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Loverboy - Get Lucky (1981) (Vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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"Get Lucky" is the second studio album by Canadian hard rock band Loverboy.
It was released on October 7, 1981, by Columbia Records, and reached number 7 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
It featured the singles "Working for the Weekend", "When It's Over", "Lucky Ones", and "Take Me to the Top.”
After making a promising start with their self-titled debut, Loverboy hit the big time in 1981 with Get Lucky.
This canny combination of AOR hooks and new wave production gloss boasts some memorable radio-ready tunes but isn't as solid an album as its success might lead one to believe.
The best tunes on Get Lucky were the songs that became its hit singles: "Working for the Weekend" is a party anthem that blends some gutsy hard-rock guitar riffs with a synthesizer-drenched new wave rhythm arrangement to become a huge hit, while "The Lucky Ones" layers clever lyrics about the jealousy that success inspires in others over a song that mixes pomp rock grandeur with a punchy AOR arrangement full of gutsy yet slick guitar riffs.
Loverboy got additional airplay with "When It's Over," a moody power ballad that boasts a show-stoppingly emotional vocal performance from Mike Reno, and "Take Me to the Top," a sleek mid-tempo piece built on a hypnotic synthesizer arrangement.
The rest of Get Lucky isn't as impressive as these hits because it relies on filler to pad the album out: "Gangs in the Street" is an overwrought song about street tensions whose lyrics are melodramatic to the point of being unintentionally funny, and "Emotional" is a sloppy bar band jam with annoyingly sexist lyrics and an awful vocal from Paul Dean.
Due to this overabundance of less than stellar tracks, Get Lucky fails to be as consistent a listen as Loverboy or Keep It Up, but offers enough solid tracks to please the group's fans and AOR fanatics.


Side one
1.  Working for the Weekend - 3:42
2.  When It’s Over - 5:08
3.  Jump - 3:41
4.  Gangs in the Street - 4:35
5.  Emotional - 4:55

Side two
1.  Lucky Ones - 3:51
2.  It’s Your Life - 4:05
3.  Watch Out - 4:02
4.  Take Me to the Top - 6:13

Loverboy

  • Mike Reno – lead vocals
  • Paul Dean – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocal on “Emotional”
  • Doug Johnson – keyboards
  • Scott Smith – bass
  • Matt Frenette – drums 

Additional musicians
  • Nancy Nash – backing vocals on “When It’s Over”
 
Production
  • Bruce Fairbairn – producer
  • Keith Stein – engineer, recording
  • Rob Porter – engineer, recording
  • John Berg – cover design
  • Bob Rock – mixing, engineer
  • Mike Fraser – mixing, engineer
  • George Marino – mastering
  • David Kennedy – photography

Notes
Release: 1981
Format:  LP, vinyl
Genre:  Arena Rock, Hard rock
Label:  CBS
Catalog#  CBS 85402

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)
Cover:  Goed (Excellent)

Prijs: €10,00

Barry Manilow - If I Should Love Again (1981) (Vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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"If I Should Love Again" is the eighth studio album released by singer and songwriter Barry Manilow. 
The album was recorded at United Western Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California. 
The album was released in 1981, and it was certified gold.
Manilow refers to it as "The most romantic album that I ever made", and remarks "I was so caught up in romance that I actually wrote music and lyrics to the title song while playing the piano facing the ocean, in a rented house on the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey."
Though this came near the end of his pop-chart run, If I Should Love Again is classic Barry Manilow and yielded three Top 40 hits ("The Old Songs," which went to number 15; "Somewhere Down the Road," which hit number 21; and the bright "Let's Hang On," which hit number 32). 
Though those singles aren't often considered classics in his oeuvre, they and most of this album are shamelessly well-crafted adult contemporary ("Break Down the Door" and "I Haven't Changed the Room" being inoffensive exceptions). 
"No Other Love" is a swoony, romantic ballad (with strong lyrics like "There were no violins, there were no soft guitars, time comes and goes like music in a play") that plays out exactly as it should, so that you can't imagine there being another way to produce it. 
Turning "Somewhere Down the Road" from a melancholy piano ballad to an anthem shows that Manilow's in fine form. 
The song becomes so inspirational you almost want to salute the flag. 
It may not be the biggest album of his career, but If I Should Love Again showcases Manilow's greatest skill: making heartbreak sound hopeful.


