Solar - Shalamar, Midnight Star & Lakeside Video

Solar
Shalamar, Midnight Star & Lakeside
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In 1975, producer Dick Griffey and television personality and producer Don Cornelius partnered to form a record label, originally naming it Soul Train Records after Cornelius' hit dance TV show. Within two years, Griffey took the helm of the budding label on his own and rechristened it Solar: Sound Of Los Angeles Records. Solar quickly established itself as one of the most important soul/funk labels of the late seventies to mid-eighties, with Lakeside, Midnight Star and Shalamar among its chart-topping acts. Lakeside's #1 R&B smash "Fantastic Voyage"Midnight Star's #2 R&B hit "Freak-A-Zoid" and Shalamar's #1 R&B single "The Second Time Around" all kept SOLAR's signature L.A. groove on the musical map, and several SOLAR singles also crossed over to Billboard's Hot 100 chart as the label influenced the Los Angeles scene with genre-defining radio and club hits.

30 years on Solar has reissused three of their records by Shalamar, Midnight Star & Lakeside.

Check out the videos for Night To Remember by Shalamar, No Parking On The Dance Floor by Midnight Star & Fantastic Voyage by Lakeside.