Way Before Gloria Gaynor's HOW HIGH THE MOON, there was :

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....this wild and exotic percussive late nineteen fifties treatment by Ferrante & Teicher !!!!




sort of bongo-ey & Vince Montana -ish wouldn't you say ....

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I bring this up because ......

....... I'd always been hopeful that this talented piano duo had somewhere along the way late in their decades of recording gotten into doing some disco.

For those not familiar with these two ... they arranged some impressive instrumental covers of songs ...movie/show themes especially.... some of which became definitive versions:


***MIDNIGHT COWBOY***#10 Billboard Hot 100

EXUDUS #2 Billboard Hot 100

TONIGHT #8 Billboard Hot 100

About Ferrante and Teicher :

wiki:
In 1947, they launched a full-time concert career, at first playing nightclubs, then quickly moving up to playing classical music with orchestral backing. Between 1950 and 1980, they were a major American easy listening act, and scored four big U.S. hits: "Theme From The Apartment" (Pop #10), "Exodus" (Pop #2), "Tonight" (Pop #8), and "Midnight Cowboy" (Pop #10). They performed and recorded regularly with pops orchestras popular standards by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and others.

they were also musically adventuresome:

wiki:
The duo also had a more avant-garde side. They experimented with prepared pianos, influenced by avant-garde composer John Cage. By adding paper, sticks, rubber, wood blocks, metal bars, chains, glass, mallets, and other found objects to piano string beds, they were able to produce a variety of bizarre sounds that sometimes resembled percussion instruments, and at other times resulted in special effects that sounded as if they were electronically synthesized.

I've scoured their bins in EZ listening sections hoping for a disco LP and had given up figuring the sound had come about too late in their career to be of interest ..... but wait ! .
Turns out Ferrante and Teicher did do a disco album .... in disco bonanza year 1979 (of course !) called CLASSICAL DISCO ....doing their disco interpretations of several classical pieces ...

here's one cut from it on youtube:



hurray!, a surprise happy ending .... Ferrante and Teicher did do disco !! ..................



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"Ferrante and Teicher ceased performing in 1989 and retired in Florida."