Sylvers - Disco Fever LP

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Am curious to know if there are any 12" singles from this LP

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[Blooeyz2001]

I know of one 12" single from that album: "THEME FROM MAHOGANY (DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOURE GOING TO)" / "DANCE RIGHT NOW" / "FOREVER"... I recently wrote my opinion of that album at rateyourmusic.com: I'm not rating & reviewing this album from a 2005 point of view. My review is from the perspective I had of it in 1979, when I won it from a local radio station that summer. I was happy to win it, but when I listened to the album it sounded like it was recorded three or four years earlier, shelved, & then finally released. It's no wonder that it flopped big time. At the time of it's release, even the title Disco Fever sounded moldy & ridiculous. The cover is also an embarrassment with one male Sylver posing like John Travolta & one of the girls in horrendous platform shoes that scream 1974!, not 1979. What were they thinking?? It was too soon to be campy, & too late to be hip. It's amazing that this group who were disco pioneers, & Casablanca Records a major force in disco, could be so clueless about dance music at this point in time. A single from this album was an unsuccessful, thumpy, disco version of Diana Ross' "Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)". This was also bizarre, because that movie was four years old by then & any interest in a dated dance version had obviously waned.

Rated: **

[PierreConstantin]

I couldn't agree more :icon_biggrin:. It’s an embarrassment for both the Sylvers and the Moroder/Faltermeyer/Köppers team who produced them. They came with only formulaic disco clichés and not new ideas. And ironically it was the lp (NBLP-7151) released by Casablanca just after «Bad girls»!

A UK 12" exists but STAY AWAY FROM IT. It’s a disco version of Diana Ross’ «Theme from Mahogany». Why not, but it’s trully awful, with flat and off-key singing. Besides it’s not a long remix, it’s just a cut and paste re-edit. The original lp version is more or less 5 min. long and the 12 inch version is 8:40: they just took off the one minute slow intro (incidentally that makes the remix begin abruptly) and they repeated the rest of the song twice :icon_twisted: !! The B-side features two songs taken from the album, in their lp versions.

[Dayna]

A single from this album was an unsuccessful, thumpy, disco version of Diana Ross' "Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)". This was also bizarre, because that movie was four years old by then & any interest in a dated dance version had obviously waned.

Rated: **

I don't think the interest in "The Theme from Mahogany" had anything to do with it.. Were always down for a good Cover of a classic with a Disco spin.
Take Jocelyn Brown's-Aint No Mountain High Enough and Marlena Shaw's Touch Me in The Morning and Boystown gangs Remember me/Aint no Mountain High Enough,all were respectfully successful Diana Ross Cover Disco Tracks even tough there were just 2 years seperating The original version of TMITM and the Disco cover.
ANMHE was done by Jocelyn in 1981and Remember me /ANMHE was done in 1981 as well and the original being released in 1970:icon_eek: