Soulful Disco Grooves From The Crates

Barry White started working in the music industry in the 1960s, but his commercial success came a decade later as one of the frontrunners of disco, creating Love’s Theme with his Love Unlimited Orchestra and solo songs like Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up, You're The First, The Last, My Everything and Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe. After disco had reached its peak, the “walrus of love” slowly disappeared from the limelight, although he kept on making great records in the 1980s. Because of his distinctive bass-baritone voice, his spoken intros and the use of strings as often as he could, he eventually became a musical romantic icon.

Jamaican born Englishman Carl Douglas is best known for his 1974 disco novelty hit Kung Fu Fighting. Being a soul singer, he did not take the track seriously at first. The studio musicians had quite some fun while recording it, drummer John Richardson (Rubettes) once said in an interview for the Dutch TV-series Single Luck. They thought it would become a b-side, so they could do whatever they wanted. Eventually it became a worldwide success and the single was sold more than 11 million times. I Don’t Care What People Say is from his only success album that was strangely called Kung Fu Fighting And Other Great Love Songs in the United States.

During her heyday as a porn actress in the mid-seventies, Andrea True (Andrea Marie Truden) was hired to appear in a commercial on Jamaica. During her stay there, a political crisis gripped the island, and no one was allowed to leave with any money. Not wanting to lose her pay from the ads, True asked record producer Gregg Diamond to travel to the island and produce a track for her. She would finance it locally, using the money from the commercial. Diamond arrived with More, More, More in his bag, to which True added her vocals. It was later remixed by disco pioneer Tom Moulton. More, More, More ultimately reached #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #5 in the UK in 1976. It was only a minor hit in the Netherlands. True died on November 7, 2011, at a hospital in Kingston, New York. She was 68 years old. The cause was given as heart failure.

Enjoy this new part of Grooves From The Crates!

Tracklist:

Barry White – Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe (1974)
Phoebe Snow – Every Night (1978)
Johnny Mathis ‎– I'm Stone In Love With You (1973)
Manhattans – Hurt (1976)
Brenda Russell – Way Back When (1979)
Carl Douglas – I Don’t Care What People Say (1974)
Carl Carlton – Everlasting Love (1974)
Father’s Children – Hollywood Dreaming (1979)
The Emotions ‎– Turn It Out (1981)
Melba Moore ‎– This Is It (1976)
Andrea True Connection – More More More [A Tom Moulton Mix] (1976)
Philadelphia International All Stars – Let's Clean Up The Ghetto (1977)
GQ – Disco Nights (Rock Freak) (1979)
Linda Carr & The Love Squad ‎– Highwire (1975)
T-Connection ‎– Do What You Wanna Do (1977)