Recent Purchases

[Karlos]

Recent additions to the collection include the following (have I been busy!). All original 12 inch singles, no reissues or re-releases:-

Fatback Band - Spanish Hustle
Lew Kirton - Heaven in the Afternoon
Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever (5 track promo)
Don Ray - Gotta have Loving (White Label Promo)
Bionic Boogie - Risky Cahnges (WLP)
Tavares - Heaven Must be missing an angel
Delegation - Heartache #9 (Remix)
Calhoon - Dance, Dance , Dance
Temprees - I found love on a disco floor
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Francine Mcgee - Delerium (UK promo)
Deodato - Whistle Bump
Rhythm Makers - Can you feel it
Abba - Dancing Queen
Fat Larry's Band - Center City
Spinners - Rubberband Man
Bunny Mack - Let me love You
Donna Summer - Winter Melody (First Casablanca 12)
Pratt and Mclean - Watchersign
Crown Heights Affair - Dreamin a Dream
Jeanne Napoli - Let's make Love
Banzai - Chinese Kung Fu
Inner Life - Ain't no mountain high enough

...and I'm still looking..!!

Also a couple of non disco 12's but still good...

Gil Scott Heron - The bottle (WLP)
Grover Washington Jr - Sausalito/Mr Magic

The Delegation is interesting as it's not actually a remix, more like an extended version of the US 12 which i've always thought is far too short at 5:16

[buckaroo]

Bunny Mack - "Let me love You"

:lol:
Wow!! What about getting "Wide Awake in a Dream" by Barry Biggs?

[Karlos]

Bunny Mack cost me about £10. I'm not a great fan of the track but at that price I couldn't say no..!! I'm a Disco fan more than anything.

[Leatherman]

Originally Posted by Karlos

Recent additions to the collection include the following (have I been busy!). All original 12 inch singles, no reissues or re-releases:-

Fatback Band - Spanish Hustle
Lew Kirton - Heaven in the Afternoon
Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever (5 track promo)
Don Ray - Gotta have Loving (White Label Promo)
Bionic Boogie - Risky Cahnges (WLP)
Tavares - Heaven Must be missing an angel
Delegation - Heartache #9 (Remix)
Calhoon - Dance, Dance , Dance
Temprees - I found love on a disco floor
Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions
Francine Mcgee - Delerium (UK promo)
Deodato - Whistle Bump
Rhythm Makers - Can you feel it
Abba - Dancing Queen
Fat Larry's Band - Center City
Spinners - Rubberband Man
Bunny Mack - Let me love You
Donna Summer - Winter Melody (First Casablanca 12)
Pratt and Mclean - Watchersign
Crown Heights Affair - Dreamin a Dream
Jeanne Napoli - Let's make Love
Banzai - Chinese Kung Fu
Inner Life - Ain't no mountain high enough

...and I'm still looking..!!

Also a couple of non disco 12's but still good...

Gil Scott Heron - The bottle (WLP)
Grover Washington Jr - Sausalito/Mr Magic

The Delegation is interesting as it's not actually a remix, more like an extended version of the US 12 which i've always thought is far too short at 5:16

Do you mainly collect stuff because it is rare on 12" or because you like the music?

[Karlos]

Leatherman,

I love the music but was not quite old enough to enjoy Disco first time round.
I must confess to buying certain records because they are collectable and not because I particularly like them (but then only if I get them cheaply).At the end of the day who's likely to refuse something they can pick up for a fraction of it's true worth? For example would anyone turn down Bunny Mack for approx $15 when it usually goes for a lot more than that.
By buying things like Calhoun etc I'm buying a piece of Disco history and I'm happy and proud to do that.

[Leatherman]

But why not also search out good records that aren't sort after collectable 12" singles? Almost all these records on your list that you claim to have got recently are just predictable collectable e bay records. Most of these are on LP's in exactly the same versions too. There are still many great records that sell for $5-10, but it seems that they aren't really of interest to you. Which therefore leads me to think that the music comes second to the collectability.

