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Top 61-Patricia Paay - Malibu 1978

Patricia Paay (born April 7, 1949, Schiedam) is a Dutch singer and model. She was well known in the Netherlands in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s for her contribution to popular music. Her voice became very well known to radio listeners around the North Sea as she voiced commercials, such as one for SKOL beer, and jingles for Radio Veronica.She met Adam Curry and retired from music in the Netherlands in the mid-1980s to set up home with Adam in the U.S. and help develop his career. She now lives in the UK with her daughter Christina Curry. Her ex-husband Adam is back in America. Paay sang many of the popular music remixes under the Stars on 45 brand name and was a member of the spin-off act Star Sisters, alongside sister Yvonne Keeley.On May 20, 2009, the Dutch weekly gossip magazine Story published an interview with Patricia Paay saying that she will divorce after 20 years of marriage. Adam Curry has started a relationship with Dutch TV personality, Micky Hoogendijk.Being Dutch and popular in The Netherlands, perhaps Mrs. Curry-Paay's best known release there (English language) was her 1977 cover of the Robert Knight hit, co-written by Buzz Cason and Mac Gayden, and made famous by Love Affair in 1967, 'Everlasting Love'; from her album, The Lady Is a Champ.In 2008 Paay participated as a judge on Holland's Got Talent. It currently airs on SBS 6 hosted by Gerard Joling. Co-Judging with Paay is Henkjan Smits (who in the past also judged Idols and X Factor) and Robert Ronday (manager of Circus Herman Renz).In 1984, Paay was the first glamor model in the Dutch edition of Playboy. In November 2009, it was reported that Paay would pose for the December 2009 issue of the Dutch version of the magazine at age 60. It will be the third time she has posed for Playboy. She also said during the shooting (RTL Shownieuws) of the pictures: It feels like I have a 'personal relationship' with everybody, and every man on the set. Not long after that her youngest and only daughter followed her mother's image and went for the Brittish FHM magazine.

Top 62-I Love America - Patrick Juvet ( 12''Extended Mix )

Patrick Juvet (born 21 August 1950, Montreux, Switzerland) is a former model turned singer-songwriter, who had a string of hit records in France. While his early career was focused on making pop records, he found international success as a disco music performer in the latter half of the 1970s.

Top 63-Patti Brooks-Girl Don't Make Me Wait (1977)

Pattie Brooks is an American singer most frequently associated with the disco era. She was born in Fort Riley, Kansas to a military family. Her first break came in 1968 when she auditioned for the chorus on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour". In the next decade she became a sought-after backing singer, appearing on the Bobby Darin Show and touring with, among others Helen Reddy. She sang backing on Donna Summer's "I Remember Yesterday" album.

Top 65-Rod Stewart - Do you think I'm sexy?

"Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" is a 1978 hit song for Rod Stewart. It was written by Stewart and Carmine Appice, and produced by Tom Dowd.

"Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" spent one week at the top of the British charts in December 1978 and four weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, starting February 10, 1979.

The song was criticized by many in the rock press as a betrayal of Stewart's blues-oriented rock roots due to its disco-like arrangement, but Stewart and others were quick to point out that other widely respected artists, such as Paul McCartney and The Rolling Stones, had also released disco-flavoured songs. It was also denounced as plagiarism.

Carmine Appice, who played drums on this song told Songfacts: "This was a story of a guy meeting a chick in a club. At that time, that was a cool saying. If you listen to the lyrics, 'She sits alone, waiting for suggestions, he's so nervous...' it's the feelings of what was going on in a dance club. The guy sees a chick he digs, she's nervous and he's nervous and she's alone and doesn't know what's going on, then they end up at his place having sex, and then she's gone."
In 2004 Rolling Stone ranked the song #301 on their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

A 12" disco single of the song was released in 1978. The song was remixed by disco producer Jim Burgess. It ran one minute longer than the LP version at 6:29, contains two alternate recorded lines, and a heavier bass-enthused drum beat. This disco version has never appeared on CD.

