MY top 50 Disco Picks

[Dayna]

I made some type-o's on my list in the chart section so I thought I would fix them and show my top 50 Disco Picks

Dayna's Top 50


1- Shame-Evelyn Champagne King
2- Romeo & Juliet -Alec R Constandinos
3- Feed The Flame-Lorraine Johnson
4- Was That All It Was-Jean Carn
5- I Dont Know What I'd do If You Ever Left Me-Sweet Cream
6- If My Friends Could see Me Now-Linda Clifford
7- The Boss,No One Gets The Prize-Diana Ross
8- Supernature-Cerrone
9- Come To Me-France Joli
10- Last Dance-Donna Summer
11- Got To Have Loving-Don Ray
12- Doctor Love-First Choice
13- Slave To The Rhythm-Grace Jones
14- Dance Across The Floor-Jimmy Bo Horne
15- Could This Be Magic-Donna Summer
16- Rough Diamond-Madleen Kane
17- Hot Shot-Karen Young
18- Pick Me Up I'll Dance-Melba Moore
19- Smack Dab In The Middle-Janice
McClaine/Larry Levan remix
20- Somebody Elses Guy-Jocelyn Brown
21- Love Disco Style-Erotic Drum Band
22- Twilight Zone-Manhattan Transfer
23- Dance A Little Bit Closer-Charo & Salsoul Orchestra
24- Love Is You-Carol Williams & The Salsoul Orchestra
25- Odyssey-Native New Yorker
26- You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)-Sylvester
27- I Love America-Patrick Juvet
28- Runaway-Loleatta Holloway & Salsoul Orchestra
29- He's The Greatest Dancer-Sister Sledge
30- I Can Make You Feel Good-Shalamar
31-Spacer- Sheila and B Devotion
32- Shoot Me With Your Love-Tasha Thomas
33- Nighttime Fantasy-Vicki Sue Robinson
34- Bad Habits-Jenny Burton
35- Victim-Candi Staton
36- Free Me From My Freedom-Bonnie Pointer
37- Give Me Love-Bob Sinclair/Cerrone
38- Everybody Dance-Chic
39- I gotta Keep Dancin-Carrie Lucas
40- Pow Wow-Cory Daye
41- Hit and Run-Loleatta Holloway
42- Macarthur Park Suite-Donna Summer
43- I'm Ready-Kano
44- Saturday Night Sunday Morning-Thelma Houston
45- Symphony Of Love-Miquel Brown
46- When Your Number 1#-Gene Chandler
47- Runaway Love-Linda Clifford
48- There But For The Grace Of God-Machine
49- Inside Out-Odyssey
50- Touch Me In The Morning-Marlena Shaw

[remicks]

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Dayna, I noticed one of the more lesser known faves on your list is:

24- Love Is You-Carol Williams & The Salsoul Orchestra

Which when considering how many choices there are to choose from (from the Salsoul Orchestra catalog alone) ...this seems like an unlikely song to wind up on your TOP 50...... (& are they in order ?)

As it happens I just bought a beautiful copy of this record and so I'm listening to it right now . LOVE IS YOU is very nice ....a fully orchestrated breezy Vince Montana tune with fine sentiments .... love the harps especially ... and it has a nice early era Larry Washington conga break . Vocally she sounds something like Diana Ross on this I think ....

Still .....to make your TOP 50 , I have to think this song has a special meaning behind it for you Dayna ....
.......true???



BTW .... whoever owned this LP put a mark next to one song only .....LOVE IS YOU .


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[Zef]

Wey Yey Miss D!
Happy to say I own and love all of these except the Madeline Kane who I've never been a fan of.

[Dayna]

Originally Posted by remicks

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Dayna, I noticed one of the more lesser known faves on your list is:

24- Love Is You-Carol Williams & The Salsoul Orchestra

Which when considering how many choices there are to choose from (from the Salsoul Orchestra catalog alone) ...this seems like an unlikely song to wind up on your TOP 50...... (& are they in order ?)

As it happens I just bought a beautiful copy of this record and so I'm listening to it right now . LOVE IS YOU is very nice ....a fully orchestrated breezy Vince Montana tune with fine sentiments .... love the harps especially ... and it has a nice early era Larry Washington conga break . Vocally she sounds something like Diana Ross on this I think ....

Still .....to make your TOP 50 , I have to think this song has a special meaning behind it for you Dayna ....
.......true???



BTW .... whoever owned this LP put a mark next to one song only .....LOVE IS YOU .


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Remy..
I have always loved that song..I adore my girl .."The highly under rated"Carol Williams"
Her vocals are so effortlessy fluent and combined with the delightful orchestration it makes you want to twirl and smile..And yes she is reminiscent of Ms Diana ..of whom it is no secret I worship.."That style being that the Vocals dont over power the Track..
The songs aren't exactly in order because how could you possibly do that ?..It's hard enough to just pick 50 much less number them ..Although Shame and Romeo and Juliet are my 2 fav's..the rest are random.
As you can see Most of my picks are or have Lead female vocals
No special meaning to the song for me..I just Love it..

[RetroRuss]

What a classy track! You can hear bits were sampled for Spillers - Groovejet...

[remicks]

Originally Posted by Dayna

No special meaning to the song for me..I just Love it..

Heck I was sure there'd be a good story to be told out of it!!




