Non disco songs on a disco compilation?

**boogie nites** · January 9th, 2004, 11:33 PM

I have found some crackers!
La De Das "Too Pooped To Pop" **** glam song
Liza Minelli "Losing My Mind" too bad for words
Sweet "Blockbuster" Glam is not disco!
KC & Sunshine Band "Please Don't Go" ballad
Donna Summer "I Will Go With You" ...
Jimmy Cliff "Roots Radical" roots reggae

I've shown you mine now show me yours...

**Jimmy-Michaels** · January 10th, 2004, 02:59 PM

"Jet Boy Jet Girl" - Elton Motello
"The Night Chicago Died" - Paper Lace
"Love Really Hurts Without You" - Billy Ocean

Marcio** · January 10th, 2004, 04:44 PM

I have found...

"Stublin In" by Susi Quatro (pop/rock)
"Canada" by Pilot (pop/rock)
"Una Mezza Estate" by Fred Bongusto (ballad)

**Albano343** · January 10th, 2004, 05:08 PM

Originally Written by boogie nites

I have found some crackers!
La De Das "Too Pooped To Pop" **** glam song
Liza Minelli "Losing My Mind" too bad for words
Sweet "Blockbuster" Glam is not disco!
KC & Sunshine Band "Please Don't Go" ballad
Donna Summer "I Will Go With You" ...
Jimmy Cliff "Roots Radical" roots reggae

I've shown you mine now show me yours...

The Sweet - Blockbuster :o

one of my oldest 45',
The Sweet
Ballroom Blitz (A)
Fox on the Run(B)

Always.. rock and roll ...

**markydefad** · January 10th, 2004, 05:23 PM

I've seen them (compilation compilers) try to pass off Maxine Nightingale's pop hit "Right Back Where We Started From" & Eddie Money's pop/rocker "Baby Hold On" as DISCO!!!!

Uh, no...not really. :o

**Jimmy-Michaels** · January 10th, 2004, 09:40 PM

Hey Marky, I was gonna name the Maxine Nightingale one you just did but I figured i'd catch hell from the mainstream fans LOL. Good to know that I aint the only one who sees this song as pop/soul...more sounds like a 60's girl group track actualy. While were on this subject and since that one was mentioned i'll mention another..."Emotion" by Samantha Sang..yes, she did a great disco track with Meco in '79 (From Dance To Love)..however this pop hit I just mentioned done with Barry Gibb is far from disco..it's a smooth late 70s chillout type track with a slight bit of mellow soul in the music (not vocals)..although this track I do like unlike the Maxine one..just aint disco so had to add it :lol:

DJ Jimmy M

**JussiK** · January 12th, 2004, 12:59 AM

Most of the recent British so-called disco compliation cds aimed at the hipper clubbers describe various cuts as "..and while not really disco as such at all this is a cool tune nevertheless, and as funky as they get and blah blah blah". Why call the damn things disco if all the producers are interested in is funk?

**Jimmy-Michaels** · January 12th, 2004, 03:10 AM

Yes I agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think that funk is funk and disco is disco and too many mix em up calling them one of the same. There is of corse disco-funk. But it's not pure funk as alot of people confuse it..think you get where im goin with this..I dont know im tired I dont even know wtf im sayin :lol:

DJ Jimmy M

**Voyage** · January 12th, 2004, 09:49 AM

You know it really annoys me that people call stuff DISCO when it's really not DISCO specially on those cheap (quality) compilations out there because people who are starting as DISCO fans usually buy this stuff (I bought one when I was starting to like this awesome music some years ago) and they certainly can fool you for the first time....Though you discover your mistake as time goes on.

Gloria - Laura Branigan I love this song to death but it ain't disco imo

December 1963-Frankie Vallie
Grease and the whole Grease soundtrack :roll:

I consider the two acts above more as late 70s POP than DISCO.

Voyage :P

**Jimmy-Michaels** · January 12th, 2004, 05:23 PM

They actualy put "Gloria" as a disco track on a comp???????? Holly ****! That musta been a real bad one as thats early 80's pop! Oh speaking of which..here's another to add to the "not disco" on supposed disco comp. catogory. "Flashdance" and anything from it!

DJ Jimmy M

**markydefad** · January 12th, 2004, 05:40 PM

But, guys now "Gloria" and "Flashdance" were definitely played at discos such as Trocadero Transfer in SF and were #1 on the Billboard Disco chart, I do believe.

So, I think they do count as DISCO--the last wave, maybe.

**Robbie** · January 12th, 2004, 05:59 PM

I've seen "Emotion" by Samantha Sang on at least one disco compilation, but one that really blew me away was seeing an 8-track on Ebay that was a disco collection that contained Melissa Manchester's "Just Too Many People" as the final song. That is not a disco song by any means but a typically mid-'70s pop song. That one was like "whoaaaa" to me.

