Danny Boy -1994-1996- Danny Boy (The DJ Quik Sessions) / It's About Time (Original) / The Remix Collection (Death Row Unreleased)

• Death Row recorded album 1994-1996 final mix in 1998
• circa 1994 : DJ Quik original sessions
• 1995-1996 : It's About Time sessions
  

 

This picture has been re-used by the unofficial "Advance" bootleg

it was probably the official anticipated cover

for the eponymous Danny Boy album in 1994 

1. Danny Boy (The DJ Quik Sessions) - circa 1994

A-Side * :

1. Call On Me

2. Innocent Dance (Dancefloor)

3. You Don't Have To Cry No More

4. Do Me

5. I Can't Wait

 

B-Side ** :

6. Blow Your Mind (Original Mix)

7. Sadie

8. Oh !

9. Lady

10. Love & Happiness

 

Bonus Track :

11. Come When I Call

 

Producer - DJ Quik 

Presumably recorded in 1994, maybe early 1995.

* A-Side follows the tracklist of the Promo Sampler (snippets of 2' from the A-Side) probably leaked in 1994 around the time of Murder Was The Case Soundtrack.

** B-Side doesn't have any particular order. Tracks were leaked in a bootleg titled The D.R. Sessions (Couldn't find it back).

Why these tracks from B-Side ? Except for "Blow Your Mind", none of them were included in It's About Time (WIDEAwake, 2010). So maybe they were not planned to be inside the original version of it, maybe Danny Boy still thought to release his eponymous first album in any form...

 

Front cover of the 2010 release

2. It's About Time (Original Mix) - circa 1995

1. Intro (Full Mix)

2. Blow Your Mind Away

3. How Many Times

4. Think It's About Time (Full Mix)

5. Between Me And U feat. DJ Quik (talkbox)

6. Break U Off (Full Mix)

7. So In Love

8. Church Interlude

9. Can I Come Over (Full Mix)

10. Just Ride feat. Jojo Hailey & Roger Troutman (talkbox)

11. If U Don't Mind (From Me To U) (Alternate Version) feat. female backing

12. It's All About U

13. Steppin'

14. Mama Used To Say (Full Mix)

15. Come When I Call (George Archie Remix)

16. Slip 'N Slide (Bonus Track)

Producer - DJ Quik (2-5, 7-9, 13-15), except 6 by Demetrius Shipp, 10, 11, 12, 16 by Devanté Swing (Jodeci).

 

WIDEAwake Release : Discogs page - Listen in Youtube or grab it here 

 

inside cover of It's About Time

3. Innocent Dance (The Remix Collection) - circa 1996

1. Follow Me

2. Do Me (New Version)

3. Innocent Dance (New Version)

4. Steppin' (Remix)

5. Caught Up feat. unknown

6. Break You Off (Remix) feat. DJ Quik (talkbox)

7. Freak of the Wreak

8. Share My Pain With You (Instrumental) feat. Stacey Smallie (?)

9. Drive By feat. unknown

10. Rock N Roll Bounce (with Intro)

11. Cupid

12. Slip N Slide (Reggae Remix) feat. unknown ragamuffin artist

13. You Don't Have To Cry (Instrumental) feat. Stacey Smallie (?)

 

Producer - ?

These tracks have probably been recorded/remixed in 1996, probably not produced by DJ Quik (except Track 6) nor DeVanté Swing (except Track 12), but more likely by Kurt Kobane, Demetrius Shipp & Reggie Moore...

His two first albums being recorded, Danny Boy was probably recording songs for other projects (2Pac's album, Gridlock'd soundtrack...), for his singles b-sides or to improve his album.

These are great songs which prove that Danny Boy was not a chorus guy and was not just a beautiful voice behind DJ Quik productions but a wonderful artist who try new things. It would be possible to add to this selection "Slip 'N Slide (Original)".

4. Slip N Slide EP (Advance) - Unofficial Bootleg Compilation (1994-1999)

1. Slip N Slide

2. It's Over Now / Keith Andes

3. All In The Club

4. I Can't Get Enough / Damon Thomas

5. Front Porch feat. Twista

6. Come When I Call

7. Slip N Slide (DPG Remix) feat. Dogg Pound

8. Peaceful Christmas

9. Nobody's Home feat. Do or Die, Johnny P

10. Beautiful Lady feat. K-Ci

Bonus Tracks :

11. Dysfunktional Family feat. Crooked I & Eastwood

12. Slip 'N Slide (Instrumental)

13. Christmas Song

14. This Christmas

This Advance / Slip N Slide EP has been unofficially bootlegged various times with slightly different tracklists (in the Advance Discogs version, "Slip N Slide Remix" is in the 11th position, and the B-Rezell's song "Horny" is mistakenly included in the 10th...). This is simply a compilation of the eponymous single with the officially released songs in various albums between 1994 and 1999.

Producer - DJ Quik (6), Danny Boy, Reggie Moore & DeVanté Swing (1, 12), Daz (7), Kurt Kobane (10), Damon Thomas (4), Keith Andes (2), Kevyn Lewis for D.R. (8, 13, 14), The Legendary Traxster for Rap-A-Lot (3, 5, 9)

• Track 6 is taken from Murder Was The Case O.S.T. (1994)
  
• Tracks 1 & 7 are from the single Slip N Slide (1996)
• Tracks 8, 13, 14 are taken from Christmas on Death Row (1996) 
  
• Tracks 2 & 4 are taken from Gridlock'd O.S.T. (1997) 
• Track 2 and cover's pictures are taken from It's Over Now single (1997), image itself probably reused from the 1994-1995 unreleased album
  
• Track 10 is from Chronic 2000 (1999), probably recorded circa 1996-1997
  
• Track 3 is taken from Caught Up O.S.T. (1998) 
• Tracks 3 & 9 are taken from Do Or Die's Headz Or Tailz LP (1998)
  
• Track 5 is taken from Twista's Mobstability LP (1998)

When you consider this bootleg, it seems Danny Boy took a similar way than Snoop Dogg or Kurupt, leaving Death Row around the same time (c. 1998) to get closer to Rap-A-Lot and then to go back to Death Row circa 2001-2003 with a handful of featurings with Eastwood & Crooked I but a similar fail to release any solo album.