Cerrone – Love In C Minor

this copy BEC 5161904, has no poster inside, there' s only the coloured vinyl and the cd, great music ever!

For years, I never realized that the near-minute long "diatro" to "Love in C Minor" had been COMPLETELY cut out for the US LP release! WTF?
Not only this, but the cover was totally changed.

For years, I never realized that the near-minute long "diatro" to "Love in C Minor" had been COMPLETELY cut out for the US LP release! WTF?
Not only this, but the cover was totally changed.

No review? Love in 'c' minor is seriously addictive! Great for a pee break if mixing too!

Some copies without cat number on sleeve nor sea logo on lower left back sleeve.

This is a great record. It's important to note though that the A-side track 'Love in C-minor' is truncated at the beginning. The original French record on Malligator has a longer and more colorful introduction. This truncation was probably done for the same reason that the cover was changed for the American Cotillion edition. Even without the intro, it is still a fun and important record.

There are a few disco albums every disco lover MUST own."Saturday Night Fever". "Once Upon A Time" by Donna Summer. "Cruisin" by the Village People.And so many more of varying degrees of commerciality and obscurity.But this is one of them. Jean Marc Cerrone was one of THE people of the disco era with his sexy,string filled songs of romance, sex and dancing.This was his first album and features the highly regarded "Love In C Minor" as its opener.Starting with drunk girls at a club talking about the dudes at a nearby table, the beat starts and Cerrone introduces himself. Soon, the strings come in, and trademark girly vocals start up.The music is insistent, romantic and long...a 16 minute side filler, if you were buying it on vinyl.Over to side 2, Cerrone offers his own version of the Isaac Hayes penned classic "Black Is Black". Also a major seller for Labelle the next year, Cerrone does a great job of this,with the girls doing the vocal work and again, lots of strings and synthesiser.Finally, we end with "Midnite Lady", which has a bit of a stilted intro, but morphs into something quite funky and has some beautiful and atmospheric string work towards the end.Cerrone updated this song in 2010-but there was no need, as this song is brilliant.You will have noticed there are only three songs.It was standard for disco albums to have only a few songs: Love and Kisses had 2 songs on one album! But the music is high quality and in its day, this album was considered to be hot...the version I received has different artwork to the one shown, but it is actually better quality than this so thats good.Cerrone clearly has quite a fantasy of naked women, and the artwork shows a few of them, as is his wont. It is worth noting that another disco great Alec Costandinos was a part of this album and also Don Ray.I have deducted a star for the follow up album "Cerrones Paradise" not being included as a two for one type deal, thereby making this a far more economical purchase!
Cerrone "Love In C Minor" 1976 Malligator Productions single: Uk No.31, Us No.36. LP: Us No.153

The actual label is Atlantic on this release, Grabaciones Mundiales should be used as distribution