as well asmuddy_rogerDecember 28 2024, 02:02:01 UTC
1974 - Gene Page
[review] Hot City is a slick, carefully crafted and melodic album where strings sweeten the nine tracks on Hot City, adding the finishing touch to an album where elements of baroque, disco, funk, jazz and soul are combined by the cream of LA session players. In many ways, Hot City is similar to the music that the disco orchestras would record between 1975 and 1979. The only difference was the lack of vocals on Hot City. However, Gene Page's arrangements and Barry White's arrangements speak for themselves on Hot City. Buoyed by the reviews of Hot City, the album was released by Atlantic Records, but stalled at 156 in the US Billboard and forty-one in the US R&B charts. When All Our Dreams Are Coming True was released as a single it reached number nine in the US Dance. The followup Satin Soul then reached number four in the US Dance charts and thirty-seven in the US Adult Contemporary charts. While Hot City hadn't come close to replicating the success of Barry White's first two albums, Gene Page's solo career was well underway, and he would return in 1976 with the followup Lovelock. >>
[review]
Hot City is a slick, carefully crafted and melodic album where strings sweeten the nine tracks on Hot City, adding the finishing touch to an album where elements of baroque, disco, funk, jazz and soul are combined by the cream of LA session players. In many ways, Hot City is similar to the music that the disco orchestras would record between 1975 and 1979. The only difference was the lack of vocals on Hot City. However, Gene Page's arrangements and Barry White's arrangements speak for themselves on Hot City. Buoyed by the reviews of Hot City, the album was released by Atlantic Records, but stalled at 156 in the US Billboard and forty-one in the US R&B charts. When All Our Dreams Are Coming True was released as a single it reached number nine in the US Dance. The followup Satin Soul then reached number four in the US Dance charts and thirty-seven in the US Adult Contemporary charts. While Hot City hadn't come close to replicating the success of Barry White's first two albums, Gene Page's solo career was well underway, and he would return in 1976 with the followup Lovelock. >>
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[charts]UK - | US 156 | DDD -
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Tag: 474 albums of 1974
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