What is your favourite obscure disco song?

[Giovanni]

Great topic, guys!!! I LOVE obscure disco!!!

Somo others I would like to add:

JIMMY & VELLA CAMERON: Be fair to me
HOT BUSH: Love fuse
WILLIE HUTCH: Easy does it
NEW JERSEY CONNECTION: Love don't come easy
SHADES OF LOVE: Come and make me feel good
CONSTELLATION ORCHESTRA: Perfect love affair
BLACK IVORY: Big apple rock
VERNON BURCH: Sammy Joanne
DONNA McGHEE: Mister Blindman
LIQUID PLEASURE: Take a little love
MARGIE LOMAX: God's greatest gift to man
PRANA PEOPLE: Pranian man
SATYR: Free and easy
THE BAND THAT FELL TO EARTH: Starflight
UNIVERSAL ENERGY: Disco energy
MARY CLARK: Take me I'm yours
SILVER PLATINUM: Dance
BLAIR: Nightlife
FREDDIE HUBBARD: You're gonna loose me
PAUL CACIA: Chicago
BOULE NOIRE: Il me faut une femme
SPYCE: Do it rock steady
GEPY & GEPY: Body to body
GARFIELD FLEMING: Don't send me away
BUS CONNECTION: Superdance
LOUISE MURRAY: Did you notice
TOMORROW'S PEOPLE: Ain't noting to it but to do it
DELORES HALL: Born to be free
KIM TAYLOR: Stomp your feet and dance
DESTROYERS: 'Lectric love

.....and many many more I can't remember now......

[dj_coolcut]

Cool topic...i have red about various songs you mentioned i'd like to listen to...
Anyway these are some of my obscure favorites i can remember now:

Decimo - Theme from Shaft (1978)
G.B. & The Tracks - Chicken Stomp (1978)
Jakki - You Are The Star (1977)
Magic City - Let's Rock (1979)
D-R-U-M - Lalabye instr. (1977)
Force - Rock Your Baby (1979)
Funk Machine - Funk Machine (1977)
John Gibbs - J'ouvert (1979)
Heart & Soul - Do The Walk (1976)
East Harlme Bus Stop - Get On Down (1976)
Universal Robot Band - Doing Anything Tonight (1978)
U.N. - Disco Power (1979)
Karisma feat. Jocelyn Brown - Got You Dancing (1978)
Little Scotty - Shout At The Disco (1979)
Living Proof - Disco Boogie (1978)
Montreal - Under The Lights Of Montreal (1979)
Needa - Come On And Rock (1979)
Pam Todd - Baisez Moi (1978)
Stratavarious - I Got Your Love (1976)
Jimmy Jackson - Freedom To Express Yourself (1979)
Tony Sylvester - Pazuzu (1976)
Marta Acuna - Dance Dance Dance (1977)
Stargarg - Disco Rufus (1977)
Stargard - Wear It Out
S.S.O. - Tonight's The Night (1975)

and at least other 100....

[rhessel]

Hello:

Dj_coolcut thanks for sending me the Van McCoy Rhythms of the World on AG, I was looking for its MP3 version for months.

Remembered two other very obscure:

- SOS (All we need is time for love)- Today's People.
- Once more with feeling - The Whispers (from the Bingo LP)

I listened to this song 25 years ago and has never listed it again, but recently I downloaded it from Audiogalaxy. Thanks AG.

BTW, those who want the Bingo CD its now available from Castle Music at
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/.../discomusiccom



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[Jeff H]

Boodi--

"Nighttime Fantasy" is on the Sounds Like 54 CD that Marky tipped us off to a few months back.

The CD version is a little different than the 12-inch version I've had for years--more emphasis on the orchestration than the vocal, I'd say--but it's still more than 9 minutes of bliss!

[DISCODISK]

thanks for comment ZECA nice choices from you too! its strange ive been listening to some of your tracks this week impressions/honey cone/whatauts/dells spooky! some of my all time faves are popping up everywhwre on this topic GIOVANIgarfield flemming,RHESSEL invitations/george bensonDJ_COOLCUT heart&soul{love the other side too FUNKY brothers guiding light,pleased to see NICKNACK is a fan of august darnell and i go with mighty clouds/gloria scott do you have her cassablanca album it goes for big bucks in england for a case of too much lovemaking. also FUNKY a bit of trivia about the dance dance record theres another version by the casualeers also on roulette from 1966 but sounding years more modern it was a massive record on the rare soul scene here in the 70s when roulette were told of its popularity they re-did that new version though i prefer the old version and it still gets played today sorry to bore you! zzzzzzzzz

[Fantomas]

Bananaticoco by Max B
How Nan I Forget by the Realistics
Black Skin Blue Eye Boys (45 RPM) by the Equals

[jazz_pilgrim]

Yeah, I like tis one.

