Cerrone
Love In C Minor (Uncensored UK LP)
Atlantic Records (UK) / 1977 / K50334
LP-album 33 ⅓ rpm Vinyl with uncensored album cover art
Genre: Dance
Producer(s): Jean-Marc Cerrone
A Maligator Recording
Writer(s): Alec R. Costandinos, Cerrone
Recorded at Trident Studios, London - September and October 1976
Sound engineer: Peter "Fairly" Kelsey
Tape ops: Steve, Geoff, Stephen, John and Neil
Thank you: Sarah, Sue, Peter Booth, Bernie "Clic" Spratt, Ray Staff, Brainiac, Psycho, and Gunpowder Green
The musicians were,
Mo Foster: Bass
Tony Carr: Percussion
John Dean: Percussion
Hughie Burns: Guitar
Colin Green: Guitar
Alan Hawkshaw: Keyboards
Don Ray: Keyboards
Ray Swinfield: Flute and sax
John Watson's Brass Section
Pat Halling String Ensemble
Jean-Marc Cerrone: Drums
The background vocals were beautifully song by,
Joanne Williams, Stephanie De Sykes, Madeline Bell, Jackie Sullivan and Jean Hawker
(The Birds of Paris)
Side A
1. Love In C Minor
(Alec R. Costandinos, Cerrone)
Side B
2. Black Is Black (5:52)
(S. Wadey, T. Hayes, M. Grainger)
3. Midnite Lady (7:28)
Alec R. Costandinos, Cerrone)
I will start out by saying that Love In C Minor by Cerrone is one of my favourite Disco songs of all time (right behind Love Insurance by Front Page). This is what made Euro-Disco what it was going to become. It was a trend setter.
Everyone involved in this later became staples in the Disco field; Alec R. Costandinos (Romeo & Juliet and Love and Kisses), Don Ray (Got To Have Loving), Alan Hawkshaw (Love Deluxe) and of course Cerrone (Supernature).
Up until the release of this record, much of Disco in the US was of an R & B background (Trammps . . . ). Now the world was being introduced to lush euro-style string arrangements with music that just flowed on and on. This British pressing contains the complete intro of the banter between three woman at a club discussing Cerrone's interest in one of them. In addition this is the original uncensored cover not found on the American version of "Love In C Minor (with the tattooed hands). This, the British version, is the only version to have and worth holding out for.
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Also See:
Stephanie De Sykes (Interview)
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May 24, 2011 | 11:12 amWhat has happened to all the audio files you had before? Is there some new way to access them? Please let me know.
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Mar 05, 2008 | 10:10 am
This is the first EURO-DISCO song. It showed the world that in Europe DISCO was alive and strong. CERRONE became a legend thanks to this work. Look at the cast of DISCO ICONS behind him, it is a WHO'S WHO of early DISCO. I loved it, so did the Dance Floor. Easy to mix, fantastic to play with and create your own re-mixes. The U.K. version had an extended intro, like BERNIE said, it involved a pick-up at a DISCO. I loved this version, but owned them all! And there were at least three different versions. This is a DISCO CLASSIC, and gets a very easy TEN on my scale from 1-10.
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Mar 17, 2007 | 8:00 pm
The version of the "the best of Cerrone" album sounds quite good.
It includes the intro and I agree that is one of the finest disco songs of all time.
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Dec 22, 2003 | 2:38 pm
Canadian pressings of this album on Atlantic contain the opening dialogue, although it has the "four hands" cover used on the USA release.
The Unidisc CD of this is a bit of a hatchet job. Apparently the tape they got for it didn't have the intro dialogue, so they lifted it from a cassette and tacked it on. It sounds quite muffled in comparision to the rest of the track.
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Oct 28, 2003 | 7:12 pm
Achieved No.55 on the Billboard Black Album chart and No.153 on the Pop Album chart.
The single "Love In C Minor" achieved No.2 on the Club Play Singles chart,No.29 on the Black Singles chart and No.36 on the Pop Singles chart in 1977
Just found your site. Love that disco sound. Have a good size collection of this materal myself but no where close to what you have here. Will be back for more!