Disco Artists That Had Their Own Name Logos:

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Some acts incorporated a personal ID by stylizing their name . It not only looked cool, but it helped provide product recognition for a returning fan.

Examples:



Vicki Sue Robinson

The Trammps

Cerrone




others? ..........




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[SandraDee]

Kleeer's logo always looked good with all those e's!

[needlefingers]

Evelyn "Champagne" King

What was up with the misspelled name in quotation marks?

[Cdnbob]

Evelyn "Champagne" King

What was up with the misspelled name in quotation marks?

Well technically that is the correct way to spell champagne as in the bubbly alcoholic drink. (I know, I know. Get a life Bob. :icon_razz:) Or are you thinking of champaign instead?

[needlefingers]

Well technically that is the correct way to spell champagne as in the bubbly alcoholic drink. (I know, I know. Get a life Bob. :icon_razz:) Or are you thinking of champaign instead?

You were right. I was thinking of real champaign, from the region in France.

But your spelling, and Evelyn's, is correct also.

She did drop it in the '80's.

[drlove]

I'm thinking the Sylvers' industrialized-logo used on all their late '70s stuff probably also qualifies::icon_cool:

Sylvers, The - New Horizons

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[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Donna Summer's "Live & More" logo was used for a ton of marketing.

And I'll always be attached to the lower-case script logo for the 1st & 2nd love & kisses LPs.

[discophil]

First three that come to mind:





And, while it's already been mentioned, nonetheless:

[needlefingers]

KC & the Sunshine Band have their own logo, with a half sun in it.

http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/6786_0_2_0_C/

http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/497_0_2_0_C/

[discophil]

It never occured to me before until I was looking at this thread again and looking at that Donna Summer "Live & More" album cover. I've seen that cover 1000 times and was going to comment on how hot it still is. Was going to say how it excited a young, teenage boy (as well as an old, middleaged man of today!). And then it struck me. This didn't deserve it's own topic and I certainly don't mean to derail this thread, but look at this:




And compare the outfit to this:



I always thought that Madonna had innovated that "underwear" look. It was so HUGE in the 80s. But look to whom she had to rip the idea from! Yes. Indeed. The Queen herself.

Love ya, Donna! (the real Donna, not "ma")

[drlove]

DiscoPhil,
Being a Donna fan, figured you'd wanna see (for historical purposes only) this rather unflattering (unfortunately) interview from Time Magazine during the Live And More era --- the writer's name though is an absolute hoot !!! :icon_razz:

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Gaudy Reign of the Disco Queen

Monday, Dec. 04, 1978 By Jay Cocks

Listen here. Donna Summer has something to tell you: "You . . . are beautiful. Each . . . and . . . every . . . one . . . of . . . you . . . is . . . beautiful! That's right! And if you got it, then . . . I say . . . you ought to flaunt it!"

That doesn't sound like the old Donna Summer talking. But then, she's singing a different tune too. Back in 1976, on her first hit, Love to Love You Baby, she got a gold record by simulating orgasm 22 times and cajoling, in her best jailbait voice, "Do it to me again and again." Her latest hit, taken from her platinum album, Live and More, is a discofied rendering of Jimmy L. Webb's Mac Arthur Park, in which Donna can rise above the hot-pants reveries of her earlier work into the headier regions of post-psychedelic poesy. Try this: "Someone left the cake out in the rain/ I don't think that I can take it/ 'Cause it took so long to make it/ And I'll never have the recipe again, oh no." Flaunt it, Donna. While you got it.

What she's got, most prominently, is a first-rate set of pipes, a ringing, theatrical voice that is locked in continual combat with the layered sound and dunce-cap lyrics of disco. With one platinum and five gold albums, Summer, 29, is the one incontestable star to emerge from the disco demimonde. Love to Love You Baby became a hit in the days when discos were not sprouting on every block, but were stashed in the closet along with the gay subculture from which they sprang.

The song's smash success coincided with disco's coming-out party, and became a kind of marching song for the disco revolution. Donna continues to ride high and handsome as the craze vaults all class barriers, from blue-collar to café society. Still big in the clubs, she has worked up a concert act that she is currently taking through 14 cities before invading the citadel, Las Vegas. Eager to wade into the musical mainstream, Donna dusts off The Man I Love and Some of These Days and presses them into a stage extravaganza that doesn't yield an inch to good taste.

Arms flung wide, blowing kisses like confetti, Donna sashays around the stage in glittering costumes, exhorting the audience ("You are beautiful"), joshing the band, trading a little prefabricated bitchiness with her backup singers who undulate at sharp angles like clockwork Nefertitis when Donna wraps herself around a lyric. "I do not consider myself a disco artist," Donna insists, against all contrary evidence. "I consider myself a singer who does disco songs. What I like to do is expose my market to other parts of music."

