Coast To Coast – Love Is The Same

1970年代後半のクイーンズ出身の素晴らしいモダンソウル/ディスコの名盤『Love Is The Same』。2つの異なるバージョンが収録され、どちらもダンスフロアを燃え上がらせること間違いなし。1976年、Mark Beinerは17歳の時にニュートン高校でBen Iversonに出会い、音楽の話に夢中になった。1978年、Markは失恋の詩を書き、Benと共に2枚のアルバムを制作。このアルバムにはリードボーカルのBen Iverson、リズムギターと共同エグゼクティブプロデューサーのJoe Crowley（現ニューヨーク州議員）、他のバンドメンバーが参加。レアで貴重な一枚となっている。

A. Love Is The Same (Vocal)
B. Love Is The Same (Inst)

Amazing floaty modern soul / disco goodness out of late 70s Queens, NY. 'Love Is The Same' two brilliant and different versions, both dancefloor fire…
Mark Beiner met Ben Iverson in 1976 when I was 17 years old, at the time he was a junior at Newtown High School in Elmhurst, Queens. Mark had taken a part time job as a Produce Clerk at Walbaum's Supermarket on Northern Boulevard in Jackson Heights, Queens, where I met Ben Iverson, the "Frozen Food Manager."
Back then Mark remembers, 'I was going to work early just to talk to him about his musical background and his time spent in the 50's and 60's with the Ohio Doo Wop Group, "The Hornets", or better known as, "Ben Iverson and The Hornets."'
In 1978 after Ben and I discussed getting together and composing music, I started writing poetry and expressing in writing my break-up with my college girlfriend, Paula. Ben and Mark went on to writing two albums worth of material, which in turn gave us a lot of time and presence on stage at our live gigs.
The regular Coast to Coast Band members consisted of Ben Iverson on Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitarist and Co-Executive Producer, Joe Crowley, who is known today as "New York Congressman Joe Crowley." Carl (Woody Wood) Morton on Bass Guitar, Jimmy Johnson on Keyboards. Lead Guitarist, Lou Jimenez, currently owns his own recording studio, Music Labs in Elmont, Long Island. On Drums, Eddie Byam, on Alto Sax, Jay Cohen, who in the 70's used to record for "Gary U.S. Bonds." Gary Pevols on Trumpet. On Bone, Scott Burrows, Trumpet player, Steve Becker, along side Neil Levine, Stan Stockley, Tom Russo.