Side one
1.  The Old Songs - 4:43
2.  Let’s Hang On - 3:12
3.  If I Should Love Again - 5:33
4.  Don’t Fall in Love with Me - 3:39
5.  Break Down the Door - 3:04
 
Side two
1.  Somewhere Down the Road - 4:00
2.  No Other Love - 4:36
3.  Fools Get Lucky - 4:11
4.  I Haven’t Changed the Room - 2:16
5.  Let’s Take All Night (to Say Goodbye) - 3:36


Personnel
  • Barry Manilow – vocals, acoustic piano, rhythm track arrangements, backing vocals, arrangements, orchestrations
  • Robert Marullo – synthesizers, Fender Rhodes, keyboards
  • Victor Vanacore – keyboards, acoustic piano, arrangements, horn and string orchestrations, orchestrations
  • Bill Mays – keyboards
  • John Pondel – guitars
  • Paul Jackson Jr. – guitars
  • Dean Parks – guitars
  • Mitch Holder – guitars
  • Carl Sealove – bass
  • Will Lee – bass
  • Bud Harner – drums
  • Ed Greene – drums
  • Robert Forte – percussion
  • Alan Estes – percussion
  • Bill Page – French horn, flute
  • Tom Scott – sax solo, saxophone
  • Artie Butler – horn and string orchestrations
  • Jimmie Haskell – horn and string orchestrations
  • Shaun Harris – contractor
  • Sid Sharp – concertmaster
  • Bill Champlin – backing vocals
  • Tom Kelly – backing vocals
  • Richard Page – backing vocals
 
Production
  • Barry Manilow – producer
  • Michael DeLugg – associate producer, engineer
  • Gary Boatner – assistant engineer
  • Ira Seigel – assistant engineer
  • Ken Perry – mastering at Capitol Mastering (Hollywood, California)
  • Roger Wall – personal assistant
  • Donn Davenport – art direction
  • Neal Pozner – design
  • Linda Fennimore – illustration
 
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Notes
Release: 1981
Format: Vinyl, Lp
Genre:  Pop, Easy Listening
Label:  Arista
Catalog#  204050

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)
Cover:  Goed (Excellent)

Prijs: €10,00

Luisa Fernandez - Spanish Dancer (1979) (Vinyl Lp) - €10,00

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Luisa Fernández (born 14 August 1961) is a Spanish-born, Mexico-based pop singer. 
She is perhaps best known for her hit single, "Lay Love on You" from 1978.
She was born in Vigo, Spain, but moved to México as a child.
She later married singer/producer Peter Kent, who was also popular during the disco era.
Singer Luisa Fernandez was discovered in 1977 during a talent contest at a German discotheque.
She released a debut album that clearly capitalized on the prevailing disco craze.
The album, titled *Discodarling*, yielded two hits in the Netherlands. 
"Lay Love On You" reached number three on the charts, but its follow-up, "Give Love A Second Chance," peaked at number seventeen.
Fernandez went on to record a second disco album titled *Spanish Dancer*, but when the disco craze faded, her brief career seemed doomed.
Musical Style: The record features upbeat, infectious disco grooves, soaring vocals, and juicy hooks backed by lush strings, horns, and rhythm arrangements.
Vibe: Reviewers note that it captures the classic late-1970s European disco era alongside contemporaries like Donna Summer and Boney M, balancing high-energy dance numbers with softer, emotional melodic tracks.
She disappeared from the public eye for several years, but new material emerged in 1987.
Together with producer and singer Peter Kent, she recorded the single "Solo Por Ti," which reached number one in Austria.
She remained popular there—alongside Kent, with whom she also shared a personal connection—and scored several more top-20 hits in the years that followed.


