Which Record Got U Into Disco?

**PaulC** · June 23rd, 2003, 06:22 PM

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**markydefad** · June 23rd, 2003, 06:34 PM

We've passed this way before....BUT

I recall the "Save Me" LP by Silver Convention as being my first disco purchase....followed closely by The Trammps' "Where The Happy People Go"; "More, More, More" by Andrea True Connection and "Turn The Beat Around" by Vicki Sue Robinson.

**rhessel** · June 23rd, 2003, 06:40 PM

Hello:

I am not completely sure but I remember some:

Gloria Gaynor - Honey bee;
Carol Douglas - Doctor's orders;
First Choice - Smarty pants;
Carl Douglas - Kung fu fighting;
The Stylistics - Hey girl come and get it;
Whispers - Once more with feeling

Cheers,

**Outsider** · June 23rd, 2003, 06:46 PM

"More, More, More" by the Andrea True Connection. :evil:

**peppertree5706** · June 23rd, 2003, 07:53 PM

I loved TSOP-MFSB but I did not know of disco. Then I heard Rock The Boat-Hues Corp. By the time The Hustle-Van McCoy was out, I saw a trend. Then the disco records were played at dances that I went to (at l5 or l6 years old).I remember Earth, Wind and Fire and The Trammps.

So I guess, I knew that The Hustle was more than just a song. Much more. I have been hooked to disco all my life and I can never get my fill of good disco.

Too bad my wife does not like to dance. Well I can still listen to it.

Marcio** · June 24th, 2003, 12:16 AM

I remember "Why Can't We Live Together" by Timmy Thomas. So different

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**strut_ur_funky_stuff** · June 24th, 2003, 01:43 AM

haha well this is easy for me since i only been into disco music for just over a year....but the first song that made me look deeper into disco was kelly marie's "feels like im in love"....now my tastes have completely changed (which they do every day it seems) geez theres just so much.but some of me fav songs are
cerrone- call me tonight
syvester-all of them :D
stephanie mills-never knew love like this
space-deliverence
richard T Bear-sunshine hotel
carol jiani-mercy
:D

**jazz_pilgrim** · June 24th, 2003, 01:47 AM

The record that got me hooked on not only disco but the whole soul/funk/disco/jazz thing was Roy Ayers and Running Away

**efunk_adelic** · June 25th, 2003, 11:53 PM

I guess the earliest record I bought was:

Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes - The Love I Lost

now, I had no idea of disco music or what I was getting myself into.... All I know was that this was a good song. If you wanna count Why Can't We Live Together - Timmy Thomas... then whichever one came out first...

By 1975, I had probably 6 James Brown singles :P

so the bass guitar ruled my life...

**efunk_adelic** · June 25th, 2003, 11:57 PM

Originally Written by jazz_pilgrim

The record that got me hooked on not only disco but the whole soul/funk/disco/jazz thing was Roy Ayers and Running Away

Jazz, I also liked this tune a lot.... I always wondered if the girls were saying: Scooby Doo... Fun, Fun, Fun
or
Shoo be Doo Fun, Fun, Fun

**Jimmy-Michaels** · June 26th, 2003, 12:32 AM

**** thats a good question, for I guess love of disco it began with a series of tracks..some of the first ones I can recall are the following:

There But For The Grace Of God Go I - Machine
Romeo And Juliet - Alec R Costandinos
Native New Yorker - Odyssey
Cher Chez La Femme - Dr Buzzard's Original Savanah Band
Supernature - Cerrone
Sevilla Nights - Santa Esmeralda
I Caught Your Act - Hughs Corp.
I Found Love Now That I Found You - Love And Kisses (Costandinos)
From East To West - Voyage
Vertigo/Relight My Fire - Dan Hartman

thats some of the many true disco tracks I first was hearing while getting more deeper into the stuff and dancing the endless nights away at the good old 8th Floor disco in Philly :D

