Manhattan N.1
LABEL: Disco Sample
SERIES: Manhattan
GROUPING: N/A
RELEASE YEAR: 1980
CATALOGUE NO: SW 57
RUNOUT GROOVES: SW57M EG (Side A) SW57M EG (Side B)
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in December 1980 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror)
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
VARIOUS: ‘Manhattan No.1’ (US Disco Sampler SW57).
Green vinyl pressed purportedly in the US but British looking and sounding. This 12in “special” disco mixer begins not very usefully at 121bpm with Lipps Inc ‘How Long’ before finally reaching such as ‘Just A Groove’, ‘Celebration’, ‘Love Festival’, ‘Rapp Payback’. None of the mix being anything special at all, ending with ‘Masterblaster’ and Bob Marley’s ‘Jammin’ at 128bpm. For avid collectors only.
SIDE A MIX: MANHATTAN N.1
MIXED BY: Luigi Figini (source: Discopatrick)
OTHER CREDITS: Non specific credit: Mason-Smith
LENGTH: 10:08
GENRE: Disco/Funk/Soul/Reggae
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:
Pleasure - Take A Chance (1980); Foxy - Party Boys (1979); Lipps, Inc. - How Long (1980); Glory - Can You Guess What Groove This Is? (1980); Fatback - Gotta Get My Hands On Some (Money) (1980); Jimmy 'Bo' Horne - Is It In (1980); Glen Adams Affair - Just A Groove (1980); People's Choice - You Ought To Be Dancin' (1980); Kool & The Gang - Celebration (1980); Kool & The Gang - Love Festival (1980); James Brown - Rapp Payback (Where Iz Moses?) (1980); J.R. Funk & The Love Machine - Feel Good, Party Time (1980); Cameron - Let's Get It Off (1980); Instant Funk - Everybody (1980); Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin') (1980); Bob Marley & The Wailers - Jamming (1977)
SIDE B MIX:
Same as side A
