vrijdag 6 november 2015

Wing & A Prayer Fife And Drum Corps. - Babyface (1976)

Wing and a Prayer Fife and Drum Corps was an American disco group in existence from 1975 to 1978. The "fife and drum corps" was actually an assemblage of studio musicians put together by Harold Wheeler; the group's vocalists were Linda November, Vivian Cherry, Arlene Martell, and Helen Miles.
Their 1976 album, Babyface, hit #47 on the US pop album chart and #19 on the Black Albums chart, due to the success of the single, "Baby Face". It had previously reached #1 for Jan Garber in 1926 and Art Mooney in 1948.
The single went to #1 on the US Club Play chart, #6 AC, #32 US Billboard Black Singles, and #14 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single also reached #12 in the UK Singles Chart.
Sometime in 1975 Atlantic Records launched their very short-lived Wing & A Prayer subsidiary label in New York City, primarily to provide an outlet for the Disco studio groups Consumer Rapport and Wing & A Prayer Fife & Drum Corps assembled by Harold Wheeler, who had been associated with the Broadway musical The Wiz, at a time when Disco was in its infancy. Just 2 albums were released in their existence along with 6 singles and all we now have at our disposal is the original vinyl covered here as, insofar as I can tell, no CD compilation of their work exists nor have any of the sides even been included in any multiple-artist quality CD compilations.

Act I 
A1. Just An Old Fashioned Medley  (9:45) 
       1. Swanee   
       2. Toot! Toot! Tootsie! (Good-Bye)   
       3. Oh! You Beautiful Doll   
       4. The Best Things In Life Are Fre   
       5. Blue Skies   
       6. I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover   
A2. Eleanor Rigby  (5:11) 
A3. I Hear A Symphony  (3:58) 

Act II 
B1. Show Medley  (5:53) 
       1. There's No Business Like Show Business   
       2. Hooray For Hollywood   
       3. Give My Regards To Broadstreet   
       4. Somewhere
B2. Charleston  (3:36) 
B3. Those Were The Days  (3:28) 
B4  Baby Face  (6:38) 

Label - Wing And A Prayer

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