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Can you remember the place and time and what you were doing when you knew for sure you were hooked on Freestyle?

For me It was 1985 or 86 and some friends of mine got me into the underground in New York and the DJ played and mixed Nayobe's please don't go and I think TKA that was it I was hooked.
Can you remember your time?
 
Back in the summer of 86', and I am pretty sure HOT 97 had just started and they were playing all that great music that summer,like"Come Go With Me",Cover Girls,and "One Way Love" TKA.
 
same here (1986)...except

it was "hot 103" at the time. they changed dials eventually.
also, february of '87, i was going to the club "1018s"...they were mixing freestyle music and tka were the first artists i saw performing live.
also , in 1990, i was working in the palladium. freestyle was huge at the time of course,and they had freestyle performers every weekend.
i got to see corina, india, pajama party, george lamond,
brenda k starr, johnny o, cynthia, stevie b, fascination,
chrissy i-eece, soave,& nasty boys among others!
 
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It was when Apple 103.5 changed formats and Become Hot 103.5 which became known as WQHT Hot 103 The song was GIggles Love Letter and shannon Give me Tonite.
 
I had just bought my first walkman, and I was walking from the store to my house, and I put on the radio, and they were playing Judy Torres, "No Reason to cry", they had me from that day.
 
bronxboricua said:
summertimes in the bronx on the way to Orchard beach! Around the middle 80's
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Hell yeah! The legendary Orchard Beach! Who remember's the 2 day concert back in the summer of 1991 in the great lawn?

Hooked on Freestyle? Hmmm. I remember hearing my father play "Let The Music Play" back in 1984. Around that same time I remember hearing "I Wonder If I Take You Home". In 1984/'85 my father left for Korea and my mother and my two sisters moved to Soundview Projects to live with my grandmother and my aunt in a two-bedroom apartment. Lisa Lisa was everywhere that year.

But it wasn't until 1986 that my parents, sisters and I moved to Homestead, Florida (Dade County) that I heard Freestyle ALL THE TIME! Company B, Judy Torres, TKA, Noel, Cover Girls, Sweet Sensation, Safire, Stevie B, could be heard everywhere and my father's friends were bringing these albums to the house and my parents would bust out the Bacardi or make some Pina Colada's and just chill on a Friday and Saturday night blastin' this shit! I mean, we're talking about Freestyle at its early ages. It was so fresh, and so new!

Then in 1988 we left for Italy. I don't remember hearing any Freestyle until we came back to NYC in the summer of 1990 to visit family and Hot 97 was throwing down. I swear, I went back to Italy with like 30 cassette tapes full of radio material, and that's how I got back into my Freestyle once again. If it wasn't for those tapes, who knows.

So, moving to 1991, I remember sitting in my bedroom in Italy, and we recieved some radio program called Hot Tracks that was being broadcast from NYC and OH MY GOD! That's when I first heard TOGETHER FOREVER, in the Spring of 1991. I recorded it and we moved to Brooklyn, from Italy, two months later.

I had just turned 14 years old.

That's my story. And it just gave me chills.

This is why I WILL ALWAYS LOVE FREESTYLE.
 
uummmm when I was like 7yrs old and my older sister and her friends were playing it, next thing you know my sis was bitching at me for stealing her Freestyle tapes!ever since then FREESTYLE HAS BEEN MY THING GROWING UP!!
 
ORCHARD BEACH!!! I saw so many shows there, too, and I still live right near there. 🙂

My first experience was with a mix tape my sister brought back with her from spring break in Ft. Lauderdale that had "Please Don't Go" and "The Mexican" on it.
 
I remember it was back in May-1997 at my 8th grade Freestyle dance party in our school(Roberto Clemente Middle School)It was a DJ name "June Bug" He was playing TKA, Noel, Tomax, Johnny O, Judy Torres, and a whole bunch of others I didn't know at the time. I just remember how sweet the music sounded and the people that knew how to dance to it, made me like the music even more. My sisters, friends and I started collecting club Tapes from everywhere; friends,family, boyfriends. We would actually fight over these tapes . From then on I always loved freestyle music and so does my hubby he was at the school dance also, he had started to write freestyle music, but got discourage somewhere within the past 4 or 5 years. But I think he still wants to sing.




P.S Nya I always loved your song "Now and Forever" was always one of my favorites🙂
 
nastalgic

This is a great thread Ted. Well, I've really been hooked since the beginning back in 83/84, but when I hit the clubs back in 85 - 87..that's when Freestyle was at it's prime around the Hartford area clubs. I remember going to these 2 clubs called Loriens and Lejardins where you paid cover at one but got to party at both and they were a block apart....it was great!!! They kicked freestyle at both clubs every weekend usually fridays/saturday nights!!! Back then they were playin' Shannon, Debbie Deb, C-Bank (Perfect), which I fell in lover with that song, and still love it to the day, Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, etc....not to mention listening to freestyle on the radio all the time...didn't matter what station...there were many choices back then compared to now. I also remember going to see Debbie Deb, Stevie B& The ORIGINAL Cover Girls f/Naif, Safire & Dino, the ORIGINAL Expose back around that time frame. I would kill to go back to that time. Let's Fire up the Time Machine :lol

Steve
 
AS I SAID BEFORE, I STARTED OUT AS BEING A DJ FROM THE EARLY 80'S.
THE ACCAPELLAS AND BONUS BEATS ALONG WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT SOUNDS
HAD ME GOING FROM DAY ONE. AS A DJ YOU ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW MATERIAL AND YOU WANT TO BE CREATIVE WHEN YOU MIX. FREESTYLE HAD ALL OF THAT AND THE TRACKS THAT KEPT COMING WERE AS I LIKE TO SAY " OFF THE CHARTS ".THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO WITH THIS MUSIC. I BELIEVE WE HAVEN'T EVEN SCRATCHED THE SURFACE YET! THIS STUFF IS JUST GETTING WARMED UP. IT WILL BE BACK AND STRONGER THAN EVER.
 
Damn, I just remembered kiss FM in New York, had there kiss it or diss it rating program running and they had just released change on me by cynthia. So many callers where calling in to say Kiss it so it will re-play. Wow I'm old. 😛
 
FOR ME IT WAS AUG OF 86 WHEN A FRIEND OF MINE'S, FATHER WAS IN RADIO AND TOLD US THAT A NEW DANCE STATION WAS COMING, I REMEMBER TUNING IN AND THAT STATION WAS HOT 103, AND HEARING ONE WAY LOVE BY TKA AND TURNING TO MY FRIEND AND SAYING, SHIT I OWN THIS SONG, ALONG WITH A LOT OF OTHERS THEY PLAYED ON THERE FIRST DAY OF BROADCAST....OH WHAT A TIME, I REALLY MISS IT..
 
back in 90 i was working at pathmark fixing video screens on shopping carts(if you can remember that) and the guy i worked with was into freestyle and left a mixed tape in my car and i was so like WOW what is this.. and i had to have more.. i was hooked from that day on..
 
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