Grand 12 Inches, Vol. 3 by Ben Liebrand CD2

Grand 12 Inches, Vol. 3 by Ben Liebrand

Volume # 3 in the series compiled by Ben Liebrand - the most wanted 12 inch versions of the biggest disco and dance hits from the 70s & 80s. Artists include Anita Ward, Crown Heights Affair, Earth Wind & Fire, George Duke, Herbie Hancock and many more. 4 CD set

Audio CD (June 1, 2006)
Original Release Date: June 1, 2006
Number of Discs: 4
Label: Sbme Import
ASIN: B000EULSQQ

Disc: 2

Track Listings

1. We Got the Funk [12" Version]
2. Fantastic Voyage [12" Version]
3. Shake It Up Tonight [Album Version] - Cheryl Lynn
4. I'm Not Gonna Let You Go [12" Version] - Colonel Abrams
5. You Gave Me Love [12" Version] - Crown Heights Affair
6. R.R. Express
7. Overnight Sensation [12" Version] - Jerry Knight
8. Love Is the Message [Album Version] - MFSB
9. Contact [12" Version] - Edwin Starr
10. Boogie Wonderland [12" Version]

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Comments by Ben Liebrand
CD 2 (The funky grooves)

1 Positive Force - We Got The Funk 04:31

Warm funk, smooth vocals great track

2 Lakeside - Fantastic Voyage 06:12

"Square funk" is how this track feels to me, and a fantastic voyage it is.

3 Cheryl Lynn - Shake It Up Tonight 05:42

From the early days of Disco spinning the songs in The Kwien Discoteque, this track brings back memories of that huge Studio 54 style disco out in the flat country of Holland.

4 Colonel Abrams - I'm Not Gonne Let You 06:47

The follow up to Trapped, not as big but very good.

5 Crown Heights Affair -You Gave Me Love 05:52

One of my all-time favorites and fortunately not killed by over-playing it.

6 Rose Royce - R.R. Express 12:01

Join Rose Royce on the RR express. Somehow I could never find a decent point where to "get out of this track". Therefore it's a good thing it runs a full 12 minutes

7 Jerry Knight - Overnight Sensation 06:30

Funk for the connoisseur. Excellent track and favorite of many record store owners. This is one of those songs that brings me right back to that time. Not just the memories , but the whole feel of things.

8 M.F.S.B.- Love Is The Message 11:33

The Sound of Philadelphia. The vocals are a bit on the sweet side, but that groove is a winner.

9 Edwin Starr - Contact 07:15

Solid Disco with trademark hand claps, Ben is on the dance floor having a great night, actually believing that my parents didn't know we were in the disco (Clothes smelling of smoke big time). Those were the days.

10 Earth, Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland 08:16

The Emotions join E W & F with great vocals and up tempo rhythms.

Grand 12 Inches, Vol. 3 by Ben Liebrand CD1

Grand 12 Inches, Vol. 3
Ben Liebrand

Volume # 3 in the series compiled by Ben Liebrand - the most wanted 12 inch versions of the biggest disco and dance hits from the 70s & 80s. Artists include Anita Ward, Crown Heights Affair, Earth Wind & Fire, George Duke, Herbie Hancock and many more. 4 CD set

Audio CD (June 1, 2006)
Original Release Date: June 1, 2006
Number of Discs: 4
Label: Sbme Import
ASIN: B000EULSQQ

Disc: 1

Track Listings

1. You Are in My System [Extended Album Version]
2. Dance Electric [Long Version]
3. Glad to Know You [12" Version] - Chaz Jankel
4. Harmony [12" Version] - Suzi Lane
5. Madmen's Discothèque, Pts. 1 & 2
6. Fly Too High [12" Version] - Janis Ian
7. Slide [12" Version] - Rah Band
8. Can You Feel the Force [12" Version]
9. Ring My Bell [12" Version] - Anita Ward
10. Cruisin' the Streets [12" Version] - Boys Town Gang

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Quality: CBR, 320kbps, stereo

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Comments by Ben Liebrand
CD 1 (More of my roots and favorites)

1 Robert Palmer - You're in my System (Extended Album Mix) 06:00

Powerfull funky sequences and kick-ass drums made this track one of my favorites

2 André Cymone - The Dance Electric 05:35

From the "Prince" factory this extreme electric funky track in master quality for you.

