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Dancing In the Street (Bailando En La Calle) (LP)

Oasis - RCA Records (Argentina) / 1978 / AVS-4635
LP-album 33 ⅓ rpm vinyl record

Producer: Pete Bellotte

Trax is: Pete Bellotte and Keth Forsey
Engineer: Kobelz
Recorded at MusicLand Studios, Munich, Germany

Photography: Peter Winkler
Artwork: Uwe Stuewe

Side A
1. Dancing In the Street (Stevenson-Gaye) (5.51)
2. Do You Wanna Be A Star (Bellotte-Forsey)(4.36)
3. Crusader (Bellotte-Forsey) (4.35)

Side B
1. Never Been To Spain (Hoyt Axton) (5.09)
2. Baby What's Your Number (Bellotte-Forsey) (5.07)
3. Boom Boom (schmaltz schmaltz) (Baldursson-Bellotte-Forsey) (4.19)

Trax was a side project by Giorgio Moroder's partner Pette Bellotte and their usual drummer, Keith Forsey (also of Munich Machine).

Bailando En La Calle (Dancing In the Streets) is a mixed bag: half consists of mere filler, at least with today's ears (and that includes their fast version of Motown's "Dancing in the street"). But the other half is really worth listening: "Crusader" is a powerful drum-led disco track, a bit a la Cerrone, with plenty of space for Forsey to shine.

"Boom Boom (schmaltz schmaltz)" makes a great pop ending, with a taste of that Twenties sound that the movie "The sting" had imposed some years earlier. This one is really catchy.

However, the dance track that makes it worthwhile is "Baby What's Your Number", a really speedy song that shoulda been a hit somewhere; it deserved it. However, Giorgio kept Bellotte busy in other things and Trax (which also released a LP called Watch Out in 1979) was only a footnote in the producer's career.

Record cover photos submitted by DiscoMusic.com member Edgardo from Argentina.

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