Gregg Diamond, Bionic Boogie - Hot Butterfly (1978) [2005 Japan]
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +CUE, LOG | 293 MB | Covers Included
Genre: Soul | Label: P-Vine Records | Catalog Number: PCD-7262
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +CUE, LOG | 293 MB | Covers Included
Genre: Soul | Label: P-Vine Records | Catalog Number: PCD-7262
Diamond wrote the song "Hot Butterfly," which was released in 1978 under one of his group's names, Bionic Boogie, with Luther Vandross providing lead vocals. The song was later covered by David Lasley, The Sweet Inspirations, and Chaka Khan.
Diamond's association with Vandross came from the success of David Bowie's Young Americans album, which included contributions by both Vandross and Diamond's brother Godfrey (his sound engineer). He also wrote and produced an album for TK recording artist, George McCrae, scoring a club hit with "Love in Motion." His biggest commercial success was as writer and producer of the single "More, More, More" recorded by The Andrea True Connection in 1975.
"With enthusiasm running high after the club success of his 1977 concept album Bionic Boogie, Diamond instantly forgot the just-completed album (as he always did) and began writing for the next. For the second Bionic Boogie project, Hot Butterfly, he fashioned a truly unique fusion of funk, romanticism and street-verite. In “Chains” and “Cream (Always Rises to the Top),” especially, Diamond’s East and West Village roots were clearly showing. Diamond later called these compositions a “PG” version of what his imagination actually held, but, to be real, any number of New York bands of the time, whether glittery, glammy or punkish, would have wished they could deliver this level of gritty urban flash. As for the songs’ tone of surrealistic sleaze, you can just forget about competition. There was none. And to think that these lyrics were delivered with romance and gospel warmth in the matchless lead and assembled voices of Luther Vandross, Cissy Houston and David Lasley!
Vandross and Diamond met at Philadelphia’s Sigma Sound Studio, where Luther, just tagging along with friends Robin Clark and Carlos Alomar hired on David Bowie’s Young Americans sessions, was overheard by Bowie improvising the “I heard the news today, oh boy” lick in the chorus of the title song, and found himself pulled right into the vocal booth. Teaming with Gregg as an unsigned featured vocalist, after two unsuccessful Cotillion albums, Luther was immediately cast in his first true star appearance on record. His suave, assured and fully evolved presence on “Hot Butterfly” not only calls to mind the Marvin Gaye and Spinners records that echo in the production, but, more appropriately, recalls the deep impressions left by accomplished actors cast in unconventional roles under the scripting and direction of innovative young lions: say, Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction, or Burt Reynolds in Boogie Nights.
Just listen to the songwriting on Hot Butterfly, and you’ll hear how impressively Diamond ratcheted up his game in rhythmic and compositional savvy, so often anchored with his own strong-handed piano playing, and his taste for daredevil string and horn arrangements to finish them off. In “Chains” alone, Gregg plays with five times the number of ideas typically contained in today’s sampled dance tracks, and still sounds perfectly tight and coherent. He had so much to say musically that the club remixes by Jim Burgess – five of the rarest included in this special expanded edition of the 1978 classic release, also heard in entirety here – usually made his album tracks half-again as long, simply by taking the time to break down the complex rhythm and orchestral arrangements, and take the time to show them off—creating not only dance momentum, but an emotional or even cinematic or cultural/tribal tableau that stood out singularly, just as the of the disco era was reaching its apex."
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Gregg Diamond Bionic Boogie / Hot Butterfly
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Track 6
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==== Log checksum 27A88CB9F87CF55726913A34A3F8F00F3BABE45B95FC166F65C63A3BA4505C37 ====
EAC extraction logfile from 17. April 2016, 13:03
Gregg Diamond Bionic Boogie / Hot Butterfly
Used drive : GENERIC CDRCB05 Adapter: 4 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 102
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
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Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 5:20.11 | 0 | 24010
2 | 5:20.11 | 5:57.32 | 24011 | 50817
3 | 11:17.43 | 5:26.28 | 50818 | 75295
4 | 16:43.71 | 5:17.24 | 75296 | 99094
5 | 22:01.20 | 6:36.28 | 99095 | 128822
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==== Log checksum 27A88CB9F87CF55726913A34A3F8F00F3BABE45B95FC166F65C63A3BA4505C37 ====
Tracklist:
1. Hot Butterfly
2. Chains
3. When The Shit Hits The Fan
4. Paradise
5. Cream Always Rises To The Top
6. Fess Up To The Boogie