Shalamar - Uptown Festival flac album

The album was in fact recorded by session singers). Uptown Festival peaked at on the US R&B chart and on the Billboard Albums chart. The title track, a medley of ten Motown classics sung over a 1970s disco beat, was a hit in both the USA and the UK. "Uptown Festival Part 1" (US Hot 100 US R&B Australia UK "Ooo Baby Baby" (US R&B

Their first hit was "Uptown Festival" (1977), released on Soul Train Records. Its success inspired Griffey and Don Cornelius to replace session singers with popular Soul Train dancers Jody Watley and Jeffrey Daniel, to join original Shalamar lead singer Gary Mumford. Gerald Brown took over the spot vacated by Mumford for the group's second album, Disco Gardens (1978), which featured the hit "Take That to the Bank". After conflicts over lack of payment from Griffey and SOLAR (short for Sound of Los Angeles Records), Brown left the group. Howard Hewett replaced Brown.

Shalamar's debut album Uptown Festival is a dated set of shamelessly pandering disco that became a hit on the basis of the title track, a clever medley of old Motown hits. Uptown Festival" - and its less-successful followup, a cover of Smokey Robinson's "Ooh Baby Baby" - were hits simply because they grafted a familiar melody to a disco beat, not because they represented any innovation. The remainder of Uptown Festival suffers from a similar fate.

Shalamar ‎– Uptown Festival. Label: Soul Train ‎– CYL1-2289. Format: Vinyl, LP, Album. Design – Tim Bryant (2). Engineer – John Arrias, Steve Hodge. Engineer – Greg Hanks, Mic Litz, Peter Granet, Sergio Reyes, Steve Hirsch, Steve Maslow. Executive-Producer – Dick Griffey, Don Cornelius. Illustration – Shusei Nagaoka.

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