Disco 24

I’ve posted a few disco mixes in the past but there are always more 12″s where those came from. So here’s a new one including some classics that didn’t make it into those earlier mixes, along with a few variations on a theme and a couple of tracks that aren’t quite disco.

The mix starts with a First Choice instrumental. Most people will know the Shep Pettibone mix on Salsoul (heard here) but this is the B-side from the Ramshorn 12″, in which the opening bars make it very obvious when Steve Silk Hurley got the bass line for Jack Your Body (heard here). Then a Niteliters cover gets The Vince Montana treatment. I still prefer the original but hey this was good enough to impress Tony Manero. After disco from Candido that’s inevitably heavy on the percussion, there’s the first commercial 12” single released and Eddie Henderson switching Blue Note jazz for disco.

Vince Montana appears again with one of several versions of Also Sprach Zarathustra I have (Tito Puente’s  is here). There’s some much earlier First Choice, the ultimate soul proto-disco, and then a very rare 12″ on P&P. Hoppo would have liked the next two tunes given his penchant for “scratchy guitar disco” and I’m sure he would have recognized the last track given Paul D’s fondness for S’Express.

1. Let No Man Put Asunder (Instrumental) – First Choice 
2. K-Jee – M.F.S.B.
3. Dancing’ & Prancin’ – Candido
4. Ten Per Cent (12” Disco Mix) – Double Exposure
5. Prance On – Eddie Henderson
6. Salsoul 3001 – The Salsoul Orchestra
7. Armed And Extremely Dangerous – First Choice
8. Ain’t It Time (Instrumental)– Queen Yahna
9. Can’t Win For Losing – Love Committee
10. Where Is The Love – Betty Wright
11. Crystal World – Crystal Grass

 

~ by ricardosevere on 03/31/2024.