Recent Purchases

[Karlos]

Recent additions to the collection....(all 12 inch singles)

Andy Gibb "Shadow Dancing" b/w David Shire "Manhattan Skyline" (I bought it for the B side..honest!!)
Abba "Lay all your love on me" Disconet Remix
Chic - "Le Freak" (Swirl Picture disk)
Donna Summer "I feel love/The Deep" (Promo)
Donna Summer "Macarthur Park Suite" (Promo)
Voyage "Souvenirs" (TK Disco promo)
Front Page - "Love Insurance" (Promo). Great track Bernie!!
Norma Jean "Saturday" (Red Vinyl Promo)
Silver Convention "Fly Robin Fly" (1975 promo)
Tavares Double A Side "Heaven must be missing an angel" b/w "Don't take away the music" (Capital Records France 1976).

Time to give the credit card a rest I think....!!

[DiscoMan]

Fabulous list :D
Good for you :D :D

[Bernie]

Originally Posted by Karlos

Front Page - "Love Insurance" (Promo). Great track Bernie!!

I love it, another person loves this record!

[Allan]

Originally Posted by Bernie

I love it, another person loves this record!

This is one of my favorites too! :D :D

[originalbigm]

Originally Posted by Bernie

I love it, another person loves this record!

Hey Bernie,
I keep noticing you love promoting Love Insurance by Fromt Page and I have to agree it's one of my all time favourites.I pulled it out and gave it a good listen to REAL LOUD.Great orchestration and construction if you wanted to pick one record which exemplified DISCO this well could be it.

[Bernie]

I will forever plug the virtues of this great Disco record!

Just like you O, I decided to pull the vinyl out and play it real loud. It's a perfect record although some don't think so. I just love the blend of Sharon Redd's vocals, the killer percussion and the swirling sounds. This is Disco!

See the Front Page - Love Insurance entry in the Disco Records Vault for more info and a label scan.

[Giovanni]

I am one of those Front-Page- loving-persons too.
I have two copies, one of them being the original one I played to death in the summer of 79.... it is almost destroyed but I'll never part of.... such sweet memories!!!

By the way, I recently listened to it again and discovered that a small sample in the middle of the record has been used to make a house song about a couple or three years ago...... Housers here, please name that song!!!

[NickNack]

This was always a great song for me and I never knew it was Sharon Redd on vocals until Bernie said so. Only makes it hotter. :D Like Giovanni, I have more than one and they ain't goin' no where!

[Bernie]

Originally Posted by NickNack

I never knew it was Sharon Redd on vocals until Bernie said so.

Nicky,

I also didn't know it was Sharon Redd until around 1996 when a California DJ by the name of Glenn Rivera told me so in a series of e-mail correspondences. It then hit me like a ton of bricks, "of course it's her!"

[SandraDee]

I agree with everyone that this is a classic 'disco' track. Does anyone remember the hi-energy re-make from '84 sung by a male vocalist & I think the artist name was Krukutz or something like that; it was interesting but not a patch on the original.(how could u improve on the Front Page version?)

[Bernie]

Steely,

I think the one you are referring to is by Greg Stone-at least that was his real name. He passed away a few years ago, but he did write to me telling me about his version of "Love Insurance" from the 80s Might have been on a small NYC label??? Never heard or saw it so I don't know for sure.

[SandraDee]

I have never seen the record for sale anywhere either Bernie, I only ever heard it played by a hi-energy DJ in the 80's called Tony De Vit who was from Birmingham & went on to become a well-known techno DJ at London's 'Trade' nightclub. Tony sadly also passed away a couple of years ago (due to an AIDS related illness) but I will always owe alot to him for introducing me to records that changed my life.

[efunk_adelic]

Originally Posted by Bernie

I will forever plug the virtues of this great Disco record!

Just like you O, I decided to pull the vinyl out and play it real loud. It's a perfect record although some don't think so. I just love the blend of Sharon Redd's vocals, the killer percussion and the swirling sounds. This is Disco!

See the Front Page - Love Insurance entry in the Disco Records Vault for more info and a label scan.

One of my favorite disco instrumentations comes from this record. How can you not like the intro to this song? I can still invision people on the dance floor screaming when the cow bells ringing in their ears. This song definitely made my Top 100 disco songs from the 70's. 8)