Top 66-Silver Convention - Fly Robin Fly

Silver Convention was a German disco recording act of the 1970s. The group was originally named Silver Bird Convention, or Silver Bird.

As Silver Convention they scored two major U.S. and Canadian hit singles. "Fly, Robin, Fly," of which the complete lyrics consisted of only six different words (Fly, Robin, Up, To, The, Sky), maintained three weeks at #1 in late November and early December 1975, and won the group a Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in December 1975. Initially the song was titled "Run, Rabbit, Run", changed by the writers moments before the recording took place.

Top 67-Tina Charles - I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me

Tina Charles (born Tina Hoskins, 10 March 1954, Whitechapel, London is an English singer, who achieved success as a disco artist in the mid to late 1970s. She is best known for her 1976 #1 hit "I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance)". Her chosen stage name of Charles was a tribute to her father, Charles Hoskins.

Top 68- Cerrone - Look For Love

After the success of Supernature (Cerrone III), Cerrone IV: The Golden Touch Cerrone signed up for management with Steven and Martin Machat. They helped oversee his worldwide career. Steven Machat negotiated a new deal for Cerrone in the US and Canada with Atlantic and CBS outside the US, Canada as well as France. These were major artists deals for that time period. The album got great reviews in the US and Atlantic threw a party in New York City, October of 1978 that was one of the largest parties ever thrown for an artist up to that point in time. The Album was another Cerrone U.S. disco chart-topper. Driven by "Je Suis Music", "Look For Love", and the urban-slanted "Rocket In The Pocket", this album showed his fusion attributes, foreshadowing his future releases.

Top 69-baccara - yes sir i can boogie

Baccara was a female vocal duo formed in 1977 by Spanish artists Mayte Mateos (February 7, 1951, Logroño) and María Mendiola (April 4, 1952, Madrid). The pair rapidly achieved international success with their debut single “Yes Sir, I Can Boogie”, which reached number one across much of Europe. A successful follow-up single (“Sorry, I'm A Lady”) and European tour led to a number of album releases, numerous television appearances and the duo's selection to represent Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978.

Despite a substantial following in Spain, Germany and Japan, by 1981 the duo's distinctive blend of disco, pop and Spanish folk music was no longer fashionable, and by 1983 Mayte Mateos and María Mendiola were both working on solo projects. Achieving little success as solo artists, the two formed duos of their own: separate incarnations of the original Baccara appeared during the middle of the decade, with Mendiola fronting New Baccara and Mateos keeping the duo's original name. During the 1990s New Baccara was renamed back to Baccara; as a consequence both Mateos and Mendiola now head different duos with the same name. The original Baccara enjoyed meteoric but brief success in the late 1970s. Both principals have subsequently had prolonged but separate legacy careers based on nostalgia and their earlier fame.

Both later Baccara incarnations have continued to work, although Mendiola's Baccara has seen more international recognition, releasing a string of Hi-NRG club hits such as “Fantasy Boy” and “Touch Me” in the late 1980s and the later UK club hit “Wind Beneath My Wings”. Mateos' Baccara has released few new recordings, but has remained in demand for television and live appearances in countries such as Spain and Germany where the original Baccara developed a loyal fan base, performing the duo's back-catalogue and modernised versions of traditional Spanish songs.

Top 70-Evelyn 'Champagne' King - Shame (1978)

Evelyn "Champagne" King (born July 1, 1960) is an American R&B, disco and post-disco singer. Some of her best-known songs are "Shame," "Love Come Down," and "I'm in Love."

Evelyn King was born in the Bronx, New York, and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her uncle had played the part of Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess and her father sang back-up for groups at Harlem's Apollo Theater. King was discovered while working with her mother at Philadelphia International Records as a cleaning woman. A producer, Theodore T Life, overheard her singing in a washroom and began coaching her. She was eventually signed to a production deal with Life's Galaxy Productions and a recording contract with RCA Records.

