She brought the Gospel to Disco/Dance music:
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)
Here's another episode of "Hot City Disco" from September 1978:
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:
And here we find Vera Brown now
You had dance if you heard this one:
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!
Bob Esty's behind the multi- layered disco arranging.
And surprisingly, it's likely the only disco song that features vocals by a chimpanzee:
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.................so if you can include chimps on a disco track ......why not seagulls??
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 .....
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 :
Paul Riser's the arranger.
There's a distinctive voice singing amongst the three ....can you spot it
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you're saying surely there must be more
and you'd be right !!
From Canada:
Hey Boogie, do I hear Luther?
DEVIL'S GUN under the stewardship of Motown's Dennis Coffey was #1 on the disco chart for 6 weeks!!
never saw this performance before:
what I only recently learned was that this was an extraordinary reinterpretation of the song's original release:
Tonight, 10/30, there is a documentary on PBS American Experience The War on Disco .
It explores the cultural movement that aided disco's rise and the backlash that tried to destroy it.
In NYC, it will be on PBS channel 13 at 9pm on the show AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Just being reminded about about Madeline Bell and discovered she covered this :
:
....pretty pedestrian
ah, but this:
ah: yes
this weren't bad either:
if someone had wanted to bet me a million dollars in the seventies that one day this song would be used as music in an American national TV commercial ....I would be out a million bucks cause I wouldn't have hesitated to bet against that one.
A Walmart Christmas ad
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/5CQP/walmart...g-by-la-bionda
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It's New Year's Eve , everyone's saying goodbye to 1976 and welcoming in the arrival of 1977. Every bar in SF was playing this one that night. [I know because I was 21 and bouncing around from one to the next]
All seemed good. It was a great night and start for the year to come.
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OK now the new year has begun and the fake snow, the streamers, and glitter have mostly been swept away from the dance floors.
The Salsoul Orchestra's Christmas LP will become top priority for returns by the record stores this month.
If there's anything that's staler than a Christmas record in January ... it would be a disco Christmas one ...cause nothing got staler quicker than yesterday's disco.
Motown dominates as 1977 starts with three of the Top 5:
1 - DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY'/ANYWAY YOU LIKE IT -Thelma Houston
2 -FOUR SEASONS OF LOVE - Donna Summer
3 - ANOTHER STAR\ I WISH \SIR DUKE/ISN'T SHE LOVELY - Stevie Wonder
4 - OVERTURE "DON'T KEEP IT IN THE SHADOWS/ INDISCREET/0 BA BA - DC Larue-
5 - YOU'RE MY DRIVING WHEEL/LET YOURSELF GO/LOVE I NEVER KNEW - Supremes-
12 - DOWN TO LOVE TOWN - Originals
also
Norman Whitfield
#10 CAR WASH
#29 YOU + ME= LOVE
Ashford & Simpson
#34 TRIED TESTED AND FOUND TRUE
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The Undisputed Truth - Let's Go Down to the Disco.
Rose Royce -Do Your Dance.
· Ashford & Simpson - Bourgie Bourgie.
My favourite of the three versions of Bourgie Bourgie I've heard.
an exquisite song.
Similarly with LOVES THEME, this is what I think of when I think of "swirling strings". And like LOVES THEME, lyrics only seem to water it down. None needed, which is what songwriters Ashford and Simpson apparently concluded when they released theirs without.
Are these the other two versions you are referring to Cosmic?...or do you mean other versions of the A&S one??
Mentioned on the Diana Ross forum, the inclusion of the blowing of a whistle on The Supremes BAD WEATHER.
Whistles featured in disco?
These come to mind:
Hated "Disco" until I heard this a couple of years ago. Masterpiece by the Sigma crew!
Allow me to interject for a moment with this question for the Brits here...may I ask, is there any difference between disco and what you guys call 'Modern Soul'?
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a lot of Modern tracks, but some come across as bad disco tunes to me. Not criticizing anyone, as I feel, if it fills the floor, it must be good, but something like "Lady, Lady, Lady [[Are You Crazy For Me)" [[which, incidentally, I have a copy for sale or trade), just sounds like a failed disco tune.
Best,
Mark
ah OK I was hopeful of some new versions to discover. [this is my choice tune , the A&S one , as ambience when driving up Hwy 1 toward Monterey , light breezy and optimistic. ]
Another one that might get included on a gentle day rounding those curves with occasional ocean vistas:
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