RECORDS WE HAVE LOVED #3 TASTE OF HONEY BOOGIE OOGIE OOGIE

[QUINNY]

Ok here's another Disco smash for you to get all goosepimply about.
I just remember how this record seemed soooo fresh and had everyone dancing with a smile on their face, back in 1978. Loved the look of the gals on the UK 12" cover. They looked so innocent and both were a real honey. The bass guitar almost looked as big as them.Yum, Yum.

[Studio74]

Another great track.Very funky. :)

[DiscoMan]

One of my favorites.
Janice Marie Johnson can put her shoes under my bed any time. 8)

[efunk_adelic]

Another one of those unique & almost perfect records... Although I don't like the immediate intro... once it get started... oh my my my :D

[Bernie]

Originally Posted by efunk_adelic

Another one of those unique & almost perfect records... Although I don't like the immediate intro... once it get started... oh my my my :D

You don't like the intro? Fifty lashes for you!

[efunk_adelic]

Originally Posted by Bernie

You don't like the intro? Fifty lashes for you!

Bernie, I'm talking about the first 25 seconds.... it's hard to mix in and or dance too.... :cry:

[BrunoRepublic]

I also quite like the story of how this song came to be, which I got to hear courtesy of Jussi. :)

[neonlights]

I love this song, one of the first disco songs I ever listened to.. I remember listening to it for the first time on one of my parents' disco compilations on 8-track (god, those things were $hitty lol)

I also read on another board that Janice-Marie Johnson and Hazel Payne had reunited recently..

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[Videoskooter]

Superclassic!

A bassline that kicks you immediately onto the dancefloor.

One of those records that the first time I heard it got the reaction: THIS IS REAL :)

[QUINNY]

Originally Posted by efunk_adelic

Bernie, I'm talking about the first 25 seconds.... it's hard to mix in and or dance too.... :cry:

That intro was a bitch unless you were very sure of which part could hook the dancers. Once it was known the very first part where the bassline begins was good enough (although see below re soft cymbal crashes), but in the early days I used to lay that 16 bars under and do the transpose at the first beat of the stronger 8 bars prior to the vocals. The first 25 secs are in time and an exact 16 bars (?, no copy to hand only memory), trouble was that the time keeping a tad erratic and the cymbal crashes were fairly soft, so very difficult to mix in with any real crescendo or a whoomph!

[paul]

Love it and the intro. I don't know what you dj experts call this but one of the ways I would frequently hear a song like this mixed in was to play some part of the intro in the break or some convenient part of a prior song. As that song was ending they would mix the intro with it. Then when the tempo Changed some 20 seconds into the Boogie Oogie Oogie they would kill the other song.

[Afroboy]

Yipee ... :D .. We all love it .. :lol: .. yehh ...
But the BIGGEST SHOUT should go to the Mizell brothers Larry and Fonce , without them there would be no
........Taste of Honey ........!! .. :-?
just thought I should mention it ,for those who don't know or read the fine print , they are the legends behind this classic .

[efunk_adelic]

Originally Posted by QUINNY

That intro was a bitch unless you were very sure of which part could hook the dancers. Once it was known the very first part where the bassline begins was good enough (although see below re soft cymbal crashes), but in the early days I used to lay that 16 bars under and do the transpose at the first beat of the stronger 8 bars prior to the vocals. The first 25 secs are in time and an exact 16 bars (?, no copy to hand only memory), trouble was that the time keeping a tad erratic and the cymbal crashes were fairly soft, so very difficult to mix in with any real crescendo or a whoomph!

I got caught thinking like a DJ again....

[Afroboy]

Hello Again,, just thought I would let all know this day back in 1978 this song got to # 1 in the Billboard Pop Charts .