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Dominant.  Revered.  RESPECTED.  When you talk about Loleatta Holloway, these are some of the adjectives used when people discuss her legacy.  Never duplicated but often imitated and ad nauseam.  Considered the Queen of Salsoul in the mid-70s and early 80s, Loleatta Holloway has had more DJs sample her music than any other artist in modern history.



Well known for her ad-lib prowess during recording sessions, Miss Holloway would get on a roll during the drop and just keep going and going.  It was fitting that Gold Mine (a subsidiary of Salsoul Records) included the full eleven-minute version of Hit and Run on her third album, where at the end you hear the producer say “okay, now let’s do the album version.”



By themselves, Love Sensation and Dreamin' are classic songs permanently etched into the annals of disco history.  Picked apart, these songs have provided some of the most memorable recreations of entirely new dance floor mayhem from the 90s through today.  Love Sensation has gone on to be the most sampled song in the last 30 years, further proving its singular importance to the genre which propelled it to the top of the charts.







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