Change - Angel In My Pocket (1980)

To Change's detractors, the studio group was nothing more than a poor man's Chic. But knowledgeable disco and R&B enthusiasts knew better; Change wasn't a carbon copy of Chic any more than jazz great Chet Baker was a clone of Miles Davis. Without question, Change was heavily influenced by the Nile Rodgers/Bernard Edwards sound; nonetheless, Change had an energy of its own, and anyone who seriously listened to its first album, The Glow of Love, could easily tell the difference. Produced by Jacques Fred Petrus and arranged by David Romani & Paolo Gianolio, that 1980 debut album is a disco/R&B masterpiece. A Lover's Holiday and Searching are Change's best-known songs (the latter no doubt because of the vocals of a certain pre-solo career Luther Vandross), but the group is just as captivating on the passionate Angel in My Pocket. It was alas, never released as a single, a crime to my eyes as lead vocals are provided by none other than the great Jocelyn Brown.