Al eens gehoord van onderstaande RAMS HORN 12" GIANT SINGLES? (pt. 1)

write-in for 3045 ;)

prob something by Lime from this list

Perhaps an obvious choice but going to go for Vaughan Mason And Crew which I must have heard every Saturday afternoon for a couple of years circa 79/80 when I used to go ice skating. That bassline!

This poll was inspired by me picking up 3234 (Silvetti - Spring Rain) at a carboot sale this morning and idly perusing the list on the back. i don't really expect many people to be particularly interested in this endeavour but it seems like a good chance for me to go through all the releases properly. There are bloody hundreds though! Out of this bunch i know way more than i thought i would, probably own well over half of them but not necessarily the Rams Horn pressinga. So many of these I love, this is actually impossible i think!

Just been listening to my copy of Hit'N Run lover and enjoyed it way more than i remember doing so before! Again another killer bassline. But torn between two Azoto's right now, those are just instant happiness

Vaughan Mason And Crew which I must have heard every Saturday afternoon for a couple of years circa 79/80 when I used to go ice skating

that's a great memory to have!

it is! 2 other tracks that always instantly transport me back to the ice rink are Supernature and (what strangely eventually went on to become Scotland's alternative national anthem) Yes Sir, I Can Boogie.

Supernature rules so hard

only one i have any childhood memories of is the Hi-Gloss tune cos it was on Chart Hits 81 which we got for that christmas. never really loved that one at the time though and it definitely seems a bit slight in comparison to a lot of the other records here. need to relisten though!

fun cover of San Salvador from the philippines which i hadn't heard before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE4STQwZYw4

(same artist has also recorded tom tom club and bobby orlando covers, but sadly they're not on youtube)

okay that Bamboo one is gross. cheesy dutch disco group covering the 4 Seasons. wish that the discogs app had a DO NOT TOUCH alert of some sort, have a horrible feeling i will accidentally buy that one some day

I would love to hear those. i wonder if Sherry Simons – Passion is The Flirts song?

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had the exact same thought! just a liiittle bit expensive taking a punt on that one though

one might have hoped these would have been 50p records but...!!

oh wait, it's on a 7" too with something called 'X-Rated Man' on the flip? sounds hopeful. or at least it would be if there were any copies on this planet anywhere

> 3009 Little Carlos / Jackson Jones – Shake Your Body Down / I Feel Good Put Your Pants On

I don't think i really need the reggae cover of the jacksons on the a-side of this, but the b-side has been on my wantlist for sooo long. so good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzVW3oOZv4s

so weird, so vibey

i didn't notice that was on the list - might have voted for it if i had.

i have this boot of it - https://www.discogs.com/release/1682686-Little-Carlos-Jackson-Jones-Shake-Your-Body-Down-Put-Your-Pants-On

it got a 7" reissue a few years back too.

Unlimited Touch – I Hear Music In The Streets <3
Learned to love this with that Mantronix Soul Jazz comp

Yeah both of those Unlimited Touch songs are bombs, maybe Searching To Find The One edges it for me though? Even with the ridiculous shred

I think that the songs by Bobby Thurston here were the only ones of his that Rams Horn did. Out of the three I'd probably go for Check Out The Groove which does that thing where the verses are sweet as a spring morning and then the chorus flips into this absolutely naaasty serious business funk thing

It's a shame that Rams Horn didn't keep going with him cos they missed out on 'The Very Last Drop' and also this huge D-Train-esque monster which urgently needs a reissue like now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yh6QkTp4LY

why have i never heard Pop Pop Shoo Wah before? feel like i should know it, although obviously i already knew the hook. did it come before or after Pop Muzik? it's very silly anyway but i do like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZjBzNSNtQ

^ that whole phased section from 4 mins onwards would be really cool in the right circumstances, proper gobbling space turkey noises

would need to be appreciably more drunk than i usually am on a monday morning to truly enjoy 'Touch Me Where It's Hot', it's doing that sleazy cheezy 70s glam bongo thing. makes me wanna listen to 'Down By The Docks' by Sailor

from the ridiculous to the sublime: this is still an incredible slice of chic-ability isn't it? so gorgeous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY3MgLDk07o

^ also fun to see david sylvian getting down to it in that video

Not really feeling the Strikers' Body Music. I know I've got a copy somewhere but I can never remember how it goes, and revisiting it, I'm still not getting much of a spark from it. One of those records thats guaranteed to be in every disco section in UK record shops, along with T-Connection and boys town gang. Wish it was half as good as those!