3 Chas Jankel - Glad To Know You 06:37

Excellent funky guitar riffs make this track a floor filler despite the wacky vocals.

4 Suzi Lane - Harmony 06:59

Produced by my "Hero" Giorgio Moroder, Harmony features the typical "Moroder Trademark" sequencers and drum sounds. Great Stuff

5 Chaplin Band- Madmen's Discoteque 06:30

It was the Instrumental B-side which became a club hit all the way in America. This Version gives you that Instrumental version and cuts to the Vocal version running 6:30 in total

6 Janis Ian-Fly Too High 06:51

Again Moroder at work for pop-icon Janis Ian. Sequencers in triplet feel and Anonymous Autonomous Vocals to go along. Taken from the original Analog master tapes form the vaults of CBS.

7 Rah Band - Slide 06:39

Before "Clouds across the moon", The Rah Band was already on their way with this fierce instrumental track.

8 The Real Thing - Can You Feel The Force 07:39

Can you feel the force brings back memories of jumping on the dance floor to this funky uplifting track. Can YOU feel the force?

9 Anita Ward - Ring My Bell 08:12

Introducing the pieuw sound of the Syndrum to the world, this is a disco standard.

10 Boys Town Gang- Cruisin' The Streets 13:14

Starting life as B-side, this soon became the preferred track in the Keizer Karel Club. This is disco to the masses, but a lifestyle to those of that particular persuasion ;)

Precious Wilson - 1982 - All Coloured in Love

Precious Wilson - 1982 - All Coloured in Love

Label: Hansa
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Germany
Released: 1982
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Funk, Disco
Credits: Producer - Frank Farian

Tracklisting:

A1 I Don't Know 7:13
A2 Video 3:53
A3 I Heard It through the Grapevine 4:16
A4 Kisuaheli 4:20
A5 Soothe Me 2:35
B1 Raising My Family 3:40
B2 The Night The Music Died 3:57
B3 All Coloured in Love 3:35
B4 Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday 3:33
B5 Your Face Stays in My Mind 3:08
B6 I Need You 2:54

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Precious Wilson's second solo album is fine and enjoyable but not as strong a set as her first one On the Race Track (1980). By 1982, the arrangements were less lush and focussing on a "drier" sound and a few synth-pop tunes like "I Don't Know" and "Video". Nearly half the material consisted of cover versions, indicating that Farian was insecure about the right material for her. Nevertheless, Precious sings with passion and power on this album but it still leaves me with the impression that it could have been better. As with the first album, the backing singers La Mama accompany her beautifully.

Precious Wilson – 1980 -On The Race Track

Precious Wilson – 1980 -On The Race Track

Label: Hansa
Catalog#: 202 912-320
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Germany
Released: 1980
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Funk, Disco
Credits: Producer - Frank Farian

Tracklisting:

A1 We Are On The Race Track (3:33)
A2 Cry To Me (4:22)
A3 Stop Runnin' (3:05)
A4 Stay By My Side (4:51)
A5 You Ain't Got Love (3:41)
B1 If I Loved You Less (4:25)
B2 Together Forever (4:13)
B3 Mr. Pilot Man (3:33)
B4 Funky Dancer (3:04)
B5 Killing Me Softly (3:50)

