Uptown disco for a dollar…
Lovely little funky disco 7 arranged by Randy Muller & Jeff Lane of Brass Construction & similar in style. Randy was also heavily involved with B.T. Express arranging strings on ‘Express’, ‘If It Don’t Turn You On’, ‘Do It (’Til You’re Satisfied)’ & ‘Herbs’.
Madison 76 by Venus has disco strings & breaks, wah-wah guitar & female vocals all for 50p. The track was also released as an early columbia extended 12″ single for promotional puposes only.
Here’s a chunk of soul from 1972.
Performed by the sugar coated, gravelly voiced rocker, Genya Ravan.
Coke Escovedo - I wouldn’t change a thing (unique)
The Controllers - The people want music (juana) 1976
Personal Touch - It ain’t no big thing (p&p)
Zulema - Telling the world good-bye (sussex) 1973
Prince Phillip Mitchell - I’m so happy (atlantic)
Gwen McCrae - Cradle of love (cat) 1976
Alfie Davison - Love is a serious business (boot)
Jean Shy - We’ve got a good thing going (fox car)
Alton Ellis & Phyllis Dillon - Why did you leave me to cry (trojan)
Bobby Sax - Caribbean disco part 1 (abet) 1976
Aquarian Dream - Phoenix (buddah) 1976
Webster Lewis - Do it with style (epic) 1976
Bunny Sigler - Let me prove that i love you (philadelphia international)
Townsend, Townsend, Townsend & Rogers - It’s you (chocolate city) 1979
Dj Ian Levine broke this modern soul monster back in the days of Blackpool Mecca.
Tom Moulton on the mix, a mint original copy of this would cost you about the same as a mint SX200 or A GS 160.
Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love has produced some amazing emotional soul & disco. Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes contributed massively to this output on the tsop label with global hits like “The Love I Lost” & “Don’t Leave Me This Way” through to socially conscious songs such as “Wake Up Everybody” and “Bad Luck”
They departed Philadelphia International for ABC Records, based in New York in 1977. “Reaching for the World” became the group’s final major single…Emotional Stuff.
In august 1968 , Jimmy`s blues band recorded the worm on solid state records.
JAZZ FUNK
Took a punt on this for $2 - we don’t know anything about it, other than how good it sounds.
Ruby Andrews - Casanova (Your Playing Days Are Over) on the zodiac record label from 1967,later turned into disco heaven by the group Coffee.
Keep the faith
Bow wow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay - Atomic Dog released in 1982 was number 1 in the US R&B charts but never managed to enter the Top 100 of the Pop Chart.
With a killer bassline Atomic Dog is one of P-Funk’s most heavily sampled songs, appearing in more than 50 songs.
Make my funk the p-funk.
More seventies soul business from this famous philly trio Sister Sledge with the superb Love Don’t You Go Through No Changes On Me, released in 1974 on Atco & their first entry into the US R&B charts.
Massive disco hits came later in their career under the genius of the chic production team of nile rodgers and bernard edwards - a proper crossover tune rocking many a dancefloor & cropping up more & more on those wants lists.
