After The Sylvers' unsuccessful Disco Fever album 1979, the group wanted to part ways with their manager Al Ross and go elsewhere. Ross persuaded Edmund, by now 22 years old, that he should go solo as he had 'the most commercial voice' of the group. The album was released in the summer of 1980, but by now Casablanca was struggling with financial problems after years of over-spending, Donna Summer leaving them, disco music facing a serious backlash in the USA, and PolyGram taking over, firing label founder Neil Bogart in the process. The album could only muster a modest hit with lead single That Burning Love which made it to #38 on the R&B charts and #90 on the Disco Charts. The second single Time failed to chart at all. Edmund would not reform with his siblings for their final albums Concept (1981) and Bizarre (1984). Instead he wrote and produced the single In Motion (1982) for his then fiancée, Freda Payne (15 years his senior), and co-produced an album for Gladys Knight & The Pips in 1983 before his music career fizzled. A second solo album, Take Me Over, was recorded for Arista in 1985 but never released. He passed away from lung cancer in his home in Virginia in 2004, just 47 years old, leaving 11 children behind.

00:00 I Choose You
03:55 You Can Talk About Leaving (B-Side NB 2318 and Promotional 12" Disco Single NBD 20227 DJ)
07:50 Have You Heard The News (Promotional 12" Disco Single NBD 20227 DJ)
12:47 Beauty Of Nature
16:46 At The Top
20:36 That Burning Love (Promotional 12" Disco Single NBD 20223 DJ)
25:13 Time (Single NB 2318, Nov 1980)
29:00 Holdin' Back
32:52 You Went Away (B-Side NB 2270)

Bonus Tracks:
40:29 That Burning Love (Single NB 2270, Aug 1980)
44:07 Freda Payne: In Motion (1982)

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