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During a recent conversation with Angel Vasquez (TKA, allakcessentertainment.com) we spoke of the contributions to the "The Freestyle Traditional Christmas" Album which features a new rendition of a classic holiday song by the Force MD's, the very same Force MD's, who scored big in 1985 with the Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis produced "Tender Love", the love theme of the 1985 film "Krush Groove", a film which featured many prominent rap and hip hop personalities of the day, including Sal Albatiello of Fever Enterprises, one of the inspirations behind the now classic musical. With "Krush Groove" celebrating it's 25th Anniversary and with Sal and Fever celebrating over 30 years of making stars and hits in the world of music and videos, I thought that it was about time to re-air this interview which originally aired on the original radio version of the "Wake Up Dancing" program hosted by Harv Roman on Chicago's WLUW (88.7 FM) in 2002. Sal talks about his many contributions to the music and entertainment industries, including introducing acts like Kurtis Blow, LL Cool J, The Cover Girls and TKA to the masses.

The playlist for this program includes LL Cool J "I Need Love", Kurtis Blow "Main Street Harlem", Nayobe "Please Don't Go", Cover Girls "Show Me" (Original Cover Girl Sunshine Wright appears in the movie), Cynthia "Change On Me", TKA "One Way Love", Judy Torres "Come Into My Arms" and Lil Suzy "Take Me In Your Arms". Your comments are welcome regarding this very important interview which has been in storage for much too long, thanks Sal for the opportunity to get to know you, not only during the interview, but also when working together for WCYC fundraisers back in the day and for help with the WCYC Entertainment shows held at Chicago's Studio 63 Nightclub.

Harv Roman