Discodisk - love your Bobby Womack (the Soul Survivor) track. I remember that one i the clubs. And I've got that Casualeers track - a veritable monster on the Northern scene! (Fyi - I got into the Northern scene from '87 - '89).
Haven't heard that Larry Wu track for ages - that was a good one!


Zeca - I love your choice of soul bands - the Dells / Whatnauts / Whispers etc. The Dells track from 1964 - Oh What A Night (do you know it?) - just sends shivers up my apine every time I hear it!!!

Some of the obscure trax from my collection that I like are:

Finished Touch - The Down Sound
Mastermind - Hustle Busstop (don't own this one)
Vernon Burch - Fun City
Kool and the Gang - I Remember John W Coltrane (more jazz really from their Kool Jazz album)
Linda Clifford - You Are You Are (from If My Friends Could See Me Now)
Ripple - Sons of The Gods (a real jazz fusion left fielder from the same titled LP that spawned "The Beat Goes On") /
Ripple - Do What You Wanna Do (a blaxploitation track from the same LP)
Charles Earland - Over and Over / Intergalactic Love Song / Driftin'
Manfredo Fest - Jungle Kitten
Tommy Tate - What Gives You The Right (indie soul dancer)
Jerry Butler - Coolin' Out (just love that track!!)
Webster Lewis - Barbara Anne (rare - only got it on compilation)
Paulette Reeves - Jazz Freak (I wanna buy it)
David Benoit - Life Is A Samba
O'Jays - I'll Never Forget You (1967)
Al Green - Keep On Pushing Love (from 1992)
Dionne Warwick and the Detroit Spinners - Don't Need Another Love (from ... 2001!!! - a quality soul dancer or what??? :grin:)
.. and finally a real gem from '67 (I think it was) - Garland Green Ain't That Good Enough For You (how many times do I end a music session with that one?)

[zeca azevedo]

On 2002-06-14 17:01, jazz_pilgrim wrote:
Yeah, I like tis one.

Discodisk - love your Bobby Womack (the Soul Survivor) track. I remember that one i the clubs. And I've got that Casualeers track - a veritable monster on the Northern scene! (Fyi - I got into the Northern scene from '87 - '89).
Haven't heard that Larry Wu track for ages - that was a good one!


Zeca - I love your choice of soul bands - the Dells / Whatnauts / Whispers etc. The Dells track from 1964 - Oh What A Night (do you know it?) - just sends shivers up my apine every time I hear it!!!

Some of the obscure trax from my collection that I like are:

Finished Touch - The Down Sound
Mastermind - Hustle Busstop (don't own this one)
Vernon Burch - Fun City
Kool and the Gang - I Remember John W Coltrane (more jazz really from their Kool Jazz album)
Linda Clifford - You Are You Are (from If My Friends Could See Me Now)
Ripple - Sons of The Gods (a real jazz fusion left fielder from the same titled LP that spawned "The Beat Goes On") /
Ripple - Do What You Wanna Do (a blaxploitation track from the same LP)
Charles Earland - Over and Over / Intergalactic Love Song / Driftin'
Manfredo Fest - Jungle Kitten
Tommy Tate - What Gives You The Right (indie soul dancer)
Jerry Butler - Coolin' Out (just love that track!!)
Webster Lewis - Barbara Anne (rare - only got it on compilation)
Paulette Reeves - Jazz Freak (I wanna buy it)
David Benoit - Life Is A Samba
O'Jays - I'll Never Forget You (1967)
Al Green - Keep On Pushing Love (from 1992)
Dionne Warwick and the Detroit Spinners - Don't Need Another Love (from ... 2001!!! - a quality soul dancer or what??? :grin:)
.. and finally a real gem from '67 (I think it was) - Garland Green Ain't That Good Enough For You (how many times do I end a music session with that one?)

