You Are My Starship / Aquarian Dream

Boasting vocals by Michael Henderson and Phyllis Hyman, You Are My Starship was the best-selling album of Norman Connors' career. This reissue also contains the debut album by Connors protégés Aquarian Dream.."

FunkyTownGrooves' 2013 reissue of You Are My Starship and Aquarian Dreaml contains two bonus tracks: the 7" single version of "Betcha By Golly wow" and the 7" Single version of "We both Need Each Other,"

Liners Notes By Alex Henderson

Digitally Remastered from the master tapes by Sean Brennan at Battery Studios

You Are My Starship has one foot in jazz and the other in 1970s soul, and it is the soul offerings that enabled the album to reach #5 on Billboard's R&B albums chart and helped Connors gain an abundance of new fans who didn't necessarily know a lot about his jazz background.
The haunting ballad "You Are My Starship," which was written by Henderson and featured him on lead vocals, became an even bigger hit than "Valentine Love" and made it to #4 on Billboard's R&B singles chart. Other quiet storm gems from You Are My Starship became singles as well, including Henderson's "We Both Need Each Other" and "Betcha By Golly Wow" (an inspired cover of the great Linda Creed/Thom Bell ballad that had been a huge hit for the Stylistics in 1972). "We Both Need Each Other" made it to #23 on Billboard's R&B singles chart, while "Betcha By Golly Wow" peaked at #29 on that chart.

Norman Connors Presents Aquarian Dream, the other album reissued on this CD, is not a Connors album per se, but rather, an album that Connors produced for the obscure band Aquarian Dream. And while Norman Connors Presents Aquarian Dream wasn t nearly the hit that You Are My Starship was, those who heard the album found it to be an engaging soul/funk effort that drew on 1970s influences such as Earth, Wind & Fire and New Birth.