Do You Remember Your First Disco Purchase?

[Marcio**]

Probably "Everybody's Talking ('Bout Love)" by Silver Convention in some 70's compilation.

[Outsider]

My first disco purchase was the Rhino Records compilation "Disco Years 1974-1978". As everyone knows here, I'm a latecomer when it comes to disco, as I bought this album in 1995.

[SandraDee]

Jazz, I currently work just up the road from Romiley. What a small world. Tunstall was also home of the famous Golden Torch disco wit its northern soul nights.

[FlyRobinFly]

Aside from '45s that my mother and brother purchased, and our Sylvers collection, my first disco music purchase with "my money" was a 12 inch "Living It Up, Friday Night" by Bell & James.

[markydefad]

I remember it very clearly...

Silver Convention's Save Me LP with "Save Me" and "Fly, Robin, Fly" was definitely the first.

The next one I think was Where the Happy People Go by The Trammps.

Then: More, More, More (LP) by Andrea True Connection and Never Gonna Let You Go (LP) featuring "Turn The Beat Around" by Vicki Sue Robinson.

Later: Doctor Buzzard's Original Savannah Band :D :D :D :D

P.S. Geez, I just realized this was an old post of mine :-? ...that somehow has lost the first few pages of responses!!!!

Well, at least my stories haven't changed!!! Yeah, I just tell em over and over and over and over. :oops:

[DJDynasty]

I remember getting Hustle 76 compilation ordered it on TV, I was 10 at the time It was a K-Tel Records release, boy was that exciting recieving a package in the mail. Cant remember all the tracks but do remember it had Convoy. I did play it till the grooves were showing white lines in them though on a Bogen Reciever & a Garrard turntable

[DiscoKidd]

Wow - what a trip down memory lane reading all of these postings!

My first disco LP purchase was Amii Stewart's "Knock on Wood" LP in 1979. I remember going into Sam Goody and flipping through the "S" section until I found it!

Then the floodgates opened and I couldn't stop buying...

Ahh...memories :D

[olskinflint]

but I remember the first 12" I bought was definitely Double Exposure's "Ten Percent". I play it as often now as I did then, and sometimes when I know I'm completely alone, I sing it at the top of my lungs. Be glad you can't hear me...

[nrgbeat]

I can't remember my first purchase, but one year I rec'd "Discomania 2" for Christmas. It had "Lady Marmalade" on it.

I've always wondered if there was a "Discomania 1"

[Super D]

Boy! do I remember.......My mom gave me $45.00 dollars to go downtown and to get a white dress shirt and a pair of Black pant.(yell pre designer days! :o ) Well needless to say, I got the shirt(8.99 S.S. Kresge)and borrowed a black pair of pant from a friend.....the rest.....well I bought music! :D :D

1.Brides of Funkestein,"Funk of Walk" ($5.99)
2.Parliment,"Placebo Sydrome".($4.99)
2.Dennis Coffee,"Evolution"($3.99)
3.Ohio Players,"Honey"($5.99)
4.War,"Galaxy" (????)
5.Twentynine/Lenny White,"Best Friends".($5.99)

My boot'ea is still hurt'in from that beat'in :oops:

super D(motordetroit) 8)

[Super D]

Originally Posted by Graham_Start

... to think that for almost all of my life, I was told that this was the worst music ever, that it was deservedly forgotten, that it was a bizarre product of a decade 'that taste forgot', and other countless bullshit lies...


The one downside of all this is the effect it had on my own music. I've been composing my own electronic music for several years, and I was getting quite proud of my homemade tracks, and I felt that some of my stuff was better than most of what's out there. Once I fully discovered the splendour, the grandness, the beauty of disco, I realized that practically everything out today is complete and utter childish shit -- like comparing the Sistine Chapel to some tagger's graffiti. And I doubt I'll ever be able to come up with anything that's even close to what I love.

Brilliant treatise "Graham_Start" however, there is a scintilla of hypocracy. Here me out.....you described( electronic) music of today as "complete and utter childish (expicit)"as compared to Disco laureatics of pre-technological discovery...... You expressed "all your life you were told Disco was the worst music ever".......In short you are attacking todays music of the same shortcomming that was describe to you in the earlier years as,"comlpete and utter childish explicit". If you look at todays music in a more profound asthetical subtext and juxtapose it to todays technology it is more of a representation of technology mirrored to simplicity in the name of endless experimentation in the root of musical advancement.... metaphorically, the aesthectic simplicity of beauty and the beast(love is more than beauty itself)...... the aesthetic simplicity of love and marriage(we as one)..... these are all simplistic metaphoric analogies of a universal reality.

