Mezzoforte - Observations (LP) (1984) - €10,00

Mezzoforte is an instrumental jazz-funk fusion band from Iceland, formed in 1977.

Until the arrival of the Sugarcubes, jazz fusion band Mezzoforte was Iceland’s best-known musical export. The group was formed in 1977 at a Reykjavik high school by Fridrik Karlsson (b. 24 April 1960; guitar), Eythór Gunnarsson (b. 9 September 1961; keyboards), Jóhann Ásmundsson (b. 30 March 1961; bass), and Gunnlaugur Briem (b. 8 September 1962; drums). 

They signed a recording contract with local label Steinar, and with the assistance of Stefán S. Stefánsson (saxophone) recorded their debut album. Bjorn Thorarensen (keyboards) joined in time for the recording of the band’s second long-player. 

Kristinn Svavarsson (saxophone) was featured on the exuberant ‘Garden Party’, which was a Top 20 hit in the UK in 1983. 

The tune was covered in the USA by Herb Alpert who performed it at half-speed, reportedly because he had learned the piece from a 45 rpm single accidentally played at 33. 

The follow-up, ‘Rockall’, was only a minor hit but it was adopted as a signature tune by radio chart shows in the Netherlands and UK. It was taken from theit 1984 album "Observations". 

The Other singles taking from "Observations" are: "Spring Fever/Summer Dream" and "Midnight Sun".

Side one

1. Midnight Sun - 4:33

2. Spring Fever - 3:45

3. Summer Dream - 5:20

4. The Venue - 4:52

5. Rockall - 5:02

Side two

1. Double Orange Juice - 5:42

2. We’re Only Here For The Beer - 5:47

3. Observations - 5:10

4. Distance - 6:24

Credits

• Alto Saxophone – Kristinn Svavarsson (tracks: A2 to B1)
• Arranged By – Mezzoforte
• Arranged By [Horns, Vocals] – Chris Cameron
• Bass – Jóhann Ásmundsson
• Drums – Gunnlaugur Briem
• Electronics [Vocoder] – Eythor Gunnarsson (tracks: A4, B2, B3)
• Guitar – Fridrik Karlsson
• Horns – Chris White (tracks: A1, A5, B1), Martin Dobson (tracks: A1, A5, B1)
• Keyboards, Synthesizer – Eythor Gunnarsson
• Percussion – Gunnlaugur Briem (tracks: A1, A3, B2, B3), Louis Jardim (tracks: A1, A5, B1 to B4)
• Piano – Eythor Gunnarsson (tracks: A1 to A4, B2 to B4)
• Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By – Geoff Calver
• Synthesizer – Fridrik Karlsson (tracks: A2 to A4, B1)
• Tenor Saxophone – Kristinn Svavarsson (tracks: B1, B3, B4)
• Written-By – Eythor Gunnarsson (tracks: A1, B2, B3), Fridrik Karlsson (tracks: A2 to B1)

Notes

Release:  1984

Format:  LP

Genre:  Jazz-fusion

Label:  Jump & Shout Records

Catalog#  JS 3304

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Harry Touw - Lach Je Barsten Met (LP) (1980) - €15,00

Harry Touw (Den Haag, 7 april 1924 – aldaar, 14 april 1994) was een Nederlands komiek, moppentapper en televisiepersoonlijkheid uit Den Haag. 

Hij verkreeg landelijke bekendheid vanaf 1970 door zijn optreden voor de VPRO-televisie in de rollen van Fred Haché en Otto Kolkvet in een aantal geruchtmakende satirische shows, waarin naakt, vloeken, de wc, hondenpoep e.d. vaak voorkwamen, met een absurde humor (een product van regisseur Wim T. Schippers). 

Hij maakte ook enige grammofoonplaten (onder andere Bakken aan de Bar, De Warme Bakken Tapper en deze elpee Lach Je Te Barsten met Harry Touw uit 1980). 

Samen met IJf Blokker maakte hij ook de vedettestripreeks "Bakken aan de Bar".

In 1982 was hij de presentator van Vara's Artiestencafé.

