Let Me Be Your Fantasy - Love Symphony Orchestra


r-1544394-1365069537-7921-jpegThe best thing about the end of the 70's was that everyone who wanted to be a part of society had to throw themselves on the disco wave. This created many interesting, exciting or curious elements in the disco era's global record bank.

Love Symphony Orchestra fits into the category of curious elements. At first glance, there is little special about this release. "Love," "Symphony" and "Orchestra" were common words in artist names. Here, even my personal opinion is that all releases that contain "symphony" or "orchestra" must be checked out as these often turn out to be delicious harmonic orchestral disco songs. Whether LSO ends up there, we will come back to. First to the curiosity.

Like so much else in the 70's: telepathy, communist plans to attack the West and aliens, the Love Symphony Orchestra was not a real orchestra. In 1978, Penthouse Magazine (jepp, mannbladet) released a disco album (an idea that was later used by Dmitri from Paris together with Playboy) where they threw on the orchestra name "Love Symphony Orchestra." The truth is probably rather that it is a studio album of studio musicians and studio producers and studio mixers and what else is in a studio. For those who find this interesting, it certainly came with some posters of the finest women Penthouse had to offer. This is actually a general problem for those of us who buy discoLP records on a youth leadership course in London. It always comes with insidious pictures that pop out of the cover as I proudly show what I have bought L

This album had at least two tracks that would achieve recognition "Let Me Be Your Fantasy" and "Let's Make Love In Public Places." The former, our song, was to become an underground classic.

"Let Me Be Your Fantasy" hereafter called LMBYF is a song of ten min. Ten minutes. With a lot of repetition. So you should endure some repetition. For ten minutes. Just to point out that this is a studio album made by studio people in a studio. The bassist's name is Neil Jason, he is relatively unknown. Like David Nadian on strings and Diva Gray who sings. I could still and dropped names but you have not heard of them, nor I. So why do it. Lou Marini, flute.

The song starts the way a song should start. Standard drum to make it easy to mix it with another song. Then comes a bass stanza that is set to repeat. 0:52 and Diva Gray starts singing that she will be your imagination with the same melody as the bass line. 1:08 and she changes tune but her big dream is still to be my fantasy. This melody seems a bit tiring and when they return to the previous melody after 1:20 I start to wonder if the rest of the song should be like the rest of the song. Without much variation, they continue to alternate between these two melodies until… Glory as long as they keep on whining! Lou Marini should have credit for getting on the flute and playing on top of what is already sung and bassed. So 3:18 into the song, something finally happens. And what is coming is not good!The male singer sings some awkward stanzas before we get back on track. Which he sings over. Shockingly, however, I must admit that now it is starting to get a little catchy.


3:52 note the number. The song enters its decidedly best phase. Harmonious string disco strikes with a comfortable and soft vocal. 4:20 and it moves on in pure ironing that follows the recipe for constructive disco. The goal turns out to be the pleasant vocals. Now the song is great. Is it a modulation there? I have poor hearing but it feels like that. The delicious feeling lasts until 5:01 so it sounds like someone has started the song again. Argh! We return to the awkward start with bass and rhythms. Cube bells, whistles and strange sounds do not help to make this catchy. 6:30 and the vocals are thrown on again. You should have good patience to hear so far into the song. Now it's starting to get extremely ragged and it doesn 't seem to have any end. I do not even bother to mention all the instrument that is put on this noise. It only creates more noise, the only exception is perhaps the string. Regardless, the song continues like this until 10:20 and then the pin goes off the record and it becomes quiet. It may be good for the ears now.





Little lyrics to find for this song.

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