Greatest piano/keyboard solos in disco trax

[The Boogie Doctor]

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[Videoskooter]

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the keyboard extravaganza in CJ & Co's "We got our own thing"
Spaceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyy yy!

[The Boogie Doctor]

oooh yeah, that is a goodie! how about the soaring synth work on tata vega's 'get it up for love' - whooooooa, takes me to the top.

YouTube - Get It Up For Love - Tata Vega (Vinyl 12") 1979

[Disco Funk]

The best is on Love Is The Message (either version).

Disco Funk

[QUINNY]

Don't know about the best, but two I can think of at this moment that I like are:-

Charles Earland - Let The Music Play.....for its blistering, really jazzy electric piano solo

Dominic Troiano - We All Need Love.....for its uplifting synth solo

[QUINNY]

Couldn't get back into my post to edit sooo

Charles Earland - Let The Music Play
YouTube - Charles Earland - Let the music play

Domenic Troiano - We All Need Love
YouTube - Domenic Troiano we all need love 1979 vs herp alpbert

[Marcio**]

I think there's a little piano solo on the intro of ''Manhattan Shuffle'' by Extensions From Area Code. I think it's from 1979. It's a very good disco song sung by man.


I like the real piano of ''Hero'' by Captain Sky. I think Captain Sky is French (?)

[TheLordOfFlatbush]

Beyond The Clouds - Quartz

What More Can I Say?

[KoolChris]

I love the modest piano intro to the Joubert Singers' "Stand on the word".
Nice piano intro (and break) on Mort Shuman's "You're my man", & on THP Orchestra's "Weekend two-step".

In the '80s department, I recommend keyboards in the following tracks(because they're really prominent and active in setting the mood:
Comateens: "Don't come back",
Magazine 60: "Don Quichotte",
Skipworth & Turner: "Thinking about your love", & "Can't give her up"

On a very different and irrelevant note, I've also always loved the piano-driven "Peanuts theme". Oh, and Elton John's "Song for Guy"

[RobbaDobba]

The king, for me, is the piano solo toward the end of the 12" version of T-Connection's "At Midnight".

Honorable mention, the piano breaks that occur occasionally past the mid-point through the end of Love Deluxe's album version of "Here Comes That Sound".

[markydefad]

I've said it before and I'll say it again...

the pounding piano in Eddie Holman's great

"THIS WILL BE A NIGHT TO REMEMBER"...... :icon_biggrin::icon_biggrin::icon_biggrin:

inspires me to mime playing that pounding piano on my desk....wish I could see that recording sesssion as it happened!!!

[SandraDee]

inspires me to mime playing that pounding piano on my desk....

I've heard of air guitar, but never desk piano!:icon_mrgreen: You may have just created a whole new craze blanche!:icon_confused:

[the disco kid]

For me it has to be the exquisitely played piano solo break in "Make That Feeling Come Again" by Beautiful Bend, Boris Midney.

[markydefad]

For me it has to be the exquisitely played piano solo break in "Make That Feeling Come Again" by Beautiful Bend, Boris Midney.

I agree, TDK, that is one of the prettiest piano parts on a disco record.

[KoolChris]

I've said it before and I'll say it again...

the pounding piano in Eddie Holman's great

"THIS WILL BE A NIGHT TO REMEMBER"...... :icon_biggrin::icon_biggrin::icon_biggrin:

inspires me to mime playing that pounding piano on my desk....wish I could see that recording sesssion as it happened!!!

Man, how did I not think of that one!! The strings & vocals are so overwhelming I'd forgotten about the piano solo. Brilliant!!

[markydefad]

Thanks KoolChris!!! Do you know which of these keyboard players credited on Eddie Holman's LP are actually playing on "This Will Be A Night To Remember"?

Keyboards:
"Cotton" Kent
Ron "Have Mercy" Kersey
Bruce Gray

Anyone know??? :icon_question:

[monsieurwilly]

JO BOYER "Isabelle and the rain"
CLOUD ONE "Patty duke"
MICHEL MAGNE "Grand theme Malko" from the O.S. "SAS à San Salvador" (amazing Fender Rhodes solo)

[Marcio**]

Canadian band Witch Queen: Bang A Gong (electro disco with piano)
Some chords on The Brothers: Brothers Theme (instrumental song)
Chic: Chic Mystique (lovely club mix). The overture only.
Very little piano solo on Madonna: Where Life Begins (from Erotica album)






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[Dayna]

(Fell In Love For The First Time Today)
CAROL DOUGLAS......
........Breath Taking.......

[KoolChris]

Thanks KoolChris!!! Do you know which of these keyboard players credited on Eddie Holman's LP are actually playing on "This Will Be A Night To Remember"?

Keyboards:
"Cotton" Kent
Ron "Have Mercy" Kersey
Bruce Gray

Anyone know??? :icon_question:

A quick search on album/single covers and search engines gave nothing for me, sorry...

Gotta add to the list:
Frankie Crocker's Heart & Soul Orchestra's piano and clavinet-driven "Poinciana": the combination of piano, clavinet (or is it bass, or both?), and strings make this a truly incredible track. When the string section holds the high notes near the end, with the congas kicking in, is when I realize I've been transported to another dimension, with my body playing the concert-master, hands waving, miming directions to the stringfellows...
A great trip each time...

[The Boogie Doctor]

also, how about the beautiful piano sprinklings on nick straker's 'a little bit of jazz'? that is some tasty stuff. all held down a weighty and tripped out moog bassline.