Career

King released her debut album, Smooth Talk, in 1977. The album included the song "Shame", which is her only top ten on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #9. The song also reached #7 R&B and #8 on the dance chart. The record was eventually certified gold. Another single from that album, "I Don't Know If It's Right", peaked at #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #7 R&B. This would become her second certified gold single. In 1981, the single "I'm in Love" was released from the same-titled album. It reached #1 on the R&B singles chart and dance chart in August of that year. It also peaked at #40 on the pop charts.

In 1982, King released the album, Get Loose. It yielded a top twenty pop and #1 R&B hit with the single, "Love Come Down". The song also peaked at #1 on the dance charts and reached the UK Singles Chart top ten, peaking at #7 for three weeks. The follow-up, "Betcha She Don't Love You," peaked at #2 on the R&B chart and #49 on the pop chart. From the mid- to late 1980s, King would continue to chart on the R&B charts, placing eight singles in the R&B top twenty, with three making it to the top ten.

On September 20, 2004, King's "Shame" became one of the first records to be inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in New York's Spirit club.
[edit] Return to music

On August 14, 2007, King released her first studio album in 18 years, Open Book. It featured the single "The Dance," which peaked at #12 on the Hot Dance Club Play Chart.

Top 71- First Choice - Doctor love

First Choice was an American girl group vocal music trio from Philadelphia. The group produced the disco hits "Armed and Extremely Dangerous", "Smarty Pants", "The Player", "Love Thang", "Let No Man Put Asunder" and "Dr. Love".

Top 72-Le' Pamplemousse - Le' Spank

Le Pamplemousse's "Le Spank" was another gem from the production team of Rinder & Lewis who also gave us El Coco and Saint Tropez.

Top 73-Lipstique - At The Discotheque 1977

Chubby Checkers 1965 hit At the Discotheque.

Producer(s): Jurgen Korduletsch
Arranger: Jorg Evers
Executive producers: Chris Hill and Nigel Grainge

Recorded in Munich and London
Mixed at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mixing Engineer: Arthur Stoppe
Mastered by Jose Rodriguez at Frankford Wayne Labs, New York, New York
A Tom Moulton Mix.

Top 74-Meco - Star Wars Theme ( 12" Version )

Meco (real name Domenico Monardo, born 29 November 1939) is an American record producer and musician, as well as the name of a band or production team based around him. Meco is best known for his 1977 disco (Space Disco) version of the Star Wars theme from his album Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk; both the single and album were certified platinum in the U.S.

Biography

Meco Monardo was born in Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania to parents of Italian descent, and building model ships, science fiction and movies were some of his boyhood preoccupations. His father played the valve trombone in a small Italian band, and through him Meco got his first musical education. Meco wanted to play the drums, but his father convinced him that the trombone was the right instrument, and at nine that was the instrument which he was to stay with, however, for Meco the slide trombone was his choice, troublesome as it was for the small statured boy to extend the slide fully at first. He joined the high school band while still attending grammar school. At 17, he won a scholarship to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, which provided him with a solid classical and jazz music education. There, together with his two friends Chuck Mangione and Ron Carter, he started the Eastman School of Music Jazz Band. When he joined West Point, he also played in the Cadet Band.

Out of the army Meco moved to New York City and joined Kai Winding in his four-trombone band, and then from 1965 to 1974 he went on as a studio musician. Originally not inclined towards pop music, Meco's heart changed when he heard Petula Clark's "Downtown". He began doing arrangements, for example the horn section on Tommy James' "Crystal Blue Persuasion" and the Neil Diamond series of Coke commercials. As a session musician he played the trombone with acts like Tommy James, Diana Ross and David Barretto. Although Meco focused on producing in the late 1970s, he contracted the horns and performed on Diana Ross' 1980 album Diana as a favor to producer (and neighbor) Nile Rodgers. His solo on the single "I'm Coming Out" is notable because of the rarity of trombone features on post-big-band era pop records.