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A very fine soul album, produced in Germany. Expectations were sky high for Precious Wilson's first album in her own name, but commercially the album never fulfilled the high demands which is a shame, it had deserved to do much better. Precious Wilson's powerful voice sounds fantastic as she gives her all to these tunes which consists of a fair share of soul covers, "Cry To Me" (the first single), "Stop Runnin'", "You Ain't Got Love" and "Killing Me Softly", all expertly produced by Frank Farian. The original material includes the second single, "We Are On The Race Track", the excellent Bee Gees-style "If I Loved You Less" (originally recorded by Emily Jones), and the very highlight of the album, the majestic gospel ballad "Stay By My Side", penned by Keith Forsey, accompanied by a piano only and beautiful black harmony vocals by La Mama. That one sends shivers down my spine. Frank Farian's "white-wash" of R&B may have prevented Precious from breaking big as a major soul star or maybe the timing was just not good. But the album makes for great listening anyway.

Precious Wilson – English

Precious Wilson – English

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Biography

Jamaican-born Precious Wilson started out a backing singer in UK soul band Eruption. When the band won a record contract in a talent competition in 1975, they had a minor R&B hit with " Let Me Take You Back in Time" before the male lead singer left and Precious stepped into the foreground to fill his space. The group decided to try their luck in Germany, and one of many many live gigs in small discotheques caught the eye of producer Frank Farian...>>

Jamaican-born Precious Wilson started out a backing singer in UK soul band Eruption. When the band won a record contract in a talent competition in 1975, they had a minor R&B hit with " Let Me Take You Back in Time" before the male lead singer left and Precious stepped into the foreground to fill his space. The group decided to try their luck in Germany, and one of many many live gigs in small discotheques caught the eye of producer Frank Farian who asked if they'd like to become the heat-up band on Boney M.'s 1977 tour. In return, Farian and co-producer Rainer M. Ehrhart signed the band to Hansa Records. Their first single "Party, Party" made some noise but it was Precious' powerful vocals on their discofied version of "I Can't Stand the Rain" that sent the group to the top of the European charts and even entering the US Top 20. While the lead-off single from the second album, Leave a Light flopped, the second single "One Way Ticket" gave the group another massive disco hit, and soon after Precious broke from the band to pursue a solo carrere.

Still signed to Hansa Records and produced by Farian, her first solo single was released in the summer of 1979, a funky disco cover of the soul classic "Hold On I'm Coming". To secure her maximum promotion, Farian also included it on Boney M.'s current Oceans of Fantasy album on which she also featured with the group on the opening track "Let It All Be Music".

Her album On the Race Track was completed for release in October 1980. The lead single was yet another soul cover. Performed with her new backing group Sky Train, "Cry To Me" failed to meet Hansa's high expectations for the singer. The second single "We Are On The Race Track" gave Precious her biggest German hit single when it reached #11 in the charts.

New recording sessions began in the fall of 1981, and the single "I Need You (Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" was released. Seeing her move into synth-pop territory, "I Don't Know" gave the singer a hit in Switzerland where she enjoyed considerable popularity. The second album All Coloured in Love followed in Germany in August 1982. A different song selection was put together for the UK release on Epic, and the French-Italian-release on Carrere, the album was issued as Red Light but failed to see Precious' international carrere take off.

The relationship between Farian and Precious was cooling off considerably when the singer was dissatisfied about the single release "Let's Move Aerobic (Move Your Body)" and her third and final Hansa release, Funky Fingers (credited to Precious Wilson and La Mama - her backing group) was a non-stop medley-album of soul classics. Released in December 1983, it received very little support from the label and soon after left Precious without a record contract.

Moving back to the UK, Precious signed with Jive Records in 1985. Her first single " I'll Be Your Friend" created some excitement when it also gave her a modest R&B hit in the US. Jive Records, full of support for their new artist, arranged for Precious to sing the theme song of the movie "The Jewel Of The Nile", a song which was also included in her subsequent 1986 album, simply entitled Precious Wilson, featuring songs with several hi-profile producers such as Monte Moir, Richard Jon Astrup and Keith Diamond. Still, with new single releases "Nice Girls Don't Last" (Europe) and "Love Can't Wait" (US), the album inexplicably flopped. Still believing in Precious, Jive Records paired her with Stock Aitken Waterman for a 1987 single release, an upbeat Hi-NRG disco version of Jerry Butler's "Only The Strong Survive". It became one of the few SAW singles that never charted in the UK.

