Harvey Scales Trying To Survive

• 1. Glamour Girl
• 2. (On The Street Of) New York City
• 3. Independency
• 4. I Want To Apologize
• 5. Ten Thousand Years
• 6. The Clock
• 7. Every Step Of The Way
• 8. Can’t Have Me
• 9. Love That One
• 10. Canadian Sunset
• 11. Midnight Til We Meet
• 12. Forever Crying
• 13. Outcast (Gypsy Girl)
• 14. Yesterday
• 15. Follow The Disco Crowd
• 16. Broadway Freeze
• 17. (It’s Too Good) Too Good To Be True
• 18. Trackdown
• 19. Get Down
• 20. Love-Itis
• 21. Don’t You Ever Let It End
• 22. Welcome Home
• 23. Trying To Survive
• 24. Bump Your Thang
• 25. Rock The World
• 26. Groove On Sexy Lady
• 27. Love Thief

From his early-’60s days as hip shaker Twistin’ Harvey to his late-’70s nights on the light up dance floor in search of a “Disco Lady,” Harvey Scales survived scrapes with the pop charts, bankrupt record companies, walk outs, sit ins, strikes, price hikes, lay offs, and under table payoffs over a 40 year career.

Compiled here for the first time are Scales’ Cuca and Magic Touch recordings, 27 slabs of cracker jack R&B, stomping northern soul, divorce-ridden deep soul, feverish funk, and hustling disco spread across 2 LPs and housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket.. Bill Dahl’s in depth notes document the entire sordid affair, with dozens of period photos and ephemeral bits illustrating the accompanying 20 page book.

So necessary.