Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson reached some incredible heights in music. This husband and wife duo recorded some of disco's greatest songs on top of writing numerous hits for some of America's most famous musical acts and icons. Stay Free and Don't Cost You Nothing are two outstanding songs from their extensive back catalogue. Stay Free in particular is nothing shy of a masterpiece.......for me it is one of the best tracks ever written. I don't know how many times I have listened to it since hearing it on David Mancuso's "The Loft", but it's got to be well over a hundred. Don't Cost You Nothing, another Paradise Garage and Loft classic is also sublime, with a driving drum break at the end and amazing key changes which elevate the song into the dizzy heights of the musical cosmos Stop! Stop! and listen to the voice Good God alive, ha You always got a choice Don't cost you nothing Take a chance as you go Stay Free
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