This 1979 film featured almost non-stop synchronized music, much by popular disco and pop artists from the mid and late 1970s. Most of this music is for those who love disco. After Saturday Night Fever, you can surely say that this movie was the best of the disco themed movies. Unlike SNF, this movie took the tact of most other disco films and tried to capture the fun side of disco and believe it or not, it succeeds, where many others failed. As with any musical, the dance numbers and songs make this movie and really make you want to dance and sing along and if you know to roller skate all the better.

Talking about roller-skating, the basic plot in the film is of chasing roller skate gangs and who’s the best of all and is going to win. And add some funky music to it and yo, you have a classic disco movie soundtrack, which I feel makes the movie, hands down. It has a wonderful theme song of Skatetown and many original songs as well as a whole slew of disco staples that are now truly timeless classics.

The film features almost non-stop synchronized music, much by popular disco and pop artists from the mid and late 1970s. Dave Mason is featured as a performer in the roller disco, playing himself. Mason sings the movie's disco-tinged theme song Skatetown U.S. A(written by Mason and Brenda Cooper) over the opening credits. He is also shown performing I Fell in Love along with a cover of his own 1968 Traffic hit Feelin' Alright. Among other songs on the soundtrack are the Patrick Hernandez dance hit Born to Be Alive, Boogie Wonderland (Earth, Wind & Fire and The Emotions), Shake Your Body (The Jacksons), Boogie Nights (Heatwave), Baby Hold On (Eddie Money), Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now (McFadden & Whitehead), I Want You to Want Me (Cheap Trick), Roller Girl (John Sebastian), Perfect Dancer (Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.) and a cover of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' Under My Thumb by the Hounds.

Don’t miss the lovely picture spread of images from the movie on the back of the vinyl album cover.

Format: 12" Vinyl

Length: 39:32

Label: Columbia

Release: 1979

Rating: *****

Reviewed by Verus Ferreira