DJ Jimmy M

**jazz_pilgrim** · June 26th, 2003, 01:46 AM

Originally Written by efunk_adelic

Originally Written by jazz_pilgrim

The record that got me hooked on not only disco but the whole soul/funk/disco/jazz thing was Roy Ayers and Running Away

Jazz, I also liked this tune a lot.... I always wondered if the girls were saying: Scooby Doo... Fun, Fun, Fun
or
Shoo be Doo Fun, Fun, Fun

Definitely SCOOBY DOO FUN FUN FUN!! :P :P

Cheers for the nice compliments! I am happy to return the compliment - I am a great Philly Soul fan and you picked a classic Philly tune with that Harold Melvin record! The great thing about those Philly tunes for me was the wonderful fade out at the end when things really got cooking!

:)

**efunk_adelic** · June 26th, 2003, 02:27 AM

Originally Written by jazz_pilgrim

Cheers for the nice compliments! I am happy to return the compliment - I am a great Philly Soul fan and you picked a classic Philly tune with that Harold Melvin record! The great thing about those Philly tunes for me was the wonderful fade out at the end when things really got cooking!

:)

Jazz, Teddy Pendergrass is the ****!!! :D

I've been playing
I Miss You a lot recently.... even tho it's slow and depressing... I just dig that record.

**Jimmy-Michaels** · June 26th, 2003, 02:51 AM

Quick story speaking of Teddy...I nearly got myself in a car wreck a long time ago when I was a teen with my brother driving down the same curvy road in Philly that Teddy got paralized on from a car wreck, was some scary ****.

DJ Jimmy M

**Boogie Child** · June 27th, 2003, 12:44 PM

I bought 45's that were disco along with other pop/Top 40 while I was in high school, but when I first went to a disco in January 1978, it was the lilting strands of Donna Summer's "Once Upon A Time" that sent me rushing to the record store the very next day. I did not know the artist, but "Once Upon A Time" kept echoing through my brain. A clerk helped me find the album, and I adored it. I proceeded to buy her entire back catalog and after that, it was only 12 inches and disco LPs for me. Anything that I liked at the disco, I had to have!

**NickNack** · June 27th, 2003, 02:20 PM

Probably, "Love's Theme". Did I know it was 'disco' at the time (did anybody :) )? Don't think so, but it was one of the prettiest things I ever remember coming across a radio dial.

efunk and jazz: Thanks for "Running Away". Add that to my 'make me run to the dancefloor' list. But guys, check out your headsets. It's "Doo bee doo, run, run, run." I just played that intro 3 times to make sure. If it ain't, then I'm heading over to Ear, Nose and Throat.

**paul** · June 27th, 2003, 02:27 PM

Nicky, you're correct but Jazz's and efunk's interpretation is very funny :lol:

**NickNack** · June 27th, 2003, 02:36 PM

Originally Written by jazz_pilgrim

I am a great Philly Soul fan and you picked a classic Philly tune with that Harold Melvin record! The great thing about those Philly tunes for me was the wonderful fade out at the end when things really got cooking!

:)

Those fades were awesome and "The Love I Lost" is a great example. Made you wish and beg for just another 10 seconds. Other examples by Teddy are "Easy" and the original version of "Don't Leave Me This Way" from the Wake Up Everybody album. The song breaks down to to just Teddy, drum, bass and splashes of organ. The engineer is fading as Teddy is pleading, "Baby, please... baby, please".

Whew! Too hot for love. :D

**DiscoMan** · June 27th, 2003, 05:11 PM

No particular record just the sound of Philly and the beat the was eveloving from R&B, Funk and soul.
Read the earlier thread on early Disco for a good understanding.

**vodkatonique** · June 27th, 2003, 06:11 PM

House got me into disco, so to stay with my logic, I'd have to say the 1st sample that got me hooked was "No more tears" by Barbra & Donna, though I couldn't have told at the time.
My 1st bonafide disco record was Donna Summer "Love Trilogy", which I had bought specifically for "Could it be magic". It remains a classic to me to these days.

