Reply With QuoteOh Keefe-Teena Marie,Side Effect AND Yoko Ono? I'm aleady RED with envy-more please!
Thom
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Oh my! It's 2 pm in the afternoon and I haven't been able to get much sleep after last night's Remember the Red Party. Can't stop thinking about the event!!! I know I'm a bit partial since I'm part of the White Light Production team (the folks who bring you the RtP events), but as we were dismantling stuff at 4 am this morning (the party ended around 3:30 am), the common comment we all heard was that this was the very best RtP ever! I can tell you the night was RED HOT! Sorry, couldn't resist, plus at one point, the heat of all the people on the PACKED dancefloor made the room into a steaming sauna - just like the old days at Troc! On a really good night at Troc, the walls would literally be sweating. We may have experienced that last night!
And we saw RED last night! I don't remember ever seening everybody participating in the theme of our party as much as they did last night. The outfits ranged from the elaborate glittering extravaganzas to the simple red tennis shoes! To enhance the red hue, I first gave out pink glowing necklaces at the beginning of the evening. As the evening heated up to the peak (actually the whole night was at a peak!), I switched to red necklaces and bracelets.
So, you wanna know what our beloved maestro, DJ Jerry Bonham, composed for us? Well, right now I can tell you the first few and last songs! I'll post the full list shortly! :icon_smile:
Jerry started his message of love appropriately enough with Lady T! Teena Marie's "I Need Your Lovin'" - "Love's coming, so glad you're mine... I need your lovin' and that's the bottom line..."
Next, "Don't need no grass or cocaine/ I'm hooked on you!" Mmmmmm, Cerrone with Jocelyn Brown! One of my Cerrone favorites. Jerry then told us he's "Always There" - Side Effect!
JB followed with "Can't Nobody Love Me Like You Do" by General Johnson. "Nice And Slow" by Jesse Green and then Joe Simon's wonderful "Love Vibration."
So many many highlights follow after that including a little ditty about meeting a girl who tried to walk across the lake... ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai!!! And where do I begin to tell this story of two star cross'd lovers? When the music's hot and the time is right, those in love, will dance all night. Take me to the bridge so I can take you dancing on the love train, the love train. I'm just a love machine so take me home!
The evening headed to a close with Stephanie Mills asking "Whatcha Gonna Do With My Lovin'" and Melba Moore's "You Stepped Into My Life". Then appropriately enough, DJ Bobby Viteritti (who told me he flew in from New York City expressly to hear Jerry at this party!) danced with us to Odyssey's "Native New Yorker" and Herb Alpert's "Manhattan Melody." Jerry then asked us "When Will I See You Again" - The Three Degrees. And finally, Al Green's "Let's Stay Together"!
Okay, I have to start getting myself together to go see Pamala Stanley at the Rrazz Room in a few hours. Be back soon with the full list!
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Oh Keefe-Teena Marie,Side Effect AND Yoko Ono? I'm aleady RED with envy-more please!
Thom
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Yes Thom! Jerry played us Yoko!!! At last night's show (which Jerry Bonham received a wonderful round of applause when he walked over to our tables!), people were commenting how happy they were to hear "Walking On Thin Ice"!
So, here is the Playlist up to Jerry's "disco rock set" which Yoko was a part of. Lots more later!
I Need Your Lovin' - Teena Marie
Hooked On You - Cerrone
Always There - Side Effect
Can't Nobody Love Me Like You Do - General Johnson
Nice And Slow - Jesse Green
Love Vibration - Joe Simon
Super Sweet - Wardell Piper
Love Express - Michael Zager Band
Straight From The Heart - Loose Change
Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn
Sweet Talk - Robin Beck
I Want Your Love - Chic
And The Beat Goes On - The Whispers
Won't You Try - Udell
Get It Up For Love - Tata Vega
Set Fire To Me - Willie Colon
Glad To Know You - Chaz Jankel
Straight Ahead - Nick Straker Band
Harmony - Suzi Lane
Cherchez Pas - Madleen Kane
We're Gonna Rock - Sabu
Superstar - Bob McGilpin
Cruisin' The Streets - Boys Town Gang
Walking On Thin Ice - Yoko Ono
For Your Love - Chilly
Jump The Gun - The Three Degrees
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Continuing on after "Jump The Gun"!
Wear It Out - Stargard
Night Dancin' - Taka Boom
By The Way You Dance - Bunny Sigler
Contact - Edwin Starr
Give Me A Break - Vivien Vee
Dance To Dance - Gino Soccio
No Romance / Keep On Dancin' - Theo Vaness
Keep On Dancing - Gary's Gang
Keep On Making Me High - Unyque
Love Train - The O'Jays
Love Dancin' - Marlena Shaw
Kind Of Life (Kind Of Love) - North End
I Got The Feeling - Two Tons O' Fun
The Girls Are Back In Town - Risque
Voulez-Vous - Abba
With Your Love - Donna Summer
Love And Desire - Arpeggio
Dance Yourself Dizzy - Liquid Gold
Counting On Love (One Two Three) - Peter Jacques Band
Don't Stop - Sylvester
Come And Get Your Love - Lime
Que Sera Mi Vida - Gibson Brothers
In The Forest - Baby'O
Burning Spear - The Salsoul Orchestra
Feed The Flame - Lorraine Johnson
This Is Hot - Pamala Stanley
Hot Hot (Give It All You Got) - Debbie Jacobs
Love Attack - Ferrara
It's still early in the evening - lots more of the playlist a little later!
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I LOVE Unyque's "Keep On Making Me High"(and the
flip "Party Down")so nice to see that and Theo Vaness
"No Romance" played-two tracks that don't get enough attention.Thankyou Keefe!
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I LOVE Unyque too, Thom!! In fact, that's one of the songs I've requested since the first RtP. The crowd loved hearing it again and it was appropriate that Bobby Viteritti was at the party since it was a huge Troc favorite during his era.
Here's the next segment of Jerry's Playlist!
Love Is The Ultimate - Ultimate
Hazy Shades Of Love - Amant
Love Insurance - Front Page
Night Rider - Venus Dodson
Perfect Love Affair - Constellation Orchestra
Love In C Minor - Cerrone
Hold On To This Moment - Mystery
I Can Tell - Chanson
Love Magic - John Davis And The Monster Orchestra
My Claim To Fame - James Wells
You're The First, The Last, My Everything - Barry White
Love Is In The Air - Martin Stevens
Sentimentally It's You - Theo Vaness
Take Me To The Bridge - Vera
Let Me Take You Dancing - Bryan Adams
Lovin' Is Really My Game - Brainstorm
Love Machine - The Miracles
One More Minute - Saint Tropez
Star In My Life - Paradise Express
Close Your Eyes – Queen Samantha
New World Break - Kat Mandu
Take Me - Chatelaine
Coming up - Jerry's Epic set!
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Oh wow, I totally love this year's selection already!:icon_biggrin: So wish I'd been there.Strangely enough I've been playing some of those tracks myself at home recently such as Nick Straker, Chanson & Bob McGilpin. I so love Jerry's taste in music.:icon_cool:
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Big props to Mr. Bonham. These names on the list have my mouth watering:
LOOSE CHANGE (Serious, serious disco)
WILLIE COLON (Sets fire to anybody!)
SABU (Was blasting it last week)
NORTH END (Gorgeous)
AMANT (And he played the correct side :icon_biggrin: )
MYSTERY
VERA :icon_cool: (A little 'uptown' sleaze)
PARADISE EXPRESS (Talk about hot)
I am going to have to figure out a way to get to California before these parties stop. And please don't stop them any time soon.
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Nicky
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Yes, yes, YES Nicky!!! I would SO love to see you in SF if there's another RtP!!!
Just got home after meeting up with our producers Chris and Richard, Jerry Bonham, Carla, Bob Bear, Barry Walters and Barry Pett! We were all at the Glas Kat for a very special project in now in the works. Hmmmmm, what ever could that project be about???Of course, those of you who listened to Sergio's KALX show this past Saturday (Oct. 11, 2008) already know! BTW, Sergio does have the show available on his website Welcome to SergioAudio.
Anyway, now we get to Jerry's sweeping epic love story set! Now in any good epic, you have to have love - both good and bad. So, part of this next portion of the playlist was nicknamed the "slit your wrist" set! :icon_lol:
Dancing And Romancing - Passion
There's A Way Into My Heart - USA - European Connection
Love Story (Where Do I Begin) - Andy Williams
Forbidden Love - Madleen Kane
Romeo And Juliet - Alec R. Costandinos And The Syncophonic Orchestra
The Heart To Break The Heart - France Joli
No One Gets The Prize - Diana Ross
Clouds - Chaka Khan
Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston
Coming up soon, we're heading into Jerry's morning music!
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Keefe,
Your enthusiasm is infectious!:icon_mrgreen:
I've found my mind wandering-off, imagining the transitions that put these wonderful songs together.
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I can only take a deep breath and picture the cinematic grandeur of this from-tender-to-tumultous sequence. The epic sweep, the douglas-sirkesque melodrama. Had I been there I would have been struck with the Stendhal Syndrome.Originally Written by keefelc
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Ya know...?
Next year's RtRP might be the perfect venue for a DiscoMusic.com family reunion, so to speak.
It's not really a gay/straight thing. And there's plenty of time to plan ahead.
Just puttin' it out there.:icon_mrgreen:
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Now that would be sweet. We need a good get together. Hell, I'd damn sure try to be there, unless the recession puts me out on the street.
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Nicky
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Right back atcha, baby. You and Marky better have your butts there if I show up. :icon_biggrin:
Coming up soon, we're heading into Jerry's morning music!