Side one
1.  Spanish Dancer - 6:00
2.  Sweet Life’s Illusions - 4:12
3.  Light Up Life - 4:04
4.  Funky Dancer - 4:23

Side two
1.  Gotta Keep On Dancin’ - 3:24
2.  Back In The City - 4:05
3.  Children Of The World Unite - 3:35
4.  We All Love You Superman - 3:50
5.  New York Dance - 3:26

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Credits

Notes
Release: 1979
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Disco
Label:  WEA
Catalog#  WEA 58 044

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)
Cover:  Goed (Excellent)

Prijs: €10,00

Lou Gramm - Ready Or Not (1987) (Vinyl Lp) - €7,00

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Ready or Not is the solo debut studio album by American rock singer-songwriter Lou Gramm, released on January 29, 1987, through Atlantic.
Eight of the ten songs, which comprise Ready or Not, were written by Gramm in partnership with former Black Sheep bandmate Bruce Turgon.
The album was recorded in November 1986 at Bear Tracks Recording in Suffern, New York and The Hit Factory Recording in New York City.
It was produced by Gramm and Pat Moran, who is known as an engineer on recordings by such performers as Rush and Robert Plant.
All tracks are written by Lou Gramm and Bruce Turgon, except "She's Got to Know" and "Lover Come Back" written by Gramm.
It came at a precarious time for Foreigner, despite coming off the success of 1985's Agent Provocateur and the band's first number one single, "I Want to Know What Love Is." 
Ready or Not is rich with melody and snap, but its sound does vary just enough from Foreigner that Gramm can't really be accused of stealing from himself. 
The production by Gramm and Pat Moran definitely has that bright 1980s style. 
Gramm's main sidemen include guitarist Nils Lofgren, keyboardist Philip Ashley, bassist/guitarist/keyboardist Bruce Turgon, and drummer Ben Gramm. 
Side one absolutely sizzles. "Ready or Not" is a strong, hard-rocking leadoff track and it was a minor hit single. 
The melodic, lyrical, and vocal hooks on "Heartache" are massive and Lofgren's guitar solo adds an edgy bite. 
The Top Five hit "Midnight Blue" is a terrific pop/rock song; despite its hit status, it's one of the decade's truly underappreciated singles. Lofgren's rolling, effective guitar riffing and a captivating chorus make "Time" one of the best cuts. 
Foreigner helped create and master the rock power ballad, and Gramm utilizes that gift on the dark, ethereal "If I Don't Have You." 
Side two is generally a letdown considering the high quality of the first half. Fortunately, there are two exceptions, "Arrow Thru Your Heart" and "Until I Make You Mine." 
The commercial and artistic success of Ready or Not was a turning point for Gramm. 
Foreigner issued the lackluster Inside Information late in 1987, and Gramm followed that troubled project with a second moderately successful solo album, Long Hard Look, in 1989 and then left the band for a few years before returning.


Side one
1.  Ready Or Not - 3:25
2.  Heartache - 4:26
3.  Midnight Blue - 3:45
4.  Time - 3:23
5.  If I Don’t Have You - 4:38

Side two
1.  She’s Got To Know - 3:59
2.  Arrow Thru Your Heart - 3:46
3.  Until I Make You Mine - 3:29
4.  Chain Of Love - 3:58
5.  Lover Come Back - 5:20

Personnel

  • Lou Gramm – vocals, percussion
  • Philip Ashley – keyboards, programming
  • Bruce Turgon – bass guitar, rhythm guitar (track 2), lead guitar (track 10)
  • Nils Lofgren – lead guitar
  • Ben Gramm – drums
 
Additional musicians
  • Richard Grammatico – lead guitar (on “If I Don’t Have You”), additional guitar (on “Time”)
  • Don Mancuso – additional guitar (on “Chain of Love”)
  • Eddie Martinez – additional guitar (tracks 1, 2 and “Chain of Love”)
  • Stanley Sheldon – bass guitar (track 2 and “If I Don’t Have You”)
  • Mark Rivera – soprano saxophone (track 10), tenor saxophone, backing vocals
  • Crispin Cioe – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • Ben Grammatico Sr. – lead trumpet
  • Ben Grammatico Jr. – trumpet
  • Sherryl Marshall – backing vocals
  • Cookie Watkins – backing vocals
 
