Back To School Time: Disco 70s!

**Mario** · August 24th, 2005, 08:52 PM

Hey Guys! :) I was feeling a bit nostalgic today, and I was remembering back to school time...sophomore year fall of '76.
I remember that "Play That Funky Music" was all over the airwaves at that time. I also remember our after school Friday night disco dances where kids would actually "run" and even "scream" to the middle of the cafeteria dancefloor when the opening notes of "A Fifth of Beethoven" would begin!! :lol: Everybody wanted to dance to that record! I also remember back to school time in the fall of '79...As we would pull up to school in in the parking lot, "Boogie, Oogie, Oogie" would be blaring from every car radio! :D Do you have any songs that remind you of back to school time? Take care... Mario 8)

**Disco92** · August 25th, 2005, 12:47 AM

I was a kindergartener in September 1980, and I can remember when songs like Miss Ross' "Upside Down" and SOS Band's "Take Your Time (Do It Right)" were hot records. Growing up in the city, and my mother already owning Donna Summer's "On The Radio" on 8-track, "A Night At Studio 54", Gloria Gaynor's "Love Tracks" and Peaches and Herb's "2 Hot!", et al., disco was a part of my life from even before the age of 5. I can recall hearing Evelyn "Champagne" King's "Love Come Down" back in the fall of 1982 when me and my sister would go roller skating at the Oasis Roller Rink in Ridgewood, Queens.

**QUINNY** · August 25th, 2005, 02:56 AM

Originally Written by Mario

Hey Guys! :) I was feeling a bit nostalgic today, and I was remembering back to school time...sophomore year fall of '76.
I remember that "Play That Funky Music" was all over the airwaves at that time. I also remember our after school Friday night disco dances where kids would actually "run" and even "scream" to the middle of the cafeteria dancefloor when the opening notes of "A Fifth of Beethoven" would begin!! :lol: Everybody wanted to dance to that record! I also remember back to school time in the fall of '79...As we would pull up to school in in the parking lot, "Boogie, Oogie, Oogie" would be blaring from every car radio! :D Do you have any songs that remind you of back to school time? Take care... Mario 8)

Mario: Boogie Oogie Oogie would have been '78.

**DiscoMan** · August 25th, 2005, 06:11 AM

"In The Summertime" by Mungo Jerry.
"Color My World" by Chicago.
A whole shitload of tunes from '66 to '70.

**Spellbound** · August 25th, 2005, 03:39 PM

Mario: Boogie Oogie Oogie would have been '78.

give the guy a break he is from TEXAS

**pepper1dancer** · August 25th, 2005, 04:03 PM

Originally Written by Spellbound

Mario: Boogie Oogie Oogie would have been '78.

give the guy a break he is from TEXAS

Hey Pardner...We Texan's dont need no break!!

My senior year was full of the Bee Gee's and the soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever". Have you ever tried to dance to disco while doing the "Cotton-Eyed Joe"? YEE HAWWWWW :)

**QUINNY** · August 25th, 2005, 04:35 PM

Bet there's hundreds of copies of Libra's Ride This Pony in the cut out bins in Texas. :cry:

What a great record outta Houston.

**Mario** · August 25th, 2005, 09:05 PM

:cry: Oops...My intent of my original post was simply for fun...I simply quoted a wrong year. Take Care...And thanks for your responses... Mario 8)

**Spellbound** · August 25th, 2005, 11:53 PM

TEXAS was great in the 1970's if you were into rock music but not so great if you were into the dance club scene

DAZED AND CONFUSED is one of my all time favorite movies

TEXAS is awesome!

Lots of wide open roads down there to drive on

Traffic in WASHINGTON DC sucks!

**buckaroo** · August 27th, 2005, 09:32 AM

Whenever I hear "Streetlife" by the Crusaders, it reminds me of cars that had "Streetlife" windscreen stickers (just about everywhere back then, it was such a big tune), the bendy car aerials attached to the car bonnet and boot - trunk to you Yanks

And sometimes people you didn't even know, would give you a nod of acknowledgement in the street, as if to say: "How are you?". It's all look the other way, turn your back vibes nowadays. Look at someone too long these days, and they'll want to fight you. :roll: Up until even the early '90s, you could go to a club and have a great time, dance you arse off, meet someone of the opposite sex and hook up...Now...everybody's too special and important for that.

**discotom73** · August 27th, 2005, 10:07 AM

"Streetlife" always had that nice jazzy feel along with a disco beat. That song along with "Dazz" & "Dusic" by Brick and "Forget Me Nots" By Patrice Rushen feel the same way.

**Svend** · August 31st, 2005, 03:26 PM

I remember dancing at Faces, an underage disco in Seattle's Belltown district, and how people would scream, grab anybody and run to the dance floor for "Livin' In the Life"/"Go For Your Guns" (Isleys) "Le Freak," "You and I" (Rick James), "Tattoo Man" (Denise McCann), "Shame" (Evelyn King), and "Rough Diamond" (Madleen Kane), the one Eurodisco track that seemed to work for teens. I had to content myself with listening to Boris Midney at home.

The night of my senior prom (June 1979) was the year the Seattle Sonics won the world basketball championship, and as my friends and I careened around town on our way to the dance (gargling orange juice and vodka) the whole city was going nuts--screaming and honking and waving--and "Boogie Wonderland" was playing everywhere.

Years later (when I was over 21), it was Tugs Belltown and the big songs were "Wood Beez" (Scritti Politti) and "The Medicine Song" (Stephanie Mills). Gosh, I was naive--I kept wondering where that smell of dirty socks was coming from...