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- Date Released: January 1, 1976
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Pop
- Label: RCA Records Label
- Copyright: (P) 1988 BMG Music
Disco's first full-length masterpiece
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We Say...
August Darnell may have become more mythologized for his '80s-cusp work with New York's Ze Records, including his production and remixes of artists like Cristina, James White & the Blacks, and his own outfit, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, but he never made a better record than the self-titled 1976 debut of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. Led by Darnell (born Thomas Browder) on bass and his brother Stony Browder Jr. on guitar and piano, Dr. Buzzard drew clear and groundbreaking parallels between swing-era New York nightlife and the disco period that the band helped to epitomize. The siblings were Haitian immigrants, and throughout, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band trades on supply applied Latin and Caribbean touches: the talking drum of the much-sampled "Sunshower" is the most obvious example, but there's plenty of mambo in the tom-tom and saxophones that drive the classic "Cherchez Le Femme/Se Si Bon" as well, and vocalist Cory Daye didn't shout like an R&B singer but purred, growled, and scatted like a salsera. Hear her trill her R's and move the melody around like a ping-pong ball on "I'll Play the Fool," and join countless others in wondering why the hell Daye didn't become a star. This album's supple razzmatazz inspired variations on its theme by everyone from Donna Summer ("I Remember Yesterday") to, um, Barry Manilow ("Copacabana"), but Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band remains one of the great '70s albums, a definitive New York record, and disco's first full-length masterpiece.
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They Say...
Dr. Buzzard introduced a big-band sheen to '70s dance music with the hit "Cherchez la Femme" and the rest of this charmingly neo-retro album.
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I'll Play The Fool |
4:48 |
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| 02. | |
Hard Times |
4:11 |
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| 03. | |
Cherchez La Femme / Se Si Bon |
5:48 |
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| 04. | |
Sunshower |
4:06 |
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| 05. | |
We Got It Made/Night And Day |
3:47 |
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| 06. | |
You've Got Something/Betcha' The Love Bug Bitcha |
5:41 |
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| 07. | |
Sour & Sweet/Lemon In The Honey |
6:04 |
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07 Total Tracks, 34:25 Total Length
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Credits
- Cory Daye - Vocals // Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Main Performer // Don Armando Bonilla - Percussion // Stony Browder - Guitar // Stony Browder - Arranger // Stony Browder - Composer // Stony Browder - Keyboards // Stony Browder - Vocals // Charles Calello - Arranger // August Darnell - Bass // August Darnell - Composer // August Darnell - Vocals // Andy "Coatimundi" Hernandez - Percussion // Sandy Linger - Producer // Sandy Linzer - Producer // Cole Porter - Composer // Cole Porter - Composer // Mickey Sevilla - Drums
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