• Eighties Ladies – Ladies Of The Eighties
    • Eighties Ladies – Turned On To You
    • 1. Ladies Of The Eighties
    • 2. Tell Him
    • 3. He Is Mine Forever
    • 4. Ladies Of The Eighties (Instrumental)
    • 5. I Knew That Love
    • 6. It's Easy To Move
    • 7. Sing Me
    • 8. Turned On To You

    Reissue of this amazing, one-off album produced by Roy Ayers! Vocal group Eighties Ladies was made up of the talented Susan Beaubian, Marva Hicks, Vivian Prince, Denie Corbett & Sylvia Striplin backed by an all-star line-up Roy Ayers band (including Rick James who shares the production).

    The anthemic ‘Turned on To You” and “Ladies of the Eighties” are both included in this absolutely classic boogie-funk-jazz-soul album from the start of the 80s.

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