THE
HUSTLE
VAN
MCCOY
SONGWRITER: VAN MCCOY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: DISCO BABY
LABEL: AVCO RECORDS
GENRE: DISCO
YEAR: 1975
Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6, 1940 –
July 6, 1979) was an American musician, record producer, arranger, songwriter,
singer and orchestra conductor.
He is known best for
his 1975 internationally successful song "The Hustle".
He has approximately 700 song copyrights to his
credit, and is also noted for producing songs for such recording artists as Gladys Knight
& the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda &
the Tabulations, David Ruffin, Peaches & Herb, Lesley Gore and Stacy Lattisaw.
"The Hustle" is a disco song by songwriter/arranger Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony. It went to Nº. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts during the summer of 1975. It also peaked at No. 9 on the
Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report) and No. 3 in the UK. It would
eventually sell over one million copies. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance early in 1976 for songs recorded in 1975.
While in New York City to make an album, McCoy composed the song after his music partner,
Charles Kipps, watched patrons do a dance known as "the Hustle" in
the nightclub Adam's Apple. The sessions were done at New York's Media Sound
studio with pianist McCoy, bassist Gordon Edwards, drummer Steve Gadd,
keyboardist Richard Tee,
guitarists Eric Gale and John Tropea, and
orchestra leader Gene Orloff.
Producer Hugo Peretti contracted
piccolo player Phil Bodner to play
the lead melody.
During the summer of 1975, "The
Hustle" became a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts. Billboard ranked it as the Nº. 21 song for 1975. It also
peaked at Nº. 9 on the Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report) and Nº. 3
in the UK Singles Chart.
According to producers Hugo & Luigi who owned the Avco record label that originally released "The Hustle", McCoy met with them
shortly before his death in 1979 to discuss ideas for a new, longer version of
the song, in order to appease Avco's UK and German affiliates who were
clamoring for a 12" disco single release. The new version, clocking in at
just under 6-and-a-half minutes, was assembled posthumously as a remix, using
parts of the original recording plus new parts, including drum, Syndrum, and a
"little" Moog synthesizer. It was
credited to Van McCoy alone or with an unnamed orchestra, mixed by "The
Mix Masters", identity unknown.
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