Various - The Best Disco Album In The Universe Volume 1
Label:
Catalog#:
OPCD-1763, ESD 7081
Format:
CD
Country:
US
Released:
1997
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Disco
Tracklist
| 1 | Chic - | Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) | 8:19 | |
| Mixed By - Savarese | ||||
| 2 | Sylvester - | I Need You | 4:40 | |
| Co-producer - Harvey Fuqua | ||||
| 3 | Change - | Searching | 8:01 | |
|
Backing Vocals -
Luther Vandross
Producer - Jacques Fred Petrus | ||||
| 4 | Trammps, The - | That's Where The Happy People Go | 6:39 | |
| 5 | Ecstasy, Passion & Pain - | Ask Me | 3:17 | |
| 6 | Roy Ayers Ubiquity - | Running Away | 4:00 | |
| Producer - Edwin Birdsong , Roy Ayers , William Allen | ||||
| 7 | Junior (2) - | Mama Used To Say | 6:38 | |
| 8 | South Shore Commission - | Free Man | 7:29 | |
| 9 | Gwen McCrae - | Funky Sensation | 6:31 | |
| 10 | Intruders, The - | I'll Always Love My Mama (Part 1) | 6:37 | |
| Producer - Gamble & Huff | ||||
| 11 | Candi Staton - | Young Hearts Run Free | 4:10 | |
| Producer - Dave Crawford | ||||
| 12 | Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - | The Hustle | 3:28 | |
| Producer - Hugo & Luigi | ||||
Credits
Artwork By [Art Direction] -
Eric Lewandoski
Artwork By [Design] - Duane "Shake Your Thing" Romanell
Other [Liner Notes] - Glenn Mendlinger
Artwork By [Design] - Duane "Shake Your Thing" Romanell
Other [Liner Notes] - Glenn Mendlinger
Notes
Liner notes includes full info on all the tracks and their importance to the rise of Disco.
Liner Notes:
Welcome to The Best Disco Album In The Universe, Volume 1. This series, brought to you by Essex Entertainment, is a comprehensive tour through Disco's history, its greatest moments, shining stars and lost treasures.
Disco's early days can be traced back to an underground dance community that was growing in New York City and the surrounding areas. On the beaches of Fire Island, the dance floor at the legendary Paradise Garage and at private weekly parties such as The Loft, something was beginning to balloon. DJ's were beginning to spin (from a very limited amount of music at the time) evenings full of danceable tracks with no interruption. Blending, as it was called then, was the DJ's ability to seamlessly mix two songs into each other producing a non-stop soundtrack.
Not very much later, in 1975, two important things happened that would help shape and give momentum to Disco. Firstly, Van McCoy released a song called "The Hustle", starting a worldwide craze only recently repeated by Los Del Rio's "Macarena". Secondly, a meeting between Boston choir-girl/aspiring theater performer, Donna Summer and an upcoming German production team (Giorgio Moroder & Pete Bellote) spawned a recording simply called "Love To Love You Baby". After U.S. record man Neil Bogart heard the now classic track, he asked that Giorgio extend it as "as much as possible". That vision for lengthening the song introduced the world to the 12'' dance remix, and the pairing of Donna Summer and Moroder would, in turn, produce the only true superstar Disco ever had. Compiled here are 12 incredible songs that helped Disco take flight.
Liner Notes:
Welcome to The Best Disco Album In The Universe, Volume 1. This series, brought to you by Essex Entertainment, is a comprehensive tour through Disco's history, its greatest moments, shining stars and lost treasures.
Disco's early days can be traced back to an underground dance community that was growing in New York City and the surrounding areas. On the beaches of Fire Island, the dance floor at the legendary Paradise Garage and at private weekly parties such as The Loft, something was beginning to balloon. DJ's were beginning to spin (from a very limited amount of music at the time) evenings full of danceable tracks with no interruption. Blending, as it was called then, was the DJ's ability to seamlessly mix two songs into each other producing a non-stop soundtrack.
Not very much later, in 1975, two important things happened that would help shape and give momentum to Disco. Firstly, Van McCoy released a song called "The Hustle", starting a worldwide craze only recently repeated by Los Del Rio's "Macarena". Secondly, a meeting between Boston choir-girl/aspiring theater performer, Donna Summer and an upcoming German production team (Giorgio Moroder & Pete Bellote) spawned a recording simply called "Love To Love You Baby". After U.S. record man Neil Bogart heard the now classic track, he asked that Giorgio extend it as "as much as possible". That vision for lengthening the song introduced the world to the 12'' dance remix, and the pairing of Donna Summer and Moroder would, in turn, produce the only true superstar Disco ever had. Compiled here are 12 incredible songs that helped Disco take flight.