What Disco songs are you listening to right now?

[gvtaylor]

Disco tracks I played as part of my sets, and at home in the last couple of weeks:

IPANEMA BROTHERS : RIO DE JANEIRO. BARCLAY SPAIN 7"
DAZZLE : DAZZLE ME. DE-LITE USA 12"
GEORGE DUKE : I WANT YOU FOR MYSELF. EPIC USA 12"
JUNIOR MENDES : COPACABANA SADIA. R.C.A. BRAZIL LP
FAMKS : LABIRINTO. ODEON BRAZIL LP
BILLY PAUL : FALSE FACES. PHILADELPHIA USA 12"
V.I.P. CONNECTION : WEST COAST DRIVE. MORNING STAR USA 7"
POCKETS : COME GO WITH ME. C.B.S. UK 7"
MARCOS VALLE : ESTRELAR. SOM LIVRE BRAZIL LP
LINDA CLIFFORD : RUNAWAY LOVE. CURTOM USA 12"


Mark

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[sirius]

Dear Friends!
Here some tracks to mention:

CHOCOLAT´S"Orfeu Negro"(LP/"Kings Of Clubs"/
A Tom Moulton Mix/1977/Salsoul)
BEAUTIFUL BEND"That´s The Meaning/Boogie Motion"
(12"/1978/Unidisc-Release)
PAM TODD"Baise Moi(Kiss Me)"(12"/Mixed By Jimmy
Simpson/1978)

AMY BOLTON"Over And Over"(12"/A Spec.Disconet
Remix/1983/RamsHorn)
PEP"Neon Lights"(12"/Fire Mix/1985)
DOCTOR´S CAT"Feel The Drive"(12"/Trans Europe
Mix/1984/"Italo Remix Volume 2")
GIORGIO MORODER"Ivory Tower"(12"/1984)

Cosmic Love & Kisses From O´SIRIUS & DARKTUNES

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by Leatherman

"Disco Energy" by Universal Energy

Great tune, I rediscovered it a few days ago and played it several times, plus:

- Silver, Platinum & Gold: "I gotta thing"
- Marianne Rosenberg: "Ich bin wie du
revisited by Blue Adonis: "Disco Cop" (I like both)
- Linda Clifford: "Bridge over troubled water"
- Dance Reaction: "Disco train"
- Manu Dibango: "Abele dance"
- Pat Lundy: "Work song"
- Doug Willis: "Get your own"
- Lowrell: "Mellow mellow"
- France Joli: "Gonna get over you"
- Jones Girls: "You gonna make me love somebody else"
- Cameo: "Single life"
- Michel Polnareff: "Lipstick"
- Roy Davis Jr.: "Love's light"

And the beat goes on :D

[The Lord of Flatbush]

Funny, I was going through one of my past, Mix Shows and came across one that I did on Jammin' 105.1. It was for the Jammin' Party Mix Weekend in March 2002 before the station changed its genre of music from Classics to Hip Hop/R&B.

The playlist goes like this:

Michele - Can't You Feel It
Aurra - Checking You Out
Legacy - Word Up
Montana Sextet - Heavy Vibes
Michelle Wallace - It's Right
Northend featuring Michelle Wallace - Happy Days

Johnny "The Duke" Allen was the host

I hope that you'll tune in to Joe Causi's Mix 102.7 Saturday Night Classic Show and Studio 54 Classic Showcase on Sunday night.

Enjoy the Music

[Videoskooter]

This week the bumpercars are riding on these songs:

- John Davis Orchestra: "Love magic"
- Gloria Gaynor: "Casanova Brown"
- War: "Low rider" (very popular with our visitors BTW)
- Sylvester: "Be with you"
- Black Ivory: "Mainline"
- Lonnie Youngblood: "Gonna fly now"
- Slick: "Space bass"
- Peter Jackson: "Feel the spirit"
- Edwin Birdsong: "Rapper dapper snapper"
- Patrick Cowley: "Lift off"
- Divine: "Native love"
- Disco Circus: "Over & over"
- Instant Funk: "Slap slap lickedy lap"
- Harry Thumann: "American express"
- Black Slate:" Rubber man (in dub)"

Et voilà

[Paulo]

Disco songs I heard this week:

70's:
HALL AND OATES - Rich Girl
EL COCO - Love Exciter
RINDER AND LEWIS - Love Potion nº 9
RINDER AND LEWIS - Blue Steel
RINDER AND LEWIS - Arabella
(all 3 from their compilation album HALF CIRCLE)

80's:
HAZEL DEAN - They Say It's Gonna Rain
INDIA - Stay With Me
PET SHOP BOYS - Domino Dancing
PET SHOP BOYS - I'm Not Scared
PET SHOP BOYS - I Want A Dog
HALL AND OATES - Method Of Modern Love
HALL AND OATES - Out Of Touch
HALL AND OATES - Possession Obssession
SWING OUT SISTER - Waiting Game
SWING OUT SISTER - You On My Mind
SWING OUT SISTER - Where In The World
(all 3 from their second album KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD)

[sirius]

Dear Friends!
Here some tracks I enjoy listening:
DISCO ARCHIVE 04/Volume 19

DEODATO"2001(Also sprach Zarathustra)"(LP/"2001"/
1973)
YOUNG & CO"I Like What You´re Doing To Me"
(12"/Re-Issue/Black Beats/7:17/1980/2004)
ATLANTIC STARR"Kissin´Power"(LP/"Straight To The
Point"/1979)
JOHN DAVIS & THE MONSTER ORCHESTRA"The Magic
Is You/You´re The One/Recapitulation"(LP/"Up Jumped
The Devil"/1977)
OTTAWAN"T´Es O.K."(12"/Long V./1980)
KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND"Shake Your Booty"
(LP/"The Best Of KC & The Sunshine Band")
WEATHER GIRLS"Success"(LP/1983)
GIDEA PARK Ft.ADRIAN BAKER"Lolita"(12"/Long V./81)
TWO MAN SOUND"Que Tal America"(12"/Different V./
1984/Megatone)
TASHA THOMAS"Hot Buttered Boogie"(12"/Long V./79)
RAFFAELLA CARRA"Amico Amante"(LP/"Latino"/1980)
TC 1991"Berry"(12"/Re-Fratty Re-Energy V./1992)
CANDI STATON"Honest I Do Love You"(LP/"House Of
Love"/1978)
STARPOINT"I Just Wanna Dance With You"(12"/1980/
Casablanca)
Cosmic Love & Kisses From O´SIRIUS & DARKTUNES...

[discohunter]

Some stuff I've been listening to lately....

Soccer - Come On & Get It On
Ren Woods - Everybody Get Up
Slick - Sexy Cream
Fever - Standing In The Shadows Of Love
Venus Dodson - Night Rider
Revanche - You Get High In NYC
Diana Ross - Love hangover
Jerry Rix - Disco Train
Witch Queen - Bang A Gong
Michele - Disco Dance
The Simon Orchestra - Love Is Comin' On
Change - Paradise
Bumblebee Unlimited - Love Bug
Roberta Kelly - Zodiacs / Love Sign / Funky Stardust
Saturday Night Band - Touch Me On My Hot Spot
Black Light Orchestra - Touch Me, Take Me
Wild Honey - At The Top Of The Strirs
Deodato - Keep On Movin'

discohunter

[QUINNY]

This is what I recently put together for listening:

Mr. Mello - Maynard Ferguson...an uptempo smoocher with touches of jazz and funk. Light enough to be appealing to many. (73 BPM)

The Message - Cymande...Brit Funkers never made anything quite so engaging as this, IMO. A big jazzy, funky, sophisticated left-fielder of a hit with DJs in 72/73 and even more revered now. That's sure as hell surprised the pants off of me! (92 BPM)

Superman Lover - Johhny 'Guitar' Watson.... In the same kinda groove as his biggest hit (A Real Mutha For Ya) but slightly slower @ 87 BPM.

Action Speaks Louder Than Words - Chocolate Milk...This ever so slinky, synth driven, chanted funk gem was huge with me in '75. Hard funk that was danced to even at only 83 BPM. It 'sounds' faster.

