Studio 54 Playlist

[RetroRuss]

I have been asked by a friend to compile a playlist of the tunes that were playued at Studio 54 in 1979. When I went, I recall Chic, Sister Sledge, Carrie Lucas & Taste of Honey but I was so drunk (ahem) I really can't remember much now.

I am hoping that other members of the community will be able to help me out and name a few tracks that were played at this famous club on a night in 1979!

R

[dj mbm]

these are compiled from various sources (FYI: most of these were played at Studio ca. 1978-79):
-Le Freak/My Forbidden Lover/Good Times/I Want Your Love/Chic Cheer/Dance Dance Dance (Chic)
-Ring My Bell (Anita Ward)
-I Love the Nightlife (Alicia Bridges)
-Don't Stop Till You Get Enough/Rock with You/Workin' Day and Night/Off the Wall/Burn This Disco Out (Michael Jackson)
-Shake Your Body Down to the Ground (The Jacksons)
-No One Gets the Prize/The Boss (Diana Ross)
-Last Dance/Hot Stuff/Bad Girls/MacArthur Park Suite/Sunset People (Donna Summer)
-Take Me Home/Hell On Wheels (Cher)
-Put Your Feet to the Beat/Quiet Village/African Queens (Ritchie Family)
-If My Friends Could See Me Now/Gypsy Lady/Take It to the Zoo (Linda Clifford)
-You and I/I'm Just a Sucker for Your Love [ft. Teena Marie] (Rick James)
-Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)/Voulez Vous (ABBA)
-YMCA/Macho Man/Go West (Village People)
-After Dark (Patti Brooks)
-Let's All Chant/Life's a Party (Michael Zager Band)
-Whatcha Gonna Do with My Lovin'/You Can Get Over (Stephanie Mills)
-I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair) (Inner Life)
-Hold Your Horses (First Choice)
-Love Boat Theme (Charo)
-You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)/Can't Stop Dancing/Disco Heat (Sylvester)
-You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else (The Jones Girls)
-This Time Baby (Jackie Moore)
-You Know How to Love Me (Phyllis Hyman)
-Push Push In the Bush/Keep On Jumpin (Musique)
-Born to Be Alive (Patrick Hernandez)
-Shake Your Groove Thing/Roller Skatin' Mate (Peaches & Herb)
-Gonna Get Along Without You Now (Viola Wills)
-Second Time Around/Take That to the Bank (Shalamar)
-Knock on Wood/Light My Fire (Amii Stewart)
-Romeo and Juliet/I Found Love (Now That I Found You)/Thank God It's Friday (Love & Kisses)
-Instant Replay/Relight My Fire (Dan Hartman)
-Star Wars/Love Theme from Superman (Meco)
-Cuba/Que Sera Me Vida (Gibson Bros.)
-Do Ya Wanna Get Funky/Dance with Me (Peter Brown)
-I'm Every Woman/Life Is a Dance/Do You Love What You Feel (Chaka Khan)
-Miss You (Rolling Stones)
-Do Ya Think I'm Sexy (Rod Stewart)
-Married Men/My Knight In Black Leather (Bette Midler)
-Found a Cure/Stay Free/Nobody Knows (Ashford and Simpson)
-Love Rush (Ann-Margret)
-Heart of Glass/Atomic (Blondie)
-Disco Night (Rock Freak) (GQ)
-I Love America (Patrick Juvet)
-Keep on Dancin' (Gary's Gang)
-Boogie Wonderland/September (Earth Wind and Fire)
-Got to Be Real/Star Love/You Saved My Day (Cheryl Lynn)
-Think It Over/Warning (Cissy Houston)
-Beat the Clock (Sparxx)
-Dancer/Dance to Dance (Gino Soccio)
-Boogie Oogie Oogie (Taste of Honey)
-Harmony/Ooh La La (Suzi Lane)
-I've Got the Next Dance (Deniece Williams)
-Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads)
-I Will Survive/Substitute/Anybody Wanna Party/I Said Yes (Gloria Gaynor)
-Victim (Candi Staton)
-Copacabana (Barry Manilow)
-Walk the Night (Skatt Bros.)
-I Wanna Be Your Lover (Prince)
-I Got My Mind Made Up (Instant Funk)
-And the Beat Goes On (The Whispers)
-Spank (Jimmy Bo Horne)
-Come to Me/Playboy/Don't Stop Dancing (France Joli)
-Move On Up/Up Up Up/Destination's Theme (Destination)
-No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) [ft. Donna Summer]/The Main Event (Fight) (Barbra Streisand)
-Contact/H-A-P-P-Y Radio (Edwin Starr)
-We Are Family/Lost In Music/He's the Greatest Dancer (Sister Sledge)
-Street Player (Chicago)
-Do or Die/Pride/Fame/On Your Knees/Down and Counting/I Need a Man (Grace Jones)

[JussiK]

Stuff like Taste of Honey in 1979? - that was big during the early summer of 1978. Would the Studio djs have spinned year old stuff when there was a flood of product available and lifespans of records were very short?

Anyway, a fanatic that I already was in 1979 I wrote down many of the titles I recognised in clubs each night while in New York. Because the majority were totally new to me I had to grab people on the dancefloor and yell to their ears "do you know what this is called!?". Most often of course I got no info from anyone as most people were clueless of what they danced to all thru the era. So, quite often I ended up scribbling desciptions like "c. 132 bpm, synths, women going savage lover savage lover", and going round the record stores next day singing the tune to clerks.
However, after my first visit to Studio 54 last week of June 1979 I wrote:
Theo Vaness - Sentimentally it's You
Sylvester - Stars
Ednah Holt - People Come Dance
Ring My Bell
Cafe
Lady Night
Love de Luxe - Here Comes That Sound Again
Born To Be Alive
Cuba
good synth song with men singing, angry sound, ???, c 135

- The bloody Ring My Bell was probably the biggest sound in NY that month, that's what the clerks in all the vinyl stores told me, including the Buddha of Times Square.

[RetroRuss]

Wonderful!! Thank you so much!