List ALL the Disco Songs featuring the Syndrum PING - PEW Sound

[remicks]

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If there's but one sound that we disco enthusiasts can rightfully claim as ours and ours alone (!!!!!!!) ... ()
it has to be the synth sound of the "PING" . No musical genre embraced it as did disco !!

(are there ANY rock songs that incorporated it (??????))

The topic has been touched upon in other ways in the forums ... but not quite like this (that I could find) ....

The goal here is to list EVERY disco song that used them .....and there has to be a whole lot !!

Two recent threads flushed out two :

202 Machine: "Get Up (Rock Your Body)"

ROCK YOUR BODY
very limited ...but its in there!!:

Ann Margret: "Love Rush"

LOVE RUSH

and one of the grandaddies of all PINGERs has to be: French Kiss: "Panic"

PANIC

that's a start .......

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[EricHG23]

That sound always means disco to me because it was on the ONLY disco album I grew up with as a young kid. These two tracks especially:

"Mickey Mouse Disco"


and Mouse Trap also from Disco Mickey Mouse, but I can't find it online.

[FranceJoliFan]

it has to be the synth sound of the "PING" .

Do these qualify as pings:

Anita Ward: "Ring My Bell"


Also, I enjoyed Get Up (Rock Your Body) --had never heard it before.

[Francois]

It took me a while to realize what you meant by the "Ping" sound as I would not use that term (I think of "Ping" as more of a clear, "bell" tone). I would call this more a "ray gun" sound from a Sci Fi movie :) But anyway, now that I know what you mean, I will think about it.

Anyway, what came to mind right away is not a song I ever really thought of as "Disco", though it was from the disco era and has a catchy drum track and "dancing" in the title. The local AM radio station played it constantly for about two weeks in the spring of '79 and I bought the 45, though it never even made the Top 40--not sure if it was ever a club hit. I still think of it as mid-tempo Pop, (though the video certainly shows them in a "Club", but it is clearly more recent than 1979) but regardless, it has that sound you call "PING", especially at the beginning before the vocal:

Marshall Hain - "Dancing in the City"


PS--the group name is actually "Marshall Hain", not "Marshall & Hain".

[whitesockedfunk]

I'm not that big a fan of the "ping"-sound, as it makes a song sound a bit dated, but that's just my opinion. My favorite ping-song would be this, but I would have liked it even better without the ping :-)

Jean Carn: "Was That All It Was"

[FranceJoliFan]

I would call this more a "ray gun" sound from a Sci Fi movie :)

That sums it up pretty well.

This intro sounds like a laser fight from Star Wars:

Kano: "It's A War"

[discokicks]

One of the most explicit pingers of all....and still sounds fantastic!

Shalamar - The Second Time Around

[Bernie]

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[Bernie]

France Joli's first hit "Come to Me" features the ping early on and somewhat muted elsewhere.

[Francois]

One of the most explicit pingers of all....and still sounds fantastic!

["Second Time Around"]

GOOD CALL! I had forgotten about this, but the "ping" is the signature sound!

[Francois]

I'm not that big a fan of the "ping"-sound, as it makes a song sound a bit dated

And swirling violins, shaking tambourines, and bouncy octave thumpa-thumpa basslines don't?
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[Disco Funk]

What I'd like to know is what is the FIRST record to use it?

I can think of a few, like that horrible remix of The Hustle from 1979 (sorry no youtube clip). But I'm surprised no one mentioned this cut

McFadden and Whitehead: "Ain't No Stopping Us Now"


I don't know if this guy was trying to emulate those synth drums. If you didn't listen carefully, you'd swear they were the drums and not a whistle/flute.

Penguin: "Okay Temiz"


Disco Funk

[remicks]

It took me a while to realize what you meant by the "Ping" sound as I would not use that term (I think of "Ping" as more of a clear, "bell" tone). I would call this more a "ray gun" sound from a Sci Fi movie :) But anyway, now that I know what you mean, I will think about it.

It's sort of amazing that this very in-demand and (at the time) well-received sound seems to have escaped a term for itself ??

