I'm groovin' on...

[paul]

Have You Ever Been Mellow - Olivia Newton-John
Waiting In Vain, Could You Be Loved, One Love, Get Up Stand Up - Bob Marley
Send It, Bourgie Bourgie - Ashford & Simpson
Spring Affair - Donna Summer
This Happy Feeling - GQ
Dance Sister (Biofeedback) - n.y.c. Peech Boys
We Both Deserve Each Other's Love, Holding On, You Fooled Me, Love Ballad, Love To The World - LTD
Groovin' You - Harvey Mason

[jazz_pilgrim]

On 2002-08-06 00:59, paul wrote:
Have You Ever Been Mellow - Olivia Newton-John
Waiting In Vain, Could You Be Loved, One Love, Get Up Stand Up - Bob Marley
Send It, Bourgie Bourgie - Ashford & Simpson
Spring Affair - Donna Summer
This Happy Feeling - GQ
Dance Sister (Biofeedback) - n.y.c. Peech Boys
We Both Deserve Each Other's Love, Holding On, You Fooled Me, Love Ballad, Love To The World - LTD
Groovin' You - Harvey Mason

Some nice music in there! :grin: :grin:

Pick of the bunch for me - Harvey Mason, closely followed by GQ and Ashford & Simpson. Good to see Bob Marley getting a mention - I play his music quite often myself....

Don't know much about that Olivia Newton-John
track though!

[sammyperez]

Paul:

Nice list here. LTD, you listed all the tracks I love. My wife loves Jeffrey Osborne, but I turned her on to Jeffrey with all this LTD stuff which she never knew. As you can imagine she loves it now too. 'Spring affair', probably my favorite Donna Summer track along with 'Try me'. Nice touch with the AM infused 'Have you ever been mellowed' by Olivia Newton-John. I admit I like that song from my '70's adolescence. Not exactly part of the blue-eyed soul era, but nice and mellow, no pun intended.

Easy,

Sam "ALL JAM"

[paul]

Thanks Sammy and Jazz.
Hey Jazz, Olivia Newton-John was a pretty popular 70s and early 80s aussie singer mostly known for as Sammy said, am pop. I liked some of her songs especially HYEBM. I suspect you've probably heard more from her than you realize.
Hey Sammy. It's nice when you hip someone to something like LTD. Esp. if one of your wife's favorite artist is doing stuff she never heard.

[Jeff H]

It surprises me that people could be unfamiliar with Olivia Newton-John, but maybe you had to grow up in the '70s, when she had her biggest successes.

Did you know she also had a few dance hits? The biggest was probably "The Rumour," an Elton John song remixed by Shep Pettibone in 1988, and "I Need Love," produced by Giorgio Moroder in 1992.

[jazz_pilgrim]

On 2002-08-06 12:31, Jeff H wrote:
It surprises me that people could be unfamiliar with Olivia Newton-John, but maybe you had to grow up in the '70s, when she had her biggest successes.

Did you know she also had a few dance hits? The biggest was probably "The Rumour," an Elton John song remixed by Shep Pettibone in 1988, and "I Need Love," produced by Giorgio Moroder in 1992.

I have always been a soul/funk/jazz purist and have tended to keep away from the Bee Gees / Olivia Newton John / Abba type dance music. And I was well out of it by 1992 - as I was heavily into Indie soul at the time ...

[Jeff H]

On 2002-08-07 02:33, jazz_pilgrim wrote:
I have always been a soul/funk/jazz purist and have tended to keep away from the Bee Gees / Olivia Newton John / Abba type dance music.

I wouldn't put the two songs by ONJ that I mentioned in the same pop-dance category as the Bee Gees and ABBA, but to each his own.

[Funky Dude]

Bee Gees and ABBA were flogged to death on Australian radio in the 70's. From 1975-1977 it was ABBA fever in Australia especially around 1976 when "Finando", and "Dancing Queen" topped the Aussie pop charts, and my mother told me these teeny boppers were contantly requesting ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA ABBA AAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess ABBA had the most success in Australia and also in UK as I've got a number of 1976 Top Of The Pops episodes in my video collection which ABBA was featured on a lot of them. I guess every ABBA song from 1973-1982 hit the Australian charts.

