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The Original Color of Sin (cont’d.)
“King Of The Beat”
Keith LeBlanc
w/ Betty Shabazz (Malcolm X’s Widow)
((( Hip-Hop’s Original )))

The Original Color of Sin ( 1.)
The Original Color of Sin ( 2.)

“Vice” (Miami)
Melle Mel
vs. Sugar Hill (12″)
((( Tropical Snow )))

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White Lines
Vice (Miami)
Cocaine Cowboys
Scarface (1983)
Colors (Los Angeles)
White Girl (1990)
New Jack City (New York City)
Dangerous Sex
American Gangster
Blow
Trainspotting
Less Than Zero
Liquid Sky
Marching Powder (Tommy Bolin)
Running With The Devil
Superfly
Traffic (2000)
Reefer Madness

“White Lines”
Melle Mel
Ghetto Black
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“Cocaine”
Eric Clapton
Country Club White
((( ! )))

 

“Boom Boom”
Pat Travers
“Snortin’ Whiskey, Drinkin’ Cocaine”
((( ! )))

 

Artists United Against Apartheid,
w/ STEVEN VAN ZANDT
w/ ARTHUR BAKER
Miami Vice Soundtrack
w/ JAN HAMMER
After finding out “his” band had worked on the high-profile projects, Robinson demanded a cut of the money. Not owing Robinson, but fearing his mob-boss personality, Skip and Doug fled to Philadelphia, and joined MUSIQUE, the then popular Dance Group, three singers … something of a Disco era Supremes.
Keith, instead, stayed behind, and made “No Sell Out (Malcolm X).”

“No Sell Out (Malcolm X)”
Keith LeBlanc w/ Betty Shabazz (Malcolm’s Widow)
((( KLB v Sugar Hill )))

 

Beat Street
Bernard Fowler
Keith LeBlanc

Keith asked Betty, a long-time friend, if he could use Malcolm’s speeches, cutting them to his drum beats. She gave Keith her full blessing and support, and Keith went on to make “No Sell Out,” considered the first “sampling” ever committed to vinyl. After recording several cuts of the tune, Keith stored the tapes on a shelf in the Sugar Hill studio.
(Joe) Robinson, claiming he owned the record, because it had been made in his studio, had 500,000 vinyl records pressed with the Sugar Hill label. Wife and Sugar Hill co-owner, Sylvia Robinson, was credited as “No Sell Out’s” writer, and there was no mention of Keith.
Later, Keith, with Betty by his side, won the Federal “Theft of Creative Property” suit he filed against Sugar Hill Records and the Robinsons. Keith received an undisclosed financial settlement, and not long after, before the end of 1984, the Robinsons closed Sugar Hill Records, and Hip-Hop’s original label was history.
Soon after Sugar Hill’s demise, Keith, at the TOMMY BOY STUDIO in New York, met Adrian Sherwood, and within the month, moved to London to join the Englishman’s ON-U Sound Records.
Fats Comet (w/Gary Clail)
Skip and Doug join Keith and Adrian
“Major Malfunction”
Tack>>head (1986).

During the house craze of the late nineties,  “Funkanova,” Wimbish’s Wood Brass & Steel tune, was sampled often, most notably by Ashley Beedle‘s Black Science Orchestra “New Jersey Deep,” and by MAW‘s Bucketheads project, “Come and be Gone.”

1977 — Voyagers
Bernard Fowler’s Voyage Embarked From New York City
Saturday Night Fever
WKRP (“Animals” scene)
Pink Floyd (Tampa Stadium)

1978 — Rick James
CBGB (NYC)
Talking Heads
More Songs About Buildings and Food
Blondie
Ramones
Television
Patti Smith
Robert Mapplethorpe
Madonna
Rick James v. Ron Carter
(Super Freak v. The Distinuished Gentleman)
The Last Poets
Gil Scott-Heron

HIP-HOP HAPPENS
1979 —
THE ORIGINAL SUGAR HILL RHYTHM SECTION
Skip McDonald (guitar)
Doug Wimbish (bass)
Keith LeBlanc (drums)
Living Colour
Tack>>Head
Little Axe
Head>>Fake
Bernard Fowler
Bernard Fowler (Interview)

1980 — Joe Satriani
COOL #9 (SAVE PLUTO)
NAKED LAUNCH (ALT.)

1979

Hip-Hop Happens
1979 — THE ORIGINAL SUGAR HILL RHYTHM SECTION
HIP-HOP [PLAYLIST]
Skip McDonald
Doug Wimbish
Keith LeBlanc
Living Colour
Tack>>Head
Little Axe
Head>>Fake
Bernard Fowler
Bernard Fowler (Interview)
Sugar Hill Records [Joe and Sylvia Robinson]

The three members of Sugarhill Records’ original house band were instrumental in laying the musical foundation for so many of Hip-Hop’s first MCs, and the billion-dollar industry and culture built upon it. 

Skip McDonald (guitar), Doug Wimbish (bass), and Keith LeBlanc (drums) wrote, produced, and played on many of the tunes known today as Hip-Hop anthems: “Rapper’s Delight,” “The Message,” “White Lines,” “Apache,” and so many others, now used to sell shoes, computers, phones, perfumes, and alcohol beverages of all kinds …

But the attention was short lived. In 1985, working for Sugar Hill Records, specifically owner Joe Robinson, became “difficult.” Or as Skip, Doug, and Keith said, “dangerous.”

1980s — A Band Grows In Brooklyn
1980 — Just Say No
INNOVATION, DISASTER, AND MURDER (1980)
1981 — Just Say Go
JUST SAY GO TO MTV, AND NASA’S RETURN TO SPACE (1980)
1982 — Just Say No (Nukes)
SATURDAY IN THE PARK
1983 — BEAT STREET / KLB
YACHT ROCK
MICHAEL McDONALD
KENNY LOGGINS
CHRISTOPHER CROSS
1984 — “No Sell Out” (MALCOLM X)
KLB v SUGAR HILL
1985 — Artists United Against Apartheid
MIAMI VICE
w/JAN HAMMER
SHE’S THE BOSS
w/MICK JAGGER
The Brothers of Sodom
JOE SATRIANI
WE ARE THE WORLD
MICHAEL JACKSON
QUINCY JONES

1985 — World Music
We Are The World
Michael Jackson
Quincy Jones
Lionel Richie …
Live Aid
Bob Geldof
Queen
David Bowie
Mick Jagger w/ Tina Turner
Artists United Against Apartheid
Steven Van Zandt
Arthur Baker
Original Sugar Hill Rhythm Section
Keith LeBlanc
Miles Davis
Herbie Hancock
Contact (1985)
Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Message In A Bottle
1986 — Keith LeBlanc
Major Malfunction
Joe Satriani Not Of This Earth
1986 — JAPAN RISING
Carlos Santana
w/ HERBIE HANCOK
BUDDY MILES
JERRY GARCIA
GEORGE BENSON
Jeff Beck
w/JAN HAMMER
STEVE LUKATHER
DOUG WIMBISH
SIMON PHILIPS