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Artist:Various |Label:Ace |Format: 2xLP |Genre:Pop /Dance / Disco | Album Condition: New | Jacket Condition: Sealed
Various Artists
The Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night
Ace XXQLP2 119 – 2 LP set in a thick gatefold jacket
Before there was Saturday Night Fever there was underground disco. DJs across America went out and found the music to play; dancers went out and found the clubs. At this point, in the early seventies, the disco was the venue and not a genre of music.
By the time Nik Cohns short story Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night was published by New York magazine in June 1976, disco was the biggest genre of music on the charts and was about to get bigger yet, becoming an all-enveloping cultural phenomenon. Cohn sold the film rights to Robert Stigwood, and his classic club yarn became Saturday Night Fever.
TRIBAL RITES OF THE NEW SATURDAY NIGHT is the soundtrack to Cohns story, where disco began, a 1975 score for the underground clubs of Brooklyn and Queens that played R&B, soul and Latin beats to people who lived for the weekend.
Bob Stanley has put this collection together from sourcing what was actually played in Brooklyn discos in 1974 and 1975. Only a few specific records were mentioned in Cohns feature, but two of them BEN E KINGs Supernatural Thing and HAROLD MELVINs Wake Up Everybody – were cosmically great and both are included here alongside underground favourites like MOMENT OF TRUTHs Four Tops-like Helplessly and GLORIA SCOTTs Barry White-produced modern soul classic Just As Long As Were Together. THE AL FOSTER BANDs incredible Night Of The Wolf has fans in northern soul, disco and prog circles.
Without Cohns original story, its quite possible that disco would have remained an underground phenomenon TRIBAL RITES OF THE NEW SATURDAY NIGHT paints a scene in full flower. Saturday Night Fever would eventually, if unintentionally, wreck the underground nature of this scene, and clubs like Studio 54 would destroy the democracy of the party, but for two or three years the scene was largely undocumented, and magical. This album is the sound of disco before it was captured.
—Bob Stanley
Contains;
Disc One – Side One
Helplessly – Moment of Truth
After You’ve Had Your Fling (Get Down to the Real Thing) – The Intrepids
Welcome To the Club – Blue Magic
I Can’t Move No Mountains – Margie Joseph
Supernatural Thing (part 1) – Ben E King
Disc One – Side Two
Mellow Me – Faith, Hope & Charity
Georgia’s After Hours – Richard “Popcorn” Wylie
Date WIth the Rain – Eddie Kendricks
Just as Long As We’re Together (in My Life There Will Never Be Another) – Gloria Scott
Wendy is Gone – Ronnie McNeir
Got to Get You Back – Some of Robin Stone
Disc Two – Side One
Night of the Wolf (Tema Del Lupo) Ivano Fossati
Good Things Don’t Kast Forever – Ecstasy, Passion & Pain
Tell Me What You Want – Jimmy Ruffin
Keep It Up – Betty Everett
Free & Easy – Satyr
Each Morning I Wake up – The Major Harris Boogie Blues Band
Disc Two – Side Two
It’s The Same Old Story – Act I
You Can’t Hide Love – Creative Source
The Whole Damn World is Going Crazy – John Gary Williams
If That’s the Way You Feel (Then Let’s Fall in Love) – White Heat
Wake Up Everybody – Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
NEW SEALED import 2 LP set in a thick gatefold jacket
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