Live and Sleazy

Live and Sleazy
Live album / Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1979
GenreDisco
Length70:14
LabelCasablanca
ProducerJacques Morali
Village People chronology
Go West
(1979)
Live and Sleazy
(1979)
Can't Stop the Music
(1980)
Singles from Live and Sleazy
  1. "Ready for the 80's"
    Released: October 1979
  2. "Sleazy"
    Released: 1979

Live and Sleazy is the first live album and fifth studio album by the Village People and features a mixture of live and studio recordings. It was released as a double LP. The album featured numerous lead singers: original cop Victor Willis on the entire "Live" disk; on the "Sleazy" disk, construction worker David Hodo on track 1, Ray Simpson (who replaced Willis as the cop) on tracks 2, 3, and 5, and G.I. Alex Briley on track 4. Horace Ott is credited as the arranger and conductor of the string and horn sections. The musicians were credited as Bittersweet.

Victor Willis had announced plans for the live portion of this album be remastered and reissued as a stand alone live album titled “Village People Live At The Greek Theatre” in 2018. Other songs left off the original release though performed on the 1979 tour include "Key West", "Go West", "Village People", and "I Wanna Shake Your Hand".[citation needed]