Just picked up this full LP from dusty shelf in a record shop last week, and while the album artwork grabbed my attention I was grooving to every track and wanted to share this to friends using Spotify... where is doesn’t exist... If you have the ability to add this album to Spotify and you are reading this, please do so and comment and you will have made at least 1 person’s day. Thanks
This song reminds me of my daddy. He used to sing it to me when I was a little girl. He died when I was 7. Sooooo long ago!! I cherish this song so much!! 💖
I was on my junior year abroad in 1975/76 and was really missing the popular disco and on a cold February night in Breda, Holland in Februrary '76 this song came on and the whole club got up and danced because it was just so nice and happy and fun! America was a good place to be from back then, I hope it will always be that way for young people when they travel abroad. All the best, Pete
Great dance mix and vocals on this disco classic. Good orchestral sound too. Fresh and cut tight. Cannot top this version. Saw on Hot City in 78 TV dance format. Happy music. Violins forever. Vive les disco freaks...
Thank You so much for posting this song. I've been looking for this song for about 30yrs +. You have no Idea how much this means to me. This was on of a copulation of songs that were playing when I was roaming all the discos. I haven't been able to listen or find it 'till NOW! Thank You,thank you so much!! You have no idea.......how much. Millions of Thanks.
i have this in 45 singles... and would play this over and over including the long version. thank you so much for sharing because i have been looking for this for years... makes me reminisce my adolescent days.
This orchestra was put together by HAROLD WHEELER, conductor of the orchestra on Dancing With the Stars...I believe this was a hit in 1975...I have the single, but don't want to drag it out right now!!
I wish Amazon would add this to their playlist availability. I want this so badly on my disco playlist. Did not know the track existed until I listened to a year-end countdown with Casey Kasem.
B-side of the 3:35 chopped radio version in the US on it's own label, distributed by Atlantic. This was the cream of New York's studio and session players, with Harold Wheeler handling the arrangements. Wheeler also did the same, with many of the same musicians, for Meco Monardo's aggregation after Wing and a Prayer ended it's run. If memory serves, Wheeler also conducted at least one Oscars orchestra. They also had a Christmas 45, which Atlantic sent me in '76; it's quite good.
Artful reworking of a mediocre tune into an exquisite masterpiece of arrangement, orchestration, and production representative of the intellectual and cultural height of this civilization - the 1970s, with disco leading the way! Note the disco-style "dialogue" between horns and strings and the superb vocals and harmonies by Linda November, Vivian Cherry, Arlene Martell, and Helen Miles, and the monstrous New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Harold Wheeler, conductor, and Gene Orloff, concertmaster.
My God, you nailed it here! It has aways destroyed me, how most people don't recognize the BRILLIANCE of so many disco songs. I've had this entire album in one form or another since it came out, and I still play it regularly. The NY Philharmonic, the vocals, the arrangement = all perfect. And it was such fun to dance to in the clubs. God I am grateful to have lived in the time and place that I did. We had fun on a scale quite incomprehensible to the kids for today. and it was all due to songs like this. Thank you for posting.
i was a young dj at la cellier disco in the barcelona hotel we used to pack them in like sardines beanbag booths dark lite rooms tom collins golden cadillacs were the thing then and it was the best time of my life as a dj saying hi to Diana & Diane they were both silly in love with me one used to come see me Sat and the other friday gosh it was nice beign a dj in those days 17 pocket full of money and roger714 and the white all over the place .all i have to say wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww so great to have been from that era .
Traia mi radiecito que me cabia en la Mano y oia la R W de Leon,Gto.con Noe Roa e iba de San Pancho a Purisima a ver a mi novia(hoy mi esposa) cuando pegaba Esa cancion! A.... q recuerdos.
Haven't heard this song version since it was played on the radio in the late 70's when I was a kid. I seem to recall someone made a version with chickens clucking. Might have been Ray Stevens.
this song has 4 versions hit the top 10 in 1926(according to the great Joel whitburn..top 40 hits).it reminds me of the theme "disco lucy"(I love Lucy theme).
I came here to see everyone's consensus about this music after I read a Quora article stating "Can you seriously tell me there is anything worse than that in the charts today?" I just wanted to make sure I'm not crazy when I say... this song isn't half bad. Repetitive sure, but still entertaining.
