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First Choice ~ Armed & Extremely Dangerous 1973 Disco Purrfection Version

The glorious sound of MFSB melded with the supple full throated vocals of the women of First Choice to create a dance floor classic. There is no mistaking the Philadelphia Sound here and how disco this is for 1973! While in high school, Rochelle Fleming, Annette Guest, Malaney Starr and Wardell Piper formed an R&B band called the Debonettes. Rochelle remembers starting to sing at the age of 5 using clothes pins as microphones while she helped her mother hang laundry in her backyard. The group approached radio station WDAS Philadelphia DJ Georgie Woods while the band members were all 16 years of age and performed an a capella version of Aretha Franklin's "Oh Me, Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby). Woods was so impressed he contacted Norman Harris of MFSB fame who ended up finding them a producer at the Sigma Studios named Stan Watson. He used the MFSB house band responsible for "TSOP" and a raft of other orchestral disco tunes to record an albums worth of songs with them. When it came to deciding a name, the Debonettes sounded dated so at a group meeting a new name was chosen, First Choice. Their first single issued with the new name was "The House Where Love Died" released ahead of the album they were working to be called "Armed & Extremely Dangerous". The song established their disco presence about a year before there were actual disco charts being compiled. The women graduated high school and lost two members, Wardell Piper left for a solo career and Malaney Starr got married. Joyce Jones was brought in by the remaining members to fill out the new trio. It was this incarnation that appeared on "Soul Train" and then "American Bandstand". They ended up opening for Eddie Kendricks, Billy Paul, Bobby Womack and Smokey Robinson. A slew of disco hits followed, "First Choice Theme" #7 disco 1976, "Gotta Get Away From You Baby" #16 disco 1976, "Doctor Love" #8 disco 1977 and "Hold Your Horses" #5 disco 1978. Two singles failed to break the top 40 disco and by 1979 the group disbanded. Rochelle recruited new members then they rebounded with "Let No Man Put Asunder" #13 in 1983. Their newfound popularity resulted in a 1984 remix of "Doctor Love" #61, and then the same song was remixed in 1999 and went to #22. In 2001, a remix of "The Player" from 1974 peaked at #7 disco/dance chart at #7.