My Last Night As A Disco DJ PLAYLIST

[dancer5612004]

Just sharing with you people my playlist as disco club dj for the big final retro night of mine before I put my albums into storage, but I will be back!

1) YOUR LOVE-Lime 12" (Instrumental)
2) LOVIN IS REALLY MY GAME-Brainstorm 12"
3) TRY IT OUT-Gino Soccio
4) LOVER'S HOLIDAY-Change
5) PARADISE-Change
6) BOOGIE WOOGIE DANCIN SHOES-Claudja Barry 12"
7) STORMY WEATHER-Viola Wills 12"
8) VOYAGE MEDLEY (Souvenirs entire side)-Voyage
9) ONE MORE MINUTE-Saint Tropez
10) FIRE NIGHT DANCE-Peter Jacques Band
11) COME INTO MY HEART-USA European Connection
12) THAT'S THE MEANING/BOOGIE MOTION-Beautiful Bend

13) RUMOR HAS IT-Donna Summer
14) I LOVE YOU-Donna Summer
15) CHER CHE LE FEMME-Dr. Buzzards Original Savannah Band
16) DOWN TO LOVE TOWN-The Originals
17) THE BEST DISCO IN TOWN-The Ritchie Family
18) LET'S DO THE LATIN HUSTLE-Collage
19) LOVE IN MOTION-George McRae
19) GET UP AND BOOGIE-Silver Convention
20) DANCING FREE-Hot Ice
21) 10 PERCENT-Double Exposure
22) THAT'S THE TROUBLE-Grace Jones
23) NIGHT PEOPLE-Fantastic Four
24) MAKE ME BELIEVE IN YOU-Patti Jo
25) TIME-Jackie Moore
26) BODY LANGUAGE-The Spinners
27) HIGH ON YOUR LOVE-Debbie Jacobs
28) GIVE ME A BREAK-Ritchie Family

29) FROM HERE TO ETERNITY-Giorgio Moroder (entire side)
30) ROMEO AND JULIET-Alec Costandinos 12"
31) TWO HOT FOR LOVE (entire side)-THP Orchestra
32) WITHOUT YOUR LOVE-Cut Glass 12"
33) GOT TO HAVE LOVING-Don Ray
34) SADNESS IN MY EYES-The Duncan Sisters
35) HOLD ON I'M COMIN-Karen Silver 12"
35) CUBA-Gibson Brothers 12"
36) CAN'T YOU FEEL IT-Michelle
37) GOT TO GO DISCO-Patti Brooks
38) COME ON DANCE, DANCE-Saturday Night Band
39) SEARCHIN-Change
40) FILL MY LIFE WITH LOVE-Saint Tropez
41) LOVES COMING BABY LOVE-USA European Connection

I was downing long islands on the side, and surprised there were no mishaps at the turntable. Got everything recorded, too! CHEERS!!!!!!

[djscream67]

That's one hell of a list you got there! Terrific music, all of it! You really should keep on DJing, good dance music never really gets old y'know.

[dancer5612004]

THANKS. I really need to update my techniques though, what with cds, mp3s, Ipods, and XM radio. I need to expplore a little so that the material, even when digitally remastered, doesnt seem like a relic of the past. Once I restore certain things, who knows? I'm sure alot of disco djs out there are already out there on the high tech band wagon, but I have some other things to deal with first.

[djscream67]

Well I'll tell you something, there's nothing wrong with today's dance music. I look at it as an evolvement from the late 60s. Disco was the thing of the 70s which only made music sound way better, maybe even the way it should've been made after all. Who knows what will succeed House and Techno 10 years from now? All I know is, it only can get better with age, like a bottle of wine! Technology will only advance just like everything else does, but if you stay in the game, I can guarantee you, you'll never be played out.

It's a matter of opinion, but this is what keeps me young at heart. Like Patti Labelle says, music saved my life!

