vocalists and behind-the-scenes associates — the group released 11 other charting singles from 1980 through 1985, as well as six charting albums, two of which peaked in the Top Ten of Billboard’s R&B Albums chart.
When Petrus and Malavasi conceptualized Change, they had several projects under their belts, including Macho, Midnight Band, Revanche, and Peter Jacques Band. They brought in guitarist Paolo Gianolio and bassist Davide Romani, composed instrumentals, then looked to the U.S. for an impressive crop of lyricists and vocalists — Wayne Garfield (Roy Ayers, Candi Staton), Tanyayette Willoughby (Twennynine), Jocelyn Brown (Musique, Inner Life), and Luther Vandross (Chic, Gregg Diamond Bionic Boogie). The result, Glow of Love, reached number ten on the R&B chart, driven by “Glow of Love” and “Searching” (with Vandross as lead vocalist, just prior to his solo breakthrough), “Angel in My Pocket” (a fusion of electronic Italo disco and Chic-style elegance led by Brown), and “A Lover’s Holiday” (boasting the type of snappy, upbeat group vocal that became a Petrus trademark through productions for High Fashion, the B.B. & Q. Band, and the Ritchie Family).
Some of the material for the group’s second album was written with Vandross in mind, but the singer and Petrus could not agree on contract issues, allowing James “Crab” Robinson — who had recorded with Lonnie Liston Smith, Norman Connors, and Michal Urbaniak — to enter the fold as a lead vocalist. While Vandross was still present in the background, Robinson was showcased, as was an assortment of females that included Brown (then credited as Jocelyn Shaw), Diva Gray, and Ullanda McCullough. That album, Miracles, was released in 1981 and repeated Glow of Love's feat, managing to top out at number nine with a relatively unique sound — remarkably sleek, yet rhythmically robust — highlighted by the number one club-chart triad “Paradise,” “Hold Tight,” and “Heaven of My Life.”
Compared to the group’s first two albums, Sharing Your Love (1982) and This Is Your Time (1983) were holding-pattern releases without a great deal of progression, though minor hits were spun off from both sets. Malavasi, Romani, and Robinson departed. Petrus responded in a shrewd way by hiring ex-Time members Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who were just starting to hit their stride with the S.O.S. Band and Cheryl Lynn, to produce 1984’s Change of Heart. The title song, featuring Deborah Cooper, reached number seven on the R&B chart, while newer fellow member Rick Brennan was used to best effect on “You Are My Melody,” a midtempo song that didn’t chart in the U.S. but stands among the group’s best output.
Timmy Allen, who also had a hand in the writing and production of Change of Heart, wrote three-fourths of 1985’s Turn on Your Radio and co-produced the album with Petrus. Its singles did not perform well, though there was some solid material, such as “Mutual Attraction” — a song that could have held its own beside some of the year’s most advanced R&B, from Maze’s “Twilight” to Loose Ends' “Magic Touch.” Other songs, like the ballad “You’ll Always Be Part of Me,” resembled Jam and Lewis/S.O.S. Band outtakes. It would be the group’s last recording under the guidance of Petrus; the producer was murdered in 1987 at his Guadeloupe villa by a disgruntled tourist who, earlier that evening, had been denied entrance into Petrus’ night club. A few years later, Romani and a handful of fellow producers and musicians made another Change album — a set of adequate, sophisticated, turn-of-the-‘90s R&B with some club grooves — but it was shelved and didn’t see release until 2009 as Change Your Mind. The group’s 1980-1985 releases were reissued in a number of forms throughout the ‘90s and 2000s via labels like Rhino, Wounded Bird, and BBR.
