Paul Jabara's "Disco Queen" - Drug reference?

[ol'skinflint]

and I'm pretty sure the line "Where'd she get her energy? What's she on, what's she on?" is a drug reference. I tried to think of other disco songs with drug references and couldn't think of any, surprising since drugs were part of the scene then. Can anyone else think of any? I'm referring ONLY to disco songs...I can think of a ton of songs in other styles that mention drugs, many even in their titles (Eric Clapton's "Cocaine", Boy George's "You are my Heroin", Grandmaster Flash's "White Lines").

[markydefad]

Paul did do the drug references. You can't get any more explicit than "If you must/Rosemary's angel dust will make you "DANCE"....from "DANCE" --charting in Sept. 1976 on A&M records

[remicks]

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Good one Marky ...
I was gonna mention that one :icon_rolleyes:

Couldn't find the lyrics anywhere on the net to confirm it though .....


gotta cool down ....gotta cool down ...



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[markydefad]

remicks,

I have a new ritual of playing all the records on the weekly Billboard charts as I type the charts --yeah, something else to obsess about-- and those lyrics jumped out at me!!! Paul, musta slipped that reference right by the A&M guys...or maybe they were doing angel dust themselves! Talk about a HARDCORE bordering on PARALYZING drug!!! Dancing on angel dust woulda been damn hard. :icon_eek::icon_confused:

Laying on the floor would be more like it!!! Not that I ever did it!!! But I did observe others who did. YIKES!!! :icon_exclaim:

[remicks]

remicks,

I have a new ritual of playing all the records on the weekly Billboard charts as I type the charts -

Most cool :icon_cool:.

Do you suppose Paul was referring to a very specific "Rosemary" who provided such things to the NYC crowd back then . I bet so.

I'm reminded of when poppers first started . They weren't available over the counter. Underground. You had to find "the poppers guy" who would sell it to you from his coat pocket .


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[markydefad]

Poppers Good.
Angel dust Bad. (or so Tonto told me.)

Another record charting in the summer of 1976--mostly in LA--was a total paen to smoking weed--"Smoke Your Troubles Away" by the Glass Family...no hiding anything here...just smoke weed and feel good vibes!!!

[Mixmachine]

The tittle name from the '84 song "Din Daa Daa" by George Kranz was locally associated in "some" circles with Cocaine. It was sort of an inside joke among some clubbers and I have no idea how wide spread this association was. I supposed it came about because of the funny name and the vocal chants like....

Ta Ta- Ratat-ta-ta -ta -- Dindada--Din da-da :icon_biggrin:

Also, some alledged dealers liked and requested "Making it" by David Naughton, another local inside joke of Miami's night life at the time.:icon_lol: unbeknown to me until someone told me.

But the most obvious was "Rush Rush" (get the Yeyo) by Blondie used in the Scarface movie in 1983, this cut was very popular at the local dance floors.
I suppose every one knows this, but for those that don't know, "Yeyo" was the common club slang name for cocaine among the latin disco night scene.

[DISCODISK]

ths skullsnaps were more sensible they didnt take it, 'i dont need no weed to feel superhigh' in my hang up is you, the skullsnaps say just say no....i shoulda listened

[ol'skinflint]

Paul did do the drug references. You can't get any more explicit than "If you must/Rosemary's angel dust will make you "DANCE"....from "DANCE" --charting in Sept. 1976 on A&M records

Paul recorded for A & M records? I didn't know that. I DO have a song he recorded called "Dance" but it was released on an album he recorded for Casablanca Records.

[ol'skinflint]

Poppers Good.
Angel dust Bad. (or so Tonto told me.)

Another record charting in the summer of 1976--mostly in LA--was a total paen to smoking weed--"Smoke Your Troubles Away" by the Glass Family...no hiding anything here...just smoke weed and feel good vibes!!!

This reminds me of about 20-25 years ago when the Village People were performing a concert in Oakland, California, not far from where I live. They printed in a review of the concert the next day that the producers had to stop the show halfway through because guys in the audience were doing so many poppers that many in the audience were being overwhelmed.....

[markydefad]

Paul recorded for A & M records? I didn't know that. I DO have a song he recorded called "Dance" but it was released on an album he recorded for Casablanca Records.

Yep, the 7" was on A&M--but by the time the LP came out, Paul was on Casablanca....maybe the "angel dust" reference was too much for A&M. I'm sure Casablanca had no problem with the drug references given all the tales we've hear of the mounds of cocaine piled on everyone's desk there!!!

[remicks]

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I'll fly with you
to the mystic HILLS OF KATMANDU.
I'll fly with you
to the mystic hills of Katmandu
I'll fly with you
to the mystic hills of Katmandu

Pack my case
gonna leave behind this human race.
Come with me
where your spirit and your mind are free.

We can fly above the sky
in Katmandu
Peace of mind
we're gonna find in Katmandu

Smoke-scented breeze fills the trees
and you drift away.
Slowly downstream
in a dream that goes on and on
on forever!

Soft winds and sunsets
that lead at some mystery
sweet-smelling substances
liberate fantasy.

Smoke-scented breeze fills the trees
and you drift away.
Slowly downstream
in a dream that goes on and on
on forever!

Sweet-smelling substances
liberate fantasy
we're together!



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gonna fly now ...

[kdavid13]

Regarding the DISCO QUEEN track by Paul ; I always associated it with the fact that one of the characters in THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY is a nurse/dental assistant and after 5 pm ; she inhales and becomes a pink-haired disco queen or something...

[It's been a while since I've seen the film even though the DVD is still shrinkwrapped in my pile of stuff to watch !!!