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    Arrow Josephine Superstar

    Or better known as Phylicia Allan and Phylicia Rashad and Claire Huxtable from the "Cosby Show".

    I know she was married to Victor Willis of the Village People but I didn't know she released an album under the name of Phylicia Allen that was produced by Belolo and Morali.

    Does anybody here know what that album was like? Was it the standard B&M sound? Is it worth to search for?
    http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/3802_0_2_0_C/

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    I heard a cut from that LP a long time ago, but apparantly it hasn't really made a lasting impression on me. Still, it's definetely an LP I would buy if I'd come buy it for a reasonable price. If not for anything else, then for the fun value at least

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    I think the album is excellent, but know a lot who don't. The album tells the story of Josephine Baker, the tracks are linked by Phylicia telling her story. Starting with Saint Loius where she was born,which is a fab track and going on to her becoming a star, first on Broadway and then Paris.Ending with her losing everything and in debt -Don't cry mommy. :cry:

    FIND IT AND BUY-WELL WORTH IT. :lol:

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    I haven't pulled out the album in a while, but the sound is pure, vintage Belolo/Morali. If you like their sound, I'm pretty sure you'd enjoy the LP. I confess to enjoying the side one medley occasionally :oops:. It's probably one of the campiest things they've ever done, and that's saying a lot..

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    It is pure, hardcore camp, even by Morali's standards... and as neonlights said, that is really saying something. The cover alone is priceless. Incidentally, Jussi told me that Phylicia now denies ever having done this LP.

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    Graham, Jussi is always right :D but she just can't deny it. The album clearly shows Claire Huxtable. It's her, it's her!

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    Always right - really:-)?
    Well, journalist Alan Jones went to interview ms rashad some 10 years ago with the album in his bag, in hopes of getting it autographed. She second she saw it the interview was over - she simply denied doing it and walked away. Back then, before the disco revival was yet pronounced offical, even Giorgio Moroder claimed he did not rememeber what "From Here To Eternity" was. Donna Summer claimed she was not famed for old disco records, she was a recording artist of contemporary r&b. Times sure have changed. Would be interesting to know what Ms Rashad thinks of her album now, wherever she is these days.

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    I knew about the LP, but I didn't know it was produced by Jacques Morali and Henri Belolo. I gotta look for that one.

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    I posted the original review of this LP on this site (I didn't buy it, it belongs to a friend of mine and I was borrowing it). So I knew this LP was about Josephine Baker, but didn't know who Josephine Baker was.

    Last week, BBC4 (UK TV channel) showed an hour long documentary about the life of Josephine Baker, which I chose to watch because of the association with the disco LP.

    It was actually very interesting. Josephine was first made famous in Paris in the 1920s, and was most famous for the "banana dance" which she did, wearing a skirt made of bananas pointing outwards. This is the photo on the front of the LP, and is a very accurate depiction of how Josephine used to look!

    She went on to have many setbacks in her life, was perhaps one of the first people to stand up for rights for blacks in the US, and even joined the French Resistance in WW2.

    The documentary featured Josephine singing/performing "J'ai deux amours, mon pays et Paris" on more than one occasion. All the more poignant as her country (United States) had rejected her on more than one occasion, whereas Paris always welcomed her.

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    Quote Originally Written by Videoskooter
    Graham, Jussi is always right :D but she just can't deny it. The album clearly shows Claire Huxtable. It's her, it's her!
    For her to deny it is ridiculous. Does she really think anyone cares that a 1980's sitcom second bananna recorded a disco LP over twenty years ago? :roll:

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    Re: Josephine Superstar

    OMG, 2day I finally heard it and it ain't not so bad at all, in fact it's rather good! She doesn't need to be ashamed for this stuff!!!!


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    She's now back on stage, starring in Tennessee Williams' "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof". Somebody in New York, go to the stage door of that theatre tonight, armed with a copy of Josephine Superstar and demand the Diva autograph it!

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    Re: Josephine Superstar

    Here's some very rare 'Phylicia Allen' videofootage from 1978 i posted on YouTube.

    (for the Hi-Quality version of this video just click on the video (when it is playing) and that will link you to
    the original YouTube page of this video where you can watch it 'Full screen' in HQ).



    Enjoy!.

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    Quote Originally Written by Discoimperium View Post
    Here's some very rare 'Phylicia Allen' videofootage from 1978 i posted on YouTube.

    (for the Hi-Quality version of this video just click on the video (when it is playing) and that will link you to
    the original YouTube page of this video where you can watch it 'Full screen' in HQ).



    Enjoy!.
    Where the album is concerned, the first listen of "Saint Louis" gave us all the impression we were about to let loose the next "San Francisco", but at 3:48 and almost no way to mix out of the song, the impact of it kind of came and went. The lead track cried out for a remix and it just never came. It's my opinion that this lead to the quick dismissal of it by DJ's.

    Because of the posted clip, it reminded me that this record was a hell of a lot better than it was...

    As for Phylicia, known as Phylicia Allen, (sister of Debbie Allen), Phylicia Ayers-Allen and later Phylicia Rashad, perhaps it was that she did partake in her ex husband Victor's rather legendary 'party favour' habit, and in the end, a big part of their divorce. Perhaps that part of her life was such a haze and most likely a bit of what she'd like to forget and has essentially chosen to. An estimate would be that she was in her early 20's when the album was recorded.

    At least when she sings "Broadway....I want to be a Star on Broadway...", it's become fact and not fiction...

    And thank you DiscoEmporium....I have no idea where you find some of the amazing videos on your site and you tube page, so keep it coming !

    Vince
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