"Sylvester: The Life and Work of a Musical Icon"

the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music

This concept terrifies me.

http://pat.ma.cx/

I think he was even responsible for some stuff he wasn't credited with, and much of Sylvester's other stuff was produced by his associates and successors. Cowley also worked with other artists like Sarah Dash and Paul Parker, but his best work was either with Sylvester or his solo stuff like MindWarp, Menergy, Get a Little, Megatron Man. Outside of Sylvester, he's most famous for his infamous 15+ minute remix of Donna Summer's I Feel Love, which is truly an amazing meeting of electronic disco minds. It's available on some Hi-NRG comp CDs and recently bootlegged on Ballroom records.

Cowley died of AIDS in 1982 and is considered one of the first famous people to do so.

My favorite Sylvester song is on the Stars ep and is called "I Need Someone to Love Tonight." It's not credited to Cowley as a producer but as a writer, so I just assume it's his work all around. It's never on the Sylvester reissue 12"s because it's a slow number, but it is absolutely the most beautiful piece of sexy, smoldering electonic music ever written. I own 3 copies of the Stars EP for this reason and will continue to buy it to trade and give to friends.

Sylvester recommendations:

Disco Sylvester: Dance (Disco Heat), Grateful, I Who Have Nothing, You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real), Stars... but most especially of all, I Need You (later revived by the late 80s rare groove Kiss FM London crowd). Much of the disco stuff was done in collaboration with Harvey Fuqua, who also worked closely with Marvin Gaye.

Hi-NRG Sylvester: Do You Wanna Funk, Menergy, Don't Stop, Be With You, Take Me To Heaven, Sex, Lovin' Is Really My Game, Rock The Box. (But NOT Band Of Gold, and its terrible sax solo...)

http://homepage.mac.com/danselzer/SecretMusicPlace/FileSharing2.html

password is:

musicme

let me know if this works.

http://homepage.mac.com/danselzer/SecretMusicPlace/

but it's still not working.

you know I'm a decently paid computer expert, it's sad really.

I played some Patrick Cowley last night. 4 or 5 hours to a mostly empty room trying to stretch out my one crate, I managed to play from the first LP Get A Little, Menergy and Megatron, as well as Sylvester's I Need Somebody To Love tonight extended because I mashed it up with F-4000 by the Fearless Four. Tonight we're doing a disco party at Tonic in NYC, so I will play You Make Me Feel, Mighty Real at the very least.

The first biography of SYLVESTER, who died of AIDS-related causes in
December 1988 at the age of 41, will be published March 1, 2005 by Henry
Holt & Co. "The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the 70s in San
Francisco" was written by Joshua Gamson, a professor of sociology at the
University of San Francisco. His previous books include "Freaks Talk Back:
Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity" and "Claims to Fame: Celebrity
in Contemporary America." http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/sylvester_cat.html

^otm!!!

just needed to register somewhere that sylvester's "over and over" (special 12" disco mix) is as good as it gets and then some. if you haven't heard it before and you want to bawl your eyes out do your spirit a favor and put it on, have a dance etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFoFe7k6YWg

Deservedly landed very high on the old DJ History Forum top 25 disco songs: DJ History Forum's Top 25 Disco Songs

(I mean, on the original list, not the ILM rankings of said songs.)

that list reminded me of "my love is free" and that thankfully i saved my rip of danny krivit's edit from a hd failure (left behind my vinyl at the place of someone who definitely didn't think his love was free). did some digging and found it's finally been released digitally on a 2020 disco compilation that looks promising: salsoul meets west end (reworks) 2020