"Don't Stop the Music" could have been nearer the top...

[Discodude]

I noticed Don't Stop the Music (by Yarbrough and Peoples) near the bottom of the top 500. I thought it was was one of the very coolest songs ever, except for one thing. To me, it sounded so cool, except for those chipmonks!



Any other opinions...?

[Giovanni]

A true classic!! The funky disco sound I like the most.

[paul]

The chipmunks thing was a thing that seemed kinda popular around that time. I didn't like it much either. I think it messed up a perfectly nice song like "Searching To Find The One."

[markydefad]

Blame the damn chipmunks on that "Murphy's Law" song by Cheri. Unfortunately, "M.L." was a huge hit and the producers of "Don't Stop The Music" musta wanted to get on the bandwagon. Too bad, cause it's the only thing that dates a classic 100BPM sleaze classic of which I have vivid dancefloor memories. I voted for this in my list for the top 500.



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[Move2This]

Didn't "Don't Stop the Music" come first in 1980, followed by Murphy's Law in about 82?



Both records are kind of slow, so what kind of dancing did people do to them, or were they used solely as early evening "warm-up" tracks?

[markydefad]

Move2this, I think you are right;I guess my memory failed me. I shoulda checked my stats before I posted. According to the Allmusic Guide, "Don't Stop The Music" topped the R&B charts in Feb. 1981 and "Murphy's Law" charted in 1982 (included in Billboard's Top Dance Hits of 1982). I guess those chipmunks were actually the innovation of Y&P's producers or maybe came from something else I never heard or don't remember. I always wanted to blame them on "Murphy's Law".



In regards to it's danceability, it is considered sleaze/morning music: music played after everyone has danced all night long and the grooves are slowing down and people know they should go home, but the grooves are sooo good that they remain to dance/bump & grind on the dancefloor. I know it's hard to believe these days that people actually danced to 100 BPM music, but they did. Think Love Unlimited Orchestra's "Love's Theme", Herb Alpert's "Rise", and many others. Did you hear Nicky's sleaze mix on DGR a few months ago? It was a wonderful reminder of what DJ's used to be capable of after the tourists went home and the crowd wanted pretty and/or sleazy R&B to welcome the morning.



In San Francisco, a DJ's merit stemmed from his ability to move a crowd with a tasty blend of sexy, slow disco/R&b/funk/jazz into the morning sunlight. Anyone could play High Energy stuff for the "Tourists" or non serious party people, but the "Regulars" wanted the morning stuff. In fact, many of us never arrived at Trocadero until 3:00AM or even later to BEGIN dancing. That way we didn't have to hear Lime screeching their way through another of their catchy but ANNOYING Hi-NRG ditties. Anyway, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

[paul]

Both songs were kinda slow but I do remember dancing to "Don't Stop The Music." I don't remember exactly what but most likely it was a combination of freestyle and coupled.

I really didn't dig Murphy's Law too much. If nothing else it reenforced the down period of disco and the conservative direction the US went.



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[Funky Dude]

I actually have the video clip of that song "Don't Stop The Music" and it's the puppets that make the chipmunk sounds "YOU REALLY DON'T WANNA STOP NOOOOOOO!!! YOU REALLY DON'T WANNA STOP UH UH!!". When I first got the clip I was expecting Alvin, Simon and Theodor to be doing the chipmunk sounds but was suprised it was a bunch of puppets.



By the way a question, has anyone seen Rick Dees's promo clip "Disco Duck"? If they had, was there a Donald Duck doing the duck talk?

[HustleBaby]

I think it messed up a perfectly nice song like "Searching To Find The One."



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Paul, I don't remember hearing any chipmunks

in "Searching". I played the whole song in my

head and there were no chipmunks in it.



I must agree with everyone that the chipmunks

in these earlier songs were ANNOYING! I like "Murphy's Law" but it could have canned

the little critters.



Funky Dude, I know that back then Donald Duck was the most popular cartoon duck with

Daffy running a close second. However, it

was not Donald but indeed some other strange

duck mocking Donald's voice. I forgot who was the voice behind that Disco Duck.



*DISCO DELIGHT*

[paul]

On 2001-11-21 01:09, HustleBaby wrote:

I think it messed up a perfectly nice song like "Searching To Find The One."

Paul, I don't remember hearing any chipmunks

in "Searching". I played the whole song in my

head and there were no chipmunks in it.





*DISCO DELIGHT*

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Hey Delight. It's probably just on my version of the song I have. I have one of those 98.7 Kiss Mastermix records and they probably mixed that in. Oh I hate Alvin and the Chipmonks

[Leanmean]

Say, didn't the Gap Band's "Oops, Up" have those chipmunks in it?



"The bigger the headache, the bigger the pill! Say oops upside ya head, say oops upside ya head."



Isn't it an electronic sound or what is it exactly?

[Giovanni]

There are 2 versions of "Searching to find the one" by the Unlimited Touch. The one with the chipmuks is the Shep Pettibone remix that came out a little later, always on Prelude

[bobbchap]

These songs are two of my all time favs. "Don't stop the music" and "Murphy's law". Sure those chipmunks were annoying...but it brings back memories of the early eighties, dancing on the dance floor near closing and people just didn't want to stop dancing, and then they would start "Don't stop the music", and it seemed the night would never end. Sometimes you couldn't even move on the floor. As I think back..it was magic.