Disco Mix
LABEL: Disco Mix
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: N/A
RELEASE YEAR: 1981
CATALOGUE NO: AL-1001
RUNOUT GROOVES: ATO-001 (Side A) AL-1001-A/B FWHP (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in February 1981 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror). This release contains the same mixes as Anjou - Dust Mix
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
VARIOUS: ‘Disco Mix’ (US Disco Mix AL-1001).
Don’t wet yourselves with excitement “disco mixer” fans, but here’s another real goodie! Dance-Orientated-Rock rather than soul, it brilliantly if slightly monotonously builds at 113 – 112bpm with some new freaky additions around Queen’s ‘Another One Bites The Dust’, blending into Kraftwerk, Steve Wonder, Genesis, Eagles, Doobie Bros, Timmy Thomas and more mainly instrumental “spot the intro” snippets — even the Stones ‘Honky Tonk Woman’, James Brown ‘Body Heat’, AWB ‘Pick Up The Pieces’ and, you’d better sit down if you’ve a weak heart, is flipped by the full ‘Let’s Do It’ in other words, ‘Bits & Pieces III’! What value! However be warned as there has been a bootleg of the original ‘Bits & Pieces III’ bootleg in circulation that only has the short disco side on both sides, leaving out the longer pop medley. To be safe, get this version. It has black print on white label, ‘Disco Mix’ on Side A, ‘Let’s Do It’ on Side B.
SIDE A MIX: DISCO MIX
MIXED BY: Andre Meunier (source: Discogs)
LENGTH: 08:58
GENRE: I'm working on it
COMMENTS: This is the same mix that is on side A of Anjou - Dust Mix
TRACKS I CAN IDENTIFY IN THE MIX - I have only listed the ones that have prolonged elements or have a short sample repeated multiple times:
I'm working on it
SIDE B MIX: LET'S DO IT
MIXED BY: Michael Ali, Michel Gendreau & Paul Richer
LENGTH: 14:48
GENRE: Disco/Pop/Funk/Soul
COMMENTS: This mix was originally released on Alto Passion - Let's Do It In The 80's and can also be found on side A of Alto Passion - Let's Do It In The 80's (2), side B of Anjou - Dust Mix, side A of Discotheque - The 70's, side B of Manhattan - Bandit II and both sides of Special Disco Mixer - Bits & Pieces 3
TRACKS I CAN IDENTIFY IN THE MIX - I have only listed the ones that have prolonged elements or have a short sample repeated multiple times:
Ritz - I Wanna Get With You (1980); Madness - One Step Beyond (1979); Young & Company - I Like (What You're Doing To Me) (1980); Gap Band - Baby Baba Boogie (1979); 'Lectric Funk - Shanghaied (1979); Kano - I'm Ready (1980); Spinners - Working My Way Back To You (1980); Gino Soccio - Dancer (1979); Sparks - Beat The Clock (1979); Carrie Lucas - Keep Smilin' (1979); Lipps, Inc. - Funky Town (1979); Heatwave - Boogie Nights (1976); G.Q. - Disco Nights-(Rock Freak) (1979); S.O.S. Band - Take Your Time (Do It Right) (1980); Sparkle Tuhran & Friends - Handsome Man (1979); Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (1979); Shocking Blue - Venus (1969); Archies - Sugar Sugar (1969); Beatles - No Reply (1964); Beatles - I'll Be Back (1964); Beatles - Drive My Car (1966); Beatles - Do You Want To Know A Secret (1964); Beatles - You're Gonna Lose That Girl (1965); Beatles - Nowhere Man (1966); Four Seasons - Sherry (1962); Everly Brothers - Cathy's Clown (1960); Neil Sedaka - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (1962); Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely (1960); Penny McLean - Lady Bump (1975); Wings - Silly Love Songs (1976); Martha & The Vandellas - Jimmy Mack (1967); Fortunes - Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again (1971); Brian Hyland - Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini (1960); Electric Light Orchestra - Last Train To London (1979); Ringo Starr - No No Song (1975); Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s - Doing It To Death (1973)
