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    Favorite Disco Tunes On Sylvia Robinson's Labels

    So what are some of your favorite dance/disco cuts on the Sylvia Robinson labels - Stang, All Platinum, Vibration, and Turbo?

    I've been really into that New Jersey disco sound ever since I heard the Rimshots 'Down To Earth' album on CD. Tracks like Super Disco and Do What You Feel really hit the spot. Since the Rimshots were the main house band for Sylvia Robinson in the mid to late 70s (I think Wood Brass & Steel was the back up), many of the records from that period sound similar, but that's not a bad thing. I also like how she had instrumental versions of songs put on the flip sides of some singles, and would call them 'Sing...' or 'You Sing...' followed by the title of the song.

    Tracks I really love listening to over and over again, besides Shame Shame Shame by Shirley & Co, or Girls by The Moments/Whatnauts, include:

    Shirley & Co - I Gotta Get Next To You
    Sylvia Robinson - Lay It On Me (love the guitar on this cut - backing band Rimshots), Lollipop Man, Fingers Do The Walking (the backing band on these two were Wood Brass & Steel)
    Wood Brass & Steel - Funkanova
    Brother To Brother - The Bottle
    Bobby Bland - My Funny Valentine
    First Class - Me & My Gemini (love the slide steel guitar on this cut), Lady Of The Evening (awesome bass riff) - actually the entire Going First Class LP features some cool dance cuts.
    Rimshots - in addition to the Down To Earth LP, the single-only cut We've Got You Singing
    Retta Young - Sending Out An SOS
    Hank Ballard - Love On Love
    Bobby Patterson - I Got A Suspicion

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    Re: Favorite Disco Tunes On Sylvia Robinson's Labels

    My favorite would have to be New Guys On The Block featuring Lane - On The Dance Floor. Don't even know if that's on cd or not...Guess I'll have to burn a copy of it from vinyl. I love the psuedo Michael Jackson "Hee, Hee, Hee's...and Uh's and Ooohs" on the track...Even kinda sounds like a husky Michael Jackson... Have you heard it Disco Funk?

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    Re: Favorite Disco Tunes On Sylvia Robinson's Labels


     

     

    2 That come to mind are The Moments "Girls" & a track i played in a bar last week Chuck Jackson "I Got The Need".

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