Donna's market is as broad as her expectations. After an appearance in a disco showcase quickie called Thank God It's Friday, she is primed to act. As she told TIME'S Edward Adler, "I don't have to take coaching. I can act. All I have to do is be myself playing someone else. I could be a Bette Davis-type actress. Catty, cold, precise and domineering."

And flaky, if her ex-manager, Jeff Wald, is to be credited. Discharged from Summer's service at the end of last year, Wald announced in the rock press that Donna was more trouble than she was worth, once even canceled a chartered flight because her astrologer counseled against it. Says Donna: "Jeff Wald earned over $200,000 through me and never saw me perform. He was just running around Hawaii with his wife [Singer Helen Reddy] having a great time, thinking he was above being a manager." Tending to Donna's needs now are both a former publicist for Donna's record company, Casablanca, and the wife of the Casablanca president.
She also rings up her astrologer for consultations, keeps a sharp watch on the configurations of the heavens, and divines that Capricorns like herself "are aggressive and workaholics. I am certainly a workaholic. Capricorn women also display an incredibly cold sexuality." She is quick to add, how ever, "I can't have an affair of the body without one of the mind. It's not in my morals."

Morals were so strict around the Boston home of Andrew Gaines that when eldest Daughter Donna told him she was flying off to Europe to be in a production of Hair, she got her face slapped soundly. "Daddy," she pleaded, "this is my big chance. Shirley Temple was a little kid. Did her mother stop her?" Dad's riposte, or his reaction to 1) her marriage to an Austrian actor from Hair, 2) her divorce in 1974 or 3) his first hearing of Love to Love You Baby are not a matter of public record. But snapshots of Mom and Dad enclosed in a heart-shaped frame peer out of every copy of the Summer concert program, surrounded by pictures of Donna's daughter Mimi, 5. Three other Gaines daughters have followed their sister down the show biz path, and they sing back-up vocals for Donna.

She lives in Los Angeles and Lake Tahoe, keeps constant company with Singer-Guitarist Bruce Sudano. He will open her act in Tahoe, but she bristles at queries, about their private life. "Of course he lives with me. We eat at the same table." A body guard is close by for those occasions when crowds become "too pushy. You cannot imagine how people forget their manners. I've had fans trap me in elevators."

Such pressures have given Donna an ulcer and a penchant for philosophy. "The furor over Love to Love You Baby was certainly good for my bank account," she remarks, "but it gave me a one-sided image as a sex queen. But a person is not one thing." One person Donna would like to resemble is Diana Ross. "I've always admired her," says Donna. "Since I was a young girl Ross has been working her behind off, getting her credits and paying her dues. She has been through a lot and attained a great level." And of course Donna would like Diana's Oscar nomination. But, she says firmly, "if I was nominated, I'd want to win."
— Jay Cocks

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DiscoPhil,
Being a Donna fan, figured you'd wanna see (for historical purposes only) this rather unflattering (unfortunately) interview from Time Magazine during the Live And More era --- the writer's name though is an absolute hoot !!! :icon_razz:

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Gaudy Reign of the Disco Queen

Monday, Dec. 04, 1978 By Jay Cocks

The song's smash success coincided with disco's coming-out party, :icon_cool: and became a kind of marching song for the disco revolution.

Amen! and written in 1978 to boot ....

I would add the word "sexual" making the comment read "The song's smash success coincided with disco's coming-out party, and became a kind of marching song for the disco/sexual revolution."

And flaky, if her ex-manager, Jeff Wald, is to be credited. Discharged from Summer's service at the end of last year, Wald announced in the rock press that Donna was more trouble than she was worth, once even canceled a chartered flight because her astrologer counseled against it. Says Donna: "Jeff Wald earned over $200,000 through me and never saw me perform. He was just running around Hawaii with his wife [Singer Helen Reddy] having a great time, thinking he was above being a manager." Tending to Donna's needs now are both a former publicist for Donna's record company, Casablanca, and the wife of the Casablanca president.
She also rings up her astrologer for consultations, keeps a sharp watch on the configurations of the heavens, and divines that Capricorns like herself "are aggressive and workaholics. I am certainly a workaholic. Capricorn women also display an incredibly cold sexuality."



She lives in Los Angeles and Lake Tahoe, keeps constant company with Singer-Guitarist Bruce Sudano. He will open her act in Tahoe, but she bristles at queries, about their private life. "Of course he lives with me. We eat at the same table." ( i.o.w. sleep in the same bed )


— Jay Cocks

Thanks Doc ! This is great juicy stuff ---- it deserves of a thread of its own!! :icon_cool:




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Love And Kisses

Bee Gees

Village People

KC & The Sunshine Band

Tavares

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[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

DiscoPhil,
Being a Donna fan, figured you'd wanna see (for historical purposes only) this rather unflattering (unfortunately) interview from Time Magazine during the Live And More era

Actually, it's a very good write-up. With the exception of 2 parts thrown-in for dramatic effect..

