Claudja Barry —
Claudja ... LP Salsoul, 1978. Near Mint- ...
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Claudja's tightening things up a bit from her debut for Salsoul – going for a sound that's got a bit more of a straight-ahead soul approach, but which still features a sweet Euro disco style overall! Arrangements are by Jorg Evers, who makes the record sound like it was arranged by a guy ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(White label promo. Cover has a cut corner and light wear.)
A landmark album from Joe Bataan – so great, that it made the entire record company change its name from their original Mericana to the better-known Salsoul – which would later rule the world with a host of disco classics! The record has Joe really bursting out after his seminal Latin ... (Latin) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A key chapter in the rich long legacy of Candido on record – a set that pushes the percussion maestro strongly into the disco generation – with wonderful results that are still massively strong all these many years later! Candido had always been one of the funkiest conga players around ... (Latin) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Charo & The Salsoul Orchestra —
Cuchi Cuchi ... LP Salsoul, 1977. Very Good+ ...
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A surprisingly soulful album from this novelty singer from the 70s! Back in the day, Charo was everyone's idea of a joke on TV, but this album's actually a pretty great little session – thanks to help from Vince Montana and the Philly crew! The album has Charo breathily singing and talking ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(White label promo. Cover has a cut corner and light staining along the bottom.)
Double Exposure —
Fourplay ... CD Salsoul/Unidisc (Canada), 1978. Used ...
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Sublime work from one of our favorite groups ever on Salsoul Records – the amazing harmony quartet Double Exposure – soaring out here in a set of Philly gems produced by Norman Harris! The album's got a wonderful sound right from the start – rich in rhythms, yet also soaring on ... (Soul) read moreCD
One of the hottest locker rooms in town – thanks to sublime Salsoul grooves from the always-great Double Exposure! The album's got a bouncy groove that's topped by the quartet's wonderfully warm harmonies – easily some of the best from the disco generation, served up in a careful ... (Soul) read moreCD
A huge selection of work from Double Exposure – maybe our favorite group on the legendary Salsoul label from the 70s! The set features three full albums, plus lots of bonus tracks – and the first set is Ten Percent – a wonderful album and one of those underground classics that ... (Soul) read moreCD
Double Exposure —
Ten Percent ... LP Salsoul, 1976. Very Good+ ...
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A wonderful album – one of those underground classics that seems to show up in everyone's record collection, even though it was never a huge chart hit. Double Exposure are part of the "second wave" of East Coast vocal groups – and like their contemporaries, they mix the sweet ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Cover has light ringwear, edge wear, partially unglued seams, some light stains in back, and is lightly bent at the spine and bottom left corner.)
A wonderful album – one of those underground classics that seems to show up in everyone's record collection, even though it was never a huge chart hit. Double Exposure are part of the "second wave" of East Coast vocal groups – and like their contemporaries, they mix the sweet ... (Soul) read moreCD
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Duncan Sisters —
Duncan Sisters ... LP Earmark/Salsoul, 1979. Very Good+ ...
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Sweet Canadian disco from the team of Phyllis and Helen Duncan – recorded in a style that features longer tracks, pulsating rhythms, and some of the instrumental flourishes that were stepping out on some of the best Prelude records of the time! The pair trade vocals wonderfully throughout ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
One of the best records ever cut by this soulful Philly female trio! The album's one of the first on Salsoul's Gold Mind subsidiary – and it features sparkling club production by the Harris/Baker/Young team – a landmark force not only in Philly disco, but 70s female soul as well – ... (Soul) read moreCD
Rochelle and the girls are in full force on this late 70s Salsoul groover – with production by Norman Harris and Tom Moulton! The opening trio of cuts have the continuously flowing vibe of an extended suite – and it's a really exhilarating 16 minutes of dancefloor soul – with ... (Soul) read moreCD
Loleatta Holloway —
Loleatta (1976) ... CD Salsoul/Unidisc (Canada), 1976. Used ...
