Vinyl Time

**paul** · July 28th, 2002, 09:35 PM

I just pulled out some vinyl I hadn't played in a while. I'm gonna share them with you, like it or not.
Secret Rendezvous - Kary White
Instinctual - Imagination
Copacabana - Barry Manilow
Don't Walk Away - Jade
Tonight's The Night (Good Time) - Kleer
Keeep Your Body Workin' - Kleer
Hi-Tension - Hi-Tension
Pull Up To The Bumber - Grace Jones
Attack Me With Your Love - Cameo
There But For The Grace Of God Go I - Machine
Summertime and I'm Feelin' Mellow - MFSB
The Glamorous Life - Sheila E.
Another Man - Barbara Mason

**sammyperez** · July 29th, 2002, 08:02 AM

Paul:

Love this listening session you had. First off you have some of my all-time faves in here:

'Hi-Tension' - Can't play this record enough if you've read my installments on this forum.
'Another Man' - I love mising this record in at a party because the crowd always loves it.
'There but for the grace of God' - Classic, 'nuff said.

However, the rest of your playlist was also hot. Nice choices here.

Easy,

Sam "ALL JAM"

**jazz_pilgrim** · July 29th, 2002, 08:30 AM

On 2002-07-28 21:35, paul wrote:
I'm gonna share them with you, like it or not.

I like 'em!! :grin: :grin:

I have to agree with Sammy. I think Hi Tension was just about the hardest funkiest British disco record ever made, and I can never get enough of it!!

I've always been a great Kleeer fan, and those are two of the best.

Like probably everybody else on this Board, I love that Machine track. It will do very well in the new Disco Top 500 list, I am sure!

I don't know that MFSB track, though! Like the title - sound interesting!!

**Blaxman** · July 29th, 2002, 09:32 AM

On 2002-07-28 21:35, paul wrote:

Hi-Tension - Hi-Tension
Pull Up To The Bumber - Grace Jones
Attack Me With Your Love - Cameo
Summertime and I'm Feelin' Mellow - MFSB
Another Man - Barbara Mason

Paul,

I love this tracks !! Specially Cameo, MFSB and Hi-Tension!! :grin:

Great "randomic playlist", your collection deserves respect for sure!!

Peace

**Funky Dude** · July 29th, 2002, 09:53 AM

I LOVE "It's Summertime & I'm Feelin' Mellow" by MFSB, it makes me look forward to summer which is about 4 months away for Australia then again the weather is virtually like summer by October. I bought this 45 from Good Groove records in Sydney along with a few other MFSB classics like "The Zip", "TSOP", "TLC" etc...

Right now I'm listening to Claudja Barry's 1976 LP "Sweet Dynamite" which has the killer funky disco track "Sweet Dynamite", a supercool track called "Ride On My Fire" and other great dance tracks.

And in the past week and a half the vinyl I've listen to are:

Jackson 5 - Moving Violation LP 1975 (This is the ULTIMATE BEST Jacksons LP I've listened to so far, it's full of fantastic funky disco tracks like "Forever Came Today", "Honey Love", the killer funky "Body Language", "Call Of The Wild" and more. Back in the days when Michael Jackson was cool. I swear if you's see this LP in a record shop, don't hesitate to buy it, it is a fantastic LP. I think I'm starting to sound like the Australian rock'n'roll guru/Countdown host Molly Meldrum doing an album review :lol: :lol: :lol: .)

Sylvester - Stars 1979 (I love the track "Body Strong")

Isaac Hayes - The Best Of Isaac Hayes LP 1978 (this features some of his BEST mid 70's funk/disco cuts like "Groove-a-thon", "Chocolate Chip", "Disco Shuffle", "Disco Connection" etc...)

George Benson - Weekend In L.A. 1977 (Great composition of soul/jazz funk/disco and has his most famous hit "On Broadway")

Young M.C. - Bust A Move + Instrumental/Got More Rhymes + Instrumental 12" 1989 (I'm not much of a fan of rap and hate the 90's/today's hip-hop **** but I do like oldskool rap and "Bust A Move" has a killer bass line, that's what got me into this song)

Alison Limerick & The Midnight Shift - I'm The Law/Instrumental 12" (I find a lot more 80's 12" dance records than I do 70's, but the 80's stuff is still great including this 12". Best part of this 12" is it's nicely decorated in blue and brown with musical notes on the record and has the matching album cover unlike most of my other 12" records.)

Village People - Village People LP 1977 (This is some of the Village People's best work but I wonder what they mean by "Don't go in the bushes... someone might stab you" in the "Fire Island" track?)

Hush - C'Mon We're Taking Over LP 1974 (I also love 70's Australian rock music and Hush our home grown glam rock group came out with some fantastic hard rock between 1974 and 1976 and this album is fantastic. They were a huge hit on Australia's pop music TV show "Countdown" especially in 1975 with a hard rock cover version of a 60's hit "Bonie Maronie" and they wore really cool glam fashion with flares and the one of the used a cool looking V shaped guitar.)

