Jumbo

City Girls (German LP)

Hansa International (Germany) / 1977 / S25151
LP-album 33 ⅓ rpm vinyl record
Genre: Dance

As far as I know, this is the second LP by the Orieux/Cramer concept called Jumbo. As with many producer's projects typical of the disco music era, Jumbo is actually the result of 2 producers thinking up a concept, writing and composing the music, and hiring studio musicians and singers to turn written partitions and lyrics into actual tracks, which is why often different LPs by the same "band" often had totally different casts and vocalists. This system also enabled people like Luther Vandross to lead sing on many releases as a studio artist (Gregg Diamond's Bionic Boogie, Soiree, Loose Change, etc.) before he eventually released records under his own name.

The tracks on this Lp are as tacky as those on the first release, Turn on to love/Sexy Lady, with even more genius parts you wish could be separated from the rest of the song and remixed to form a REALLY killer track. "Turn on to love" had "Loco Loco", this LP has "I can't get over you" and "Temporary love", which I personally love, despite the silly high-pitched female voice, and the thick german accents you can't possibly not notice. Once again, many disco albums could be considered as achieved, give or take 1 or 2 tracks; those are the ones you could put on your MK2 and listen to all the way through.

Then you have the vast majority of what's left of your record collection, LPs you bought for one single track, and more often, ONLY for the break or the chorus on one single track. This album would be of the latter. Both tracks mentioned aren't gold, but good enough to make you want to listen to them again once they're over, and again and again and again.

Submitted by KoolChris (178)

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