@jcmckinnon1993 might be because according to research I've done, it's never been released on CD at least in the USA....weird especially since Rhino released a ton of disco compilations a few years back and they have a working agreement with Warner Music, whose Atlantic label released this originally
Still have this 45 (this was the B side; the 12" inch version was the same). I remember WVIC in Lansing, Michigan would often play this extended version (I was 14 when this came out). Also remember hearing it at the roller rink (United Skates of America) on Saturday afternoons, and Carol Burnett's dancers did a disco routine to this, dressed like little kids, on an episode of her show that same year. Why doesn't Atlantic wake up and put the full album on CD? I assume they still own the master.
Ease on Down the Road by Wing and a Prayer on Wing and a Prayer Records was the hit version, but Consumer Rapport's version received the recognition. I'm hoping someone will post Wing and a Prayer's version on You Tube.
Another disco 🪩 classic from the mid 70’s-all about having fun and good times! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️✌️☀️💡🌈🌈🪩
No serious disco collection is complete without this joint right here.
Mos definitely what you said.
OMG, I remember dancing the night away to this song on my 18th birthday in 1976. Where the hell does time go?? :-(
iflyTony
you’re not kidding, where does time go?? !!
Sooo true!
In The 70's I ran a strip club, and we used this exact rendition as our chase music between acts! It was PERFECT!
how simple the band plays and still it is one of the best recordings ever :)
What you said..ditto.
I helped my Grandma get this song from youtube and onto her iTunes and idk but now I'm addicted to it.
Tell me how? I want this on my Amazon Disco playlist.
THIS WAS OUT WHEN DISCO WAS YOUNG IN New York City👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Just picked up this full LP from dusty shelf in a record shop last week, and while the album artwork grabbed my attention I was grooving to every track and wanted to share this to friends using Spotify... where is doesn’t exist... If you have the ability to add this album to Spotify and you are reading this, please do so and comment and you will have made at least 1 person’s day. Thanks
Baby face is finally on Spotify in the UK. Let’s hope the whole album appears there soon 👍🏻
I still have the vinyl album!
I was all of 15 when this was released and it still makes me feel as young today as it did then!
This was great music and great times!!
I remember this song very well back in 1975...I was 13. This one and "The Hustle" were the biggest disco songs on the radio back then.
This song reminds me of my daddy. He used to sing it to me when I was a little girl. He died when I was 7. Sooooo long ago!! I cherish this song so much!! 💖
I can still hear Casey Kasem pointing out that the song had charted every decade since its debut in 1926.
that swhat brought me here I was just listing to the top 40 count down of the top 100 hits for 1976 recorded on dec 25th 1976 its ranking was 68
I must have been hearing the same radio broadcast you were hearing cause I remember him saying the same exact thing.
I was on my junior year abroad in 1975/76 and was really missing the popular disco and on a cold February night in Breda, Holland in Februrary '76 this song came on and the whole club got up and danced because it was just so nice and happy and fun! America was a good place to be from back then, I hope it will always be that way for young people when they travel abroad. All the best, Pete
The disco people will come and go....but the music will live on!!
Great dance mix and vocals on this disco classic. Good orchestral sound too. Fresh and cut tight. Cannot top this version. Saw on Hot City in 78 TV dance format. Happy music. Violins forever. Vive les disco freaks...
🎯🎯
@@beeweejr Thanks. Gracias. JS
Classic disco at it's best
still got this on 7" vinyl. Brilliant.
I still have this album...
I still have this album
loved it then - lovin' it now! giving me an ear to ear SMILE! :-) THANKS for the memories!
I.
Love.
Disco.
The best version ever
true
Amen. Top Ten Disco Classic.
Such a happy little song, gorgeous strings too
Strings...👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Haven't heard this song for years, I used to think the Ritchie family sang this 🤠🤠
Randy Barnett I totally understand, that would be my first guess!
This oft-performed standard celebrated its 50th year during 1976, when this song was a hit.
i had a close friend from Central Commercial who we use to call Baby and this song reminds me of her and those good ole days!!!
Great memories dancing to this song in high school.
I have been looking everywhere for this. So awesome to finally find it. Fantastic upload! Thank you.
Pure Disco!!
In 1926,Jan Garber took this song to #1-Love this rendition!
Billboard's #67 song for '76. The corps hit #6 AC, #14 pop, #32 soul in Billboard. God bless!
THIS IS REAL DISCO PEOPLE!!!!!!!
Mos Def
Great memories of going out dancing w/my friends in New York City back in the day!
