THE BIDDU ORCHESTRA/DEODATO GREAT DISCO...

[discodisco]

SUMMER OF 42' and super strut...great stuff!

[QUINNY]

Super Strut.......YES!!!! (but only for old heads I fear)
Summer Of 42........NO!!!!!!

[Mario]

Quinny...Don't tell us that you actually remember the actual "summer of -42"? Bad date that summer?
:lol: Just kidding...All in good fun! Take Care 8) Mario
(P.S. I seem to remember that that song just missed making the American Top 40 charts by a hair! And wasn't that song from a movie released around the same time...same title? Hmmm...(As Mario culls through his memory bank... :cry: )

[DiscoKidd]

Originally Posted by QUINNY

Super Strut.......YES!!!! (but only for old heads I fear)
Summer Of 42........NO!!!!!!

All right - but how about Biddu Orchestra's version of "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon?"

That one is pretty good.

:D

[NickNack]

Boogiethon and Blue-Eyed Soul, two great dance tracks!

[JussiK]

Originally Posted by NickNack

Boogiethon

Was this great tune spinned in New York a lot? Someone in London complained at that time that the album was so badly pressed it was of no use. Is there an American 12" ?

There's an excellent Biddu production called "Phantasm", credited to Captain Zorro, one I never heard getting any play anywhere. This is prime time high energy stuff with pounding 132 bpm beats, mad congas in stereo , rattling synth effects, swirling strings, chanting girls and a vague resemblance to the movie theme. And it's "on blood splattered vinyl", too!

[QUINNY]

Originally Posted by NickNack

Boogiethon and Blue-Eyed Soul, two great dance tracks!

That's two I remember playing. They weren't quite as cheesy as some of his output. I always found it a little odd that he had hits producing other people, but never with his own name as he was, in many ways, just as classy as his American rivals. He was one of those guys who always seemed to be on the verge of hitting it big (in his own name) and he deserved to.

Summer of 42 was OK (but not great IMO) and did have its fans. It was released at a time when Disco was beginning to establish itself and at a time when reworkings of those old tunes was the rage.

Never realised that Zorro was one of his productions (probably never looked once I'd given it a spin......absolutely NOT to my taste :cry: :lol: ).

I expect a good few Bollywood comps have loads of his post Disco era stuff on them. Maybe one or two 'gems' amongst them?

[remicks]

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:-? :-? :-?

-------- Unless I've got something mis I.D. .... aren't BIDDU's SUMMER OF 42 and BLUE EYED SOUL just about the same song ?? Quick listenings of them ... and Blue Eyed Soul does feature some female back up going "DO DO DO DO DO DO DO ...ahhhh .. ahhhh " that SUMMER OF 42 does not .... and SUMMER OF 42 has the slow ballad intro .....

:-? :-? :-?

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[SandraDee]

I know it's way after the disco era but Biddu released a really good 'deep' house track in '87 (ahead of his time!) called 'Humanity' which I think shoulda done better. Whether u like him or not, he always seems to be at the cutting edge of musical tastes (or he's quick to jump on a lucrative bandwagon, however u want to see it! :D )

[QUINNY]

Rain Forest also went down for me, so far as I can remember (haven't really thought about him for nigh on 30 years, until now), but I have a nagging feeling there was another track that really did the business. I do remember that there was a period when he seemed to have another new record virtually every other week (an exaggeration).

[remicks]

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Well Quiinny ..... there was "I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT " ..but even I have a hard time defending that one :P ......

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[NickNack]

Originally Posted by JussiK

Was this great tune spinned in New York a lot? Someone in London complained at that time that the album was so badly pressed it was of no use. Is there an American 12" ?

Hi Jussi,

Yes, I think it received a good amount of play. I first heard it listening to Richie Rivera one night at The Anvil. Had it my possession the very next day. :D

Never had the lp. The US 12" is on Epic, 1977, cat # 28-50397, with "Boogiethon" running 5:45 and the flip side, "Funky Tropical", at 6:17. Both are credited as 'Special Disco Versions' from the album, Eastern Man, PE-34723. The artist credits read Biddu and The Orchestra.

[DISCODISK]

exodus was the big track on that l.p it was a big northern soul spin [well at station road but not at central drive ]
biddu 'thought' hed add 'northern dancer' to the album and it would cause a sensation :lol:
quinny you said the other week that bidus output was equal to anything that came out of the states heres your chance to explain :lol:
or am i misquoting again

[DiscoKidd]

Originally Posted by QUINNY

Rain Forest also went down for me, so far as I can remember (haven't really thought about him for nigh on 30 years, until now), but I have a nagging feeling there was another track that really did the business. I do remember that there was a period when he seemed to have another new record virtually every other week (an exaggeration).

I don't think anyone mentioned this one, but what about Biddu's version of "I Could Have Danced All Night?" Cheesy in the same sense as "Summer of 42."

Of course, there were Biddu's productions of Tina Charles and Carl Douglas from around the same era.

[markydefad]

Hey, I already told my embarassing Biddu music in my car story elsewhere. :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :P
But his stuff doesn't hold up very well, IMHO.

There was also Jump For Joy & a cover of Neil Diamond's Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon