Disco Discharge: Classic Disco

Overview

Known most for its artist-curated Life:Styles and jazz-funk-fusion Pulp Fusion series, the London-based Harmless label goes back to the club music of the late '70s and early '80s, just as it did with the two-volume Jumpin' series back in 1997 -- a time when compilations treating disco as something more than a guilty-pleasure fad were all too rare. Just as Harmless did before, it pulls out classics and secret weapons alike. Disco Discharge: Classic Disco, released at the same time as three other volumes in the series (Disco Ladies, Euro Disco, and Gay Disco & Hi NRG), is a double-disc set that actually features a number of unlikely DJ favorites, like the Manhattan Transfer's "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone" and Johnny Mathis' Gene Page-arranged "Gone, Gone, Gone," over the enduring platinum-sellers. On the other side of the spectrum, there are a few well-known cuts that even the average disco-phobe would know, including Dr. Buzzard's "Cherchez le Femme/Se Si Bon" and Cheryl Lynn's "Got to Be Real." That said, this one's definitely for the more seasoned disco fan -- one familiar with Change's oft-compiled "Paradise" and "The Glow of Love" but not 1984's "It Burns Me Up" (which maxed out in the sixties of Billboard's U.S. R&B chart and didn't even touch the club chart). ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date:	04/19/2024
Label:	Edsel Records
UPC:	0740155738839
Rank:	47933

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Cherchez La Femme/Se Si Bon  - Stony Jr. Browder  - August Darnell  -  Doctor Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
2. Thanks for Loving Me  -  Double Discovery  - Boris Midney
3. Got to Be Real  - David Foster  - Cheryl Lynn  - David Paich  - Marty Paich
4. Do Your Dance  -  Rose Royce  - Dwight Turner  - Norman Whitfield
5. Could Heaven Ever Be Like This  - David Matthews  - Idris Muhammad  - Tony Sarafino
6. Earthquake  - T.G. Conway  - Allan Felder  - Al Wilson
7. Love Magic  - John Davis  - John Davis  -  Monster Orchestra
8. Keep on Dancin'  -  Gary's Gang  - Robert Matichak  - Eric Matthew  - Darryl Payne  - Gary Turnier
9. What a Difference a Day Makes  - Stanley Adams  - Maria Grever  - Esther Phillips  - Creed Taylor
10. Gone Gone Gone  - L. Russell Brown  - Jack Gold  - Lisa Hayward  - Johnny Mathis
11. Counting on Love (One Two Three)  -  Jacques  - Mauro Malavasi  - Jacques Fred Petrus  - Paul Slade

Disc 2

12. Makes You Blind [Re-Edit]  -  Gerry Shephard  -  Glitter Band  - Mike Leander  - Peter Phipps
13. Turn the Music Up!  - Laurel Dann  - Chris Hills  -  Players Association  - Danny Weiss
14. Dancin'  - Zane Grey  -  Hanks  - Len Ron Hanks
15. Can't Live Without Your Love  - Tamiko Jones  - Randy Muller
16. It Burns Me Up  - Timmy Allen  -  Change  - James III Harris  - Terry Lewis
17. Just a Groove  - Glen Adams  - Glen Affair Adams
18. Bama Boogie Woogie  - Cleveland Eaton
19. Livin' Up to Love  -  Companion  - Katherine Meyers  - Boris Midney
20. Lady Bug [Disco Mix]  - Patrick Adams  -  Bumblebee Unlimited  - Greg Carmichael  - Carmen Truss
21. Twilight Zone/Twilight tone  - Jay Graydon  - Bernard Herrmann  -  Manhattan Transfer  - Alan Paul

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Change   Primary Artist
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band   Primary Artist
Double Discovery   Primary Artist
John Davis   Primary Artist
Cleveland Eaton   Primary Artist
Johnny Mathis   Primary Artist
Esther Phillips   Primary Artist
Rose Royce   Primary Artist
Glen Adams Affair   Primary Artist
Al Wilson   Primary Artist
The Manhattan Transfer   Primary Artist
Glitter Band   Primary Artist
Gary's Gang   Primary Artist
Cerrone   Primary Artist
Don Ray   Primary Artist
Bumblebee Unlimited   Primary Artist
The Players Association   Primary Artist
The Hanks   Primary Artist
Zane Grey   Primary Artist
Bombers   Primary Artist
Idris Muhammad   Primary Artist
Companion   Primary Artist
Tamiko Jones   Primary Artist
Idris Muhammed   Primary Artist
The Monster Orchestra   Primary Artist
Constellation Orchestra   Primary Artist
Cheryl Lynn   Primary Artist
Peter Jacques Band   Primary Artist
Grey & Hanks   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Darryl Payne   Producer
Dwight Turner   Composer
A. Paul   Composer
Inge Morath   Photography
Lawrence Russell Brown   Composer
Robert Matichak   Producer
Chris Hills   Composer
Tony Sarafino   Composer
Z. Grey   Composer
Jean Gaumy   Photography
Paul Agar   Design,Layout Design
Gavin Fraser   Project Coordinator
Bruce Gilden   Photography
Maria Grever   Composer
Carmen Truss   Composer
Katherine Meyers   Composer
Lisa Hayward   Composer
Gerry Shephard   Composer
Greg Carmichael   Composer,Producer
Creed Taylor   Producer
Tamiko Jones   Producer
David Paich   Composer,Producer
Mauro Malavasi   Composer
David Matthews   Composer,Producer
Jay Graydon   Composer,Producer
John Davis   Producer,Composer
Cleveland Eaton   Composer
Len Ron Hanks   Composer,Producer
Randy Muller   Composer
Ian Berry   Photography
Mike Leander   Composer,Producer
Stony Browder Jr.   Composer
Marc Cerrone   Composer
Alan Paul   Composer
Jacques Fred Petrus   Producer
Glen Adams   Composer,Producer
Danny Weiss   Producer
Stanley Adams   Composer
August Darnell   Composer
Bernard Herrmann   Composer
James Harris III   Producer
Eric Matthew   Composer,Producer
Marty Paich   Producer
David Foster   Composer
Timmy Allen   Composer
Alan Rankin Jones   Liner Notes
Norman Whitfield   Composer,Producer
Zane Grey   Composer,Producer
Gary Turnier   Composer
Laurel Dann   Composer
T.G. Conway   Composer,Producer
Paul Slade   Composer
Allan Felder   Composer,Producer
Patrick Adams   Composer,Producer
Boris Midney   Composer,Producer
Jack Gold   Producer
Cheryl Lynn   Composer
Peter Phipps   Composer
Terry Lewis   Producer