The Ritchie Family is a dream-disco group from producer Jacques Morali - who also gave dance floors Village People, Patrick Juvet, Gypsy Lane and Dennis Parker. “Romantic Love” comes from their second album titled “Arabian Nights” from 1976. It is undeniably a Euro-disco flavor with more strings and melody along with dance floor riffs supplying the glue to hold it all together. The Mantovani piano and string touches give it a majestic touch along with the gals Cassandra Ann Wooten, Cheryl Mason Jacks and Gwendolyn Oliver who “woo” us with their delicate and energizing vocal teaming. “Romantic Love” comes off as a sweet and sometimes silly love song with a Broadway intention yet it displays this trio and their early music which became one of the catalysts and shifts in pop music during the mid-70s.
I have taken the album version of “Romantic Love” and played out the drama in a ReStructure Mix that places more chopping on the block. A few pieces of percussion added from Tasha Thomas’ “Midnight Rendezvous” are laid out as the groove for this remixure.
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