Peter Jacques Band

The Peter Jacques Band - Greatest Hits & Essential tracks

The Peter Jacques Band is considered one of the pioneers of the Italian Disco produced music in the U.S. and Europe. Formed in 1978 by Jacques Fred Petrus (the band is his name in reverse).

Their first album “Fire Night Dance”, released in 1979, produced the single  “Walking on Music” and brought the band recognition, but it was their second album “Welcome Back” released in 1981 that established them as serious players on the dance scene.
Several 12 inches were released from the album including “One, two, three (counting on Love)
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BB&Q Band

Change

We call it... Disco

Gloria Gaynor

Phyllis Nelson

The BB&Q Band - Greatest Hits & Essential tracks

The BB&Q Band , which stands for the Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens Band, were a U.S. Soul/R&B formed in 1981 by the extremely successful production partnership of Jacques Fred Petrus and Mauro Malavesi.

The Band were extremely successful particularly in dance clubs throughout Europe and the States. Their first album delivered the hit single “On the Beat” which charted internationally and reached the No. 8 spot on the U.S. Black charts

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Change - Greatest Hits & Essential tracks

Change was an Italian-American Disco/R&B group formed in Bologna, Italy in 1979 by the creative genius of businessman and executive producer Jacques Fred Petrus (1949-1986) and Mauro Malavasi.

The band had massive success throughout Europe in the 80’s and this double CD contains every major hit from the band as well as those mixes and tracks that are considered essential to the serious collector, including 2 previously unreleased tracks. The digipak also includes a 32 page booklet covering the bands history
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Various Artists - We Call It ... Disco

100 Glitter Ball Disco classics. 5 CD’s of non-stop dance nostalgia for anyone who survived the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s!

This is a tremendous collection of the major names of Disco over the last 3 decades of the 20th. Century. Imagination, KC & the Sunshine Band, Gloria Gaynor, Phyllis Nelson, Mai Tai, Anita Ward, Taffy, Viola Wills and on and on, this is a disco fan’s dream! From kitsch Euro hits like “Fly Robin Fly”, to Italo classics such as “I Like Chopin” through to UK pop songs like “Just an illusion”  and on to US masterpieces such as “Ring my Bell”, they’re all here on this timeless collection

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Gloria Gaynor - I will Survive

If ever a song title was prophetic in terms of an artist’s career, then surely “I Will Survive” is a prime example of a title becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy when one discusses the career of Gloria Gaynor.

Whilst many artists would consider such an iconic song to be a millstone around their necks, Gloria Gaynor has never felt that way at all and in recent interviews has actually gone out of her way to dispel any such notions..

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Phyllis Nelson - Move Closer

Phyllis Nelson was something of an anomaly in terms of the usual career paths followed by Black American female vocalists in that she performed for years in her native Philadelphia without any notable success before moving to France, writing her own songs and then scored a massive European hit in the process “Move Closer” – no doubt a daunting process as she had two sons to bring up at the same time!

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Silver Convention “The Very Best of…..”

Silver Convention are synonymous with the German Disco scene of the second half of the 70’s, breaking out from the Munich dance movement to become the biggest international act of this era to be exported by the land of Mercedes and Porsche.

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