 Track list:
WANNA MAKE LOVE (aka LIVE ON, DREAM ON)
1. Live On, Dream On
2. Tell The People
3. My Woman
4. They're Calling For More
5. Wanna Make Love (Come Flick My BIC)
6. Love Is Never Sure
7. The Show Is Over
8. It's Killing Me
9. Give Your Love To Me
SUN-POWER
9. Light Me Up
10. Boogie Bopper
11. We're So Hot
12. Conscience
13. Time Is Passing
13. Just A Minute Of Your Time
14. Organ Grinder
15. She Lives Alone
• Originally formed in Dayton, Ohio, the self-contained group Sun became prime purveyors of ‘funk and soul alongside other Ohio funkateers such as Bootsy Collins, Dazz Band, Lakeside, Zapp, Slave and of course, the Ohio Players in the ‘70s and early ‘80s.
• Founding member Byron Byrd formed a number of different bands before a 1974 iteration (Overnight Low) became Sun after beginning to work with producer Beau Ray Fleming who’d seen the group open for Mandrill. Fleming in turn introduced the newly-named Sun to Capitol executive Larkin Arnold and in 1976, the group cut its funk-filled debut for the label.
• Originally entitled “Live On, Dream On,” the nine-track album took off when the single, “Wanna Make Love (Come Flick My BIC) began spiralling up the U.S. R&B, dance and pop charts spurred on by a campaign by the makers of BIC pens. The album WANNA MAKE LOVE performed well and decades later, the key cut “My Woman” was sampled by a number of prominent rap and hip-hop artists.
• In 1977, Capitol issued the sophomore set by the group - expanded from seven to ten members - entitled SUN-POWER. The eight-track set - which became Sun’s highest-charting Capitol album - containing future sampled tracks “Conscience” and “Time Is Passing” is making its worldwide CD release which includes notes by renowned U.S. writer Rico Washington and is part of SoulMusic Records’ classic funk series.
About the Writer
David Nathan is the founder and CEO of SoulMusic.com and began his writing career in 1965; beginning in 1967, he was a regular contributor to Blues & Soul magazine in London before relocating to the U.S. in 1975 where he served as U.S. editor for the publication for several decades and began being known as 'The British Ambassador Of Soul.' From 1988 to 2004, he wrote prolifically for Billboard, has penned bios, produced and written liner notes for box sets and reissue CDs for over a thousand projects. He returned to London in 2009 where he has helped create SoulMusic.com Records as a leading reissue label.
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