NYC Latin Clubs and Disco Roots

[srg]

I've always wondered about this topic and have never read anything on it...
What influence did the Latin clubs of NYC have on the Disco sound as we know it? For example:
Disco debatably "started" in NYC...I'd have to think the city's Latin music scene would have to influence the sound...true?
Disco music started as melodic songs with percussion and a beat (the strings would come later via Eurodisco and Philadelphia International)...so is general Latin dance music...
The whole Disco ethos of sensuality/glamour may have also started in the Latin clubs...mmm...getting all dressed up on a Saturday night for some ecstatic dancing:icon_smile:...maybe more:icon_twisted:...
Would someone like Francis Grasso have Salsa rhythms on the playlist?
Were dance steps such as the "Hustle" started in the Latin clubs?
Would dancers attend both a Puerto Rican club AND a Discotheque because the atmospheres would be so similar?
Were there crossover hits?
Were any of you there at the time?

Sorry to be long-winded but I gotta know...Thanks!

[Mixmachine]

I've always wondered about this topic and have never read anything on it...
What influence did the Latin clubs of NYC have on the Disco sound as we know it? For example:
Disco debatably "started" in NYC...I'd have to think the city's Latin music scene would have to influence the sound...true?
Disco music started as melodic songs with percussion and a beat (the strings would come later via Eurodisco and Philadelphia International)...so is general Latin dance music...
The whole Disco ethos of sensuality/glamour may have also started in the Latin clubs...mmm...getting all dressed up on a Saturday night for some ecstatic dancing:icon_smile:...maybe more:icon_twisted:...
Would someone like Francis Grasso have Salsa rhythms on the playlist?
Were dance steps such as the "Hustle" started in the Latin clubs?
Would dancers attend both a Puerto Rican club AND a Discotheque because the atmospheres would be so similar?
Were there crossover hits?
Were any of you there at the time?

Sorry to be long-winded but I gotta know...Thanks!

The Hustle was invented by Latins, and yes, we used to move freely between the Latin Salsa clubs and the R&B Discos of the early days.

By the time McCoy wrote "The Hustle" the dance was already established in the 'underground" discos.

I mentioned this subject before in other threads, but the prevailing revisionists forces of today, with all their Disco books, Online articles, and free time, have sadly been able to erase or water down much of this rich Disco history form the record.

In 1973 Manu Dibango toured with Fania all Star ( a famous 70's Latin ensemble of top Salsa musicians) he played "soul Makossa" to a Latin packed Yankee Stadium... this is just one example of many, check out the Discography of early Disco vinyl, and you'll find countless Latin Disco hits, producers, musicians etc.
Eddie Drennon was heavely involved in the Latin scene before giving us "Let's do the latin hustle" and so on..

In the opening segments of that British "House music" documentary floating on You tube, you'll find the late Mel Cheren proclaiming that Disco started in the "Blacks and Gay" clubs of NYC, no mention what so ever of the Latins crowds of New York, --- when New york was the Latin music and club capital of the world at the time ---, so much for accuracy, this is one of the many examples of modern revisionist bull **** I've seen in the last few years..many of them around this pages....