**paul** · June 27th, 2003, 06:12 PM

Originally Written by NickNack

Originally Written by jazz_pilgrim

I am a great Philly Soul fan and you picked a classic Philly tune with that Harold Melvin record! The great thing about those Philly tunes for me was the wonderful fade out at the end when things really got cooking!

:)

Those fades were awesome and "The Love I Lost" is a great example. Made you wish and beg for just another 10 seconds. Other examples by Teddy are "Easy" and the original version of "Don't Leave Me This Way" from the Wake Up Everybody album. The song breaks down to to just Teddy, drum, bass and splashes of organ. The engineer is fading as Teddy is pleading, "Baby, please... baby, please".

Whew! Too hot for love. :D

Interesting footnote I want to add to "The Love I Lost."
I heard Teddy on "Fresh Air" a year ago say that that song was originally written to be a ballad. One of the musicians, the drummer I think, felt it would work better as a dance song and changed the tempo.

**SandraDee** · June 27th, 2003, 06:31 PM

When I was 4 or 5, I used to spend alot of time at a girl's house across the road & I can just remember listening to her collection of Motown & stuff like Freda payne 'Band of Gold' & Smokey's 'Tears of a Clown' over & over which I think got me hooked at an early age! My brothers & sister were into rock & they hated how I only liked soul & dance music. Then when I was 8 we moved & I first heard 'Loves Theme' & Gloria's 'Never Can Say Goodbye' on the radio & thats where I got the disco bug bigtime. I never wanted to go out & play with other kids, I'd spend all my time playing my records & listening to the radio. When I think back to any event in my life, I can always link it to a disco or soul record that was big at the time!

**Funky Dude** · June 27th, 2003, 06:41 PM

What got me hooked on disco was when I was listening to a sunday night program on I98 FM called "Lost In The 70s" back in 1994 when I was 13. They played the archetypal top 40 songs of the 1970s which everyone knows and the disco songs they played that got me hooked are:

Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye 1974
Chic - Le Freak 1978
Disco Tex & The Sex-o-lettes - Get Dancin' 1974
KC & The Sunshine Band - That's The Way I Like It 1975

I didn't even know these songs were disco at the time hehehehe, I didn't even know what disco music was until a year later.

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**jim** · June 27th, 2003, 07:10 PM

Originally Written by PaulC

Which record(s) first got u into disco...or were the first you bought?

I had always had a preference for RnB over the average rock song.
The first 12" single I had purchased was Let's All chant/Love Express.
My exposure to club hits was mostly through disco radio shows and later stations.
The first "club" hit (disco song that didn't crossover I remember was Bionic boogie's Risky changes, which had it been up to me would have been at least a Top 5 pop hit,if not #1.
Two of my all time favorite disco hits are Chic's Good Times (which did go #1 pop)and Machine's Grace of God (which should have but alas came 76 positions shy),but believe it or not my overall all time favoruite tune is Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven which IMO should have been issued as a 12" single. perhaps as a B side to a remix of Carouselambra.

**birdie** · June 28th, 2003, 06:42 AM

Before disco I was into prog-rock! I'd sung along to certain stuff on the radio for years - like the Stylistics and the Trammps - so I knew that I liked vocal harmonies but it was all part of pop music for me. Then I visited New York in September 1978...

I heard school-kids on a bus singing a song I'd never heard before - Village People's "Macho Man" - and I got an inkling that there was something going on musically that I was unaware of. Then in NYC I discovered the West Village gay scene and realized that disco music was an essential part of it. I heard Grace Jones "Do or Die" everywhere I went. It was very different (pure disco I'd say) and had that sassy line "I've been called an operator - I could sell an Eskimo snow".. I just had to have it and this was the first disco LP I bought (I was impressed to find the tracks on side 1 were all segued together).

Never looked back,

Birdie