Alec R. Costandinos Vol. 10: Hunchback Of Notre Dame [Full Album, Vol. 1] (1978)

This is the 10th volume in my Alec R. Costandinos series. Can you believe all these albums were recorded over a period of less than 18 months? The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame had been completed already by April 1978 but was held back until mid-October 1978. Said Vince Aletti, Billboard, about the album: “The latest disco adaption of a literary classic consists of two continuous sides of music, singing and occasional dialogue or narration that traces in a rather elliptical, sometimes confusing, fashion the Victor Hugo story of passion and deceit. As usual with Costandinos’ work, the music is thrilling, brilliantly crafted, precise yet emotionally rich but, from a dancer’s standpoint, the flow of Hunchback is broken too often for dramatic exposition to allow for much sustained movement. Only here and there does the record achieve the soaring rush of Romeo & Juliet and in a tale more complex than Golden Tears, few moods are held long enough to inspire more than a few turns around the dancefloor