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James Wells
My Claim To Fame (LP)
AVI Records (US) / 1978 / AVI 6045
LP 33 1/3 rpm vinyl record
Producer: Ian Levine
Arranger: Fiachra Trench
Mixer: Rick Gianatos
Side A
1. My Claim To Fame (16:10)
2. I Guess That's Life (3:14)
Side B
1. That's The Way The Wind Blows (7:06)
2. True Love Is My Destiny (12:42)
"My Claim TO Fame" by James Wells is an early production by Englishman Ian Levine who would later be a driving force behind Hi-NRG in the 1980's.
Rick Gianatos who mixed this record was kind enough to tell DiscoMusic.com the following:
After the first couple of things I did while at AVI, Ray Harris, president of the label, got it in his head to do his own mastering. At Producer's Workshop, AVI's recording studio, they set up mastering with some sort of direct to disk setup WITHOUT ANY EQ BEYOND WHAT HAD BEEN DONE ON THE MIXING BOARD!!!. That was why a lot of what you are hearing doesn't have high end, etc. The earlier projects (James Wells, My Claim to Fame, got mastered at A&M and were much better than later things like Seventh Avenue, Evelyn Thomas, L.J. Johnson, and remixes of El Coco etc.).
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Emerging from the soul scene in the early 1970's, JAMES WELLS followed in the tracks of other Kudu / Polydor artists like David Matthews and recorded funky disco tracks. Listen for the hit charting "My claim to fame" , written by Ian Levine.
Also ''That's the way the wind blows'' and ''True love is my destiny'' all excellent gems !
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