SoulTracks Looks Back: Cameo slowed it down on “Sparkle”

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Cameo had been around a few years as a moderately popular soul and funk band before the broke out in the 1980s with monster hits like “Word Up.” But a few years earlier, this funk group issued a ballad that has become an absolutely favorite of ours — one of those “blue lights in the basement” type songs that we would slow dance to anytime.

Check out the great song “Sparkle” again or for the first time. It is truly a SoulTracks Lost Gem.

Read full Cameo biography here

 

 

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