1976 studio album by Claudja Barry
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Sweet Dynamite is the debut album by Canadian singer Claudja Barry. Barry had briefly been a member of an early line-up of Boney M. but left January 1976 and was replaced by Liz Mitchell. Shortly after, she released her first single on the Lollipop-label, produced by her husband-to-be Jürgen S. Korduletsch, a cover of Jeanne Burton's "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do", backed with the track "Disco Love" (a track similar to Penny MacLean's contemporary hit "Lady Bump"). Later in the year the single "Why Must a Girl Like Me" was released, leading up to the release of the LP entitled "Sweet Dynamite" in November. While most of the material was original compositions by Korduletsch and his partner Jörg Evers, it included a medley of two songs, both entitled "Do It Again", one by George Gershwin and one by Steely Dan.
Although the album and its singles went fairly unnoticed in Germany, import copies garnered interest in the US where Salsoul Records picked up the album for a release in May 1977 in a drastically altered version. Tom Moulton had kept only 5 of the original tracks, remixing and extending them and, in the case of "Live a Little Bit", removing Barry's vocals completely. "Sweet Dynamite" became a Top 10 hit on Billboard's Disco Charts[2]
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