Reply With QuoteI love this intro so much & it's exactly a minute long.
YouTube - Ultimate - Love Is The Ultimate (Medley) (1979).
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This might be a little ambiguous considering single edits/album cuts/12" mixes and blending, but...
What song, when you hear the first few seconds, makes your heart jump, your skin go goose-pimply, makes you jump out of your seat or takes you back to the day? What song immediately screams DISCO from the speakers? :icon_biggrin:
I'm sure there are more, but the one that always grabs me is "Turn The Beat Around" by Vicki Sue Robinson. (and yes, that song has always been dark blue to me - I get color images with words and numbers) The twitchy guitar scratch accompanied by sparse drums... and then all at once the bass, the drums, the horns and the strings all come in as a unified force for that riff that is unmistakeably made to get you on the floor. TTBA is a great song overall, but I don't really think it gets any better than the intro, where the song goes from "Toto, I don't think were in funk anymore" to "Oh no... You're in the land of the Disco people."
So, what are yours? Show your work.
Brian
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I love this intro so much & it's exactly a minute long.
YouTube - Ultimate - Love Is The Ultimate (Medley) (1979).
...ya gotta beat the street......
Advance Promo Copy [Level 3]
My favorite intros:
Native New Yorker/Odyssey:icon_lol:
Take that to the bank/Shalamar:icon_razz:
Heaven Knows/Donna Summer & Brooklyn Dreams:icon_biggrin:
Underground Hit [Level 5]
La Vie en Rose
"You can dance forever if you want to"
Double Platinum Record [Level 9]
I also love the building intro of 'Car Wash' & who could fail to love the fan-bloody-tastic intro of Michael's 'Dont Stop til You Get Enough'?:icon_razz:
...ya gotta beat the street......
Gold Record [Level 7]
The Break - Kat Mandu
and
Vertigo, which is the intro into Relight My Fire by Dan Hartman.
There are just so many..
Edwin Starr - Contact and H.A.P.P.Y. Radio
Lime - Babe, We're Gonna Love Tonite and Angel Eyes
Hazell Dean - Searchin' (I Gotta Find A Man) Ian Levine Mix
George McCrae - Don't You Feel My Love
Ferrara - Love Attack
Melba Moore - Pick Me Up, I'll Dance
Voyage - Souvenirs
Chart Hit [Level 6]
My two favorites are-
"Devils Gun" CJ and Co
"Loving is Really My Game" Brainstorm
Thom
Chart Hit [Level 6]
Without even thinking about it...Carrie Lucas' Dance With You!
Dancin' helps relieve the pain, soothes your mind, makes you happy again
Gold Record [Level 7]
Some of my favorites :
Donna Summer Once upon a time
Donna Summer I remember yesterday
Ashford & Simpson Found a cure
Sparks The No1 song in heaven
France Joli Let go
Donna Summer Hot stuff
Starguard Wear it out
Jackie Moore This time baby
KRIS
Gold Record [Level 7]
Without a moment's hesitation...
Alan Hawkshaw bangin' out the signature piano riff for "I Found Love, Now That I've Found You"
Close 2nd place...
The girls drinkin' champagne, while sizin' up the available meat, in the original intro to "Love In C Minor"
"MUSIC IS AN EMOTION, SEARCHING FOR IT'S VOICE"
...come with me, "BACK TO MUSIC", on DISCOTERIA
http://www.live365.com/stations/cdnbob2
Indie Release [Level 4]
Melba Moore - You Stepped Into My Life (12")
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Till You get Enough
The Whispers - I Can Make It Better
diana Ross- I'm Coming Out
Chic - You Are Beautiful
The Sylvers - Come Back Lover Come Back
Underground Hit [Level 5]
So many to choose from but..