The uniquely styled 'Meco' logo

Around 1973, Meco, Tony Bongiovi, and a third person formed the production company Disco Corporation of America, and from 1974 to 1976 Meco worked as a record producer. The team of Meco, Bongiovi, Jay Ellis, and Harold Wheeler produced the 1974 Gloria Gaynor hit "Never Can Say Goodbye". Carol Douglas' "Doctor's Orders" was among the other productions of that period.

According to Meco:

"When disco was new, it was fresh and exciting because it was different. But pretty soon it became too cookie-cutter and wore itself out."

Meco temporarily left the music industry in 1985. After three years of "doing nothing but playing golf" he started to work as a commodity broker in Florida.

Star Wars theme

The "Sci-Fi Disco Band MECO" in 1977

On 25 May 1977, Meco watched the feature film Star Wars on its opening day. By the second day, 26 May 1977, he had watched it four times, and he watched it several more times that weekend. He then got the idea to make a disco version of the score by John Williams. He contacted Neil Bogart at Casablanca Records, but only after the original score had become a huge success did Bogart agree to help Meco realize his idea. Contact was established with Millennium Records, then a Casablanca subsidiary, and this became Meco's first record company. Here Meco rejoined with Tony Bongiovi and he was also able to bring in Harold Wheeler who had also been part of the team behind "Never Can Say Goodbye" in 1974. Lance Quinn was also part of the Meco team, and the different roles played by the four musicians is described by Meco himself in a 1999 interview with his fan web site:
“ Tony and Lance are the two guys who would not let me be "too musical". Tony would say: "It's not dumb enough - It's too good." Tony is a frustrated drummer and Lance is a guitar genius, so they would make sure the rhythm section was always "smoking" under the very sophisticated arrangements and concepts that Harold and I started with.[3] ”

In a matter of just three weeks they arranged and recorded Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk. Although the album was nominated for "Best Instrumental Pop performer" in 1977, the award ultimately went to John Williams.

The band Meco

For a period of four months there was even a show band assembled to perform to Meco's disco music in public venues. However, the band was not involved in the making of the music. This initiative was organized by Norby Walters, a booking agent for discos. The band members (pictured in this article) toured the U.S. and Canada as a high energy show band called Lemon Tree. Norby Walters booked and also managed the band prior to the Star Wars project. Band personnel was Carmine Giovinazzo, Stan Glogicheski, Tommy Rocco, Tony Abruzzo, and Tony "Butch" Gerace.

Other soundtracks become "Meco-ized"

In the fall of 1977, Meco's second album was released. It was another rearranged science fiction movie soundtrack, Encounters Of Every Kind, based on John Williams music for the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, from which three singles were released: "Topsy", "Meco's Theme", and "Theme From Close Encounters".

Meco's third album came in early 1978, and this time it was the music from The Wizard Of Oz which got transformed into a disco album by the same name, as Meco described: "It is my best work bar none." From this album came the hit single "Themes from The Wizard of Oz: Over the Rainbow/We're Off to See the Wizard".

In the fall of 1978, Millennium merged with RCA. Since he had developed a deep-bonded working relationship with Neil Bogart and other staff at Casablanca Records (Millennium and Casablanca having cooperated closely), Meco decided to move to Casablanca.

Casablanca released the fourth Meco album, Superman & Other Galactic Heroes, featuring two hit singles, "Superman Theme" and "Love Theme From Superman". This was yet another Meco makeover of an original John Williams score.

In 1979, the fifth album, Moondancer, was released, and with it the hit singles "Moondancer", "Grazing In The Grass", and "Devil's Delight".

In 1980, Meco's sixth album, Music From Star Trek & Music From The Black Hole, was released, featuring the song "Theme From Star Trek". The movie Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) featured an original soundtrack composed by Jerry Goldsmith.

