Country Disco: Did Anyone Attempt This?

[discokicks]

The topic of those vintage disco compilation albums reminded me of a cut on K-tel's Disco Motion that I always thought was very disco-country/country-disco and whatdoya know...someone posted a videoclip of Red Hurley's Tennessee Special..from 1976! What a voice....I loves it!!! Too bad there wasn't an extended mix.....

[remicks]

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I could have easily accepted hearing this being played on a country station :




I haven't listened to this 12 " in decades ......this song now sounds more disco than I ever felt at the time despite its prominent country/Hawaiian guitar slides ....

Strings , tambourine, feline cooing,

Bee Gee esque ?? (?) ..

club play wise ..... had it been given a more aggressive David Todd like remix and maybe ..... :icon_mrgreen:

and leave it to bad boys Dr.Hook to get away with :

when you're in love with a beautiful woman:
it's hard
when you're in love with a beautiful woman .................you know its hard

females quickly chime ( & I've listened closely five times):

its hard ,you know it gets so hard

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if mixing ..... I'm reaching for ROCK YOUR BABY George McGrea




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[Discomanic]

Hi Remicks:
First time I've heard the 12" mix of this. Thanks for posting. Also, I remember hearing this on country station WMZQ in Washington, DC back in the days. I think this was about the time Dr. Hook was being played on country stations.

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[remicks]

Hi Remicks:
First time I've heard the 12" mix of this. Thanks for posting.

Also, I remember hearing this on country station WMZQ in Washington, DC back in the days. I think this was about the time Dr. Hook was being played on country stations.

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you are welcome Discomanic !


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Billie Jo Spears recorded a countrified version of I WILL SURVIVE

here it is live :





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[cloudeleven]

Here are some great ones:

Dolly Parton - I Wanna Fall In Love (actually went to #15 on the Billboard Disco chart!):

YouTube - Dolly Parton - I Wanna Fall In Love

Another song by Exile - Being In Love with You Is Easy (not much of a country sound, but it's interesting that they went all they way from this (straight up DISCO) to country/western in the 80s!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzf3ioIlKgE

Ronnie Milsap - Get It Up (wow, quite funky! Went to #74 on the Billboard Disco chart):

YouTube - Ronnie Milsap - GET IT UP

Eddie Rabbitt - I Just Wanna Love You (#1 country hit with a definite disco sound)

[Shadrach Calhoun]

New poster here, as a fan of disco and country, I stumbled across this thread googling for country disco songs.

Connie Smith did a fine cover of Andy Gibbs' "I Just Want To Be Your Everything"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMSdZ2nXB38

Barbara Mandrell had some subtle disco influence on her first number on hit, "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed" and another hit, "Crackers".

[remicks]

New poster here, as a fan of disco and country, I stumbled across this thread googling for country disco songs.

Connie Smith did a fine cover of Andy Gibbs' "I Just Want To Be Your Everything"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMSdZ2nXB38



Barbara Mandrell had some subtle disco influence on her first number on hit, "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed" and another hit, "Crackers".

I like that version! Nice spry guitar chugging. Thanks Shadrach and welcome!

myself:

Anyone ever hear this ???? :icon_question:
Glenn Sutton RED NECK DISCO

Added to youtube two weeks ago:

RED NECK DISCO

DISCO : As this song illustrates---
Such a HUGE threat to all sectors of the established music industry.
They were terrified by its manifest destiny .

OF COURSE
IT HAD TO DIE !


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"our sound came out sort of lightly fruit ( eyes rollin') mixed with the wild wood flower" (more eyes rollin')

[remicks]

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Not deciphering any animosity in this one:

DISCO TEX Little David Wilkins


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[The Owl]

Although years after the disco craze, "Cotton Eye Joe" by Rednex could easily qualify.

