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This listing is for Le Pamplemousse – Planet Of Love / You Can Get Off On The Music Vinyl LP Record Album AVI-6080.
Label: AVI Records – AVI 6080 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1979 Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul Style: Disco
Condition:   Jacket:     Very Good         Vinyl:  Very Good
Tracklist:
A1Planet Of Love7:40 A2You Can Get Off On The Music7:25 B1Back Street City Lights7:01 B2Creepin'7:13 B3I've Been Watching You4:08
Le Pamplemousse was the brainchild of Michael Lewis and Laurin Rinder. Much like Phil Spector a decade earlier, these producers would create outlets for their musical genius. These outlets or studio groups, would often feature the same musicians and singers. Interchangeable pieces in the master plan. The faces might change but the name and sound were constant.
Laurin Rinder was born in Los Angeles, California on April 3rd, 1943. He knew by the age of six that he wanted to be a musician. At seven, he was playing the trumpet. His father, who was an understudy for Bing Crosby during the 1930's and 1940's, encouraged Laurin to play and later built him a drum set out of trashcans and corrugated boxes. Soon the trumpet gave way to the saxophone and then finally the drums in his junior high school band. He played on his first album as a session drummer in 1953 while only ten years old. During his sophomore year, he decided to drop out of high school to pursue music on a full time basis by playing with local bands around Los Angeles. The first band he played with was Dick D’Augustine And The Swingers who had a local hit with a tune called "Nancy Lynn." At 19, Laurin enrolled in a correspondence course at The Berkeley School of Jazz and devoted his life to music. The great jazz artists of the day such as Davis, Monk and Mingus were his influences. Laurin was among the first in a small group of young musicians that played rock and roll in Hollywood during the mid-to late 1950's. There was a shortage of drummers, since little if any of the older musicians wanted to play this new style of music. Rock and roll in its infancy was essentially an amalgam of blues, R&B and country & western. During the period between 1956 to around 1963 Laurin claims to have played on roughly about half of the music that was released during that time. In the early 1960's Laurin made the move to Detroit and was part of the early Motown history along with friend Bernard Purdy. While in Detroit he continued to travel and record in Philly, Miami, and the famed Muscle Shoals studios in Alabama where he played on Arthur Prysock, Anita O’Day and Billy Eckstein sessions among others. He traveled extensively with James Brown, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed and John Hooker by bus throughout the South during the 1960's where he was usually the only white player in a black group. Las Vegas also figured into his travels where he even did comedy as part of "Rinder, Ryder And The Swinging Brass" around 1966-67. When asked why so many different things under his belt his only reply is, "I’m an opportunist. I look for the door and go through it." "Things got a little thin in the early 1970s when we were doing hard rock and at this time is when Michael (Lewis) comes in."
Around 1968 Laurin was living in Laguna Beach, California when he called his friend Dick Dodd, the leader singer of the group The Standells, to arrange for an audition. The Standells had scored a #-11 hit in 1966 with "Dirty Water." Michael, who hailed from Alabama, was their keyboard player and had just come from another group, We Five, which had the 1966 hit "You Were On My Mind." Michael had also performed on fellow Alabamian Percy Sledge’s "When A Man Loves A Woman." The two met and later went on to form a rock group called Joshua. The six-piece group was comprised of former members of The Righteous Brothers and Bonnie And Delaney. After several unsuccessful years the group disbanded. The bands manger, Seymour Heller who was the president of "The Conference of the Personal Managers of the World" and guided the careers of such stars as Liberace and Debbie Reynolds, had other plans for Rinder and Lewis. Heller was the owner of "Producer’s Workshop" and partners with Ray Harris in the "American Variety International" (AVI) record label. Around 1975 they were asked by Harris if they knew anything about "this new music called Disco." They were then asked if they would like to go into the studio and try something out. Laurin recalls, "We went in and did all this stuff and we were the first ones to do this thing. And I was putting in these sh, sh, sh hi-hat things on R&B songs that turned into Disco songs. Then I said why don’t we start using bells and whistles and I do some strange sounds like ew-ee, ew-ee…we’ll put breaks into it and play some bass drum…boom-boom and who cares…" to which everyone agreed. A very popular gay disco called Studio One was near Laurin’s home, so one night Laurin and Michael decided to stop by and see what this new Disco music was all about. The two found themselves dumbfounded. They could not help noticing that the crowd was eating it up and thought we can do this with no problem at all. Thus began their El Coco recordings in 1976. Ray Harris, who had been in contact with DJ.