Production
  • Lou Gramm – producer
  • Pat Moran – producer, engineer
  • Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY).
  • Timothy White – cover photography
  • Bob Defrin – art direction, design

Notes
Release: 1987
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Rock
Label:  Atlantic
Catalog#  781728-1

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)
Cover:  Lichte Gebruikerssporen (VG)

Prijs: €7,00

The Hues Corporation - I Caught Your Act (1977) (Vinyl Lp) – €10,00

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Although the Hues Corporation helped launch disco's earliest strivings with the 1973 smash "Don't Rock the Boat," by the time the end of the decade rolled around, the band was merely playing catch-up with the rest of the pack. 
The band was fully locked into the soft disco sound that flooded the market, and it was a sacrifice. 
By surrendering so completely to what had become a marketable sound, the band relinquished the excellent harmonies and arrangements of their earlier material. 
That change stripped the band of much of their strength. 
This is extremely evident across I Caught Your Act. 
The songs are well paced and make all the right noises, but pale in comparison not only to their peers on the scene, but also to the band's own catalog. That said, however, there are some nuggets here as well. 
The melancholy "I Can't Put My Finger on It" pulls a sweet melody out of its bag, while the title track has energy enough to stand tall on its own. 
"Ali Baba's Got the Blues" must be one of the most underestimated and understated songs in the history of popular music. An ordinary album track on a less known album.
It would, in fact, bring the band back into the charts -- barely -- scraping into the R&B charts at number 61 in May 1977. 
This is not a great album; it's not even necessarily a good album. 
And certainly in light of the cohesion this band had at the beginning of the decade, its flaws are even more pronounced. 
The album is a minor release recommended mostly for dedicated soul completists. It trades the group's distinct early identity for commercial conformity, resulting in a standard, middle-of-the-road 1970s pop record.


Side one
1.  Telegram Of Love - 3:14
2.  Deep Down - 3:35
3.  I Can’t Put My Finger On It - 3:15
4.  What You Need Is Lovin’ - 3:30
5.  Dancing Together Again - 3:24

Side two
1.  I Caught Your Act - 3:34
2.  Natural Find - 4:03
3.  I Love You A Lot - 3:32
4.  Ali Baba’s Got The Blues - 3:01
5.  You Brought The World To My Door - 3:35

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Credits

Recorded at RCA’s Music Center Of The World, Hollywood, California.
Manufactured and Distributed in Canada by RCA Limited – Record Division.
(C) 1976, RCA Records (P) 1977 RCA Records


Notes
Release:  1977
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Soul, Funk, Disco
Label:  Warner Bros.
Catalog#  BS 3043

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)
Cover:  Goed (Excellent)

Prijs: €10,00

Udo Jürgens ‎- Udo Live - Meine Lieder Sind Wie Hände (1981) - 2Lp

Udo Live – Meine Lieder sind wie Hände ist ein Doppel-Live album von Udo Jürgens aus dem Jahr 1981. 
Es fängt die stimmungsvolle Konzertatmosphäre des Sängers und Entertainers ein. 
Hörer bewerten das Album (u. a. auf AllMusic) als starkes, authentisches Live-Dokument seiner musikalischen Blütezeit
Eine Joachim-Heider-Produktion im Auftrag der Udo Jürgens Music. Aufgenommen am 12./13.9.1980 in der Sporthalle Köln. Originalaufnahmen der gleichnamigen ZDF-Show.

Stimmung: Udo Jürgens zeigt sich hier alsnahbarer, emotionaler Liedermacher und grandioser Live-Interpret.
Musikalität: Die Arrangements verbinden große Chansons mit ruhigen, nachdenklichen Momenten und Publikumsnähe.
Wertung: Fans und Sammler (vgl. Diskussionen auf Discogs) schätzen die Pressung als analoges Gold der späten 70er/frühen 80er-Jahre-Live-Ära von Jürgens.



