Yep! Bought this one, too!
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Gotta take a break, Marv. In the meantime, I'll leave you with this:
FRANCE JOLI:
"Feel Like Dancing"
https://youtu.be/_6DoA-xsc18
"The Heart To Break The Heart"
https://youtu.be/DIPVpK2XY6c
"Gonna Get Over You"
https://youtu.be/SMVqAJcX9I4
One of the best mixed disco compilations on vinyl only :Steppin' Out - Disco's Greatest Hits Attachment 16082
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I tried to copy all the titles but did not work:)
Yeah that looks good Jack.
Here is a slightly different take on a favorite. Although the finished, popular version would not be released until May, 1978, this early version is what was played at Studio 54 in late 1977:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wlYIdhqCPk
Time to get down-the o'jays
Happy to have found this thread - the Paradise Garage and the Tunnel were my jams when I lived in Manhattan during NY's gritty days! :rolleyes:
Although not an original member, I am a member of the group Double Exposure. I am amazed at the response of audiences that love disco music. I have had the pleasure of working with many artist that still sound great! www.doubleexposuremusic.com
One of the first 12-inches I ever bought was My Love Is Free by Double Exposure!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx3ksmnPixE
Hey! Yeah I remember Double Exposure!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9JPcl9s-4Y
and this one......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW5XB4m2Ns0
"Everyman"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXQ6re68fGQ
I think one of my first 12" was The Jacksons with "Enjoy yourself" but then came along Donna Summer with "I feel love" and "Down Deep Inside", which was a US import, so it played slower than ours at 33rpm. That converted me forever to 12" singles. Disco followed - and in my house disco still lives.
She brought the Gospel to Disco/Dance music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE8E2zfar5E
Marv, when it comes to hot horns, strings, and super-charged danceability, Loleatta's "I May Not Be There When You Want Me" is my all-time favorite. The Dance Queen Of Philly Soul sizzles brilliantly from start to finsh!
https://youtu.be/-m0hJTHmV78
Hey everybody, check this out! I will not tell you who's on it, it's a surprise......
HOT CITY Disco Television Show - #2 [[August 1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yzPWycjRPA
Here's another episode of "Hot City Disco" from September 1978:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyB0PJXv-og
I must say that my knowledge about this idiom is limited...
However! I did a fun interview today. It was with Vera Brown, who was the lead singer of The Richie Family for a number of years, so that's another Philly act, referring loosely to a great thread here on this forum.
Many of us love a comeback story, and this is one, because Miss Brown lived through what she describes as the dark days of her life and came out on the other side. She released her DEBUT album as a solo performer in 2018, titled "Somebody", and now we are over in scripture based output. And she was just picked up by Sony Orchard, who are about to release the album worldwide and has plans for this singer, who is now based in Landisville. So that's a story that I thought I might share.
Here she is a few years back:
https://youtu.be/6CMaoaFyTxI
And here we find Vera Brown now
https://youtu.be/0KGdACeP9jc
You had dance if you heard this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kh42uryb0M
just remembering Bob Esty and Donna Summer and remembering when the rock world came literally UNHINGED when rock icons The Beach Boys joined the ranks of other acts doing disco . I think they never performed it again after the distraught outrage ....hee haw!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fANVUu5NiTo
Bob Esty's behind the multi- layered disco arranging.
And surprisingly, it's likely the only disco song that features vocals by a chimpanzee:cool::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jyA5xzaHyw
.................so if you can include chimps on a disco track ......why not seagulls??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pnqkvRDlo8
from Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, who no doubt encouraged the group to be adventurous on their LA album with HERE COMES THE NIGHT when he rejoined them soon after this one made the secret rounds of the disco circuit ....
animal sounds in disco ??
How about Raquel Welch doing a bit of Donna moaning with a lion .....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDp8Nsvo-kQ
WIS-TV "It Must Be Love" by Alton McClain & Destiny - YouTube
Wish this group had been around a lot longer. At least we got 2 LP's from them.
More Beach Boys ....
Leave it to Casablanca to try this angle of a disco cash-in :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4nakYiHPNw
Paul Riser's the arranger.
There's a distinctive voice singing amongst the three ....can you spot it