[Cory Ander]

I think we've been over this before, but I for one don't mind discussing fusions of country and other forms of soul/disco. In the area of country disco, Voyage's bracing "Scotch Machine" with all those fiddles gets my vote. I'll never forget seeing people attempting square dancing in discos when DJs played it. My own personal favorite of country fusion is the absolutely astounding "Everytime I Look At You" from Daryl Hall/John Oates' classic "Abandoned Luncheonette". The first half is rock hard Cameo-style funk and the second half is a country hoedown with banjos and fiddles and in my opinion the duo has never out done that song despite all their million selling number one hits. But there's an entire album of country/soul fusion called "Rhythm Country and Blues" comprised of nothing but duets between country and R & B artists like Al Green and Conway Twitty, Natalie Cole and Reba McIntyre, the Staple Singers and Marty Stuart and many others. But maybe the ultimate country/soul fusion would be Ray Charles' "Modern Sounds in Country Western" which I've never actually heard but many writers rave about. 10/28/2011

[skiddlybop]

Man, you discomusic.com sweethearts been having cool discussions for years! I just read this thread and would call attention to the 12-inch RCA single of "Potential New Boyfriend" by Dolly Parton, from her "Burlap and Silk" album. Very contemporary disco lyric construction, I always thought:"Betta keep your hands off my, betta keep your hands off my potential new boyfriend."Lulz, never noticed Bill anderson borrowed the exact bassline of "I Can't Wait Any Longer" from "Ain't Gonna Bump No More," Nashville production by Buddy Killen. Poetical, I call it.Also, "Wild Wild West" extended version of Escape Club hit on Atlantic with that unexpected reggae break -- the "Planet Soul" of two-stepping, grape-vining country dance clubs! There was extended remix, also, of "Romeo" by Dolly Parton with guest homegirls Kathy Mattea, Mary Chapin Carpenter(?) Pam Tillis and Tanya Tucker. Yeah, I looked it up on her "Slow Dancing with the Moon" CD. What? ... What?... I would have put out 12-inch vinyl and CD maxi-single under the name "Dolly and the Music Row Bad Girls." Shall we also count the eventual covers and remixes of "I Will Always Love You"? K.T. Oslin "Younger Men" should have had a remix mash-up with the disco high-hatted "Dallas" theme sampled in transformer-style.Reminding me, of course of the great big publishing royalty money bomb that was addressed to Atlanta icon Bill Lowery and the great Joe South when KonKan sampled the bridge of South and Lynn Anderson's "Rose Garden" in world-wide techno hit "I Beg Your Pardon"( extra smart of Sony to clear that one), and I'd mix right into KLF's "Justified and Ancient," co-starring the First Lady of country, Tammy Wynette.Then I'd really pack the floor with Rednex' "Cotton-Eye Joe." And then "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock. And remix of Vern "The Voice" Gosdin 1993 remix of "I Can Tell By the Way You Dance (You're Gonna Love Me Tonight)" by that smart engineer guy Brian Tankersley.

[remicks]

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Dare we start a thread about country-disco songs that PING !!!? :

GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY Shadow


Nah !!


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[discokicks]

I think the most blatant attempt at crossing disco with country would be the Silver Blue album produced by Joel Diamond from 1978. With cuts like a discofied Tennessee Waltz, Yellow Rose Of Texas and Jambalaya, you cain't get mo' country than thayit.

That's not to say that it's at all wonderful, in fact, I'd use the word 'dreadful'. When one hears discussions about the exploitation and sell-out of the disco sound, the Ethel Merman album is usually the example but I always think of the Silver Blue album.

Here's Silver Blue's Tennessee Waltz is all its banjo-pickin' glory. I guess listening to it today, I can appreciate some of its musical talent but I doubt it caused much excitement in '78 during disco's sophomore era. Hmmm...perhaps a mashup with The Grid's Swamp Thing....

[remicks]

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EmmyLou Harris deserves props for giving this Donna Summer song an interpretation :

ON THE RADIO

although personally I'm partial to:

ONE OF THESE DAYS

mmm ....


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[The Disco Dentist]

I see that Lionel Richies' new country ( ??!! ) album contains reinterpretations of 'Dancing On The Ceiling' and 'All Night Long' .
Would these vaguely qualify ?
I would give them a listen but I have a sensitive disposition and fear for my sanity.....