Side one
1.  Intro: Wort - 0:56
2.  Meine Lieder Sind Wie Hände - 3:16
3.  Alles Was Ich Bin - 1:51
4.  Wir Singen Für Dich - 2:36
5.  Ich Schrieb Nie Ein Lied Für Karin - 4:07
6.  Tausend Jahre Sind Ein Tag - 7:46

Side two
1.  Soviel Sprachen Hat Die Erde - 3:16
2.  Ist Das Nichts - 4:41
3.  Jamaica Mama - 3:08
4.  Du Allein - 3:48
5.  Es Darf Gelacht Werden - 4:40

Side three
1.  Wort - 8:05
2.  Disco-Stress - 4:38
3.  Medley - 6:19
    (a) Was Wirklich Zählt Auf Dieser Welt
    (b) 17 Jahr, Blondes Haar
    (c) Und Immer Wieder Geht Die Sonne Auf
    (d) Der Teufel Hat Den Schnaps Gemacht
4.  Paris – Einfach So Nur Zum Spaß - 3:55

Side four
1.  Medley - 5:34
     (a) Ich Weiß, Was Ich Will
     (b) Merci Chérie
2.   Nur Ein Lächeln - 6:18
3.   Alles Im Griff (Auf Dem Sinkenden Schiff) - 3:30
4.   Was Wär‘ Diese Welt Ohne Lieder - 3:07


Notes
Released: 1981
Format:  2 × Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:  Germany
Genre:  Duitstalig, Schlager
Label:  Ariola ‎
Catalog#  301.417

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent) 2LP
Cover:  Linksboven gebruikerssporen (VG)  Gatefold

Prijs: €12.00

Tom Kimmel - 5 To 1 (1987) (Vinyl LP) - €10,00

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Tom Kimmel (born Thomas Eugene Hobbs II in 1953) is an American singer-songwriter and poet.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Kimmel grew up largely in small towns in south Alabama. He attended public schools and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1975.
Kimmel is known as a songwriter, and his compositions have been recorded by many popular artists, including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Linda Ronstadt, Joe Cocker and Randy Travis. 
His songs have also been featured in television series including Miami Vice, Touched by an Angel and Dawson's Creek — and in films including Twins, Runaway Bride and Serendipity.
"That's Freedom", the lead track on his "5 to 1" album, was co-written by Kimmel and reached #64 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1987 
The song was later covered by Australian singer John Farnham, reaching #6 in the Australian charts in late 1990 and going Gold there, as well as charting well in parts of Europe.
This is such a terrific album - there really isn't a bad song on this record.  
Then again, there are several songs on this album that simply were overlooked. 
Since Tom was an unknown, Polygram just didn't seem to support this record. Songs like "Shake" just ooze airplay. 
A really well written (if not a tad cheesy) ballad called "A to Z" which - especially in 1987, was as good a ballad as anything else out there at the time and yet another track that begs for airplay. 
It continues - "Tryin' To Dance' was a single and did indeed chart on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts for a bit, but it was another lost song. 
Overall, a really strong album that got lost in the shuffle in 1987.


Side one
1.  That’s Freedom - 4:15
2.  Shake - 4:15
3.  Tryin’ To Dance - 3:16
4.  A To Z - 4:19
5.  True Love - 4:50

Side two
1.  Heroes - 4:26
2.  On The Defensive - 3:56
3.  Violet Eyes - 3:35
4.  No Tech - 2:32
5.  5 To 1 - 6:13


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Credits

Notes
Release:  1987
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Rock
Label:  Mercury Records
Catalog#  832248-1

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)
Cover:  Goed (Excellent)

