best use of flutes on a disco song

[Marcio**]

It's very hard to find flutes on a disco song.

1) "Hijack", Herbie Mann
2) "The Hustle", Van McCoy & Soul City Symphony
3) "Baby I'm On Fire", The Ritchie Family

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[K-Bee]

I agree. Flutes are definetely not known for their extensive use on disco records (unless they're just in the background as part of a big orchestra)

Among the more jazzy stuff are the works of female flutist Bobbi Humphrey. She made some exellent stuff int the 70's.

There was a mid 80s r&b band named Surface who had a great flute solo in their "Feels so Good" cut from '86.

Turning to the more recent house music, flutes are definetely used a lot more. worth mentioning here are:

Miguel Migs - Brand New Day
St. Germain - So Flute

[Com King]

I find St Germain's "So flute" is more a jazzy song than a house song, but it surely is a unique track, only based on flute.



My favourite disco track including flutes is

Cloud One - Disco Juice

[PaulC]

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[discosavvy]

The Helsinki band G-Litter has a nice disco song "Paiste" from 2002 with prominent flute playing throughout. Their flute player is Susanna Paavola.

"The Express" by B.T. Express had good flute playing by Bill Risbrook and Carlos Ward. Not one of my big favorites, but it works.

[Disco Funk]

I was going to start a new thread dedicated to tracks with nice flutes, but then I came across this oldie.

Here are some others not mentioned, but I've decided to omit obvious artists who played flutes (like Herbie Mann)

Abra Cad Abra - Hustle Bustle

Heart & Soul - Do The Walk


Boz Scaggs - Lowdown


Eddie Drennon - Let's Do It Again


Foxy - Get off your Aaah And Dance


Disco Funk

[Chap2Power]

"Le Sifflet Du Baron" by Le Baron on Sirocco France from the producers and makers of Voyage has pseudo flutes !

Well, it sounds like a flute...it might just be whistling.. but it's sure worth listening to !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxrblWn6wkk

[needlefingers]

D. D. Sound - Cafe







And though there isn't much, I like when the flute comes in on...

Gary's Gang - Let's Lovedance Tonight

[mrkick20000]

I love the Bobbi Humphry's flute with Stevie's harmonica.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0grjsBsu3I

The flutist Joe Thomas of Plato's Retreat fame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6GpX...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owcRk...eature=related

[remicks]

It's very hard to find flutes on a disco song.

1) "Hijack", Herbie Mann
2) "The Hustle", Van McCoy & Soul City Symphony
3) "Baby I'm On Fire", The Ritchie Family

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K-Bee

I agree. Flutes are definetely not known for their extensive use on disco records (unless they're just in the background as part of a big orchestra)

I'm going to respectfully disagree ...

.....in the beginning - flutes were a critical component when creating that upper-end , uplifting sound that defined disco ( making it different from low-end oriented, "funk") This crisp, energetic new sound disco was producing was accomplished in part by using instruments that reached those highest of notes ... most notably of course through violins , but also via a variety of instruments ( each helping to give disco its broader , fuller consistency ) - the high-hat cymbals, xylophone, tambourines, scratchy guitars, female choruses, harps .....and not least amongst them : flutes.

You named two monster examples, Marcio, in THE HUSTLE and HIJACK , and Disco Funk & others have also offered up some significant examples (does LOWDOWN stop being disco without that flute???) and a review of earlier disco will find it laced with flutey songs.

Songs like :

NICE AND SLOW

and

I'LL BE HOLDING ON --- those highest notes heard within there ....credit the piccolo (which is simply the smallest flute)



For me , perhaps the most rewarding example can be heard in the affirmative, feel-good-about-life sound created in this song:

TRAMMPS THEME

in which that flute/piccolo presence is so vital. ( I don't know if music gets any better than that - IMO - I don't believe so. )

Now

if we trace back to pinpoint the origin of the disco use of the flute ... I believe it goes directly back to one specific person & one specific song .
Disco Funk , before I offer my opinion ....
would you care to try to name it?? (smiley with tongue playfully sticking out here)


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[SandraDee]

'I'm Glad That You're Here' by Alphonse Mouzon features what sounds like great flute but it was probably just a synth as I'm usually wrong...
& then there was this classic:

[markydefad]

"DAZZ" by Brick has a killer flute in the break...starts 2:38 until 4:44

I cannot post videos here anymore; I've tried 5 times to paste the embed code and it doesn't take.

