Disco Giants, Vol. 3

Overview

If there is one gateway into what the Netherlands' PTG label does (they reissue '80s club-oriented R&B, basically) it's the third volume of their Disco Giants series, which is packed with radio smashes and underground club favorites. It's less reliant upon the kind of post-disco marginalia that appeals only to the most hardcore fans of the era, and it will be a goldmine for anyone who knows the biggest hits -- like Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force's "I Wonder If I Take You Home" and Jellybean's "Sidewalk Talk" (featuring Madonna), both of which are here -- and wants to dig deeper. Highlights include (but are not limited to) Odyssey's "Inside Out," Skipworth & Turner's "Thinking About Your Love," Yarbrough & Peoples' "Don't Stop the Music," Billy Ocean's "Nights (Feel Like Getting Down)," Loose Ends' "Slow Down," and High Fashion's "Feeling Lucky Lately" (the closest a Jacques Fred Petrus-produced group came to repeating the shimmering bliss of Change's "Paradise"). Just about everything here was an indispensable tool for an '80s club jock. ~ Andy Kellman

Product Details

Release Date:	04/22/2008
Label:	Masterpiece Classic / Ptg
UPC:	8717438196497
Rank:	144703

Tracks

Disc 1

1. Sidewalk Talk  -  Jellybean  -  Madonna
2. I'll Do My Best (For You Baby)  -  Ritchie Family
3. It Should Have Been You  - Gwen Guthrie
4. Crazy  -  Manhattans
5. Inside Out  -  Odyssey
6. I Wonder If I Take You Home  - Curtis Bedeau  - Gerald Charles  - Gerard Charles  - Hugh Clarke  -  Full Force  - Brian George  - Lucien George  - Paul George  -  Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
7. Once Bitten Twice Shy  - Vesta Williams
8. Thinking About Your Love  -  Skipworth & Turner
9. Single Life  -  Cameo
10. You Can't Hide Your Love (From Me)  - David Joseph

Disc 2

11. Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll  - Jerome Bell  - Gregory Bufford  - Vaughan Mason  -  Mason
12. Feelin' Lucky Lately  -  High Fashion
13. Givin' It (To You)  - Randy Muller  -  Skyy
14. Don't Stop the Music  -  Yarbrough & Peoples
15. Jump into My Life  - Stacy Lattisaw
16. Round and Around  - Jaki Graham
17. Nights (Feel Like Getting Down)  - Billy Ocean
18. Mr. Groove  -  One Way
19. Lovelite  -  O'Bryan
20. Slow Down  -  Loose Ends

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Odyssey   Primary Artist
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam   Primary Artist
Stacy Lattisaw   Primary Artist
Vesta Williams   Primary Artist
High Fashion   Primary Artist
Billy Ocean   Primary Artist
The Manhattans   Primary Artist
Skipworth & Turner   Primary Artist
Skyy   Primary Artist
Cameo   Primary Artist
O'Bryan   Primary Artist
One Way   Primary Artist
The Ritchie Family   Primary Artist
Yarbrough & Peoples   Primary Artist
Gwen Guthrie   Primary Artist
Vaughan Mason and Crew   Primary Artist
David Joseph   Primary Artist
Jaki Graham   Primary Artist
Full Force   Primary Artist
Loose Ends   Primary Artist
Jellybean   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Vaughan Mason   Composer
Madonna   Composer
Curtis Bedeau   Composer
Gregory Bufford   Composer
Gerard Charles   Composer
Gerald Charles   Composer
Lucien George   Composer
Paul George   Composer
Brian George   Composer
Hugh Clarke   Composer
Jerome Bell   Composer
Randy Muller   Composer