Rod Temperton : what should I look for ?

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Considering I only know his great work with MJ on Off the Wall and Thriller. Has he done other great stuff ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

from the same era maybe ? Is he still around, anyway ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

hes from sheffield i think

― oko, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Heatwave! Heatwave! Heatwave!

Brothers Johnson's Light Up the Night, Patti Austin's Every Home Should Have One, Rufus' Masterjam.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

"Boogie Nights!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Semi-arbitrary Temperton POX

George Benson, Give Me the Night
Heatwave, The Star of a Story
Patti Austin, Baby Come to Me
Brothers Johnson, All About the Heaven
Michael Jackson, Rock With You
Bob James, The Steaming Feeling
Jeffrey Osborne, We Belong to Love
Rufus & Chaka Khan, Live in Me
Michael McDonald, Sweet Freedom
Seidah Garrett, Baby's Got It Bad

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

So, yeah, you could easily swap out All About the Heaven for Stomp, Sweet Freedom for Yah Mo B There, etc.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

If you ever get tempted, don't bother with Heatwave's "Central Heating." I saw it at a flea market, picked it up, and it's absolute crap. Schmaltzy, indulgent and totally forgettable.

― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Any album containing the best ambient soul ballad ever made is not crap. (I'd also vouch for at least three other songs on it.)

Paging Paul Sci-Fi, JAXON, mike t-diva, matos....

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Did he have a credit on "Ain't No Half Steppin'"?

― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

"Groove Line" by Heatwave!

― Drew Olewnick (drewo), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I wonder which album that one's on...

Temperton indeed wrote Ain't No Half Steppin'.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Having just put it on again, Groove Line is OK, Mind Blowing Decisions is pretty forgetable, The Star of the Story is OK, Party Poop blows (though it would be fantastic novelty filler at the end of a tape), and Leavin' For a Dream blows.
I'll listen to the other side in a sec.

― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

how cute, i was paged! i actually didn't know of him until this thread. i don't read too many liner notes. don't know who wrote what songs or studio musicians. he looks like he's been involved in some pretty great things. he's given credit for De La Soul's "keepin' the faith" which is kinda cool, but i don't know what his part was. it's not in the Slave "Just a Little Bit of Love" track.

― JAXON (jaxon), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

The first side is worse than the second: Put The Word Out and Send Out for Sunshine are both weak disco funk, the title track is totally AM radio funk, and Happiness is Togetherness is good if you got a woman that you need to make smoov, smoov love to (and she's not one to be thrown off by the cheesy horn solo).

― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

thanks guys, i'm gonna listen to all this stuff (what can a poor boy do when he loves many tracks from "off the wall" and "thriller" but find, mostly, tracks from MJ's ablums afterwards suck...)

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Revive. This appears to be the most recent story about him, though it also refers to a BBC radio documentary around that time:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/1472/The-Cleethorpes-superstar.1331327.jp

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 June 2009 16:26 (sixteen years ago)

Most recent? He hasn't commented on Jackson's death?

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 28 June 2009 21:01 (sixteen years ago)

Not publicly, no.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 June 2009 21:32 (sixteen years ago)

posin til closin always my fav heatwave song

― zzz (deej), Monday, 29 June 2009 09:52 (sixteen years ago)

theres a promo out there somewhere featuring all his songs. or the best ones anyway.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 29 June 2009 12:28 (sixteen years ago)

There are interviews with him on the reissues of Off The Wall and Thriller. You can listen to them on Spotify.

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 29 June 2009 13:04 (sixteen years ago)

six years pass...

Posting here to say *all* the Heatwave records are good, especially if you're into well-produced disco/soul. The production style on MJ's Off the Wall and Thriller (let alone the actual songs) were definitely something Heatwave had a part in creating, and as a band, they're at least as diverse as any of their disco peers. Smoother than Earth Wind & Fire, less jazzy than Kool & the Gang, not as funky as Chic, but songwriting as good as any of them. Just discovered by me, and I say underrated!

― Dominique, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 21:51 (ten years ago)

He wrote 'Mystery' on Rapture by Anita Baker...great song originally done by Manhatten Transfer

― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 22:07 (ten years ago)

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