I think this is a reworking of a track that appeared on an album called
'Peace For The Children' released on Society Hill in 2008 titled 'New York City Girl'. It's been given three new mixes and set free on 6 May 2021.
It credits Lillian Lopez on two of the mixes, who formed the original group
(The Lopez Sisters) with sisters Louise and Carmen. Carmen left the group
before they were successful to be replaced by Tony Reynolds and they changed the name to Odyssey. All three members are now deceased.
Lillian's son Steve Collazo continues in the group with two new female singers.
He wrote and produced these new tracks.
They hit pay dirt in 1977 with their first release as Odyssey, a disco version of Linzer &
Randell's 'Native New Yorker' which had been recorded earlier that year by
Frankie Valli
and the following year by
Esther Phillips. Black Box did quite a good 90s steppers version (Lelewel Blue Note Mix) of it in 1996 and Lion Babe
recently released it in Feb this year.
Odyssey were more commercially successful in the UK than US, having a string of ten UK Chart entries between 1980-87 with five Top 10 hits.
| Rating: | 7.8 |
| Genre/Style: | Modern Soul / Disco |
| Format: | Single |
| Media: | Digital |
| Label: | UK Yank Records |
| Cat No: | None |
| Year: | 06/05/2021 |
| Key/BPM: | 12A/118 |
| Value: | £1/£2.97 |
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