1974 disco and funk with wicked synthesizer sounds

[Funky Dude]

As you guys know I'm obsessed with the early days of disco music, and I've noticed quite a number of disco and funk songs of 1974 had some really cool wicked synthesizer lines in them such as:



Fred Wesley & The JB's - Blow Your Head

Dynamic Corvettes - Funky Music Is The Thing

Rufus & Chaka Khan - Once You Get Started

Blackbyrds - Future Children, Future Hopes

Commodores - Machine Gun

Commodores - Superman

Commodores - Rapid Fire

Commodores - Gonna Blow Your Mind

Kool & The Gang - Street Corner Symphony

Dionne Warwick & The Spinners - Then Came You



What sort of synths were used in these songs?



And I'm looking for more of these early synth funk and disco songs so if anyone knows of other ones please post a list.

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[Graham_Start]

What sort of synths were used in these songs?

Although I haven't heard all of the above songs, it's safe to say that most of them would've used either a Moog Minimoog, or ARP's 2600/Odyssey/Pro Soloist. These were really the only performance-oriented synthesizers in existence at the time.

[Boodikka]

Ron LaPread from the Commodores definitely used a Moog.

[Giovanni]

The most widely used synth of funky disco acts like the ones you named was the Arp Odyssey