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Welcome!
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This is a fan site dedicated
to the works of Jacques Fred Petrus. Together with Mauro Malavasi and a large number of talented studio musicians from
Italy and New York, he created and produced classic 80’s dance music acts like Change, BB&Q Band, Peter Jacques
Band and The Ritchie Family. Also known as The Goody Music Orchestra, or Little Macho Music, their brand of disco stood out
for its sophistication and originality.
Jacques Fred Petrus' music had a very recognizable and unique style,
which was the result of blending European and New York dance music influences. Most
of the music tracks were written and recorded in Italy, and then mastered and finished in New York. The vocals were recorded in
New York as well, using the very finest session singers. The most well
known of these is of course Luther Vandross, but others included Gwen Guthrie, Melis'sa Morgan, Alyson Williams and Kashif.
On this site you will find an overview of all their releases, historical facts and figures, and links to related webcontent.
We will feature information
on all productions that Jacques Fred Petrus was involved with, and list all album releases with artwork. Included are (in
alphabetical order):
BB&Q
Band
Change
The Goody
Music Orchestra
High Fashion
Macho
Midnight Gang
Peter Jacques
Band
Revanche
Rudy
Silence 2 featuring
Gordon Grody
The Ritchie
Family
Zinc
Where we could, we have included Billboard USA chart listings, as
well as Dutch chart listings. If you have any chart data you would like included, please contact me (see contact link on this
page).
Under the "Other Productions & Co-Productions" chapter, we have
listed some of the more obscure one-off's that JFP was involved with. In the Change section you can also find a list of cover
versions of original Jacques Fred Petrus produced compositions.
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If you would
like to share any information for inclusion, or if you have anything to sell or trade related to the music on these pages,
please send me an email.
I would like to thank Giovanni "The Vinyl Doctor" Salti, Bruce "Graham Start" Bartlett, Bernard "Bernie" Lopez,
Ron "NickNack" Nicholson, Sal "Salsoul" and Marina Salzano, Kevin Brown, Ron Steusfij, Karl "Discomuc" Steinmetz, Andreas
Wenzler, Eddy as well as Patrick Lejeune from Holland, Joerg from Germany, Glenn George Rivera and especially Francis
Depuydt and Patrik Anderson for helping to complete the information on these pages.
The content on these pages have
been made for the sole purpose of them being a fan tribute. If you have any (legal) objection to (any part of) the contents
of these pages, please contact me via emial.
Please bear with me while I build this site. I will add pages as and
when I have time... or inspiration :-)
Any suggestions? Please email me: see the 'contact' link for
my email address. You will also find a little bit more about me there.
Thanks,
Maarten
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