El Coco: Brazil / Mondo Disco / Let’s Get It Together / Cocomotion, Four Albums on 2 CDs

• For the first time, a collection of four El Coco albums ‘Brazil’, ‘Mondo Disco’, ‘Let’s Get It Together’ and ‘Cocomotion’ in one super double CD package.

Laurin Rinder and W. Michael Lewis had no idea what to expect when AVI Records management implored them to visit a West Hollywood club. Rinder recalled, “They said, ‘I want you two guys to go down to Studio One tonight and listen to this disco stuff and see if you can do this, and we went ‘OK, sure. The club was playing Motown remixes and Barry White’s 1974 instrumental chart-topper, ‘Love’s Theme’. Rinder recognized that he and Lewis could recreate the sweeping sounds that electrified the dancefloor dwellers that night. We knew we could do that because we loved to score things and that’s what it was. It was a lot of bass drums and booming and whistles and yelling, and we said we could probably do this fairly quickly because we were technicians, we could do anything…so the next day Michael and I went into the studio, and we came up with ‘Let’s Get It Together’.” And El Coco was born.

‘Let’s Get It Together’, was a Disco banger and was written by Merria Ross, and was Rinder and Lewis’ breakthrough. They recorded most of the track themselves.

‘Let’s Get It Together’ earned a nomination in the 1977 Disco Awards as the Album of the Year, with the title track nominated as Single of the Year and Favourite 12”. El Coco also garnered a nod as Disco Artist of the Year as well.

El Coco are probably best known for the Disco classic ‘Cocomotion’, this package features the full-length Album Version and the 1979 remix version as a bonus track.

Other tracks of note on this package include ‘I’m Mad As Hell’, ‘Mondo Disco’, ‘The Count Of Monte Disco’, ‘Love Vaccine’ and ‘Fait Le Chat (Do The Cat)’ where you also get the 12” version as a bonus track.

The package includes fabulous sleeve notes by Joe Marchese from TheSecondDisc.com

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE 

Brazil

1  Caravan

2  Masquerade

3  Disco Carnival

4  Zanzibar

5 A Cancão Do Nosso Amor

6  Delicado

7  Bahia

8  Brazil

Mondo Disco

9  Mondo Disco

10  Yakety Yak

11  A Brighter Shade Of Blue

12  Happy

13  Heartbeat

14  Every Little Bit Of My Love

15  The Count Of Monte Disco

Bonus Tracks

16  Let's Get It Together 12”

17  Cocomotion '79

DISC TWO

Let’s Get It Together

1  Just Be You

2  Quiet Village

3  Let's Get It Together

4  Choka Ma Love

5  Mr. Lucky

6  Love Vaccine

7  Under Construction

8  Love Vibrations

9  Fait Le Chat

10  Put On Your Jeans

11  Gimme Some

Cocomotion

12  Cocomotion (Part I & II)

13  We Call It Disco

14  Got That Feeling

15  Love To The World

16  I'm Mad As Hell

17  You're My Everything

Bonus Tracks

18  Fait Le Chat (Do The Cat) 12”