For when you buy something cause the cover looks great, or maybe you recognize a name or two, and manage to spend a fraction of what you'd normally spend at the record shop.
http://www.latincollectibles.com/images/10092S.JPGTema de Amor '74: Orquesta Amor Ilimitado - Barry White
I wish I could find a bigger image of this, cause it's pretty great. Barry with his hair pomped up in a cream-colored leisure suit, looking dignified and sexy in front of a bunch of Latinas who look ready to jump into the pool. The previous owner made a note in Sharpie on the cover: SHARP DRESSED MEN GET THE LADIES.
Minimal vocals (a sex rap or two), pressed in Mexico, all the titles are in Spanish. Incredible widescreen baroque slick easy-dancefloor-pop. Like Curtis Mayfield scoring a romantic comedy. Like the Funk Brothers sitting in on a session with a beefed-up Soulful Strings. WAY good.
$1.99
What have you picked up from the bargain spot lately?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 15 July 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.discomusic.com/images/cover-s-z/steppinout-polydor-promo-lp.jpg This was $1.99 and it's the best disco compo ever as far as I'm concerned. All continuosly mixed.
TRACKLISTING:
Disc 1 Side A 1. Chakachas : Jungle Fever (2:56) 2. Isaac Hayes : Moonlight Lovin' (Menage A Trois) (8:58) 3. Gregg Diamond / Bionic Boogie : Dance Little Dreamer (5:11)
Side B 1. Roy Ayers : Running Away (6:12) 2. Don Ray : Got To Have Loving (6:44) 3. Gregg Diamond / Bionic Boogie : Risky Chnages (6:54)
Disc 2 Side C 1. Gloria Gaynor : Casanova Brown (5:36) 2. Fatback Band : Spanish Hustle (4:20) 3. Kongas : Dr. Doo-Wah (5:11)
Side D 1. Joe Simon : I Need You, You Need Me (4:07) 2. Gloria Gaynor : Never Can Say Goodbye (6:14) 3. Crystal Grass : Crystal World (4:00) 4. Trax : Crusader4:35)
NO bad tracks here. It's kinda reminds of those awesome K-Tel funk comps, SUPER BAD and SUPER BAD IS BACK, but for disco.
― Romeo Jones, Sunday, 15 July 2007 22:00 (nineteen years ago)
awesome.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 15 July 2007 22:12 (nineteen years ago)
i got this "hit parade 1" compilation on barclay. late 60s/early 70s pop stuff, i think both french and quebecois. some pretty catchy tunes. $1.00! looking at the artist pics and titles i figured "bella bella donna" by david alexandre winter was gonna be the killer and "wana nene wana nana" by zanoni (an old dude in a porkpie hat) would be painfully suck. it was exactly the opposite.
but i think the best song is "ananga-ranga" by twinkleberry et les tims.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)
That Steppin Out comp is one of my favorite compilations ever. Nice find!
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)
Just picked up this awesome xtian hippiesploitation folk for a buck at goodwill. The lyrics are all hippie-baiting talk about how Jesus is "really far out, happening and out of sight," "lettin the Lord do His thing" and all that. Gorgeous three part harmonies, tight little folk-pop stuff. Helluva find, but I can't find any info about it anywhere on the internet.
Anybody know anything about "Bill Dave & Mary" and their record Transition?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:39 (nineteen years ago)
i don't know anything. even one-way.org doesn't have anything to say.
last week: a $1 copy of macho's i'm a man LP, opened but possibly unplayed. 17 minute disco cover of steve winwood tune? ok!
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Friday, 27 July 2007 07:10 (nineteen years ago)
also awesome synth sounds.
Love that "I'm A Man" track. Used to spin the freak out of it in my DJing days. Worked beautifully with either of the side-long Tantra masterpieces: "The Hills of Katmandu" or "Wishbone." Produced by the great Mauro Malavasi of Change fame. LP cover appears in Xhuxk's Accidental book.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 27 July 2007 07:24 (nineteen years ago)
OH yeah and Steppin Out ist def. one of the raddest disco comps around. Would be if only for that remarkable Crystal Grass: "Crystal World" (or is that Crystal World: "Crystal Grass"?) single which I have on 7". Tense blaxploitation boogie with Eurozombies intoning "Creeeestal graaaaahs and creeeestal treeeeeeeees." Scary, echoey sax break. Sampled on the equally great "Theme From S-Express" by S-Express.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 27 July 2007 07:37 (nineteen years ago)
-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, July 27, 2007 4:39 AM
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 23 March 2008 03:00 (eighteen years ago)