Can You Clearly Recall Your First Disco Tune?

**marmite7** · May 24th, 2007, 01:32 PM

I was 12 years old and at our local Youth Club disco in 1977 (small village just outside Norwich, Norfolk) and the "DJ" was playing a mixture of 45's.

Danny & Juniors - At The Hop
Chris Montez - Let's Dance
various Tamla Motown
Desmond Dekker - The Israelites
Eddison Lighthouse - Love Grows
The Archies - Sugar Sugar
Slade / Mud / T Rex / glam rock hell etc etc

when suddenly this track came on and I was hooked.

Chic - Dance Dance Dance (Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah). It was the Yowsah bit what got me I think.

12 years old and dancing like a loon, surrounded by long-haired blokes in leather jackets, waiting for Buddy Holly / Elvis / Bill Haley / Black Sabbath to reappear.

Long live Chic

**Dayna** · May 25th, 2007, 05:37 PM

I was 16.."weeks before I ran away and worked in Discos" I had been calling a radio station and the Dj Bobby Stoner kept flirting with me "pedaphile" :icon_eek:haha....So we arranged to meet at where else ? The mall.. I had never seen him only heard his sexy voice ..WELL the body and face matched the voice.he was HOT~!! He took me to his house and I will never forget..He had a state of the art sound system and put Summer Fever by Donna Summer on the turntable..and then played the whole 4 seasons of love LP.. I was like OMG this music is qualudes..DE-LISH-IS
Then he played the Baby It's Me album by Diana Ross.. Not only did he pop my cherry ..He made me a Disco lover for life.. 16 making love to Donna Summer and Diana Ross ? PLEASE~!!!:icon_biggrin:...addicted..

**SandraDee** · May 25th, 2007, 06:09 PM

My earliest memories were listening to records either in my house or at a neighbour's house; she was into Motown & I remember asking for Smokey Robinson's 'Tears Of A Clown' for my 5th birthday in 1970! (My late mum always said that I could play records before I could talk or walk!). I s'pose the first 'disco' record that blew me away was Love Unlimited Orchestra's 'Loves Theme' (I've always loved instrumental music); i heard it on the radio while i helped my parents decorate a new house that we moved to; funny how music can bring back the most trivial memories to me when generally my memory isn't good. Anyway my life would never be the same after hearing this track as for the next 20 years I craved more & more sweet dance music in my life!

I constantly moved between Donna Summer, Herbie Hancock, MFSB, Space, Silver Convention, D-Train, Fancy, Lonnie liston smith, Margie Joseph, Eastbound Expressway, Taffy, Arpeggio, Steve Silk Hurley, Bananarama, Adeva, Ultra Nate, The Shamen etc.etc.etc.

Then for the last 12 years I've hunted down all the records that I missed the first time around! My hunger never dies.:icon_mrgreen:

**disco1999** · May 27th, 2007, 01:51 AM

I can't swear this was the very 1st disco track but this one I can recall so well. The event: Le Salon International de l'auto de Montréal 1974 (Montreal carshow) where General Motors had set up a huge scene to promote their brand new 1974 car line. Dancers were surrounding a really cute chick describing the models to the music of MFSB - T.S.O.P. it was really impressive. Found a picture of this carshow at least for '74 edition. A new generation of "three-point seatbelt" was definitely the hottest safety feature of most models at that time.