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[Giovanni]

The first known 12" code for Emergency is
EMDS 6501 LA BIONDA "Never gonna let you go"/"Moonlight palais". From 6501 to 6520 or so, Emergency had a blue-purple label and was distributed by Brasilia, then it changed in a grey & red logo.
The "first" Emergency is known for licensing in the US italian releases. Who was responsible for A&R at Emergency?

I have some weird Emergency 12" releases (Max Berlins "Worldwide party" from '79 on a white label promo with no code listed, Vivien Vee "Give me a break" on Launch Records NC 1003 by Emergency Recs & Filmwks from '80 -the original italian pressing on Banana is from '79-)
Before releasing records in matrix 65XX did Emergency release any other track?

Is any relationship among Emergency, Brass, Roy B, and Chaz Ro Records? Asking this because their 12"s seem to share codes.



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[DanceMan]

I was the first hired and the last fired at Emergency Records back in early 1979 as I was then a freelance writer for Billboard Magazine (I wrote the first ever piece on Gay Discoteques back in the 70's)....anyway, Brasilia Records promotion and warehouse was located on West 38th Street and when they jumped onto the "disco bandwagon," so to speak, they began in house labels, Brass Records and Roy B. and Sergio Cossa were brought on for promotion and also to work and sign acts for the deals they retrieved thru their licensing deals and sign them onto the new label, so named as we were sitting in a conference room trying to find a name for the label and Roy spotted the EMERGENCY EXIT DOOOR and the rest is history....Baby Records had DD Sound which ended up being the first release on the label and de-vocalized by the late Jonathan Fearing...I have both and I love each in their own way....La Bionda was supposed to be signed to Emergency as the original debut release but was considered something that sounded like a really huge hit so the producers decided it would receive better marketing, etc on a bigger label, it was licensed by Polydor here in the States - who gave it minimal promotion, at best...we also did independent promotion at Brasilia/Emergency for France Joli, Prism Records and were suppose to get Patrick Juvet but it went from Vanguard to Columbia and we in turn did a cover on Brass Records (this in house promo guy who switched his name from Eddie to Rick did the throwaways vocals) which i actually liked a lot better (much better builds in the breaks as well) but it got overshadowed by Columbia...not necessarily by Juvet...lots more to tell but i wont waste the space here...if you want to know send me an email at baysidebuddy@aol.com

[DanceMan]

By the way....the vocalist who recorded "Born To Be Alive" on Brass Records is Rick Summers....try and find that one!

[markydefad]

Danceman,

I'm not understanding something in your post. You mention Patrick Juvet going to Columbia--do you mean Patrick Hernandez? I gather from the later post you are talking about "Born To Be Alive"???

[DanceMan]

sorry....old timers disease kicking in....hernandez is correct....thanks for the correction....

[Giovanni]

"Born To Be Alive" on Brass Records is Rick Summers....try and find that one!

I have that one!!

[Jeffree]

THE FIRST RECORD ON EMERGENCY THAT I WAS AWARE OF AND BOUGHT WAS VIVIEN VEE A-SIDE:GIVE ME A BREAK B-SIDE:REMEMBER BOTH DISCO JAMS!!!!!!!

[markydefad]

Speaking Of Miss Vivian Vee....

Does anyone know what the lyrics to either of those two songs were? I liked them both, but I've never met anyone who spoke "Vivan Vee" and could translate them into understandable English for me.

Something about.. "Remember when we used to swallow...we always used to use the best peepholes"

Hey that's what it sound like to my St. Olaf ears. :lol:

Any of you Italians wanna make an attempt????

[nrgbeat]

On 2002-08-12 16:16, markydefad wrote:
Speaking Of Miss Vivian Vee....

Does anyone know what the lyrics to either of those two songs were? I liked them both, but I've never met anyone who spoke "Vivan Vee" and could translate them into understandable English for me.

Something about.. "Remember when we used to swallow...we always used to use the best peepholes"

Hey that's what it sound like to my St. Olaf ears. :lol:

Any of you Italians wanna make an attempt????

This could be a new thread. Mistaken song lyrics.

