Disco not discovered/loved until 20+ years past expiration

[Twirlessence]

Ok, not sure if you disco mavens can relate, but there are a handful of songs that I didn't even know existed until LONG after they disappeared from the Discos and Dancefloors and Radios of the world. Maybe I was in the wrong club or the wrong place at the right time or something, but I was completely ignorant of some great disco tunes that I now love because I somehow never encounted them back in the day...

Actually some of my contemporaries have actually said "How can you not know that song? Everyone knows that song! It was played every Saturday night, 3 times, and was on the radio constantly! Were you on drugs??"

Anyway my short list of songs that I really dig but didn't discover until maybe 2 to 5 years ago - although I was around when they debuted:

Frisky - Dancing In My Sleep
Thelma Houston - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
Delegation - Heartache #9
Carl Bean - I Was Born This Way
Lamont Dozier - Take Off Your Makeup (did 1st hear this in 1988/89 or so)

[Simon White]

Same for me... always hearing things that passed me by back then and thats what I love about it. I love the fact that you can hear a record from 30 years ago and date it roughly to within a few years at least or guess at which city or producer it came from.
I suppose also it depends where you heard the music first time round too and what style they played at you more frequented club... 'Saturday Night Sunday Morning ' didn't come onto my radar until about '82 for some reason and then through a friend who woke me up with it after a night out and I's slept in til midday!. ' I Was Born This Way' is something I certainly didn't hear in the clubs I went to because by then it was dated but now of course its a classic.
But I'm always amazed when people tell me they didn't hear tracks like Jupiter Beyond 'River Drive' at the time...it was huge where I went.. or is it just that it stood out ? My most regular clubbing partner remembers records very well from that time that I have no memory of at all ! :icon_smile:

[RetroRuss]

Like Simon, I am always discovering 'new' old tunes....the most recent one was 'Sweet Dynamite - Claudja Barry' - how I missed that one BITD gawd knows!
On River Drive I only first heard it in the mid 80's when I picked up an ex-DJ collection. I have to say it didn't do a lot for me at the time. I only really got into it a few years ago & worry now I play it to death on my shows!

[qdearl]

Well imagine how a person like me feels who wasn't old enough to even be in any clubs during the 70's:icon_lol: To my credit, I've always been into music, I listened to anything and everything I came across and even as a child knew more about songs and artists than the average adult. And since I've been on this site, I've discovered hundreds of songs I missed BITD:icon_cool:
But I still find it amusing when you have those cases where you just know everybody's heard this song, but for some reason your DJ/record collecting for 30 years friend has never heard of it!:icon_lol:

This just happened with

Stand Up Sit Down - AKB - haven't heard this song in so long I'd totally forgot about it until Barry played it on Radioio - so I flipped over to ebay found a copy right quick, got it - played it for the guy I DJ with and he looked at me like I was crazy - he'd never heard it before!
But I can't blame him, few years ago he played Thousand Finger Man - Candido - and that was the 1st time I had ever heard it, and that's considered as much of a classic as Jingo!:icon_redface:

But thats what fun about this whole thing, no matter how many records you get, you'll always come across something else you want, something you didn't even know existed!

That's why I keep coming back.
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[pepper1dancer]

My new "discovery" was "Love Magic" by John Davis and the Monster Orch.I dont know if it was a big hit, or when it came out or if they ever played it in clubs but I totally Love this Disco jam. I would have loved to boogie to it back in the day.

[Videoskooter]

That's the exciting thing about this board. All the members with their different taste and posting about records that you sometimes never heard of, but that are real Discoveries.

For me, last week's topic on Donna McGhee. I knew she was in the Universal Robot Band and stuff like that. But I only knew Bumblebee Unlimited by name and now I'm enchanted by Love Bug.

And The Vamps with their Disco Blood, never heard that record before.

I was alive and kicking in the 70's but there's still a whole lot of stuff that I missed (records that perhaps didn't catch on, weren't available) and now I'm overjoyed by Discovering 'em.

Oh, what exciting times we live in :icon_lol:

[Simon White]

That's the exciting thing about this board. All the members with their different taste and posting about records that you sometimes never heard of, but that are real Discoveries.

For me, last week's topic on Donna McGhee. I knew she was in the Universal Robot Band and stuff like that. But I only knew Bumblebee Unlimited by name and now I'm enchanted by Love Bug.

And The Vamps with their Disco Blood, never heard that record before.

I was alive and kicking in the 70's but there's still a whole lot of stuff that I missed (records that perhaps didn't catch on, weren't available) and now I'm overjoyed by Discovering 'em.

Oh, what exciting times we live in :icon_lol:

Skoots, "Love Bug" is one of the ones I don't remember from the time that my clubbing partner does !

[Videoskooter]

Buzz Buzz says the Bumblebee>

[QUINNY]

What I find is that I 'think I've discovered something' only to find that I played the death out of it BITD (by looking at the record's reverse side near to the centre hole).

A good example would be:

Fresh Face - Huevo Dancing

When I recently took this out of the pile to transfer to digital a few weeks back, I immediately fell in love with it BIG TIME and thought to myself, "why the hell didn't I give this more spins, BITD"? Then I had a look at the reverse side and.....to say, I must have played it an awful lot, would be an understatement.

Actually, I've been surprised how few records I'd never heard before, turn me on, or even give me a faintly warm glow. It must be that I'm either jaded, or surprisingly few really good tracks passed me by, BITD.

[Ian Rose]

Carl Bean - I Was Born This Way
Lamont Dozier - Take Off Your Makeup (did 1st hear this in 1988/89 or so)

Carl Bean- So so so classic, in the gay clubs in Chicago (of course). Being young, I learned about it by hearing it STILL being played at gay clubs in Chicago (Hydrate/ Man Hole..same).

Take Off Your Makeup- I played the hell out of for the more hip hop crowd in Chi. Always thought it was was more funk than Disco...

[Ian Rose]

For me, last week's topic on Donna McGhee. I knew she was in the Universal Robot Band and stuff like that. But I only knew Bumblebee Unlimited by name and now I'm enchanted by Love Bug.

I grew up listening to disco, but I love learning new things. I got lucky to have House DJs from the 80's to teach me. I LOVE how songs like Love Bug can be "Re-Discovered" ... Thats EXACTLY what the Chicago kids were doing in 85....

Some music just takes some time for people to catch up to it...And for a friend to show it to you.

Like-Persia-Inch By Inch, Chi CLASSIC...but how many people talk about that record??...

[efunk_adelic]

always finding new stuff that I missed out. Most recently this year alone.

Jumbo - Turn On To Love
Paul Jabara - Honeymoon In Puerto Rico

2 years ago:
Pleasure - Joyous :icon_redface:


many many more when this site was hoppin' 10 years ago! :icon_biggrin: