Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Adventures In Paradise - Riperton, Minnie
2. Little Bit Of Love - Gentle Persuasion
3. Southern Girl - Maze & Frankie Beverly
4. Expressway To Your Heart - Thunder, Margo
5. Sophisticated Lady (She's A Different Lady) - Cole, Natalie
6. I'm Going Through Changes Now - Brown Sugar
7. Windstorm - Jones, Gloria
8. Work That Body - Ross, Diana
9. Save Your Love For Me - Washington, Donna
10. Party Night - T-Connection
11. Life Is What You Make It - Tapestry (1)
12. One Thing On My Mind - Sands, Evie
13. Lay Some Lovin' On Me - Brown Sugar
14. Surrender - Strong, Barrett
15. Do It Good - Taste Of Honey
16. I'm Back For More - Tavares

Disc 2:

1. Twilight - Maze & Frankie Beverly
2. Baby This Love I Have - Riperton, Minnie
3. Man Up In The Sky - Strong, Barrett
4. Positive Forces - Tavares
5. Don't Tie Me Down - Brown Sugar
6. Part 3 Street Corner - Ashford & Simpson
7. Sixty Thrills A Minute - Mystic Merlin
8. Conscience - Sun (2)
9. We All Need Love - Troiano, Domenic
10. Peace Of Mind - Allen, Rance Group
11. Annie Mae - Cole, Natalie
12. Scuse Me While I Fall In Love - Washington, Donna
13. Ooh Child - Jackson, Charles
14. Party In Me - Dunlap, Gene
15. Our Love Is Insane - Child, Desmond & Rouge

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #93509 in Music
• Released on: 2007-06-11
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Customer Reviews

Almost there but not quite...
Interesting compilation of Capitol's disco ouput with a few glaring omissions. The Reflections deserved a couple of tracks, particularly as "Three Steps from True Love" was one of Capitol's biggest disco hits. Also a strange choice from Gloria Jones, when the wonderful "Bring On the Love" was her big club hit (it's the one that really makes you think she's singing about Marc Bolan). At times the album feels it should be called "Capitol Funk". Having said that, it's unearthed some wonderful obscurities, and I fully agree with the compiler's comments about Maze.
Here's a tip for you...any album that includes a Rance Allen track is always worth purchasing.
Bring on Volume 2.

Capitol Disco
A bit of a disapointing album, that has taken me many listens to gauge its merit. However, Minni Ripertons opener is an absolute gem. I instantly fell in love with this song... one of those rare, valuable grooves that makes buying the whole album worth it! I can't knock Asford & Simpsons street corner, a chunky plodder that had me playing it over & over & over again in my mind. Great memories of this song & the early 80's. Overall, I like the album, its not the best disco compilation, indeed, many of the tunes aren't disco at all,more like early 70's soul, which somewhat detracts from the title, and gives the suspicion that the complier is not a true disco officinado, but a worthy disc none-the-less. (Minni Ripperton just blew me away! Just buy it for this song. Outstanding!)

C(r)apitol Disco
This is a highly disappointing release and for these very reasons: What's here is obscure early 80's R&B. What's missing is the "Disco" which this collection boasts, but falls flat on its face with. For a label barely known for its roster of Disco acts, I find it quite comical that the acts listed here are not even representative of that genre of music. I used to own almost all of the Capitol "Disco" records which bore the "Capitol Disco" stamp right on the record labels themselves and the one who compiled this awful collection obviously does not know himself what records were "Disco" and were NOT "Disco" from the Capitol label. I'll begin with what WAS "Disco" and what songs are missing here so as to prevent others from buying this severely pointless compilation:

"Love Magnet," "Happy Days Are Here Again/Happy Music (Dance the Night Away,)" "I'll Do Anything for You" and "Red Hot" by Freda Payne. Also missing are the two MONSTER Disco hits from Capitol, "Boogie Oogie Oogie" by A Taste of Honey and "Haven't Stopped Dancin' Yet" by Gonzalez. And where is "Disco Fairlyand" by Kitty and The Haywoods? Where is Helen Reddy's ONLY BOW to Disco, "Make Love to Me" in all of it's seven minutes of Disco glory? How about "Never Gonna Change My Mind" by Plaza or "Shake Your Body (It's the Joint)" by Gary Bartz? Tavares isn't even shown here with ANY of their Disco hits which include "The Ghost of Love," "Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel," "Straight from the Heart" and/or "Love Uprising." These were all released in or prior to 1980 when Disco was fading commercially. Where's anything here from the band Shobizz? Natalie Cole attempted ONLY ONE bow to Disco with her
"I Love You So" album in 1979. If anything, its title cut or an extended version of its only hit single, "Stand By" might have made more sense than "Annie Mae" which was the 2nd single from two albums prior which was straight-up R&B. "Sophisticated Lady" which is showcased here is a Funk song. Minnie Riperton (in all of her Late greatness) is severely misrepresented here with "Adventures in Paradise," a Funk-Rock tune. Where is HER one bow to Disco with "Stick Together?" That one was released as a 12" single. Gloria Jones is represented here with "Windstorm," which IS accurate, however she had a Disco nugget entitled, "When I Was A Little Girl," which isn't shown here at all and was strangley similar in tone/style/structure to anything Gloria Gaynor or Thelma Houston might have recorded/released and must certainly be in the Capitol vaults. I own it on a 12" Disco single. Also missing in action are Nancy Wilson's "Love, Life and Harmony" and "Take My Love" from her 1979 & 1980 albums of the same names.

This collection is not only incomplete, but mostly wrong. This is lethargic early 80's R&B at best that did not fare very well with the masses nor at Radio. Most of it is so obscure in fact, that one would have to be either an avid collector OR a Capitol fan (as I once was) to remember any of them.

This is not to say that the songs here are bad; they're simply NOT Disco songs. Diana Ross wasn't a Capitol artist, so it's beyond me how her abysmal workout song, "Work That Body" ended up here. She recorded that song on RCA. "Do It Good" from A Taste of Honey flopped when it was released and "Boogie Oogie Oogie" would have been the better choice here. "Do It Good" was a Disco song, but not a very well known one. As for the rest of this collection, Mystic Merlin's "Sixty Thrills A Minute" as well as Donna Washington's "'Scuse Me, While I Fall in Love" and Ashford & Simpson's "Street Corner" were released respectively in 1981 and 1982. Disco ended in 1980, so I don't understand quite where the "Disco" format plays into ANY of these three selections either. Finally, and more perplexing is T-Connection's "Party Night." This was released in 1983 which is three years after the Disco sound/format was well on the wane. For this collection and its asking price, I would save your money, pray for the day it's re-issued (and CORRECTLY with the RIGHT SONGS and not all the filler) or just buy it more cheaply or used if only for some of the obscure cuts that are not available in CD format. This is ANYTHING but a Disco album. Don't be fooled by the title. What titles I mentioned in the beginning of this review are the titles that Capitol is holding hostage in its vaults and that SHOULD HAVE BEEN USED here as opposed to what is. I hope this information is helpful. Many of these songs are still available on vinyl and most likely will continue to be until Capitol gets with it and gives the fans the REAL "Disco" deal instead of this awful imposter set. Most of the songs mentioned early on may be available for download as well. "Disco Can't Go On Forever," a song taken from the band Gonzalez' final Capitol album, "Watch Your Step" in 1980, says a lot in its title alone, but here and by the music presented, Disco never got started to begin with.