Tijdens de zomers verbleef Touw jarenlang in zijn caravan op de Wassenaarse camping Duinrell, waar hij voor de campingjeugd het kinderentertainment verzorgde en bekend was als "Ome Harry". Hij overleed zeven dagen na zijn zeventigste verjaardag. 

Side one

1. Lach Je Te Barsten - 0:35

2. Conference - 21:31

3. Lach Je Te Barsten - 0:41

Side two

1. Lach Je Te Barsten - 0:30

2. Conference - 20:54

3. Lach Je Te Barsten - 0:48

Opgenomen 12 & 19 November 1979.

Companies, etc.

• Produced For – Paloma Music B.V.
• Lacquer Cut at – Bovema / EMI Studios – 43557
• Lacquer Cut at – Bovema / EMI Studios – 43558
• Recorded At – Cafe Lion d'Or, Den Haag
• Recorded At – Cafe Lion d'Or, Oosterhout
• Engineered At – Fendal Soundstudio's
• Engineered At – Tip-Top Studio Laren

Credits

• Lyrics By – Harry Touw
• Music By – Trio '76
• Other [Scriptgirl] – Christy Huijbregts
• Photography By – Cas Voogd
• Producer – John Holshuijsen
• Technician – Dick Swaneveld, Jan-Piet Exalto

Notes

Release:  1980

Format  LP

Genre:  Nederlandstalig, Cabaret

Label:  CNR Records

Catalog#  651032

Vinyl:  Goed

Hoes: Goed

Prijs: €15,00

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Mike Oldfield - Platinum (LP) (1979) - €10,00

Platinum is the fifth studio album by English multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Mike Oldfield, released on 23 November 1979 on Virgin Records. 

It was Oldfield's first album to include shorter songs and music written by others. 

A modified version of the album was released in the United States and Canada and titled Airborn. 

Side one

The first side contains the 19-minute title track that is divided into four parts: "Airborne", "Platinum", "Charleston", and "North Star/Platinum Finale". 

The first two sections rely on melody played mostly with electric guitar; the first is slow in tempo and has many changes, while the second introduces a simple groove rhythm and a more repetitive song structure. "Airborne" was the theme tune for the 1980s BBC children's quiz show First Class. 

"Charleston" is a humorous piece with a simple rhythm and swinging melody that features a horn section. A female vocalist adds wordless vocals while Oldfield contributes some scat vocals in a whispering voice.^{[citation needed]} "North Star/Platinum Finale" includes an excerpt from the 1977 Philip Glass composition "North Star". 

The lead melody is not borrowed from Glass but the choir's part is. The constant bass drum beat and octave-jumping bass line start the section and guitar enters with the melody later. 

A funky guitar riff and chorus appear, and the lead guitar continues to play the melody over them. Engineer Kurt Munkacsi was a frequent collaborator with Glass.

Side two

"Woodhenge" is an instrumental track named after Woodhenge, a Neolithic monument located close to Stonehenge. 

On Airborn, the alternate version of Platinum only released in North America, the track was replaced by the track "Guilty". 

"Sally"/"Into Wonderland"

"Sally" is a song written and sung by Oldfield and Nico Ramsden as a tribute to Sally Cooper, Oldfield's girlfriend at the time, who plays the tubular bells on the album. Shortly after the album's release, "Sally" was replaced with a different track, "Into Wonderland", sung by Wendy Roberts. The earliest pressings of the LP and cassette still show "Sally" in the track listing on the label and the sleeve even when the record had the new song. Later copies and subsequent reissues of Platinum correctly list "Into Wonderland".

Part of the song survives on the second version of the album, as the first 50 seconds of "Punkadiddle" is actually the last part of "Sally". This fast part, with the same melody of the song's chorus, served as a musical bridge to "Punkadiddle", so it was kept. "Sally" can often be found as part of bootleg issues.

Oldfield wrote "Punkadiddle" as a parody on punk rock. On stage, he and his band performed the song bare chested.