[Karlos]

The reason I've bought these records is because I know them and have heard them before. I do try to search out the more obscure stuff but when you are starting out you tend to collect the records you know and once you've got them that's when you branch out. For instance I've only recently "discovered" the delightful Saturday by Norma Jean even though it's 25 years old. I'm sure there's other records out there I've yet to discover (which is part of the fun) but as we all know for every good one there was 10 not so good. Before seeking out the obscurities I want to collect the ones I know about and also any rare gems I can get without having to pay top dollar.

[Mixmachine]

Karlos that's a great list :P , some of this I'd like to get myself,
Banzai
Fatback
Lonnie Liston (lost this one a few times on ebay)
Frances Mcgee (never even heard this one yet as far as I remember)
By the way "in The Bottle" by Gil Scott was a 'MOSTER' club record, and the original 12" on Arista is/was very difficult to get and only released in promo(I believe) I searched for years for this one until it was released on a UK 12" import in the early 80's.

And don't mind those that try to put down or question your purchase or taste. It's your MONEY and you do with it as you please. Your satisfaction is what counts!Thank You very much!

[Karlos]

Banzai...this is only the UK version and not the US Scepter test pressing but good nevertheless...

Fatback..admit I paid a lot of $$ for this but it is one of my favourites and you simply cannot expect to pick it up for $5

Lonnie Liston..I got lucky here a found a copy fairly cheaply in a second hand record shop

Frances Mcgee..should be Francine Mcgee. Delerium is a much loved classic. Again I picked this up reasonably cheaply.

Gil Scott Heron I bought on E-Bay when drunk and only realised I'd bought it when I sobered up the next day!! It's not really my cup of tea as it's not really Disco. In fact I've just sold it....!!

[QUINNY]

Gil Scott Heron was actually one of the biggest disco records for me in 1975. Yes, although released in 1974, it took that long for it to get played and accepted. I used to have 3, 7" copies on Strata East, but I fear I wouldn't be able to lay my hands on any of them now. :cry:

[Leatherman]

Karlos, my problem is with the new breed of e bay type record collectors (maybe you're not one of these, but your list suggests you are) who ONLY collect 12" singles. They all want the same old stuff - Hubert Laws "Family", Donny Hathaway "The Ghetto", Leon Ware "California", Denise Lasalle "I'm so hot". These songs are readily available on albums but these types of collectors aren't interested in the music, it is all about owning the 12" single. Not because they particularly like the song but because they are rare collectable promo only 12". Would most of these "collectors" even dream of buying an album by any these artists, I don't think so. Karlos, if you like "Expansions" buy a few on LLS's 70's LP's they are all pretty good an will set you back far less than I'm sure most of these rare 12"'s have.

[Mixmachine]

Karlos, Francine Mcgee, you are right , I've got this on RCA, I've got her confused with Donna Mcghee...

Shame you sold "in the bottle" I guess it doesn't have now the same impact with new generations because is so raw and different, but if you ask an old timer about it, old early disco memories will quickly flash through his mind!

[DISCODISK]

Originally Posted by QUINNY

Gil Scott Heron was actually one of the biggest disco records for me in 1975. Yes, although released in 1974, it took that long for it to get played and accepted. I used to have 3, 7" copies on Strata East, but I fear I wouldn't be able to lay my hands on any of them now. :cry:

are you having a joke with us quinny, IF you actually had 3 strata east copies in 1974 they were the only ones in the world :roll:

[QUINNY]

DD: I don't get your question? Am I missing something here? I just remember it being on Strata East. From memory a semi circle with lines going through it and Strata East in big bold letters.

[DISCODISK]

Originally Posted by QUINNY

DD: I don't get your question? Am I missing something here? I just remember it being on Strata East. From memory a semi circle with lines going through it and Strata East in big bold letters.

there was only one way to play the bottle and that was from the original l.p and they were pretty hard to find here even as a new release,theres no such thing as strata east 7's, any copies on strata east are bootlegs and pretty bad quality too,and they came after 1975,the only country to release this record at the time[to my knowledge] was france and those copies have always been pretty scarce,first legit u.k release for this was in the mid to late 70s on inferno records 7"& 12" with the champagne release coming about 4 years later