Aladdin / Dinner Music

Rotary Connection | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 12, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Raven [Australia]
• ASIN: B00000I0JG
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,190 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Life Could

2. Teach Me How To Fly

3. V.I.P.

4. Let Them Talk

5. I Took A Ride (Caravan)

6. Aladdin

7. Magical World

8. I Must Be There

9. I Feel Sorry

10. Paper Castle

11. Pointillism/We Will Be Free

12. Living Alone

13. Lektricks #1

14. Country Things

15. Quartet

16. May Our Amens Be True

17. Stormy Monday Blues

18. Love Me Now

19. Lonely Summer

20. Amuse

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Reissue featuring the second & fifth albums together on one CD by this underrated underground psych/ soul outfit Minnie Riperton was in prior to her successful solo career in the '70s. Contains all of the cuts from the original LPs, for a total of 22 selections --all digitally remastered. 'Aladdin' was first out in 1968; 'Dinner Music' was released the following year. 1999 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Energetic/stylized/sensitive projections from a bygone time, March 25, 2004

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Phil Rogers (Ann Arbor, Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Aladdin / Dinner Music (Audio CD)

Take an utterly beautiful, soulful band like the Fifth Dimension and add a heavy, professionally-crafted theatrical sheen, and you've got Rotary Connection. One of my amazingly astute and lively college companions/girlfriends was heavily into theatre - and was wild about them. If you like listening to music that's reminiscent of 'Hair' and/or 'Jesus Christ Superstar', RC will be right up your alley - they're definitely a very artistic/dramatic/appealing element of the late 60's counter-cultural ethos.
It's also notable that some of the instrumental breaks and harmonic underpinnings veer a bit in the direction of folks like Van Dyke Parks - quite an avant-garde touch, as it were, and quite flavorful, if that's were your tastes lie.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oozing with class and character, June 12, 1999

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[e-mail] (Atchison,Kansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Aladdin / Dinner Music (Audio CD)

I thought about this for a long time and as it turns out it is really very simple. Aladdin is a wonderful album oozing with class and character. I had the pleasure of seeing these folks in concert shortly after Aladdin was released and to this day I consider their performance that evening one of my all time favorites. I don't know how it came to be that this album became lost in time, but I found it again and I am really glad I did.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PSYCHEDELIC & MELLOW, February 24, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Aladdin / Dinner Music (Audio CD)

When I first heard this CD it was in 1969 or 1970. I saw the group live in my college town of Carbondale, Il. Funny part of the album is that it is psychedelic keeping in tune with the 60's, then it seems to mellow out alot for the 70's when everyone, almost everyone, smoked a little reefer. All kidding aside, this cd is 30 years ahead of its time, and Minnie Riperton died soon after this release. I just found this cd, been looking for it for years. My LP is totally trashed from years of playing.