Salsoul Orchestra’s “Magic Bird of Fire” is a Battle Beat Supremo from the Disco era with all the elements of Disco and Funk working together over a Latin percussion-driven Disco beat:
The Salsoul Orchestra (@SalsoulRecords) LP from my crate, which has a longer version of “Magic Bird of Fire” with an extended intro, also contains the Bboy Funk Jammers “You’re Just the Right Size“, “Don’t Beat Around the Bush”, “Salsoul: 3001”, and more.
Salsoul Orchestra would be responsible for much of the Disco Hit library into the late 1970s and 1980s, always on the cutting edge of sound and culture.
From Wikipedia:
Greatest Disco Hits / Music for Non-Stop Dancing is an album released by The Salsoul Orchestra in 1978 on Salsoul Records LP record SA 8508.[1] The album is noted for it’s pioneering use of Slip-cueing,[2] known at the time as “disco blending,” by Walter Gibbons…
Prior to landing on the charts, the album had been reviewed as a “perfect party record” by Billboard Magazine.[3] This album entered the Billboard 200 album charts on September 9, 1978 and remained on the charts for thirteen weeks, peaking at position #97, the group’s last top-100 album.[1]
