Moment Of Truth - "Helplessly" (album version)
The Intrepids - "After You've Had Your Fling (Get Down To The Real Thing )"
Blue Magic - "Welcome To The Club"
Margie Joseph - "I Can't Move No Mountains"
Ben E King - "Supernatural Thing" (part 1)
Faith Hope & Charity - "Mellow Me"
Richard Popcorn Wylie - "Georgia's After Hours" (album version)
Eddie Kendricks - "Date With The Rain" (album version)
Gloria Scott - "Just As Long As We're Together (In My Life There Will Never Be Another)" (single version)
Ronnie McNeir - "Wendy Is Gone"
Sons Of Robin Stone - "Got To Get You Back"
Ivano Fossati - "Night Of The Wolf (Tema Del Lupo)"
Ecstasy Passion & Pain - "Good Things Don't Last Forever"
Jimmy Ruffin - "Tell Me What You Want"
Betty Everett - "Keep It Up"
The Major Harris Boogie Blues Band - "Each Morning I Wake Up"
Act I - "It's The Same Old Story"
Creative Source - "You Can't Hide Love"
John Gary Williams - "The Whole Damn World Is Going Crazy"
White Heat - "If That's The Way You Feel (Then Let's Fall In Love)"
Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes - "Wake Up Everybody"
Review: Nodding to a seminal piece of music writing which documented the emergent disco phenomenon and inspired a smash hit movie, Tribal Rites Of The New Saturday Night is an authoritative compilation from the early years of disco. It's been put together with care, swerving obvious or over-played tracks to focus on the kind of powerful, soul-shaking cuts that could have been heard lighting up dance floors in Brooklyn in the mid-70s. There are some legends on board, from Creative Source to Eddie Kendricks, Ecstasy, Passion & Pain to Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes, but whoever's on the credits, these are picks to satisfy the surliest of disco bores as much as those who just love a great, groovy tune.
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