"We're On The Right Track" (instrumental version)

[Marcio**]

I don't have the instrumental version of X-Ultra High Frequency's "We're On The Right Track" (1975), but a guy called Mel Cheren said in an interveiw that he was responsible for the idea. :D



Tell me about the rise of disco and your involvement in its birth.

People ask me if we knew what we were doing back then. We didn’t. We were doing what we had fun with. When I first got to Scepter Records I did production work, and I would go out at night to the Firehouse, [which] was like a community center where they had gay parties. I knew that the DJs only had 45s to play and they couldn’t do anything with those. The one big turning point at Scepter Records came when we traded with Bell Records "This Is the House Where Love Died" by First Choice for "We’re on the Right Track" by Ultra High Frequency. I approached the vice president about putting the instrumental on the B-side. He said people would think we were cheating them. I told him that DJs would give anything for it and finally convinced him to do it. We ended up getting the Trendsetter Award that year from Billboard Magazine, and the instrumental went on to become an industry standard. [Editor’s note: Cheren was also known as the innovator of the 12" single, beloved by DJs.]




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"Mel Cheren"


:)

[Discomanic]

Just a comment, in Germany back in 1974 & 1975 a lot of the 45s contained the original version on one side and the instrumental version on the other side. Plus an added bonus you always got a picture sleeve. :lol: