Village People LP Record Album

The Village People - Live and Sleazy - Record Label is Casablanca Record and FilmWorks - NBLP 2-7183 (Two records in picture sleeves) and the Album is two-folded with the center a BIG photo of the SLEASY. - 1979 - A MUST to look at the photographs!!

Record ONE:

Side 1 - Sleazy an Rock & Roll is Back Again.

Side 2 - Ready for the 80’s; Save Me (Ballad); and Save Me (Up Tempo)

Record TWO:

Side 1 - Fire Island; Hot Cop; Medley: San Franciso; In Hollywood

Side 2 - Macho Man; In the Navy; Y.M.C.A

People were a concept disco group formed in the late 1970s. The group is well known for their on-stage costumes as for their catchy tunes and suggestive lyrics. Original members were: police officer (Victor Willis), American Indian chief (Felipe Rose), cowboy (Randy Jones), construction worker (David Hodo), leatherman (Glenn Hughes) and Military man (Alex Briley). For the release of "In the Navy", both Willis and Briley appeared temporarily as sailors. The group is seen by some music critics as less serious for their camp style, appearance and musical choices. Although modern LGBT and gay rights movements were still emerging, the Village People were seen as boosting gay pride around the world.

Village People scored a number of disco and dance hits, including their trademark "Macho Man", "Go West", the classic club medley of "San Francisco (You've Got Me) / In Hollywood (Everybody is a Star)", "In the Navy", "Can't Stop the Music", "Sex Over the Phone" and their biggest hit, "Y.M.C.A.".

Collectively, the Village People have sold 85 million albums and singles. The group also recorded new materials under the name "The Amazing Veepers".

The group was created by Jacques Morali, who was a French musical composer. He had written a few songs when he heard Victor Willis singing background vocals in a studio. Morali approached Willis and told him, "I had a dream that you sang lead on my album and it went very, very big." Willis agreed to sing on the first album, "Village People."

It was a success, so Morali and his business partner, Henri Belolo, (under the collaboration Can't Stop Productions), decided to build a real group around Willis for a stage act to showcase and perform their disco music creations. They took out an ad in a trade magazine band which read: "Macho Types Wanted: Must Have Moustache." The first recruit, Indian Rose, Morali literally bumped into on the streets of Greenwich Village. Rose was a bartender who wore jingle bells on his boots. He was invited along to take part in the sessions for the first album. Alex Briley (who eventually took on the soldierman persona) was a friend of Willis'. The other three, Mark Mussler (construction worker), Dave Forrest (cowboy) and the original leatherman, were quickly replaced, respectively, by Dave Hodo, Randy Jones and Glenn Hughes, who all had more experience as actors/singers/dancers. Leatherman Hughes had first been been spotted as a toll collector at the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. Early on, one of the group's songwriters, Peter Whitehead, even performed with the group for a brief time.

I almost decided NOT to sell this record, but after all I am 64 years old so why not let you younger chicks enjoy their pictures, especially inside the album when it is opened! What HUNKS no matter what anyone says.

The winner on the bidding for this COLLECTIBLE album will also receive a hard copy printout of history on the Village People (7 pages) which includes the names of their other albums. There’s also some good pictures of them individually.

 

 

 

 

 

PriceUSD $ 40.00

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