Producer orchestrator behind, Summer of 42, Kung Fu Fighting (which has a great arrangement, no really) and I Love to Love.
Way too much cheese overwhelming / obscuring the good bits, so I don't actually like anything I've heard, but it's a good sound somehow - seems to me he's one of those guys who would have a few obscure tracks that you can play it to people saying, this is the guy who did Kung Fu Fighting - isn't it great?
Does he? Anyone explored the nooks and crannies of the biddu oeuvre?
― Sandy Blair, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 19:33 (eighteen years ago)
some of the Biddu Orchestra stuff is nice, though definitely on the cheesy side of disco. i think the album i have is "Rain Forest", it has a couple moments on it.
― pipecock, Thursday, 28 February 2008 02:54 (eighteen years ago)
Ha, I just heard the drummer on "Kung Fu Fighting," Clem Cattini, talking about Biddu on the Michael Shelley. Clem didn't really have much to say about him, as is his wont, he just liked saying the name "Biddu."
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 28 February 2008 03:01 (eighteen years ago)
Michael Shelley show.
Anyone explored the nooks and crannies of the biddu oeuvre?
A few years ago, I acquired several crate-loads of mostly promo 7-inches from 1972 to 1974. In amongst them were a considerable number of Biddu productions, i.e. from his pre-disco days. I'm sorry to report that they were totally routine pop hack-work, with no discernible unifying characteristics whatsoever.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 28 February 2008 09:57 (eighteen years ago)
I remember in the pre-cable television days laffing a lot at a softcore soundtrack by Biddu for a movie called The Stud, which had lyrics that ran: "What's his name, what's his name? The Stud!"
― J0hn D., Thursday, 28 February 2008 13:53 (eighteen years ago)