Lurkers To This Forum, Please Introduce Yourself

[TAADOW]

kia ora greetings to all from new zealand.
love the site.
recently restarted my disco collection i ddint back up my last laptop of disco music and unfortunately it got a virus etc and i lost ample ecverything.message to all back up your files.dont do what i did.

my faves range in from Delegation,Dan I,BeeGees,Parliament,Foxy,Jimmy bohorne, Change ,Ottawan,with Xavier being my all time fave but cannot find no more,although managed to find work that sucker to death.

Thank u for the memories.

[Bernie]

Great to see more new people joining us. Want to say welcome and please jump in and start a new topic or jump in on an existing one. Enjoy your stay with us!

[petegrancanaria]

Hi Michael

I live in Gran Canaria but I was born in Brum and left there in 1983. I am listening to Your Love by Lime (my all time favourite) which takes me back to the best times of my life when I was a slim young man at the Nightingale at Aston. My first boyfriend was Tony DeVit´s ex and I remember him well as DJ at the "new" Nightingale (Tudor shop fronts and Greek Temple??!!) off Broad Street.

Originally Posted by djemboy2

hello everyone
i just joined and thought i would introduce myself, i am michael and live in florida, i used to live in birmingham UK, but the weathers better here.
when i was in birmingham i used to be a light jock(i so hate that title)at the nightingale club, those who ever went there will remeber tony divit and ruby(Sadly both have passed), i also worked at the powerhouse as the main light jock(i so ha....oh yeah i already said that:oops: ), anyone who went there on a thursday night will remember carl and john, anyway just wanted to say hello.
Michael

[eightiesbaby80]

Hey Everyone! I'm Jenn. Nice to meet you all.

[Videoskooter]

Pete, Jenn, welcome to the community! Enjoy the party and don't be afraid to jump on the dancefloor!

[EarlyGirl]

Hi, I wasn't actually lurking, just found the forum today.
I started dancing the Hustle in clubs in 1974. So I was rather surprised to read recently that many people think the line dance preceded the "touch dancing" Hustle. If I recall correctly, the line dance only came out in late 1975 after the release of "Do The Hustle" by Van McCoy. (Those of us who were already doing the real Hustle considered the line dance as strictly for those who couldn't dance, so we got off the floor and bought drinks or went to the bathroom when anyone started doing it.)
I have bunches of old disco vinyls from the 70's, but I didn't start buying them right away, so almost all the covers show copyrights of 1975 or later. So I was trying to find the original release dates of some of my favorite early dance songs, to prove to myself that I don't have Alzheimers. Which I don't, thank goodness. Most of them came out in 73 or 74.

[Videoskooter]

Earlygirl, great to see you DISCOvered us and decided to join in! Welcome to da club and please, do participate.

[matrawave]

I joined this forum last December, and was posting my eBay auctions. However, I'm hoping to get more involved and see what the rest of the forum has to offer. I'm getting more interested in italo, and have a strong interest in boogie, loft tunes, electro, etc. Finally have discovered the beauty of Alexander Robotnick, and picked up an original press of his Problemes d'Amour 12" at the WFMU fair in New York this past weekend. So those are my current interests with disco.

Top five tunes (off the top of my head)

Loose Joints -- Is It All Over My Face (female vocal)
LEB Harmony -- Feeling Love
Herman's Rocket -- Space Woman
Dinosaur L -- Go Bang
NOIA -- Stranger In A Strange Land

[Bernie]

Awesome! Welcome to all our newest members. I'm sure you'll have a great time with us so please jump in on a topic or feel free to start a new one.

[David_NC]

Hi,

I've been lurking here for a while... off and on for a few years. I'd Google something or somebody related to disco and always seem to end up at this site!

I've always loved disco, at least since around '77 or so. I was only 11 then and living in Raleigh, NC, so there wasn't really much in the way of disco around me. Occasionally, I'd catch a song or two on the radio or something on TV (no cable back then, though). Then, sometime in '78, a local radio station started having disco on Fridays and Saturdays from 10:00 pm to 2:00 am. I was one happy young disco queen! I've still got cassettes that I recorded of those shows. Fortunately, I used TDK SA's which seem to be about the most durable cassettes I've ever used. I've often wished I was born about 10 years earlier so that I would have been an adult back during the disco period, but I know that, if I had, I most likely wouldn't be around today.

In '84 I started college and really didn't listen to disco much at all. We all listened to alternative music in those days, but I always got this 'feeling' when I would hear that familiar beat. In the past five or so years I've really started enjoying disco again. I got Sirius satellite in '04 and discovered The Strobe on channel 37. This grown up disco queen was happy once more! I alternate between stations but would always wind back up on 37. It became my house work music, my work out music, my go to sleep music, etc. I bought an iPod and loaded it up with disco and other older dance mp3's.

Then, last week, something terrible happened. The 'feared' station changes from the Sirius / XM merger took place. Channel 37, The Strobe, is no more. It seems that, for whatever reason, the program folks decided that nobody listened to it. I can understand eliminating duplicate stations, but there is no duplication with 37. After repeated emails and phone calls, I still have no satisfaction with my #1 channel gone. I guess now I'll just have develop my own disco collection more.

Anyway, I just thought I should do as some of the other newer members have done and introduce myself. Thanks to those who keep these forums going and to the members that keep the memories of disco (and of those who made the music) alive.

David

[Videoskooter]

David, welcome to the site. We hope you will have a good time here and don't hesitate to open threads or to participate. Enjoy!