The Disco Box (1999) (Jackson 5/Village People/Chic )

Product Summary Label: Wea/rhino UPC: 00081227559526 Release Date: 2/16/1999 Buy.com Sku: 60172842 Item#: MLKSFR Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Love's Theme - Love Unlimited Orchestra ~ Various Artists 2. Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5 ~ Various Artists 3. Rock The Boat - The Hues Corporation ~ Various Artists 4. Honeybee - Gloria Gaynor ~ Various Artists 5. Doctor's Orders - Carol Douglas ~ Various Artists 6. Get Dancin' - Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes/Sir Monti Rock III ~ Various Artists 7. Shame, Shame, Shame - Shirley & Company ~ Various Artists 8. Never Can Say Goodbye - Gloria Gaynor ~ Various Artists 9. Get Down Tonight - KC & The Sunshine Band ~ Various Artists 10. Hustle, The - Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony ~ Various Artists 11. It Only Takes A Minute - Tavares ~ Various Artists 12. Fly, Robin, Fly - Silver Convention ~ Various Artists 13. I'm On Fire - 5,000 Volts ~ Various Artists 14. Love Machine (Pt. 1) - The Miracles ~ Various Artists 15. You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate ~ Various Artists 16. Boogie Fever - The Sylvers ~ Various Artists 17. That's The Way (I Like It) - KC & The Sunshine Band ~ Various Artists 18. More, More, More (Part I) - Andrea True Connection ~ Various Artists 19. Young Hearts Run Free - Candi Staton ~ Various Artists 20. Turn The Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Shake Your Booty, (Shake, Shake, Shake) - KC & The Sunshine Band ~ Various Artists 2. Get Up And Boogie - Silver Convention ~ Various Artists 3. Fifth Of Beethoven, A - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band ~ Various Artists 4. Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry ~ Various Artists 5. Car Wash - Rose Royce ~ Various Artists 6. Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston ~ Various Artists 7. Best Disco In Town, The - The Ritchie Family ~ Various Artists 8. Disco Inferno - The Trammps ~ Various Artists 9. Boogie Nights - Heatwave ~ Various Artists 10. I Feel Love - Donna Summer ~ Various Artists 11. Keep It Comin' Love - KC & The Sunshine Band ~ Various Artists 12. Dance With Me - Peter Brown/Betty Wright ~ Various Artists 13. Everybody Dance - Chic ~ Various Artists 14. Shame - Evelyn "Champagne" King ~ Various Artists 15. Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste Of Honey ~ Various Artists 16. Get Off - Foxy ~ Various Artists 17. I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round) - Alicia Bridges ~ Various Artists 18. In The Bush - Musique ~ Various Artists 19. Hot Shot - Karen Young ~ Various Artists 20. Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn ~ Various Artists Disc 3 Song Title Sample 1. Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb ~ Various Artists 2. Y.M.C.A. - Village People ~ Various Artists 3. Le Freak - Chic ~ Various Artists 4. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor ~ Various Artists 5. Livin' It Up (Friday Night) - Bell & James ~ Various Artists 6. Instant Replay - Dan Hartman ~ Various Artists 7. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester ~ Various Artists 8. I Want Your Love - Chic ~ Various Artists 9. Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart ~ Various Artists 10. Disco Nights (Rock Freak) - G.Q. ~ Various Artists 11. Love And Desire (Part 1) - Arpeggio ~ Various Artists 12. He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge ~ Various Artists 13. Ain't No Stoppin Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead ~ Various Artists 14. Ring My Bell - Anita Ward ~ Various Artists 15. Bad Girls - Donna Summer ~ Various Artists 16. Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez ~ Various Artists 17. Good Times - Chic ~ Various Artists 18. Don't You Want My Love - Debbie Jacobs ~ Various Artists 19. H.A.P.P.Y. Radio - Edwin Starr ~ Various Artists 20. I Shoulda Loved Ya - Narada Michael Walden ~ Various Artists 21. We Are Family - Sister Sledge ~ Various Artists Disc 4 Song Title Sample 1. Heart Of Glass - Blondie ~ Various Artists 2. Lost In Music - Sister Sledge ~ Various Artists 3. I'm Caught Up (In A One Night Love Affair) - Inner Life ~ Various Artists 4. Got To Love Somebody - Sister Sledge ~ Various Artists 5. Funkytown - Lipps, Inc. ~ Various Artists 6. Celebration - Kool & The Gang ~ Various Artists 7. Lover's Holiday, A - Change ~ Various Artists 8. I Like What You're Doing To Me - Young & Company ~ Various Artists 9. Glow Of Love, The - Change ~ Various Artists 10. Cruisin' The Streets - The Boystown Gang ~ Various Artists 11. On The Beat - The B.B. & Q. Band ~ Various Artists 12. Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen ~ Various Artists 13. Get Down On It - Kool & The Gang ~ Various Artists 14. It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls ~ Various Artists 15. Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - In Deep ~ Various Artists 16. I.O.U. - Freeez ~ Various Artists 17. Give It Up - KC ~ Various Artists 18. Change Of Heart - Change ~ Various Artists 19. Fresh - Kool & The Gang ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info THE DISCO BOX includes a 60-page book featuring an essay by Brian Chin, liner notes by Vince Aletti, essential album discography by Michael Freedberg, and contributing remarks by various disco era DJs. Compilation producers: David McLees, Brian Chin. Digitally remastered by Bill Inglot, Ken Perry, Stewart Whitmore, Geoff Sykes. Audio Remasterers: Ken Perry; Stewart Whitmore; Bill Inglot. Liner Note Authors: Michael Freedberg; Barry Walters; Brian Chin. Arrangers: Gene Page; Tony Eyers; Greg Diamond; Harold Faltermeyer; Art Wright; Jack Faith; Andy Kahn; Mauro Malavasi; Michael Omartian; Norman Harris; Patrick Adams; Paul Sabu; Arthur Wright; Simon Soussan; Thor Baldursson; Van McCoy; Wade Marcus; Walter Murphy; Warren Schatz; Barry White; Terry Lewis; Bob Esty; Greg Mathieson; Bruce Miller. Rhino's four-CD Disco Box is the most impressive disco retrospective yet assembled, featuring 80 tracks and exhaustive liner notes which chronicle the music's history, artists, innovations, and subsequent influence. Like many of the best Rhino anthologies of this sort, The Disco Box is a mixture of acknowledged classics and neglected yet surprisingly high-quality lesser-knowns (although the emphasis here is more on the former). The result is an enormously infectious, entertaining package that makes the best case yet for the importance and creative viability of disco in its heyday. There are a couple of minor flaws -- most disco fans will be able to name a few absent favorites (none of the Bee Gees' historically crucial Saturday Night Fever tracks were available for licensing, for example), and others may bemoan the lack of extended 12" club versions, which simply wouldn't fit into a compilation of this scope. At any rate, The Disco Box is still as definitive and well-done an overview as we're ever likely to see, and even at four CDs, it's the perfect introduction. ~ Steve Huey The golden age of '70s disco was the last period of strictly AM radio-driven pop hits. (The MTV '80s hit parade led by Michael Jackson, Madonna and ZZ Top is another story altogether.) Disco records, therefore, had to sound fabulous on the air and they did, with production techniques that remain influential to this hip-hop driven day. On the outside of Rhino's super-deluxe 4-CD THE DISCO BOX, master remasterer Bill Inglot actually receives the simple and rather grand credit "Sound," as if to emphasize the special aural quality of these tracks. Rhino, Inglot and co. have done a characteristically superb job in assembling this definitive disco compilation. Every major hit is included, from the ridiculous (Disco-Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes' "Get Dancin'") to the sublime (Sister Sledge's "Lost In Music".) Though four discs may seem like too much of a good thing--an item for collectors only perhaps-- a mere glance at the track list reminds us just how many great songs came out of this allegedly tacky era.   Technical Info Release Date : 02/16/1999 Original Release Date : 1999 Catalog ID : 75595 Label : Rhino Records (USA) Number of Discs : 4 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00081227559526   Professional Reviews Entertainment Weekly (2/19-2/26/99, pp.133-134) - "...You...couldn't find a more convincing defense of the form, in case anyone still needs one. The mere fact that the box collects 80 tracks without running into one bum patche makes the ultimate case for a style that once stood as the most maligned cultural expression since mime..." - Rating: B    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray