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Remixes - Ain't nothing going on but the rent

Gwen Guthrie Record Reviews

Year Album Title Label Role
1972 Music is My Life
Billy Preston
  Session Vocalist
1972 Roberta Flack
Donny Hathaway Arrangement
  Session Vocalist
1974 Let me in your Life
Aretha Franklin
  Session Vocalist
1975 Supernatural Thing
Ben E. King
  Session Vocalist
Supernatural Thing - Guthries first attempt at writing lyrics.
1976 Sting Ray
Joe Cocker
  Session Vocalist
1976 More Than Ever
Blood, Sweat and Tears
  Session Vocalist
1976 More Than Ever
Blood, Sweat and Tears
  Session Vocalist
1976 Sound of a Drum
Randolph MacDonald
  Session Vocalist
1976 Shoogie Wanna Boogie
Dave Matthews
  Session Vocalist
1977 Libby Titus
Libby Titis
  Session Vocalist
1977 Burning at the Stake Domenic Troiano   Session Vocalist
1977 Havana Candy
Patti Austin
  Session Vocalist
1977 Blue Lights In the Basement
Roberta Flack
  Session Vocalist
1977 Stranger
Billy Joel
  Session Vocalist
1977 Never Letting Go
Phoebe Snow
  Session Vocalist
1977 Celebrate me Home
Kenny Loggins
  Session Vocalist
1977 Heads
Bob James
  Session Vocalist
1978 Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack
  Session Vocalist
1978 Path
Randolph MacDonald
  Session Vocalist
1978 In the Wind
Joe Thomas
  Session Vocalist
1978 Nice to Have Met You
Thijs VanLeer
  Vocals
1978 She Loves to Hear the Music
Sylvia Syms
  Background Vocals
1978 Joe Brooks Group
Joe Brooks
   
1978 Blam!!
Brothers Johnson
  Vocals
1978 Sounds & Stuff
Quincy Jones
  Vocals
1978 Against the Grain
Phoebe Snow
  Background Vocals
1978 Conquistador
Maynard Ferguson,
  Vocals
1978 Animal House
Animal House
  Background Vocals
1979 Thelma Jones
Thelma Jones
  Background Vocals
1979 Red Hot
Mongo Santamaria
  Background Vocals
1979 Mystic Man
Peter Tosh
  Vocals
1980 Featuring Donnie Hathaway
Roberta Flack
  Vocals
1980 Mtume In Search of the Rainbow Seekers   Vocals
1980 Gone Clear
Manu Dibango
  Vocals, Voices
1981 Wanted Dread & Alive
Peter Tosh
  Vocals
1981 Ambassador
Manu Dibango
  Background Vocals
1982 Good to go Lover Polydor Solo Performer
Good to go Lover: This album, a typical eighties R and B album, has the hit single Ain't nothing going on but the rent. Get this album to hear a serious Guthrie torch track You touched my life.

Track Listing: Good To Go Lover

  1. (They Long To Be) Close To You
  2. Outside In The Rain
  3. Good To Go Lover
  4. You Touched My Life
  5. Ain't Nothin' Going On But The Rent
  6. I Still Want You
  7. Stop Holding Back
  8. Passion Eyes
1982 Hot Times Reprise Solo Performer
Hot Times: Just like the title, a blend of memorable tunes and tender love songs, Sweet Bitter Love, Miss My Love, Same Ole Thang , Hot Time In Harlem. Gwen co-wrote everything on this album. The co-producers are Sly and Robbie, Brian Jackson and Greg Smith.
1983 Hopscotch remix Island
12IS106X
Solo Performer
1983 Portrait Island Solo Performer
Portrait: Another album featuring Sly and Robbie. Seventh Heaven and the Guthrie's signature slow numbers, Younger Than Me, Oh What A Life
1983 Madonna
Madonna
  Background Vocals
1985 Padlock Garage
ITG 2001
Solo Performer
Padlock - special mixes - 12" mini Lp
Side A: Hopscotch / Seventh heaven / Getting Hot
Side B- Peanut butter / Padlock
US pressing with Sly & Robbie, Gwen Guthrie, Wally Badarou,Darryl Thompson, Larry Levan (from Paradise Garage in New York and mixer for the Garage records).

Padlock

The sleeve of the German Island pressing was done by Tony Wright, who was also responsible for Lee Perry's 'Return Of Superape'

1985 Getting Hot Garage
ITG 2001
Solo Performer
1985 Peanut Butter Garage
ITG 2001
Solo Performer
1985 Seventh Heaven Garage
ITG 2001
Solo Performer
1985 Just For You 4th & Broadway Solo Performer
1986 Ain't Nothing Goin' On But The Rent Warner Brothers 422-855106-1 Solo Performer
Ain't Nothing Goin' On But The Rent: The big hit single with the phrase of the year "No romance without finance".
1986 Outside In The Rain Polydor
12'
885 362-1
Solo Performer
1987 Ticket To Ride Island PRO-444 Solo Performer
1987 Close To You Polydor
12'
885 528-1
Solo Performer
1987 Adventures of the Heart John Blake   Vocals
1987 Island Story 1962-1987 Island Story 1962-1987    
1987 Disorderlies
Disorderlies
  Producer
1988 Rocking Chair Warner Brothers
(0-20971)
Solo Performer
1988 Lifeline JellyBean Productions Solo Performer
Lifeline: Most of the lyrics and the production are done by Guthrie.
1988 Gwen Guthrie Island Solo Performer
Gwen Guthrie: This album was produced by Sly and Robbie. On one side is the track "God Don't Like Ugly", later covered by Roberta Flack. DJ Lister's version is that Roberta made off with the song and the money. He said the lyrics are Guthrie's
1988 Ticket to Ride 4th & Broadway Solo Performer
1989 City Beat
Bobbi Humphrey
  Background Vocals
1991 What You See Is What You Sweat
Aretha Franklin
  Background Vocals
1992 Red Hot & Dance
Red Hot & Dance
  Vocals
1992 Fe Real
Maxi Priest
  Background Vocals
1992 GRP 10th Anniversary Collection
GRP
  Background Vocals
1994 Best of Patti Austin
Patti Austin
  Background Vocals
1994 80's Dance Party 80's Dance Party, Vol. 3   Producer
1995 Flack, Roberta Roberta   Background Vocals
1996 Ferguson, Maynard This Is Jazz, Vol. 16   Vocals
1996 Hyman, Phyllis Legacy of Phyllis Hyman   Background Vocals
1997 Lundy, Carmen Old Devil Moon   Background Vocals
1997 CTI Records: The Birth CTI Records: The Birth of Groove   Vocals
1998 Birth of Cool Funk Vint Birth of Cool Funk Vintage Jams   Vocals
1998 MacDonald, Ralph Sound of a Drum Path  
1998 Essential 12'': The 70' Essential 12'': The 70's   Vocals
1998 This Time They Told the Truth:
Z.Z. Hill
  Background Vocals
  Hold On
Noel Pointer
  Background Vocals
  Jumpin' Jack Flash
Jumpin' Jack Flash
  Producer
  Smith, Lonnie Liston Exotic Mysteries   Vocals
  Struggle Buggy
William Eaton
  Background Vocals
  Jimmy Ponder: Sonny Lester Collection
Jimmy Ponder
  Vocals

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