The last album which Meco made for Casablanca, his seventh, which came out in 1981, was The American Werewolf In London, based on the soundtrack from the 1981 movie An American Werewolf in London. After this Meco's tenure with Casablanca was over, and he signed up with RCA Records.
Discography
Albums

* Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk (1977)
* Encounters Of Every Kind (1977)
* Meco Plays The Wizard of Oz (1978)
* Superman & Other Galactic Heroes (1978)
* Moondancer (1979)
* Meco Plays Music from The Empire Strikes Back (10" EP – 1980)
* Christmas In The Stars: Star Wars Christmas Album (1980)
* Music From Star Trek and Music From The Black Hole (1980)
* Across The Galaxy (1980)
* The American Werewolf In London (1981)
* Pop Goes The Movies (1982)
* Swingtime's Greatest Hits (1982)
* Ewok Celebration (1983)
* Hooked on Instrumentals (1985)
* The Best of Meco (1997)
* The Complete Star Wars Collection (2000)
* Star Wars Party (2005) (This release is only sold on the Internet, a retail release with identical musical content was released as Music Inspired By Star Wars)

Top 75-Munich Machine - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

Giorgio Moroder also released three albums between 1977-1979 under the name Munich Machine.

A Whiter Shade of Pale by Munich Machine (feat. Chris Bennett) was the second album under the Munich Machine project name for Giorgio Moroder. Much less electronic than the first (S/T) of the series, with a much more sensuous female vocal delivery, which will peak in the 3rd LP, "Bodyshine".

Top 76-PATTIE BROOKS - Love Shook

Pattie Brooks is an American singer most frequently associated with the disco era. She was born in Fort Riley, Kansas to a military family. Her first break came in 1968 when she auditioned for the chorus on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour". In the next decade she became a sought-after backing singer, appearing on the Bobby Darin Show and touring with, among others Helen Reddy. She sang backing on Donna Summer's "I Remember Yesterday" album.

Casablanca Records Career

In the mid-1970s Brooks came to the attention of disco producer Simon Soussain and her solo recording career was born. Her first of four albums on the Casablanca label was 1977's Love Shook (the album was credited as Pattie Brooks & The Simon Orchestra), and the whole album peaked at #2 on the US Dance Chart . Pattie remained with Soussain and in 1978 recorded her biggest club hit, "After Dark". This was selected to be part of the soundtrack to the film Thank God It's Friday and as the soundtrack topped the club play charts, Pattie's contribution was up there with friend and stablemate Donna Summer's "Last Dance" as the most celebrated tracks. "After Dark" was the mainstay of Pattie's second album (now with sole billing) Our Ms Brooks. In 1979 Pattie moved away from Soussain as her third album Party Girl was produced by Bunny Sigler of Instant Funk and Salsoul fame. The result was a far more varied album that encompassed funk, pop and a big ballad as well as pure disco. While the album spawned no huge singles it did include "Got Tu Go Disco", the title song from a notorious Broadway flop musical. In 1979 Pattie branched out from disco by singing "Close Enough For Love", the title song to the Vanessa Redgrave movie Agatha. By 1980 the disco backlash had taken effect in the USA, and Pattie's fourth and last Casablanca offering Pattie Brooks was very much a pop-soul affair, produced this time by Michael Smith. No hits were forthcoming and Pattie left Casablanca.

Top 77-Bette Midler - My Knight In Black Leather

Thighs and Whispers is the fifth studio album by American singer Bette Midler. Released in 1979, the album reached #65 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.

The album's title is a humorous play on Cries and Whispers, influential Swedish film-maker Ingmar Bergman's anything but humorous 1973 movie.

The song "Millworker", written by James Taylor, is from the short-lived Broadway production of Working. Midler's recording of "Married Men" reached the top 40 of the U.S. Club Play Singles chart and the song was also a UK top 40 hit for Bonnie Tyler the same year. Tyler's version was the theme to the British film The World Is Full of Married Men.

The largely disco-influenced album which saw Midler reunited with producer Arif Mardin also includes Jerry Ragovoy's "My Knight in Black Leather", a minor dancefloor hit peaking at #70 on the US dance charts. "Married Men", "Hang on in There Baby" and "My Knight in Black Leather", released at the very peak of the disco era, were all issued as extended mixes on 12-inch singles.

