Sealed LP: B.T. Express: Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)

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B.T. Express: Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)

FACTORY SEALED LP

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Songs

• Express
• If It Don't Turn You on (You Oughta' Leave It Alone)
• Once You Get It
• Everything Good to You (Ain't Always Good for You)
• Mental Telepathy
• Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)
• Do You Like It
• That's What I Want for You Baby
• This House Is Smokin'

Credits

Jeff Lane: Producer

• Randy Muller: String Arrangements
• Trade Martin: Producer, Arranger
• Coolidge Abel-Bey
• Sid Maurer
• Tash Howard
• Sam Taylor: Organ
• Tom Moulton
• King Davis: Personal Manager
• John Bradley: Engineer
• Eddie Youngblood
• Jim Zack
• Gene Ward: Photography
• Michael Mendel: Album Design

Album Review

B.T. Express was saying what we needed to hear, Do It, what ever it is. And the funky beat made you listen and and lean from side to side, movin' and groovin' to the sound. My girl friends and I got together and made up a line dance to go with this song, and we would do this dance at parties all over the neighborhood until it actually caught on. Every party we went to people would join in and do the dance. Wow, we had a great time.

Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) features two million sellers by the New York natives; the title track and "Express" are funky, irresistible disco gems. Produced by Jeff Lane and mixed by Tom Moulton, the two dancefloor classics features hypnotic basslines, handclaps on alternate beats, and the coolest congas on the planet, all combined with masterfully mixed guitars, saxophones, flutes, strings, Barbara Joyce Lomas' blaring lead, Louis Risbrooks' bass vocal retorts, and Richard Thompson's support vocals. Lane was never able to repeat the tightness of the two tracks on subsequent albums or even on this one. "If I Don't Turn You On" and "Do You Like It" come close, but "Once You Get It," "Do It," "This House Is Smoking," and "Mental Telepathy" do not. Good, because of the two classics, but a greatest-hits collection would be even better. ~ Andrew Hamilton, All Music Guide

Biography

B.T. Express biography by Ron Wynn, All Music Guide

This funk-disco group was formed by Jeff Lane in Brooklyn during the '70s. They started in 1972 as the King Davis House Rockers, and later were called the Brooklyn Trucking Express. The roster consisted of saxophonist/vocalist Bill Risbrook, percussionist Dennis Rowe, guitarist Rick Thompson, saxophonist/flutist Carlos Ward, keyboardist Michael Jones (Kashif), lead guitarist/vocalist Wesley Hall, drummer Leslie Ming, bassist, organist and vocalist Louis Risbrook, and vocalist Barbara Joyce Lomas. Their debut LP Do it ('Til You're Satisfied) had two number-one R&B and Top Ten pop hits in the title cut and "Express." Subsequent LPs yielded two more R&B Top Ten singles, "Give It What You Got/Peace Pipe" in 1975 and "Can't Stop Groovin' Now, Wanna Do It Some More" in 1976. After 1977's "Shout It Out," which cracked the R&B Top 20 (number 12), the group slumped with the album Shout! They were off the charts until 1980. They made a slight comeback that year with B.T. Express 1980, though only the single "Give Up the Funk (Let's Dance)" made it into the Top 40 (number 24). They later recorded for Record Shack, Earthtone, and King Davis, but couldn't duplicate their earlier success. Kashif scored hits as a producer, performer, and composer in the '80s.

• This record came from a record store called "Phantasmagoria" which was located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Phantasmagoria went out of business in 1978. I purchased most of their unsold inventory some years later when I owned "Music Madness" - a new & used record store in Catasauqua.
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