Reply With QuoteYou forgot the bass and guitar (by Dennis Coffy) on the song Devil's Gun by CJ and Company. Heeeeeeeeeeeavy!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This subject has come up from time to time and I forgot I might add my part to this subject. Here are my favourite parts of disco song:
Paradise Express - Dance 1978 (I love the really funky bass riffs in this song)
Don Downing - Dream World 1974 (I love the part where just the congas, tambourines and the bass was playing)
Dennis Coffey - Scorpio 1971 (I really dig the part where the drums and percussions were playing only and then the bass kicks in and then the disco guitar and there are echoing of guys shouting in the background and this goes for about 2 minutes. I bet this song was a super dance groove on Soul Train back in 1971)
Dynamic Corvettes - Funky Music Is The Thing 1974 (I reckon the best part of this song is the synthesizer sound with the percussions, the synthesizer sound kicks arse)
Undisputed Truth - You + Me = Love 1976 (I just can't get enough of the synthesizer parts in this song)
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Tell The World How I Feel About 'cha Baby 1975 (I love the part where just the drums and percussions were playing)
Independents - I Love You, Yes I Do 1972 (I dig the disco guitar sound)
Isley Brothers - Lay Away 1972 (I love the funky guitar wah wah bits)
Van McCoy - Disco Baby 1975 (I love those lyrics "disco baby... disco baby... the way she moves, the way she grooves she drives me crazy... that's my diiiiissssco baaaaaaaaby freakin' out the discotheque)
Paul McCartney & Wings - Goodnight Tonight 1979 (This song has great bass and a killer clapping stick percussion, I LOVE THOSE CLAPPING STICKS!!!!)
Patti Jo - Make Me Believe In You 1975 (The drum beat says it all, this song has the coolest drumbeat)
Pleasure - Glide 1978 (I LOVE the bass)
Memphis Horns - Get Up & Dance 1976 (FUNKY FUNKY FUNKY bass, guitar and horns)
Carol Douglas - Doctor's Orders 1974 (My favourite part of this song is the instrumental bit, when I edited this song I made the instrumental bit go for 8 minutes)
Ultra High Frequency - We're On The Right Track 1973 (Every part of this song is my favourite, this has to be one of the best disco songs of 1973)
Juggy Murray Jones - Inside America 1976 (I love the disco guitar rhythm and the percussions)
Carrie Lucas - Keep On Dancin' 1977 (My favourite part of this one is the bit where there was the synthesizer wah wah sound with the rock'n'roll guitar playing)
Ralph McDonald - Calypso Breakdown 1976 (The congas says it all)
Deodato - Skyscrapers 1973 (I love that synthesizer)
Joneses - Sugar Pie Guy 1974 (I dig the parts where they make some unusual bbbbb sounds and the disco wah wah sound is playing from the guitar)
Miami - Party Freaks 1974 (This song has the BEST disco guitar wah wah sound)
Fatback Band - Street Walk 1972 (I love the startup bit where Fatback band introduce themselves you hear the tambourine and bass playing in the background, and the song starts up with a really cool guitar wah wah sound)
Love & Kisses - I Found Love 1977 (I love when the tempo changes when the man sings "You're My Distant Dream......." and my very favourite part is the way the violins were playing about 9 minutes in the song (it's hard to describe but if you've heard the 16 minute version of this song you'd know what I mean)
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You forgot the bass and guitar (by Dennis Coffy) on the song Devil's Gun by CJ and Company. Heeeeeeeeeeeavy!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Right on time, Bro....!
On 2002-01-19 12:37, Fantomas wrote:
You forgot the bass and guitar (by Dennis Coffy) on the song Devil's Gun by CJ and Company. Heeeeeeeeeeeavy!!!!!!!!!!!!
What about Taurus - Dennis Coffey? Does that get honorable mention?
Keep the faith and everything will come your way as time marches on!
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The Lord of Flatbush wrote:
What about Taurus - Dennis Coffey? Does that get honorable mention?
That song is fantastic :grin:. I love the rock'n'roll guitar sound at the startup and through parts of the song and the percussions and the funky electric guitar wah wah bit. This song sounds like it has a combination of funk, R&B, rock and glam rock. Very cool song.
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What about Ram Jam - Black Betty? Time Bandits - Live It Up, Talking Heads - Once in a lifetime, The Police - Voices inside my head, Yoko Ono - Walking on thin ice just to name a few.....
On 2002-04-07 10:07, Funky Dude wrote:
The Lord of Flatbush wrote:
What about Taurus - Dennis Coffey? Does that get honorable mention?
