New Ace Album - Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night Brooklyn Disco 1974-5

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Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night Brooklyn Disco 1974-5

Release notes via Twitter say

In 1975, writer Nik Cohn investigated the burgeoning discotheque scene for @NewYorkMagazine ; two years later, his feature would be filmed as Saturday Night Fever. These are the records Cohn heard in those dark dance dens - irresistible R&B and soul, disco before it was 'disco.'

Track listing

Side 1

Side 1
01   Helplessly - Moment Of Truth
02   After You've Had Your Fling - The Intrepids
03   Welcome To The Club - Blue Magic
04   I Can't Move No Mountains - Margie Joseph
05   Supernatural Thing Part 1 - Ben E King
06   Mellow Me - Faith, Hope & Charity
07   Georgia's After Hours - Richard "Popcorn" Wylie
08   Date With The Rain - Eddie Kendricks
09   Just As Long As We're Together - Gloria Scott
10   Wendy Is Gone - Ronnie McNeir
11   Got To Get You Back - Sons Of Robin Stone
12   Night Of The Wolf (Tema Del Lupo) - Ivano Fossati
13   Good Things Don't Last Forever - Ecstasy, Passion & Pain
14   Tell Me What You Want - Jimmy Ruffin
15   Keep It Up - Betty Everett
16   Free & Easy - Satyr
17   Each Morning I Wake Up - Major Harris
18   It's The Same Old Story - Act I
19   You Can't Hide Love - Creative Source
20   The Whole Damn World Is Going Crazy - John Gary Williams
21   If That's The Way You Feel - White Heat
22   Wake Up Everybody - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes

Site notes...

Given that Nik Cohn later admitted that the whole account that was published was fictional am guessing there's some sort of generalisation going on here

After persuading New York editor Clay Felker to let him write an article about the 1970s disco scene, Cohn, a newcomer to the United States, set about researching the American working-class subculture he was trying to cover. One night he travelled to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to visit the disco 2001 Odyssey. However when he arrived a drunken fight was taking place outside the club, and one of the participants rolled over in the gutter and threw up on Cohn's trouser leg, leading him to return to Manhattan. Despite this brief visit, Cohn did notice that the scene was surveyed by one clubgoer standing in the doorway and calmly watching events. Cohn returned to the club subsequently but the young man wasn’t there.

To overcome his lack of familiarity with the New York disco scene, Cohn combined the image of the figure outside the club with people he knew from his youth, including a gang member from the Northern Ireland city of Derry, where Cohn had grown up, and a young man he knew in England. “My story was a fraud,” he wrote. “I’d only recently arrived in New York. Far from being steeped in Brooklyn street life, I hardly knew the place. As for Vincent, my story’s hero, he was largely inspired by a Shepherd’s Bush mod whom I’d known in the Sixties, a one-time king of Goldhawk Road." For additional detail Cohn returned to Bay Ridge during the day to get a better feel for the area.

Source of clip above

Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night - Wikipedia

The original Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night article in full

Inside the Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night -- New York Magazine - Nymag

Inside the Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night -- New York Magazine (archive.org)

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Available 30th June 2023 in CD and Lp versions

more info via

https://acerecords.co.uk/tribal-rites-of-the-new-saturday-night