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Get Down and Boogie
Various Artists (LP)
Casablanca Record and Filmworks (US) / 1976 / NBLP 7042
LP 33 1/3 RPM vinyl record
Album Coordinators: Paul Dougan, Bobby "D.J." Guttadaro
Side 1
1- Knights In White Satin : Giorgio 3:22 / 1976
2- Love To Love You Baby : Donna Summer 4:40 / 1975
3- Love Power : Roberta Kelly 2:54 / 1976
4- I Wanna Funk with You Tonight : Giorgio (Moroder) 2:52 / 1976
5- Try Me : Donna Summer 4:08 / 1976
Side 2
1- Where Is The Love : Margaret Singana 3:07 / 1976
2- (Your Love Has Got Me )Screamin' 2:48 / 1976 Chocolate City Records, Inc.
3- The Fruit Song : Jeannie Reynolds 6:56 / 1976
4- Up For The Downstroke : Parliament 2:45 / 1974
5- Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) : Parliament 4:09 / 1975
The cover boasts "Disco Mix / Disco Fun" and "38 Minutes and 47 seconds of continuous play". How exciting it must have been to bring home the disco mix sound of a club. Although no one is credited as the DJ, the "album coordinators" are listed as noted above. To my knowledge at least, this is one of the earliest mix albums around. The album cover is simply an expanded graphic of the iconic Casablanca logo.
Side 1 is a medly of classic early Moroder type disco. The second side is more of a funk sound, culminating with Parliament, arguably the kings of funk.
My favorite is the bizarre and naively double-entendre laden "The Fruit Song" with such memorable lyrics as "If you'd known I like bananas you would have brought a great big bunch for me" and "If I'd know you liked cherries I'd have brought a great big box for you". Hmm.
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YOUR REVIEWS & COMMENTS
I was one of those who was "thrilled" to bring home the club sound, as you put it. I must have been about 17 or 18 at the time this record came out. I too loved The Fruit Song for all its inherent naughtiness. Also loved the Moroder cover of Knights in White Satin, which I heard for the first time on this record.
By today's standards the mixing on the album is god-awful, and I wouldn't recommend using it for club play. But in its day it was definitely inspiring... at least to this DJ-wannabe.
One thing... the label and the cover are the OLD pre-"Record and Filmworks" design, and is a little less polished looking than the more common one with the flashy neon-like lettering and images of people pushing studio lights around. I think Casablanca also owned a label called Oasis at the same time, which Moroder recorded for.
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