That song is fantastic :grin:. I love the rock'n'roll guitar sound at the startup and through parts of the song and the percussions and the funky electric guitar wah wah bit. This song sounds like it has a combination of funk, R&B, rock and glam rock. Very cool song
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The Lord of Flatbush wrote:
What about Ram Jam - Black Betty? Time Bandits - Live It Up, Talking Heads - Once in a lifetime, The Police - Voices inside my head, Yoko One - Walking on thin ice just to name a few.....
Some of these songs I haven't heard of but from the ones I've heard, commenting on them:
Ram Jam - Black Betty 1977 (Very cool song, this song to me sounds more like hard rock than disco)
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime 1981 (This nice early 80's disco dance groove, Talking Heads use to be a punk group and did a song called "Psychio Killer")
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Lord of Flatbush, I had forgotten Black Betty. I must agree, that's some heavy stuff.
I don't know if I would call that Disco, but I sure like it.
One song that I like a lot and is not Disco is Resurrection Shuffle by Ashton, Gardner, and Dyke.
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Honorable mention: Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3
The 12" single version had a nice, guitar solo at the end of the song.
Was there an extended version outside of the edited 12" version? Only once did I hear another version of Reasons to be Cheerful with an extension from the guitar solo.
Keep the faith and everything will come your way as time marches on!
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On 2002-04-12 18:03, The Lord of Flatbush wrote:
Honorable mention: Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3
a good 1979 hit!!
don't know why but it reminds me of 1983: IRT (Interboro rhythm Team) - Watch the closing doors
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Whoa! IRT - Watch the closing doors was a New York hit. You brought back a lot of memories with that one.
On 2002-04-12 22:00, disco1999 wrote:
On 2002-04-12 18:03, The Lord of Flatbush wrote:
Honorable mention: Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3
a good 1979 hit!!
don't know why but it reminds me of 1983: IRT (Interboro rhythm Team) - Watch the closing doors
Keep the faith and everything will come your way as time marches on!
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My favorite parts of a disco song:
In the 12 minute version of "Come On Dance Dance" by Saturday Night Band:
--the instrumental break where there are lush, mock-symphonic violins playing to a steady 4/4 disco beat. Very sensuous.
--the part where the song breaks down after the vocalists sing "Come on and dance come on and dance come on and dance a little closer..." This is followed by dead silence and the beat slows down to about 60 beats per minute. Then comes that wonderully weird, spacey, mechanized synthesizer noise in the silence that sort of reminds me of the Kraftwerk-like synth sound in Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby" immediately following her marathon of orgasms. Anyway, in "Come On Dance Dance," this spacey snythesizer noise keeps throbbing until the bass kicks in and the beat picks up to 120 BPM; then some weird atmospheric synthesized noises sort of "rise" up and out of all the percussion and finally the singers chant: "Come on Dance Dance, Come on Dance Dance, Come On Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance!" Almost orgasmic in the building, peaking and climaxing of the music.
In Donna Summer's 18-minute "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It":
In the "Try Me" segment of the song, she's singing over herself eight times in a row "Try me try me try me try me just one time!" followed by silence except for the ball-drum thumping at 120 BPM and a strange, almost ominous little synthesizer noise as she coos sugggestively; then the bass kicks in, thickens and builds to a peak, finally bursting open with Donna pleading "Try me...ohhh, try me...try me, ohhh try me!" over and over as the violins play to her orgasmic pleas.
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Those two songs were definitely two of my favorites.
Also, the breakdowns to which you described were precise. Great job!!!
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MikeVice:
My favorite part of Donna Summer's "Try Me" is when it reaches that point you hear that sound effect that sounds a gong/wind then it sounds as if the music's on a tightrope, with the synthesizer making those small sound effects. Then another gong/wind comes on and it sounds like the melody's easing through the motions, then all of a sudden the thump starts building faster, faster, louder, louder--think of "orgasm put to music", then Donna belts out "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It I Know We Can Try".
On Donna's "Love To Love You Baby", when the 13-minute electronical segment ends with that loud thunderous violin, then complete silence except for the remnants of the violin fading away, then a 3:50 reprise of the "orchestral" radio edit.
On Donna's "Je T'aime", around the 8 minute mark the first melody ends, then it completely changes with the gentle tappings of the synthesizers giving way to lush strings and "waterfall" sound effects. I can picture a idyllic, tranquil scenario with a waterfall, some sort of paradise.
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Robbie
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Evelyn "Champagne" King's- "I Don't know if it's Right". The saxaphone on the 12" version. Just blows me away everytime i hear it.
