Bionic Boogie - s/t

Name:Bionic Boogie
Album: s/t
Year: 1977
Style: Disco
Similar Bands: Kool & The Gang, Musique, Lightning Lightning, Lemon, Philly Cream, Bee Gees, KC & the Sunshine Band, Gloria Gaynor
"One-Word" Review: Orchestral Disco Funk
Based Out Of: NYC
Label: Polydor, Polygram

 Cover, Sleeve, Record

Back, Sleeve, Record

Bionic Boogie (1977)

1. Dance Little Dreamer 3:48
2. Ricky Changes 6:21
3. Don't Lose That Number (Mumbo Jumbo) 4:55
4. Boogie Boo 5:21
5. We Must Believe in Magic 5:00
6. Stop The Music 4:56
7. Feel Like Dancing 4:00
8. Big West 4:58

Album Rating (1-10): 6.5

Members & Other Bands:

• Gregg Diamond - Producer, Writer, Arc. Piano, Fender Rhodes Piano, Wurlitzer (Five Dollar Shoes, Disco Explosion, Luther Vandross, Michael Wendroff, Melane, Ian Lloyd, Gloria Gaynor, Jobriath, The Creatures)
• Godfrey Diamond - Engineer, Production Assistant
• Lance Quinn- Guitar (Gloria Gaynor, Jimi Hendrix, Danny & the Fat Boys, Linda Lewis, Gary Glitter, Jimmy McGriff, Grace Jones, Meco, Frankie Valli, Maynard Ferguson, Lemon)
• Steve Love - Guitar (Black Light Orch. Stories, Ian Lloyd, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Gunhill Road, Jobriath, Gloria Gaynor, Spinners, Hall & Oates, Vicki Sue Robinson, Janis Ian, take Five, Luther Vandross, Spyro Gyra, Lennon & Yoko, Roches,  
• Jim Gregory - Bass (Five Dollar Shoes, Pacesetters, Pepper, Michael Wendroff, Andrea True Connection, Ian Lloyd, Gloria Gaynor, Delores Hall, Rhetta Hughes, Peter Wolf)
• Alan Schwartzburg - Drums (Mountain, Group With No Name, Hollywood Vampire, Peter Gabriel, Bobby Gosh, Barry Mann, BJ Thomas, Henry Gross, Melissa Manchester, MaryTravers, Judy Collins, Melanie, Janice Ian, Barry Manilow, Tony Orlando & Dawn, Harry Chapin, Gloria Gaynor, Jimi Hendrix, Frankie Valli, Herbie Mann, Aztec Two Step, Alice Cooper)
• Jimmy Maelen - Percussion (Ambergris, Shobizz, Hollywood Vampires, Latin Dimension, Roxy Music, Peter Gabriel, James Taylor, Alice Cooper, John Lennon, Jacksons, Talking Heads)
• Gene Orloff - Strings (Al Cohn, Billy Byers, NY Phikharmonic Orch, Pond Life Orch. Cannonball Adderley, many more )
• Lony Loniere - Strings
• Hary Lookofsky - Strings (Al Cohn, Gil Evans, NBC Symphony Orch, Ahmad Jamal, Quincy Jones, Cal Tjader, Wes Montgomery, Connie Francis, Blood Sweat & Tears, Roberta Flack, Louis Armstrong, Mongo Santamaria, Grover Washington Jr, Deodato, Roy Ayers, Don McLean, David Ruffin, Janis Ian, Bette Midler, Patti Austin, Peter Allen more )
• Sandord Allen - Strings (NY Strings, Hip String Quartet, NY Philharmonic (first African-American), Miriam Makeba, Milt Jackson, Pucho & Latin Soul Bros, Roberta Flack, Don McLean, Sister Sledge, Yusef Lateef, Deodato, Jimmy McGriff)
• Jesse Levy - Strings (Cecil Holmes Soulful Sounds, Escorts, Bob James, Chet Baker, Stanley Clarke, Milt Jackson, Rupert Holmes, David Ruffin, Joe Thomas, Bob James, Janis Ian, Joe Beck, Ave. White Band, Herbie Mann, Jimmy McGriff, Deodato, Van McCoy, Wing & a Prayer Fife & Drum Corps, Chet Baker, Barbara Cook, Peaches & Herb, Meco, Tropea, Sesame Street)
• Kermit Moore - Strings (Hip String Quartet, Ron Carter Nonet, Quincy Jones, Ornette Coleman, Milt Jackson, Yusef Lateef, Mongo Santamaria, Roberta Flack, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Kool & The Gang, Bette Midler, Roy Ayers, Don McLean, Deodato, Sister Sledge, Frankie Valli, Janis Ian)
• Pete Ecklund - Trumpet Doveman, Orphan Newsboys, Geoff & Maria Muldaur, Loudon Wainwright III, Bonuie Raitt, Hungry Chuck, Martin Mull, Paul Butterfield, David Bromberg, Gloria Gaynor, Steve Forbert, Roches, Leon Redbone, Hot Club of Cowtown, Mammals)
• Charley Miller - Trumpet (Dr. John, Gregg Diamond)
• Joe Ferguson - Sax  (Fraser & deBolt, David Bromberg, Sam Rivers, Milton Marsh, Ronnie Boykins, Lou Donaldson, George McCrae, Andrea True Connection, Gloria Gaynor)
• John Kelly - Trombone (Tito Rodriguez, Lou Donaldson, Garnet Mimms)
• Brad Baker - Arranger
• Michael Brower - Recording Assistant
• Phil Schrago - Recording Assistant
• Ramona - Recording Assistant
• Bill Stein - Recording Assistant
• Gwen Guthrey - The Group
• Yolanda - The Group
• Zach Sanders - The Group
• Ernest Thormahlen - Cover Design, Artwork
• Mick Rock - Cover Design, Photography

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band, but i remember seeing this at The Thing in Brooklyn, and had to see what kind of disco this was, because it was obviously disco. Very cool & sexy "smoking hot" cover art and silver & red backdrop, emphasizing the band name and style of music quite explicitly.

Album Review: The music was good enough to buy and add it to this blog. This is the first of three albums, and it contains smooth orchestral and funk production with fun bouncy bass lines and never stop moving tempos. Its funny listening to this right after bouncy new wave or post punk records, how much the dance-ability is similar, but the executions, lifestyles, and sentiment could not be more opposite. Like the yin & yang; devil & angel of energetic music genres.

Stand Out Track: We Must Believe in Magic

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