Today's album is Disco Motion from 1977. It's the third album with "Disco" in the title that HERC has covered and yes, it's another one of those Commonwealth Music releases, which makes it a K-tel impostor in the eyes of some collectors but chances are if you're reading this you aren't one of those people with their heads up their in the sand. However, if you're a K-tel collector and have most of the albums HERC has already featured on this site, then you already have all of these sixteen songs already. Five acts have a pair of songs each on the tracklist which is almost entirely made up of songs from 1974-1976. As for HERC's 45 collection, only two are represented on Disco Motion:
Disco Motion [1977]
| K-tel Scale: |
25.50
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Billboard Top 40s | |||||||
Pop | R&B | DISCO | AC | CB | WLS | ||
N.Y., You Got Me Dancing | Andrea True Connection | 27 | 4 | ||||
Tangerine | Salsoul Orchestra | 18 | 36 | 6 | 11 | 40 | |
The Best Disco In Town | The Ritchie Family | 17 | 12 | 1 | 18 | ||
Nice 'n' Nasty | Salsoul Orchestra | 30 | 20 | 3 | |||
Rockin' Chair | Gwen McCrae | 9 | 1 | 10 | 10 | ||
Hollywood Swinging | Kool & the Gang | 6 | 1 | 7 | |||
Flight '76 | Walter Murphy Band | 36 | |||||
Get Down Tonight | KC & the Sunshine Band | 1 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | |
A Fifth Of Beethoven | Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band | 1 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 4 | |
That's The Way (I Like It) | KC & the Sunshine Band | 1 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 1 | |
Rock Your Baby | George McCrae | 1 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 1 | |
Dreaming A Dream | Crown Heights Affair | 5 | 1 | ||||
Did You Boogie (With Your Baby) | Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids | 29 | 25 | 33 | |||
Jungle Boogie | Kool & the Gang | 4 | 2 | 8 | 12 | ||
Ask Me | Ecstasy, Passion & Pain | 19 | 2 | ||||
More, More, More (Part 1) | Andrea True Connection | 4 | 23 | 2 | 23 | 3 | 9 |
With three songs missing the Top 40 and earning no points, Disco Motion's K-tel Scale score was hampered from the start. In its favor, the album did have four Number One pop songs, five Number One R&B songs and two Number Ones on the Disco chart. (That last number would have been higher had the Disco Chart been tallied prior to October 26, 1974: by then, four of the album's songs were already off the charts.) With a score of 25.50, Disco Motion fails to make the Top 10.
Break between tracks or seamless segues?
ReplyDeleteWant to say it's segued - whether it's seamless or not is another thing entirely with primitive technology, varying BPMs etc.
ReplyDeleteIf eight track featured differing track order did someone go in and manually hard fade the tracks?