Marlena Shaw's "New Beginnings"

[srg]

I've recently re-discovered "Sweet Beginnings" from Marlena Shaw in a best-of cd....WHAT AN AMAZING, CLASSY DISCO PRODUCTION!! Great vocals, percussion, energy (sounds like something Sharon Redd/Linda Clifford would've sung)... Anyhoo..was it played in clubs? was there an extended 12"??(it is rather short, 4 minutes or so). Besides "Touch Me in the Morning" and "Love Dancin", anything else I should be on the lookout for from Marlena?

[thommy2458]

Hi SRG!-yes,there is-"It's
better than walking out"
was a club hit on Bluenote
in 76(I think)There was a
promo only 12" that extended it for a few minutes,also."Sweet beginnings" was played
along with "pictures and
memories' when it was released,but I always thought "Sweet beginnings' would have been more succesful with a 12" mix-
but,even as is,I still play
this today-great song!
Thom

[DISCODISK]

agreed its better than walking out is a must have :P
a favourite album of mine is let me in your life on south bay records from 1983 containing a great dancer 'i just want this feeling to last' sadly it was never a single.

[Mixmachine]

Well, you guys beat me to it but what the heck :D

Ahhh, sweet and lovable Marlena, the 1976 LP “Just a matter of time” (Blue Note BN-LA606-G) with many beautiful ballads like “This time I’ll be sweeter” and “Sing to me” is just a treat, “It’s better than walking out “ off this LP was a club hit listed in Disc-o-la Fortune 500 Discotheque songs of the 70’s at #196, “Love has gone away” is another Disco cut off this LP, “Sweet Beginnings” also features another Disco cut, “Pictures and Memories” although I don’t remember if any of them was released on 12” or played in clubs, this album’s biggest hit was the combo of “Yu-Ma” segueing into “Go away little boy” which used to be all over the urban radio waves… “do you think you can get a job by Thursday ?... then you might as well stay” :lol: :lol:

[JussiK]

Try mixing Marlena's exquisite "Sweet Beginnings" into Astrud Gilberto's equally scintillating Vince Montana production "All Of Me", from Astrud's criminally neglected 1977 "That Girl from Ipanema" disco album. Smooth.

[discodevil]

Suite Seventeen from the 1979 Take a Bite Album is amazing, clocks in at over 17 minutes with five songs mixed in and out to make the Suite Seventeen.
It was a very good year/Im a Foster Child 3.07, Love Dancin'4.31, It was a very good year/Im a Foster Child 0.40, I Thank You 3.14, It was a very good year/Im a Foster Child 0.40, Touch Me In The Morning 5.52

[Mixmachine]

Suite Seventeen from the 1979 Take a Bite Album is amazing, clocks in at over 17 minutes with five songs mixed in and out to make the Suite Seventeen.
It was a very good year/Im a Foster Child 3.07, Love Dancin'4.31, It was a very good year/Im a Foster Child 0.40, I Thank You 3.14, It was a very good year/Im a Foster Child 0.40, Touch Me In The Morning 5.52

Just found out this one will be released on CD on July 12, it's listed on Amazon(US) as an Import, if any one overseas already have it , How is the mastering quality?