DAZZLE: Dazzle (De-Lite DSR-9514 - 1979)
Walk Before You Run/It's Not the Same/All
You Dazzle Me/Reaching/Slipped Disco
One of the best and most consistant Disco albums ever made - a rarity perhaps because Disco was more a 12inch single culture and only the more serious producers put their talents to album projects. Most Disco albums tend to have a shortened version of a hit single and then 4 or 5 sub-standard fillers. Dazzle from the later days of Disco has only 1 filler and nearly ALL the tracks are hits! Produced by Stan Lucas and the legendary Leroy Burgess Dazzle contains the uplifting and uptempo classic You Dazzle Me with Lucas on lead vocals and edits by Jellybean as well as the slightly slower boogie tempo classics Walk Before You Run featuring Jocelyn Brown and Reaching featuring the unmistakeable Burgess himself. The uplifting nature is all down to the joyous, carefree vocalists and the string and horn arrangements by Disco legend Patrick Adams. -- Kirk Degiorgio