JIMMY M.'S TAKE
Jimmy is just one of those people that was born in the wrong era. Actually only a fetus when Karen was working on this album in 1979. I don't think I've ever met anyone who has more love for the music of the disco era. In the 90's he even got an opportunity to spin a retro night at a gay club in Phoenix.
As for the disco album, this was really a controversial release. Herb Alpert the head of A & M considered it unreleasable. But you can hear for yourself and I highly doubt you'll agree with him. I think it was just a matter of the wrong time. By 1980 the labels didn't know what to do with disco. Not that a lot of great disco wasn't still being recorded but it was no longer holding 4 out of the Top 5 on the pop charts anymore. It's kind of like what I would imagine will eventually happen to EDM.
Most of the label heads were rock people anyway so I'm sure they were glad to push music they understood better, I mean even new wave was a type of rock though it was often so danceable that it owed just as much to disco as rock.
Apparently Karen put up $400,000 of her own money for the recording of this album with A & M only contributing $100,000. Even though it was produced by Phil Ramone the label still wouldn't release it.
Some of the songs in a remixed form appeared on The Carpenters' 1989 album Lovelines, released long after Karen died of anorexia.
Jimmy is just one of those people that was born in the wrong era. Actually only a fetus when Karen was working on this album in 1979. I don't think I've ever met anyone who has more love for the music of the disco era. In the 90's he even got an opportunity to spin a retro night at a gay club in Phoenix.
As for the disco album, this was really a controversial release. Herb Alpert the head of A & M considered it unreleasable. But you can hear for yourself and I highly doubt you'll agree with him. I think it was just a matter of the wrong time. By 1980 the labels didn't know what to do with disco. Not that a lot of great disco wasn't still being recorded but it was no longer holding 4 out of the Top 5 on the pop charts anymore. It's kind of like what I would imagine will eventually happen to EDM.
Most of the label heads were rock people anyway so I'm sure they were glad to push music they understood better, I mean even new wave was a type of rock though it was often so danceable that it owed just as much to disco as rock.
Apparently Karen put up $400,000 of her own money for the recording of this album with A & M only contributing $100,000. Even though it was produced by Phil Ramone the label still wouldn't release it.
Some of the songs in a remixed form appeared on The Carpenters' 1989 album Lovelines, released long after Karen died of anorexia.
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