Prijs: €10,00

Los Lobos - … And A Time To Dance [EP] (1984) (Vinyl EP) – €10,00

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...And a Time to Dance is a 1983 EP by Los Lobos. It was co-produced by T-Bone Burnett and Steve Berlin (not yet a full-time member of the band) and was the band's first release on Slash Records. 
The EP brought the band its first wide acclaim. It was voted best EP of the year in the Village Voice's influential Pazz & Jop critics poll. 
Critic Robert Christgau gave the record an "A−" in his Consumer Guide, calling it "good old rock and roll East L.A. style." 
Trouser Press raved about "a spicy romp (in two languages) back and forth across musical borders few can traverse with such ease," while Rolling Stone called it "an infectious dance record that deserves to be heard by rock fans."
1983's ...And a Time to Dance wasn't Los Lobos' first record, but if you lived outside of East Los Angeles, chances are excellent that you'd never crossed paths with a copy of their self-released debut album (Del Este de Los Angeles (Just Another Band from East L.A.)) before this EP hit the racks. At only seven songs, ...And a Time to Dance didn't give the group the space to present more than a quick once-over of their eclectic musical range, but it did make it clear that this was a really great band, with the kind of chops, intelligence, and maturity that can come from a decade of woodshedding. And on ...And a Time to Dance, not only was the band having a great time playing "spot the genre" with their audience, they were crossbreeding styles and coming up with great sounds all their own: the straight-up rock & roll of "Let's Say Goodnight" is fortified with a strong dose of Tex-Mex fire thanks to David Hidalgo's accordion, the bluesy swing of "Walking Song" gets a spring in its step from a fleet-fingered jazz guitar line, and the two traditional numbers in Spanish both burn with the high spirits and hot tempos of a potent rock & roll band. And it's hard not to love a song like "How Much Can I Do?," in which a guy tries to prove his love to his wife by promising to lay off cheap wine and nights out at the nudie bar. 
If ...And a Time to Dance didn't quite make clear Los Lobos were one of America's truly great bands, it did make clear they were a lot of fun and a force to be reckoned with, and that's quite enough of a message to pass along in seven songs.
The track "Anselma" won the first Grammy Award for Best Mexican-American Performance.


Side one
1. Let’s Say Goodnight - 2:32
2. Walking Song - 2:38
3. Anselma - 3:08

Side two
1. Come On Let’s Go - 2:11
2. How Much Can I Do - 2:21
3. Why Do You Do - 2:38
4. Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio - 2:38


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Credits

Notes
Release:  1984
Pressed:  Germany
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Label:  Pläne Records
Catalog#  88379

Vinyl:  Goed (Excellent)
Cover:  Goed (Excellent)

Prijs: €10,00

Biddu Orchestra - Rain Forest (1976) (vinyl Lp) - €5,00

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Biddu Appaiah (born 8 February 1945), known mononymously as Biddu, is an Indian-British singer-songwriter, composer, and music producer who composed and produced many worldwide hit records during a career spanning five decades.
Considered one of the pioneers of disco, Euro disco, and Indian pop, he has sold millions of records worldwide, and has received an Ivor Novello award for his work.
He has been ranked at number 34 on NME’s “The 50 Greatest Producers Ever” list.
In 1976, Biddu produced his own “Rain Forest” LP, credited to Biddu & His Orchestra.
This album "Rain Forest" earned him four Ivor Novello Awards, including the “Songwriter of the Year” award.
Combining swishy disco instrumentals with the composer’s own Eastern influences, the album proved to be another foray into danceable pop as the title track comes on strong, leaving the rest of the set to unfurl like so many leaves.
And it did indeed score Biddu his second U.K. hit single — just inching into the Top 40 in April, with the catchy “Chic-Chica-Chic-Chica-Chic” hovering just behind. With the quiet “Laura,” “Wings of Love,” and “Trippin’ on a Soul Cloud” rounding things out, alongside his cover of the My Fair Lady staple “I Could Have Danced All Night,” Biddu may not have recaptured his “Summer of ’42” glory, but he surely sounded like he had fun trying.
Although the composer’s style can be hard to handle, and while his songs sometimes stumble, his ideas sowed the seeds that grew into the (much) later trend of Indian influenced dance music.
Easier on the palate for fans than for band-wagoneering aficionados, Rain Forest nevertheless takes its rightful place in the often eccentric British disco scene.


