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Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975)
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The Call of the Wendigo Admin
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:33 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Last track - Hey Girl, Come and Get It.
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:34 pm
Last one, Hey Girl, Hey Boy
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Nightjar
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:34 pm
Amherst Records?
Isn't Amherst the lunatic asylum from that Edgar Allan Poe story?
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Nightjar
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:34 pm
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:
Last one, Hey Girl, Hey Boy
Chemical Brothers cover?
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Butterfield
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:34 pm
It sounds a lot like that Gladys Knight song "Don't Change It" or something.
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:35 pm
Nightjar wrote:
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:
Last one, Hey Girl, Hey Boy
Chemical Brothers cover?
lol
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:35 pm
Like the theme to some long forgotten BBC comedy show…
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:36 pm
Butterfield wrote:
Hard to believe Hamish of Paul McCartney backing band "fame" co-wrote a song like this.
And that Hugh McCracken of Paul McCartney backing band fame was playing guitar on this version.
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:36 pm
Butterfield wrote:
It sounds a lot like that Gladys Knight song "Don't Change It" or something.
Which Cilla Black did a cover of in 1980.
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:37 pm
It's not exactly shrieking "Hey Girl, Come and Get It" to me this.
More like, Hey Girl, Come in, sit down, have a petit four while I finish this washing up...
Great Train Journeys with Michael Portillo's on on the telly.
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:37 pm
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Hugh McCracken
There's a joke in there somewhere.
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The Call of the Wendigo Admin
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:37 pm
It is over.
They played the right notes in the right places but it all felt strangely impersonal.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:37 pm
Oh, this sounds promising.
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:37 pm
I shall give it 3 stars.
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:38 pm
Oh, yeah, that hits harder.
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:38 pm
Oh, it's Air Supply.
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:38 pm
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Hugh McCracken
There's a joke in there somewhere.
We used to have a dentist called Phil McCaverty.
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Butterfield
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:40 pm
Well, that was somewhat lacklustre compared with what I was expecting. I love The Hustle but the rest was mostly quite tame, if not bland. And I only realised there were a million covers after I'd created the thread.
As a music journalist I'd probably give it 2/5, but I personally didn't dislike it and I was happy enough listening along - it was just a bit.... generic.
3/5
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:42 pm
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Hugh McCracken
There's a joke in there somewhere.
I thought that was Phil McCracken. Or Hugh Janus. Or somebody Fitzgerald or something.
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Subject: Re: Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony - Disco Baby (1975) Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:42 pm
I've just realised that I'm sat here topless but wearing jeans.
Not entirely unlike...
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