Blue Magic ‎– Welcome Back (Reissue, Remastered) (1981/2010)

Digitally remastered edition. Blue Magic's 1981 Capitol release, Welcome Back, arrived at a time when soul and R&B music had resurfaced as a popular genre yet in a different manner. While heavy funk grooves and well-crafted ballads driven by rhythm sections/horns/strings were the norm in the 1970's, the rise of synthesizers and drum machines in the '80s resulted in light pop-driven arrangements. Instead of following this trend, Blue Magic (lead singer Ted "Wizard" Mills, Keith Beaton, Vernon Sawyer and Wendell Sawyer) as well as producer Norman Harris and his crew of session musicians (members of MFSB) stuck with the winning formula that made the group successful.