Burning Love- DD Sound
Contact - Edwin Starr 12"
Dance Dance Dance - Chic
Sexy Man- The Ritchie Family
Shake your Groove thing -Peaches and Herb 12"
Keep On Jumpin - Musique
Lets Go Back to Lovin-Melba Moore:icon_biggrin:
Chart Hit [Level 6]
The Piano intro to "That's Where The Happy People Go" By The Trammps
gorgeous buildup, then pauses before going right for the juggler when the song kicks in, talk about Drama!
Chart Hit [Level 6]
The girls drinkin' champagne, while sizin' up the available meat, in the original intro to "Love In C Minor"
My favourite intros would be two classic ones: "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" and "Love Hangover".
Chart Hit [Level 6]
the lengthy intro to the 12" mix of "Shine On Silver Moon" (Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr.). It's like aural caviar !!!
Triple Platinum Record [Level 10]
Totally agree tdk.Originally Written by the disco kid
That's the one I was gonna mention also! Some people think it's a waste of time--but I like to think of it as an elegant overture to the dance music that begins right after the last note is played. Then the churning rhythm propels you straight to the dance floor!
"Lost inside adorable illusion...."
Gold Record [Level 7]
Okay... Here's one from waaay-out in left field...
The traditional-vocal intro for Claudja Barry's Disco version of Harry Belafonte's "Day-O (the banana boat song)". It may be on an LP...I don't know for sure. But I have it on the flip side of the Canadian / Polydor 12" of "Radio Action".
Seriously... It's not even "camp", which one would probably expect, in a remake of this particular song. She belts it out perfectly!
"MUSIC IS AN EMOTION, SEARCHING FOR IT'S VOICE"
...come with me, "BACK TO MUSIC", on DISCOTERIA
http://www.live365.com/stations/cdnbob2
Underground Hit [Level 5]
Can't argue with any of the previously mentioned but I do have a couple with great intro's that I love from the first beat to the end.
Boogieman Orchestra - Lady, Lady, Lady
Frankie Valli - Swearin' to God
Yambu - Sunny
Voyage - Souvenirs
Third World - Now That We Found Love
Teri Desario - Ain'T Nothing Gonna Keep Me from You
Mfsb - K - Jee
Keeping the music alive... http://www.youtube.com/user/MixMasterMax
Indie Release [Level 4]
For me, it would have to be the congas at the beginning of the O'Jay's "I Love Music".
Others would be the intro to Tata Vega's "Get it Up for Love", and the vocal intro to Diana's "No One Gets the Prize".
Gold Record [Level 7]
Street Life-Randy Crawford /Crusaders
The Boss-Diana
Got To Have lovin-Don Ray
When You Touch me-Taana Gardner
Summer Fever-Donna
Love Hangover-Diana
I Love You-Donna
Shake Your Pants-Cameo
At Midnight-T Connection
Romeo and Juliet-Alec R Costandinos
Shame-Evelyn King
Gotta Keep Dancin-Carrie Lucas
Platinum Record [Level 8]
From 1973
Supremes look-alike
''It May Be Winter Outside (But in My Heart It's Spring)''
by Love Unlimited
♪♪♪ The music is higher/ I don't want to stop
♪♪♪ (Cerrone's Paradise)
Platinum Record [Level 8]
Wow, see the Barry girls doing the intro
YouTube - Love Unlimited - It may be winter outside (but in my heart it's spring)
♪♪♪ The music is higher/ I don't want to stop
♪♪♪ (Cerrone's Paradise)
Chart Hit [Level 6]
"Aaaaaaaaaaaah...
Aah uh aaah uh aaaaaaaah uhhhhhh..
Dance to dance!"
"Because there's music in the air."
Double Platinum Record [Level 9]
Great intros are the rule, not the exception in so much of our music. I'll just add a couple more off the top of my head.
I'm Your Boogie Man
You're The First, Last, My Everything
Dancin' (Crown Heights Affair)
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (the ~5 minute version)
Superdisco
Cocomotion
Find them and destroy them!
Double Platinum Record [Level 9]
Oh and Do Ya Think I'm Sexy :icon_biggrin:
Find them and destroy them!
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