Wing & A Prayer Fife...Baby Face

**rhessel** · September 22nd, 2002, 08:18 AM

Hello:

I wonder if anyone here has the 12" version of Baby Face from Wing & a Prayer Fife & Drums Corps in MP3.

I'm looking for this song in MP3, I have it but it is in an old tape and the sound quality is not "that" good.

Cheers,

**Spacer** · September 22nd, 2002, 09:09 AM

I got the Album on vinyl (dunno if the Album version is the same as on the Maxi) but I don't have the right cable to connect my record player to my pc for recording mp3s.

**QUINNY** · September 22nd, 2002, 10:27 AM

And we wonder why Disco died? Couldn't have been records like this I don't suppose?

**DanceMan** · September 22nd, 2002, 10:50 AM

On 2002-09-22 11:27, QUINNY wrote:
And we wonder why Disco died? Couldn't have been records like this I don't suppose?

I would tend to agree with you, Quinny, had this record been released in 1979, but it came out in late '75/early '76 when most of the world could only relate to Barry White and not much else for their dancing pleasure.

I remember when I went to visit my parents back in the summer of '76 (they were in their late 40's at the time) and Wing & A Prayer's BABY FACE album with the fake nose on the lady was the only thing DISCO or even current in their vast collection....Also, I was dacning in a cabaret show at the same time and when BabyFace started to play during intermission, it got the whole play up on their feet and screaming and singing like it was the best thing since sliced bread to ever come over the loud speakers....So I wouldn't blame this medley of oldies' remakes on the demise of disco, more to the point: it helped launch to attention the disco genre which only improved - as we know - greatly and more memorable over time.

**QUINNY** · September 22nd, 2002, 01:11 PM

I think you've helped prove my point.
I personally think that 'pop' music is only vital if it appeals to the young. If something appeals to all ages it's lost it.
IMHO: That this came out in '75 means that Disco had already lost its vitality.

**JussiK** · September 23rd, 2002, 05:17 AM

Trust me - besides being young, hip and all things vital many of us had a sense of HUMOUR. So, we loved "Baby Face".

**QUINNY** · September 23rd, 2002, 10:54 AM

Jussik: I would agree with you, true humour is essential to living. Yes, I laughed a lot in my youth and still do, however this record made me cry.
IMO It was just a cynical attempt of some straight musos
to cash in on the emerging Disco boom. I had much better records to play, thank you; records with more SOUL, more STYLE, and more BALLS.