https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UgUa2nYDHQ
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I loved all the songs by LIME. One had a great phone ringing in the background. :) :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWAVl7AkACQ
Good gravy, how many times did I shake a leg to this one at NYC's River Club and Saint. !!!!
Six years ago already! :[[sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4fA-S3M7Ck)
Miss you Donna.
I trust you mean this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i4qb1APkpU
[[Have you kept up on Denis Le Page?)
Once upon a time for a class, I wrote a piece on whether I think the "death of disco" was overrated. Most of the backlash I see on the genre are from individuals like my grandparents who preferred adult contemporary and folk / folk-country. Nowadays, especially in the respective dance and LGBTQA communities, disco is celebrated for its campy aesthetic and the technological advances in the studio. While the modern incarnation of dance music may not reflect what it began as in the disco years, many DJs have respect to what the era stood for from a musical position. Even recent sub-genres like "Nu-Disco" attempt to mix older analog synth elements and percussion patterns of disco, with modern studio techniques.
It was much to my family's chagrin when I got addicted to ABBA and later more American 70s disco.
P.S. Two of the greatest unintentional novelty albums came from disco, like The Ethel Merman Disco Album, or Elton John's Victim of Love [[released a little too late for the times)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERZA-UawBuU
while this isn't so much soul related, they are fun albums to laugh to. Ethel Merman didn't actually hear any of the disco production, but instead came in and sang her showtunes like she always did in acapella. You'll notice how the production always seems a 1/2 beat off with her vocal track.
I have nothing insightful to add about Elton John's only disco album. I'm pretty sure it falls in the timeline of the height of his coke addiction, when it really started to take a toll on the quality of his music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw_Fsq6tPDc
Another great one that caused lots of leg shakin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwMM69eWBs
The lady still has it !!!
That's not true at all regarding the Ethel Merman recording. She performed several of the songs on television with several of the studio musicians and the producer present! I saw her interviewed at least twice about her Disco record. Once on the Tonight Show and once on the Mike Douglas Show.
All the stuff out there today is nothing but pure garbage. They have lost the ability to be original and music suffers because of it!
From the Summer of 1976:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MFbn8EbB4k
More Pure Disco from the Summer of 1976...A killer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOHssp7yxE0
1977 and Detroit was in the house! Brainstorm - lovin' is really my game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaVSdj38inI
From the Summer/Fall of 1977. My high school band use to play this one!
MECO - "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSw6CL-vLHg
They really burned up the dance floors in New York and New Jersey on this one!
Machine . . . "There But for the Grace of God, There Go I"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_lPHjn0Aqk
A true Disco classic from Jackie Moore in 1979:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw3ShG-RkeA
PATTI, PATTI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeIhYvbLtoY
This Bunny Sigler groove https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBiFk2rjt-Q
Technically this was not "Disco" but it sure got played in the clubs right along with the hottest Disco records in the 70s. War and "Heartbeat".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr_sPj-XbUs
As I mentioned in 2010, on this very forum, I loved Lime [[the recording artists), and although their last LP was poor, Your Love, Lime II, Lime III, Sensual Sensation, Unexpected Lovers helped me throughout the 80s.... along with others.
I haven't kept up with Denis LePage, although I am aware he is still working in Canada [[I've not heard anything much about him for the last 20 years).
Would you guys consider Lime disco? I checked them out and they seemed pretty electronic-based... I wasn't too taken with any of their stuff. Interesting. :)
1978.. A Massive Year For Sophisticated Disco!! :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRbAUKv09N4
Instant Funk - Got My Mind Made Up 1978 disco version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZcbDESaxhY
Here was one of the best of the era! Quincy Jones and a cast of hundreds!LOL! From Summer 1978!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f929zZ8m_m0
Apologies if already posted but this is one of the most famous disco tunes ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM2cImmoQdY
Featuring the legendary Jocelyn Brown.
You're probably right - it's not really disco as in the George McCrae, Gloria Gaynor type of music. I guess for me, when disco seemed to fade away, I then hooked onto the likes of Carol Jiani, Shalamar, Lime, Sylvester and so on. Music to dance to - I'm not too bothered about the naming genre, so long as it's enjoyable, cheerful, upbeat, and causes me to move spontaneously.
I feel like doing The Bus Stop [[ are you ready??)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYBtgkrPRHQ
what was fun about the Bus Stop is the way the entire floor was in sync while facing the same direction and on cue all changing direction together .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SGBqK-67T4
Heck it's Sunday, here's a bit of soulful Detroit gospel/disco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElxOitekT-k&list=RDElxOitekT-k&index=1
Can't forget this lady's gems ......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0p6KbO5kaU