Two hit wonder Montell Jordan (his other hit was 'This Is How We Do It') became the talk of R&B-town in the late 90's with the song 'Get It On Tonight', displaying his aversion of dancing in the club, love of fur coats and Motorola-sponsordeal. Despite my aversion of the whole R&B-scene I must admit I always loved this song because of the exotic, laidback beat. Too bad we can't give Montell any props for that, because it was the German duo Jörg Evers and Jurgen Korduletsch who provided the epic discobeat 'Love For The Sake Of Love' for Jamaican singer Claudja Barry (ex-Boney M; later scored a big discohit with 'Boogie Woogie Dancing Shoes') back in 1976. The -mainly instrumental- original is a bit slower and the string-coated chorus is très Love Boat and thus quite terrible, but the groove is simply irresistible. Claudja starts her sexy parlando at 2'40" and doesn't play too big a role in this production, but I can't imagine Evers and Korduletsch selling a lot of records without her face on the record sleeve. Enjoy!
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