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A real turning point for the great Loleatta Holloway – and a record that really finds a great way to unleash her vocals for the dancefloor! Loleatta got her start as more of a traditional deep soul diva – but here, she really takes off with a sweet Philly groove – thanks to ... (Soul) read moreCD
Easily the greatest collection of work we've ever seen by Loleatta Holloway – and a massive 2CD dip into her legendary years at Salsoul, and one that gives equal space to her club hits and mellower soul tracks! The club side of Loleatta's work is very well known – thanks to some ... (Soul) read moreCD
A really classic set of dancefloor tracks from Loleatta Holloway – and a set that's got her fully stepping into the disco diva role, after starting out as more of a deep soul singer! Holloway's rich, full voice is perfect for the setting – a proud, confident lead that really soars out ... (Soul) read moreCD
Landmark club grooves from the great Loleatta Holloway – and a record that definitely has her at the top of the disco game for the 70s! Holloway's working here with a nice variety of arrangers and producers – including Bobby Womack, Norman Harris, Dan Hartman, and Tom Washington – ... (Soul) read moreCD
Loleatta Holloway's emerging here as the queen of the disco – trading the southern soul of her early years for a more full-on club groove! Given the strength of her vocals, the approach works great – and if anything, the setting really helps Loleatta find an even better space than ... (Soul) read moreCD
A fantastic run of music from this wonderful soul singer – four full albums, lots of bonus tracks, and a full CD of remixes and other material too! First up is the 1976 album Loleatta – a real turning point for the great Loleatta Holloway – and a record that really finds a great ... (Soul) read moreCD
One of the greatest tracks ever from this legendary Philly backing combo – a sweetly tippling bit of disco that really soars on this 12" single! The track builds with a full feel, then snaps into some clapping rhythms and funky guitar that show that that the group more than live up to ... (Soul) read more12-inch, Vinyl record
Way more than just an anthology of work by Instant Funk – and instead a massive 5CD set that features all 7 of the group's albums for Salsoul – plus lots of bonus tracks too! Instant Funk first came to fame as one of the key studio combos behind the sound of Philly International in the ... (Soul) read moreCD
Vaughan Mason & Butch Dayo —
Feel My Love ... CD Salsoul/Unidisc (Canada), 1983. Used ...
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An obscure second set from the man who gave the world "Bounce Rock Skate Roll" – but a great one too! The album's got Vaughan Mason paired with Butch Dayo, in a way that brings a nice sort of back/forth feel to his usual roller skating groove – with results that are even more ... (Soul) read moreCD
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McLane Explosion —
Pulstar ... LP Salsoul/Tom & Jerry, 1978. Near Mint- ...
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Spacey disco, very much in the same mode as work by Alec Constandinos from the same time. No surprise, then, that the group does a cover of Alec's "Accidental Lover" – complete with strings, keyboards, and sex sounds – and they also do a pretty smooth club take on Jean Michel ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
(Cover has a cut corner.)
Mighty Sparrow —
Boogie Beat ... LP Salsoul, 1976. Very Good+ ...
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Snapping bass and slow-stepping drums make "Body To Body" boogie" a great little track – one that moves along slowly, and with a much funkier edge than you'd expect! "Moon Boots" is moogy wonderfulness from the Munich scene – a tune that's as spacey as you'd ... (Soul) read more12-inch, Vinyl record
Moogy wonderfulness from the Munich scene – a tune that's as spacey as you'd guess from its title, and which rolls along in a great blend of keyboards and beats! There's lots of great electric guitar and analogue keyboards dancing along in the tune – and the whole thing's funkier than ... (Soul) read more12-inch, Vinyl record
A great new chapter for the Salsoul Orchestra – a set that has them working with underground legend Patrick Adams, who gives them an even cooler sound than before! There's more keyboards in the mix than on previous albums – some of those cool and moogy touches that Adams brought to his ... (Soul) read moreCD
The Salsoul Orchestra in all of its glory – flying high away from Vince Montana on this later release – but still soaring to new heights with help from Bunny Sigler and other Philly talents! The groove is every bit as upbeat as before – Philly club at its best, with lots of help ... (Soul) read moreCD
Vince Montana might look a bit hokey on the cover – but over the course of a few short years, he helped transform the sound of the soulful dancefloor with the huge amount of music on this set – a stunning legacy that's presented here with expanded versions of the group's full albums ... (Soul) read moreCD
2 stone stunners from Salsoul Orchestra – both of them great! "Magic Bird" has a very similar feel to Earth Wind & Fire's "Getaway" – stepping out with a soaring and righteous groove. And "Getaway" is a darker tune – lots of bass at the bottom, ... (Soul) read more12-inch, Vinyl record
Salsoul Orchestra —
Magic Journey ... LP Salsoul, 1977. Near Mint- ...
