Silver Convention and The Ritchie Family

[discotom73]

Does anyone know if Silver Convention and The Ritchie Family have their ORIGINAL studio albums available on CD? I have looked at lots of sites including www.amazon.com and still can only find various "greatest hit" collections. I have Silver Convention's 1976 album "Madhouse" on cassette and it barely plays! Thanks for your help.

[olskinflint]

but I've never seen their original recordings released on CD, at least not where I've looked (and I'd kill to have SC's "Save Me" and the RF's album "Brasil" on CD in their original form). In case it matters, I have the "Madhouse" album on vinyl. I also have SC's "Love is a Sleeper" on vinyl, and the aforementioned "Brasil" on vinyl (I love that album so much I bought 3 copies of it). How's that for obsessed? Greatest Hits collections always frustrate me; on one hand, they're better than nothing, but they always INCLUDE songs you don't want or like and EXCLUDE songs you DO want and like!

[BrunoRepublic]

Alas, there are no legit issues of any complete RF albums.

[ehuerta]

Silver Convention's "Save Me" album on CD has been around for years, its a japanesse release and has "Get Up and Boogie" as a bonus track. Try GEMM.

Silver Convention "Save me" Victor Entertainment VICP-2121

About 10 year ago I bought "Get Up an Boogie" Album on CD, but haven't seen it again since then. It's a german release.

Silver Convention "Get Up and Boogie" Jupiter Records distributed by BMG 74321 11435 2

Allmusic.com has the code number of the Hong Kong release of "Summernights" album on CD but I haven't found it.

Hope this helps

[dfc99bb]

Ritchie Family's 1975 album 'Brazil' was on 20th Century Fox records, subsequent albums through 1978 were on Marlin Records. 'Brazil' may have been on CD at one time, I'm not sure. As disco passes it's 30th year we're going to see fewer and fewer CD re-issues.

Ritchie Family 1975-78 vinyl info--

Label___Catalog #_Artist______________Year___Title
20th CENTURY (FOX) T498 RITCHIE FAMILY, THE 1975 BRAZIL
MARLIN 2201 RITCHIE FAMILY, THE 1976 ARABIAN NIGHTS
MARLIN 2206 RITCHIE FAMILY, THE 1977 AFRICAN QUEENS
MARLIN 2203 RITCHIE FAMILY, THE 1977 LIFE IS MUSIC
MARLIN 2215 RITCHIE FAMILY, THE 1978 AMERICAN GENERATION

[BrunoRepublic]

Originally Posted by dfc99bb

Ritchie Family's 1975 album 'Brazil' was on 20th Century Fox records, subsequent albums through 1978 were on Marlin Records. 'Brazil' may have been on CD at one time, I'm not sure. As disco passes it's 30th year we're going to see fewer and fewer CD re-issues.

Ritchie Family vinyl info--

Label___Catalog #_Artist______________Year___Title
20th CENTURY (FOX) T498 RITCHIE FAMILY, THE 1975 BRAZIL
MARLIN 2201 RITCHIE FAMILY, THE 1976 ARABIAN NIGHTS
MARLIN 2206 RITCHIE FAMILY, THE 1977 AFRICAN QUEENS
MARLIN 2203 RITCHIE FAMILY, THE 1977 LIFE IS MUSIC
MARLIN 2215 RITCHIE FAMILY, THE 1978 AMERICAN GENERATION

There are an additional 4 RF LPs: Bad Reputation, Give Me A Break (both on Casablanca), All Right All Night, and I'll Do My Best on RCA (both very different, no involvement from Jacques Morali). None have ever appeared on legit CDs. Given that I used to routinely find still-sealed copies of RF LPs until a few years ago, I think it's safe to say that there isn't nearly enough demand to warrant a CD release of their material. :(

[discotom73]

Thanks to everyone who responded to this post! I was hoping to get better luck, but it looks like we may be stuck with vinyl and cassette albums. It's too bad. Both Silver Convention and The Ritchie Family deserve some credit for their records. If I ever find a CD copy of their original albums, then I'll post a topic here! I have "Madhouse" on cassette, but would like to have "Golden Girls" which had "Telegram" and if I remember correctly, it had "Save Me '77" also!

