Who is Your Favorite Disco Producer and Their Favorite Songs?

[garrybcoston]

Alright y'all, here is a little sample and taste of my favorite Disco Producers and some of my favorite songs they produced. These are to get you going. I have more, but I want to see what y'all put down:

1) Vincent Montana Jr.
*The Hustle
*Magic Bird of Fire
*Run Away
*Hit and Run
*Bio Ryhthms
*Number 1 Deejay

2) Alec R. Costandinos
*Accidential Lover
*Trocadero Lemo Bleu
*I Found Love (Now that I Have Found You)
*Romeo and Juliet
*Hunchback of Notre Dame
*You're the Most Precious Thing In My Life
*Thank God It's Friday

3) Jacques Morali/Henri Belolo
*In the Navy
*San Francisco/Hollywood
*Macho Man
*The Best Disco In Town
*African Queens
*Go West
*Quiet Village
*Women/Cruiser

4) John Davis
*Aint That Enough For You
*Love Magic

5) Simon Soussan
*Mr. Big Shot
*Panic
*All Out of Tears
*Mischief
*Love and Desire
*I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten (Dancin Suite)

6) Jacques Fred Petrus
*I'm A Man
*Fire Night Dance
*Ride With the Wind
*Glow of Love
*Walking on Music
*Devil's Run
*Revanche
*1979 It's Dancin Time

ALRIGHT Y'ALL, GO FOR IT!

Garry:D

[Ysl]

Without any doubt :

Jacques Fred Petrus (and Mauro Malavasi)

Ysl

[eddie]

Any and all by Gamble, Huff, Bell

[disco1999]

Me, definitely Giorgio Moroder

[WolverSyr]

Don't forget Gregg Diamond!!!
Risky Changes
Chains
Hot Butterfly
Dance Little Dreamer
More, More, More
Partyline
& on & on & on....

[BlackCat]

Mauro Malavasi :

Change - A lovers holiday
Change - Searching
Change - The glow of love
Macho - I'm a man
Peter Jacques Band - Fire Night Dance

Mauro Malavasi was the true musical mastermind behind Jacques Fred Petrus Projects, he was producer , composer and arranger of some of the most fantastic disco tracks I 've listened in my life !!

Garrybcoston:

The name of Jacques Petrus appearing in credits as producer, must be understood instead like : "executive producer", Jacques gave the good taste to choose people, he put the money, but Malavasi , was the genius who produced the great music in those projects.

[qdearl]

Patrick Peter Owen Adams a.k.a Patrick Adams

(I'll limit it to 1 song per artist, lol);-)

Caught Up in a 1 Night Love Affair - Inner Life
Night Rider - Venus Dodson
Atmosphere Strut - Cloud One
Dance & Shake your Tamborine - Universal Robot Band
Keep on Jumpin' - Musique
Give your Love a Chance - Narada Michael Walden
Til' You Surrender - Rainbow Brown
My Baby's Got E.S.P - Four Below Zero
May My Love Be With You - Phreek
Jisco Dazz - Herbie Mann
Smile - Art Webb
Just Let Me Do my Thing - Sine
Lady Bug - Bumble Bee Unlimited
Opportunity - Caress
Sooner or Later - Ace Spectrum
You Put a Spark in My Life - Shannon
It Ain't No Big Thing - Donna McGhee

and for those that don't have a clue.......

Both Black Ivory LP's released on Today records......
Some of the Baddest ballads of the time.....8)

[garrybcoston]

Mauro Malavasi :

Change - A lovers holiday
Change - Searching
Change - The glow of love
Macho - I'm a man
Peter Jacques Band - Fire Night Dance

Mauro Malavasi was the true musical mastermind behind Jacques Fred Petrus Projects, he was producer , composer and arranger of some of the most fantastic disco tracks I 've listened in my life !!

Garrybcoston:

The name of Jacques Petrus appearing in credits as producer, must be understood instead like : "executive producer", Jacques gave the good taste to choose people, he put the money, but Malavasi , was the genius who produced the great music in those projects.

Thanks Black Cat; I was unaware of that. However I do remember that basically wherever you saw Malavasi's name there also was Petrus! So they basically were a team, Petrus the Master Mind, Malavasi the composer, artist and musician!

Fire Night Dance, and "Fly with the Wind" were two of my favorites as were Revanche and "1979 It's Dancin Time."

Garry

[Disco Funk]

Anything Philly, like Gamble & Huff, Stan Watson, Thom Bell, Norman Harris, Vince Montana, Dexter Wansel, Bunny Sigler, John Davis, Jacques Morali/Henri Belolo, Richie Rome...

I like the Reid Whitelaw/Norman Bergen productions, which I think were either Philly or New York. They featured Jimmy Young (I don't think any relation to Philly's Earl Young). The best stuff they did was the Moment In Truth LP.

Warren Schatz stuff, which was based out of NYC. He did various projects, like The Brothers and The Inner City Symphony, and produced artists like Vicki Sue Robinson and Gordon Grody.

And last, but not least, I like the Van McCoy stuff, mainly anything done pre'78. I noticed that in 78, he changed the sound a bit. I don't know if its because he started using a different set of musicians, or just decided to get out of the syncopated tom drums/glockenspiel/rubbing sandpaper rhythm foundation. Steve Gadd was McCoy's main drummer throughout the mid 70s, and was able to pull of those complicated drum patterns. The 78 and 79 productions featured basic drumming patterns.

For all of the above producers, I will buy a record if I see their name in the credits. It doesn't matter if I've never heard of the artist before. With the Philly stuff, I tend to look at the musicians first, especially if I've never heard of the producer. If I see names like Earl Young, Charles Collins, Michael Foreman, Bobby Eli, or even Larry Washington, then I'll still buy the record.

Disco Funk