Camouflage
Disco Symphony (LP)
Honeybee Records (US) / 1977 / HB 24001
LP-album 33 ⅓ rpm Vinyl record
Genre: Dance
Producer: Meco Monardo, Tony Bongiovi, Harold Wheeler and Jay Ellis
Recorded at Sun Dragon Studios, New York City and Opel Studios, New York City
Recording engineer: Ed Stasium
Remix engineer: Steve Jerome
Cover design: Meco and Jay
Cover art: Joe Lagana
A product of Honeybee Records Inc. - nationally distributed by Prelude Records
Side A
1. Disco Symphony / Mac Arthur Park 14:45
(Curtis Blandon / Jimmy Webb)
Side B
1. Take A Ride 9:20
(J. Ellis, S. Simon, E. Pitt)
2. Bee Sting 7:10
(J. Ellis, D. Oriolo, S. Simon)
Although I've enjoyed many Meco Monardo productions this album by Camouflage featuring Mysty leaves me cold with the exception of "Take A Ride", which sounds similar to Caress' "Fill Me Up (Heart To Heart)."
"Disco Symphony" has that over-the-top theatrical or show-tune style that I just hate. This is due to Harold Wheeler's arrangement as he produced such Broadway shows as the "Wiz."
Also See...
Meco Monardo (Interview)
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Sep 21, 2006 | 6:15 pmTerrible, except for the final cut "Bee Sting," a Silver Convention/street w**** kinda record aflight with strings and a raunchy vocal that reminds you these producers also worked for...
MARLENA SHAW!!! Oh my GOD, don't tell me that the coyly-named Camouflage featuring "Mysti" isn't Marlena herself, slumming on Prelude for god knows what legal and financial considerations. Listen to this cut and decide. Yowsah!
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May 27, 2006 | 6:21 pm
This same group released a single in 1976 called "You've got the power" which is excellent.
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May 25, 2006 | 8:40 pm
I've gotta admit, this was one of my favorite albums back in the day. I REALLY liked side two, especially "Take A Ride", which received a fair amount of airplay here in NY on WBLS.
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Mar 17, 2005 | 3:54 pm
Giorgio Moroder had to have listened to this album before creating his version of MacArthur Park for Donna Summer. Play this version which came out first .... and then compare it to Donna's. It's Meco vs. Giorgio .... and an interesting study of the evolution of the disco sound.
Camouflage and 'A Disco Symphony', I never remembered it so f-----g great... but some of the tunes you more or less ignored back then get you wild today, and vice versa... strange.... and need to say that this version of the 'park' is pretty nice, and when you come to think of that it is made before Donna's there's no q about it.... but my fav is Bee Sting...