Salsoul Orchestra
The Salsoul Orchestra was a in 1974 in New York (New York) founded American disco orchestra, which celebrated the end of the 1970s a number of successes at the peak of the genre. Until its dissolution in 1982, it also helped numerous disco artist in the studio.
Career
The ensemble was founded in 1974 by the arranger, composer and musician Vincent Montana, Jr.. Previously, he had been a member of MFSB, a merger of several studio musicians who initially accompanied by numerous Philly soul musicians and published later successful albums of his own. Some musicians of this group were followed Montana, Jr. to New York to play in the Salsoul Orchestra. The Big Band he began to combine elements from Philly soul, funk and classic disco music, as opposed to MFSB with additional Latin elements. For Salsoul Records, the orchestra took from 1975 to the early 1980s, almost a dozen studio albums. In addition, at times up to 50 musicians functioned as a studio accompaniment for countless artists of the record label.
The group celebrated at first great successes: The Salsoul Orchestra 's debut in 1975 placed at number 14 in the U.S., several tracks also ranked high in the disco charts. Were particularly successful Salsoul Hustle and the remake of an old Jimmy Dorsey hits, Tangerine, which also get good prices in the pop and R & B charts. The follow-up LP Nice ' N' Naasty could repeat the success in about. The " amusing " Christmas album Christmas Jollies indicated, according to the online service Allmusic that the orchestra had a penchant for the growing trend of Disco Novelty recordings. Subsequent works such as Cuchi Cuchi - (1977 ), with Charo as the lead singer, Up the Yellow Brick Road (1978 ) with musical songs and a second Christmas album ( Christmas Jollies II, 1981) continued this way consistently continuing. This contrasts with more "serious " albums such as Magic Journey with big hits like Run Away, which was sung by Loleatta Holloway.
The Salsoul Orchestra disbanded in 1982. At the beginning of 1983 was the single Ooh, I Love It ( Love Break) as the last hit of the ensemble in the U.S. Disco charts. In the 1990s, most studio works of the Salsoul Orchestra were re-released on CD, various compilations followed. 1997 Run Away from the project Nuyorican Soul singer India and the newly added time and reached number one on the disco charts.
Vincent Montana Jr. died on 13 April 2013.