Why does everything have to change for the worse?

[paul]

"DAZZ" by Brick has a killer flute in the break...starts 2:38 until 4:44

I cannot post videos here anymore; I've tried 5 times to paste the embed code and it doesn't take.

Why does everything have to change for the worse?

Now that was a classic use of the flute Marky. That one you really appreciate with the volume so high your eardrums bleed!

As for the youtube embedding, me thinks Bernie is f...ing with us. After having trouble doing it when it first got going here, I finally got the hang of it and could do it in my sleep. Now the bossman decides he wants to mess with our heads by giving us new and improved.

[markydefad]

Now that was a classic use of the flute Marky. That one you really appreciate with the volume so high your eardrums bleed!

As for the youtube embedding, me thinks Bernie is f...ing with us. After having trouble doing it when it first got going here, I finally got the hang of it and could do it in my sleep. Now the bossman decides he wants to mess with our heads by giving us new and improved.

Thank you Paul. then it's not just me. But it's YouTube also--they stopped displaying the codes the way they had been and it's now a mystery.

I did it once with the new system--but every time I tried to paste the code in today, nothing appeared.

[thommy2458]

I'll give it a shot:


Also,for Marky-
Hey Marky-How are you? How's your new computor? Just a quick note-
when you want to use a YouTube video hit "share" under the video you are playing,
then highlight and hit copy.When you come back to your post on DiscoMusic
hit the little green movie film icon on the right hand side(three to the left from this symbol "#")
And if you cleaned out your mailbox I could have sent this private,silly boy!

[remicks]

Now that was a classic use of the flute Marky. That one you really appreciate with the volume so high your eardrums bleed!

As for the youtube embedding, me thinks Bernie is f...ing with us. After having trouble doing it when it first got going here, I finally got the hang of it and could do it in my sleep. Now the bossman decides he wants to mess with our heads by giving us new and improved.

PAUL PAUL PAUL !!!

this is YOUR cue !!!




baby let's do the co-co-motion

flutey flute flute de flute de flute

beginning at 2:00



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marky, I had trouble getting the video window to stay open , if that's your problem ... until I reduced other opened pages on my computer..... overload I guess !



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[paul]

How embarrassing. To not even acknowledge one of my signature songs. Thanks for slappin' me upside the head remicks

[FunkyChris]

Perhaps not the best use of a flute, but there's a pretty funky flute on the lp version of "Two Hot For Love" By THP Orchestra.

[SandraDee]

There's that bit on 'Love To Love You Baby' that gives good flute. (it sounds exactly like a bit on the 'Shaft' soundtrack - I just watched the film & thought it was LTLYB at first!)

[SandraDee]

I cannot post videos here anymore; I've tried 5 times to paste the embed code and it doesn't take.

Why does everything have to change for the worse?

I'm still doing it the old way with brackets etc. Blanche.

[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Chris Taylor's Arabic Flute solo, from Sphinx' "Judas Iscariot".
By the end, when you hear Judas hang himself, it still gives me the heebie-jeebies!

[Davicillo]

Not strictly disco but , 'I know' by New Atlantic has nice flute on. Well, I think its a flute.

[Segue]

How about Herbie Mann's Superman! In my opinion, the whole song is centered around the flute.

[Disco Funk]

Here's one I just remembered



Disco Funk

[shenkin2001]

I like flutes on Jeff Wayne's "The Eve Of The War" 1978...but maybe it synthesizer ?