Love Saves The Day (A History Of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979 Part 1) 2LP

"A compilation featuring rare and iconic tracks that appear in Tim Lawrence's much-loved and heavily-thumbed classic Love Saves the Day, a year in the making. For the last 20 years, the London-based author and party organiser has dedicated himself to excavating the history of New York City party culture and bringing some of the most powerful aspects of that culture to London’s dance scene, from where it has ricocheted around the world. In February 2004 he published the first of three published three pioneering histories that have excavated and championed the previously overlooked foundations of contemporary party culture: Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music (1970-79), Hold on to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene (1973-92), and Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor (1980-83). The collection features several tracks selected regularly by David Mancuso, the party host who exerted a prophetic and unparalleled influence on New York City party culture, as charted by Lawrence. It also includes choice picks from groundbreaking DJs such as Michael Cappello, Steve D’Acquisto, Francis Grasso, Richie Kaczor, Larry Levan and Nicky Siano, whose expressive contributions are faithfully recorded in Love Saves the Day. The compilation traces how disco grew out of the record collections and intuitive sensibility of these and other DJs, offering a unique survey of the era’s expansive sonic palette."
Tracklist:
A1. Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin - Dibwe Diambula Kabanda
A2. Chuck Mangione - Land Of Make Believe
B1. Wilson Pickett - Don't Knock My Love (Part 1)
B2. Wilson Pickett - Don't Knock My Love (Part 2)
B3. James Brown - Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
C1. J.ackson 5 - Hum Along And Dance (Uncut Version)
D1. Brainstorm - Lovin Is Really My Game (12 Version)
D2. Domenic Troiano - We All Need Love
D3. Gladys Knight And The Pips - It's Time To Go Now.