The Baby - Blackbyrds.... for me, one of their definitive cuts. Fantastic faster sounding (here we go again) bouncy synth laden funk, with incredibly jazzy guitar solos which ignited my dancefloor in '75. (105 BPM)

Bite Your Granny - Morning, Noon & Night...I'm still getting used to this 12" version and still think it's probably a minute and a half too long, but there's no denying what impact this record had on both my audience and myself BITD. A happy, bouncy, slightly old fashioned (for the time) funk groove that we found irresistable. (115 BPM)

Walkin' The Line - Brass Construction...I've fallen in love with this heavy, hard sounding funk monster all over again, in the past few months. It has the type of rhythm track that spells 'club music supreme' in my book. Nice vocoder touches and rapping too! (115.5 BPM)

It's All The Way Live - Lakeside...one might be forgiven for thinking that this would sound like a score of other Solar records outings, but this had a much harder funk edge than most of that label's output. It's nothing much more than the title repeated over and over with a few extra lines, but the overall effect with the virtually rock drums, 'Another One Bites the Dust' type of bass, guitars and piano is so relentlessly satisfying that the vocals don't matter so much. (118 BPM)

I Don't Wanna Be A Freak - Dynasty...More typical of the Solar output, this bouncy, funky, commercial track was quite simply, one of the best records to grace the Disco turntables in late '79. Much more of a Disco sound to this, although indicative of where the whole dance was headed. (117 BPM)

Ma - Mo - Ah - Tony Valor Sounds Orchestra...almost sounding like slightly cheesey, discofied version of Jingo with added '60s cocktail lounge guitar riffs for good effect, this record has really grown on me lately. I must check the water around here. :lol: (122.5 BPM)

For The Love Of Money - Disco Dub Band...The appeal of this record BITD was that it continued the Donna Summer/Champs Boys/For The Love Of Money/Bra/Tubular Bells dialogue and made it more than obvious how they were all linked and that it had more than enough funk and sizzling hi hats to keep the floor packed. Strangely there ain't a whole fillet of dub going on....fishy or what! (121 BPM)

Funky Nassau - Beginning Of The End...a true early dancefloor classic that had many, many fans. One of those records with an older style, syncopated funk rhythm, busy bubbling bass, joyous singing and horns. It's a surprise to hear just how ropey some of the horn playing (trumpet in particular) is on close inspection, but who cares with a groove like this? (119 BPM)

Black Water Gold (Pearl) - African Music Machine...a record that made being a DJ an absolute joy, back in '72. Forget the Sunshine Band's feeble attempt, this is the definitive and original version. Even busier bass than above, but otherwise a similar description except this had some great sax playing on it too and it was almost entirely instrumental. (a faster sounding 114 BPM)

[neilbogart]

Undecided Love - by The Chequers(test pressing original version,wish I had the remix version on Unidisc records?)

[Videoskooter]

It's getting colder here in Belgium. We are at the funfair in Liège right now so we are warming up our Bumpercar-clients with the hot discosoundz of:

-The Crashers: "Flight to Jamaica"
-Fern Kinney: "Groove me" (I just luuuuuv that one)
-Gary's Gang: "Showtime"
-Don Ray: "Body and soul"
-Grace Jones: "Private life"
-First Choice: "The player"
-Bar-Kays: "Holy ghost"
-Phyllis Hyman: "You know how to love me"
-The Dells: "All about the paper"
-The Chaplin Band: "Il veliero"
-Exodus: "Together forever"
-Sergio Mendes: "I'll tell you"
-Herp Alpert: "Rotation"
-Curtis Mayfield: "Pusherman"
-Love Committee: "Just as long as I got you"

And the heat is on!

[dvdjamm]

some songs i've been enjoying...


Give Me A Break - Vivian Vee
My Claim To Fame - James Wells
Lost In Music - Sister Sledge
Crusin' The Streets - Boystown Gang
Walking On Music - Peter Jacques Band
Lovin' Is Really My Game - Brainstorm
Giving Up,Giving In -The Three Degrees
Pow Wow - Cory Daye
Goin Up In Smoke - Eddie Kendricks
Living For The Weekend - The O'Jays

[DiscoMan]

I just finished watching, in my home theatre, the DVDs of:

Rhythm, Love & Soul, Superstars of '70s Soul, Vol's. 1&2 and Disco Inferno all in 5.1 and DTS sound. It's just terrific music and I love it all. And especially the Tavares Brothers. :D

[zeca azevedo]

Originally Posted by markydefad

I threw together a tape the other night that I'm playing now...

