Track Listing

1. I'll Play the Fool
2. Hard Times
3. Cherchez la Femme/Se Si Bon
4. Sunshower
5. We Got It Made/Night and Day
6. You've Got Something/Betcha' the Love Bug Bitcha'
7. Sour & Sweet/Lemon in the Honey

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #107225 in Music
• Released on: 1999-12-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

From Amazon.com
Disco rarely got more musically or lyrically sophisticated than on this self-titled debut album. Long before he took up the role of Kid Creole with the Coconuts, wordsmith August Darnell cushioned small, perfect truths--singer Cory Daye promises to get her "equivalency diploma" in love in "I'll Play the Fool"--in knowingly retro sounds. Stylish, honest, and completely one of a kind. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews

DiscoSwing or BigBandRhumba

You can get a brief taste of the Savannah Band on youtube and, if you like it, you won't be disappointed by any of the back catalogue. The Browder Brothers created a really beautiful thing; a cocktail of nostalgia and disco which eventually fermented into the mad Caribbean flavours of Kid Creole & the Coconuts.
The Savannah Band's first album is a real treat for anyone who likes seventies disco, though with a unique percussive boom.
August Darnell (Thom Browder)could almost be seen as a Latin American version of George Clinton: producing a bunch of albums under different guises using a group of friends, family and musical acquaintances.Look up Don Armando and Elbow Bones as well as the fantastic Kid Creole and Coati Mundi.

North West Magic
Has to be one of the stand out cuts from Manchesters Ritz All-dayers in 76 (god is it that far back !). Clearly remember how records like this led to Colin Curtis playing "Sergio Mendes" The Real Thing ,in 77 ;and of course later the whole Jazz thing in Manchester at Berlin: 84- 86 !!

Thank god for records like this and for the inspiration they gave the proper inheritors of the Twisted Wheels legacy !

Still Sounds Amazing
I first heard this in 1976 in the Highland Room at Blackpool Mecca, once a famous Northern Soul club, later adopting a very progressive play list of Funk, Soul and Disco. The DJs there, Ian Levine and Colin Curtis, were trying hard and succeeding in giving us the best new music of the time. Three of the most danceable tracks were played at Blackpool. That year I also saw Dr Buzzard at the top of disco chart listings from other clubs in the UK and the USA.

28 years later it still sounds wonderful and totally original. If you asked me to pick one favourite from all my years of collecting records, this would be it.