Frankie Crocker's Heart and Soul Orchestra
Disco Suite Symphony No.1 in Rhythm and Excellence (LP)
Casablanca Records and Filmworks (US) / 1976 / NBLP 7031
LP-album 33 ⅓ rpm double vinyl record set
Genre: Dance
Produced by Frankie Crocker
Arranger: Gene Page
Vocals: The Pointer Sisters, Dennis Edwards (Temptations), Bobby Womack...
Side 1
1. Poincianna - 9:03
2. Friendly Persuasion 6:15
Side 2
1. I Can't Started - 6:480
2. The Very Thought Of You 7:05
Side 3
1. Be My Love 6:25
2. Moonlight In Vermont 6:09
Side 4
1. Skylark 6:54
2. Flamingo 5:45
I don't know how this record by Frankie Crocker's Heart and Soul Orchestra fared in the USA, but here in Belgium it was a smash disco record together with the albums of "The Brothers" of the same period on RCA records.
DiscoMusic.com adds:
Some of this groups releases used only Heart and Soul Orchestra as opposed to the full group name of Frankie Crocker's Heart and Soul Orchestra.
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Mar 16, 2008 | 9:44 amThis was a pretty good album. Like they said above, its POINCIANA that takes the cake here. I love all the fantastic instrumentation. Frankie Crocker really just lent his name to these studio musicians. He got paid, plus a percentage. At least, that is what I was told. Can anyone tell me different.
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Sep 26, 2006 | 1:40 pm
"Poinciana" is a killer! Bass guitar, strings, moog, and piano & violins delivering the Poinciana theme, with a contrast between seemingly leisurely harps and pianos, sudden outbursts of frantic strings... Symphonic disco at it's very best... Way above any other of the covers made of the song, except obviously that by "Paradise Express". Don't take my word for it: go out and buy both; you'll thank yourself for it...
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Feb 15, 2005 | 10:00 am
New York radio DJ FRANKIE CROCKER brought the orchestra over to the Casablanca label in late 1976, and arranged the disco-styled tracks for their new look. Most of their Casablanca tracks are disco cover versions of older tunes, for example by Cole Porter. The Casablanca double-album features the disco-tastic track "Poinciana".
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Jan 06, 2005 | 11:03 pm
Oh, Bernie, darlin, you forgot one thing: 'KTU 92 may have been 'BLS ONLY serious competition; HOWEVER, if you remember your radio history correctly, WABC Musicradio 77 made a SERIOUS stab at the disco/'BLS/KTU audience as well
Andrea in NYC
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Nov 03, 2003 | 1:41 pm
The late Frankie Crocker was program director and head DJ of the famous New York FM radio station WBLS (107.5).
Throughout the 1970s and 80s Crocker took WBLS to the top of the Arbitron ratings. It's only real competition was WKTU during the late 1970s.
I'll suggest as a "sleeper" here :
MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT
arranged by Gene Page (as are the rest) this one particularly captures his Love Unlimited Orchestra sound. It's sweepingly lovely.