REFLECTIONS - Diana Ross & the Supremes (CLASSIC!!! I was soooo excited that Motown was going sorta "psychedelic" in their arrangement!! Tooo Coool!!!)

I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE - Marvin Gaye] (Just the BEST!!! Haunting and although not the first version...the Definitive Primal One!!!)

LOVE CHILD - Diana Ross & the Supremes (CLASSIC SINGLE!!... seems to move with such a fierce sweeping sensation...but it's actually really quite slow...just around 104 bpms!!!...Bless the FUNK BROTHERS for their musical genius!!!)

JIVE TALKIN' - The Bee Gees (this single just captivates me....the production by Arif Mardin propelled them back to the top of the charts at a time they were considered "dead meat". Many consider this pop fodder...it makes me wanna dance!!!!!!!!)

RUBBERBAND MAN - The Spinners (thanks to that terrific new Office Max commercial, I hauled this out: Phillipe Wynne was one of the great singers!!!!!! Silly song...wonderful production & especially VOCAL!!!) :D :D :D

THREE WAY LOVE AFFAIR - Elton John (working with Thom Bell...the CD of the entire Thom Bell Sessions is one of my current faves!!! How come I igged this for years???? :oops: :oops: :oops: )

ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE - The Spinners ( recorded after Phillipe Wynne left the group( I think)...Elton's version with Phillipe singing along is VASTLY SUPERIOR..but this is still Thom Bell & The Spinners!!!)

TAKE IT FROM ME - Dionne Warwick(e) (I totally missed this one and never even thought to pick up this LP since I already had "Then Came You" on a Spinners compilation. Nice one, Dionne. Don't know why she never wanted to dance again.) :roll:


FULL TIME THING (BETWEEN DUSK AND DAWN) - Whirwind (Totally missed this the first time around too. Found it on a Roulette compilation. Just perfect for me. Great hooks, melody and vocals.)

THREE STEPS FROM TRUE LOVE - the Reflections (I remember this song from back in tha day...but didn't know who did it. I have the 1980s cover version by Margaret Ryenolds. Found the LP at Amoeba last week. Just my style.)

NICE AND SLOW - Elton John (from the Thom Bell sessions...a more traditional EJ song given a classy Thom Bell arrangement. Thom Bell is a musical GENIUS!!!)

I'M DOIN' FINE NOW - New York City (Another Thom Bell creation that I've loved since the early 1970s. Couldn't recall who did it til I found it one one of those Rhino "Didn't It Blow Your Mind" cd compilations. They don't make 'em any finer than this. I had the 1980s remake by The Pasadenas before I found the orignal. Ain't nothin like the REAL THING!!!)

ONE NIGHT AFFAIR - Jerry Butler (Gamble & Huff production sometimes mentioned among the early disco prototype records. Esther Phillips did a more "disco" cover later on.)

SCORPIO - Dennis Coffey (Just room on side one for a little instrumental to close out the tape.)

Side 2 later...I gots ta go.

Wow Marky,

this is a top notch list but it contains one error: the vocalist of the Spinners who recorded ARE YOU READY FOR LOVE with Elton John is not Phillipé Wynne, it is John Edwards (no, not the guy you're thinking of, LOL)

Peace,

zeca azevedo

[markydefad]

Zeca,

Now this is interesting!!! So, when the Elton John sessions were recorded, Phillipe Wynne was gone from the Spinners and John Edwards had replaced him? This astounds me, cause the Elton /Spinners version is sooooo great-- that when I heard the Spinners version, I was disappointed. :( Same song, same producer (Thom Bell), ....I assumed it was the absence of the former lead singer...who starts singing with Elton in the second verse and just tears it up til the end of the record. :D :D :D :D

So John Edwards sang with Elton and also did the lead on the Spinners version? :o

Don't you agree that the EJ/Spinners version is vastly superior? I think that the Spinners' vocals were eliminated in the re-release of the EJ version that was a hit in Europe last year, right? I asked the question here several times in the past--but nobody seemed to understand what I was asking, I guess. :(

Anyway, thanks for the info. I looooves this tune.