Hi JAZZ,

thanx for the kind words about my list, but let me tell you, yours are the real thing! You have good taste, for sure. I have the PAULETTE REEVES' JAZZ FREAK and I like it a lot (very groovy, classy song). COOLIN' OUT by JERRY BUTLER is great too. and KEEP ON PUSHING LOVE by AL GREEN... it's fantastic. The album that contains this song, DON'T LOOK BACK, is great and deserved to be a huge hit. I wonder why AL GREEN didn't release another soul album after DON'T LOOK BACK (and its american edition).

About Dionne Warwick and the Detroit Spinners - Don't Need Another Love: I will look for this one, for sure.

Peace, JAZZ.

zeca azevedo

[paul]

Hey Funky. One of your songs prompted me to get into this mix. I saw Muscle Shoals Horns - Born To Get Down 1976 on your list and boy, what memories. I would love to hear your collection one day, perhaps I would need a week
I also saw a lot of Vernon Burch but I didn't see my favorite, Never Can Find A Way (Hot Love). Let me also add, "Far Out" from Crown Heights Affair, "Use Your Imagination" from Kokomo and "Have A Nice Day" from King Errison.

[JussiK]

What I'd like to know is Jimmy Sabater's "TO BE WITH YOU" obscure or not? Est-ce Que C'est Chic ou Simplement Ordinaire? Did it make the Billboard charts in the USA - I'm under an impression that I did see it there nosing around early in 1977 or late the previous year. Anyway, the 8 minute version on the 12" is truly extraordinary, the perfect blending of latin and disco elements, coolly sung and arranged. The first 16 bars set the tone for the audio frenzy, there's a thundering drumroll and off you go into a soundscape of lamenting violin weeps, frenetic breaks and dreamlike tranced-out dance configurations. The best ever record to do the latin hustle to, no doubt, what with the way it makes tour hips slightly wiggle but not too much and the way it inspires dramatic stop-and-go movements. -Pretty Maid Company's "Pretty Maid" is another title I've been wondering about. Was it too fluffy to make any impression in New York, say?

[markydefad]

On 2002-06-15 06:30, JussiK wrote:
What I'd like to know is Jimmy Sabater's "TO BE WITH YOU" obscure or not? Est-ce Que C'est Chic ou Simplement Ordinaire? Did it make the Billboard charts in the USA - I'm under an impression that I did see it there nosing around early in 1977 or late the previous year. -Pretty Maid Company's "Pretty Maid" is another title I've been wondering about. Was it too fluffy to make any impression in New York, say?

Well, Jussi--I always associate the "Pretty Maid" title with you. I DID type it last week on the the list of best sellers from Downstairs Records in NYC and I just checked the upcoming charts and it appears once again in a couple of weeks--AGAIN ONLY on the Downstairs list.

I checked the time period you mentioned for the Jimmy Sabater "To Be With You" and don't see it--but maybe my eyes deceived me. I'll keep a watch out for any mentions.

[nrgbeat]

Marky, what is this Downstairs Records list you referred to in your post?

Is it a list featured on a website?

[markydefad]

On 2002-06-15 15:23, nrgbeat wrote:
Marky, what is this Downstairs Records list you referred to in your post?

Is it a list featured on a website?

Hey, it's just my typing out the lists of the Billboard chart records in the "What Are We Listening To" section under "Those Billboard Charts".

In the first 2 years, the chart consisted of a Top 15 Audience Response in NY Discos chart and 3 Top 15's from retailers in NY.
Downstairs Records was one of the retailers.

That's all.

[NickNack]

On 2002-06-15 15:23, nrgbeat wrote:
Marky, what is this Downstairs Records list you referred to in your post?

Is it a list featured on a website?

Downstairs Records has moved out of Manhattan but they are still around (can't remember the city). The owner, Nick, has his own website under, guess what, downstairsrecords.com

[NickNack]

On 2002-06-14 02:33, Giovanni wrote:
Great topic, guys!!! I LOVE obscure disco!!!

SHADES OF LOVE: Come and make me feel good

Yes, Yes, YES!! I used to have guys running up in the booth and doing 'wild things' to me when I played this. (And, NO, I didn't get 'that wild' in my booth. Don't want anyone to think I'm forcing my sexual agenda down your throat.