About half a dozen different artists lead a session of three or four songs. These range from the jazz orientated Emerson session, to the country folk of Linda Ronstadt. Apart from the occasional overdub, the music is pretty much as it was recorded, warts and all. Songs such as "Hey Jude", "Lay lady lay", "Mother nature's son" etc. Some are reasonably faithful to the originals, "Hey Jude" being little more than an organ rendition with a big brass ending.
The Linda Ronstadt recordings, which involve little if any improvisation, sound rather out of place from the rest of the album, but despite this they are fine performances. At times, the unstructured nature of the sessions becomes apparent, a young Moogy Klingman doing his best to keep in order the major artists he had been thrown in a the deep end with.
Elsewhere though, a burst of thrilling lead guitar by Jeff Beck on "Big city woman" for example makes this simply indispensable, especially when Tommy Cosgrove adds a fine vocal to this wonderful piece of blues. For presumably inextricably complex copyright reasons, the album is now very difficult to find.
It was never officially released in the US despite being recorded there, rendering it a desirable import from the UK.
Even in the UK, it took three years to sort out the legal situation to the extent that the album could be released, finally appearing in A CD version offered via Klingman's website is taken from a "pristine vinyl recording"!
Not an album I would recommend searching for as some sort of Holy grail , but should you come across it, it's certainly well worth a listen. You must be a forum member to post a review, please register here if you are not. Costandinos or Boris Midney , but it turns out he's from rural Pennsylvania. Anyway, after an early stint producing such luminaries as Gloria Gaynor , he and partners Tony Bongiovi and Harold Wheeler went into the lucrative "disco remakes" business, striking gold with a version of the Star Wars theme.
They pressed their luck with a bunch of similar follows-up, and even ventured out of disco on occasion without much success. Meco played trombone on most of his own records and also as a sideman, notably audible on Diana Ross 's "I'm Coming Out. The concept here was to take the listener through history, so Side One is a bunch of tunes composed by Wheeler representing prehistoric times through the 19th Century, and Side Two covers 20th Century tunes - the show tune "Crazy Rhythm"; the Carpenters' "Topsy" - before finally coming across with the "Close Encounters" theme.
But the funny thing is, Wheeler's originals are a heck of a lot more interesting than the covers: "In The Beginning," punctuated by Godzilla roars, is a blast, as is "Roman Nights" set at an orgy in the Senate Bath House, the liner notes explain.
The Native American war-whooping in "Hot In The Saddle" is as offensive as you'd imagine, but it's also totally awesome. And the actual "Theme From Close Encounters" is nothing much to work with, just those five banal notes, so the album resembles a dining experience where the main course is overcooked and tough, but you don't care because you filled up on appetizers. Each side is arranged as a seamless suite, with a brief linking theme "Time Machine" , and Wheeler does an impressive job of negotiating all the transitions smoothly.
He is perhaps best known for his 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. This song is popularly misattributed to Weird Al Yankovic on various file sharing networks. He is perhaps best known for his disco version of the Star Wars theme from his album Star Wars and Other Galact read more.
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