The Big Break

Silver Convention - Get Up And Boogie (1976) {2014 Remastered & Expanded Reissue - Big Break Records CDBBR0275}
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© 1976, 2014 Big Break Records / Cherry Red / Jupiter Records | CDBBR 0275
Disco / Funk / Dance / Pop

SILVER CONVENTION started life in Munich in 1974 as Silver Bird Convention when German song writing and producing partners Michael Kunzte and Sylvester Levay released the single ‘Save Me’ on Jupiter Records, enlisting three session singers to take care of the minimal vocal refrain on the track. With the "Bird” soon dropped from the acts name ‘Save Me’ became an international Disco hit heralding the start of continued success throughout the 70's. GET UP AND BOOGIE was the group’s second album released in 1976 and capitalized on the success of their debut, which is also available on BBR. Simply titled "Silver Convention” for the US market, GET UP AND BOOGIE confirmed the group’s reputation for very catchy, accessible dance floor music that was at the forefront of the Euro-disco movement.

The Hues Corporation - Freedom For The Stallion (1973) {2014 Remastered & Expanded Reissue - Big Break Records CDBBRX0183}
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© 1973, 2014 RCA / Sony Music / Big Break Records / Cherry Red Records | CDBBRX 0183
R&B / Philly Soul / Soul / Disco

THE HUES CORPORATION was a soul trio formed in 1969 in Santa Monica, California by band mates St. Clair Lee, Fleming Williams and Hubert Ann Kelley. Their first break came in 1972 with the Blaxploitation film, Blacula, in which they made a small appearance, in addition to recording three songs for the soundtrack. It was shortly following this that they were signed to RCA where they released their debut album, FREEDOM FOR THE STALLION, now making its international CD debut on BBR!

Silver Convention - Silver Convention - Save Me (1975) {2014 Remastered & Expanded Reissue - Big Break Records CDBBR0266}
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© 1975, 2014 Big Break Records / Cherry Red / Jupiter Records | CDBBR 0266
R&B / Disco / Soul / Funk / Dance / Pop

SILVER CONVENTION started life in Munich in 1974 as Silver Bird Convention when German songwriting and producing partners Michael Kunzte and Sylvester Levay released the single ‘Save Me’ on Jupiter Records, enlisting three session singers to take care of the minimal vocal refrain on the track. With the "Bird” soon dropped from the acts name ‘Save Me’ became an international Disco hit charting at #30 in the U.K. and across the board in the U.S. at #10 Disco and #103 Pop, heralding the start of continued success throughout the 70's. With a settled line up of Ramona Wolf, Penny McLean and Linda G. Thompson as Silver Convention the group released this, their eponymously titled debut LP (titled "Save Me” outside of Germany) to great acclaim as the Euro-Disco sound made waves across the world with Giorgio Morodor, also based in Munich, surfing the highest.

Gloria Gaynor - Gloria Gaynor (1982) {2014 Remastered & Expanded - Big Break Records CDBBRX0197}
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© 1982, 2014 Atlantic / Big Break Records / Cherry Red Records | CDBBRX0197
R'n'B / Soul / Disco / Funk

RARE GLORIA GAYNOR ATLANTIC ALBUM DEBUTS ON CD IN ORIGINAL FORM! Grammy Award winner and Hall of Famer, GLORIA GAYNOR was born on the 7th of September 1949 in Newark, N.J. and sang as a young girl in her school choir, mixed chorus and her school’s girl glee club. While she knew she one day wanted to have a career in music, GLORIA GAYNOR still went to school with the aim of having something to fall back on and studied beauty and business courses.

Billy Paul - Ebony Woman (1970) {2012 Remastered & Expanded - Big Break Records CDBBR0142}
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© 1970, 2012 Neptune Records / Sony Music / Big Break Records / Cherry Red Records | CDBBR 0142
R'n'B / Soul / Philly Soul / Vocal Jazz / Quiet Storm

2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the hugely influential Philadelphia International Records. To mark this, and following our reissue of some of the labels other acts such as the Three Degrees, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes and the O’Jays, we are pleased to present an album from one of the most identifiable voices of the Philly Sound. Billy Paul is a Grammy Award winning soul singer, most noted for his R&B #1 "Me & Mrs Jones”. EBONY WOMAN is a delightful Gamble & Huff produced 1970 album, which was later re-released in 1973. This BBR reissue sees the original artwork being used for a CD release for the first time.

Gloria Gaynor - Park Avenue Sound (1978) {2013 Remastered & Expanded - Big Break Records CDBBR 0131}
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© 1978, 2013 Polydor / Big Break Records / Cherry Red Records | CDBBR 0131
R'n'B / Soul / Disco / Funk

Grammy Award winner and Hall of Famer, GLORIA GAYNOR was born on the 7th of September 1949 in Newark, N.J. and sang as young girl in her school choir, mixed chorus and the her school’s girl glee club. While she knew she one day wanted to have a career in music, GLORIA GAYNOR still went to school with the aim of having something to fall back on and studied beauty and business courses.

Gloria Gaynor - Love Tracks (1978) {2013 Remastered & Expanded - Big Break Records CDBBR 0140}
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© 1978, 1979, 2013 Universal / Big Break Records / Cherry Red Records | CDBBR 0140
R'n'B / Soul / Disco / Funk

In 1978 GLORIA GAYNOR released her 6th studio album, "LOVE TRACKS” on Polydor Records, now fully remastered and repackaged by BBR! "LOVE TRACKS” features some of the best musicians of the time including Paulinho Da Costa on percussion and Wah Wah Watson on guitar while production duties were left in the capable hands of Dino Fekaris. · "LOVE TRACKS” contains the million-unit selling chart topper, ‘I Will Survive’, originally a B-side to Gloria’s cover of ‘Substitute’.

The Salsoul Orchestra - The Salsoul Orchestra (1975) {2012 Remastered & Expanded - Big Break Records CDBBR 0101}
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© 1975, 2012 Big Break Records / Cherry Red / Verse Music | CDBBR 0101
R'n'B / Soul / Funk / Disco / Philly Soul

THE SALSOUL ORCHESTRA - as well as being the legendary backing band for many of the Salsoul Records artists - were a highly successful act in their own right. Throughout their career they consisted of up to 50 members (many of whom were also standing members of MFSB – Philadelphia Internationals house band). They released eleven successful albums on Salsoul Records over a seven year period.

Charo And The Salsoul Orchestra - Cuchi-Cuchi (1977) {2014 Remastered & Expanded - Big Break Records CDBBR 0259}
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© 1977, 2014 Verse Music / Big Break Records / Cherry Red Records | CDBBR 0259
R'n'B / Latin / Disco / Soul

Maria del Rosario Mercedes Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza, professionally known by her stage name CHARO, is a Spanish-American actress, singer, comedienne and flamenco guitarist who was well known for her flamboyant style and her catchphrase "Cuchi-Cuchi.” Having married Latin superstar Xavier Cugat in 1966, who had taken Charo on as his protégé, this all round performer racked up a multitude of film and television appearances (alongside her musical career - she was voted Best Flamenco Guitarist twice in Guitar Player Magazine) throughout the 60's and 70's which helped to make her a household name in the U.S.A. Charo even had a spell headlining her own shows in Las Vegas.

Sister Sledge - Circle of Love (1975) {2016 Special 40th Anniversary Edition Big Break Records WCDBBRX0344}
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© 1975, 2016 ATCO / Cotillion Records / Big Break Records / Cherry Red Records | WCDBBRX0344
R'n'B / Disco / Soul / Smooth Soul / Quiet Storm

BBR are thrilled to present the 40th Anniversary Edition of Circle of Love in a deluxe super jewel case, expanded and remastered, featuring a new interview with Kathy Sledge and ten bonus tracks. The disco era’s most famous “family”, Sister Sledge went from promising success in Europe to phenomenal mainstream success in 1979 with the platinum-selling Nile Rodgers/Bernard Edwards-helmed (Chic) album WE ARE FAMILY. ‘He’s the Greatest Dancer’, ‘Lost in Music’ and ‘We Are Family’ remain classic anthems in disco’s final years before sustaining respectable hits through to the mid-80s.