Solar
Solar (an acronym of Sound Of Los Angeles Records) was founded in 1977 by Soul Train booking agent/talent supervisor Dick Griffey after creating and then shutting down the Soul Train Recording Co. (1975-77) label he had created with Soul Train host and creator Don Cornelius. After the success of a few singles on the RCA-distributed imprint (mainly those of the Soul Train Gang (2)), Griffey and Cornelius decided to shut down the label as Cornelius wanted to focus his energies on the TV show, which was a monster hit in first-run syndication and required his complete attention to keep it so. Legalities taken care of, Soul Train Records closed down and Griffey reorganized the company as SOLAR in late 1977, which quickly became one of the most important and influential Urban Funk/Disco & Soul imprints of the late Seventies to mid-Eighties, and even spawned a subsidiary label Constellation
Dans l’atlas
- Freak-a-Zoid, Midnight Star (1983) : Synth-Funk
Les sorties les plus connues
- Midnight Star, No Parking On The Dance Floor (1983)
- Midnight Star, Midas Touch (1986)
- The Whispers, It's A Love Thing / Girl I Need You (1980)
- Midnight Star, Planetary Invasion (1984)
- Shalamar, The Look (1983)
- Midnight Star, Headlines (1986)
- Midnight Star, Operator (1984)
- Shalamar, I Can Make You Feel Good / Help Me (1982)
