For Tony Valor Fans - He Wanted To Help Us Learn To Dance!

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I accidentally came across a youtube posting of a track that sounded oddly familiar.




After a sec, I realized it was the exact same recording (remixed, though) that appeared on the Touch LP Energizer as '(You Don't Know How To) Do The Hustle'.

I thought I'd check out other tracks on youtube by 'Hustle Factory', and found this one as well



Same backing track, just slightly remixed, with different vocals.

After digging, I discovered it was part of a 3 record set by 'Hustle Factory' called 'Do The Hustle'. The first two records were dance instructional (horribly mixed, with the instructions one channel, the music on the other), and the third was just the music only.

After buying the third LP, which was music only, it turns out the above two cuts that were on it, were by Tony Valor and Touch. In fact, almost the entire record is Tony Valor material. There's even an alternate version of 'Just A Little Timing' credited to Maryann Farra and Satin Soul, but it's not as good as her LP version.

The one track I was glad to find, and had been searching for since seeing it on a bootleg breakbeat LP as 'Tony Valor - Amore Santos' was 'A'More Santos' credited on the LP as written by Valor but performed by Santos.

Check out this record if you really enjoy Tony Valor and the Touch record. There are a few songs on this record that were also on Gotta Get It in instrumental version, but with vocals on this record. Stay away from the 2 LP set, that's the instructional record. Both on Realm.

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thank you so much for reminding me to pull out this LP DF as I enjoy it as I write. !!! :icon_biggrin:

I think it's too bad this LP., all this Tony Valor material, got lost under the guise of a "how to dance" LP .





You really have to search the fine print to even know what's on here !
And it is so good, if you like hustle music...... Crown Heights Affair likeat times.

The HUSTLE THEME is it an instrumental of another Valor song??
So pure at heart with its' gentle sound, the singular weepy violin countering the busy peppy horns and the ROCK THE BOAT bass line , makes me sad-emotional .... in a good -could dance all night- way .....



Isn't it odd that this LP is all Tony Valor save one of the ten tunes ....the delicious FOXY TROT ...a one release endeavor (AFAIK) by a group of folks callling themselves Life U.S.A.. I wonder how it got tacked on to this ??

As far as qualifiers for the School of the Love Unlimited list, the final tune :
LATIN NIGHTS IN MANHATTAN , I think makes it.


This LP ....a must have for those who like the early NYC disco sound.



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It's a weird set up. I thought Gotta Get It was released in '75, so you'd think that putting Valor's name in big letters on the front would be a selling point. Even the groups he'd put albums out with (Touch, Maryann Farra) appear on this compilation.

I don't recognize Hustle Theme from any of the LPs. And that Farra track sounds like an earlier recording than what was eventually put out on her LP (Valor had an instrumental mix of THAT version of Just A Little Timing on the Gotta Get It LP). It's a nice cut, I agree. I'm guessing a vocal version is kicking around on 45 under an AKA, like Valor's instrumental 'Girl' had a vocal version by Ronnie LaShannon that I discovered recently under the name 'Where Has Our Love Gone'.

Life USA had a 45. I can't remember what label it was on, maybe Buddah? I have it somewhere. I don't recall if it's the same mix.

My only complaint is the quality of the pressing. It sounds very flat, like those KTel records. I don't think there's any version that would have better audio fidelity.

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I thought I'd give the instructional version of the record a listen, and the versions of the songs on that set are slightly different from the non-instruction LP. None of the music has vocals on that instruction record, even though the same track on the non-instruction LP has singing. It's just too bad the music on that instruction record is panned to one channel with the instructor talking on the other channel. So a lo-fi mono mix can be made of those alternate versions, with a little bleed-through of the instructor onto that track, but that's about it.

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