Recommended - Roulette CD

[disco-disc]

Hi Guys and Gals,
I can recommend the Get Up And Move Your Body! Roulette Disco CD - (hopefully one of the site Prefects, will add a link to the relevant CD page by Bernie).
Lots of (dated?) Vocal stuff, But hey IT IS GOOD !!!
15 Great EARLY tracks that you will reach out for off the shelf when you are feeling like keeping the party going

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[Mr.Ree]

Originally Posted by starsky

Hi Guys and Gals,
I can recommend the Roulette CD - Get up and move your body (hopefully one of the site Prefects, will add a link to the relevant CD page by Bernie).
Lots of (dated?) Vocal stuff, But hey IT IS GOOD !!!
15 Great EARLY tracks that you will reach out for off the shelf when you are feeling like keeping the party going

I love it also, especially "My Baby's Got E.S.P." and "Full Time Thing". But I like all the tracks.

[markydefad]

ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh..it's my post # 6666!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[from The Billboard Disco Compilation Consensus]


October 2, 1976

I wrote:

The Last Spins Of Roulette

I want to mention the 4 titles charting on Roulette Records 12" singles this week: "Full Time Thing" @#18, "Like Her!" @#21, "I Got Your Love" @ #40, and Camouflage's "You've Got The Power", hangin' on @ #65.

Roulette Records, in business since the Fifties, was in their last years at this point and oddly had decided to release only disco records until they closed their doors in early 1978. A bunch of their 12" releases are compiled on a nice 1998 Brit cd titled: "Get Up And Move Your Body: Roulette Disco!"--(compiled and sequenced by Tony Rounce with welcome advice from Tom Moulton.) With the exception of Ecstasy, Passion & Pain's "Touch And Go," most of these tunes are largely forgotten today, but definitely worth exploring. The Roulette label had a distinctive orange and yellow alternating striped pattern [looks like that awful Halloween candy corn--those colors don't seem to exist in the color options here...or I'd do a pattern for ya!!!] that created a "primitive trip" as it rotated on the record player...["I Been Hyp-no-tized by the spinning Roulette!!!"]

The first record I recall purchasing on the Roulette label was "Easier Said Than Done" by The Essex in 1963. Later, all the Tommy James & the Shondells records from "Hanky Panky" through "Draggin' The Line" were on Roulette. But now, in 1976, though early 1978 when they closed shop, they devoted themselves almost exclusively to disco 12" singles!!! How cool is that?

[Teddybear]

I enjoy it also very much, especially the first half, and I start to go up and shake my booty (without leaving the chair) when listening to it. Some songs have a weak start but then the Disco roulette goes around stronger, and you end dancing! As usual.

I recommend My Baby's Got ESP, I Got Your Love and You've Got The Power.

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[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Would someone give me the total time for "Good Things Don't Last Forever"?
I have the LP, but had heard there was a long version of it, on the b-side of the "Ask Me" 12"single.

thanks in advance...

Stephen L.

[markydefad]

Originally Posted by STEPHEN L FREEMAN

Would someone give me the total time for "Good Things Don't Last Forever"?
I have the LP, but had heard there was a long version of it, on the b-side of the "Ask Me" 12"single.

thanks in advance...

Stephen L.

This ain't a long version, Stephen...no timings are listed on the cd-- but I previously timed all the cuts...it's around 3:36.

[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Originally Posted by markydefad

This ain't a long version, Stephen...no timings are listed on the cd-- but I previously timed all the cuts...it's around 3:36.

Thank you, Marky.
The LP is listed as 3'15". But, <sigh> I guess the search for that elusive "Ask Me" 12" will continue..

[Disco Funk]

Terrible CD, a complete waste of money! Just kidding of course.

It's a cool compilation, there was also a companion boxset of Roulette stuff (not just disco) released around the same time, a decade ago, that featured a couple of disco numbers not on this CD: Jay Black - One Night Affair (not the Gamble & Huff tune); and Marilyn Chambers' Benihana. I was so disappointed when I found that out, but I didn't bother getting the boxset.

Just some trivia regarding Roulette tracks on and not on this CD:

My Baby's Got ESP was originally released on P&P. There's a short version of it on that Super Rare Disco CD compilation that features a little more vocals than this 12" mix. I think it was from a Roulette 7" (which I've never seen) because I heard the P&P version somewhere and it sounds a little different.

I really love the track Like Her, which was produced by Johnny Melfi of Sun Sun Sun/Jacki fame (does anyone know any other productions by him?). The vocals are a bit cabaret, but it's such a great little tune. I was happy to discover that the 7" Instrumental mix is different and has different parts not on the 12". I think the instrumental contains the original recorded intro, because the vocal 7" side and the 12" use the 'come on, talk about it' breakdown copied and pasted from the middle of the song. I'm not a fan of the 12" mix because the edits are very sloppy.

There are 4 or so mixes of Touch & Go floating around. There was a 4 minute version on the Jumpin' CD series; there's the 5 minute version on this CD, along with the accapella; then there's the 8 minute remix that Tom Moulton did in the 80s that was on some Best of CD for Ecstasy Passion & Pain on Koch.

In Canada, I think the Stratavarious stuff was put out on Polydor. I found a few of their singles. Most of the tracks made it onto the LP of the same name except for the instrumental mix of 'Yes It Is' on the 7".

Lastly, in addition to the Marilyn Chambers & Jay Black songs, I think they should have included two tracks by an artist called 'The Ghetto Children'. They were a philly group that had an awesome single 'It's Ain't Easy'/'Don't Take Your Love' (I think those are the song names), which is crazy expensive on Ebay!! Not sure if it was a Bobby Martin or Norman Harris production, both tracks are top notch. I know they were featured on some Northern Soul CD by Goldmine, I believe, but the sound quality isn't so good.

I think Roulette folded sometime after '77, hence no disco tracks from the later part of the 70s. Amazon-U.S. | Amazon-U.K.

Disco Funk

[remicks]

Originally Posted by Disco Funk

I really love the track Like Her, which was produced by Johnny Melfi of Sun Sun Sun/Jacki fame (does anyone know any other productions by him?).

This one, he penned and co-produced :

FIND MY WAY


*****

[FunkyChris]

Originally Posted by STEPHEN L FREEMAN

Would someone give me the total time for "Good Things Don't Last Forever"?
I have the LP, but had heard there was a long version of it, on the b-side of the "Ask Me" 12"single.

thanks in advance...

Stephen L.

It's 3.39.

I wonder if the repeating 'jump' in "Touch & Go" by "Ectasy, Passion & Pain" was intended...