"I Got Rhythm" is a cover version of the song by George and Ira Gershwin, featuring Oldfield's arrangement from the jaunty original into a Broadway-style ballad with harmonised vocals from Roberts and orchestration, mostly performed on keyboards.

Side one

1. Platinum Part One: Airborne - 5:05

2. Platinum Part Two: Platinum - 6:06

3. Platinum Part Three: Charleston - 3:17

4. Platinum Part Four: North Star / Platinum Finale - 4:49

Side two

1. Woodhenge - 4:05

2. Into Wonderland (misprinted as “Sally”) - 3:46

3. Punkadiddle - 5:46

4. I Got Rhythm - 4:44

Instruments and recording

Synthesizers that appear on the album include a Roland SH-2000 and Sequential Circuits Prophet 5.

When Oldfield was in New York City recording Platinum and "Guilty" he recorded a disco arrangement of his first album, Tubular Bells, but he decided not to release it. Oldfield has not said whether this version still exists or whether it will ever see release. A version of Free's "All Right Now" was also recorded during these sessions. It was used as the theme for a television music programme also called Alright Now. The vocals are by Wendy Roberts, while Pierre Moerlen and Tom Newman also contributed.

The album was recorded at Electric Lady and Blue Rock in the United States, and in Througham, Denham, and The Manor in the UK. The album was mixed at Air Studios in London.

Personnel

• Mike Oldfield – acoustic and electric guitars, marimba, piano, synthesizers, vibraphone and vocals
• Francisco Centeno – bass guitar
• Hansford Rowe – bass
• Neil Jason – bass
• Nico Ramsden – keyboards
• Peter Lemer – keyboards
• Sally Cooper – tubular bells
• Demelza – congas (credited as "Demalza")
• Pierre Moerlen – drums and vibraphone (credited as "Pierre Moerlin")
• Morris Pert – drums (credited as "Maurice Pert")
• Allan Schwartzberg – drums
• David Bedford – vocal arrangements
• Wendy Roberts – vocals
• Peter Gordon – horn arrangements
• Michael Riesman – horn arrangements

Technical staff

• Kurt Munkacsi – engineer
• Tom Newman – producer and engineer
• Richard Manwaring – assistant engineer
• Renate Blauel – assistant engineer

Notes

Release:  1979

Format:  LP

Genre:  Progressive Rock

Label:  Virgin Records

Catalog#  201206

Vinyl:  Goed

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Prijs: €10,00

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Sheila B. Devotion - Love Me Baby (LP) (1977) - €10,00

Sheila and B. Devotion (also credited as "Sheila B. Devotion", "Sheila and the Black Devotion" or "S.B. Devotion") was a disco group fronted by French singer Sheila between 1977 and 1980. 

This formation briefly reached popularity in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US club circuit during the disco era. 

The group recorded two albums (Singin' in the Rain and King of the World) before dissolving in 1980, when Sheila returned to her solo career. 

Before the group's formation, Sheila (born Annie Chancel in Créteil, France on August 16, 1945) scored numerous hits in her homeland during the 1960s and the 1970s. 

Among her chart toppers were "L'école est finie" (1963), "Vous les copains" (the French cover version of Manfred Mann's "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" in 1964), "'Petite Fille de Français Moyens" (1968) and "Les Rois Mages" (the cover of "Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum" originally performed by Middle of the Road in 1971). Her success helped her producer Claude Carrere to launch his label Carrere Records. 

The Yé-yé artist was initially presented as a girl next door. In 1977, she completely changed her public image when Sheila & B Devotion was formed. She attempted to convey a more mature style in her music. Three American back-up singers/dancers (Dany Mac Farlane, Freddy Stracham and Arthur Wilkins) known as B. Devotion were hired to accompany her. 

She updated her bubblegum repertoire by performing disco tracks sung in English.

As Sheila had been a major success as a bubblegum yé-yé singer, the record company Polydor did not want to shock Sheila's public and the French media "Love Me Baby" was released anonymously in May 1977 in France. 

The first pressings of the record mentioned the obscure name of S.B Devotion. When the song became a radio and club hit in France, the identity of the group was rapidly revealed and the song was attributed to the quartet as Sheila B. Devotion. 

