Gedi's Artist Spotlight - David Pic Conley

  

Originally put together for the Soulful Sounds Show with the two idiots back in 2013. While the show was conceived and put together by Steve King he was kind enough to let me take control with this. The  idea being to concentrate on a given singer or groups work. 

The format was simply in terms of three x three IE: three tracks across three fifteen minute segments, these were then incorporated into a three hour show. What you hear is all three segments edited together (45 minutes in total). 

01: Surface – Happy 

02: Surface – You Are My Everything
03: Surface – You’re The One
04: Surface - Closer Than Friends
05: Surface - The Other Side Of My Bed 
06: Surface - Don’t Wanna Turn You Off 
07: Giorge Pettus - Don’t Put Me Off Till Tomorrow 
08: Jermaine Jackson – Don’t Put Me Off Till Tomorrow
09: Melba Moore – Do You Really Want Me Love

David Pic Conley, consummate flutist, vocalist, song writer and musician who has produced for singers such as Melba Moore, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Jordan, Regina Belle, Aretha Franklin and George Benson. In 1976, Conley joined the group Port Authority in Los Angeles. A year later he joined the group Mandrill and released the album, New Worlds.

In 1998, with writer/producer/guitarist David Townsend and singer Karen Copeland, David Pic Conley founded the Soul/R&B Multi-Platinum group: Surface. Surface was known for their hits “When Your Ex Wants You Back”, “Stop Holding Back” and “Falling in Love”, which peaked at #84 on Billboard’s Black Singles chart.

In 1984, Bernard Jackson replaced Karen Copeland as the lead singer and became the sound of Surface that we know today, releasing several R&B hits like “Happy” and “Shower Me With Your Love” that peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. He also wrote and produced the smash hit “Ain’t Nothing Going on but the Rent”, made famous by Disco Queen, Gwen Guthrie.

Today David together with John Feva have formed the group Re Surface and fans of the old sound can expect that plus some freshly flavoured styling by the team which consists of; Gene Lennon, Gene Lake, Jam Benton, Derrick ‘Derky’ Culler and the newest talents to join the team, Martin Blockson and Mjestie Brooks.