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1979 studio album by Ethel Merman

The Ethel Merman Disco Album is a 1979 album by AmericanBroadway performer Ethel Merman. It was released on A&M Records.^[1] Over the years, the record became a camp classic,^[2] with vinyl copies highly sought out by collectors.

Background

Merman recorded 14 songs for The Ethel Merman Disco Album, although only seven were released on the finished record. Each of the songs was recorded in only one take and arranged vocally the way she always recorded them, with disco instrumentation added later as a backtrack.

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In 2002, Fynsworth Alley Records acquired the rights to release the album on CD.^[3] The CD release contains one bonus track, a recording of They Say It's Wonderful. There are no plans yet to release the other six tracks.

Reception

The Globe and Mail panned "the type of mundane, unimaginative disco back-beat that the trendsetters abandoned years ago."