It was also promoted in the States as by Sheila and B. Devotion. "Love Me Baby" became a mainstream Top 10 hit in Europe with high chart success particularly in German Singles Chart reaching number 9 and the Italian Singles Chart where it reached number 3. It was also a hit in the Netherlands making it to number 24 on the Dutch Top 40. 

Side one

1.  Love Me Baby - 3:40  

2.  Shake Me - 4:45  

3.  Kiss Me Sweetie - 7:00  

Side two

1.  Singin’ In The Rain - 7:13  

2.  I Don’t Need A Doctor - 3:50  

3.  Move It - 3:45  

4.  Instrumental S.B - 3:40 

Companies, etc.

• Distributed By – Carrere Distribution
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Carrere
• Pressed By – A.R.E.A.C.E.M.
• Recorded At – Morgan Studios
• Recorded At – Air Studios
• Mixed At – Morgan Studios
• Mixed At – Air Studios
• Remixed At – Co. Be Studio

Credits

• Design [Cover Design] – Mike Carson 
• Engineer [Sound] – Lindsay Kidd, Mike Stavrou
• Photography By [Cover Photo] – P. Rody
• Remix – Lloyd Subway
• Remix [Assistant] – Nigel Green, Steve Churchyard
• Vocals [All Songs] – Sheila

Notes

Release: 1977

Recorded and mixed at:  Morgan Studio and Air Studio London, July, August, September 1977

Remixed at:  Co. Be Studio

Genre:  Disco

Label:  Carrere Records

Catalog#  67187

Vinyl:  Goed

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Silver Convention - Get Up And Boogie (LP) (1976) - €10,00

Get Up and Boogie (sometimes also known simply as Silver Convention) is the second studio album by the German disco group Silver Convention, and perhaps best known for including the song "Get Up and Boogie". 

Released in 1976, it proved popular on the dance floors and experienced some commercial success as well, reaching number 9 on the Billboard Black Albums chart and number 13 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.

Although not quite as strong as Save Me, the Silver Convention's self-titled second album is a respectable, if uneven, Euro-disco effort that boasts the disco smash "Get up and Boogie." In the U.S., "Get up and Boogie" was the only tune on the LP that enjoyed a lot of radio airplay. 

But dance club DJs weren't about to play that single exclusively; they also gave a lot of exposure to high-gloss cuts that range from the lush "San Francisco Hustle" and the mildly funky "No No Joe" to the dreamy "You Got What It Takes (To Please Your Woman)" and the clever "Play Me Like a Yo-Yo." 

On a few tracks, the Silver Convention tries to demonstrate that it can sing more than Euro-disco. "The Boy With the Ooh La-La" is a playful pop-reggae number, while "Thank You, Mr. D.J." is an unremarkable pop ballad. 

But Euro-disco is what the Silver Convention did best, and it is the style that dominates this generally decent sophomore effort. 

All tracks are written by Sylvester Levay and Stephan Prager.

Side one

1. Get Up And Boogie - 4:00

2. No, No, Joe - 3:55

3. You Turned Me On (But You Can Turn Me Off) - 3:33

4. San Francisco Hustle - 4:40

Side two

1. You Got What It Takes (To Please A Woman) - 3:52

2. The Boy With Ooh-La -La - 3:42

3. Old Wine New Bottles - 4:00

4. Play Me Like A Yoyo - 3:39

5. Thank You, Mr. D.J. - 3:07

Personnel

• Vocals – Penny McLean, Linda G. Thompson and Jackie Carter
• Drums and Percussion – Keith Forsey and Martin Harrison
• Bass – Gary Unwin
• Keyboards – Sylvester Levay
• Congas – Charlie Campbell
• Strings arranged by Fritz Sonnleithner

Companies, etc.

• Lacquer Cut at – Dureco Studio

Credits

• Lacquer Cut By – C

Notes

Release:  1976

Format:  LP

Genre:  Disco

Label:  Papillon Records

Catalog#  PAPL 2001

Vinyl:  Goed

Hoes:  Goed

Prijs: €10,00

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