“I Love The Nightlife (Disco Spherical) – Alicia Bridges”

Bridges first recorded for the Nashville-based Mega Information with two 1973 single releases of her authentic materials: each singles flopped however Bridges got here to the eye of the president of the writer of her songs: Invoice Lowery, who signed as her supervisor, subsidizing Bridges over a roughly two 12 months interval of canvassing document labels which ended when she was signed to Polydor in 1977.

Bridges’ self-titled debut album was the inaugural manufacturing by Steve Buckingham who was assigned to provide Bridges after enjoying guitar on one in every of her earliest classes. Bridges and her private and songwriting associate Susan Hutcheson had written a track entitled “Disco ‘Spherical” which at Buckingham’s suggestion was recorded as “I Love the Nightlife” as Buckingham felt the track was R&B reasonably than disco (“Disco ‘Spherical” was retained because the track’s subtitle): Bridges herself would later admit she’d had hopes that the track can be obtained as a Memphis soul quantity, calling it “one thing Al Inexperienced would possibly sing”.[2] Nevertheless membership help was a key issue within the success of the observe which grew to become a “sleeper” High 40 hit spending 27 weeks on the Billboard Scorching 100 with a peak of quantity 5, and likewise showing on a number of worldwide hit parades as evinced by the Billboard’s “Hits of the World” chart. The track was additionally within the #5 place on the Document World and Money Field charts. It was additionally a “crossover” hit, receiving play even on nation music stations. The duvet of the 1978 self-titled LP options an early skyline image of Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1978 Bridges was a Grammy nominee and was the opening act, performing “I Love the Nightlife”. Bridges’ self-titled LP, Alicia Bridges, was additionally rising on the Billboard, Money Field and Document World charts and the LP remained on the charts for as much as 35 weeks. Each the LP and the only launch have been worldwide successes, and “I Love the Nightlife” went prime 40 within the UK and Germany, Spain and different European nations. Bridges’ music was particularly in style in Japan. She obtained an RIAA Licensed Gold Document for the sale of over a million copies of her hit single within the USA, in addition to a gold document from Canada.

Opposite to the impression created by her success with “I Love the Nightlife”, Bridges was primarily a singer of R&B, rock, blues and love songs. “I Love the Nightlife” has a particular again beat and organ much like early Nineteen Seventies R&B; the unique intention was for “I Love the Nightlife” to be an R&B track, however when Invoice Lowery first heard the track, he noticed its disco potential: subsequently a 12″ single remix was created by Jim Burgess, finally turning into a worldwide membership smash.

“I Love the Nightlife” has been featured in a number of motion pictures, together with Love at First Chunk, The Final Days of Disco and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. supply