which record is exemplary for the decline of Disco??

[BlackCat]

I despise strongly that Disco Duck tune, automatically remembers me that Disco Sucks movement !!!

The Musiques's song "In the Bush", was a big hit here in Mexico, but maybe because the majority of people in discotheques, (mostly only spanish-speakers), not understood those awful lyrics and meaning.

[remicks]

Originally Posted by BlackCat

I despise strongly that Disco Duck tune, automatically remembers me that Disco Sucks movement !!!
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That's a shame ... because I think it was done in good fun only. Rick Dees attempted to make a career out of off-beat novelty songs .... including HURT ME BEAT ME MAKE ME WRITE BAD CHECKS

and the instrumnetal side of DISCO DUCK: ......not bad disco really .


But THANK GOODNESS some anti-disco oriented artist didn't think to do a remake of this song in 1979 ....making an easily minor change of the song from DISCO DUCK into becoming DISCO SUCKS ... it probably wiould've been a hit in that climate
and one that the Rolling Stone Mag music history types would still gloat over to this day :evil::evil::evil::evil:

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[all*that*glitters*]

Originally Posted by remicks

That's a shame ... because I think it was done in good fun only. Rick Dees attempted to make a career out of off-beat novelty songs ....

Earth to Remicks....here's another BAD novelty tune that's FUN! FUN!!FUN!!! It's by an English comedian who was really funny and camp and made a career out of it...but can you dance to it??

To dance or not to dance, that is the question....:D

[Boodikka]

Country singer/TV host Bill Anderson's country/disco gobbledegook "I Can't Wait Any Longer" was the first real sign of the coming apocalypse.
There are other egregious examples, but this was the worst one for me.

[remicks]

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Originally Posted by all*that*glitters*

Earth to Remicks....here's another BAD novelty tune that's FUN! FUN!!FUN!!! It's by an English comedian who was really funny and camp and made a career out of it...but can you dance to it??

To dance or not to dance, that is the question....:D

DISCO DUCK went to No. ! , so I don't feel too lost in space finding it fun.
But SNOT RAP ?? Never heard of it ? What year did it come out ? Is it rap ? If so .....then the answer is "no" ..... I couldn't/wouldn't dance to it.....

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[Mixmachine]

Originally Posted by remicks

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DISCO DUCK went to No. ! , so I don't feel too lost in space finding it fun.
But SNOT RAP ?? Never heard of it ? What year did it come out ? Is it rap ? If so .....then the answer is "no" ..... I couldn't/wouldn't dance to it.....

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Remicks , I can't believe you like that "Disco Duck" trash :roll: any Dj playing this locally would have been laughted off the Booth. :oops:

Here's one Disco song I hated with a passion and to me representative of the many Disco By Numbers trash releassed in the late 70's.

"Enough is enough " DSummer & Streisand, not only no one could dance to this with any dignity ( jumping around was more like it)but to me the vocals was nothing more than an annoying shouting match between two Divas whos vocal style didn't complement each other and just plain didn't work. It seemed to me like a last stab at Disco to milk whatever was left.

[remicks]

Originally Posted by Mixmachine

Remicks , I can't believe you like that "Disco Duck" trash :roll: any Dj playing this locally would have been laughted off the Booth. :oops:

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I can't help it if I like it .... I think it's a clever novelty song ......shake your tail feathers !:oops::oops::oops:

You're right, club material : NO ....
but I did play it on my radio show .......


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[remicks]

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:roll: Oh , ....Mix-machine ........

Out of curiousity , I just did a review of DISCO DUCK's lyrics and I can see why it may have bothered you because it does sort of take a jab at you straight guys and your primal reasons for being into disco doesn't it .....:-?


All of a sudden I began to change
I was on the dance floor acting strange
Flapping my arms I began to cluck
Look at me..
I'm the disco duck

[dd] Ah, get down, mama
I've got to have me a woman, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
[bs] Disco, disco duck
[dd] Got to have me a woman
[bs] Disco, disco duck
[dd] Oh, get down, mama
[bs] Try your luck, don't be a cluck, disco

Sort of a big ol' disco duck running around trying to get woman isn't he ..... .......never caught that before ....

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[Mixmachine]

Originally Posted by remicks

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:roll: Oh , ....Mix-machine ........

Out of curiousity , I just did a review of DISCO DUCK's lyrics and I can see why it may have bothered you because it does sort of take a jab at you straight guys and your primal reasons for being into disco doesn't it .....:-?


