Need Help - Suggest Disco Songs In Same Style For Mix

[Daniel]

Hello everyone!

I want to make a 70minute Mix.

Here are the first three Tracks:
1. Flight 76-Walter Murphy
2. Manhatten Skyline-David Shire
3. Love is the Answer-Van McCoy

my Problem is:i dont know more songs in this Style,can somebody tell me Artists and songs in this Style?

[Marcio**]

hi Daniel,


I think you are looking for instrumental disco songs. I personally like...


1 - "Disco Magic" by T-Connection
2 - "Summer of '42" by Biddu Orchestra
3 - "Tom's Song" by Trammps



Marcio

[K-Bee]

I'll add a few as well

Van McCoy - Two Points
MFSB - K-Gee
Webster Lewis - On The Town
Love unlimited orchestra - Love's Theme and Bayou

[peppertree5706]

The Chase-Giorgio Moroder

Only drawback, it is about 15 minutes and will take up a lot of your tape.

Disco Lucy

Another good disco instrumental and popular with Hispanics especially Miami Cubans.

[usagi-san]

About "Disco Lucy", if you mean by the Wilton Place Street Band, it does have the lyric "dance dance disco Lucy."
"Summer Love Theme" by Musique and "Theme From Lipstick" by Rhythm Heritage are among favorite instrumentals of mine, and Van McCoy, MFSB and Salsoul Orchestra have various other good ones, too.
usagi-san

[efunk_adelic]

Here's some pretty good instrumental tracks:


Crown Heights Affair - Dreaming A Dream
Van McCoy - To Each His Own

[peppertree5706]

About "Disco Lucy", if you mean by the Wilton Place Street Band, it does have the lyric "dance dance disco Lucy."
"Summer Love Theme" by Musique and "Theme From Lipstick" by Rhythm Heritage are among favorite instrumentals of mine, and Van McCoy, MFSB and Salsoul Orchestra have various other good ones, too.
usagi-san

Yes, I know. But it has been a common practice in rock and roll history to ignore chants or single words thrown out to not change the classification of a tune as an instrumental.

Sometimes, there are enough words, that it comes close to the line.

What about, "Pickin' Up The Pieces?" Is that an instrumental or vocal. All they say is Pickin' Up The Pieces and they scream a few times. There are no lyrics in the song.

[Outsider]

I consider songs such as "Disco Lucy" and "Pick Up The Pieces" to be instrumentals. The same goes for "The Hustle" even though the phrase "do the hustle" is said every now and then. I don't think that counts as actual lyrics.

:evil:

[usagi-san]

I was not being critical of peppertree5706 by referring to the few words in "Disco Lucy" as lyrics. I was merely trying to find out if he might be referring to a version of the song other than Wilton Place Street Band's.
As to whether "Pick Up The Pieces" and "The Hustle" are vocal or instrumental, I would call them neither, but I have no problem with someone else thinking of both as instrumentals. The same with MFSB's "TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia)", which I do not call instrumental, because of the "Let's get it on, it's time to get down" near the fade out. (I am referring to the original album version, not the later remix with "people all over the world" or any version that says "soul train, soul train" in it, though I would not call those versions instrumentals either.) My own way of thinking of instrumentals is that if a song has any vocals of any type, it is not an instrumental. If I started thinking of a song with minimal vocals that just repeat the title or whatever as instrumental, I don't know where I would draw the line. Take El Coco's "Cocomotion". Most of the running time is instruments only, and the vocal words are more numerous than in "The Hustle" and "Pick Up The Pieces", yet don't say much more than embellishments about doing the Cocomotion (this song rules by the way; I am not criticizing it in the slightest). I wonder if peppertree5706, Outsider and others would call it and "TSOP" instrumentals. Or a case of when the Brady Bunch covered (some would say "butchered") "The Hustle" in 1976 on their The Brady Bunch Hour" variety show, adding enough "la"s to make vocalizing of some sort the majority of the song ("DO the HUS-tle! La la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la...") I have noticed on some of my CDs references to "karaoke" versions and to "instrumental" versions, and wonder if someone thought of "karaoke" versions as meaning only background vocals enhancing instrumentals and "instrumental" meaning entirely instrumental.
Back to the request for songs to add to the list of "Flight '76" etc, if it is indeed uptempo instrumentals he or she wanted, I bet "popcorn" by Hot Butter would be enjoyed by lots of disco fans even if it is not strictly speaking a disco song. Various other El Coco, Le Pamplemousse, uptempo SIlvetti, Atlanta Disco Band, and many others could work, too.
usagi-san

[usagi-san]

I am so sorry I referred to the original "need help" poster as "he or she". I had forgotten the name "Daniel." :oops:
usagi-san

[jazz_pilgrim]

I have just sent a message out to our good friend Blaxman.

I know that he absolutely loves instrumental versions of disco singles, and I am sure he can give you some really good recommendations.

Watch this space!

[sammyperez]

I'm not sure if the topic is disco instrumentals or not, however, if that is the case, I have some other suggestions:

Cocomotion - El Coco
Beyond the clouds - Quartz
Disco Circus - Martin Circus
Black Water Gold - The Sunshine Band
Spring Rain - Silvetti
Two hot for love - The THP Orchestra
Magic bird of fire The Salsoul Orchestra

Hope this helps.

Easy,

Sam "ALL JAM"

[jazz_pilgrim]

Some instrumental B sides of 12-inch singles that I really like:

D-Train - You're The One For Me
Passion - Don't Stop Your Love
Galaxy - Head Over Heels

and a couple of British disco instrumentals that were very popular in their day:

Central Line - Breaking Point
Touch - Keep On 8)

[peppertree5706]

Usagi-San:

It seems that you appreciate rigid distinctions. Since music is an art (not a science) rigid distinctions as to what is an instrumental and what is a lyric/vocal song are not always correct. It may vary from person to person.

In my experience, an instrumental ranges from all music, no voices, through shouts/screams/scat or nonsense words up to chants of a word or words without a sentence.

I would call, "Cocomotion," a vocal. They sing a few lines, telling everyone to do the cocomotion etc.

I call, "The Hustle'" by Van McCoy an instrumental. They tell you to do the hustle, but they say no more.

This reminds me of a debate I had with someone about a 1971 Santana song called, "Oye Como Va." I said it was a vocal, but my friend said he thought it was an instrumental. He stated that they did not sing very many words and all the words were in Spanish, and he did not know Spanish. I did not agree.

Back in 1963, there was a Spanish language song called, "El Watusi." The song was mostly instrumental with talk not singing (nor rapping) in Spanish and the word Watusi said over and over. Everyone thought of that as an instrumental.

There is a grey area, where it is hard to decide where the song crosses from instrumental to vocal. An objective standard is hard to make. Records used to be labeled as vocal or instrumental. Someone else got to decide for us back then.

[peppertree5706]

What about, "Brazil," by The Richie family? Great song!

[efunk_adelic]

Here's a couple more borderline vocal/instrumental?


Fly, Robin, Fly - Silver Convention
Movin' - Brass Construction

[peppertree5706]

Brazil by Richie Family is about as close as you can get to a borderline song. I don't think you can be wrong either way.

Fly Robin Fly is a vocal. There is too much singing.