“The Quiet Storm helped to revolutionize the sound of Black radio,” says Hughes. He was the reason anyone ever heard their voices. “As You Are” with Phyllis Hyman and Pharoah Sanders is the memory of cutting school for romance and losing the day in a darkened room.Īt Lindsey’s funeral, artists like Phyllis Hyman and Jean Carne not only sang with no time limits, they acknowledged that Lindsey broke them as artists.
18-34, and 25-54 demos for his R&B adult, or 'quiet storm,' program. Luther Vandross’s “Never Too Much” reminds me of sitting at the bus stop, already late for school, with our walkmen listening to tapes we had recorded from Melvin’s Melodies. 'It was a great song in the '80s, and there's no reason it can't hit in the late. The Temprees “Dedicated” reminds me of a young man with the deepest baritone I’ve ever known and how’d he’d sing it on the telephone. “Very Special” by Ronnie and Debra Laws, was a special request my high school boyfriend made on the radio. streets trying to find a store that had the cassette. The songs Lindsey played bring back moments when I hear them now- like “I Just Want to Be Your Girl” by Chapter 8, featuring Anita Baker, a song we combed the D.C. Lindsey made an immediate impact around the city with just a simple sign-on and sign-off and a streamline of non-stop love ballads that told a story. The switchboard lit up that May 1976 night when the audience heard the silky-voiced young man of few words. He was like, ‘Thank you, I was tripping.’ I said, if you don’t want to do it, let me know. I was shaking him and I wasn’t getting anywhere, he was a big kid, so, pow… I slapped him. And then there was the first time she got him on-air as a fill-in. They spent hours going through her record collection and Lindsey’s collection. A Quiet Storm playlist of soulful R&B hits from the '70s and '80s rotated through songs on our car stereo: Smokey Robinson to Teena Marie to the Gap Band. Hughes worked hard at talking Lindsey into trying it. When a deejay was absent, Melvin’s best friend Jack Shuler lasted all of one minute, visibly trembling and feeling nauseous about the thought of going on air.
The video ' 99 SONGS 80S 90S 2000S R&B SLOW JAMS MIX QUIET STORM ' has been published on June 19 2021. He was so sharp, he got pulled away to a full-time job on television. 99 SONGS 80S 90S 2000S R&B SLOW JAMS MIX QUIET STORM. There was Don Roberts, a senior who was a television major. There were other hosts of The Quiet Storm before Lindsey, Hughes says.