The Ritchie Family's "Brazil" album has a nice front cover. Two songs I like besides "Brazil" are "Dance With Me" (I think of loving romance) and "Peanut Vendor" (I can't find it anywhere else!) Does anyone remember the songs I mentioned? What do you think of them? Thanks again!

[BrunoRepublic]

A remix of "Dance With Me" was released as a promo 12" in the US, and a 7" in Canada, with long and short versions (both different from the LP mix). Worth seeking out of you really like the album. The songs on side 2 of "Brazil" don't really hold my interest though.

[swerzer]

My favorite song on the Brazil album (which actually got alot of radio play in my area) was "Let's Pool". My favorite song on the Madhouse album was "Fancy Party".

swerzer

[ol'skinflint]

but I own the "Madhouse' album but don't like it. The songs don't seem as catchy to me as those on the earlier albums, and the sound quality is not good either, at least not on my copy. And regarding the comments on the Ritchie Family, I'd kill to have their catalog on CD, and SOMEBODY definitely has the master recordings in their entirety, otherwise they couldn't make the compilations that have been released. I still that if we disco fans were to circulate enough CDr recordings of our favorite out of print albums, record companies would realize how much interest there is in the music and re-release it (that's my theory anyway).

[JussiK]

As for the Ritchies, there's also the Morali-penned soundtrack to the 1978 French film "Je Me Tiens Tu Te Tiens par la Barbichette", on which the troupe does 2 exceptionally cheesy numbers, and quality cheese it is too: "La Barbichette" and "Forever Dancing". The record is very rare but film itself is now out on region 2 dvd, try Amazon France.

[dfc99bb]

Regarding the Ritchie Family releases on Marlin Records. Marlin was distributed by TK Records. The TK catalog was sold to Rhino Records in 1990 upon the dissolution of the TK Label as noted in the link below. I'd have to assume that Rhino owns the U.S. re-ssue rights to the Marlin/TK part of the Ritchie Family catalog.

from - http://www.discomusic.com/people-more/57_0_11_0_C78/

"In 1990, all the assets, including the entire TK and associated labels record catalogue, had been sold to the reissue specialist Rhino Records."

(Rhino - drrhino@rhino.com or call 1-800-546-3670)

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'Brazil' was on the 20th Century label, a part of the 20th Century Fox Corporation in 1975. I don't know who owns the rights to their disco stuff today. Apparently the label has been out of business for many years.

[QUINNY]

Let's say someone from a record company came to you (as original writer/composer/artist/producer) and said "we'd like to re-issue XYZ album on CD, you might get $1000 out of it", would you be that bothered or that excited? This would be especially true if you'd made decent bucks from it BITD.
That's the bottom line, I guess. There's no real money in it for anyone. Sad, but true.

[BrunoRepublic]

Originally Posted by dfc99bb

'Brazil' was on the 20th Century label, a part of the 20th Century Fox Corporation in 1975. I don't know who owns the rights to their disco stuff today.

PolyGram, which is now part of the Universal group.

[discotom73]

I realize how BIG Rhino Records is especially since it has re-issued so many albums. However, it seems like the only things Rhino has done for disco is "The Disco Years, Volumes 1-7" and "The Disco Box". Both collections are quite similar. For Silver Convention, all it contains is "Fly, Robin, Fly" and "Get Up And Boogie (That's Right!)". The Ritchie Family has "The Best Disco In Town".

I do understand that licencing is a key issue: the demand must be there. Of course, we would all like a copy of SC and TRF studio albums, but the demand must be there. I guess we may have a very long wait! I think that the opportunity happened back in the '90s when disco (along with 1970's music in general) had it's 20-year reunion. Now, we have the 1980's to look back on so maybe the 1970's reunion may have to wait again!