Distric of Columbia track wows them at Le Superfantastique

[JussiK]

Maybe it was because of of the first really warm night of the summer, with crowds out in the streets feeling festive, maybe it was because I programmed the Disctrict of Columbia track Hail to the Teeth plus a 90 minute set of 130 BPM favourites, but in any case it was maybe the best Superfantastique yet. A football team from Liverpool boogied thru the door and the ladies of course got all excited and got their boom booms moving around the room a lot. I spinned

Champs Boys Orchestra TUBULAR BELLS, a Love to Love You Baby riff ripoff from France that works, into the break of
Donna Summer LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY into
Massive Attack KEEP ON MOVING into
Salsoul Orchestra STAYING ALIVE into
Montana Orch HEAVY VIBES into
Eddie Kendricks GOUNG UP IN SMOKE 7 min 56 sec reedit into
Teddy Pendergrass YOU CANT HIDE FROM YOURSELF into
Super Disco Band SUPER DISCO, a groovy semiorchestral hustler from 76 with hissing hihats, into
Gil Ventura LOVE HANGOVER into
Nicola Conte JET SOUNDS into
Pierre Bachelet PARADIS SAMBA, from the ost of the 77 film Le Dernier Amant Romantique, into
District of Columbia HAIL TO THE TEETH, an exeptional Salsoul realese from 1977 with a cool voice introducing himself as the future president of the USA, talking jazz over a killer latin disco track. All 7 awesome minutes of it and on into
Moxie white label COFFEEBREAK, a good reedit of Dennis Coffey Wings of Fire into
Ripple VICTORIOUS into
Kai Warner SALSOUL MOTION, and the into an hour and half of basic, tried and tested and much loved 128-130 bpm cant fail stuff like
Love and Kisses I FOUND LOVE, Cerrone GIVE ME LOVE, Kikrokos JUNGLE DJ, L’Ectrique STRUCK BY BOOGIE LIGHTNING, John Davis and the Monster Orch AINT THAT ENOUGH FOR YOU, Voyage FROM EAST TO WEST and Rive Gauche WHAP.

[Forrrce]

I've been wanting to hear 'Hail To The Teeth' for a little while now and posted a thread on the main forum asking if anyone knew the track. One regular replied saying that it wasn't very good at all, but this makes it sound pretty fun. Back on the 'must find' list, then...

[QUINNY]

Jussi: Surely Love To Love You Baby was the rip off. The Champs Boys were at least honest enough to call their record Tubular Bells and recognize the fact? For me, in 1976, it was a much better floor filler than Donna had ever been, even though she'd previously scored a massive international hit with it.

[Marcio**]

I've before criticized "Hail to the Teeth", so Jussik, you did a great compesation !!! Meco Monardo considers "Wizard of Oz" his best work !

[JussiK]

Wizard of Oz...a famed British dj who used to front the S Express troupe thinks that recording is about the best thing he has ever heard. Think of the implications of this. However, don't you think that Wizard is certainly quite adventuresome in it's arrangements and comes across a trippy experience for the likes of Mark the Dj into all sorts of E-nchanted trippy dance esoterica, or what?

[JussiK]

Jussi: Surely Love To Love You Baby was the rip off. .

Of the original rock Tubular Bells you mean? Me, I would not know not being familiar with the actual recording, I always just seemed to recognise the bells and get a mental picture of Max Von Sydow screaming "The power of christ compels you!" to poor Linda Blair. Does the original Tubular Bells have the guitar riff of Love To Love..., which I always thought was somehow inspired by For The Love Of Money?

[QUINNY]

Jussi: This is possibly getting into heavy territory, but the riff of 'For The Love Of Money' is slightly different, no? Did the O'Jays (Gamble & Huff) inadvertently rip off Tubular Bells? There's an interesting thought.
If you can see the similarity between LTLYB and the Champs Boys then believe me when I say that DS ripped off Tubular Bells, 'cos the Champs Boys is a direct remake of TB in effect.

[JussiK]

I was somehow under the impression that LTLYB came first you see. Champs Boys was realesed by the Sound of Scandinavia here and did okay business when new - why I never bought it then and only last month I cannot imagine, it's such a good record! I've seen copies gathering dust here and there but always thought like ugh, ain't gonna touch that boring old Tubular Bells theme there. And what about the flip then, I don't know if you fancy that at all but i sure do as it's quite something that could have been used in one of those c. 1976 "Tall Blonde With One Black Shoe" comedy films from France, with Mirelle Darc. Very Vladimir Cosma.