Ten Percent (song)

"Ten Percent"
Single by Double Exposure
from the album Ten Percent
ReleasedMay 1976 (1976-05)
Length6:51 (album version)
9:42 (12" version)
3:05 (7" version)
LabelSalsoul Records
Songwriter(s)Allan Felder, T.G. Conway
Producer(s)Norman Harris[1]
Double Exposure singles chronology
"Ten Percent"
(1976) 		"My Love Is Free"
(1976)

In 1976, Salsoul Records released their eighth release, Walter Gibbons' remix of Double Exposure's disco song "Ten Percent".[2] "Ten Percent" was the first commercially available 12-inch single.[3][4] Although, according to the record label, the actual title of this record is Ten Per Cent, not Ten Percent.[5]

The 12-inch single was reserved for DJs until the release of "Ten Percent." Disco had already begun to exploit the 12-inch's allowance for higher volumes, better sound quality, and longer playing time, but no record companies had previously seen commercial value in the new format.[6]

  1. ^ "45cat.com". 45cat.com. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
  2. ^ "discomuseum". Archived from the original on September 22, 2007.
  3. ^ "A New 12 -Inch 45 Salsoul Disco Label". Billboard. 15 May 1976. pp. 3, 38.
  4. ^ "Club DJs Blend Cuts For Cos.' Disco Disks". Billboard. 15 May 1976. pp. 1, 39.
  5. ^ "Double Exposure - Ten Per Cent (Vinyl)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  6. ^ Lawrence, Tim (2003). Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3198-5.