1973 in music  

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1973, music

Events

• Lee Perry
  • Builds the Black Ark studios

• Larry Levan
  • The resident DJ at the Continental Baths walks out and the owner tells light-man Larry Levan that he’s got six hours to find a record collection. Levan becomes resident. The nightclub soundtrack of Motown and Soul gives way to Gamble and the Huff’s Philly sound. MFSB release; ‘Love Is The Message’ typifies gay clubbing in NYC. Disco as a genre is born with the success of Soul Makossa, based on its club play at the Loft.

• First article on disco
  • Vince Aletti was the first person to write about disco (in a piece called "Discotheque Rock '72: Paaaaarty!" Rolling Stone on September 13 1973), writing a weekly column about disco for the music trade magazine Record World'

Albums

• Here Come the Warm Jets by Brian Eno
• Upsetters 14 Dub Blackboard Jungle by Lee Perry
• King Tubby (1973) stereo dub album 'Blackboard Jungle'
• Catch a Fire (1973) - Bob Marley
• Wild and Peaceful (1973) - Kool & The Gang
• Funky Kingston (1973 - Toots & The Maytals
• Coffy - Roy Ayers
• Chuck Mangione - Land of Make Believe
• African Herbsman (1973) - Bob Marley
• The New York Dolls (1973) - New York Dolls
• Milagre Dos Peixes - Milton Nascimento
• Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
• Skull Snaps
• Space is the Place - Sun Ra
• John Martyn - Solid Air
• Cosmic Slop - Funkadelic

Singles

• "Summer (The First Time)" by Bobby Goldsboro
• "Jolene" by Dolly Parton
• "Love Is the Message" by MFSB
• "Hurts So Good" by Millie Jackson
• "Le Serpent" by Guem
• "Same Beat" by The J.B.'s.
• "The Bottle" by Gil Scott-Heron
• "C'est normal " by Brigitte Fontaine and Areski
• "Apache/Bongo Rock" by the Incredible Bongo Band
• "Space Is the Place" by Sun Ra
• "For The Love Of Money" by the O'Jays

• Boris Gardiner Happening - Melting Pot
• Barrabás - Woman/Wild Safari
• Tribe - Koke [1]
• First Choice - Armed and Extremely Dangerous/Smarty Pants
• First Choice -Love and Happiness [2]
• Getting Together - Brothers Guiding Light Featuring David (Mercury, 1973)
• The Moments - Sexy Mama [3]
• Brief Encounter - Human
• Skull Snaps - My Hang Up is You
• The Intruders - I'll Always Love my Mama
• Fatback Band - Goin' to See My Baby
• Yellow Sunshine - Yellow Sunshine
• Chuck Mangione - Land of Make Believe
• Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes - The Love I Lost