Brooklyn Dreams - Brooklyn Dreams (1977) {2010 Remastered & Expanded Reissue - Big Break Records CDBBR 0007)
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© 1977, 2010 Millennium Records / Big Break Records / Cherry Red Records | CDBBR 0007
R&B / Disco / Pop / Funk / Soul / Electronic Doo Wop
The BROOKLYN DREAMS classic 1977 debut album finally makes it to CD for the first time anywhere in the world! The album is highly regarded amongst disco fans. The album was was a huge cult disco hit on it's original release on Casablanca Records. Singles included the Disco anthem MUSIC, HARMONY & RHYTHM as well as the Pop hit SAD EYES. OLD FASHIONED GIRL features a guest appearance from the Queen of Disco DONNA SUMMER at the height of her reign. This newly re-mastered edition features extensive liner notes and three bonus remixes. This long sought-after CD re-master is a must for all Soul and Disco fans.
First 1,000 copies will be released in deluxe super jewel cases.
Musicians on the Brooklyn Dreams album: Joe Esposito, Eddie Hokenson, Bruce Sudano, Andre Fischer, Dennis Belfield, Velyer Hildebrand, Al Ciner, Snuffy Walden, Tony Eisenbarger, Tony Maiden, Ron Stokert, Mark Olson, Skip Fonte & Joe Lala.
Available from Millennium Records/Original release year: 1977.
Two years before Brooklyn Dreams would hit on Casablanca with their Donna Summer duet, "Heaven Knows," this 1977 self-titled debut appeared on Jimmy Ienner's Millennium Records imprint. Summer makes an appearance here as well on "Old Fashioned Girl," a song that is indicative of most of the material on this set, not extraordinary but respectable and quite listenable. There's nothing to jump out and grab you like the immaculate "Tighter, Tighter," the Tommy James tune Bruce Sudano hit with when he was a member of Alive 'n Kickin' in 1970, but the album works much better as a total listening experience than had the Alive & Kicking LP, displaying innovations the previous band was attempting to find. Interesting to note that Tommy James himself hit on the Millennium label in 1980 with "Three Times in Love" while Bruce Sudano returned to Ienner's fold in 1981 with a solo disc, Fugitive Kind. The material wanders a bit stylistically, but is consistently good – "Hollywood Circles" a bit of a departure from the near disco of this set, a rock & roll tune of sorts that finds itself in direct contrast with more mainstream-of-the-day titles like "Another Night at the Tango." It's no "Puttin' on the Ritz," but works in its own way. Joe Esposito, Eddie Hokenson, and Sudano are adept at blending their voices in an interesting disco-doo wop fashion, a good concept and the key thing that gives the group its identity. Tony Maiden of Rufus shows up on "Sad Eyes" (not the excellent 1979 Robert John hit) and Skip Konte's production is certainly slick enough. It's just that much of it is dated decades after the fact, the group failing to make an impact outside of their affiliation with Summer. A song like "Music, Harmony & Rhythm" just doesn't have the punch that the O'Jays, Spinners, and Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes poured all over their Gamble & Huff releases, something Tavares were able to do with their Top 40 appearances. The strength here is on titles like "I Never Dreamed" where the voices embrace a strong melody and deliver the goods on a stirring ballad. Had the band reworked Sudano's majestic co-write with Tommy James, 1969's Top 20 smash "Ball of Fire," there would have been something extra special here to really lift this disc above the generic competition. "A" for effort, but not quite what it could be.
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Track Listing
01 - Music Harmony And Rhythm
02 - Sad Eyes
03 - I Never Dreamed
04 - Don't Fight The Feeling
05 - Another Night At The Tango
06 - On The Corner
07 - Street Dance
08 - (Baby) You're The One
09 - Old Fashioned Girl
10 - Hollywood Circles
11 - Sad Eyes (Single Version)
12 - Music Harmony And Rhythm (12' Disco Version)
13 - Street Dance (12' Disco Version)
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Brooklyn Dreams / Brooklyn Dreams
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