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BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1980

Born Dennis Hardy (“Fergie”) Frederiksen on May 15th, 1951 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Fergie started out as a musician and by 1964 was already performing with musicians much older than himself in nearby clubs. His singing came as a natural progression of performing with local bands. By the time Fergie had graduated high school he realized that he wanted to pursue a career as a singer, not as a musician.

Old friend and guitarist Tommy Shaw recommended Fergie as his replacement in the Chicago based group MS Funk, when Shaw was leaving to join another Chicago outfit, Styx, so Fergie moved across the lake to the windy city in 1975. His stint with MS Funk was as brief as the groups career. In less than two years the group was gone. While with the band he met pianist Patrick Leonard, (also from Michigan), the two formed a friendship that turned into the formation of Trillion. Fergie recorded the groups debut album with Leonard in 1978 (Epic Records)
before leaving to pursue a solo career. Leonard continued for a second album with Trillion before later scoring hits for Madonna, Jody Watley and Elton John, among others.

To further his solo career Fergie moved to Los Angeles in 1980 and began session work. This session work would lead to his meeting producer Jacques Morali and becoming “David London.” In his role as David London he first appeared in 1980 on the soundtrack of “Can’t Stop The Music.” His contribution to the soundtrack were two tracks, both of which appeared on a promotional-only Casablanca 12″ single. “Samantha” a tribute to the Valerie Perrine character in the movie, and the opening-credits track. “Sound Of The City” was the best thing on the album. It’s rousing big band, horn blaring, cymbal crashing feel good atmosphere made it one of the year’s club favorites.

The songs were written and produced by Morali and Henri Belolo. Given the climate of music, particularly the death of disco, and the fact that Neil Bogart (head of Casablanca Records) was trying to distance himself and the company from it’s “disco” image are probably two of the main reasons there was not another David London 12″ single. He did release a 1981 “David London” album, but it failed to chart. Hiassociation with Morali & Belolo spilled over into his contributing vocals to the Village People’s 1981 release “Renaissance.” He can also be heard on the additional soundtracks of “Best Little Whorehouse In Texas,” “All American Traffic Jam” and “Executioner’s Song.”

SIDE A:
Samantha (Extended Version) 5:07

SIDE B:
The Sound Of The City 4:31

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint (company sleeve)

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Casablanca Records – NBD 20215 DJ
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Promo, 33 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1980
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Disco
Credits:Arranged By – Horace Ott
Executive Producer – Henri Belolo
Producer – Jacques Morali

NOTES:
From the Casablanca Soundtrack album
“Can’t Stop The Music”

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Cartridge: Ortofon Super
Stylus: Ortofon OM Stylus 30
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner

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Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
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All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 24bit/96kHz and16bit /44kHz using iZotope RX Advanced 2
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
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BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1980

Happy Birthday Olivia!

“Xanadu” is the title song from the album Xanadu, the soundtrack to the 1980 film of the same name.

The song is performed by the Electric Light Orchestra and Olivia Newton-John. Newton-John sings the primary vocals, with ELO adding “parenthetic” vocals in the style of their other songs on the “Xanadu” soundtrack, along with providing the instrumentation. A rare collaboration for ELO, the single reached no.1 in several countries and was the band’s only UK #1 single when it peaked there for two weeks in July 1980. The song peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.

SIDE A:
Xanadu (Disco Mix) 6:23
Producer – Jeff Lynne

SIDE B:
Fool Country
Producer – John Farrar 2:26

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

CHARTS:

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Jet Records – JET 12 185
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 RPM
Country: Europe
Released: 1980
Genre: Electronic
Style: Disco

NOTES:
From the motion picture “XANADU”
“Disco Mix” is not listed on label or sleeve.

EQUIPMENT USED:
Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut III
Cartridge: Ortofon Super
Stylus: Ortofon OM Stylus 30
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 24bit/96kHz and16bit /44kHz using iZotope RX Advanced 2
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

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BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1980

Few stars of the ’60s have reinvented themselves as successfully as Marianne Faithfull. Coaxed into a singing career by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham in 1964, she had a big hit in both Britain and the U.S. with her debut single, the Jagger/Richards composition “As Tears Go By” (which prefaced the Stones’ own version by a full year).

Considerably more successful in her native land than the States, she had a series of hits in the mid-’60s that set her high, fragile voice against delicate orchestral pop arrangements: “Summer Night,” “This Little Bird,” and Jackie DeShannon’s “Come and Stay with Me.” Not a songwriter at the outset of her career, she owes more of her fame as a ’60s icon to her extraordinary beauty and her long-running romance with Mick Jagger, although she offered a taste of things to come with her compelling 1969 single “Sister Morphine,” which she co-wrote (and which the Stones later released themselves on Sticky Fingers).

After a lengthy absence, Faithfull resurfaced in 1980 with “Broken English”, which took the edgy and brittle sound of punk rock and gave it a shot of studio-smooth dance rock. The song charted on the US dance chart in 1980 peaking at #59.

The six-and-a-half-minute b-side “Why’d Ya Do It?”, was a caustic, graphic rant of a woman reacting to her lover’s infidelity. The lyrics began with the man’s point of view, relating the bitter tirade of his jilted lover. It was set to a grinding tune inspired by Jimi Hendrix’s recording of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower”. Poet and writer Heathcote Williams had originally conceived the lyrics as a piece for Tina Turner to record, but Faithfull succeeded in convincing him that Turner would never record such a number. Its plethora of four-letter words and explicit references to oral sex caused controversy and led to a ban in Australia. Local pressings had grooves of smooth vinyl in place of the track and a ‘bonus’ 7″ single of the extended version of “Broken English” as compensation. The ban did not extend to import copies, and the song was also played unedited on the Government-funded Double Jay radio station. It wasn’t until 1988 when Island re-released the album in Australia and “Why d’Ya Do It?” was finally included.

SIDE A:
Broken English (Long Version) 5:54

SIDE B:
Why D’ya Do It? 6:35

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

CHARTS:

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Antilles
Catalog#: AN-801
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1980
Genre: Funk / Soul, Reggae, Rock
Style: Reggae, Classic Rock
Credits: Producer – Mark Miller Mundy

NOTES:
Original version on the Lp “BROKEN ENGLISH”

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Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut III
Cartridge: Ortofon Super 20
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
Soundcard: ESI Juli@
VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 16bit 44kHz using Adobe batch processing
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi PNG format, resized to JPEG format for posting.

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BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1980

After the success of the Bee Gees in 1977/1978 there was some time to perform songwriting for other artists and Barbra Streisand asked Barry Gibb to write an album for her. “Guilty” became her best-selling album to date with sales (according to Streisand’s official website) of over 20 million copies and was produced by the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb and the Bee Gees’ regular production team of Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson.

The fourth single from the, “Promises”, a more disco-oriented track released in May 1981, reached as high as #48. This song was also released on Streisand’s first commercially-released 12″ disco single as a solo artist following her 1979 duet with Donna Summer and a “promotional” 12″ single released for “Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over) in 1975, and “The Main Event/Fight” in 1979.

This scarce 12″ contains a “Disco Mix” of “Promises” and an “Edited Version” of “Make It Like A Memory”

SIDE A:
Promises (Disco Mix) 5:55

SIDE B:
Make It Like A Memory (Edited Version) 3:39

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Mint (generic)
Picture Labels: Mint

CHARTS:

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Columbia
Catalog#: 43 02089
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1980
Genre: Pop
Style: Vocal, Disco
Credits: Executive Producer – Charles Koppelman
Producer – Albhy Galuten, Barry Gibb, Karl Richardson
Written-By – A. Galuten* (tracks: B), B. Gibb*, R. Gibb* (tracks: A)

NOTES:
Taken from The Columbia Lp: “GUILTY” FC 36750

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Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
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VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
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MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi PNG format, resized to JPEG format for posting.

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BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1980

“Fame” is a pop song, written by Michael Gore (music) and Dean Pitchford (lyrics) that was released in 1980, and achieved chart success as the theme song to the Fame film and TV series. The song was performed by Irene Cara, who played the role of Coco Hernandez in the original movie. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1980, and the Golden Globe Award for the same.

“Fame” rose to number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1980. It also reached number one on the Billboard dance chart for one week. The song was not released in the United Kingdom until 1982, so it would coincide with the UK premiere of the Fame television series. It hit number one in the UK Singles Chart for three weeks.

This rare 12″ contains a special mix by Disconet remixer Ed Smith and is exclusive to this release.

SIDE A:
Fame (Special Mix) 7:38
Remix – Ed Smith*

SIDE B:
Fame (Extended Version) 5:12
Hot Lunch Jam 4:09

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

CHARTS:

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: RSO
Catalog#: 810 724-1
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Maxi-Single, 45 RPM
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1980
Genre: Electronic
Style: Disco
Credits: Producer – Michael Gore

NOTES:
A: Special mix made by Ed Smith of Disconet
From the original soundtrack “FAME”

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Turntable: Pro-Ject Debut III
Cartridge: Ortofon Super 20
Bellari VP130 Tube Phono Preamp
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VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Brother MFC-6490CW Professional Series Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Adobe Photoshop CS5
ClickRepair
dBpoweramp
Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
Downsampled to 16bit 44kHz using Adobe batch processing
FLAC (Level Eight)
MP3 (320kbps)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi PNG format, resized to JPEG format for posting.

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