Now you know, this is what I've been waiting for. Sleaze, baby, sleaze. :icon_smile: :icon_smile: :icon_smile:
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Nicky
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Well, I've been wanting to get to SF for a long time now. I was hoping to this year, but it wasn't possible. I have a lot of iFriends there I'd like to meet (and one RL friend too).
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I love it! The dust hasn't even settled on this past Sunday's party yet and you guys are ready for the next one! :icon_biggrin: That's actually very flattering to our group and it would truly be treat to have all of you there! :icon_smile:
I did find that with this last party, the "Trocadero Family" feeling was more evident than any before. People have now become friends and bonded with those "RtP regulars," so there was a very nice relaxed feeling on the dancefloor particularly towards the last couple of hours. Bobby Viteritti made me put down my camcorder and camera and head out to the dancefloor about the last hour. That experience was soooo fun as all these friends would come up, smile and dance with me for awhile, then move on to another friend to twirl a few twirls, then they would come back. You just felt so comfortable and so compelled to dance as Jerry played one wonderful tune after another.
So what else did he play? Here's the next grouping of songs!
Red Light - Linda Clifford
Smack Dab In The Middle - Janice McClain
Deputy Of Love - Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band
Dance A Little Bit Closer - Charo
Can You Tell Me Why - Jackie Moore
Let It Be Whatever It Is - Frankie Valli
Inch By Inch - Persia
Feelin' Love - Hott City
Alive With Love - Cut Glass
MacArthur Park - Donna Summer
Mmmmm, what Jerry did to the intro of MacArthur Park! It was haunting! Then, he let Donna play out to the end to bring in a true Trocadero experience, but that's for me to tell you about next time.
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And finally, here's the rest of Jerry's Playlist for RtRP! MacArthur Park faded out to BIG cheers from the dancefloor. The lights dimmed. Then, we heard the "taka taka taka" sound (I know you know what I'm talking about!) from the beginning of "Call Me Tonight"! Just like the days of yore!
Call Me Tonight - Cerrone
Take Me Home - Cher
Love Is You - Carol Williams
You Know How To Love Me - Phyllis Hyman
First Love - Richard Tee
Nights Over Egypt - The Jones Girls
Stars In Your Eyes - Herbie Hancock
Now That I Found You - One Way featuring Al Hudson
How Did You Know It Was Me? - Barry White
Whatcha Gonna Do With My Lovin' - Stephanie Mills
You Stepped Into My Life - Melba Moore
Native New Yorker - Odyssey
Manhattan Melody - Herb Alpert
When Will I See You Again - The Three Degrees
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Now have any of you noticed that RtRP did not really include any of the songs that Bobby Viteritti became so connected with at Trocadero? In what I think was a really classy move, Jerry purposely left those songs out of his playlist. He knew that Bobby would be here in San Francisco and that Bobby was going to spin a special guest set at the "Paradise" party coming up this Sunday, October 19th, at 1015 Folsom. This gig is going to be the first time we've heard Bobby spin in 25 years and Jerry didn't want to diminish any of the excitement!!
And as for Bobby, during RtRP, he told me that his original purpose for flying out to San Francisco was to hear Jerry at RtRP! His "Paradise" appearance wasn't set until after Bobby had already made arrangements to visit SF.
Shortly after Jerry played "Now That I Found You," Bobby briefly stopped into the booth to talk music with music with Jerry. I quickly snapped a photo which unfortunately didn't turn out very well. Since Jerry had to get to a mix, I wasn't able to take another one. Still, I just had to stop and marvel at this special moment! :icon_biggrin:
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If you would like a little peek at the look of Remember the Red Party, I added just a small sampling of photos on my MySpace page at www.myspace.com/keefelc . :icon_smile:
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<deeeeep sigh>
You can bet I won't be sittin' here, next year, lookin' at pics and thinkin':
"Wish I'd have been there."
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I posted my first video clip from the evening (which was filmed with my digital camera versus camcorder, so the quality is only so so). The thing I love about this clip is how the crowd gets excited as they sense Jerry bringing in one of his fab mixes (about 5 minutes into the clip)!
You can view on MySpace at:
MySpaceTV Videos: Keep On Dancing at Remember the Red Party! by Keefe
Or you can view on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKURJX7ZYxE&fmt=18
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I like being able to see the dancers dancing to the funky music...dance, dance, dance..... so I think its a very good one, Keefe.
Sounds like another great party!
"Lost inside adorable illusion...."
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Sounds like it was another great event. I think it would be cool to attend one of these in the future and meet some of the forum members. :icon_biggrin:
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Did Jerry play the entire "suite" of MacArthur Park, and if he did, I hope he played the LP version of it and NOT the ghastly 12" with the radio version of "Heaven Knows". I prefer the LP version for its organic aural muscle. What a great playlist!
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I love the picture of the bear guy doing his version of Donna's '4 Seasons of Love' LP cover pose in the crescent moon.:icon_lol:
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