Here's some of the songs I've been listening to lately:
Gary Toms Empire - 7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Blow Your Whistle 1975
Memphis Horns - Get Up & Dance 1976
Rozza & Wine - Disco Boogie Woman 1975
Eastside Connection - You're So Right For Me 1977
The Earls - Get Up & Dance The Continental 1976
Barrabas - Hi-Jack 1974
Carrie Lucas - Dance With You 1979
Esther Phillips - What A Difference A Day Makes 1975
Titanic - Rain 2000 1973
Plus I bought some more cheap used and abused disco records from the Salvo's:
L.I.F.E. - All Played Out/All Played Out (Club Mix) 1980's 12" (Dance-Sing)
Narada Michael Walden - Reach Out/Shake It Off 1983 12" (Atlantic)
Michael Sembello - Maniac/Maniac (Instrumental) 1983 12" (Casablanca)
Dance Reaction - Shanks Mare Honey/Ahah-Hih-Hoeh-Hooh 1982 12" (Friends Records)
Supercharge - I Can See Right Through You/Taxi 1979 12" (Virgin)
Uptown - (I Know) I'm Losing You/(I Know) I'm Losing You (Instrumental) 1980's 12" (Oak Lawn Records)
A 12" inch record with 1980's dance music but with no labels on the centre (I assume a DJ 12")
Disco Gold #1 (this isn't like the CD compilations) this contains cover versions of disco and non-disco songs:
Side A:
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
Hello Old Friend
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Dazz
I Never Cry
Side B:
Hot Line
A 5th Of Beethoven
Shake Your Booty
Car Wash
Lowdown
Peter Brown - Fantasy Love Affair LP 1977:
Side A:
Fantasy Love Affair
Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me?
You Should Do It
Side B:
The Singer's Become A Dancer
For Your Love
Dance With Me
It's True What They Say About Love
Without Love
Renee Geyer Band - If Loving You Is Wrong/Two Sides 1975 7" (RCA Australia)
G.Q. - Disco Nights (Rock Freak)/Boogie Oogie Oogie 1978 7" (Arista Records)
Amii Stewart - Light My Fire/Bring It Back To Me 1979 7" (RCA)
100% Whole Wheat - Ice, Fire & Desire/Heart Of The Mountain 1978 7" (RCA)
I’ve been playing CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD – Kylie Minoque. Number one hit in Europe. On the video Kylie is seen driving what looks like a yellow Lamborghini.
MAGIC OF THE BLUE – Blue Magic – sounds terrific on 12”
SEA, SEX AND SUN – Serge Gainsbourg. Canonised after his death by the French minister of culture Monsieur Jack Lang, the iconoclast composer, singer, film director and novelist was most famous for his duet with Jane Birkin, ”Je T’Aime …Moi Non Plus” but he also recorded with Sly Dunbar & Robbie Shakespeare, Dionne Warwick and Catherine Deneuve. He charted with songs about nazism, s/m, homosexuality, masturbation, oral sex and a track called Lemon Incest, sung with his daughter Charlotte. In 1977 he had a hit with ”Sea, Sex and Sun”, a sleazy-sounding bit of disco pop containing added ooohs by a typical sounding nymphette voice. - In 1986 Serge scandalised a young Whitney Houston on prime time French television by making a comment which contained an expression which made the budding diva scream out:”What did he just say!?”. The blushing host tried in vain to explain:” He just wanted to offer you a bouquet of flowers” which Serge interrupted with ” No, don’t translate me, I said I wanted to **** her!”.
DON’T BOOGIE MR. TANGO – Ebony. Another piece of eurodisco 1977 style, as insanely cheerful as ”Pretty Maid” by The Pretty Maid Company.
Here's my list:
Show You The Way To Go (actually the entire album)- The Jacksons (Thanks Delight)
Seduction - Val Young
Send It - Ashford and Simpson
Shalamar: The 12" Collection, esp. Take That To The Bank and Right In The Socket
Santana's Greatest Hits
Street Player - Rufus
Stay - Rufus
Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits!
Find them and destroy them!
Hi Jussi, Serge was indeed a piece of work. I remember he and Birkin doing that Playboy pictorial. Americans may know Birkin from two films released here, IF DON JUAN WERE A WOMAN and CATHERINE AND COMPANY.
This week's list:
1)On A Rien A Perdre - St. Tropez....my favorite song by them
2)Tell Me - John Davis and the Monster Orchestra....one of the first songs I ever spun
3)Fire Island - Dante's Inferno w/ Ron Dante'
4)Won't You Let Me Be the One - Michae McGloiry
5)I Need You - Sylvester....my favorite Sylvester song, also covered in a rap version by Joeski Love called "I Know She Likes Joe"
6)I Feel Chased (Tom Moulton Remix) - Donna Summer AG
7)Problemes D'Amour - Alexander Robotnik AG
Let's Get Together - Detroit Emeralds AG
9)Superslick - Wham US.....the American Wham, whose members never were caught in compromising positions
10)I Got To Have Your Love - Fantastic Four w/ Cleveland Horne AG
11)Key West - Kasso
And for the lizards:
1)La mer - Charles Trenet AG....the more I listen to this, the more I like it, by the end of the song he sounds like he is having a nervous breakdown
2)The Three Bells - Champagnons des Chansons...now THIS is cheese, this is brie, tilsit, roquefort...
