The Trammps

00:00 - The TrammpsShow more

00:03 - 1 - Excluded:

I'm not sure why the Trammps have been ignored for so long by the American record industry. Perhaps the rights were too expensive or difficult to secure. Or they were simply forgotten during repeated turnovers at record companies staffed by younger executives born in later decades than the 1970s. At any rate, as a disco fan and collector since 1973, I was overjoyed to hear this music again with superb mastering. [Photo above of the Trammps]

00:34 - 2 - Why Trammps:

The Trammps were much more than their 1976 tourist-trap dance hit, Disco Inferno (1976). The Philadelphia group had its roots in the 1960s as the Volcanos and then the Moods. The story behind their name has several versions. In one, evening rehearsals on neighborhood streets in Philadelphia led passers-by to chide them as tramps. A second "m" was added and they became the Trammps. But founder and drummer Earl Young told Waring, the box's liner notes writer, that he wanted a silly name—like Bummie and the Bums—record buyers would remember. Tramps worked, but he added the extra "m" to class up the name. Either way, the group's first album, Tammps, was released in early 1975 on Golden Fleece, a boutique label distributed by the songwriting and producing team Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff.
The album made it onto on both Billboard's R&B and pop charts, largely because of the underground album dance hit, Where Do We Go From Here, released in 1974. Young, a Philadelphia session drummer in the early 1970s, recorded the group at Philadelphia's famed Sigma Sound, where the city's leading studio musicians and producers were emerging. Many were members of MFSB, Sigma's sizable and talented studio band. At Sigma, producer-arranger-songwriter Ronnie Baker and guitarist-arranger-songwriter Norman Harris joined Young on Trammps recording sessions and songwriting. Baker-Harris-Young would go on to write major soul and disco hits and had played on several significant pre-Philadelphia International albums, including the Spinners' Spinners (1973) and early '70s albums by Blue Magic. When I interviewed Young for my "Anatomy of a Song" column for the WSJ on the Spinners' I'll Be Around (1972), we talked about the start of the Philly dance beat he created on the Spinners' hit.

02:33 - 3 - success:

As soul dance music picked up in the early 1970s with the emergence of discos, FM radio and supermarket-sized record stores, the Trammps had increased success. Their second 1975 album, The Legendary Zing Album, on Buddah charted, but it was their next album, Where the Happy People Go in 1976 that became a club classic and put the group on the map. All of the album's songs were popular at discos, including Soul Searchin' Time, the title track, Can We Come Together, Disco Party, Ninety-Nine and a Half, Hooked for Life and Love Is a Funky Thing.
The Atlantic album reached #13 on Billboard's R&B album chart and #50 on the Billboard 200. The single of That's Where the Happy People Go topped out at #12 on the Hot Soul Singles chart, #27 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, and Disco Party peaked at #1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart. I wore out two copies of the album at college in Boston, where disco emerged early on one FM station for several hours on Sunday nights.

03:43 - 4 - A popularity:

The Trammps' next album, Disco Inferno (1976), was so popular at discos that the title track landed in the film Saturday Night Fever and on the album soundtrack. The followup, The Trammps III (1977), also was a significant seller. By the late 1970s, the band's success started to flag as the disco phenomenon took on a European electronic sheen, grew repetitive and waned. [Photo above of the Trammps, courtesy of Wikipedia]
The Trammps' sound was unique and driven by muscular dance rhythms by Earl Young, spectacular arrangements by Ronnie Baker and Norm Harris, and by the big emotional vocal delivery of Jimmy Ellis. His expressive lead singing style was akin to the Four Tops' Levi Stubbs.
Burn Baby Burn: The Trammps Albums 1975-1980 is welcome news for anyone who loved early disco and is interested in the emergence of the Philadelphia sound. Hopefully someone at Robinsongs will turn to the Archie Bell catalog next. Do the Choo Choo!

Credit: Marc Myers
Research: Vitor hugo Lizardi Leonardi

Hello friend, I am a big music lover and because I thought that without music I would be nothing in this life, I created this channel, the soul is the root of music, and in my humble view, everything we hear today of good music is related to the soul . If you liked it, leave your Like and subscribe to the channel of this force so that new content like this can be produced, thank you very much.

Come meet me, and give your opinion about the channel, for me it's very important!

—— TALK TO ME.

Research: Vitor hugo Lizardi Leonardi

facebook: facebook.com/vitor.leonardi

instagran: instagram.com/vitorleonardi/

twitter: twitter.com/vitorleonardi

email: vitorleonardi99gmail.com

Good reading ,The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
https://www.amazon.com.br/Habits-Highly-Effective-People-Powerful/dp/1982137274/ref=asc_df_1982137274/?tag=googleshopp00-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=379726347250&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6784634493429849819&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=20104&hvtargid=pla-908915591470&psc=1

Music credit: Stop and Think
Performed: The Trammps
Composed: Ronald Baker
Produced: Earl Young, Ronnie Baker, Norman A. Harris
Source: Epic/Legacy

Hello friends, If you liked it, don't forget to LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to the channel, strengthen our work, it's very important, to expand the channel. I'll tell you, thank you

Hello friend, I am a great music lover and because I think that without music it would be nothing, I created this channel, soul is the root of music, and in my humble view, everything we hear today about good music is related to soul. If you liked it, leave your Like and subscribe to the channel of this force so that new content like this can be produced, thank you very much.

BLACK SOUL CHANNEL- And music or video and history of musicians.
We strive to find the best and most enjoyable text and music for you! We hope to make your days more beautiful with texts and music that make you think and music to relax! Text, love and music. I'm also a writer, I'm working on this project!
contact email and we will respond within 48 hours vitorleonardi99@gmail.com

#the tramps,#ignored,#recording industry time,#forgotten,#young people,#1970s,#happy,#record labels,#composed of executives,#hits,#dance hits, #tourist trap,#vitorleonardi