After a 1990 single release "I May Be Right 4U" on a UK indie label, the singer finally achieved some commercial success when her 1992 dance cover of Sheila B. Devotion's "Spacer", became a hit in France. Soon after, her guest performance on techno group Messiah's cover of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" reached the UK #11. Unable to sustain the moment, Precious Wilson disappeared as an active recording artist. In recent years, she's mainly been active on the club circuit, performing as both Precious Wilson and Eruption featuring Precious Wilson.

Releases:

Cry To Me (7") AMIGA
Hold On I'm Coming (12") Hansa 1979
Hold On I'm Coming / Funky Dancer (You Got Me Dancing) (7") Hansa 1979
Cr-Cr-Cr-Cry To Me (12", Sup) Hansa 1980
On The Race Track (LP) Hansa 1980
On The Race Track / Mr Pilot Man (12") Hansa 1980
I Need You / You're A Strong Man (7") Hansa 1981
I Need You / You're A Strong Man (12", Maxi) Hansa 1981
Three Of A Kind (LP) Hansa 1981
We Are On The Race Track (7") Carrere 1981
We Are On The Race Track / Mr. Pilot Man (7") Hansa 1981
I Don't Know (12") Hansa 1982
I Don't Know / Every Day Will Be Like A Holiday (7") Hansa 1982
Raising My Family / The Night The Music Died (7") Hansa 1982
Funky Fingers (LP) Ariola (Germany) 1983
I'll Be Your Friend (12") Jive 1985
I'll Be Your Friend (12") Jive 1986
Love Can't Wait (12", Promo) Jive 1986
Nice Girls Don't Last (12") Jive 1986
Precious Wilson (Cass) Jive 1986
The Jewel Of The Nile (7") Jive 1986
Only The Strong Survive (12") TELDEC 1987
Only The Strong Survive (12") Jive 1987
I May Be Right For You (12")

Precious Wilson - Russian

Precious Wilson - Russian

From - http://www.musicfan.ru

Прешес Уилсон (Precious Wilson) известна как вокалистка группы "Eruption", записавшая главные хиты группы "I Can't Stand The Rain" и "One Way Ticket". В составе Eruption она участвовала в работе над самыми удачными альбомами группы: "Eruption" (1977) и "Leave A Light" (1979). Её голос по праву считается визитной карточкой группы.

Прешес родилась в Спэниш Таун, Ямайка, в возрасте семи лет переехала с родителями в Великобританию. Первый успех пришел к ней в 1975 году, когда она вместе с группой "Eruption" победила в радиоконкурсе, проводившемся компанией "RCA". Во время выступления "Eruption" в Западной Германии произошла встреча с продюсером группы Boney М. Фрэнком Фарианом (Frank Farian), который предложил им контракт с "Hansa Records".

В 1977 году группа записала песню "I Can't Stand The Rain", имевшую огромный успех во всём мире, причём этот успех был обеспечен именно потрясающим вокалом Прешес Уилсон. Далее, в 1979 году, последовал не менее знаменитый хит "One Way Ticket", в котором тoже солировала Уилсон.

Летом 1979 года Фрэнк Фариан начинает работу над сольным проектом Прешес Уилсон, на замену которой в группу "Eruption" приходит Ким Дэвис (Kim Davies).
Фариан привлекает Прешес к работе над альбомом "Boney M"-"Oceans Of Fantasy", были записаны соло для "Let All Be Music" и "Hold On I'm Coming".

