Andrea True
Disco hit with Jamaican connection makes Billboard’s 100 Best Dance Songs list
More, More, More, a song recorded in Jamaica by American porn star-turned-singer Andrea True, is ranked at #36 on Billboard Magazine’s 100 Best Dance Songs of All-Time list.
Jamaicans Grace Jones and Vybz Karel are also on the list. Jones’ Pull Up to The Bumper is at #82 while Pon de Floor, Kartel’s collaboration with Major Lazer, is #60.
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More, More, More was written by Gregg Diamond. Released in February 1976 as the first single from Andrea True’s debut album of the same name, it became her signature track and one of the most popular songs of the disco era.
It was recorded in 1975 at Federal Records in Kingston, owned by the Khouri family and home to singers like Ernie Smith and Pluto Shervington.
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Andrea True was filming a TV commercial there for a real estate company. Unable to return to the United States due to a government ban on asset transfers, she opted to invest the money earned from that project in a studio recording to boost her fledgling music career.
True asked Diamond to visit Jamaica and record the song with her, and the original take was first released in Jamaica by Federal Records in 1975. True and Diamond, having run out of money and unable to pay their session musicians, handed the master tapes to the Khouris.
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Buddah Records subsequently released the song to American discos in the winter of 1975. More, More, More quickly became popular, convincing Buddah Records to release the single commercially after it was remastered by Tom Moulton.
The song rose to number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 23 on the Soul Singles chart. More, More, More went number one on Billboard’s Disco/Club Play chart, #two in Canada, and #five in the United Kingdom.
It has sold more than one million units in the United States and more than 100,000 copies in Canada.
True’s follow-up club hits included What’s Your Name, What’s Your Number, Party Line and N.Y. You Got Me Dancing, all of which made the Top 10 of Billboard’s Disco/Club Play chart.
Andrea True, who released three albums, never returned to the porn industry. She performed regularly in nightclubs and later became an astrologer.
She died in 2011 from heart failure at the age of 68.
