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The Salsoul Orchestra was actually MFSB, Gamble and Huff's house band for their PIR label. They were the music world's prime disco big band during the late '70s, the Salsoul Orchestra recorded dozens of the tightest, chunkiest disco themes of the 1970s, both on its own productions and as the backing group for several prime vocalists. Organized by Vincent Montana, Jr. in 1974, the band was an experiment in fusing funk, Philly soul and Latin music together in a highly danceable discofied style with plenty of room for solos by individual members. With arrangers, conductors and whole sections of instruments (including up to 18 violinists) contributing to the sound, the Salsoul Orchestra routinely included up to 50 members. Though the Salsoul sound became passé in the wake of disco music's explosion and rapid commercialization during the late '70s, Salsoul's influence on house music in the 1980s and even the return of disco-inspired electronica during the following decade proved heavy. To me it was the four to the flour beat of Earl Young that most inspired the sound of house. -- adapted from John Bush, All-Music Guide
Salsoul Orchestra With Bill O'Brien on synthesizer 1975 Salsoul SZS-5501
Nice 'n' Naasty Vince does it again! 1976 Salsoul SZS-5502
Christmas Jollies -- Salsoul SZS-5507
Magic Journey Magic Bird of Fire 1977 Salsoul SZS-5515
Cuchi-Cuchi Charo & The Salsoul Orchestra -- Salsoul SZS-5519
Up the Yellow Brick Road The West Side Story interlude! 1978 Salsoul SA-8500
Greatest Disco Hits/Music for Non-Stop Dancing -- Salsoul SA-8508
Christmas Jollies II Produced by Patrick Adams by Walter Gibbons
Street Sense Arranged and conducted by Thor Baldursson. A Tom Moulton Mix. 1979 Salsoul SA-8516
Twelve inch releases
12ZS-2002 Salsoul Orchestra Salsoul Hustle (1975)
12ZS-2004 Salsoul Orchestra Chicago Busstop (1975)
12ZS-2006 Salsoul Orchestra Tangerine/Just The
12D-2011 Salsoul Orchestra Nice 'n' Naasty
12D-2016 Salsoul Orchestra My Love is Free (1976)
12D-2028 Salsoul Orchestra Magic Bird of Fire (1977)
12D-2038 Salsoul Orchestra Getaway (1977)
12D-2053 Salsoul Orchestra X-Mas Medley (1977)
SG-2061DJ Salsoul Orchestra West Side Story (1978)