[dancer5612004]

OH, I have nothing against at all good house music and modern day electronica, no ser ye. I'm all for it, but I think I have more of knack with disco and the new wave eras because that's when I really did my homework, reading Billboard, Data-boy, Alternative press magazines, and any top dance chart I could find floating around the bar scene back then. So I spent alot of quality time reading, and I dont do that now, because sadly I have lost my contemporary dance mojo. But I'm very much into the dance hits I grew accustomed to because now it's like a memory game!
I recently got the Club Coalition CDS, which are pretty good club music from various artists, and I overheard HALOVOX electronica recently, and immediately got the cd from amazon because I liked the one song I heard, but the whole cd is great, and sounds like Depeche Mode.
I have a friend Joey Luciano who works as a satellite station radio dj in New York, who keeps me connected to the real world of today, and ironically he is a huge disco buff, and many of those new stations have this options for 70s disco and 80s new wave. THAT I wouldnt mind doing but I'd have to move to a big city. Right now I sponser a yahoo group, which you can find on my profile list, and I do alot of youtube posts of songs from my head, almost like Im djing. Thats cool for now, but Im awfully surprised just how much interest there is on youtube for ancient disco songs, and I mean the long cuts. Alot of those posts feature album covers and turntable viewing while the downloaded song is playing.
I'd like to learn to post some of my old vinyl with cover pics someday on youtube. But my small hometown has limited nightclub capabilites for retro fever, let me tell you, and most without djs subscribe to satellite.

[QUINNY]

It IS frustrating to know that one will never again be at the cutting edge of what's happening.

I agree that most music does age well with time, especially to the generation who were most actively involved with it (that's called nostalgia, folks!), but for the life of me, I personally can't find much excitement with the dance music of the past 15 years and can't imagine that anyone will have 'fond memories' of it. The acid test will probably be which tracks will be played by mobile DJs as 'party tracks' when doing 40th/50th/60th birthday parties in X years time. There are plenty of chart hits that'll be incorporated, but out and out dance tracks...........I wonder? They just don't have the 'sing along' factor.

[RetroRuss]

Dancer - don't hang up those turntables for good just yet - and no need to get hung up abput not being able to use 'new media' like MP3's. iPods etc..nothing gives you the frequency range that vinyl and a good turntable & mixer combo can...digital recordings are just 'too clean'!

Great playlist by the way - I am convinced we are experiencing a bit of a disco revival in London at the moment - my nights and others are doing well - there's even a massive roller disco party every month!! No reason to suggest it can't spread to over the pond & reach out to the furthest corners of the US!

Ny the way Q in terms of nostlagia here is the link to a programme about house music and its origins which aired in the UK. Nostalgia is a generational thing just listen to Steve 'Silk' Hurley!

[dancer5612004]

I agree that most music does age well with time, especially to the generation who were most actively involved with it (that's called nostalgia, folks!), but for the life of me, I personally can't find much excitement with the dance music of the past 15 years and can't imagine that anyone will have 'fond memories' of it.



To tell you the truth, the last real great dance song that reallly caught my eye was CHUMBAWUMBA Tub Thumping, I really liked that one alot, and its funny, it was almost a que for me that my interest in music had somehow been narrowed to what I have already learned. Like the song says, "I get knocked down, put I just keep on getting back up."
And you must admit, disco had its reigning pioneers that jet set the mode into the far future with such visionaries as Gino Soccio, Patrick Cowley, and even Giorgio Moroder. Even Cerrone, come to think of it, and he started early, and ended with TRIPPIN ON THE MOON. No, disco is not over, it is a jewel that will be refined, rediscovered, and redone in formats we can only imagine. That's the trend I wish to become apart of, but I still hold those wonderful memories from which it came like gospel, but I dont mind it transforming itself into the space age either. The high tech formats, speakers, computer hardware, and easy access modes of a click of a button, instead of hauling those loads of vinyl, is pretty exciting.

[dancer5612004]

Originally Posted by RetroRuss

Dancer - don't hang up those turntables for good just yet - and no need to get hung up abput not being able to use 'new media' like MP3's. iPods etc..nothing gives you the frequency range that vinyl and a good turntable & mixer combo can...digital recordings are just 'too clean.

By the way, can you recommend a good turntable set, plus mixer for old worn out vinyl so that it doesnt skip? You know up until now, I've been using club material. Something compact and not too pricey, perhaps from amazon. And something I can download on youtube. I have a question, how does the copyrights of songs not stop all those youtube postings. And I wonder what kind of camera I need to dowload images also. I should start another thread with this question of mine!

