Odyssey - Odyssey LP MoWest Motown 1972 MW115L USA Vinyl LP
£
80
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106
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Description
Record has been ultrasonically cleaned. Inner sleeve present but new inner provided.
Sleeve clipped in top corner and there are a few marks around the edges.
Rare US LP featuring the band Odyssey but not the disco band of the same name that came later in the seventies.
Odyssey / Mo West
As the ‘70s began Tamla Motown, flushed with cash from its ’60s successes, was about to relocate from its Detroit home to California, before this wholesale relocation took place the label got one foot in the door via the launch of a West Coast label named….yup you guessed it Mo-West. The label was quickly forgotten once the parent company set up shop in sunnier climbs, although not before they’d scored a handful of hits (Franki Valli’s ‘The Night’ being one of them), a lot of flops and the occasional record that sunk without trace at the time, before its eventual rediscovery – hello Odyssey!
Odyssey
Not to be confused with the late ‘70s pop/disco-ers, who scored big with ‘Native New Yorker’ and ‘Going Back To My Roots’. This Odyssey were an altogether stranger affair; counting an ex-original-member of Chicago Donnie Dacus amongst their line-up and with a musical style that might best be described as a strange amalgam of soul/funk mixed with a dash of sunshine-pop and even a light sprinkling of country – YIKES! But wait come back, check ‘Broken Road’, all super-loose afro/jazz vibes with a liberal dose of West Coast Hippie thrown in for good measure.
Rare opportunity to collect a scarce record.
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