Star Wars and other Galactic Funk
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Star Wars and other Galactic Funk - also referred to as the "infamous disco version" of A New Hope was an album produced in 1977 by Meco who would later also produce the equally famous Christmas in the Stars.
[edit] Content and musical genre
Apart from the fifteen minute long medley, the album contained a disco-funk tune called Other Galactic Funk, which was composed by Harold Wheeler and Solomon Smith and two shortened remixes of the medley.
The music primarily falls within the funk and disco genres, teeming especially with disco music clichés. However, the Cantina Band sequence is more jazzy and there is a sequence of hamony twin guitars, which is typically associated with hard rock and classical heavy metal.
It was re-issued in CD form in 1999.
[edit] Track listing (1999 version)
- 1. Star Wars (15.49)
- a. Title Theme
- b. Imperial Attack
- c. The Desert & The Robot Auction
- d. The Princess Appears
- e. The Land of the Sand People
- f. Princess Leia's Theme
- g. Cantina Band
- h. The Last Battle
- i. The Throne Room & End Title
- 2. Other Galactic Funk (12.31)
- 3. Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band - 7" Radio Edit (3.32)
- 4. Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band - Promotional-Only DJ 12" Mix (7.34)