All of a sudden I began to change
I was on the dance floor acting strange
Flapping my arms I began to cluck
Look at me..
I'm the disco duck

[dd] Ah, get down, mama
I've got to have me a woman, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
[bs] Disco, disco duck
[dd] Got to have me a woman
[bs] Disco, disco duck
[dd] Oh, get down, mama
[bs] Try your luck, don't be a cluck, disco

Sort of a big ol' disco duck running around trying to get woman isn't he ..... .......never caught that before ....

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"Disco Duck" was an insult to anyone going to Discos !!!!!

I posted this for Video but I post it here for you too, since you missed it back then!!!!

"Maybe you like it 'cause you never heard or know how it was used here in America, some smart ass top forty radio Djs used it to mock us ( Disco Heads) by playing this song and singing along out of tune on the air.

The term (tittle) became an insult when you were called a "Disco duck". for instance Rock Head Hippie assholes rednecks many times will walk by (from a near Rock club)and could tell by our appearance that we were going to a Disco, so they will turn around and call you a Disco Duck :evil::evil:as an insult. A couple of them are probably still sporting the broken nose I (and friends) gave them!!! fuck 'em!!!"

[remicks]

WOW Mixmachine , that is really rough

I never had anyone make comments toward me about being a disco duck ...???? or comments relating to that tune ... ...don't think I wouldn't remember that ....:???:.....???

What about other gay discoers from that time any of you remember anything like this going on ???

Boy even as early a 1976 this anti-disco hostility was a brewing amongst heterosexual men wasn't it ....

A couple of them are probably still sporting the broken nose I (and friends) gave them!!

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[Mixmachine]

Originally Posted by BlackCat

I despise strongly that Disco Duck tune, automatically remembers me that Disco Sucks movement !!!

I actually had forgotten all about this issue until now:evil: but yes, the only thing I remember about the backlash against Disco was people using "Disco Duck" to insult Disco people.

Boy even as early a 1976 this anti-disco hostility was a brewing amongst heterosexual men wasn't it ....

This cut came out in '76 ?? I only remember it becoming an issue after Saturday Night Fever.

[all*that*glitters*]

Originally Posted by remicks

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DISCO DUCK went to No. ! , so I don't feel too lost in space finding it fun.
But SNOT RAP ?? Never heard of it ? What year did it come out ? Is it rap ? If so .....then the answer is "no" ..... I couldn't/wouldn't dance to it.....

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'Snot Rap' came out in 1983. I only know that Kenny Everett is a British comedian who made this novelty song about the Rap phenomenon. Dont' you think he looks cute in his leather boy's clone outfit???

As you know or may not know, Rap in the early days was considered as novelty in the UK. So lots of artists made stupid records about it. Just like Rick Dees did with Disco..... :evil:

But maybe our British friends can reveal more about Kenny Everett than I do....earth to Simon White??:roll:

[Mixmachine]

Originally Posted by Mixmachine

"Enough is enough " DSummer & Streisand, not only no one could dance to this with any dignity ( jumping around was more like it)but to me the vocals was nothing more than an annoying shouting match between two Divas whos vocal style didn't complement each other and just plain didn't work. It seemed to me like a last stab at Disco to milk whatever was left.

What a coincidence, yesterdays on my local paper I ran into this portion on an article about Barbra Streisand:razz::razz:, talk about a shouting match :lol::lol::lol:

Hello Barbra!


DONNA SUMMER
No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
October 1979
"Pity cameras weren't rolling in the studio for this one. Sitting stool to stool in the studio, legend goes that disco queen Summer, trying to hold a note as long as Streisand, lost her breath, fainted and fell to the floor. Streisand, unfazed, held the note to its conclusion, figuring her duet partner was joking.:p
Summer had more Top 40 hits through the '80s, including 1983's No. 3 She Works Hard for the Money, but none as influential as her '70s classics.
Today, she's on the nostalgia circuit and exhibits paintings in Nashville."



Maybe it is old news?? I never heard this rumor before :???:

[needlefingers]

Hey Mixmachine,

The way I understood the recording of No More Tears (Enough Is Enough), is that they did not record the song together. That their recording sessions were seperate.

They were on two different labels, and being two big divas, I would think they would have had numerous label heads, lawyers and agents protecting both Donna's and Barbara's interests. Not to mention their own.

As you said, the report you quoted is news to me too.

I also remember listening to Casey Kasem back in the day, and him saying that Donna had the longest note held in a pop song(up till that time). But I can't remember which song. I want to say it was MacArthur Park.

I'll do a little research and let you know if I find something. Anybody else?

[needlefingers]

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I found it and the story is true.

Here is a link to an interview where Donna tells the story.

http://www.donna-tribute.com/article...bill_xmas.html

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