"Graham_start"... you stated yourself, that the music you create is better than most.....it takes talent to recreate history and it sounds like you have a great musical talent...... todays music is about the blood of re-re-creation .....banalistically, a mindless repetition of beats.....plus it embodies the edifying quest for self-directive expression, and most of all the democratic collaboration that captures universal music and world democracy at best.....in other words technology has opened the door for common folk...the hoi pa loi....to offer a mass gift to the world.

To Finish......20 years from now :( the music we hear today will contain a group of eristic apostles that loudly and enthusiatically extol the music of their past, to the music of that future current day.

Do you agree?

super D(motordetroit) 8)

[Videoskooter]

We do have these discussions a lot on this board and always some members decline today's music and others embrace it.

They say that today's dance artists revive the interest in classics and that they push the youth to look for the vintage albums.

OK, but when I look to the music channels, when I listen to the radio, when I go out,....why don't I hear things that struck me, that move me, that make me go run to the shop to buy it?

I hear a lot of Disco, that's true. But most of the time it's a sample of some beauty I know for years and after I realised what record they used my next thought is: OMG what have they done to it, or, ok, you've made an interesting loop but why do you have to repeat it for 5 minutes without adding something substantial to it?

When I went out in the '70's I saw a lot of people having a great time, dancing WITH eachother and being uplifted by the great tunes of that era.

Last week I went to a very famous club here. I saw people standing alone, moving (not dancing) on a same beat that lasted for hours and only had different vocals now and then.

When I go out to special Disconights I see people (young and old) having fun, amusing themselves, telling me how great that music is and asking where they can purchase it.

Now, am I a sad nostalgic? Can't I mentally leave the '70's? Am I getting old?

I don't know anymore. I only know one thing: my girlfriend is a lot younger than me (41>29) but when she plays records, she looks in my shelfs and almost never touches her recent CD's.

Now I'm asking you: Do You Know The Way To San José???

[buckaroo]

Originally Posted by Videoskooter

We do have these discussions a lot on this board and always some members decline today's music and others embrace it.

Graham_Start...I always say/type this but, there are some great releases out there. You just have to ignore the national charts, and look elsewhere. Long gone are the days when something funky would be lurking in the top 20

Last week I went to a very famous club here. I saw people standing alone, moving (not dancing) on a same beat that lasted for hours and only had different vocals now and then.

When I go out to special Disconights I see people (young and old) having fun, amusing themselves, telling me how great that music is and asking where they can purchase it.

Now, am I a sad nostalgic? Can't I mentally leave the '70's? Am I getting old?

No. you're not getting old Videoskooter. This is a problem in society. Everyone these days seems to think they're more important than the next guy. And certain people only go out to laugh at the way other people are dancing :roll:. The music being played is another reason, as you rightly point out. Also, the club owners don't help much, as they want to exclude certain types of people from their establishments. And in England, for quite some time now, yob types go out with the sole intention of getting pissed (drunk, not angry) and then having a fight with someone...Anyone. These are a few reasons why Buckaroo stopped raving years ago. But it's not all bad. Friends have told me that when they go to clubs that cater to a certain age group, early-mid 30s, there's a much cooler atmosphere.

[dfc99bb]

First disco record purchase was Crown Heights Affair's 1975 album 'Foxy Lady' (DeLite Records cat# DEP2021). Don't remember if it was even called 'disco' in the Fall of 1975. I probably bought it at Korvette's Bay Parkway store in Brooklyn, which in the 1970s had an incredible record department.

[DiscoKidd]

Originally Posted by dfc99bb

First disco record purchase was Crown Heights Affair's 1975 album 'Foxy Lady' (DeLite Records cat# DEP2021). Don't remember if it was even called 'disco' in the Fall of 1975. I probably bought it at Korvette's Bay Parkway store in Brooklyn, which in the 1970s had an incredible record department.

OOOH KORVETTE'S!!!

They did have a great record department. They also used to have sales (something like 3 LPs for $12 or $15.)

The first 12" single I ever bought came from Korvette's - Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell"/"Make Believe Lovers."

I still have some of their 45 RPM flyers that you could pick up to see what their top sellers were. You used the corresponding number to find what slot the 45 was in on the display.

Where are the great music stores today?

:roll: