Music For The Dance Crowd - Time Records - Album

[The Tempest]

I love this scene , you get educated every day , was totally unaware of this album

MUSIC FOR THE DANCE CROWD is a classic sleeper LP that is totally unnoticed in the garage underground!!

"Music for the dance crowd" is a collection of tracks culled from the BRENT

label out of New York, the label run by Bob Shad in the late 50's into the 60's

before he concentrated on Mainstream. As a matter of fact, many artists

released 7" singles under Brent and then went on and released the same under

mainstream, for instance the "pot of flowers" Lp on mainstream is singles

compiled from Brent releases, to cash in on the psychedelia movement.


Clarence Hill serves up some serious Northern Soul styles, " When Sunny Comes Strollin' Home" and

"A Lot Of Lovin' Going' Round" Fantastic songs. These also appeared on the very rare "Brenton Wood
Introducing Boogaloo" LP along with garage latin punkers "The Golden Boys" and their tracks, "Modernistic",

and "mira mira" , THE TOADS with "backaruda"
More Go Go/Freak beat energy tracks create the continuity here,

The IN CROWD with "cat dance" and Grapevine, and

the OFF SET with the garage gloomer "just a little smile" AMAZING!!! 
The rest of the tracks are very strong, I just don't know who composed them. "the froggie", lifeboat",

Boss walk", "el nubio", "bo do diddley", "the cobra", "rice and beans" "yeah yeah" and "beach bum"

all are freak beat instrumental feasts for the senses, fuzz guitar, big drums and go go rhythms, they all

sound like the same composer.

3 different releases of this LP. 2 from Canada (on allied records) and one from the USA (on time)

The 2 canadian versions, one is a standard LP and the other is a box set of 3 LP's

with different running order and some tracks ommitted, while others substitued.

"I'm just a clown" for instance is not on the single LP, only on the box set.

These recordings are in true stereo, but the track "just a little smile" to my ears sounds rechanneled from MONO

(i have the 7" version of "just a little smile" and it is boldy MONO, sounds way better than the rechanneled version)

And to my ears, the USA pressing sounds cleaner and better frequency range than the Canadian copies.

The 3LP box set has less information per side (3-4 songs per side), therefore lends it self to higher bandwidth and sounds pretty close to a 7" single in terms of how hot they can press the tracks.

Edited May 9, 2010 by 123-motown