Desperate... Need Help Finding a Chart!

[DJBeatnicked]

HELP!!!!
I've got less than a month to learn 70s Disco/Dance music, to DJ the biggest gig of my life (so far). However, I know practically nothing about the era.
What I need is a chart of atleast 200 of the most popular Dance/Disco songs from the 70s. All I can find are lists that include 80s and 90s, or that are only the "TOP 40".
Anyone know of such a list? You help would be greatly appreciated!
...DJ Beatnicked.

[markydefad]

Check the back section of the book "Keep On Dancin'...My Life And The Paradise Garage" by Mel Cheren (2000/24 Hours For Life Books).

There is a list of 500 purely 1970's tracks in order of importance, (as determined by some anonymous NYC D.J's, I guess) titled the "Disc-o-la fortune 500 discotheque songs of the '70's".

#1 is "Shame" by Evelyn "Champagne" King.

Also, check the "What are we listening to thread" here. Each week, all year long, I have been posting the #1 song for 1975-1984 according to Billboard and in another thread (those billboard charts) each week copying the entire Billboard Disco/Dance Top 40 or more records--one year at a time. Lots of titles to choose from and you can certainly see what the biggest hits were (at least from January -September, thus far.)

Hope this helps.

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Markydefad

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[QUINNY]

But Marky, what's wrong with this site's top 500? Not enough Donna?

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[hotdiscomix]

Hi DJBeatnicked:

You find the "Disc-O-La Fortune 500 - Discotheque Songs of the 70's" Charts from Mel Cherens book on my web page.

http://www.hotdiscomix.de/charts/index.htm

[markydefad]

Nothing's wrong with it, Quinny--EXCEPT the man is asking for JUST 1970's songs--AND the 500 list here has a lot of 1980's songs mixed in (and doesn't clarify the year of release).

FOR SOME REASON--he needs ONLY '70's stuff and the list in the Cheren book has NOTHING beyond 1979. I found that frustrating cause I love a lot of the early '80's stuff--BUT it suits his purposes perfectly!!!

[DanceMan]

FOr a quick musical listen Beatnick can always rent the videos:

SNF, TGIF, Roller Boogie, and Can't Stop the Music....released in '80 but made in the summer of '79....

[Mixmachine]

Wow, thanks for the tip HotDiscoMix I didn’t know this chart was available on line, I’ve had a copy of this chart since ’79/80, this is one of the best charts I have ever come across for early ‘disco’, it was very handy when trying to ID hard to get early ‘Disco’ stuff I missed. (Of course now the net makes it very easy).

The list was compiled by Ed Rothschild , Johnny Tripp and Chipper Mckearnin, Does any one know this guys history?

When was the Mel Cheren book released? I had no idea this chart was part of this book; I thought the chart originated with a ‘Jukebox’ Company.

Dj Beatnicked, I’m curious to hear where are you going to play this music and to what crowd, all this cuts were monster hits at the time but most of them I wasn’t able to use even back in the early 80’s, so I’m very glad to hear that ‘party’ people still dig this 70’s ‘Disco’ classics. Good Hunting!

[DanceMan]

The book was released in the summer of 2000......it was an autobiography of Mel Cheren, the founder and president of West End Records....and starts from his beginnings to the present, covering various eras of the music "scene" and focusing much on his involvement with Paradise Garage, Larry Levan and the music which was played there.....

It was a page turner for me as I knew many of the people he mentions in the book (though I told him that one name was very conspicuously missing....lol).....the only thing that bothered me is that, unfortunately, Mel made it sound like every Gay disco bunny was also higher than Mad Mountain every night of the week....such a generalization to all you youngins out there who weren't there.....and very unfair to many of us who were.