B.T. Specific (initially named Brooklyn Transit Specific) was an American funk/disco group, that had a variety of profitable songs through the Nineteen Seventies. The group was a part of the “Brooklyn sound” of the early Nineteen Seventies, shaped from three gamers of the group King Davis Home Rockers.
The Home Rockers had been an area dance band who had launched a few obscure singles (1967’s “We All Make Errors Generally” on Verve Data, 1972’s “Rum Punch”) The three gamers (guitarist Richard Thompson, tenor sax participant Invoice Risbrook, and alto sax participant Carlos Ward) shaped Madison Road Specific together with bassist Louis Risbrook (later Muslim-monickered Jamal Rasool), percussionist Dennis Rowe, drummer Terrell Wooden, and vocalist Barbara Wooden.
They together with producer Jeff Lane signed with manufacturing firm Roadshow Data to report author Billy Nichols “Do It (‘Til You’re Happy).” The report was shopped round to main labels till it was accepted at Scepter Data. Scepter urged the group change its identify from Madison Road Specific, therefore the Brooklyn Transit Specific.
The only was launched in August 1974, and reached the highest 10. Lane took the group again into the studios at that time to report a second single and pitch a full album to the label. Scepter agreed to the LP and to Roadshow Data having its personal label inside Scepter Data. Supply
