Alec R. Costandinos Vol. 5: Love And Kisses: How Much, How Much I Love You (1978)

Alec R. Costandinos was unstoppable by 1978. His 5th album in just one year was Love And Kisses followup to their wildly popular first album. Packaged in another outrageous softporn sleeve, How Much, How Much I Love You hit the record stores April 1978 and shot to, 5 on the Billboard Disco Charts with the just as popular side 2track Beauty And The Beast. The title track was described by one reviewer as disco music as Mozart would have written it, fusing neoclassical strings with a banjo arrangement. Another reviewer noted: Beauty And The Beast is a masterpiece: simmering funk as the Birds Of Paris start telling the story, then strings and guitar growing more ominous as the Beauty s father falls into danger, a couple of new themes are explored as the Beast s courtship tests Beauty s feelings, and finally for the happy ending, the main tune is restated as triumphant 00:01 How Much, How Much I Love You 16:20 Beauty And The Beast 30:50 May