Title: Mutual Attraction (Disco Mix - Original 12 Inch Version) [Remixes] - EP
Artist: Change
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap
Title: Searching (feat. Luther Vandross) [Italo Disco Mix] - EP
Artist: Change
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Change Your Mind / The Remix Album (Special Expanded Edition) [Remastered]
Artist: Change
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Got to Get Up (Disco Mix - Original 12 Inch Version) [Remixes] - EP
Artist: Change
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap
Title: Hit Or Miss (Soulpersona Raregroove Remix) - EP
Artist: Change
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: It's a Girl's Affair (12" Mike Maurro Classic Disco Re-Mix) - Single
Artist: Change
Genre: Pop
Collections
Title: Pure 60s (CD4)
Genre: Pop
Title: Generations Hip - Hop Soul (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Generations Hip - Hop Soul Radio (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: RFM Night Fever (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: Ferry Maat's Soul Show (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Disco, Funk
Title: Grand 12-Inches, Volume 1 (CD2)
Genre: Electronica, House, Disco
Title: DMC Commercial Collection 329 June 2010 (CD1)
Genre: Dancefloor
Title: Classic 80's Groove Mastercuts Volume 1
Genre: Electronica, Soul, Funk
Title: The Disco Years Vol. 6 (Everybody Dance)
Genre: Disco
Title: The Disco Years Vol. 4 (Lost In Music)
Genre: Electronica, Soul, Funk
Title: The Disco Years Vol. 3 (Boogie Fever)
Genre: Disco
Title: RFM Le Meilleur Du Disco Et De La Funk
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Disco, Funk
Title: 80's Grooves (CD2)
Genre: Electronica, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Disco Classics (CD1)
Genre: Disco
Title: Disco Classics (CD3)
Genre: Disco
Title: 12'' / 80's Grooves (CD2)
Genre: Electronica, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Generations Funk Vol. 2
Title: Sweaty Night
Title: Hussy Cocktail
Title: Jet Set Summer
Title: 12 " Disco 2
Genre: Soul, Dancefloor, Disco
Title: I Love Funky Disco Vol. 2 (CD2)
Genre: Electronica, Soul, Disco, Funk
Title: About Club 100 Hits Destination (CD2)
Genre: House, Funk, Progressive
Title: Disco Funk Fever
Title: DJ Abdel À L'Ancienne
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Disco, Funk
Title: Codreanu: Eine Erinnerung An Den Kampf
Genre: Electronica
Title: 12 Inch Dance: 80s Groove
Genre: House, Soul, Dancefloor, Disco
Title: 80s Groove - 12 Inch Dance
Genre: Electronica, House, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Dancefloor, Disco
Title: First Funk, Vol. 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Best Of 12 Inch Gold Vol. 17
Title: 12 " Disco: The Collection (CD2)
Genre: Disco
Title: 12 " Disco: The Collection (CD3)
Genre: Disco
Title: Elaste Volume 4 - Compiled By Dompteur Mooner
Genre: Electronica, New Wave, Disco, Synth Pop
Title: 100 Dance Hits Of The Eighties (CD4)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Dancefloor, Disco, Pop, Dance Pop, Funk
Title: Generations Funk (CD2)
Genre: Funk
Title: Automatic Soul (Selected By Groove Armada's Tom Findlay)
Genre: Electronica, Soul, Disco, Funk
Title: 12'' 80s Grooves (CD02)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop, Funk
Title: Grand 12-Inches 12 (CD1)
Title: Grand 12-Inches 4 (CD2)
Title: Grand 12-Inches 1 (CD2)
Title: Ministry Of Sound: 80s Mix (CD3)
Genre: Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop
Title: Disco Discharge: Euro Disco (CD1)
Genre: Disco, Italo Disco, Funk
Title: Disco Discharge: Euro Disco (CD2)
Genre: Disco, Italo Disco, Funk
Title: 100 Disco Hits (CD5)
Genre: Dancefloor, Pop, Dance Pop
Title: MOS Anthems Disco (CD3)
Genre: Hard NRG, Disco, Italo Disco, Eurodisco
Title: 120 Hits Disco Funk (CD1)
Genre: Hard NRG, Disco, Italo Disco, Eurodisco
Title: 120 Hits Disco Funk (CD2)
Genre: Hard NRG, Disco, Italo Disco, Eurodisco
Title: General Mix 80s (CD2)
Genre: Dancefloor, Disco, Pop, Dance Pop
Title: Funk & Disco, Vol. 2 (Classics)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Trance Hits Melodies Insides (CD1)
Genre: Uplifting House, Progressive
Title: MOS 80s Mix (CD3)
Genre: Pop
Title: Top 100 80s (CD1)
Title: Vision Trance Country Elevation (CD2)
Genre: Uplifting House
Title: The Trevor Nelson Collection 3 (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Soul
Title: The Trevor Nelson Collection, Vol. 2 (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Featuring albums
Title: Journey Into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story (Remastered)
Artist: Larry Levan
Genre: Electronica, House, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Dancefloor, Disco, Dance Pop
Title: Baxa min stil / Grönt e skönt - Single / Baxa min stil / Gront e skont - Single
Artist: Iba
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap
Title: Journey Into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor
Title: Le Freak - Music Inspired by Chic compiled by Joey Negro
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Disco
Title: Planeta Mix Hits 2016. Winter Edition
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Christmas Dance Party 2015-2016 (Best of Dance, House & Electro)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Fireball Recordings: Stream Collection, Vol. 12
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Disco Free, Vol. 2 (20 Original Disco Tracks)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Disco
Title: Goody Music Orchestra Presents: Disco, Disco, Disco
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Garage, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Workout & Running 2015 (Incl. 60 Min. Non-Stop Music)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: House, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Fireball Recordings Future Anthems, Vol. 4
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Intergalactic Disco Funk - Mixed By Ben Liebrand Vol. 01 (CD1)
Artist: Ben Liebrand
Genre: Dancefloor, Disco, Nu Disco, Dance Pop, Funk
Title: Extended Version & Remix, Vol. 5 - The Sound of Italo Disco
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Extended Version & Remix, Vol. 4: The Sound of Italo Disco
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Extended Version & Remix, Vol. 2: The Sound of Italo Disco
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Extended Version & Remix, Vol. 3 - The Sound of Italo Disco
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Extended Version & Remix, Vol. 1 - The Sound of Italo Disco
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Ministry Of Sound (CD2)
Artist: Club Classics
Genre: Trip Hop, Garage, Eurodance, Soul, Acid Jazz, Nu Disco, Funk