Various Artists-A Night At Studio 54 (1979)


 

Artist: Various Artists (Chic, The Michael Zager Band, Village People, GQ, Cher, Alicia Bridges, Love and Kisses, Donna Summer, Cheryl Lynn, Instant Funk, Karen Young, Patrick Juvet, Voyage, DC LaRue, Musique, Dan Hartman, Peaches and Herb)

Title: A Night At Studio 54

Label: Casablanca

Format: 2LP

Cat: NBLP-2-7161

Year of Release: 1979

Country and Year of Edition: US 1979

Sell Price: $8.39 VG+/F worn spine 7/2/24

Discogs Last Sold:  6/25/24 VG+/VG $11.37

Low: $1.00

Median: $15.00

Average: $20.50

High: $74.19

Current low price: $1.99 G+/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 44

Have/Want: 2942/466

Where Sold: Arlington, MA

Time it took to sell: 9 years

Where and When Purchased: $1 bin in Boston early 90's I forgot the store

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

This compiles the peak of Disco top 40 circa 1978 where most of these tracks dominated the radio.  Lots of one offs along with Casablanca stars like Donna Summer, Cher and the Village People whose mega-hits "Last Dance," "Take Me Home" and of course "Y.M.C.A." are featured within.  Chic, who are in a class of their own, open the album with the biggest hit within, the inescapable #1 "Le Freak."  

The real treat are the one-hit wonders.  Karen Young never made the top 40 with "Hot Shot" but it was a #1 Billboard club hit.  The male unison "Hot Shot" chant you think is going to end the song is so nice you have to hear it twice.  Michael Zager band's lone top 40 hit peaked at #36 in March '78, with it's "ooh-ooh's."  Instant Funk had some other dance hits, but their lone pop Billboard top 40, "I've Got My Mind Made Up" peaked at #20 in February 1979.  The catch phrase there was "Say What?"  Who could forget Musique's #1 club hit that was a bit too dirty for the pop charts with the oft-repeated "BUSH!, BUSH!...In The Bush?"

The other dominant one hit wonders are Cheryl Lynn's "Got To Be Real" and Alicia Bridges "I Love The Nightlife."  They both have an extremely distinctive vocal hook.  What's your naaaaame-ahhh.  What you feeeel---ahhh.   What you knoooow-ahhhh.  To be real!  I love the nightlife!  I've got to boogie!  On the disco-aaaaah ahhhh, oh yeah!  Lightning never strikes twice with this sort of brilliance.

You even get a French Disco via Switzerland tribute to America by Patrick Juvet called "I Love America!"

Happy 4th of July!  Freak Out!



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