Friday Nov 27, 2015
Crate diggers know the joy of the discount record bin,
where under-loved oddities get sold for a quarter. Often relegated to the floor
under the regular stacks—forcing diggers to get on their hands and knees—these
crates are home to certain artists and genres:
anything smacking of adult contemporary or easy-listening (Mancini,
Ferrante & Teicher, Conniff, Faith, 101 Strings, etc.) and yesterday’s
flavors that are hopelessly uncool until they’re retro-chic again (Streisand,
Styx, Newton-John, Manilow, etc.). Disco has its own special circle in this
Purgatory, reserved for dance instruction records (New York Hustle Inc., the
Hustle Factory), sound-a-like knock-offs (Dynamic Sound, Studio ’78, Mirror
Image), kiddie records (Kids Stuff Repertory Co.) and vanity pressings (the
Perfect Circle, Gino Dente & the Family and Chicago Blackhawks organist
Frank Pellico). The aforementioned joy comes in discovering and/or reclaiming
this stuff: Kids Stuff Repertory
“butching-up” Sylvester for the pre-teen crowd, the Perfect Circle
deconstructing Vicki Sue Robinson like a doctoral thesis in lounge singing,
Percy Faith treating an intentional sow’s ear as a symphonic silk purse,
non-hipsters like Henry Mancini, Ferrante & Teicher, Peter Nero and Cy Coleman
making it work against all odds….
American Hustle–New York Hustle Inc. ’76;
Malaguena–Ferrante & Teicher ’79; From East to West–Les Reed Orchestra ’78;
Dance Disco Heat–Kids Stuff Repertory Co. ’78; Turn the Beat Around–The Perfect
Circle ’78; Abana–Olatunji ’62; Baretta’s Theme–Ray Conniff ’76; Do You Want
the Real Thing?–Studio ’78; Sun Goddess–Henry Mancini ’75; Superstition–Peter
Nero ’75; Which Way Is Up?–Dynamic Sound ’78; Love Is Blue–Myron Floren ’77;
Peter Gunn–Deodato ’76; Pink Panther–Guy Delo & His Orchestra ’78; If I
Were a Bell–Broadway Brass ’76; Non-Stop Disco Dancing ’75 [edit]–James Last;
Dance, Dance, Dance–New 50 Guitars ’78; Positively Positive–the Hustle Factory
’76; El Bimbo–Percy Faith ’75; Supernature–Mirror Image ’79; The Party’s on
Me–Cy Coleman ’76; Bubbling Brown Sugar–Shaw ’76; The Mad Russian–Enoch Light
’77; Get Down Tonight–Gino Dente & the Family ’76; Loves Theme–Frank
Pellico ’76
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