I think highly of this album BTW. Great Salsoul stuff classically done and Carol's vocals magnificent. COME BACK is my favorite song (reminds me of Diana Ross and LAST TIME I SAW HIM) except it also has that classic rollicking BHY /Trammps/ Salsoul vibe to it .....

DANGER SIGN is another favorite ...sort of a more Dionne Warwick type composition .... convincingly ,hauntingly sad . Written by T Life who in a couple of years would be arranging and producing your favorite song ....SHAME .

RATTLESNAKE is a bit twisted lyrically :
(This song may not not be Salsoul (?). doesn't sound like it ( more funky .... Sunshine Band -ish ) ...) and is the only one arranged by George Patterson and produced by Herb Rooney)

Carol:
He's my rattlesnake ..... (line sung similarly to Gaynor's "You're my honey bee")
My sweet sweet rattlesnake

girl chorus:
rattlesnake! rattlesnake! sweet sweet rattlesnake!

---- BUT even with those lyrics , this song - about a rattlesnake coiled on her pillow - is not the most odd here ... that recognition has to go to:

MY TIME OF NEED
in which Carol sings about how its been a long time since she's heard from that certain someone ... a special someone who walked out on her

leaving her now here all alone in her "time of need"

Barbara Evette and Carla sing:

look at her,
its her time of need
He won't be there

Left behind :
a living memory
- of their affair

Then Carol reminisces about stuff from when times where good for a few lines until

Barbara, Evette, and Carla sing:

Look at her
She's gonna have a baby now
Look at her

Look at her
She's gonna have a baby now
Look at her


Pretty heavy stuff for a disco song ...for any song ....right ???

So then ...... why do
they go on to sing ....

Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun.... ....(repeat repeat repeat )

Followed by several females bantering/laughing then one says :

In time of need , call Dr. Garnette
201 227 0042

fade ....

( Dayna you must ask Carol one day if you get the chance, what the heck that song's ending was all about !!!)

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[Dayna]

Originally Posted by remicks

Heck I was sure there'd be a good story to be told out of it!!




I think highly of this album BTW. Great Salsoul stuff classically done and Carol's vocals magnificent. COME BACK is my favorite song (reminds me of Diana Ross and LAST TIME I SAW HIM) except it also has that classic rollicking BHY /Trammps/ Salsoul vibe to it .....

DANGER SIGN is another favorite ...sort of a more Dionne Warwick type composition .... convincingly ,hauntingly sad . Written by T Life who in a couple of years would be arranging and producing your favorite song ....SHAME .

RATTLESNAKE is a bit twisted lyrically :
(This song may not not be Salsoul (?). doesn't sound like it ( more funky .... Sunshine Band -ish ) ...) and is the only one arranged by George Patterson and produced by Herb Rooney)

Carol:
He's my rattlesnake ..... (line sung similarly to Gaynor's "You're my honey bee")
My sweet sweet rattlesnake

girl chorus:
rattlesnake! rattlesnake! sweet sweet rattlesnake!

---- BUT even with those lyrics , this song - about a rattlesnake coiled on her pillow - is not the most odd here ... that recognition has to go to:

MY TIME OF NEED
in which Carol sings about how its been a long time since she's heard from that certain someone ... a special someone who walked out on her

leaving her now here all alone in her "time of need"

Barbara Evette and Carla sing:

look at her,
its her time of need
He won't be there

Left behind :
a living memory
- of their affair

Then Carol reminisces about stuff from when times where good for a few lines until

Barbara, Evette, and Carla sing:

Look at her
She's gonna have a baby now
Look at her

Look at her
She's gonna have a baby now
Look at her


Pretty heavy stuff for a disco song ...for any song ....right ???

So then ...... why do
they go on to sing ....

Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun.... ....(repeat repeat repeat )

Followed by several females bantering/laughing then one says :

In time of need , call Dr. Garnette
201 227 0042

fade ....

( Dayna you must ask Carol one day if you get the chance, what the heck that song's ending was all about !!!)

*****

Carol wrote that song..
The Big Mac reference..which is "Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onion on a sesame seed bun..was a campy kind of way of making the song not so "as you mentioned" heavyIt was refering to her craving for a big mac..Seeing as most women have food cravings when pregnant
and the Dr.Garnette reference
you can take either way
whether your a liberal or a conservativelol

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by Dayna

21- Love Disco Style-Erotic Drum Band

I never knew that they made a X-Mas version of this one:

But Personally I prefer "Action 78" blended with "Plug me til' death" mixed with "The Break" and then the big 1:

Easy Going's "Fear" (Videomix by Mr. Glenn Rivera)

. Sex on vinyl!!!

[remicks]

Originally Posted by Dayna

Carol wrote that song..
The Big Mac reference..which is "Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onion on a sesame seed bun..was a campy kind of way of making the song not so "as you mentioned" heavyIt was refering to her craving for a big mac..Seeing as most women have food cravings when pregnant

That makes total sense.
I honestly couldn't figure out why the heck they went into repeating that McDonald's jingle . A most odd episode in disco music production ......


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[Zef]

The Big Mac reference at the end of the song always makes me smile though, and I have been known to sing along (even as a non red meat eater).

Years ago I heard a DJ in the UK (Norman Jay) talk about an unreleased 12" of 'My time of need'. Anybody know anything about it?

[efunk_adelic]

hey D...

always like seeing Odyssey's "Inside Out" on hit lists.