💃🕺
Thank You so much for posting this song. I've been looking for this song for about 30yrs +. You have no Idea how much this means to me. This was on of a copulation of songs that were playing when I was roaming all the discos. I haven't been able to listen or find it 'till NOW! Thank You,thank you so much!! You have no idea.......how much. Millions of Thanks.
Compilation
Loved this song!
thank you so much for posting, I have been looking for it for years :)
I can’t help but dance this entire song 🔥🔥❤️❤️🕺🏽 🪩
Thank You for posting this song. Millions of thanks go out to you.
GREAT SING GREAT DISCO RENDITION ! DISCO LIVES !
4:30 is when this really gets rocking.
In my DJ days that is where I would cut in....
Dorian groove
i have this in 45 singles... and would play this over and over including the long version. thank you so much for sharing because i have been looking for this for years... makes me reminisce my adolescent days.
Had a cassette of this. Loved it.
This orchestra was put together by HAROLD WHEELER, conductor of the orchestra on Dancing With the Stars...I believe this was a hit in 1975...I have the single, but don't want to drag it out right now!!
I wasn't aware that Harold Wheeler was the orchestra leader on this song. He was a great bandleader on Dancing with the Stars also.
I wish Amazon would add this to their playlist availability. I want this so badly on my disco playlist. Did not know the track existed until I listened to a year-end countdown with Casey Kasem.
Spotify same
Loved this album 45 years ago - wonderful!
Classic Disco! love it! their second album was fun also...with a king Kong drawing on it...
Disco Disney
Such memories !! I remember goin to the Limelight in Montreal with their killer soud system.... I had a blast ( pun intended).
I can't believe that there is even one dislike to this
+Roger Miller I can. Take a look at what we have now and how people are answering.
+Roger Miller I can. We were not all raised on a steady diet of Taylor Swift.
It's fictional. Every Pop fan loves this Disco gem.
B-side of the 3:35 chopped radio version in the US on it's own label, distributed by Atlantic. This was the cream of New York's studio and session players, with Harold Wheeler handling the arrangements. Wheeler also did the same, with many of the same musicians, for Meco Monardo's aggregation after Wing and a Prayer ended it's run. If memory serves, Wheeler also conducted at least one Oscars orchestra. They also had a Christmas 45, which Atlantic sent me in '76; it's quite good.
Do you have Ease On Down the Road by Wing and a Prayer on Wing and a Prayer Records? It's much better than Consumer Rapport's version.
No. It might be on their second LP, which came out in 1977.@@muscleluver769
Artful reworking of a mediocre tune into an exquisite masterpiece of arrangement, orchestration, and production representative of the intellectual and cultural height of this civilization - the 1970s, with disco leading the way! Note the disco-style "dialogue" between horns and strings and the superb vocals and harmonies by Linda November, Vivian Cherry, Arlene Martell, and Helen Miles, and the monstrous New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Harold Wheeler, conductor, and Gene Orloff, concertmaster.
My God, you nailed it here! It has aways destroyed me, how most people don't recognize the BRILLIANCE of so many disco songs. I've had this entire album in one form or another since it came out, and I still play it regularly. The NY Philharmonic, the vocals, the arrangement = all perfect. And it was such fun to dance to in the clubs. God I am grateful to have lived in the time and place that I did. We had fun on a scale quite incomprehensible to the kids for today. and it was all due to songs like this. Thank you for posting.
i was a young dj at la cellier disco in the barcelona hotel we used to pack them in like sardines beanbag booths dark lite rooms tom collins golden cadillacs were the thing then and it was the best time of my life as a dj saying hi to Diana & Diane they were both silly in love with me one used to come see me Sat and the other friday gosh it was nice beign a dj in those days 17 pocket full of money and roger714 and the white all over the place .all i have to say wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww so great to have been from that era .
Love it! I still have the single - no turntable, though :( Now, where's me flares!!
Sounds like MFSB or TSOP the group that sings the theme song from the TV show "Soul Train" also sounds like the Salsoul Orchestra I love this version!
from what i understand all of the musicians are part of meco menardo's band
@@RedArwBus yes. Harold Wheeler.
See:"Hot in the Saddle" by Meco.
Mr recuerda los 70s muy hermosa epoca
Si
ACAPULCO !!! ERA LO MAXIMO !!!
@JackZybach Baby Face also reached the UK charts, peaking at #12 and was in the Top 50 for 7 weeks. :)
I still have this album on vinyl
Traia mi radiecito que me cabia en la Mano y oia la R W de Leon,Gto.con Noe Roa e iba de San Pancho a Purisima a ver a mi novia(hoy mi esposa) cuando pegaba Esa cancion! A.... q recuerdos.