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Ahhhh . . . The Salsoul Orchestra at its finest, with Vince Montana at the helm, crafting some superb arrangements that have all of the positivity of the best funky club groove that made the group great – without any of the disco schlock of their contemporaries! The group's format is still ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
Ahhhh . . . The Salsoul Orchestra at its finest, with Vince Montana at the helm, crafting some superb arrangements that have all of the positivity of the best funky club groove that made the group great – without any of the disco schlock of their contemporaries! The group's format is still ... (Soul) read moreCD
Recorded at Sigma Sound and produced, arranged and conducted by Vincent Montana Jr., this is a compilation of some of the Salsoul Orchestra's big disco tunes. Montana composed just about every song on the record and the tracks include "Nice N Naasty", "You're Just The Right ... (Soul) read moreCD
An excellent groover from the legendary Vince Montana! Vince arranged, produced, conducted, and wrote just about all of this second album by hard-grooving Salsoul Orchestra – and the album's a no-nonsense batch of disco instrumentals that's way better than many of the fake albums of the type ... (Soul) read moreCD
Vibes, strings, keyboards, and vocals – the heavenly sound of the Salsoul Orchestra, one of the greatest disco outfits of the 70s! At the time, the group were ubiquitous on the dancefloor scene – but the amazing thing to our ears is how great these tunes still sound after all these ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
The soaring debut of one of the greatest groups of the disco era – and one that would go onto be the sound of Salsoul Records too! The large mostly-instrumental ensemble is headed up by Vince Montana – who brings plenty of Philly disco touches into play with the group's wonderful blend ... (Soul) read moreCD
Brillant work from the Salsoul Orchestra – some of their most sophisticated work ever, and right in line with a soulful orchestral style that runs back through the work of Barry White into the early experiments of the Soulful Strings! The album marks a shift for the group – now led by ... (Soul) read moreCD
Bunny Sigler —
Let It Snow ... LP Salsoul, 1980. Very Good+ ...
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Wow, is this a campy album! Bunny started out as a pretty serious soul singer – but he's really prancing it up for the disco crowd here, especially on the leadoff cut "Super Duper Duper Super Man", which is so silly we can hardly believe it! Fortunately, the Instant Funk band are ... (Soul) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
This is the kind of Italian disco we can get our ears around! Bebu Silvetti is on keyboards, and at the helm of the orchestra – working here like an Italian Barry White, on a groove that's very similar to the best work of the Love Unlimited Orchestra. The tracks have a harder focus on the ... (Soul) read moreCD
Skyy —
Skyy ... CD Salsoul/Unidisc (Canada), 1979. Used ...
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Sure, at the time the group's silly costumes and slap-bass funk sound were a bit too much to take – but from the perspective of a few decades later, they actually had a pretty darn nice 80s groove kind of sound, and this first album's not a bad one for the dancefloor. Titles include "Thi ... (Soul) read moreCD
The near-complete Salsoul recordings of Skyy – the funky club combo headed by Randy Muller after his work with BT Express and Brass Construction! With Skyy, Muller honed his groove even more than before – creating a really tight focus on bass-heavy bottoms, and focusing all instruments ... (Soul) read moreCD
The near-complete Salsoul recordings of Skyy – the funky club combo headed by Randy Muller after his work with BT Express and Brass Construction! With Skyy, Muller honed his groove even more than before – creating a really tight focus on bass-heavy bottoms, and focusing all instruments ... (Soul) read moreCD
A heavy package of work from the legendary Skyy – the funky club combo headed by Randy Muller after his work with BT Express and Brass Construction! With Skyy, Muller honed his groove even more than before – creating a really tight focus on bass-heavy bottoms, and focusing all ... (Soul) read moreCD
A stone classic from Skyy – one of those groups who virtually helped invent 80s groove! Like the best of the genre – such as Slave, BB&Q Band, and others – Skyy have a soulful approach that goes way past the simple cliches that other groups were so content to only muddle ... (Soul) read moreCD
Sweet electric soul from Carol Williams – a rich voice from the disco generation, served up here with some great Philly club arrangements from Vince Montana! The groove is great, right from the get-go – thanks to rhythm from the team of Bobby Eli, Norman Harris, and Ronnie Baker – ... (Soul) read moreCD
Grandmaster Flash is best known for his work in the world of hip hop, not the sort of club scene that Salsoul helped feed back in the day – yet this surprisingly great package has Flash adding in some hip hop energy to the catalog of the legendary label – spinning tracks that emphasize ... (Funky Compilations) read moreLP, Vinyl record album
A magnificent tribute to one of the first DJs to really remix tracks for the dancefloor – the groundbreaking Walter Gibbons, a key force in the sound of Salsoul Records during its early years! Gibbons' approach was always dramatic – really pulling apart and remixing the tracks with a ... (Funky Compilations) read moreCD