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Jimmy Roma
Beyond The Galaxy
Virtue Records (US) / 1978 / Cat # ???
12" Disco Single
Produced by Frank Virtue
Arranged by George Bussey Jr.
Side A
Beyond The Galaxy 6.53 / 130 BPM
Side B
Beyond The Galaxy 6.53 / 130 BPM
A superb, 'real' disco tune, with quality musical arrangement, lovely orchestral strings, and very unique vocals, which sounds like a large choir of female classical vocalists singing a disco tune!
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Jul 13, 2007 | 8:48 pmThis is true loveliness . Like a lost Salsoul/TSOP tune ... but with electronic keyboarding and spacey pings and tweak sounds that are worked in quite well. Those vocals ...like angelic mermaids "come with meeee , let's take a jour-neeeey... beyond the galaxy, you and me ". Non-stop bongoing ...with the gentle tapping of a triangle added halfway to join the tambourine ... plus a surprising T-Connection styled break . A George Bussey (DISCO EXTRAVAGANZA) project out of Philadelphia .
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My copy has "POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN" as the flip ...... strangely tasteless and tasteful --- disco having fun ... nice persistent piano groove ....horn section .....bongos .
The promo version of this is slightly longer and a different mix, more percussion and none of the wacky synthesizer effects.
Having played both I prefer the promo mix.