[Cdnbob]

Great mix of material there Dancer. Would have liked to be in that club that night. Lots of good stuff to dance to.

[QUINNY]

Dancer - don't hang up those turntables for good just yet - and no need to get hung up abput not being able to use 'new media' like MP3's. iPods etc..nothing gives you the frequency range that vinyl and a good turntable & mixer combo can...digital recordings are just 'too clean'!

Russ, you need to give yer ears a good syringe. Clean means GOOD!!

I am convinced we are experiencing a bit of a disco revival in London at the moment - my nights and others are doing well - there's even a massive roller disco party every month!! No reason to suggest it can't spread to over the pond & reach out to the furthest corners of the US!

The USA is waaay too rock orientated, methinks. The way Jazz (probably the USA's greatest contribution to popular culture) has been lamentably ignored and thrown to the dogs, suggests not. However, they may rediscover their musical heritage.

By the way Q in terms of nostlagia here is the link to a programme about house music and its origins which aired in the UK. Nostalgia is a generational thing just listen to Steve 'Silk' Hurley!

I religiously watched the whole 2 parts of this programme and came out of the second part feeling House and Rave were truly vacuous. You had guys enthusing "at last guys with NO music knowledge could make records" or words to that effect and enthusing that the whole crowd was 'drugged up' or enthusing that House music was an alternative lifestyle....to what? If those same guys hadn't discovered House/Rave and the clubbing and drug taking ssociated with it, I'm sure they would have found something else to totally waste their time.

Now, I'm not so sure Dance music (including Disco) has been such a positive step in culture's evolutioary path. That's worrying me.

[RetroRuss]

Originally Posted by QUINNY

Russ, you need to give yer ears a good syringe. Clean means GOOD!!



The USA is waaay too rock orientated, methinks. The way Jazz (probably the USA's greatest contribution to popular culture) has been lamentably ignored and thrown to the dogs, suggests not. However, they may rediscover their musical heritage.



I religiously watched the whole 2 parts of this programme and came out of the second part feeling House and Rave were truly vacuous. You had guys enthusing "at last guys with NO music knowledge could make records" or words to that effect and enthusing that the whole crowd was 'drugged up' or enthusing that House music was an alternative lifestyle....to what? If those same guys hadn't discovered House/Rave and the clubbing and drug taking ssociated with it, I'm sure they would have found something else to totally waste their time.

Now, I'm not so sure Dance music (including Disco) has been such a positive step in culture's evolutioary path. That's worrying me.

LOL!! They do - I do find though that I can hear the difference between vinyl and CDs - maybe 'clear' isn't the right description, but I prefer music from vinyl.

I heard that quote too - but there are people who believe the whole House music phenomana was the 'genesis' in terms of dance music - the drugs, lifestyle & culture were part & parcel of it. If we were 25 years younger then maybe we would have been into house music more? Who knows? Personally I like some house - mainly funky, soulful, vocal and gospel!

[QUINNY]

I heard that quote too - but there are people who believe the whole House music phenomana was the 'genesis' in terms of dance music - the drugs, lifestyle & culture were part & parcel of it. If we were 25 years younger then maybe we would have been into house music more? Who knows? Personally I like some house - mainly funky, soulful, vocal and gospel!

There are quite a few House tunes that I like (in fact many minimalist House tunes), BUT so many of them are not even tunes and don't go anywhere. Being someone who likes modern Jazz, I can appreciate 'tuneless' music (to most people modern Jazz is just a noise) and so I can get off to grooves (in fact I'd say grooves are what I played as a DJ more than anything else) and yet a lotta House just leaves me thinking...nothing much. A sign that I'm getting old I guess. However, there are plenty of modern day pop dance tunes that push my buttons and appeal to me.

Had I been even 10 years younger I would have fully embraced the House music of the '90s and beyond.

[dancer5612004]

Some of those QUEER AS FOLK music soundtracks were pretty good, I must say, whether one agrees with the lifestyle or not. Very well produced and managed for dance buffs!

[djscream67]

I used to watch Q.A.F. Although I'm straight I did allow it to capture my attention! Not only was it a good series but the music made it happen too. And it wasn't even JUST all dance music, 'Queer' had many variations and genres that fit the mood of each act within. What songs were some of YOUR given cherished memories?