coming clean with this one...

[kelvy]

Allright, Allright, who in here admits to ownining one of those cheesy Christmas albums??? Well, back this summer, i got a compilation called "Disco Noel" out on the Pickwick label from 1979 at the price of one dollar. It's got a cover of this lady decorating this Xmas tree with mirrored ball and basically is a disco rendition of Christmas standards such as "winter wonderland", "jingle bells", "jingle bell rock" and the like...Cheesy??? YES! YES! YES!...but we all need a little bit of nonbellicose cheese don't we; it gives us some humor to contend with...hee! hee!



funny enough, i never bought any of the Salsoul Xmas album compilations even though they seem to be a dime a dozen...



just spreading a bit of early holiday cheer:)



with good tidings,

kelvy

[JussiK]

Yes, let's hear it for Rudolf and vulgarity! I'm proud to own Montana Orchestra's Christmas medley / Get Down New Year. This 12", like the Salsoul entries, has all the expected stuff but adds bits of Offenbach Can Can for good measure. Vince also includes the same holiday season segments they used in the first Wing&Prayer album - American songs like FOUR LEAF CLOVER and ALABAMA JUBILEE that never meant anything here but sound cheerful nevertheless.

[jpp]

i have the Boney M xmas CD which can put santa and all his little elves in a cheery mood...there is a Caludja Barry xmas Cd { which i don't have } that i did not buy as i like her music too much to have a weird rendition of "silent night" ruin my memories

[HustleBaby]

It's funny because a friend and I were just talking about the Salsoul Christmas Lp and he

like other people didn't speak to well of it.

I want to buy the cd because I remember two

songs of years ago that was played every Christmas back in the 70's.



One was a peppy disco version of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas". The group of women singing, sounds like the usual female vocals in most Salsoul songs.



The 2cd was a song with a slower tempo and a woman singing alone. Title unknown. Word is that the singer is Vince Montana's wife.



If anyone of you would rate this cd on a scale of 1-10, how would you rate it? And is it worth buying?



Give me a holler.

*DISCO DELIGHT*

[kelvy]

HustleBaby, the vocalists on some of the Xmas Salsoul tunes might be "The Sweethearts of Sigma" (i think Carla Benton, Yvette Ingram<???> or something to that extent.) They appeared in numerous Philly Inernational releases.



with kind regards,

kelvy

[Bernie]

Hustlebaby,



I believe you are referring to "Merry Christmas All" which was sung by Vince's daughter not wife. And Kelvy is right that the "Sweethearts of Sigma" were also on the Xmas album. It's all in my interview with Vince Montana at:

http://www.discomusic.com/101/montana_vincent_01.html

[paul]

I liked something that Hall & Oats did. I think it was a video Jingle Bells Rock from the early eighties.

[Masdefi]

Hi Kelvy,

hope you're doing fine. I do not have any Xmas Disco LP version, if I understand your post. I have never thought to buy such a record because I prefer the original songs a that time. Let me have your news!

[NickNack]

Hi Kelvy,



Nice topic and yes, I have 'em all. I've got something on Pickwick titled "Yuletide Disco" as performed by Mirror Image. (Don't go hunting for it --- I think the mirror cracked after this one.) In the midst of all this "cheese" I do have 4 that I really like: 1) "The Montana Christmas Medley" by Vince Montana. I prefer this 12" over the version he did for The Salsoul Orchestra. 2) "Disco Santa Claus" by The Raindolls. I think this was my first promo Christmas 12". It's on AVI so you know the pressing isn't the greatest but it always worked. The last two are on the Christmas Jollies II lp: "Deck The Halls" and my favorite bit of Christmas 'sleaze', "You're All I Want for Christmas". Jocelyn Brown has lead on this cut and when she wails that last line, "You're all I want to see under my Christmas tree...", you know her man came running.

[kelvy]

Masdefi, hey i have not forgotten about you:) i still listen to your wonderful tapes....Ti scrivere una lettera pronto (suse per fare piu lento) -- i will write you a letter soon (excuse me for being slow).



Nicky, that Raindolls record, what label was it on? it's funny looking back at these Christmas Disco compilations. With the exception of perhaps Salsoul, these are a testament of the major labels' failure to grasp a thorough understanding of what this music represented to the true lovers of the artform and what propelled them. it also represents how the major labels were milking the disco cashcow by saturating the mass public with these marketing abberations. Now thinking of this, i recall something i read in one of the disco chapters of "last night a dj saved my life" in which they mentioned that at its peak, the appeal of disco crossed across various generational lines. What i am getting at is that the industry's misguided forays into mass-marketing this music is what lead to stuff like the Ethel Merman Disco album...Yet these abberations have left us with a quite fascinating legacy of camp (especially for the Holidays). The serious stuff is found within Bernie's enclave right here and i am grateful for partaking in this forum. Have all a wonderful weekend.



with well tidings and kind regards,



kelvy

[NickNack]

On 2001-12-01 23:39, kelvy wrote:

Nicky, that Raindolls record, what label was it on?

Hi Kelvy,



The label was AVI. You know --- Rinder & Lewis, James Wells, El Coco... that label. The info is AVI-12-242-D, 1978, "Disco Santa Claus" b/w "Santa's Theme". The theme is an instrumental of Side A.

[kelvy]

Nick, thanks for pulling through the information about that Xmas cut. Speaking of Xmas, just when i thought disco christmas compilations were an anachronism, i've found the following link to this "Disco Christmas Party" cd. via one of the Amazon links on the sites...take a peek.



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...861194-7956732



with well tidings and kind regards,



kelvy