Longest Disco Note

[pepper1dancer]

I clocked Donna Summers "Dim All The Lights" where she sings, Let it fill you upppppppppppppppppppppp! at 15:99 seconds. Whew! Does anyone know if there is one higher?

[drlove]

you got me stumped, pepper1dancer --- I can't think of any longer ones, but I'm confident our fellow members will come up with one (if one exists) :icon_biggrin:

[KBallenger53]

Man, you've got me reaching for a container of oxygen!!! Before I even opened this thread, Donna Summer was the first person to come to my mind. But I was thinking "Last Dance". There's also a part in there where holds a long note. I need to play it again to make sure.

'NUFF SAID

[Cdnbob]

Streisands note on either The Main Event or Enough Is Enough is surely longer? I'm thinking on the 12" versions.

[kdavid13]

What about Barbra's long note in EIE ? (I believe it's where she goes "And we won't waste another teaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar"
Anyway it's the one she held while Donna nearly fainted and fell off her stool while in the studio...

Donna mentioned it a lot while promoting her biography Ordinary Girl.

[discokicks]

I don't know if it's the longest but, for me, it certainly is the most thrilling-est...and that is Amii Stewart's long-held note in The Letter that merges with the sax on the same note. Disco perfection!

Also, I'm thinking that Bill Wither's "a lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay" must come pretty close to matching Donna or Babs.

[KBallenger53]

I don't know if it's the longest but, for me, it certainly is the most thrilling-est...and that is Amii Stewart's long-held note in The Letter that merges with the sax on the same note. Disco perfection!

Also, I'm thinking that Bill Wither's "a lovely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay" must come pretty close to matching Donna or Babs.

Now, that Bill Withers "Lovely Day" is one I forgot about. I used to wonder if they used a machine to do that. Not meaning to wander off of Disco, but does anybody remember that song by the Dells called: "Stay in my Corner"? Where he says "Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaabay!!!

"Cough, Cough" Where's my oxygen!!!

'NUFF SAID

[remicks]

*****

not longest,

but amongst the longer :


Ahhhhhhhhhhhh bay-bay! --- Thelma Houston

And I just can't get it baaaaaaaaaaack --- Viola Wells


*****

[Cdnbob]

Well the longest note held on record by a disco-related performer actually goes to Melba Moore for the notes she holds on the songs "The Other Side of The Rainbow" and "Lean On Me". I don't recall the exact timings but I know they're both over the minute mark. Both songs are ballads btw.

[NickNack]

I know it's not the longest but it's one of my favorites: Sharon Redd on Francois K's remix ---

"Can you haaaaaaaaaaan...", right into the synthesizer. Oh, I can handle it. Love that fade.

[remicks]

*****

They call me lady bump...
lady bump... it's no lie - --- aAaAaAaAhHhHhHhHhHhH !




******

[Disco Funk]

Unfortunately, I don't have disco tracks as examples, but these are disco era tunes that feature the long note:

Ted Mills, the lead singer of Blue Magic does a long one in the outro


Minnie Riperton hits the HIGH, long note towards the end of Inside My Love (just before the break section, and then continuing through the break)


And I have a CD where the Dells re-recorded Stay In My Corner in the 70s, and the lead singer Marvin Junior sings 'baaaaaaaaaaabaaay' towards the end for about 16 bars. Sorry, no Youtube link for that one.

Disco Funk