On July 8Th, 2011 we had the final launch of United States Space Shuttle Atlantis into space. When this mission is completed the 30 year old US Space Shuttle program will close. The space shuttles took the US into galaxies far and away over 30 years. We lost crew members with "Challenger" and "Columbia" but not in vain. And hopefully the United States will once again be pioneers and leaders in space exploration.
"Galaxy" by War (1977)
"Star Wars" by Meko (1977)
"Disco theme to Close Encounters of The Third Kind" by John Williams
So with the final launch of the space shuttle, this weeks "Disco Saturday" takes us to the galaxy of SOLAR records.
S.O.L.A.R. Records (acronym for Sound of Los Angeles Records) was reconstituted out of Soul Train Records only two years after it was founded with Soul Train television show host and creator Don Cornelius. Dick Griffey reorganized the company into the SOLAR label in late 1977 and it quickly became one of the most important disco, R&B, and dance music imprints of the late 1970s and 1980s.
Here are some selections from performers who were signed to SOLAR records and its subsidiaries.
"Soul Train 75" by The Soul Train Gang, produced by Dick Griffey and Don Cornelius as the theme to Soul Train from 1975 to 1976 ushering in the Disco era which was supported on Soul Train
"Career Girl" by Carrie Lucas (1980)
"Make it With You" By The Whispers (1977)
"I Can Make It Better For You" by The Whispers (1980)
"Make That Move" by Shalamar 1980
"I Owe You One" by Shalamar 1979
"Fantastic Voyage" by Lakeside
"Here I Am" by Dynasty
"Meeting In The Ladies Room" by Klymaxx
"Freakazoid" by Midnight Star
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