Indie Release [Level 4]
Many years ago I found a record of "Tina Charles - I love to love" at the thrift shop. I dint realize just how popular she is untill today when playing these youtube videos:
YouTube - Tina Charles - I love to love 2004
YouTube - Tina Charles - I Love To Love live 2006
Apparently she is making very good disco concerts today!
WONDERING WHERE MY HOPES AND DREAMS GONE TO
THERE I WAS WITH NOTHING LEFT TO HOLD ON TO
Chart Hit [Level 6]
I think her big record (from around 1976, me thinks) "I Love to Love" wasn't played too much in the States (outside of discos, that is). I think she was really, really popular though over in the U.K. Can our friends across the pond confirm / shed some light on Ms. Charles' career beyond I Love to Love (fun song, by the way) ???
Chart Hit [Level 6]
"I love to love" was a huge song, just as popular as the Bee Gees
If you buy this record your life, will be better.
Double Platinum Record [Level 9]
Originally Written by drlove
Certainly can! 'ILTL' was a huge #1 pop hit here in the UK & she then had 6 more top 30 hits: 'Love Me Like a Lover', 'Dance Little Lady Dance' and 'Dr. Love' (different song to Inner Life's) in '76, 'Rendezvous' & 'Love Bug/Sweets For My Sweet' in '77 and 'I'll Go Where The Music Takes Me' in '78. The last Tina Charles record I can recall was 'Rollin' in 1980 which flopped.The lovely Ms. Charles is still singing on the club circuit here & you can read a recent interview with her by our own lovely Dayna elsewhere on this forum.:icon_razz:
...ya gotta beat the street......
Chart Hit [Level 6]
thanks, SandraDee, for all the Ms. Charles info :icon_cool: And special thanks for the heads-up on a Ms. Charles interview by Dayna . . . must - go - find - soon (but workday responsibilities call first -- dammit!)
Gold Record [Level 7]
Tina Charles was also the lead vocal on I'm On Fire by 5000 Volts.
Underground Hit [Level 5]
I Love To Love was also written by Jack Bolden and Jack Robinson, the latter of which was a newspaper man who lived in Paris. Very nice guy, amongst their other hits was Strut Your Funky Stuff by Frantique on Philly International.
Triple Platinum Record [Level 10]
Tina's biggest U.S. club hit was her first "You Set My Heart On Fire" from the fall/winter of 1975; "I Love To Love" got some chart action (mostly NYC retailers) in the spring of 1976; "Dance Little Lady Dance" was #1 in Montreal on the Billboard Disco Action charts--but was never mentioned on any U.S. chart....so I'd say Tina was a major player in the early days of disco outside the U.S. --but in the U.S. she was relatively minor. Maybe too bubble gummy in her sound for 1976 U.S. discos to appreciate? :icon_eek:
"Lost inside adorable illusion...."
Gold Record [Level 7]
Yes... But only on the 7" single.:icon_eek:
For the 5000 VOLTS LP, the track featured a re-recorded lead vocal by Linda Kelly.
As I'd read somewhere (from the Internet, so I can't attest to the accuracy, but it sounds plausible...) that the unexpected, worldwide success of "I'm On Fire",spawned the LP, '5000 VOLTS', in 1976. And Tina Charles didn't want to derail her solo career, which was just starting to move forward, in leaps and bounds. So, she passed on recording the LP. (A good move, too. The only other song worth mentioning is 'One Stop Baby'. And that's being generous.)
"MUSIC IS AN EMOTION, SEARCHING FOR IT'S VOICE"
...come with me, "BACK TO MUSIC", on DISCOTERIA
Thurs 9am Vancouver, 12pm Montreal, Sat 12pm LA, 3pm NY, Mon 3pm SFO, 6pm FTL
http://www.live365.com/stations/cdnbob2
Chart Hit [Level 6]
That's the one for me, I love this song. I like all of her material, but this one really stands out. There is also a Columbia promo 12" that combines the Vocal and Instrumental versions from the LP for a nice long mix.
Triple Platinum Record [Level 10]
I was really disappointed when I bought Tina's Greatest Hits on cd---most of the hits all been remixed with cheesy house beats--totally making them junk.:icon_evil::icon_exclaim:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...0:3zftxqq5ldfe
Why do a Greatest Hits compilation and not release the original versions of the records??? Huh?
"Lost inside adorable illusion...."
Gold Record [Level 7]
Speaking solely from a NYC-Metro area DJ's point-of-view...
Off the top of my head, Tina's club-presence was: (for myself and the DJs that I went to hear...)
1975 - You Set My Heart On Fire***
1976 - I Love To Love
1977 - I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me
1977 - Love Bug / Sweets for My Sweet (my personal fave!)
1978 - Fire Down Below (promo 12" remix from the 1977 LP 'Heart 'N' Soul')
1986 - I Love To Love - Sanny>X/DMC remix double-pac***
1987 - I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me - Thierry Rogan remix***<---brilliant!:icon_mrgreen:
***The pro 12" of which, is titled 'Combined Vocal & Instrumental Versions'. And is structurally modeled directly from the Disco Queen acetate that had been floating around, which was created using the vocal & instrumental sides of the 7" single. (much the same scenario as the evolution of the 12" mix of Jesse Green's 'Nice And Slow')
Although Remix Services had yet to come about, this is a perfect example of somebody at Columbia Records paying attention to what was going-on with the concept of alternate mixes. It can be found as the b-side of the promo 12" remix of 1976's 'Dance Little Lady Dance".
***I mention these 80's remixes because they did so well, that they charted in the US. Unusual for an import, to say the least!
"MUSIC IS AN EMOTION, SEARCHING FOR IT'S VOICE"
...come with me, "BACK TO MUSIC", on DISCOTERIA
Thurs 9am Vancouver, 12pm Montreal, Sat 12pm LA, 3pm NY, Mon 3pm SFO, 6pm FTL
http://www.live365.com/stations/cdnbob2
Gold Record [Level 7]
Here in Quebec ; she also had a hit with 1979's Boogie 'round the clock which was the sole new track off a Greatest hits Lp Columbia put out.
It got tons of airplay here in Montreal.
KRIS
Double Platinum Record [Level 9]
That's my personal fave Tina Charles track but it wasn't a hit in the UK. (typical for Brits to have no taste, but it was featured on the soundtrack of UK flash-trash movie 'The Stud'
...ya gotta beat the street......
Test Pressing [Level 2]
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TINA CHARLES sold a huge amout of records in quebec,espescially her first album I LOVE TO LOVE.On the radio and in the clubs.Produced by BIDDU (who also produced KUNG FU FIGHTING by CARL DOUGLAS(1974)and had hits of his own with THE BIDDU ORCHESTRA-GIRL,YOU'LL BE A WOMAN SOON(1977).
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