And Bee Gees had the living shit belted out of them on radio too especially when Saturday Night Fever became the blockbuster movie of 1977. In April 1978 our pop show "Countdown" had a Saturday Night Fever dance competition and the choice of songs they picked from the SNF LP for the dance competition was very limited to the MAIN songs like "Staying Alive" Bee Gees, "You Should Be Dancing" Bee Gees, "More Than A Woman" Bee Gees, "Disco Inferno" Trammps, "Boogie Shoes" KC & The Sunshine Band. They were not the best tracks on the album, the best ones are "Calypso Breakdown" Ralph McDonald, "K-Jee" MFSB, "Open Sesame" Kool & The Gang, "Manhatten Skyline" David Shire and a few others, Countdown should of included some of those. Still we had our home-grown disco group "Dark Tan" performing "Disco Lady" on the show which was really good and Leo Sayer performed "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" live on the show as well. I've got the episode in my video collection of Countdown episodes. Anyhow a lot of Bee Gees stuff topped the Australian charts.

As for Olivia Newton John, a lot of her music hit the Aussie charts. I honesty don't find her music that interested except for some of her disco related tracks.

Anyhow here's what I'm groovin' on:

Bobby Sax & The New Messiah - Out House 73 1973 (I finally got the song [in low quality] from an internet soul/funk radio show, I connected the line out of my sound card to my stereo and recorded the song onto cassette. This song is fantastic even though it's about an outside dunnycan :lol: )

Isaac Hayes - Groove-a-thon pts 1 & 2 1976
Tribe - Koke 1973
Jackson 5 - Honey Love 1975
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Once You Get Started 1974


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Australia mate! The land of many great funkateers!

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[HustleBaby]

On 2002-08-06 00:59, paul wrote:
Have You Ever Been Mellow - Olivia Newton-John
Waiting In Vain, Could You Be Loved, One Love, Get Up Stand Up - Bob Marley
Send It, Bourgie Bourgie - Ashford & Simpson
Spring Affair - Donna Summer
This Happy Feeling - GQ
Dance Sister (Biofeedback) - n.y.c. Peech Boys
We Both Deserve Each Other's Love, Holding On, You Fooled Me, Love Ballad, Love To The World - LTD
Groovin' You - Harvey Mason

Paul you have a nice array of songs there! Especially Donna, Harvey, A & S and LTD. I remember my aunt playing LTD for hours at a time. There was two songs that were her favorite one is "LOVE IS A STRANGER" and the other one I cannot remember right now but it was a major hit. I'm not familiar with PEECH BOYS....enlighten me.

I just bought "THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO" and this is what I'm groovin to:
1.I Love The NightLife - Alicia Bridges
3.Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn
5.He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge
7.More,More,More - Andrea True Connection
8.Doctor's Orders - Carol Douglas
9.Everybody Dance - Chic
10.The Love I Lost - Harold Melvin/Blue Notes
11.Let's All Chant - Mike Zager Band ********
12.Got To Have Loving - Don Ray ***********

# 1, 5, especially 11 & 12 is the main reason why I TLDOD soundtrack. I'm also listening to:
SUN GODDESS - RAMSEY LEWIS
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY - GIORGIO MORODER
LA VIE EN ROSE - GRACE JONES
THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD - MACHINE
RUNNING AWAY - ROY AYERS
ROMEO & JULIET - ALEC CONSTANDINOS

*DELIGHTFUL*

[paul]

"I love the way you shake it,
agitate it,
it puts me in the mood,
ya body contours,
dance sistah"

Hey Delight. I just gave you the opening lyrics to "Dance Sister." It came out in 1983 and was a funky uptempo groove that seems in retrospect to be a transition between Disco and House. Anyway, I have the 12" 45. It was fairly popular at parties and a few of the clubs in NYC and Beantown. I'm sure one of the local shops in your town that know jams will remember this cut. Give it a listen. You might like it.
BTW, I like your list as well. Funny, whenever I see "Let's All Chant", I remember the movie "Eyes Of Laura Mars."