Best Disco Songs With A False Ending

[Bernie]

The discussion on Jungle Fever and its use of a false ending got me thinking about other songs using the same technique.

My favorite has to be Love and Kisses "I Found Love Now That I Have Found You." About a minute or so before the end the music starts fading out and a deep voice comes on and says, " And I suppose you thought it was all over? No, no, no, no, no" and then the music coming back in-LOVE IT!

Any other good songs with false endings?

[Forrrce]

The LP version of Zulema's 'Giving Up' fades out, then back in again...

[efunk_adelic]

This was pretty odd.... not sure why they did it...

James Brown - Bodyheat


on the LP version fades out & works it way back in about 1/2 through the song. :roll:

However, on a CD that came out recently, they remixed it to become 1 whole song!

[Robbie]

How about the LP version of Donna Summer's "Love To Love You Baby"?? After that bone-chilling strike of the strings, a pause for about three seconds as the remnants of the strings goes wandering out of extinction, only to have Donna's "ahhh's" come in softly and giving us another three-and-a-half-minute encore of "Love To Love You". This time, it's symphonic as opposed to electronic. A masterpiece!! :P

Also, going back earlier, the Contours' "Do You Love Me" (1962). The song fades out after they sing the "Now that I can dance" refrain, and you hear some bass and then the melody kicks in again.

[markydefad]

What about the fabulous extended ending of First Choice's "Let No Man Put Asunder"?-- wherin they keep repeating..."It's not over...between you and me" and then a lotta "It's not overs" and it's not-- until it finally is. :D

[NickNack]

I remember the 7" version of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" having a false ending. Total fade out and then the background guys come back up continuing with the song for only a few seconds. On the lp, it seques to the next cut.

[Marcio**]

When I heard "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" by Boys Town Gang I expected to find the end of the song on the little piano's solo.

[JussiK]

Try the full length MOON BOOTS by ORS (Orlando Riva Sound). This fades away only to pounce back two seconds later more forcefully than ever.

[BrunoRepublic]

I remember the 7" version of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" having a false ending. Total fade out and then the background guys come back up continuing with the song for only a few seconds. On the lp, it seques to the next cut.

Included on the Deluxe Edition of the album. :D

[Funky Dude]

A great song to mention would be Rufus & Chaka Khan's "Look Through My Eyes" which was released on their 1974 album "Rags To Rufus". The album was a mixture of soul, funk with a bit of disco and "Look Through My Eyes" is one of the best songs off the album with a great disco wah wah rhythm in it. The song fades then the funky disco rhythm fades back in about 10 seconds later for about 30-60 seconds before the song fades to an end.

[Bernie]

A great song to mention would be Rufus & Chaka Khan's "Look Through My Eyes" which was released on their 1974 album "Rags To Rufus".

Will have to dig out this album later and check it out as I don't remember the track.

[Forrrce]

Talking of Rufus & Chaka, their version of 'You're Welcome (Stop On By)' fades out and is reprised with added sax.

[Kendela]

The 12" of "Going back to my roots" by Lamont Dozier fades out to just noise and then kicks back in with a new piano riff and African chanting.

Awesome!

[NickNack]

If I'm not hallucinating, I think Curtis Mayfield's "Don't Worry, If There's a Hell Below We're All Gonna Go" has a false fade. The 7" (which I lost a million years ago) fades and then comes back with an explosion and the album version fades and comes back with a recessed rhythm track under a hellish wind effect.

[freddyinptown]

No contest: "Super Sweet," Wardell Piper, Midland International (LP version), 1979

[the disco kid]

"Hupendi Muziki Wangu" by K.I.D. follows the pattern of "Jungle Fever" by Chakakas, full of false stops.

Another of my favorite songs that fades out and then comes back full volume for a few more seconds before really fading out is "Share My Love With You" by Dee Dee Sharp on her "Happy 'Bout The Whole Thing" LP.

[Disco Funk]

If we're including older funk songs, I'll mix it up with my list:

Ramsey Lewis - Back In The USSR (song ends, then a drum beat takes it out).
Crowbar - Oh What A Feeling (not really funk, but a great dance track for early 70s music)

Hot Chocolate - Disco Queen
Trammps - Disco Party; The Night The Lights Went Out (it goes back to the intro arrangement in a hard stop).
Wonderland Band - Superman

There are others that have escaped me at the moment, but I'll think of them later.

Disco Funk

[freddyinptown]

the disco kid, I had never thought of those false starts as you observantly identify them.

Perhaps they were the meaning of the complete title, "Hupendi Muziki Wangu?! (...You Don't Like My Music)." Woe unto those who danced on the melody, as this record separated the men from the boys and the women from the girls. Precise and elegant as a Rolex; but who'd have thought it could hit so late in the era...besides SAM Records, of course?:icon_confused:

[Disco Funk]

I just came across a pre-Tom Moulton Mix version of Bobby Moore's Call Me Your Anything Man on Hot Line records. Pt 2, which is an instrumental mix, starts fading out, with the congos remaining loud, making you think the song is ending, but then the volume cranks up to full again and within 10 seconds, it starts fading out again, for good.

Disco Funk

[the disco kid]

"Have A Cigar" by Rosebud employs the same technique that "Jungle Fever" uses as well, albeit at a much faster tempo, false stop right before the break, and then a false stop before it actually does cold end a few bars later.

[pepper1dancer]

"The Teachers a Punk" by Z-Rocks. At the end of side one on the album, it is silent for at least 10 seconds and then a guy comes on and says" turn the record over" then another guy says "No, you turn it over" and it goes back and forth. I was having a party and it freaked all of us out! Of course we were all stoned out of our minds. I'll never forget that.