JIMMY C. HAMILTON

 Jimmy Hamilton is the lead singer, keyboard player for the 1980's group known as Prime Time, formerly known as the Sai Whatt Band.  The band recorded for The Total Experience Record Label.  The band’s biggest hit was a mid-tempo song titled “I Owe It To Myself,” this song made its way to number 21 on Billboard’s R&B chart in the fall of 1984.  Jimmy’s label mates the Gap Band on their Gap Band VII LP later covered this song.

 Other singles by Prime Time were the disco like “Love Talk” and “Give it to the beat.”  Both of these songs became post-release favorites of their dance/funk fans.  Other highlights off of the same LP were “Can’t Get You Off My Mind” and  “Let’s Talk It Over” which both have an intimate rich and full feel to them.

Jimmy also appears on releases by his Total Experience label mates, to which he wrote, and produced the hit “Guilty” LP for Yarborough & Peoples.  This album is listed as the best album ever recorded by the duo.  Jimmy wrote and produced various tunes such as “I’m Ready,” “I Can’t Live Without Your Love, ” “You Told Me That” and “I’m All The Way Yours" for the Gap Band.  Jimmy also wrote and produced songs for Klique, Pennye Ford, Prime Time, and Ganiyu Gee Bello a Capitol Record Artist.  Jimmy’s two Prime Time albums are “Flying High” and “Confess it baby.” 

 Jimmy is currently writing new material and performing locally with his “Sai Whatt Band.

TEDDY IVORY RABB

Teddy Rabb is the 1970’s lead singer, keyboardist, writer, and composer of the 1970’s RCA (Fantasy) recording group known as “Hell-Storm.”  Teddy Rabb is a native of Watts California.  He graduated from Jordan High School in Watts, California.

Rabb’s professional career began in 1968.  He formed the band “Hell-Storm,” which caught the ear of the well-known producer Harvey Fugua of the “Moonglows.”  Fugua recognized Hell-Storm’s potential, and in turn facilitated Rabb’s record deal with RCA.

After leaving Fantasy Records, Rabb worked with producers Miles Grayson (Respect Music), James Broughton (Virg Records), and Lonnie Simmons of the Total Experience Records family.  With these producers, Rabb recorded and wrote numerous songs.  He wrote or collaborated on such songs as “Can We Talk” for Will King, “I Owe It To Myself” for Prime Time and the Gap Band, then finally “Who Is She” for Yarbrough & Peoples.