Под руководством Фариана к августу 1980 года была закончена запись первого сольного альбома Прешес Уилсон "On The Race Track" (в качестве аранжировщика ритм-секции был приглашён Мишель Крету (Michael Cretu)). Второй сольный альбом записывался в 1981/1982 годах и вышел под названием "All Coloured In Love". Оба диска продавались в Европе с большим успехом.

В 1985 роду компания "JIVE Records" выпустила сингл Прешес Уилсон "I'll Be Your Friend", который в течение четырёх месяцев продержался в европейских хит-парадах, затем последовал успех с композицией "The Jewel Of The Nile" из саундтрека к кинофильму "Сокровище Нила". В следующем году вышел очередной альбом под названием "Precious Wilson".

В 1986 году Прешес Уилсон присоединяется к движению против наркотиков и принимает участие в записи на "Abbey Road Studio" благотворительного альбома "It's A Live In World".
В 1987 году вместе с продюсерской группой "Stock/Aitken & Waterman" она записывает один из сильнейших диско-хитов сезона "Only The Strong Survive".

В 1990 году Прешес Уилсон дебютировала как театральная актриса в мюзикле "Blues In The Night". Уилсон приняла участие в записи альбома команды "Techno Eccentrics"- "Messiah". Их версия хита Донны Саммер (Donna Summer) "I Feel Love" попала в UK Top 20, кроме этого Прешес была соавтором своей второй песни с альбома "Messiah" - "Peace and Tranquillity".

В настоящее время Прешес Уилсон продолжает выступать на европейской клубной сцене, в том числе и под названием "Eruption", на которое имеет юридические права. В 2002-2003 годах она приезжала в Москву, где принимала участие в шоу Дискотека 80-х.

Releases:

Cry To Me (7") AMIGA
Hold On I'm Coming (12") Hansa 1979
Hold On I'm Coming / Funky Dancer (You Got Me Dancing) (7") Hansa 1979
Cr-Cr-Cr-Cry To Me (12", Sup) Hansa 1980
On The Race Track (LP) Hansa 1980
On The Race Track / Mr Pilot Man (12") Hansa 1980
I Need You / You're A Strong Man (7") Hansa 1981
I Need You / You're A Strong Man (12", Maxi) Hansa 1981
Three Of A Kind (LP) Hansa 1981
We Are On The Race Track (7") Carrere 1981
We Are On The Race Track / Mr. Pilot Man (7") Hansa 1981
I Don't Know (12") Hansa 1982
I Don't Know / Every Day Will Be Like A Holiday (7") Hansa 1982
Raising My Family / The Night The Music Died (7") Hansa 1982
Funky Fingers (LP) Ariola (Germany) 1983
I'll Be Your Friend (12") Jive 1985
I'll Be Your Friend (12") Jive 1986
Love Can't Wait (12", Promo) Jive 1986
Nice Girls Don't Last (12") Jive 1986
Precious Wilson (Cass) Jive 1986
The Jewel Of The Nile (7") Jive 1986
Only The Strong Survive (12") TELDEC 1987
Only The Strong Survive (12") Jive 1987
I May Be Right For You (12")

Eruption – 1983 - Our Way

Eruption – 1983 - Our Way

Label: Hansa
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Germany
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Disco

Tracklisting:

"I Can't Help Myself" / "It's The Same Old Song"
"Joy To The World"
"Let There Be Rock"
"Big Bang"
"In A Thousand Years"
"Much Too Late"
"Ecstasy"
"We Don't Need Nobody"
"Time"
"Again And Again"

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Review by Søren Jensen http://rateyourmusic.com

Eruption's album on Ralph Siegel's Jupiter Records is a disappointing mixture of bland pop-soul-lite songs which only the most avid collector (like myself ha ha) would want to own. Needless to say, Eruption had to face that "their way" wasn't the way to go anymore. Go for their first two Hansa LPs Eruption and Leave a Light instead.