I had the album ,,, lost it in a fire ,,,,, been looking for it off and on for many years ,,,,lots of good tracks on it , nice to hear this track
Sept 2022. Disco Gem🤸🏾♂️💎🕺🏾
This reached the UK top 20 in 1976
Top... disco..
First 45 I ever bought with birthday money. I was five. Gotta start somewhere I guess.
this song had it's own special line dance...kinda a 70's style electric slide
d kee My gut feeling told me there was a certain dance that would compliment this song.
Lets go to the Disco!
Most of those same musicians would do Meco's cover of "Star Wars."
Love this wish I could find also Connie Frances disco version of where the boys are ... fab disco
thank you for posting this song
Yes!!!! I also remember "Tangerine" and "Brazil" from about this same time! Now all we have to listen to in 2012 is a bunch of crap.
I loved all 3 songs. Great disco updates.
Haven't heard this song version since it was played on the radio in the late 70's when I was a kid. I seem to recall someone made a version with chickens clucking. Might have been Ray Stevens.
This song is dedicated one of the best dance teacher at that time MRS D BROWN. at p.s.123 in south ozone park Queens NEW YORK
Top 40 Hit in Holand...
Empress pub , hull, Friday 12 noon, great times 😎🕺🎷🍷😸
OMG, I had this album LOL
Excelente melodía
this song has 4 versions hit the top 10 in 1926(according to the great Joel whitburn..top 40 hits).it reminds me of the theme "disco lucy"(I love Lucy theme).
I came here to see everyone's consensus about this music after I read a Quora article stating "Can you seriously tell me there is anything worse than that in the charts today?" I just wanted to make sure I'm not crazy when I say... this song isn't half bad. Repetitive sure, but still entertaining.
I still have the vinyl album
I remember this....
They don't have this song on i-tunes. :( I loved this song when it came out in 1976. I haven't heard it in years. Thank-you.
Not on Amazon or Spotify either
Great...brings back memories of simpler times; when people have manners and respect for each other
+Uncle Dinky And when "twitter" had a much different meaning.
Rise and shine!
Linda November strikes again!
Linda November, I am a huge fan of yours!
@jcmckinnon1993 might be because according to research I've done, it's never been released on CD at least in the USA....weird especially since Rhino released a ton of disco compilations a few years back and they have a working agreement with Warner Music, whose Atlantic label released this originally
Do the Hustle!!
Still have this 45 (this was the B side; the 12" inch version was the same).
I remember WVIC in Lansing, Michigan would often play this extended version (I was 14 when this came out). Also remember hearing it at the roller rink (United Skates of America) on Saturday afternoons, and Carol Burnett's dancers did a disco routine to this, dressed like little kids, on an episode of her show that same year.
Why doesn't Atlantic wake up and put the full album on CD? I assume they still own the master.
there is a cd of the album out on an import disc-check amazon and ebay,i have the cd of the whole album
@@RedArwBus Thanks. I'll be sure to look it up.
This is the "Who Let The Dogs Out?" of Disco. This song has more going for it though.
That was Disco Duck.
Harold Wheeler...Arranger Star Wars with Meco Monardo ,and Gloria Gaynor´s album Experience...1975
and it's a hit now :)
It is a great song. Check the next song out. I think you will like it.
Did anyone do the line dance to this?
YES MA`AM! Did it back then and am doing it right now in my living room because I still can :-) (of course minus the fellow dancers, hehe)
Loved this record from the great disco era. One of the all time worst album covers though! Ugh!
Super, je préfère cette version à l'original.
2:11 nice strings
Our local AM station used to use the 8 pm hour to feature songs like this. Wacky versions of songs, usually disco.
Como no sale el tema disco de la metro Goldstein mayer
Where can I get an MP3 of this? Nothing anywhere.....not on Acqilte, or Cabos or anyone....
Who's the girl on the cover?
Linda November ?
@joesophie90 January thru to March 1976.
listen " Easy on Down The Road " with Consumer Rapport...
Ease on Down the Road by Wing and a Prayer on Wing and a Prayer Records was the hit version, but Consumer Rapport's version received the recognition. I'm hoping someone will post Wing and a Prayer's version on You Tube.
Quiero welcome yo Brodwey del disco Baby face
mae west and the sextette brought me here