Disco!

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Now then, I know that 99.99% of Dissensians are doctrinaire junglists and 2-steppers (otherwise, why are you here?) and therefore go backwards, as evidanced by the smashing success of the 80s soul thread. So I propose we go back a decade and showcase your favorite disco tracks. And if this works, we can go and do a Northern Soul/Motown/Stax thread, but let's see. Disco is not just disco, but pseudo-disco and disco not disco also, but I presume you will all recognise the remit. We're talking, mainly, 70s and early 80s disco-orientated dance music, primarily of American origin. Italo-disco doesn't count.

A scattering, from me:

Evelyn 'Champagne' King (posted by Oliver 'Cognac' Craner), 'Shame':



Rare Pleasure, 'Let Me Down Easy':



Tamiko Jones, 'Can't Live Without Your Love':



Dinosaur, 'Kiss Me Again':



Gary's Gang, 'Let's Lovedance Tonight'



Loose Joints, 'Tell You (Today):



Hall & Oates, 'Crime Pays':

 

[simon silverdollar]

oh how i love disco.

Dusty Springfield - 'Baby Blue';



chorus is heavenly.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

T-Connection - At Midnight
Stargard - Which Way is Up
BT Express - Express
Erotic Drum Band - Love Disco Style

I have no idea how obscure/known this stuff is (I look forward to this thread turning me onto some fresh craziness, which the "no italo" rule should help with)

 

[Logos]

I think this one was quite well known.

Jackie Moore - This Time, Baby

 

[nomos]

Thank you Craner! I have a lot to learn so this will be good.

This is a favourite:
Instant Funk - Dark Vader

Last year I read Tim Lawrence's book Love Saves the Day which traces the scene year by year (sometimes week by week) through the decade. Amazing work, based on hundreds of interviews.

Also saw the documentary Maestro which is disappointing. Too much scene-y blather and regurgitating the litany. The DVD extras are better. David Mancuso sounding like a knob talking about sound systems. The filmmaker getting schooled on how systems really work by the engineer who did the Garage.

 

[nomos]

also, this is awesome...
http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=3519&highlight=raunchy+rich

 

[michael]

Some (obvious?) faves:

Linda Clifford - Runaway Love

Gwen Guthrie - Seventh Heaven (Larry Levan 12" mix)

Universal Robot Band - Barely Breaking Even

Diana Ross - Upside Down

I know I just did Diana Ross, but I'll stop short of Michael Jackson, cos I guess you all know it through and through. Rock With You's one of my favourite songs.

There's a lovely song by George McCrae - You Treat Me Good - which I can't find on Youtube. He's the guy who did Rock Me Baby and I Get Lifted. Could go on a bit of a TK Records tangent...


I could also go nuts on Earth Wind & Fire's disco era and The Emotions, but I guess anyone who's here already knows how good that stuff is?

 

[michael]

Also, I love disco to bits, but had only heard about 4 of the things posted before me... looking forward to lots of new goodies too!

 

[dominic]

errrrr . . . .

Herb Alpert - Rotation


Candido - Thousand Finger Man


Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Cherchez La Femme


Ray Martinez and Friends - Lady of the night


Ann Margret - Everybody Needs Somebody Sometimes


Zulema - Change


Powerline - Double Journey


Kikrokos - Life is a Jungle


Silver Convention - Mission To Venus


Lime - Agent 406


Sharon Bailey - Cosmic Dust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPH1YWPF47Y

Roots - Sheriff's Horse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUcveXVIr60

Bombers - The Mexican
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b0oj__UY4Y

Laser - His Name Is Charlie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAavbbW7cS0

Ian Hunter - Bastard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6wOLahxP5M

Betty Davis - Dedicated To The Press
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF3PY5b6rXs

Amanda Lear - Follow Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE64yADXvaE

Billy Frazier -- Billy Who
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hzGChtCGqE

Empress - Dyin' to be dancin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4L92HSfFxI

Nightlife Unlimited - Peaches And Prunes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XPlRo91Vag

Cheryl Lynn - Star Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AfxUDAGH8Y

Bumble Bee Unlimited -- Everybody Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MihHNR3AOq0

Arpadys -- Funky Bass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syqK9QcCQzo

Kym - Give Me The Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-D4gnY010A

Eartha Kitt - Where is My Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5m88CoGLno

Carly Simon - Why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyXLUvB-QHA

Cruisin'Gang - Affair a Gogo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Bzm70ebvI

Chantal Curtis - Get Another Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFlbbkA0_pQ

Made in U S A - Melodies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAxW3bODoVQ

Pam Todd & Gold Bullion Band - Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K9wa8_-YVs

 

[petergunn]

also, this is awesome...
http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=3519&highlight=raunchy+rich

thx, forgot about that.... some personal favs

loletta holloway- hot and run

clyde alexander- got to get your love

the bombers - get dancing

asha puthli- space talk

direct current- everybody here tonight must party

young and co.- i like what you're doing to me

cloud one- spaced out

jimmy bo horne- spank

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoMQWXJF_xw paul lewis- girl you need a chaneg of mind

o'jays- i love music

freedom- get up and dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXMuZxzDRvw jackson sisters- i believe in miracles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUN668kI_X0 sessomatto- sessomatto

 

[dominic]

Now then, I know that 99.99% of Dissensians are doctrinaire junglists and 2-steppers (otherwise, why are you here?)

ahem, i am in the .01%

We're talking, mainly, 70s and early 80s disco-orientated dance music, primarily of American origin. Italo-disco doesn't count.

oh! such a brit, with the need to so tightly categorize and delineate. i reckon 1/4 of my list above is non-american and therefore possibly italo? sorry!

 

[dominic]

also, this is awesome...
http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=3519&highlight=raunchy+rich

agreed! absolutely fantastic! do you have a track list? it is all vaguely familiar but not actually known to me

 

[dominic]

clyde alexander- got to get your love

also very nice

 

[dominic]

Instant Funk - Dark Vader

excellent

 

[dominic]

Stargard - Which Way is Up[/URL]

brilliant

 

[michael]

brilliant

Yeah, that Stargard track is particularly great.

I'm feeling positively schooled already... nice to read something from dominic again! I'm also in the .01%... Not sure how I ended up here, really. A friend got me to sign up, said it was interesting, and it was...

 

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oh! such a brit, with the need to so tightly categorize and delineate. i reckon 1/4 of my list above is non-american and therefore possibly italo? sorry!

Well, it's more of a guideline than a rule...

 

[michael]

That Gary's Gang track is my fave so far - I take it a million people have sampled that electric piano riff??

 

[STN]

teena gardner, heartbeat. club mix is better tho.

 

[owengriffiths]

I don't know if this is suitable, but the original is 10 minutes long and seems like the kind of thing gay black new yorkers would have danced to in the early 80's, so it gets my vote.

Steve Miller Band- Macho City


Most of my knowledge of disco comes from Salsoul records, which also happens to be the label that has reissued things more than anyone else, and has in turn been sampled more than anyone else. So I'm trying to pick tracks that arent blatantly obvious...

Instant Funk- I've got my mind made up (larry Levan re-edit)


I think one of the nice features of Larry Levan tunes is that they often have an element coming in out of time. Presumably they purposely spliced the reels wrongly to get this sound.