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Roberta Kelly

Gettin' The Spirit (LP)

Casablanca Records and Filmworks (US) / 1978 / NBLP 7089
LP-album 33 ⅓ rpm vinyl record

Produced by Giorgio Moroder and Bob Esty

Side 1)
1. Oh Happy Day-5:47 (134 BPM)
2. To My Father's House-6:21
3. My Sweet Lord-4:20

Side 2)
1. Gettin' The Spirit-4:47
2. Walking In The Shadow Of His Light-5:17
3. Speaking My Mind In His Ear (Yaweh-Adone-Jehovah-Allah) -5:58

You just come off two very successful albums, you are on top of the DISCO WORLD. So what next? You talk your way into obscurity by convincing your DISCO record label, that a Gospel-DISCO album is where it's at!! That is the best way to get dropped by a DISCO RECORD LABEL!! Roberta Kelly must have found JESUS, and somehow talked management at CASABLANCA that with superstar producers like GIORGIO MORODER and BOB ESTY this album couldn't fail!! It did much more than fail, it almost single-handedly put CASABLANCA in the red. They lost so much money on this that I am surprised that Neil Bogart and David Geffen didn't go to the Pope for a blessing!!This album almost ruined them all. ROBERTA KELLY? Never heard from again. I tried to play OH HAPPY DAY, but FORGETTABOUTIT!! On my scale from 1-10, even though it could be the best DISCO-GOSPEL album ever, I have to give it a 2.

Listen to Oh Happy Day by Roberta Kelly:


Gettin' the Spirit:

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