I've heard it referred to as the "ping" sound in the past and as that here on the board ... but that doesn't really seem to capture the truth of the sound .... it is more of a space-aged ray-gun effect ---

as well as the " pings" that create the "rings" in RING MY BELL

how would you even begin to spell it ....

peeeww????

Did any reviewers like Vince Aletti or Brian Chin back then when it was being used give it a term??

Well since we here are principally today's shepherd's of disco
maybe that is step one .....maybe we need to do the Marky and create a consensus on what the heck that sound is called....

I tend to think of it as the "arpeggio" sound since the first thing connected to it I think of is :

Arpeggio: "Love and Desire"
LOVE AND DESIRE

BTW
please don't anyone choose not to contribute titles to this list because there either isn't one or you don't want to bother with a link to You Tube . It's nice to be able to hear the example... but certainly not required.

( so many of them get eliminated by the corporate music nazis anyway. )


*** Great "ping" or whatever choices , so far !! ***


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[SandraDee]

"maybe we need to do the Marky and create a consensus on what the heck that sound is called....


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I believe the instrument used was called a 'syndrum'.

[EricHG23]

France Joli's first hit "Come to Me" features the ping early on and somewhat muted elsewhere.

(Thanks for fixing my Disco Mickey Mouse link). Funny, Come to Me is one of my all time fave tracks, and I completely forgot it used that laser sound, I guess I know Tony Green's production so well, I take it for granted. Do we know what synth actually makes that sound? It's interesting that for a few years it seemed to be ubiquitous, and then, as mentioned, it was completely missing by the 80s for the most part.

[discokicks]

Here's another one for the list: Love Deluxe Here Comes That Sound which I'd always thought was referring to that sound of the "ping".

Do you like it? Do you like it? I like it!

[SandraDee]

Could this be the only track (apart from Anita Ward) to actually start with a ping/syndrum?:

Frisky: "You've Got Me Dancing In My Sleep"

[SandraDee]

Slower tracks also used the ping such as 'Mellow Mellow Right On' by Lowrell, 'Kleeer Sailin' by Kleeer & 'Midnight Love Affair' by George Benson.

[BrunoRepublic]

Do we know what synth actually makes that sound?

It was originally one of the Syndrum sounds, although just about any analog synth can do a reasonable approximation.

[kdavid13]

France Joli's Let Go opens with a wicked syndrum !!

[KoolChris]

Hi guys, I was just thinking I hadn't visited the board for awhile, and what's the topic of the thread I stumble upon when landing here: that stereotypical laser beam sound my girlfriend always starts giggling at whenever it shows up in a track I'm playing. I've always found it to be quite annoying (and really silly) when abused, or popping out of nowhere. Actually, it seems it's really annoying when meant to sound like a laser beam being sprayed at some space aliens; not so much when used as a prop to underline the beat, for instance (as in Shalamar's Second Time Around).

I would naturally tend to think of it as something to be found exclusively in Italo- or cosmic disco tracks, but its use by Shalamar, Anita Ward, and Jean Carn, on second thought, proves a much wider use.

Anyway, I picked my brains trying to find a new track sporting that laser beam sound, knowing I have dozens in my collection, but as often when trying to think of something very specific, most of the tracks that popped up were devoid of it. I'll try to post when I think of some. In the meantime, I did find one in which the more astute listener may pick up the sound subtly making discreet as well as scarce appearances. Don't let the title fool you: it's not Philly Disco!!

New Paradise: In The Laser Beams.

[FranceJoliFan]

New Paradise: In The Laser Beams.

Great intro (sounds like some kid is playing Space Invaders in the background.)
: )

[KoolChris]

Here's another laser beam gem, mixing Space Invaders effects, classic Stevie Wonder lyrics, and rather talented symphonic disco arrangements. Check out the break @ 4:36 to 5:32, it sounds like they really wanted to get their money's worth out of that synth!!

Triple S Connection: "My Cherie Amour"

[FranceJoliFan]

it sounds like they really wanted to get their money's worth out of that synth!!

This must have been from Stevie Wonder's lost Love Boat episode.

: )

I think Paul Sabu used just enough laser ping on this song. What do you think?

[qdearl]

Here's another one with the syndrum sound, which btw (and I just realized this,) is one of the differences between this version and Cognac's version

Salsoul Orchestra: "How High"