And flaky, if her ex-manager, Jeff Wald, is to be credited. Discharged from Summer's service at the end of last year, Wald announced in the rock press that Donna was more trouble than she was worth, once even canceled a chartered flight because her astrologer counseled against it. Says Donna: "Jeff Wald earned over $200,000 through me and never saw me perform. He was just running around Hawaii with his wife [Singer Helen Reddy] having a great time, thinking he was above being a manager." Tending to Donna's needs now are both a former publicist for Donna's record company, Casablanca, and the wife of the Casablanca president.

Ahhh, yes... There's nothing like the bitter spew of a gravy-train run dry. Pre-Joyce Bogart, Donna was barely being booked. Post-Jeff Wald, she had T.G.I.F., the "Live & More" tour and the "Bad Girls" tour, in less than 3 years.
And, it's a 3rd-person addition to the article, which relieves the writer of any accountability for it's content.

Morals were so strict around the Boston home of Andrew Gaines that when eldest Daughter Donna told him she was flying off to Europe to be in a production of Hair, she got her face slapped soundly. "Daddy," she pleaded, "this is my big chance. Shirley Temple was a little kid. Did her mother stop her?" Dad's riposte, or his reaction to 1) her marriage to an Austrian actor from Hair, 2) her divorce in 1974 or 3) his first hearing of Love to Love You Baby are not a matter of public record.

This is conjecture. And the writer states as much. ("Ordinary Girl" covers it.) But this, like the previous paragraph, are literary fodder and dramatic flair for the gullible. The rest of the article is fairly flattering.


BUT... This thread's about logos, so I'll add to my previous submissions of "Live & More" and "love & kisses", with the neon typeset logo for "Munich Machine"'s first 2 LPs.

[markydefad]

Gaudy Reign of the Disco Queen

Monday, Dec. 04, 1978 By Jay Cocks

Jay Cocks was Time's film critic back then [also reviewed films at Newsweek and Rolling Stone] and is now a very-reputable screenwriter of films such as Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The Age of Innocence"[Daniel Day-Lewis/Michelle Pfeiffer/Winona Ryder]...also wrote Scorsese's "The Gangs Of New York" [BOTH Oscar nominated for their screenplays], "Strange Days" and "De-Lovely" the Cole Porter bio with Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd.

IMDB says Cocks actually introduced young director Martin Scorsese to young actor Robert DeNiro [Cocks is thanked in the the credits of "Mean Streets"]....came up with the opening line of "Star Wars"..."In a galaxy, far, far away" when George Lucas asked him how he would open the film...and did an uncredited rewrite of most of the shooting script of "Titanic" for James Cameron.

He's a pretty big deal. Never dreamed he wrote about Donna Summer!

[needlefingers]

The Commodores had the same logo on a few of their albums.

Also Instant Funk.

[PierreConstantin]

«diana» in 1980 and «Ross» in 1984:
Diana Ross Diana (Deluxe Edition) (CD) DiscoMusic.com
Diana Ross Swept Away (12 Inch) Disco Music.com
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...iana-swept.jpg

The «diana» logo was used also on the album «To love again» and became «diana ross»:
http://www.audiography.com.au/images...ve%20Again.jpg

Used again in 1989 for the «Workin' overtime» album:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...a-overtime.jpg
YouTube - Diana Ross - Paradise (Shep Pettibone Mix)

Here's a picture of the «Workin' overtime» promo single; no face of the singer, no name of the singer, no name of the song but the logo. Actually «Work this» and «Work that» were the name of the lp's A-side and B-side; of course «Work this» is also something a d.-j. could do :icon_smile::

[Jackson9]

Skyy had their own cool logo for maybe 7 albums
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA240_.jpg
http://www.discogs.com/image/R-150-1...173575991.jpeg

Five Star had one for five albums
http://eil.com/newgallery/Five-Star-...ste-240840.jpg

Jackson 5 had a cool logo on many albums and singles
http://www.jacksonfamily-database.de...he-windows.jpg
http://www.jacksonfamily-database.de...to-indiana.jpg

The Jacksons for two albums
http://www.jacksonfamily-database.de.../a_triumph.jpg
http://www.jacksonfamily-database.de...ksons-live.jpg

Jermaine Jackson had a nice logo for two albums
http://www.jacksonfamily-database.de...ermaine-80.jpg
http://www.jacksonfamily-database.de...your-style.jpg

[buckaroo]

I was waiting for someone to mention these guys:



But I've done it now. :icon_biggrin:

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Munich Machine

Commodores


5 Star

GQ

ABBA



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( ---- For simplification , I'm going to stick with logos that were used to represent a disco acts name on a majority of their releases )

[KoolChris]

Some more:

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What a great way to demonstrate these !!:icon_biggrin: Thanks for taking the time KC ! :icon_biggrin::icon_biggrin:



A couple more :

Fatback



Brass Construction



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