[nrgbeat]

Didn't Vivian Vee also sing "You Fooded Me"?? :lol:

[Giovanni]

On 2002-08-12 15:52, Jeffree wrote:
THE FIRST RECORD ON EMERGENCY THAT I WAS AWARE OF AND BOUGHT WAS VIVIEN VEE A-SIDE:GIVE ME A BREAK B-SIDE:REMEMBER BOTH DISCO JAMS!!!!!!!

Do you still have that record? Is it a 12 or an album?
In case, please post its code number.

I have the US 12 on LAUNCH records (by Emergency) NC 1003 ASC.

By the way, Vivien Vee was a nice italian girl who sang following the beat. I don't think she knew what she was singing!!!

[PeanutVendor]

Danceman: Looks like you migh know this: Wasnt 'Kind of Life' by North End on that pre-Emergency Roy B label?? Ive been looking to replace my long lost copy of that one?

[DanceMan]

Actually, Roy B. Records was AFTER his co-management stint with Emergency ended in the fall of 1979...Kind of Life (Kind of Love) followed.....Roy - who was initially with Roulette Records and responsible for ALL of those hits getting out onto the airwaves...was always a helluva guy and he had the ears for good artistry..too bad he didn't have the do-me-ri to make it last.

His biggest success on his own label was with Weeks & Company.....

Roy B. and all those he hired were treated pretty rotten and the greed that took over (not just at Emergency but elsewhere on EVERY disco label) was out-of-control and in so many, many ways, I will always lay much of the blame on the money-hungry music execs for the rapid decline in disco sales and output and not at the stupid, irrelevant DISCO SUCKS campaigns and I-Can't-Sing-A-Note-So-I'll-Just-Rap-a-Rhyme invaders.

[QUINNY]

DanceMan: I take it you didn't like 'We Rap More Mellow' by The Younger Generation then. An early rap classic. It's really quite good.

[DanceMan]

Quinny, I cannot honestly say that any record that had the word "rap" in it was one that I would give a listen; the exceptions being Wordy Rappinghood, which my good friend, Sergio Munzabai, told me was not a true RAP record....I loved the TOM TOM CLUB, by the way....Blondie's "Rapture" was rhythmic and didn't really cross the line.....

Rappers Delight ---I hated at the time of its release, but compared to what followed in that genre, that song is tolerable now.

Yes, DANCEMAN used the word 'tolerable' but it is in regard to music, not people!

(For anyone who came onboard late, do a word search on the word "tolerate" and you will be able to fill in the blanks....)

[kelvy]

DanceMan, i thought that "Roy B" was shorthand for vocalist Barbara Roy representing her label, especially in regards to her 1981 "if you want me" release...thanks for clearing that one up:)

with well tidings and kind regards,

kelvy

[DanceMan]

On 2002-10-03 20:43, kelvy wrote:
DanceMan, i thought that "Roy B" was shorthand for vocalist Barbara Roy representing her label, especially in regards to her 1981 "if you want me" release...thanks for clearing that one up:)

with well tidings and kind regards,

kelvy

Interesting co-incidence, isn't it Kelvy?!

Actually, Barbara Roy (lead singer of Ecstasy, Passion & Pain) was a Roulette act (probably there biggest since Tommy James and The Shondells) when disco promo man, Roy B, worked there and Roy B. (his actual last name was so long and hard to pronounce that I cannot even remember it) had planned on putting Barbara on Emergency had things worked out along with an offshoot from Whirlwind ("Full Time Thing")....WOW - what coulda been for her, them and all of us...oh well!

[SandraDee]

Oo I love Barbara Roy's If You Want Me. I dont think I put it on my list of early 80's funky disco but I meant to.

[QUINNY]

Steely: Yes that was a great record, but to be brutally honest : smile: used to lose the floor at the point where the mushy phasing got out of hand or where they repeat the line Use me, Use me. It sort of seemed to add an extra bar. Most odd.

[SandraDee]

Yes Q youre right about that (did I really say that?). For once, I think this track needed a remix, & that's coming from soneone who generally hates remixes.

[QUINNY]

So American members, was this overall poor sound quality down to bad UK mastering/pressing or were the US copies like it too?

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