West End records
Related: 1970s - 1980s - record label - New York music - dance music - disco music - Mel Cheren - proto house music
Tracks: Is it All over My Face?
Typical West End twelve inch sleeve
Profile
West End recoreds was founded in 1976, by Mel Cheren and Ed Kushins. They had met a few years earlier, when they were employed by Specter records. Mel Cheren was Michael Brody lover, who was the owner of the famous Paradise Garage club.
West End Top 10
- New York Citi Peech Boys 'Don't Make Me Wait' (1982)
- Loose Joints 'Is It All Over (Remix) (1980)
- Inez Brooks Chillin' Out(1981)
- Taana Gardner - Work That Body (1979)
- Taana Gardner 'Heartbeat' (1981)
- Ednah Holt - 'Serious, Sirious Space Party (1981)
- Taana Gardner 'When You Touch Me' 1979
- Debbie Trusty - Searchin' For Some Lovin'/1982
- Raw Silk 'Do It To The Music' (1982)
- Brenda Taylor 'You Can't Have Your Cake And Eat It Too' (1982)
Some noteable West End releases
- Larry Levan mixes
- WES 22116/WES 4001? Taana Gardner 'Work That Body' 1980
- WES 22118 Billy Nichols 'Give Your Body Up To The Music' 1979
- WES 22122 Taana Gardner 'When You Touch Me' 1979
- WES 22132 Taana Gardner 'Heartbeat' (1981)
- WES 22135 Sparque - 'Let's Go Dancin'' (1981)
- WES 22138 Ednah Holt - 'Serious, Sirious Space Party (1981)
- WES 22140 New York Citi Peech Boys 'Don't Make Me Wait' (1982)
- WES 4002 Loose Joints - 'Is It All Over My Face' (1978) or WES 22128/22129
- Arthur Russell compositions
- WES 22128 Loose Joints 'Is It All Over My Face' (1980)
- WES 22129 Loose Joints 'Is It All Over (Remix) (1980)
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Walter Gibbons mixes
- WES 12113 Bettye Lavette 'Doin' The Best I Can (Short)' (1978) WES 12113x Bettye Lavette 'Doin'the Best I Can (Long)' (1978) go for the long version
- Kenton Nix productions
- Wes 22136 Inez Brooks Chillin'out(1981)
- WES 22116 West End Taana Gardner Work That Body (1979)
- WES 22122 West End Taana Gardner When You Touch Me (1979)
- WES 22132 West End Taana Gardner Heartbeat (1981)
- WES 22138 Ednah Holt - Serious, Sirius Space Party (1981)
- Tee Scott mixes
- WES 22139 Stone 'Time' (1981)
- WES 22141 Sparque 'Music Turns Me On' (1982)
- WES 22142 Al McCall 'Hard Times' (1982)
- keyboards by Fred Zarr
- WES 22147 Stone 'Girl I Like The Way You' (1982)
- Nick Martinelli mixes
- WES 22146/Debbie Trusty/Searchin' For Some Lovin'/1982
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The vocal part "Searchin'" by 33 1/3 And Queen on Nu Groove got sampled from this West End classic, in fact the rhythm reminds me of Derrick May tracks
- Wes 22145 Glass 'Let Me Feel Your Heartbeat' 1982
- Wes 22147 Stone 'Girl I Like The Way'(1982)
- Wes 22148 Raw Silk 'Do It To The Music' (1982), a Bert Reid and Ron Dean Miller song, an undeniable classic
- Wes 22149 Brenda Taylor 'You Can't Have Your Cake And Eat It Too' (1982)
- Wes 22150/Mahogany/'Ride On The Rhythm' (1982)
- Wes 22159 Raw Silk 'Just In Time' (1982)
- Wes 22155/Shirley Lites 'Heat You Up (Melt You Down)'(1982)
- Wes 22160 Sybil Thomas 'Rescue Me' (1983)
External links
- WES 22146/Debbie Trusty/Searchin' For Some Lovin'/1982
- http://www.disco-disco.com/labels/westend.html dec 1998 Interview with Mel Cheren
- http://www.westendrecords.com
Masters At Work presents West End Records: the 25th Anniversary Mastermix - mixed by MAW
- Masters At Work presents West End Records: the 25th Anniversary Mastermix - mixed by MAW [Amazon.com]
Track Listings Disc: 1 1. When You Touch Me [MAW Re-edit] (Taana Gardner) 2. Taana Gardner / Billy Nichols Loop (mix break) 3. Heartbeat (Taana Gardner) 4. Ride on the Rhythm [MAW Remix] (Mahogany ) 5. You Can’t Have Your Cake & Eat It Too (Brenda Taylor ) 6. Just In Time (Raw Silk) 7. Raw Silk / Michele Loop (mix break) 8. Keep On Dancin’ (Phase II) (Forrrce) 9. Time (Stone) 10. Let’s Go Dancin’ [MAW Remix] (Sparque) 11. Is it All Over my Face [MAW Remix] (Loose Joints) 12. Loose Joints / Karen Young Loop + Intro (mix break) 13. Hot Shot (Karen Young) Disc: 2 1. When You Touch Me [MAW Re-edit] (Taana Gardner) 2. Taana Gardner / Billy Nichols Loop (mix break) 3. Give Your Body Up to the Music [MAW RMX] (Billy Nichols) 4. Kind of Life (Kind of Love) [MAW Remix] (North End) 5. Work That Body (Taana Gardner)
In celebration of West End Record’s 25th Anniversary, the label is proud to announce the release of Masters at Work presents: West End Records (the 25th Anniversary Edition Mastermix). This spectacular package encompasses twenty-one West End Records classics hand-selected and presented in a continuous DJ-mix on a two-CD set (one downtempo, one uptempo) by the revered production team, Masters at Work ("Little Louie" Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez).
Not only are the tracks mixed together by MAW, but also eight of those twenty-one tracks will have been especially re-edited or re-mixed and re-E.Q.’d by the duo exclusively for this compilation! These special versions will be available in the mix on CD and as individual tracks only on the companion vinyl edition-and nowhere else, available at DJ/dance/vinyl shops worldwide.