1977 Billboard Disco Compilation Consensus Charts!!!

[markydefad]

Originally Posted by thommy2458

(#1= I FEEL A GROOVE COMIN' ON ) (1st week)
E= Top Audience Response Records in LA/ San Diego Discos:

Wow-you know I cannot ever remember hearing this track out-It's Bobby Womack,right? It's a good track,bit it doesn't "stick" with me for some reason.Does it chart anywhere else Marky?

D= Retail Best Sellers: Melody Song Shops (Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island):
(#1= I FEEL A GROOVE COMIN' ON ) (1st week)

E= Top Audience Response Records in LA/ San Diego Discos:
(#1= DO WHAT YOU FEEL) (1st week)


Thommy--you have the charts confused. "I Feel A Groove Comin' On" was #1 on the Melody Song Shop List. In 1976, it racked up 86 points there, added 12 points from Downstairs Records for a 98 point total. Previously-- it got 2 points from LA on the last week of 1975.

Year-end 1976 it was like this...

141) SOUL MAN - Calhoon (Warner/Spector) (99 points)
142) GET OFF YOUR AAHH! AND DANCE - Foxy (Dash) (98 points)
143) I FEEL A GROOVE COMIN' ON - Bobby Womack (United Artists) (98 points)
144) "COLLAGE" LP/Tracks: PLEASE STAY/LET'S DO IT AGAIN/DO IT NICE AND EASY - Eddie Drennon & B.B.S. Unlimited
(Friends & Co) (97 points)
145) DREAM EXPRESS - The Honeybees (Roxbury) (96 points**)
146) FEVER - Boney M (Atco) (92 points**)
147) HELLO STRANGER - New York Rubber Rock Band [featuring Colleen Heather] (Henry Street) (90 points)
148) THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES - Eddie Kendricks (Tamla) (90 points)
149) BUCKHEAD - Atlanta Disco Band (Ariola America) (88 points)
150) HELP HELP - Boney M (Atco) (87 points**)

[thommy2458]

No wonder I never heard this-no one played it! I'm kidding.I think this was Bobby's last chance at a club record,however.But my favorite Womack
moment has to be New Birth's interpretation of "I Can Understand It"-it just burns.Followed by "Baby,I'm Scared of You" and then Vicki Sue's
"Daylight".Non club pick is "Across 110th Street" after watching Jackie Brown,of course.

[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Larry Harris speaks in-depth about Bill Wardlow & the extent of corporate influence over Billboard's Charts.
In particular, the Disco Chart.
Apparently, it took hold much sooner than any of us had guessed.

Thurs., Nov. 5th @ 9am PST & 12pm EST
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and author of the must have book
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the inside story of
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[drlove]

Excellent interview grab, Stephen !!! Hopefully, some insight as to Casablanca's rise to near-domination of the forthcoming '77 Billboard Charts will be discussed.

[remicks]

Originally Posted by markydefad

DISCO MIX
By Tom Moulton

January 15, 1977

NEW YORK—Herbie Mann has teamed with Silver Convention to record a new disco single, “Years Of Love,” which was released in Germany on the Atlantic label. The product, which sounds like a combination of "TSOP" and “Back Stabbers,” will be released here shortly. Its theme deals with the different months of the year. The disk with a German sound was produced by Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay.

Sounds like a real delight !

.... the disk, with a German sound, sounds like a combination of TSOP and BACKSTABBERS ...

That's quite a feat !!!




Never heard of it though ???

Herbie Mann will release an album this year with a (one time???) group called ........... Fire Island


no cuts by that name are on it .....

nor on Silver Convention's releases of the time that I can determine .....



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[markydefad]

Originally Posted by remicks

Sounds like a real delight !

.... the disk, with a German sound, sounds like a combination of TSOP and BACKSTABBERS ...

That's quite a feat !!!

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remmy...a couple tracks from the Herbie Mann/Silver Convention collaboration "bubble under" for a few weeks, courtesy of drlove-land--The Big Easy. I haven't yet heard this LP either. But I am curious.

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[remicks]

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most intriguing .....wonder how this joint project in Munich happened ....



YEARS OF LOVE is a brief 3:33 minutes .....


Of the Silver Convention girls ......
only Penny McLean gets a singing credit on this ... and on one tune only: ARIA.





I'd like to hear this too




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[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Originally Posted by drlove

Excellent interview grab, Stephen !!! Hopefully, some insight as to Casablanca's rise to near-domination of the forthcoming '77 Billboard Charts will be discussed.

Thank you DL, much appreciated. Larry was very kind & appreciative of my enthusiasm. And his revelations shocked even me! If you didn't catch the Thursday show, I hope you get to hear it on the Saturday, or Monday repeats.

We actually got the interview a few weeks ago & immediately announced it on the show's thread. Which gave me about 10 days to completely Produce an entirely new Season Opening episode. (just under 50% of it, done from a hospital bed, over 4 days)

Though Videoskooter, kdavid13, cdnbob, Dayna and I did our very best, to get as much publicity out there as possible, that was the sum-total of DM.c support.

live & learn...

[remicks]

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Looking yet at the "BUBBLING UNDERS" :

81) (--) * IN ZAIRE - Johnny Wakelin
(Phonodisk 12-inch (Canada): 5:20; released elsewhere on Pye, Buddah or Ariola) P: K. Rossiter/S. Elson // W: J. Wakelin
3 points/1 chart = Montreal
BDA Top 40: n/c
DCC chart: 1 week on chart // *DEBUT

We can always count on the good clubbing folks of Montreal to offer up some noteworthy irregularities .

This week it's :

Johnny Wakelin ,
born 1939, Brighton, Sussex, England
(which means he's about thirty-seven in early 1977 )
as he pleases the disco dance floors with his :

IN ZAIRE








which in coming months might (?) be eclipsed (????) in popularity by :






featuring
Harold Faltermeyer !

of Donna Summer's HOT STUFF ( he wrote it with Keith Forsey and Pete Bellotte)
&
Giorgio's E=MC2 (he wrote it with Keith Forsey)

notoriety .






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[SandraDee]

That 'In Zaire' track was a big pop hit in the UK in the summer of '76. I'm quite surprised to see it getting disco play as, although it's rhythmic, it's not terribly danceable IMO. Johnny Wakelin often released songs about boxing; his previous hit in '75 was about Muhammad Ali.