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    Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

    I'm listening to Santa Esmeralda's "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" on Launch right now. They're playing the 16 minute version. To me that's as pure as it gets for a disco tune. Strings, horns, driving drum beat, Flamenco guitars and it all worked.

    There were a few other tunes like that back in the day - Africanism by the Kongas was another one.

    What songs do you consider "pure disco"?

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    Some I can think of, off the top of my head right now, (at least to me :D ) are......

    Siren - Open Up For Love
    Destination - Move On Up
    Cerrone - Supernature
    Troiano - We All Need Love
    Alec Costandinos - Romeo & Juliet
    Venus Dodson - Night Rider
    Musique - In the Bush
    First Choice - Dr. Love
    Gary Criss - Rio Dejaniero

    more to come......

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    - Beautiful Bend
    - Hot Butterfly - Greg Diamond and Bionic Boogie
    - Change - any of their albums

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    Amant - If There's Love

    Love & Kisses - I Found Love (Now That I've Found You)

    El Coco - Cocomotion

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    I personally think that Another Cha Cha is much better than Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood.

    As for I'm A Man and Africanism/Gimme Some Lovin' the first title borrows heavily from Chicago's interpretation and the latter borrows heavily from Traffic's live version. Both Chicago and Traffic turned these '60's hits from the Spencer Davis Group into really driving, pounding (proto disco) versions.

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    ...and then there's.....

    Michael Zager - Let's All Chant
    Capricorn - Capricorn
    Kat Mandu - The Break
    David Shire - Manhattan Skyline
    Crown Heights Affair - Dancin'/Dreaming a Dream
    The Ring - Savage Lover
    Voyage - Souvenirs
    The Bombers - Get Dancin'

    :D

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    I like Santa Esmeralda versions of HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN & DON'T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD, but my favourite of theirs is their original THE WAGES OF SIN on the 3rd album, Beauty. This is also a side long piece of music which is underrated. IMO this song has a misterious feel (to my ears). Unfortunately it was a flop.

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    I thought I was the only one who loves this song! I blast it in my car and sing it whenever I feel misunderstood, which has been quite often for most of my life.

    As far as pure disco, I agree.



    "I'm just a soul whose INTENTIONS are good!"

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    incredible

    I just listened to Santa Esmeralda's "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" today through headphones while exercising. I always loved it, but on the subject of "pure disco", I personally have always had trouble considering a cover song to be "pure" anything, especially if it's a cover of a song whose original version I'm very familiar with. It has all the elements of a classic Casablanca Records production, but everytime I play it I think of the original (I think it was by Eric Burden and the Animals). Even when I hear Thelma Houston's "Don't Leave Me This Way" I still hear Harold Melvin and the Blue Note's original. But it seems to take skillful producers and arrangers to take an old song and re-arrange it into something new and fresh.. Maybe this will lead to a discussion of whether people prefer "original" disco compositions to covers.....

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    Excellent!

    Quote Originally Written by jam master jay
    Amant - If There's Love

    Love & Kisses - I Found Love (Now That I've Found You)

    El Coco - Cocomotion
    These are songs that I'm talking about!

    Definitely from my KTU Studio 54 Clubhouse days....

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    Tehuti if you like Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood you should seek out the long version of Santa Esmeralda's "C'est Magnifique" to find out what happened to the singer later in life. No more worrying over Esmeralda for him! "C'est Magnifique" must have been one of the tracks recommended by lifestyle management solutions with indepth knowledge of what's happening in Paris where the tune was recorded, with the cosmopolitan New York scene in mind. Pretty much defining the music - fashion connection of the era in question, the mood switches rapidly between right bank night clubs to launches of beauty treatment salons in Manhattan - the mood is also very "urban apartment", you can almost caress the nougahyde interior of the limo, the shag-pile rugs and the fabric of the expensive sofas of the place they end up in, and you also get the feeling that the pretty mademoiselle already knows the singer is wearing nothing under his Gucci suit.

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    well for me pure disco is more like

    Earth Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland
    George Duke - Reach Out
    Cheryl Lynn - Gots to be Real (12 inch)
    Jacksons - Can you feel it


    I guess I feel I need dynamic vocals to like the song

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    True disco for me . . .

    French kiss - Panic / Save me Suite
    Carrie Lucas - Dance with you
    Frontpage - Love insurance
    Silver convention - Always another girl
    Liquid gold - My baby's baby
    USA European Connection - Come into my heart good loving
    Cerrone - Je suis music

    and so much more

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