Side one
  1. Rain Forest - 4:40
  2. Chic-Chica-Chic-Chica-Chic - 3:05
  3. Jump For Joy - 3:11
  4. Laura - 4:45
  5. Soft And Sexy - 3:50
Side two
  1. I Could Have Danced All Night - 3:40
  2. Trippin On A Soul Cloud - 4:00
  3. Wings Of Love (Aria) - 4:26
  4. Rock Me With Your Love - 3:48
 
Recorded at Nova Studios in London 1976

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 Credits

Notes
Release: 1976
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Disco
Label:  Epic
Catalog#  EPC 81168

Vinyl:  Goed  (Excellent)
Cover:  Gebruikerssporen (VG)

Prijs: €5,00

Peter Allen - Taught By Experts (1976) (Vinyl Lp) - €7,00

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“Taught by Experts” is the fourth studio album by Peter Allen, released in 1976.
It spawned the hit “I Go to Rio”. The album featured such musicians as Thom Rotella, Jerome Richardson, Lesley Gore and Dusty Springfield.
Sounding like a cross between Neil Sedaka and Billy Joel, without the Top 40 appeal of those voices, Peter Allen certainly seemed like a man who was much too Broadway for the pop charts he helped Olivia Newton-John, Melissa Manchester, and Christopher Cross climb.
His version of “The More I See You” is a safe remake, but a Chris Montez cover of the tune from the 1945 Betty Grable film has the charm.
This version did get adult contemporary airplay in 1976, and features Herb Alpert on trumpet, Jim Gordon on drums, Carole King’s ex-husband, Charles Larkey, on bass, Bostonian Alan Estes on percussion, and even labelmate Lesley Gore on backing vocals.
Bobby Rozario’s orchestration is lovely, but what needed to happen here was to have Lesley Gore duet with the singer.
Peter Allen was just too overbearing for a world where even Barry Manilow at his most ostentatious could wink and get away with it.
The other problem with this album is the production by Brooks Arthur, the same dilemma Lesley Gore’s Love Me by Name album suffered at the hands of Quincy Jones — a term producer Jimmy Miller called overproduction.
Mr. Miller often said there is no right or wrong in production, but there was half a wink when he said that. At the top of his game he may have brought Peter Allen’s vocals down a bit in the mix of “Harbour” and let the music swell.
A beautiful composition by the singer, his vocals are so far out in the mix that the elegance is totally drowned out.
Where Ronnie Milsap would get away with being loud on a song like “Harbour” is where Allen ventures — and succeeds — on the title track, “Taught by Experts.”
This is blues/schmaltz/pop/cabaret, and it is the best track on the record with its fatalist view on love: “better you get hurt than me.”
It’s a professor of love teaching love that is tough. The late Peter Allen had an army of friends to help him: Carole Bayer Sager co-wrote four of the six songs on side one, Adrienne Anderson another, while the vocalist composed most of side two.
“Quiet Please, There’s a Lady on Stage” is, no doubt, for his ex-mother-in-law, Judy Garland. It’s the singer with just his piano for the first couple of verses, and it is also a highlight, but the voice — again — is so far out in the mix that the excellent musicianship doesn’t have the opportunity to buoy the singer/songwriter.
Sure, he’s got great pipes, and sure, these are a bunch of pros executing the music with absolute precision.
What was needed was a bit more soul and a lot more breathing room for the parts.
Sometimes artists on this level get too sure of themselves, and some kind of perspective seems lost during the recording of Taught by Experts.
The album includes Peter Allen’s staple, “I Go to Rio,” and as a testament to his life in the business.


Side one
1.  Puttin’ Out Roots – 3:32
2.  She Loves To Hear The Music – 3:16
3.  Back Doors Crying – 4:46
4.  I Go To Rio – 3:17
5.  Planes – 3:05
6.  Quiet Please, There’s A Lady On Stage – 5:08

Side two
1.  This Time Around – 3:15
2.  The More I See You – 3:30
3.  Harbour – 3:36
4.  (I’ve Been) Taught By Experts – 3:12
5.  Six-Thirty Sunday Morning/New York, I Don’t Know About You – 5:01

Personnel

Credits


Notes
Release:  1976
Format:  LP, Vintl
Genre:  Easy Listening, Disco
Label:  A&M Records
Catalog#  AMLH 64584

Vinyl:  Goed  (Excellent)
Cover:  Lichte Gebruikerssporen (VG)

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