Jimmy Castor Bunch - Bom Bom/Instrumental 7" 45 1975 (This is a fantastic salsa funk track, I love it)

**nrgbeat** · July 29th, 2002, 10:08 AM

Another good Alison Limerick song is "Where Love Lives".

**paul** · July 29th, 2002, 10:44 AM

Thanks for the positive feedback everyone. I'm sure you guys noticed I missed the "n" in Karyn White

I love a lot of music. That's why collection is spread from the disco classics of the '70s to the house music of the '80s.
Did "Instinctual" get a lot of play in Europe, South America or Australia?

**Blaxman** · July 29th, 2002, 11:26 AM

On 2002-07-29 10:44, paul wrote:

Did "Instinctual" get a lot of play in Europe, South America or Australia?

I dont think so, I cant remember of that track, spite the fact I like Imagination.

Peace

**NickNack** · July 29th, 2002, 08:55 PM

On 2002-07-29 09:53, Funky Dude wrote:
Village People - Village People LP 1977 (This is some of the Village People's best work but I wonder what they mean by "Don't go in the bushes... someone might stab you" in the "Fire Island" track?)

As usual, the Village People (Jacques Morali, I dare say) wanted to 'play with straight peoples' heads. "The Bushes" on Fire Island were notorious for gay sex. (This is pre-AIDS era.) So, many gay men were naturally looking forward to getting 'stabbed'.

Straights, naturally, would think more on the lines of a mugging, not realizing these are "Bushes" with a capital "B".

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**Funky Dude** · July 29th, 2002, 09:11 PM

Thanks for the info Nicky. I sort of figured the word "stab" had that meaning but thought the word "bushes" meant the forest on Fire Island. Is Fire Island an island or is it a club?

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**maarten** · July 29th, 2002, 09:18 PM

On 2002-07-29 11:26, Blaxman wrote:

On 2002-07-29 10:44, paul wrote:

Did "Instinctual" get a lot of play in Europe, South America or Australia?

I dont think so, I cant remember of that track, spite the fact I like Imagination.

Peace

This was I believe the last 'hiccup' of Imagination. The track was accompanied by a very sexual video including the boys singing and some women being utterly splashed by enormous amounts of water. There was nudity in it, which lead to a MTV ban to late night. I always believed that they included the sex because their records had stopped selling. It is a nice tune though, and if I remember correctly there were some awesome disco remixes.

I remember this clip stuff, because a Dutch broadcaster did a late night special at the time on 'sexually tinted' video clips. There were un-edited clips of Madonna (with the threesome - I can't remember which track from the "Erotica" album it featured), George Michael (I want your sex), Frankie Goes To Hollywood (I believe it was "Relax"), Duran Duran (with some lesbian thing were the limo driver turned out to be a woman, seducing her female passenger - but I can't remember the song) and Imagination.

Of course I am speaking from memory here as I would never tape such a thing on video. Right?

**jim** · July 29th, 2002, 09:23 PM

I may be mostly a CD person,but I know good music when I hear it.

I just LOVE that Hi Tension tune. Had the 12" was able to grab it off of Napster (while it was there) so I now have it on CD.

Grace Of God is another classic that I believe was Top 10 pop in Boston. <Came in #4 on MY Personal Top 40 and could rank higher when I make trhe list again to submit for the next 500> Interesting that the versions on CD I have found have all been of the 12"

Village People's 1977 debut LP IS ON CD not only as a seperate disc but as part of the BEST VP compilation. Tracks 4,5,9and 11 would make up the orginal LP.

However I would like to know if anyone knows where I could get the 12" version of
Roundtree's Get On Up (Get On Down) on CD.
(Napster only had the 45,and I believe the host was a boston DJ)

**paul** · July 30th, 2002, 02:48 AM

On 2002-07-29 21:18, maarten wrote:
This was I believe the last 'hiccup' of Imagination. The track was accompanied by a very sexual video including the boys singing and some women being utterly splashed by enormous amounts of water. There was nudity in it, which lead to a MTV ban to late night. I always believed that they included the sex because their records had stopped selling. It is a nice tune though, and if I remember correctly there were some awesome disco remixes.

Hey Maarten. I never saw the video for this song. I can only imagine it must of been hot because this song exudes so much sexuality, especially the side b "borough dub dub mix."
You're right about disco remixes. I heard a lot of hot mixes and remixes of this song.

**paul** · July 30th, 2002, 02:52 AM

Hey Jim. Hi-Tension was huge at discos in beantown. That break in the song where they do "bless the funk" had everybody rocking and doing the "rock."

**jim** · July 30th, 2002, 06:45 PM

On 2002-07-30 02:52, paul wrote:
Hey Jim. Hi-Tension was huge at discos in beantown. That break in the song where they do "bless the funk" had everybody rocking and doing the "rock."

That was and remains a great record. It will be in my new 25 to submit for the new top 500.
AT 5 minutes Island could have iussed a 7" single with the 12" version on it.
The gutair work made it acessable to open minded AOR. I could picture that record played on WBCN ((well known Boston AOR station)at that time) Would have bheen a good crossover pop hit as well.