Fear Medley
LABEL: Stack-O-Tracks
SERIES: N/A
GROUPING: N/A
RELEASE YEAR: 1981
CATALOGUE NO: PLP-12-002/003
RUNOUT GROOVES: PLP-12-002 (Side A) PLP-12-003 (Side B)
COUNTRY: Canada (source: Discopatrick. Label shows U.S.A.)
FORMAT: 12" Vinyl
COMMENTS: Released in September 1981 (source: James Hamilton's column in Record Mirror). My copy of this has the labels on the wrong side according to the etchings in the runout grooves
WHAT JAMES HAMILTON HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS RELEASE:
TELE’FONO MUSIC: ‘Fear Medley’ (US Stack-O-Tracks PLP 12-003).
Now sort of commercially available, this in fact is the Disconet ‘Hits of 1980’ mixer which starts fast and zingy in the 130’s BPM with gallopers like ‘Underwater’ and ‘Que Sera Mi Veda’ before dropping gradually ever downwards until the last section from ‘Celebration’ to ‘Another One Bites The Dust’ is very useable here, the 12in flip being another inconsistent and initially rather bad slower mixer, ‘Heartbeat Rap’, which then gets to some good double beating and stereo phasing, mainly below 110bpm.
SIDE A MIX: FEAR MEDLEY
MIXED BY: Mike Arato & John Matarazzo
LENGTH: 18:30
GENRE: Disco/Pop/Funk/Soul
COMMENTS: This mix was originally released on Disconet - Volume 4, Program 3 (which I don't own) and can also be found on side B of Disconet - Volume 5, Program 7, side B of D.J. Associations - 1980 Top Tune Medley and side A of Dance - First Class
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:
Easy Going - Fear (1979); Harry Thumann - Underwater (1979); Irene Cara - Fame (1980); Gibson Brothers - Que Sera Mi Vida (If You Should Go) (1979); American Gypsy - I'm O.K.,You're O.K. (1979); Kano - It's A War (1980); Foxy - Party Boys (1980); Lipps, Inc. - Funky Town (1979); Manhattan Transfer - Twilight Zone (1980); Dan Hartman - Relight My Fire (1979); Viola Wills - If You Could Read My Mind (1980); Festival - Don't Cry For Me Argentina (1979); Kool & The Gang - Celebration (1980); Change - A Lover's Holiday (1980); Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation (1980); Geraldine Hunt - Can't Fake The Feeling (1980); Blondie - Rapture (1980); Diana Ross - Upside Down (1980); Queen - Another One Bites The Dust (1980)
SIDE B MIX: HEARTBEAT RAP
MIXED BY: Little Bobo D.J.
LENGTH: 15:48
GENRE: I'm working on it
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:
I'm working on it
