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’ follow-up to their wildly popular first album. Packaged in another outrageous soft-porn 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 2-track Beauty And The Beast. The title track was described by one reviewer as disco music as Mozart would have written it, fusing neo-classical 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 disco.“ () 00:01 How Much, How Much I Love You 16:20 Beauty And The Beast 30:50 May