**Jimmy-Michaels** · January 12th, 2004, 07:22 PM

Originally Written by markydefad

But, guys now "Gloria" and "Flashdance" were definitely played at discos such as Trocadero Transfer in SF and were #1 on the Billboard Disco chart, I do believe.

So, I think they do count as DISCO--the last wave, maybe.

I could see "Gloria" being played mega pitched down in the mix to **** with people maybe..but "Flashdance" at Trocadero?? Thought Trocadero closed in like 1981/82 when "Flashdance" was 83.

**markydefad** · January 12th, 2004, 07:43 PM

No, Jimmy...Trocadero was open for a lot longer than that. I saw Miss Laura actually perform "Gloria" there. That record was one of the biggest sellers we ever had at Aloha Records as far as I can remember. And they sure as hell played "Flashdance..What A Feeling"--even Bobby V., when he did a special return visit one night in 1983.

**NickNack** · January 12th, 2004, 08:24 PM

Sadly, Marky is right. I detested Gloria but heard it everywhere. Promised it would never grace my turntable. I could deal with "Flash..." though I didn't consider it a disco song at all and, again, wouldn't play it. Now Laura Branigan's "Imagination" 8) from that lp... now that's something else!

**Voyage** · January 12th, 2004, 09:00 PM

Oh thanks Marky for telling me they were played at the Troc. Yeah I don't doubt they were played in Discos at the time it's just that I don't consider them disco in my book...I consider them 80s stuff but oh well everyone has it's own point de vue.

I consider Gloria and Flashdance among some of my favorite all time songs

Right Jimmy? :roll: LOL

Imagination is an awesome track by Laura Branigan as well as Self Control, though I like more Raff's original version.

Voyage :P

Marcio** · January 12th, 2004, 10:51 PM

"Baba O'Riley" by The Who (rock)
"Sex Machine" by James Brown (funk)
"Chattanooga Cho Cho" by Tuxedo Junction (big orchestra)

Hey, Bernie, Tuxedo Junction disappeared from the disco records vault A-Z :( :( :( .

**efunk_adelic** · January 13th, 2004, 12:33 AM

Originally Written by DJ Jimmy M

Yes I agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think that funk is funk and disco is disco and too many mix em up calling them one of the same. There is of corse disco-funk. But it's not pure funk as alot of people confuse it..think you get where im goin with this..I dont know im tired I dont even know wtf im sayin :lol:

DJ Jimmy M

focking :lol: at not knowing what you are saying... Look at what time it was when you wrote this Jimmy...

I agree with you guys. When I released my top songs for the disco top 500, I didn't list 1 funk song that some of the members describe at disco. :D

**Jimmy-Michaels** · January 13th, 2004, 02:24 AM

Originally Written by markydefad

No, Jimmy...Trocadero was open for a lot longer than that. I saw Miss Laura actually perform "Gloria" there. That record was one of the biggest sellers we ever had at Aloha Records as far as I can remember. And they sure as hell played "Flashdance..What A Feeling"--even Bobby V., when he did a special return visit one night in 1983.

Thanx for the info Marky :D Didn't know Troc was still goin then. Even though I really dont care for both those songs (espessaly Flashdance more than anything :x ). I have played them both at 80's private parties I done in the past (and yes I do own them :oops: ). But hey, I will say theres alot of stuff that I never woulda concidered disco then while learning about the whole Troc scene and hearing them in the mix see it different (example - Al Stewart "Year Of the Cat"..although I do love Al Stewart)

DJ Jimmy M

**SandraDee** · January 18th, 2004, 04:00 PM

I've got a really tacky 4-CD compilation on Fatboy records (?) just called 'Disco' that contains some classic disco such as Silver Convention's 'No No Joe' & Claudja Barry's 'Boogie Woogie Dancin' Shoes' but also contains some very odd tracks indeed such as Victoria's 'Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep' , Boy George's 'Wishing Well', Soul Brothers' 'Spirit in the Sky' & Britt Eklund's 'Private Party'. :-? And that's not all, it also commits the cardinal sin of incuding cheap, modern remakes of some tracks such as George McCrae's 'Rock Your Baby' & 'Heatwave' by Martha Reeves. It does contain some very strange cover versions such as XYZ's 'Dancing Queen' & Johnny Sax's 'Baker Street'! It must easily be the strangest compilation in my collection. :o

**PeaceFroggy** · April 18th, 2004, 10:57 PM

I have Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye on one of my disco compilations. I just don't see how by any stretch of the imagination that could be considered disco.