While the singles and the album itself were largely overlooked at the time, "Big Noise From Winnetka" has since served as the opening number on many of Midler's tours. The song was originally a swing classic recorded by Bob Crosby and the Bobcats, Gene Krupa and several others in the late 1930s.

The album was digitally remastered and reissued on CD by Atlantic Records in 1995.
Track listing
Side one

1. "Big Noise From Winnetka" (Ray Bauduc, Bob Crosby, Bob Haggart, Gil Rodin) – 6:56
2. "Millworker" (James Taylor) – 4:07
3. "Cradle Days" (Tony Berg, Aaron Neville) – 5:05
4. "My Knight in Black Leather" (Jerry Ragovoy) – 4:53
Side two

1. "Hang On In There Baby" (Johnny Bristol) – 6:04
2. "Hurricane" (Randy Kerber, Bette Midler) – 7:30
3. "Rain" (Mac Rebennack) – 3:58
4. "Married Men" (Dominic Bugatti, Frank Musker) – 3:47

Top 78-Beach Boys Here Comes the Night Disco Mix

"Here Comes the Night " was originally on the "Wild Honey" album released in 1967. In 1979 it reappeared as a disco song on the L.A. (Light Album). You can find this CD on Amazon.com under the name M.I.U. Album/L.A. (Light Album).

Disco remake of their 1968 song; reached #37 Pop in the U.K. in April 1979, #44 Pop in the USA in April 1979.

Top 79-B. Baker Chocolate Co. - "Higher and Higher (Disco Version)"1979

A song by the studio group "B. Baker And the Chocolate Company" who released an album under the same name in 1979.

Cover of the song popularized by Jackie Wilson in 1967 and Rita Coolidge in 1977.

Top 80-Ring My Bell - Anita Ward '1979

Anita Ward (born December 20, 1956, Memphis, Tennessee) is an American singer and musician. She is best known for her 1979 million selling chart-topper, "Ring My Bell"

Before signing a recording contract, Ward obtained a degree in psychology from Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and had become a schoolteacher. While recording her debut album, record label owner Frederick Knight presented her with a song he had written the previous year for Stacy Lattisaw. Ward did not like the song, but Knight insisted that a dance track was needed to capitalize on the current disco trend, and Ward relented. The song, which was originally a juvenile targeted tune about teens talking on the telephone, was rewritten with more 'adult' lyrics, and the result was the single "Ring My Bell". The single reached number one in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom in 1979.[2] Disputes with Frederick Knight, a car accident, and the fading appeal of disco music halted Ward's career, and she came to be regarded as a one-hit wonder. Only one other single of hers made the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S., "Don't Drop My Love," which halted at #87.

On New Year's Eve 2002 she performed "Ring My Bell" in New York City's Times Square before a crowd of revelers as part of the city's official celebration. On New Year's Eve 2005, Ward performed in Memphis, Tennessee at Beale Street. She sang "Ring My Bell" and several other disco hits.

She has also appeared in Zagreb, Croatia on January 4, 2006, the night before the FIS World Cup slalom race on nearby Sljeme, with some other groups and singers from disco era; (Nile Rodgers and Chic, Village People, Thelma Houston and Rose Royce).

Top 81-Andy Williams - "Where Do I Begin (Love Story '79)"

Disco version of his 1971 hit, the theme to the 1971 movie "Love Story"

Top 82-Alma Faye Brooks - It's Over (1979)

Alma Faye stood out the most with her disco performance as the back up band wasnt displayed on the set and had disco dancers performing with her but the number of the episode or date is unknown but performed two different songs on two different episodes.
The disco song she performed was "It's Over" on the Commercial Programming episode and was not introduced at all and in another episode which was the "Lottery" one she performed her new hit at the moment titled "Don't Fall in Love" in which Somers and Gebert were fighting over who was going to introduce her backstage but she performs regardless.

