AMAZING!!

[QUINNY]

I dragged out an old live tape of me doing my thing. It says 1982 but I think it could be 1983. The place was a commercial Disco as such, but I was the only DJ in the only Disco in town, so I think I probably 'got away' with lots of things.
Three things struck me straight away.
1) how many tracks I'd forgotten.
2) what a mixture of tunes there is.
3) I seemed to get 'in the zone' and then change it all around. I can only imagine that quite a few were requests.

I fear many people may be completely lost by this list, but I hope not, so here goes.

Wikka Rap - Evasions
On the Upside - Xena
White Lines - Melle Mel
Red Hot - Herb Alpert
The Sound of Music - Dayton
Try it Out - Gino Soccio
Tonight - Steve Harvey
I Want you all Tonight - Curtis Hairston
Out in the Night - Serge Ponsar
Get Down saturday Night - Oliver Cheatham
Bad Girls - Donna Summer
Garden Party - Mezzoforte
Let's take time out - Howard Johnson?
Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
The look of Love - ABC

and on the other side:
Billie Jean/Do it Again - Club House
Let the Music Play - Shannon
What I Got is What you Need - Unique
You Can't Hide your Love - David Joseph
New Direction - Imagination
I love how you Feel - Sharon Redd?
Where is my Man? - Eartha Kitt (yes I dunno either)
Hey You the Rock Steady Crew - Rock Steady Crew?
Rat Rappin' - Roland Rat (surprisingly well done)
Nunk - Warp 9
For those who like to groove - Raydio
Rockit - Herbie Hancock
Let's Dance - David Bowie
Thriller - Michael Jackson.

AMAZING!! It was just like yesterday.



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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: QUINNY on 2002-08-23 13:36 ]</font>

[QUINNY]

Bernie: Can you post this to the correct forum? I obviously thought I was in the What we are listening to this week forum and got it wrong. Many apologies.

[DanceMan]

On 2002-08-23 12:31, QUINNY wrote:
I dragged out an old live tape of me doing my thing. It says 1982 but I think it could be 1983. The place was a commercial Disco as such, but I was the only DJ in the only Disco in town, so I think I probably 'got away' with lots of things.
Three things struck me straight away.
1) how many tracks I'd forgotten.
2) what a mixture of tunes there is.
3) I seemed to get 'in the zone' and then change it all around. I can only imagine that quite a few were requests.

I fear many people may be completely lost by this list, but I hope not, so here goes.

Wikka Rap - Evasions
On the Upside - Xena
White Lines - Melle Mel
Red Hot - Herb Alpert
The Sound of Music - Dayton
Try it Out - Gino Soccio
Tonight - Steve Harvey
I Want you all Tonight - Curtis Hairston
Out in the Night/Somewhere in the Dark - ?
Get Down saturday Night - Oliver Cheatham
Bad Girls - Donna Summer
Garden Party - Mezzoforte
Let's take time out - Howard Johnson?
Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
The look of Love - ABC

and on the other side:
Billie Jean/Do it Again - Club House
Let the Music Play - Shannon
What I Got is What you Need - Unique
You Can't Hide your Love - David Joseph
New Direction - Imagination
I love how you Feel - Sharon Redd?
Where is my Man? - Eartha Kitt (yes I dunno either)
Hey You the Rock Steady Crew - Rock Steady Crew?
Rat Rappin' - Roland Rat (surprisingly well done)
Nunk - Warp 9
For those who like to groove - Raydio
Rockit - Herbie Hancock
Let's Dance - David Bowie
Thriller - Michael Jackson.

AMAZING!! It was just like yesterday.

wow - would love to hear that tape....

The only ones I never heard were: Wikka Rap;
The Sound of Music; Garden Party (is that a remake of Rick Nelson's 1972 - somehow I doubt it) and Rat Rappin'......

Also, "Love How You Feel," is definitely by Sharon Redd; "Where Is My Man," Eartha Kitt, you are right on that also...I don't know about the "Out in the Dark," and Howard Johnson did "So Fine" but don't recall that song you mentioned by him....I think it was by a group on West End? Sparque, maybe?

[QUINNY]

On 2002-08-23 13:10, DanceMan wrote:

wow - would love to hear that tape....

The only ones I never heard were: Wikka Rap;
The Sound of Music; Garden Party (is that a remake of Rick Nelson's 1972 - somehow I doubt it) and Rat Rappin'......

DanceMan: I doubt if you'd love it once you'd heard it, what with my yapping here and there and the basically poor mixing. However my drumming and percussion playing was really good. :lol: At this particular Disco, if I recall, the decks were bog standard pioneer with some sorta consumer cartridge. They had incredibly low torque, so that even with a slip mat the turntable would stop and to add insult to injury, they tended to bounce/jerk the stylus if you even breathed on them. It was very frustrating 'cos I'd been used to much better decks before then and had got to be quite good at it. A bad workman........

THe Sound of Music - Dayton was one of those tracks that got picked up by the British Funk Mafia jocks and was a moderate hit. At one point I was inches away from doing an official remix on it, but it never happened in the end. It was somewhat dated in sound for that period, but had some catchy hooks.

Wikka Rap - Evasions was totally English I believe. It was someone impersonating a famous UK tV broadcaster Alan Wicker rapping over a remade Funkin' for Jamaica and Good Times mix of a backing track. It was really quite good if a little eccentric.

Garden Party - Mezzoforte. I think they were Icelandic or an American/Icelandic mix. Older sounding Jazz Funk (mostly sax) with fairly soft girlie la la la las. It was one of those records that somehow sounded joyous and uplifting, if you get my drift.

Rat Rappin' - Roland Rat. Now this is the joker in the pack. Roland Rat was a puppet rat that was very famous on morning TV in the UK. If you played this record to someone who didn't know of him, I'm sure they would say it was a decent stab at things. The backing was pretty hard, but the lyrics would probably give the game away.
Hope this is of interest.