BEST DISCO RECORD WE'VE NEVER HEARD

[tmob]

2) "Between Love And A Hard Place" (don't know the artist) 1979

Jim Grady on Chanterelle 12", perhaps?

[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Impossible to pick just one. So I'll go with the first one that comes to mind as getting NO play and deserving plenty of it...
Baby O's "Your Eyes" / 1980 Baby O' Records and Tapes / BOD-3001 DJ

It's the "b" side of a funky snoozer titled "Dance All Night", that I've never seen a commercial copy of. I used to use it in my NRG sets with Harlow's "Take Off", Cappucino's "Tomorrow", Wonder's "Up And Down", etc... Problem was that it's 138bpm, so, outside of Lime's "Your Love", there was little to mix it with, without pitching it down 4-6%, and making it go a little flat.

A little mellow getting started, but the string break is killer! And the chorus/ending refrain is impossible to sit still for. The orchestra, timpanies and horn-fills just blow the doors off, at the end.

[skiddlybop]

Highest ratio of "best" to "weird" to "never heard" I can think of at the moment:Jesse Towers "Give Me Your Body (While We're Dancing)" on Kick label 12-inch, which arrived to me as a review copy in a plain white cardboard sleeve with the word "Disco" hand-painted in a script design. Such a minimal little ditty, it made you think literally anyone could compose a tune. The one and only time I heard it away from my own turntable[or heard it at all] was when DJ Bob Lowe played -- impeccably, brilliantly --the longest sustained peak-hour of new records I'd ever heard at the tiny but sound-stuffed Cock Ring bar, at Christopher and West Street. Salut, Bob. I'll never, ever forget that night.

[srg]

Hey Skiddlybop! Thanks for the memory jog! I actually REMEMBER dancing to and LOVING this song (Jesse Towers' "Give Me Your Body")...too bad the version on youtube's been pitched up a tad...it reminds me of Theo Vaness on vocals, the Cocoanuts on b/v, with the cheesy (but oh-so-good) organ riff from "Love Disco Style"...another one of my favourites! Mix this one with "Contort Yourself" by James White and the Blacks for a warped disco session!

[FranceJoliFan]

Perhaps encouraged by Hot Stuff (Donna), I Was Made For Lovin' You (KISS), Does Your Mother Know (ABBA), We're Gonna Rock (Sabu), Crank It Up (Peter Brown) and other rock-tinged songs, Macho & Celso Valli pushed the boundaries on Mother's Love, a track from their second album. Is it even disco? Disco for stoners? Bathhouse rock? The inevitable progression from I'm A Man? Who knows, but I've always enjoyed its driving beat, hard guitars, and insane vocals. Plus it was actually released as a 12" single. Was thrilled to find someone post the lp version on YouTube. If you're a pot smoker, you might want to smoke a bowl before listening to it:

[Alliance80]

OK, so none of these are available on 12" or LP. However, I figured they were worth mentioning here:

Discopolis - "Night Patrol" (1977)
OVNI - "Telstar" (1978)
The Warlord - "Alpha and Omega" (1981)

The first one sounds like it's a theme song to a cop show. It was written by the team of Armath/Vannick/Verros, who also did some work with Belgian singer Grand Jojo. Coincidentally, Grand Jojo himself recorded a cover called "Patrouille de Nuit". The B-side sounds like Old West-style disco.

The second one is a cover of the Tornados' hit from 1962 & is probably the most beautiful song I've ever heard. The B-side is an original tune composed by Joel Fajerman, better known for the album "L'Aventure Des Plantes".

The third one was performed by the same folks who originally gave us "The Ultimate Warlord" & in my opinion, could sort of be considered a sequel to that tune.