3)Memories Are Made Of This - Dean Martin.....you have to love a man who appears to be sleeping through a recording session
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]"I can see Prussia from my house!". :icon_mrgreen:
Boodikka please tell me who is Charles Trenet? I must get introduced to him, especially since he does a classy Mer.
- My lounge fave of the week: "House of Bamboo" by Earl Grant. This is a Club Montepulciano/Madame Jo Jo classic ( legendary London lounge nights), containing exited singing over feverish calypso rhythms and general bongo madness.
Hi Jussi baby! Charles Trenet actually wrote "La Mer", and I believe he was first to record it. He has always struck me as a poor man's Jacques Brel/Charles Aznavour. I'll add another bit of loungebait to my list: The original "Mah Na, Mah Na" by Piero Umiliani, also available on AudioGalaxy.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]"I can see Prussia from my house!". :icon_mrgreen:
Thanks for the info on Trenet - I'll start nosing around for him. - Fab that you brought up Piero Umiliani! The Mah-Na...track is as you may know originally from an Italian mondo movie SWEDEN HEAVEN AND HELL, a not too flattering 60's shockumentary about our neighbours that could not be shown in Sweden at all. Much of the flick is obviously fake as usual - a wicked Mrs. Gustavsson is a housewife who sneaks out in the afternoon to perform wild strip teases in bars - but you do get to see unwed mothers smoking cigarettes, the king of Sweden parading around, alcoholics eating shoe polish, an abortion clinic and secret same sex dancing parties. And think how all this is just a 30 min. flight away from where I live!
"Mah Na Mah Na"? The one that goes "Doo, Doo, doo doo doo. Mah Na Mah Na. Doo Doo Doo Doo.
Mah Na Mah Na. Doo, Doo, Doo Doo Doo. Doo Doo Doo, Dooh Doo Doo Doo Doo"?
Good grief people! Next we'll be talking about the music from that Alka Seltzer commercial where that big construction guy is chunking out concrete! Because you all are SO knowledgeable, I'm sure someone will jump to tell me what the name of that instrumental was! The words "Any Way You..." something or other come to mind, but I fog out. Damn gray matter fails me again!
On 2001-10-18 07:10, Leanmean wrote:
"Mah Na Mah Na"? The one that goes "Doo, Doo, doo doo doo. Mah Na Mah Na. Doo Doo Doo Doo.
Mah Na Mah Na. Doo, Doo, Doo Doo Doo. Doo Doo Doo, Dooh Doo Doo Doo Doo"?
Good grief people! Next we'll be talking about the music from that Alka Seltzer commercial where that big construction guy is chunking out concrete! Because you all are SO knowledgeable, I'm sure someone will jump to tell me what the name of that instrumental was! The words "Any Way You..." something or other come to mind, but I fog out. Damn gray matter fails me again!
"Mah-Nah-Mah-Nah" was the title, and it was recorded by the Dave Pell Singers, and later by The Muppets on The Muppet Show soundtrack. But I think the best version of it was by Lipstique (from "At The Discotheque" album), titled "Mah-Nah-Mah-Nah/Disco".
And you left out 8 "doo"s at the end of the lyrics quote!
I'm listening to:
1.Count Your Blessings - Prince
2.Let's Groove - Archie Bell & The Drells
3.Walking into Sunshine - Central Line?
4.Another man is beating my time - ?
5.My Sweet Summer Suite/Your Sweetness is my
Weakness - Barry White
6.Let's All Chant - Mike Zager Band
7.Keep On Jumping/In the Bush - Musique
8.Love is the Message - MFSB
9.Cuba/Que Sera Mi Vida - Gibson Brothers
10.Mighty Real - Sylvester (Boodikka "I Need
You" is my favorite Sylvester song as well).
11.Open Sesame/Jungle Boogie - Kool & the Gang
12.War Dance/Mirage - Kebekeletrik
13.CoComotion/Let's Get it Together - El Coco
14.Boris Midney-Beautiful Bend
DELIGHTFUL!!
70's
Barry White - You're the first, the last, my everything
Luisa Fernandez - Lay love on you (ohhh oldie)
Giorgio Moroder - Knights in white satin
Biddu Orchestra - Rainforest
Saturday night band - Come on dance, dance
80's
Kelly Marie - Loving just for fun
Brooklyn Express - Spank sixty nine
The Three degrees - Jump the gun
Jock Hattle - Crazy family (italo disco)
Jack 'N' Chill - The jack that house built
2 Puerto Ricans, a Blackman & a Dominican - Do it properly
90's
4 Non-blondes - What's going on (club remix)
Afrika Bambaataa - Feel the vibe
Donna Summer - I will go with you (Club 69 future mix)
If you buy this record your life, will be better.
damn it, I should have added this one too to my previous 90's list:
Stars on 54 - If you could read my mind (Hex Hector club mix)
If you buy this record your life, will be better.
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