Graffitti a. k. a. Hott City

[NickNack]

I was playing some of my old Disconets and bumped into this group on an early volume. The song is called Feelin' Love. Credits say it came out on Butterfly records in 1978. I used to love this cut and it's the only thing I ever heard by them. Anybody have any details on the group? If they were on Butterfly maybe I just missed out, which is kind of odd but stuff happens. :roll:

[kelvy]

:) Happy Holidays Nicky! that album they came out in '79 was and still is outstanding:) the funny thing is that my copy has the group name as "Graffitti", but they're better known as "Hott City"...it was a studio group based out of Farmington Hills(???), Michigan (it's probably near Detroit)....the whole album, which was released through MCA's Butterfly label, is a slept-on classic replete with pulsating drum machine patterns, heavenly string sections, and prodigous female vocals....the drum machine patterns sound a bit ahead of its time and that "feeling love" song is to die for (especially the string-heavy bridge)...the song is so good, it's powerful enough to make me close my eyes and really imagine i was coming of age in 1979 and having the time of my life at some underground, hole-in-the-wall disco (i was only a kid back then).

and the rest of the songs are from what i can recall:

if all we're gonna do is dance
ain't love grand
peaks and valleys (top-notch Diva vocals with a captial "D")
he took my money(???)


with well tidings and kind regards,

kelvy

[NickNack]

Kelvy,

Thanks for the Christmas present :) . So glad you dropped by. After reading your post, I looked through my Butterfly 12"'s (I didn't before because I knew there was nothing by Graffitti) and found two by Hott City. Sho' nuff, there's Feelin' Love, If All We're Gonna Do Is Dance, and two other sides. Peaks and Valleys is the one that's missing.

So how much of an a--hole does this make me? :lol: I never made the connection and by the look of the singles they were definitely played --- A LOT! Feelin' Love is one of those up tempo sleazy songs... dark and sexy, like Cocomotion. Too bad you were just a kid at the time.

Thanks and the title of "He Took My Money" should be I Took His Money. Who cares, somebody got paid, right? :)

Happy Holidays!

[kelvy]

:D Nicky! i am glad you brought that group to the board's attention...that Grafitti/Hott City is a must for any serious die-heard disco connesieur...the type of album that i can't help but get that oh sh** feeling the minute i drop the needle to it. i get the feeling that grafitti/hott city was a one-shot studio wonder; never heard of anything else by them before or after that album...and you hit the nail on the head in describing "feeling love" as dark and sexy...oh those keyboards in that song are something else! an irresistible, decadently delicous marvel of an album:)

"i took his money"...hmmm....sounds like not only someone got paid but somebody else is calling the police and/or getting guest roles in one of those tv court dramas...HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!

again, may your holidays be bright ones...
with well tidings and kind regards,

kelvy