Moonlight Serenade DISCO

**dancer5612004** · April 28th, 2006, 12:01 PM

Here's a difficult to find item at the advent of the disco era. ROCKY ROAD album by The New Ventures. They had hits like Moonlight Serenade, Superstar Revue, and the instrumental song Daylight, which Vickie Sue Robinson later recorded and added vocals. "We've got the moonlight, we've got the moonlight. . .haah!" Disco classic released in 1975 by United Artists label. Part of the MY VINYL COLLECTION series. Robert.

all*that*glitters* · May 8th, 2006, 02:09 AM

Originally Written by dancer5612004

ROCKY ROAD album by The New Ventures. They had hits like Moonlight Serenade,

The New Ventures must be a new name for the old group The Ventures.
They released a new album almost every month in the 60's, always
instrumental versions of hits of the day. Some quite good, but mainly 'cheese'. And Moonlight Serenade was a hit by The Glenn Miller Orchestra... are we talking about the same track? with new lyrics added maybe?
all*that*glitters*

**dancer5612004** · January 11th, 2009, 10:50 PM

Couldnt help myself and just posted the song to youtube.
Cheese disco at its finest.

YouTube - Moonlight Serenade - The New Ventures (disco)

**the disco kid** · January 12th, 2009, 08:03 AM

The original version of "Daylight" was by Bobby Womack, vocals included. Vicki Sue Robinson did a great disco version. and "Moonlight Serenade" was originally a Glenn Miller orchestra number. Tuxedo Junction (Butterfly Records) also did a disco cover version of it.

**JussiK** · January 13th, 2009, 01:49 AM

Charlie Calello also had a disco Moonlight Serenade on his album, the one with Sing Sing Sing.
The "old" Ventures apparently did disco too - there was a 1975 disco version of "The Theme From Airport" credited to them. Never came across that 7", though.
Incredibly, the original Glenn Miller Moonlight Serenade suddenly became a paneuropean pop chart entry and a CLUB HIT late in 1977 during the very short-lived swing music craze. This is true, it actually happened. What was that all about? Some British dj spinned the oldie and it gaught on for some reason. They announced it on television: now you MUST get into the Swing. In many clubs in Europe, the disco beat stopped at one point and the Serenade came on. People started doing a sort of touch dancing to it. The tune was sometimes followed by another swing track or a boogie woogie or whatever, and then it was back to disco, often with Al Martino's Volare. British members of the site, you at least can testify this happened! The swing thing also had it's fashions, I too bought a pair of beige khaki trousers and wore them with the requisite Bryan Ferry plastic sandals (?). The khakis lasted a month or so and they were out. The sandals remained though, and come the summer, they were worn with the ice cream salesman-styled white cotton overalls that became the rage. Overalls on the dance floor, the coolest thing! You pulled the zip down to the navel, no t-shirt underneath. Confess, you wore the overalls too did you not! It was boring though, having to wash the garment after each night. Okay, enough, wheel me out.

**dancer5612004** · January 14th, 2009, 01:55 AM

Didnt Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band also pay homage in their own creative style to the big band era, incorporating disco around that kind of music. That group and that album did incredible success when it first premiered. I recall Los Angeles record stores with full window displays of that album cover. Thanks for mentioning Tuxedo Junction, I forgot all about them, and I have that album somewhere.