Strutt and Company
Shady Lady (12")
TK Records (US) / 1980 / DA 435
12" Disco single 33 ⅓ rpm Vinyl record
Genre: Dance
Producer: Alan Hawkshaw
Mix by Valapucci
Mastred at Sterling Sound , NY by Jack Skinner
Side A
1. Shady Lady (5:25)
Side B
1. Shady Lady (Edit 3:15)
2. Airborne (3:41)
Strutt and Company was produced by Alan Hawkshaw who was best known for his "Here Comes That Sound" by Love DeLuxe.
"Shady Lady" was released at the tail end of TK Records hisotry in 1980 and is quite good. If you were following the Disco sounds through the 1980s then you would like this.
Now the real gem is on the B side with the track "Airborne," which sounds like Alec R. Costandinos and Alan Hawkshaw meet Pat DeSerio and George Lagios of the Bombers. This is great and I just wish it had been longer than 4 minutes.
Pick this one up!
Also See...
Henry Stone (Interview with the founder of TK Records)
Submitted by DiscoMusic.com (3705)
I have to chime-in and sing the praises of "Airborne", too. A beautiful, instrumental piece.
Most likely of interest, only to French Disco purists, it really does sound like a hybrid of "(Everybody) Get Dancin'" and "Love In C Minor". It's most unfortunate there was no remix. (Though I went to work on my own version, the day after I acquired it.) But, as a 1980 release, it's sound would've been considered "passe" by the general public, anyway.