Learning to dance with Ida Randina?

[JussiK]

Sorting out all sorts of vinyl flotsam in my basement I came across a box set of the kind which always was a bit of an embarrassment but which sounds fun now: NIGHT MOVES - the professional approach to disco dancing. Like "would I really resort to a cheesy instruction record to learn how to dance?" This is a set of 2 albums and an instruction book, by a dance champ someone called Denney Terrio. On the albums, he first guides you thru ridiculous solo moves all but the most misguided would have considered doing in 1978 when the box came out. The hustle instruction side is far better though the man insists on talking with awkward sounding dance studio lingo, such as Skip bull steps etc. Still, learning to do the hustle right by listening to him and watching the detailed photos of the book must have been a good way to start. Some newer books on disco, especially one that originally came out 4 years ago, had editors who feared descriptions of six-count step patterns - one:tap to the left, two:bring your left foot back, Three-and-four: step back with your right foot and quickly back with your left and quickly up with your right, meaning 3 steps done within 2 counts of the music, five: step foward with your left foot and finally step foward with your right foot to complete the pattern - would be too complicated and therefore uncommercial, and who told a co-writer who had no real knowledge of touch dancing to come with simplified instructions instead...and to write about all of the dance moves - corkscrew?! - apart from the Point! arrrggh! Anyway, the box set under discussion has one side of music with no instructions, and there, amid familiar Sylvester and Cerrone faves, is an excellent cool fast jazzy disco track by Ida Randina called "Make It A Night For Love". Who was Ida and did she have an album out?

[NickNack]

This is a set of 2 albums and an instruction book, by a dance champ someone called Denney Terrio.

OMG! :lol: Denny Terrio and his "Dance Fever" act. The ladies that danced with him were called "Motion". Timeframe escapes me but he was big for a while in the 70's with his own TV show and giving instructions to suburban housewives on how to "disco". :lol: :lol:

Sorry, never heard of Ida Randina.

I just remembered: Denney trained Travolta for SNF. Is that good or bad?

Jussi --- Is the track by Ida really good or just better than the other stuff that's there? How long is it or rather is it club-floor length or a radio single?

[JussiK]

Teaching housewifes how to hustle...that explains a lot about Mr Terrio's hairdo.

The Ida Randina track is a proper 6 minute disco stormer, rather in the style of "Get Another Love" by Chantal Curtis, with the same kind of moody elegant vocal. The cuts in the Night Moves music-only section are all full length and not sequed. So, ignore the Denny Terrio factor and get the box for Ida.