-producer and remixer Rick Gianatos via Chicago's Dogs Of War Record Pool, gave Rinder and Lewis their next hit. Gianatos was working at the pool and spinning at Dingbats (a local straight black club). Rick told Ray about a dance that he saw nightly at the club, the dancers did this thing called "The Spank" to Peter Brown's "Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me" and Barry White's "It’s Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me." Rick picks up the story: "Ray Harris thought doing a record about The Spank was a fantastic idea and he and Michael Lewis flew in to Chicago the following week to hang out a little and observe the dancers carrying on to these songs. I made sure to play music appropriate for the dance when they were at the club, including both of the favorites, Peter Brown and Barry White. Ray wasn't impressed with Peter Brown, but that beat of Barry White got him excited. (Peter Brown was a more outrageous and less predictable track, for sure). He told Michael they would go back to L.A. and Michael and Lauren should write something new with that Barry White groove. A few days later Ray called me and told me he had christened the concept "Le Spank," to continue in his "European Import" flavor of AVI releases."
And the rest is history as they say. Laurin took the track and changed the lyrics to make it become "Le Spank" which became the first hit for the branch of Rinder/Lewis under the name Le Pamplemousse. The duo had previously released 2-12" singles as Le Pamplemousse to moderate success, 1976's "Gimme What You Got" and 1977's "Get Your Boom Boom (Around The Room Room)" before "Le Spank" hit #-1 in 1977. The 12" singles: "Monkey See, Monkey Do" and "Sweet Magic" followed in 1978 and the final 12" single, "Do You Have Any, Do You Know Where I Can Get Some" in 1979. The "group" had three albums between 1977 and 1979: "Le Pamplemousse" (1977), "Sweet Magic" (1978), and "Planet Of Love" (1979). The musicians listed on the credits of the Le Pamplemousse albums are fictitious. Laurin says, "None of them existed, Mike and I played all the instruments…on every album. Every single album."

CONDITION Descriptions:
I base the condition of each of my Records off of Ebay's Grading System. 
• MINT (M) Looks new and unplayed. Very high vinyl luster and no noticeable label defects. Sounds new. With 45rpm records, this does not always mean there is no surface noise at all. 
• NEAR MINT (NM) Looks almost new, but has some minor flaws such as a drill hole; unobtrusive writing on label (e.g., an X on a promo copy); minor scuffing on vinyl; minor color flaking on label, or other insignificant flaws that only slightly detract from visual appeal. May have some minor surface noise, but nothing distracting. 
• VERY GOOD (VG) There may be light scuffing and some of the original vinyl luster may be lost. The vinyl and label may appear used, but well cared for. Records may have some more obvious flaws that are not visually degrading such as a sticker on the label; more noticeable writing on the label; scuffing and minor scratches on the vinyl; or minor discoloration of the label. There may be very minor warping of the vinyl. There may be a slight scratch not affecting play. 
• GOOD (G) Record has visible signs of handling and playing, such as loss of vinyl luster, minor surface scratches, groove wear, and audible surface noise. Appears well used but not abused. May have a few major flaws, such as scratches, label tears, or stickers, and/or writing. 
• FAIR (F) Appears well used and somewhat abused. Audio is not great due to surface noise and scratches. The record may have a stick or a skip. Records in this condition are those you might purchase to fill a hole in your collection until a better copy comes along. 
• POOR (P) Well played with little luster and significant surface noise, but still not cracked or broken. Record likely skips and/or sticks. Typically so bad looking that a true “collector” would just toss it out. More useful as a Frisbee. I try not to sell records in this condition.
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