Disco Gold (2005)

Product Summary UPC: 00602498274347 Release Date: 6/14/2005 Buy.com Sku: 63981548 Item#: M2DEDV Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston ~ Various Artists 2. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel - Tavares ~ Various Artists 3. T.S.O.P. (The Sound Of Philadelphia) - MFSB/The Three Degrees ~ Various Artists 4. Turn The Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson ~ Various Artists 5. Brazil - The Ritchie Family ~ Various Artists 6. Disco Inferno - The Trammps ~ Various Artists 7. Got To Have Loving - Don Ray ~ Various Artists 8. Best of My Love - The Emotions ~ Various Artists 9. We Are Family - Sister Sledge ~ Various Artists 10. If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman ~ Various Artists 11. Tell Me What You Want - Jimmy Ruffin (Tom Moulton mix, previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists 12. Love Machine - The Miracles ~ Various Artists 13. Heaven Must Have Sent You - Bonnie Pointer (12" version) ~ Various Artists 14. Down To Love Town - The Originals (12" version) ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor ~ Various Artists 2. Car Wash - Rose Royce ~ Various Artists 3. Y.M.C.A. - Village People ~ Various Artists 4. I Need A Man - Grace Jones ~ Various Artists 5. I Feel Love - Donna Summer ~ Various Artists 6. Funkytown - Lipps, Inc. ~ Various Artists 7. Stomp! - The Brothers Johnson ~ Various Artists 8. I Love The Nightlife (Disco Round) - Alicia Bridges ~ Various Artists 9. More, More, More - Andrea True Connection ~ Various Artists 10. Ladies Night - Kool & The Gang ~ Various Artists 11. Upside Down - Diana Ross ~ Various Artists 12. Theme From Which Way Is Up - Stargard ~ Various Artists 13. Got To Give It Up - Marvin Gaye ~ Various Artists 14. Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb ~ Various Artists 15. H.A.P.P.Y. Radio - Edwin Starr (12" version) ~ Various Artists 16. Last Dance - Donna Summer ~ Various Artists (P) 2005 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. (C) 2005 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Audio Mixers: Tom Moulton; Juergen Koppers. Liner Note Author: Brian Chin. Photographers: Jim McCrary; Douglas Kirkland; Michael Putland; Harry Langdon; Glenn A. Baker; Jill Furmanovsky. Arrangers: Freddie Perren; Bernard Edwards; Nile Rodgers; Bobby Martin ; Art Wright; Thor Baldursson. The Hip-O label released The Disco Box back in 1999, a four-disc set that threw in a few too many minor surprises to be considered a definitive summary of disco. Six years later, the same label released Disco Gold -- a two-disc set that would sufficiently complement The Disco Box if it didn't contain so many of the same selections. (Hip-O pulled the same exact stunt with 1999's The Funk Box and 2005's Funk Gold.) Regardless, Disco Gold is packaged thoughtfully, unlike so many other cut-rate disco compilations that have flooded the market over the years. It's a little annoying that several inclusions -- "I Will Survive," "Y.M.C.A." "Disco Inferno," "Turn the Beat Around," "Don't Leave Me This Way" -- have already appeared on dozens upon dozens of compilations (and sometimes near a hundred), but Stargard's "Theme from Which Way Is Up," Edwin Starr's "H.A.P.P.Y. Radio," and Jimmy Ruffin's "Tell Me What You Want" (present in a previously unreleased mix from disco pioneer Tom Moulton) help make the compilation somewhat unique. Disco Gold might not be as exhaustive or as full of surprises as you might hope, but it should either plug some gaps (if you're a collector) or make you a convert (if you're just getting into this stuff). ~ Andy Kellman Producer: Hal Davis; Freddie Perren; Warren Schatz; Jacques Morali; Ronnie Baker; Norman Harris; Earl Young; Don Ray; Maurice White; Bernard Edwards; Nile Rodgers; Jeffrey Bowen; Dino Fekaris; Norman Whitfield; Tom Moulton; Giorgio Moroder; Quincy Jones; Steve Buck Engineer: Juergen Koppers   Technical Info Release Date : 06/14/2005 Original Release Date : 2005 Catalog ID : 000413702 Label : Hip-O Records Number of Discs : 2 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00602498274347    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray