Category: Raindolls

Raindolls – Disco Santa Claus (US 12″)

Burning The Ground Exclusive 1978

NEW 2023 Transfer
NEW Meticulous Audio restoration

Originally posted December 7, 2012

Disco Friday!

Season’s Greetings, this year you’ll be hanging the Christmas stockings with cheer, as boogie fever fills the air!Disco

“Disco Santa Claus” is a one-off Disco single by the studio group Raindolls. Produced and arranged by Eric Matthew one of the co-founders of the Disco group Gary’s Gang the song also includes drums by Gary’s Gang drummer Gary Turner. “Disco Santa Claus” was produced by Profile Records founder Cory Robbins. The b-side “Santa’s Theme” is an instrumental of “Disco Santa Claus”.

SIDE A:
 Disco Santa Claus 6:50
Written-By – Stan Cleveland

SIDE B:
Santa’s Theme 6:37
Written-By – C. RobbinsE. MatthewG. Turnier*

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: AVI Records – AVI-12-242-D
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1978
Genre: Funk/Soul
Style: Disco, Holiday

CREDITS:

NOTES:
Produced for Our First Time Production Company, Inc.
BPM 120

Housed in a “Giant Disco Single” custom Christmas AVI records sleeve.

Buy the 12″ at DISCOGS

VINYL TRANSFER & AUDIO RESTORATION:
-DjPaulT
burningtheground.net

THE GEAR:
Turntable: Technics SL-1200MK7
Cartridge/Stylus:  Ortofon 2M Black PnP MkII
Turntable Isolation Platform: ISO-Tone™ Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro Spin Acrylic Mat
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
Phono Pre-amp:
Pro-Jec Tube Box DS2
Tubes: Genalex Gold Lion 12AX7 ECC83/B759 Gold Pins Vacuum Tube – Matched Pair
DAC:
Alpha Design Labs GT40a USB DAC
Record Cleaning
: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans
: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

SOFTWARE:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling/Dither: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator

RESTORATION NOTES:
All vinyl rips are recorded @ 32bit/float
FLAC (Level Eight)
Artwork scanned at 600dpi

**24bit FLAC Only Available For Seven Days!


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