The latest edition of Paul Simpson's Philadelphia Re-Edit sessions
consists of 17 tracks from The Trammps. All tracks come from just two albums "The Legendary Zing Album" (1975) and "Disco Champs" (1977) although several of the tracks on the 1977 "Disco Champs" album were originally released on "Trammps" in 1975.
The Trammps started out as The Volcanos in 1964 on Jimmy Bishop's Arctic
label and several of their early Arctic singles have had exposure on
Northern Soul dancefloors e.g. "(It's Against) The Laws Of Love"and "Storm Warning" in particular. The Vocanos line-up was Eugene Jones (Gene Faith) (vocals), Steve Kelly (vocals), Stanley Wade (guitar), Harold 'Doc' Wade
(bass), John Hart (keys) and Earl Young (drums). They released six singles
on Arctic and then moved to Harthon for two singles. Jones left the group
for a solo career renaming himself Gene Faith and recorded around seven
singles for Virtue between 1969-75 with an unreleased song on Virtue in 1970.
Early Young had been in a group The Exceptions with Jimmy Ellis. He
recruited the Wade brothers from The Volcanos along with Ellis and Robert
Upchurch to form The Trammps. The line-up fluctuated and earlier members
included Dennis Harris, Ron Baker and Ron Kersey amongst others. They
signed to Buddah in 1971 releasing their first single "Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart" in May 1972 which became their first R&B Top 20 hit (#17),
"The Legendary Zing Album" followed in 1975.
After "Zing" they released several singles which were lowly entries into
the R&B charts until "Hold Back The Night" (#10 1975).
They moved to Golden Fleece (part of PIR) and released their second,
self-titled, album in 1975. The following year they were snapped up by
Atlantic where they released their next six albums up to 1980 and had
another two R&B Top 20 hits with "That's Where The Happy People Go" (#12 1976) before their smash hit "Disco Inferno" which featured on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
1975 - The Legendary Zing Album *
1975 -
Trammps
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1977 -
Disco Champs
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01 - Zing went the strings (Paul Simpson Re-edit) *
02 - Hold back the night (Paul Simpson Re-edit) *
03 - Where do we go from here (Paul Simpson Re-edit) ** / ***
04 - Love epidemic (Paul Simpson Re-edit) * / ***
05 - Just say the word (Paul Simpson Re-edit) ***
06 - Pray all you sinners (Paul Simpson Re-edit) *
07 - Rubberband (Paul Simpson Re-edit) *
08 - Stop & think (Paul Simpson Re-edit) ** / ***
09 - Save a place (Paul Simpson Re-edit) ** / ***
10 - Shout (Paul Simpson Re-edit) **
11 - Trusting heart (Paul Simpson Re-edit) ** / ***
12 - Promise me (Paul Simpson Re-edit) ***
13 - I know that feeling (Paul Simpson Re-edit) **
14 - Sixty minute man (Paul Simpson Re-edit) *
15 - Tom's song (Paul Simpson Re-edit) *
16 - Oh waa hey (Paul Simpson Re-edit) ***
17 - Trammps disco theme (Paul Simpson Re-edit) ** / ***
As with previous releases, no sound files will be posted as you can listen to each track in full on
Paul's dedicated website. These will be available for two weeks only (i.e. until 14 Feb
2023).
| Rating: | 8.6 |
| Explicit: | N |
| Genre/Style: | Philly Soul / Re-Edits |
| Format: | Album |
| Media: | Digital |
| Label: | Simpson Uniquity |
| Cat No: | None |
| Date: | 31/01/2023 |
| Price: | $11.99 |
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