Love & Happiness

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Via Last Night’s Party

Next up, something quite special I might say. This track has never been released in the version you’re about to hear, officially, because of copyright reasons. Let me first give you a little bit of history:
- 1973: Love & Happiness was a track on the “Extremely Dangerous LP” by First Choice, a disco pop group. It was released on Philly Groove Records which was founded back in 1967.
- 1980′s: Ron Hardy makes a house version of the classic Love & Happiness track. Chicago legend Hardy actually never released it. Yet after some diggin’ I ‘ve found the track, it was released on CDr last year as “The Music Box Classics Collection, Volume One” on Partehardy Records, a label set up by Bill Hardy, Ron’s nephew.
- 1987: William Stover and Lidell Townsell make an edit of Hardy’s track under their pseudonym “Two Of A kind”, however they don’t use the original “First Choice” lyrics.
- 2009: Smackos remakes the Hardy version, keeping the original lyrics. According to him the track is too lo-fi to play it in a club, and I think he has a point. The remake sounds “cleaner”, with respect to the original vibe.

I heard the Smackos version in a recent mixtape and was immediately obsessed by the track, this truly is too good to not be released on EP. Of course you can now also buy the original Hardy version (not on EP though!) or the “Two of a kind” version but I really believe that if this would be released it would cause a hype right away…
Maybe you could all send e-mail messages to Smackos a.k.a Legowelt so he’ll give it another shot to release it, who knows… Do enjoy this!

Smackos – Love & Happiness