Paul Hardcastle feat. Jaki Graham - It Must Be Love Buzz fm
From the year of 1994, the classic, but underated track from Paul Hardcastle feat. Jaki Graham - IT MUST BE LOVE.
Paul Hardcastle from London UK is a composer and musician, specializing in the synthesizer. In the early 1980s, Hardcastle played keyboards on several singles on the Oval record label by the dance music groups Direct Drive and First Light, before going solo. He achieved some acclaim for his early singles, notably the popular instrumental, RAINFOREST in 1984, but came to greater prominence in 1985.
The 1985 release of 19, brought Hardcastle acclaim and chart success. 19 was a dance record, featuring stuttering samples of television narrator Peter Thomas speaking about Vietnam war veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. Initially unhappy about having his voice used in this way, Thomas relented and allowed the single to be released. A number one hit single for Chrysalis Records in the UK for five weeks, the record topped the charts in both France and Germany in two versions, the English language original and an authorised local language alternative. Altogether it was number one in thirteen countries, selling just under three million copies worldwide.
UK rock musician Mike Oldfield claimed that a melodic element of 19 had been copied from a sequence of his multi-million selling concept album, Tubular Bells, and a settlement was made. Simon Fuller, who was Hardcastle's manager at the time of 19's release later adopted the title for his company, 19 Management.
Hardcastle enjoyed several further hits in the UK, including DONT WASTE MY TIME (with vocals by Carol Kenyon) and THE WIZARD, a UK top 20 hit and also the theme tune from BBC Television's Top of the Pops. He also had a hit with JUST FOR MONEY, which reached #19 in the UK. Earlier, he had cut a cover version of D-Train's most influential hit YOUR THE ONE FOR ME, segued with his own compositions DAYBREAK and A.M. Paul Hardcastle also wrote the theme tune for Saturday Live, a popular entertainment show which ran from 1985-1987.
Hardcastle has also recorded several acclaimed synth jazz albums, alternating releases under the artist names The Jazzmasters, and Paul Hardcastle. Working regularly with UK vocalist's Jaki Graham and Helen Rogers, Hardcastle has also recruited several top saxophonists including Gary Barnacle (on the first album), Snake Davis, Phil Todd and Tony Woods. All these albums have been played heavily on smooth jazz radio in the UK and US.
Jaki Graham is from Birmingham in the UK and originally sang in a band called Ferrari, and then went on to sing with the band Medium Wave, before becoming a backing vocalist for UB40. She appeared as a featured vocalist on the UB40's 1986 album, Rat in the Kitchen. Graham was soon discovered and went on to achieve notable chart success, including two single in which she duetted with the former Linx member, and future Fame Academy vocal coach, David Grant. Among her chart entries were Top Ten placings for COULD IT BE IM FALLING IN LOVE, ROUND AND ROUND and SET ME FREE. In 1990 she provided backing vocals on Kim Wilde's single release, I CANT SAY GOODBYE. Her biggest international success was reaching number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1994, with her cover version of Chaka Khan's hit, AINT NOBODY. She provided the vocal's to Paul Hardcastle's other offering, Kiss The Sky - LIVING FOR YOU, which is also in my OLD SKOOL SOUL/R+B PLAYLISTS. She was also the original singer of HEAVEN KNOWS, later covered by Lalah Hathaway, which you can also find in my OLD SKOOL SOUL/R+B PLAYLIST.
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