Track Listing

1. Spank [1980 Remix]
2. Dance Across the Floor
3. Gimme Some, Pt. 1
4. Get Happy
5. (They Long to Be) Close to You
6. (Let Me) Let Me Be Your Lover
7. Don't Worry About It
8. Goin' Home for Love
9. Let's Do It
10. Is It In?
11. Ask the Birds and the Bees
12. Without You
13. I Get Lifted
14. Music to Make Love By
15. You're So Good to Me
16. Rocket in the Pocket
17. You Get Me Hot
18. I Wanna Go Home With You
19. It's Your Sweet Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #352849 in Music
• Released on: 1998-06-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Album Description
The first ever CD compilation for this purveyor of '70s dance music. 79 minutes long, it contains 19 original recordings for the TK label licensed from EMI U.K., including 'Spank', 'Dance Across The Floor', 'Don't Worry About It', 'Gimme Some (Part 1)' and 'Is It In'. 1998 Westside release. The full title is 'Gimme Some! The Best OfThe TK Years 1975-85'.

Customer Reviews

Too good to be forgotten
Jimmy Bo Horne's music is simply too good to be forgotten. This CD is essentially a KC and the Sunshine Band collection with a different vocalist. Harry Wayne Casey and his cohorts wrote, played on, and produced almost everything here, so if you like excellent '70s dance music you will enjoy this. "Dance Across the Floor" is one of the best songs I have ever heard; I can't understand why it wasn't a huge hit back in the day (and who's that familiar voice singing backup? I won't say his name, but his initials are...!) Other fun songs here are "Ask the Birds and the Bees," "Let Me Be Your Lover" (sampled by Stereo MC's for "Connected") and "I Wanna Go Home With You" and "Spank." Horne even manages to coax a listenable performance out of "Close To You." Enjoy!

is it in
this song is probably the best disco song ever made on this planet...

Disco Treasure
Listening to this album is like a trip down memory lane to the golden days of disco. The classic Spank is archetypical 1970s disco with bubbly rhythms, chanting chicks and gorgeous flourishes of saxophone.

Dance Across The Floor with its propulsive rhythms and extended instrumental break was one of the biggest chart and dancefloor hits but the album includes a number of infectious ditties. You Get Me Hot with its tight bass lines reminds me a bit of Chic, whilst Gimme Some is quite soulful with a catchy riff and playful vocals that stick in the mind.

Another soulful moment, Goin' Home For Love is a beautiful flowing ballad whilst Let Me Be Your Lover is a funky track with prominent female backing vocals. Get Happy is a type of anthem for the disco generation, a buoyant little ditty with an insistent beat and I Get Lifted is indeed an uplifting slice of soulful disco.

There are also the gentle ballads, like Without You and the Bacharach-David song They Long To Be (Close To You). Jimmy Bo Horne may have been a disco phenomenon but this enjoyable album reveals that he made some memorable music that has stood the test of time.