Dan Hartman - Instant Replay (Translucent Red vinyl)
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Keyboards, Bass, Guitar [Rhythm], Scat – Dan Hartman
Orchestra – The Salsoul Orchestra
1 LP, Gatefold Cover
Original analog Master tape : YES
Record color : Translucent Red
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : RTI
Label : Friday Music
Original Label : Blue Sky
Recorded at The Schoolhouse by Arthur Stoppe
Produced by Dan Hartman
Remastered by Joe Reagoso
Originally released in 1978
Reissued in 2015
Tracks:
Side A :
- Instant Replay
- Countdown – This Is It
Side B :
- Double-O-Love
- Chocolate Box
- Love Is A Natural
- Time And Space
Reviews :
""Instant Replay" itself kicks off with an "American Top 40" peppy countdown and boogies its way through an ode to rolling over in the clover that's as minty and mildly abrasive as toothpaste. Hartman, one of popular music's undersung utility infielders, sculpted his disco breakthrough with the same intricacy as Seymour Chwast's phantasmagoric album cover, but his fondness for real live percussion, room ambiences, and endless good-time monkeyshines set the finished work apart from the chilling and provocative flesh-against-machine conundrums posed by Donna Summer's work with Giorgio Moroder. His unapologetic love of show tunes with top-hat-and-a-cane swagger shines through the 11-minute-plus "Countdown/This Is It," where the mastermind chases Blanche Napolean through an obstacle course of sometimes-harmonized scat singing in between spidery sax lines from the songwriter's old boss, Edgar Winter. A swingin' party with Hartman, who called his studio compound "The Schoolhouse," teaching ABCs with the proverbial rhythm and ease. (Guitarist Vinnie Cusanso later slapped on some Egyptian warrior makeup and tossed his 12-string in the closet; as Vinnie Vincent, he became a controversial shred guitarist with and without Kiss.)." AllMusic Review by Andrew Hamlin
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4 / 5 , Discogs : 3,91 / 5