Slow Jam - Midnight Star - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Midnight Star unknowingly gave birth to a huge pop culture phenomenon when they named their 1983 track "Slow Jam," which was written by a young Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, along with Belinda Lipscomb, and Bo Watson. Midnight Star – who formed in 1976 at Kentucky State University – were a funk band with a predeliction for future-sounding synths, and “Slow Jam,” a track from their 1983 album No Parking on the Dance Floor, took the form of a duet in which the male narrator of the intro asks, "Excuse me / May I have this dance?".. "I asked her for her hand / Said, "Would you like to dance?" / So pleased that I had asked, she quickly took my hand / And we danced and fell in love / On a slow jam, yeah yeah". "Slow Jam," which subsequently gave rise to a sub-genre of R&B music characterised by slow romantic songs, was later covered by Usher and Monica on the 1997 album My Way.