Alma Faye was born in Montreal, Quebec.She burst on the scene in 1977 with a bright little number that gave her the first taste of American exposure. "Stop, I Don't Need No Sympathy" was a bright, horn-laddened number that was released on an RCA records 12" single. The song was originally a minor hit for Lyn Roman, better known as Linda Griner, in the early 1970's. However producers Dominic Scisente and Michel Daigle (better known for their later success with Voggue) utilize Alma's unique and distinct voice to it's utmost on her version. The song created minor ripples on the American club scene but failed to crack the pop charts.Alma also tried a bit of musical aacting and appeared in a Canadian stage production of Hair.In late 1978 producers Michel and Dominic, along with Alma, began writing and recording what would become her only album release titled "Doin' It" and at the tiome it was only released in Canada during late 78 which would be a disco masterpiece. By 1979 the album would make it's way to the American club scene when Casablanca records picked it up and re-released here under the shortened Alma Faye moniker.

Immediately a 12" single was pulled and remixed (twice) for release. "It's Over" climbed up the club charts and even peaked at #-60 on the pop charts. A second single, "Don't Fall In Love" faired as well on the club scene but barely hit #-90 on the Billboard charts but of course this series let her have a guest spot as a musical guest performing this number along with disco dancers in the Lottery episode and her performance in the show was more outstanding than any of the other musical guests. The album itself was chocked full of other disco nuggets.

Her success in Canada earned her a Juno, (the Canadian Grammy equivalent), nomination in 1978 for "Most Promising Female Vocalist" alongside Claudja Barry and winner Lisa Dal Bello. Again in 1980 she was nominated for the same Juno alongside Karen Silver and winner France Joli.

But sadly in 1980 her recording career seemed to go up in smoke as disco was at it's peak and then afterwards it was dying. She went back to session work and personal appearances afterwards. She also had a cameo in the 1989 motion picture Eddie & the Cruisers 2: Eddie Lives as a singer and most recently on April 29, 2004 she appeared at Montreal's "Tsirco & Jazz" restaurant on April 29, 2004. So she is still remembered for her music which is nice to know. A Special thanks to the webmasters www.discomuseum.com for all the information on her.

Top 83-Alfredo De La Fe Hot to trot (1979)

Alfredo De La Fé is a Cuban-born and New York-based violinist who lived in Colombia for more than 16 years and is responsible for transforming the violin into an important sound of Salsa and Latin music. The first solo violinist to perform with a Salsa orchestra, De La Fe has toured the world more than thirty times, appearing in concert and participating in more than one hundred albums by such top-ranked Latin artists as Eddie Palmieri, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, José Alberto "El Canario", Cheo Feliciano, The Fania All-Stars and Santana. His second solo album, Alfredo, released in 1979, received a Grammy nomination as "Best Latin album".

Top 84-Alec R. Costandinos & The Syncophonic Orchestra - Synergy 1979

Alec R. Costandinos and the Syncophonic Orchestra featuring Alirol and Jacquet - "Synergy" - based on Vivaldi's "Summer" Concerto from "The Four Seasons"

Alec R. Costandinos, (born Alexandre Kouyoumdjian in 1944 in Cairo, Egypt) has long been considered one of the original catalysts of the French disco scene of the 70's. He was also intimately involved as a writer, publisher and musician in the development of Aphrodite's Child with Vangelis and Greek-born pop singer, Demis Roussos. On the disco front, he contributed to the debut album of Crystal Grass, which featured the club hit "Crystal World", released on the Philips label in France. Alec was also the publisher of hits for various artists including French chanteuse Dalida. Aside his name, he has also written under the pseudonym R. Rupen.

Top 85-Amanda Lear - "Lili Marleen" 1979

Disco version (in German and English) of a German poem written by Hans Leip that became an anthem sung by Marlene Dietrich in the 1940s.

Top 86-Amii Stewart - "The Letter"

Amy 'Amii' Paulette Stewart (born January 29, 1956) is an American contemporary R&B/disco/dance-pop singer, dancer and actress most famous for her hit disco record "Knock on Wood". Stewart is the stepsister of actress-singer Miquel Brown and aunt to Brown's actress-singer daughter Sinitta.