Close Encounters / Love Starts After Dark Original recording remastered

First Time Ever on CD for these 2 albums. 2 Albums on 1 CD from Master tapes. Gene Page was only 58 when health problems claimed his life on August 24, 1998. But the Los Angeles-based arranger/conductor left behind a long, impressive resume that boasted associations with quite a few musical stars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Indeed, anyone who has listened to a lot of R&B, pop-rock and Top 40 from those decades has no doubt heard many of Page’s famous arrangements or co-arrangements, which included “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin'” for the Righteous Brothers in 1964, “The In Crowd” for Dobie Gray that same year, “Last Time I Saw Him” for Diana Ross in 1973 and “Philadelphia Freedom” for Elton John in 1975. Although Close Encounters and Love Starts After Dark were both recorded for the same label, they are two very different albums. Close Encounters is pure, unadulterated disco and gets a lot of inspiration from the glossy European disco sound of the 1970s, while Love Starts After Dark is much more soul-minded. But on both albums, Page’s lavish arranging style is easily recognizable.