Disco 2008 !

[Videoskooter]

Thought this 1 fits very good in this thread. Got connected through MYS with this great new artist from Australia, Suzy Ray and her track "Disco in my car" . Great potential IMO!

Listen to the different mixes and ADD her to your friend list plzzzzzzzz!

MySpace.com - Suzy Ray - Sydney

[Cdnbob]

Slightly O/T but related, its funny to see Ian Levine's name connected to music as a record producer as I first came to know of him through Doctor Who circles and his campaign to find missing episodes. But I do realize he was a record producer long before that.

[Simon White]

Camper than a row of tents!


YouTube - Deanne Keanne - Right Place Wrong Time

[Simon White]

The more I see this the better it gets !
The song is catchier than flu...you'll be singing it after two plays.

Just watch all the little faces and movements ! And you have to watch through to the end...priceless !



YouTube - Deanne Keanne - Right Place Wrong Time

[SandraDee]

Her look is very Ms. Ross isn't it? The video is almost like a 'Chain Reaction' for the new century.

[Simon White]

Originally Posted by SandraDee

Her look is very Ms. Ross isn't it? The video is almost like a 'Chain Reaction' for the new century.

Hee hee...well 'almost' !

I think there might be a budget difference of oh say.......£100,000 ?
But maybe that's what gives it part of it's appeal?

There a bit at the very end where she looks exactly like Di !

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by Simon White

Pearly and The Flirtations have recorded new tracks for the new album- Pearly's are not yet up on her site yet tho Skoots !

Und now????

MySpace.com - Disco 2007 - London, UK - Disco House / Soul / R&B - www.myspace.com/disco2007cd

[Simon White]

Okies..heres another one.....I was bouncing up and down in my seat to this !


YouTube - Rebecca Chandler - Second Hand Guy

[Simon White]

On Monday 3rd December 2007, there's a fabulous launch party night at the Ion Bar Club in London's Ladbroke Grove (yes, ultra trendy Notting Hill) to launch Ian Levine's new album "Disco 2008".
There will be lots of press and celebrities there, and a number of the artists will be performing their new tracks from the album, live.
There are four hundred invites, by private guest list only. To go onto the guest list and secure your place, send an email to disco2007launch@hotmail.co.uk ....mention the Disco Forums when you do. This is a once in a lifetime occasion totally free of charge !
http://www.myspace.com/disco2007cd

[Simon White]

Quick update on this...... the album is now named 'Disco 2008' !

Latest news is the fantastic and fabulous Ms. Sheila Ferguson has recorded a track called FOOL OF THE YEAR for the album !


The launch party takes place in London on December 3rd....
To add yourself to the guest list send an email to Honey Funbun at disco2007launch@hotmail.co.uk

[markydefad]

Originally Posted by remicks

....here's one other thought ... (no charge) ..... I wonder if Ian shouldn't consider naming this project "DISCO 2008"
.... since '07 is about out the door ....
*****

Simon, give credit where credit is due.

[Simon White]

Originally Posted by markydefad

Simon, give credit where credit is due.

LOL...Marky of course full credit goes to Remicks...and about twenty other people too !


I'm awaiting a CDR of the album as we speak.

[Simon White]

Just had a call from Ian Levine.
He's particularly excited about this album and especially this track and this is what he says bout it -



What Makes A Man A Man


"This wonderful song was done by both Liza Minelli and Marc Almond, as well as being performed and written by the legendary Charles Aznavor. It tells the story of a male performer who is also a drag queen, who changes sex before the audience's eyes, starting out as quite amusing, a little like Harvey Fierstein's famous and brilliant film, "Torch Song Trilogy".
The song then goes on to explore the alienation and bigotry of being gay in a world where it's not accepted, and in fact caused resentment and being shunned, the very world still remembered by older gay men of the 1950s.
When Liza Minelli sang it at a Gay Rally in 1985, times were much easier for gay people, and it seemed that bigotry had become a thing of the past. The lyrics of this song seemed less relevant and nore belonging to a far distant age.
But times change. America has suffered seven years so far under the oppressive and puritanical rule of George Bush, and it's no longer cool to be gay in the U.S.A. And sadly and unimaginably, having returned back to Victorian values, where gay marriage is banned and same sex unions are frowned upon by the bible bashers and the moral majority, the words of this song have taken on a terrifying new meaning. My dear friend Paul Savory asked me to do a disco version of the song for my fabulous new album, "Disco 2008" and I found the perfect singer to deliver it, star of the "Rat Pack", George Daniel Long, who played Sammy Davis Jr. George, being openly gay as I am, was glad and proud to sing it. But once I got my teeth into the lyrics, I realised we weren't just covering a song with gay appeal. Here was our chance to do something genuinely worthy, and I only hope our production and our wonderful video, so amazingly edited together by Adi Denney, can do the words of the song justice.
It's been a long time since I made a truly gay record. In 1983, "So Many Men So Little Time" was adopted as the anthem of gay America, in a more promiscuous time when AIDS hadn't quite yet hit home. In 1984, "High Energy" took a music form played almost exclusively in gay clubs, and turned it into a worldwide smash, with seven million sales.

Now twenty three years later, here comes my most important gay record of my career. I hope you all like it. If you do, please spread the word, get people to watch it and hopefully, in December, buy the album.

The whole album of "Disco 2007" is a return to my own Disco roots, a collection of songs full of soul and camp joyfulness - from Tina Charles singing about being a vamp, to Hazell Dean singing about Trading Him For A Newer Model, to the outrageously larger than life McKoy Sisters, to Sheila Ferguson making her most exuberant disco record ever, to George Daniel Long making his quiet plea for gay acceptance in a cruel and bigoted world.

In December, I beg you, if I have ever made a record that any time in your life, either touched your soul or your feet, I implore you to support this album, and help me show the world that we still care about the music we listen to and dance to."

I think he's excited about it !

I've heard a number of the tracks now...to say I'm blown away is an understatement !

The Shelia Ferguson track had me shouting !

The video for 'Days In New York' is now up and 'What Makes A Man A Man' is going up on YouTube later...the link is here -

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

[Simon White]

George Daniel Long - What Makes A Man A Man


YouTube - George Daniel Long - What Makes A Man A Man

[darrens]

I've listened to / watched the tracks available, and my favourite is "Second hand guy", it has that unmistakeable Ian Levine chord progression; sounds like a track off one of Evelyn Thomas's 70s LPs.

You can tell that the songs are a modern production, even if they are disco songs as well; particularly the "What makes a man a man" track, which sounds the least "disco" to me.

Looking at the list of artists involved, quite surprised to see Steve Brookstein on the list, whom UK readers will recognise as the first X-Factor winner in 2004; he had one number one single immediately afterwards and then plunged into obscurity!