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And don't forget the syndrum-explosion right after the chorus! When strobe lights go to war! Love doing that!Originally Written by Dayna
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YES..Actually It's Just a HOT song period....
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A great beat, you should check out the other Dennis Coffey stuff. Lot's of cool breaks, including the Son of Scorpio, which also features people shouting in the background. Herb Alpert the similar open mic thing during the breaks on Rise.
Back to Dennis Coffey - my favourite part of that track is the outro. What are they saying 'one and a two and a three...and a four?' It's very rhythmic and cool sounding. Vampi Soul released a CD compilation of Dennis Coffey's Sussex tracks, all uptempo. No bad cuts on the CD. Too bad they used vinyl sources, but they cleaned it up nicely.
I'm glad you've heard of this track. How were you exposed to it? Via the Ultimate Breaks & Beats records? That synth I think is the electric piano or fender rhodes, run through some overcranked wah sound effect. At least it sounds like it's the same instrument when the sound switches up at the end of the break.Dynamic Corvettes - Funky Music Is The Thing 1974 (I reckon the best part of this song is the synthesizer sound with the percussions, the synthesizer sound kicks arse)
My favourite parts on this song are the handclaps on every beat, in the intro, and the middle of the song.Van McCoy - Disco Baby 1975 (I love those lyrics "disco baby... disco baby... the way she moves, the way she grooves she drives me crazy... that's my diiiiissssco baaaaaaaaby freakin' out the discotheque)
You will be happy to hear that there are multiple versions of this track floating around. By that, I mean, the same backing track, but different mixes and vocalists. The South Shore Commission version from '75 uses the exact same backing track as the UHF song. Also, the vocals on the 45 mix differs from the mix on the Disco Gold set (I'm guessing you know this song from that CD, since you reference other songs from that same Volume), because Tom Moulton remixed the track. And to make things even more interesting, the version Disco Gold isn't the longest version. There's a 6 minute plus version floating around. I think it's on the CD compilation Disco Collector or Funky Collector. It's really cool because the outro keeps going for about a minute or two beyond the Disco Gold fade out.Ultra High Frequency - We're On The Right Track 1973 (Every part of this song is my favourite, this has to be one of the best disco songs of 1973)
Both tracks (I consider Pt 1 and Pt 2 as two different tracks) are great.Juggy Murray Jones - Inside America 1976 (I love the disco guitar rhythm and the percussions)
I think the wah effect is on an electric piano, not a guitar.Joneses - Sugar Pie Guy 1974 (I dig the parts where they make some unusual bbbbb sounds and the disco wah wah sound is playing from the guitar)
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Right when Dan Hartman's "Vertigo" changes into "Relight My Fire" and when ito goes into full orchestration again right before the fade-out.
Also, the break in "Jump to The Beat" by Stacy Lattisaw - gets me every time.
The second break on the 12" for "Hot Stuff" that leaves out the guitar and breaks down with synthesizer and sax.
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I'm not going to pick any one song, but I know all of you will "get me" when I mention this; remember that in almost every disco song, especially the up tempo non-commercial songs that didn't make top 40, that there was an interlude, ususally a long one, in which there was either the beat and congas, or the beat, congas and base? This, outside of the string movements, were my favorite portion of disco songs.
Garry
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Funky Dude: you and I have similar taste, the violin section of "I Found Love" is my favorite part, too. By the way, if you've never heard the song on CD while wearing headphones you'll gain a whole new appreciation for it. I also love Harold Melvin's "Tell the World". The last time I listened to it, I started wondering what a great job Thelma Houston could probably do with that song, considering the way she transformed "Don't Leave Me This Way".
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With me it's a toss up (#1 love) between the interludes (congas, drums), and the string section solos, which in "I found love (now that I have found you)" is one of the most awesome of any disco records. Irving Spice was my most favorite concertmaster for the strings, but it is a toss up between these two, the back-up singer harmonies are next (Cerrone's Paradise has great back-up singers), followed by the hand clapping and the deep, definitive bass drum beat.
Garry
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the wah-wah intro to Brainstorm's "Lovin' is Really My Game" makes my now-arthritic body wish it could still move the way it did when the song was released.
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always a fun topic this one...
Cerrone - Love In C Minor - The long percussion breakdown after the first 3 to 4 minutes of the song.
Cerrone - Give Me Love - percussion breakdown on this one also is fantastic...
Dennis Coffey - Scorpio - as mentioned above by funkydude.
Charo - Stay With Me - the long percussion break in the middle of this song.
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