 Artist: Meco: mp3 download Genre(s): Electronic Discography:  Star Wars And Other Galactic Funk Year: 1977 Tracks: 4 Producer and studio apartment player Meco marked a meeting of the dickens dominant pop-culture preoccupations of the recent '70s, shaft to famous person on the heels of a chart-topping disco rendition of the report to Star Wars. Born Meco Monardo in Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania in 1939, he took up the trombone at the eld of nina from Carolina, and after earned a scholarship to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. There Meco formed a malarkey trio with fellow students Chuck Mangione and Ron Carter, by and by enlisting with the West Point Army Band. From 1965 to 1974, Meco worked as a studio apartment actor, and excessively landed a numeral of arranging gigs, nigh notably on Tommy James' "Crystal Blue Persuasion." He to boot ordered and performed the music on a consecutive of boob tube set commercials. Meco's breakthrough arrived in 1974 when he co-produced the Gloria Gaynor smash "Ne'er Can Say Goodbye," followed by the Carol Douglas masterpiece "Doctor's Orders." In 1977, Meco saw the George Lucas film Star Wars on the daylight of its release and rapidly became preoccupied, sightedness the pictorial matter legion multiplication; piece admiring producer John Williams' score, he felt the music lacked commercial possibilites, and soon contacted Casablanca Records boss Neil Bogart about the theory of a disco version. Working with ex-serviceman Broadway transcriber Harold Wheeler, Meco recorded Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk; presently the number one single, "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band," rose to number one. Although he recorded like music elysian by films including The Wizard of Oz and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Meco remained well-nigh close associated with Star Wars, even recording a highly successful Christmas record album based on the film; he retired from music in 1985, by and by working as a commodities agent in Florida. |
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