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The Trammps Martin Hutchinson reviews ‘Burn Baby Burn: Disco Inferno (The Trammps Albums 1975-1980).
The Trammps
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The Trammps were at the forefront of the Disco explosion of the mid-to-late seventies. Starting life as The Volcanoes in 1965, they signed to Neal Bogart’s Buddah Records, which prompted a change of name.
Their first self-titled album was released in 1975 after some hit singles, ‘Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart’; ‘Sixty Minute Man’ and ‘Pray All You Sinners’. In fact, these three singles appeared on the band’s second album, released in the same year, ‘The Legendary Zing Album’, along with ‘Hold Back the Night’.
Interestingly, the band’s 1977 fifth album was entitled ‘The Trammps III’ and was released as the follow up to the previous year’s ‘Disco Inferno’ album, which had propelled them into superstardom. The title track of ‘Disco Inferno’ of course went on to appear on the soundtrack of the film ‘Saturday Night Fever’ (1977).
The Trammps were THE disco band and they toured the world celebrating their success and the Disco genre. This compilation, which comes with a clamshell box and a sixteen-page booklet, features all eight albums recorded by the band between 1975 and 1980, along with eleven bonus tracks.
Still touring today, the importance of The Trammps to the Disco world cannot be understated and this collection has their very best tracks recorded when they were at their peak.
‘Burn Baby Burn: Disco Inferno (The Trammps Albums 1975-1980)’ is out now on Robinsongs via Cherry Red Records.
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www.cherryred.co.uk/ artist/trammps-the