Maybe I need to hear the Special Disco Remix?

yeah this remix of “body music” is superior

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LbvMGm4mmI

These are all equally massive:

Bobby Thurston - You Got What It Takes
Unlimited Touch – I Hear Music In The Streets
Sharon Redd – Can You Handle It
The Strikers – Body Music
Empress – Dyin' To Be Dancin'
Unlimited Touch – Searching To Find The One

Appears to be missing 3021?

Musique
IN THE BUSH
KEEP ON JUMPIN'

interesting that (more than?) half of these are Prelude cuts, I guess I don’t really know what Rams Horns deal was

this is my favorite gayle adams jam, “love fever”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZqjR7yBTs

Yeah, that one is crazy good!!

A lot of the Preludes that were on Rams Horn were also on Epic in the UK, again I don't know what the whole deal was there

Appears to be missing 3021?

Musique
IN THE BUSH
KEEP ON JUMPIN'

Can't find that listed anywhere. Maybe that's the missing 3020?? It is from 78 though and Rams Horn didn't start putting stuff out until 1980

I didn't know this one at all before, but this is really superb I think, and sounds like a Loft classic to me - lovely warm vibe to it, brilliant vocals and great brass too. Cool synth solo to boot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L44hj_KrMnc
First Love - Don't Say Goodnight

Could totally imagine Hunee or someone playing that at the end of the night at Giant Steps

I guess I don’t really know what Rams Horns deal was

at least initially they existed purely as a licensing label putting out releases for the Benelux market, although the records got a lot further than that and were ubiquitous in UK DJ shops and even HMV in the 80s and into the 90s. they licensed a huge number of Prelude releases.

I also know this story abt "Menergy"

https://www.discogs.com/release/99081-Patrick-Cowley-Menergy

This release was withdrawn from stores after a dispute (even law-suit) with Ariola Benelux, who had the Original rights. After that Rams Horn directly released the Mother F cover version of Menergy.

omg I just now realized what "Benelux" means after 40+ years

they were generally import price in the UK though.

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omg I just now realized what "Benelux" means after 40+ years

LOL!

I mean, no reason why you should know.

in my head I thought it was something about Belgium, I think, not all 3 countries

it's such a ubiquitous thing in europe (especially as a record buyer) but no reason why anyone outside europe might know that.

Can't find that listed anywhere. Maybe that's the missing 3020?? It is from 78 though and Rams Horn didn't start putting stuff out until 1980

Was working from this list: http://www.hotdiscomix.de/labels/rams_horn_3000.htm

Ah okay thanks! Think that list might be a bit wonky though as discogs has Carol Jiani as 3021 and has photos of the labels, and meanwhile there's no entry at all for In The Bush as a rams Horn 12. 3020 still a mystery though!

good to see the next 30 though, some amazing things in that batch

Oh lordy, this one with the giant synths from First Love:

https://youtube/watch?v=7vr7Caov84Y

oops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vr7Caov84Y

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ok I forgot about this strikers tune, “strike it up”, this is the stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVr9LEVVZKw

i used to buy these singles in the 90s - a lot of them were a buck in philly! - and ogle the long lists of singles on the 12-inch jackets. i hadn't heard most of them back then.

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i totally forgot to vote in this, my own poll, oops. second part coming soon maybe?

anyhow some useless trivia i learned today...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71JL+b9TSHL._AC_SL1200_.jpg

the woman on the cover of the azoto album 'disco fizz' is nina carter, a glamour model and one half of extremely dubious disco duo blonde on blonde along with fellow page 3 girl jilly johnson (can't lie though, their version of 'whole lotta love' is a guilty pleasure. and if you know the sleeve to that one, you'll probably spot the similarity between the two images). she was also rick wakeman's wife!

eek huuuge image of toothpaste lady