Give Your Body Up: Club Classics & House Foundations, Vol. 1

Give Your Body Up (Rhino Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 19, 1995)
• Original Release Date: September 19, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000033NX
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #320,415 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Funky Sensation

2. Over Like a Fat Rat

3. Can't Play Around

4. What Can I Do for You?

5. Always There

6. Why Leave Us Alone

7. Is It All over My Face?

8. Free Man [Disco Version]

9. Bad for Me

10. I Love Music

Editorial Reviews

Rhino's first of the three-volume series Give Your Body Up: Club Classics & House Foundations. 10 great tracks featuring Gwen McCrae, LaBelle, Dee Dee Bridgewater, The O'Jays & More.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars nothing less than brilliant, July 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Give Your Body Up: Club Classics & House Foundations, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

From a time when music was exciting, the instruments were real, the voice's nothing less than magnificent! Remember Saturday night, the Paradise Garage, your jeans, your sneakers,your friends, the face cloth for the sweat that would ultimately come. Dancing with wild abandon. The memories of nights gone by. This music still holds up even after 20 yrs. We all want more!!!! Please give us more!!!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HEY, NOW THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT!!!, May 24, 2002

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"matrix007" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Give Your Body Up: Club Classics & House Foundations, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

Great collection of dance-cuts. I have volume 1-3, and I'm glad I decided to buy them. With the exception of a couple of songs, all the jams are full-length extended versions. This is what I've been asking for all along. The average person from that era don't want alot of three-minute cuts from back in the day. Hey, we want the whole un-cut versions and this series delivers.

Plus, while listening to it, I came across a few long-loved jams that I haven't heard in years (decades, even). For instance, as soon as I heard the song "BRA" by CYMANDE, man, I almost cried. And then there's the vocal-version of the jam, "ALWAYS THERE" by SIDE EFFECT. Man, I was looking for these cuts; in CD-format, for a long time.

Hey, if your on a serious quest for great un-cut dance-jams from back in the day; you definitely can't go wrong with "GIVE YOUR BODY UP", it's one of the best series.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rare Grooves, October 1, 2004

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Disco Buff (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Give Your Body Up: Club Classics & House Foundations, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

First of all, this CD is very hard to find now because it's out of print for long even though it's rather popular among collectors like me. You should buy it if you are a real disco music fan and able to find somewhere, I think. Give Your Body Up series includes many rare disco tunes, moreover, in the extended versions in most cases. But this Vol.1 is most recommendable. I like Why Leaves Us Alone and Bad For Me, both of which are exciting up-tempo disco gems and really really hard to find on any CD. The disco version of Free Man is also good.