Disco by request

[Sami M]

Here is the playlist from the Disco special on the finnish national radio station on 11th of Mars. The listeners could make their wishes...

Toots & The Maytals: 54-46 (that's my number)
Bee Gees: Staying alive
Carl Douglas: Kung Fu Fighting
Sugarhill Gang: Rapper's Delight
Village People: Go west
Frederik: Tshingis kahn (Finnish cover of german song)
Abba: Waterloo
The Trammps: Disco inferno
Boney M.: Daddy Cool
Steve Kekana: Raising my family
Van mcCoy & The Soul City Simphony: The Hustle
Lipps, inc.: Funkytown
Joe Tex: Ain't gonna bump no more
Gloria Gaynor: Never can say goodbye
Edwin Starr: H.a.p.p.y. radio
La Belle Epoque: Miss Broadway
Patrick Cowley: Megatron man
Hamilton Bohannon: Disco stomp
Kraftwerk: Das Model
The Malinga Five: Maria Therese

Not so very suprising, or what do you think?

[shenkin2001]

:D Hi,Sami M.
Can you tell me something about disco artist (75-82) from
Finland?We know lot from Sweden,but no one name from
your country...

[Sami M]

Oh well, we don't have any :P

Seriously there is plenty of covers, I think the only real finnish disco song is the Santa-Esmeralda-like Auringonmaa by Anneli Pasanen.

Covers for example:

Sata kesää tuhat yötä/Paula Koivuniemi (Boogie woogie dancing shoes)

By Vicky there are many:
Oon voimissain (I Will Survive)
Ohari (The Runner)
Saisinpa vain (I love to love) to mention a few. A young girl with a strong voice.

Baccara covers by Eini and also Lea Laven.
Mona Carita did Rasputin and later Anna (Hands Up), these are beyond camp :o

The list of covers is long, from Rock You Baby and Doctor KissKiss to Like a Virgin. But the disco feel is quite gone due to the local fingerprint in production, to put it nicely.

Then there's some pop artists that are still appreciated today among the soul/funk/disco diggers/dj circles, like Maarit for example.

This for now, maybe Jussi can tell more too.

[discosavvy]

This must be great music to listen to :) I see that many of these are on a CD compilation titled "Mikä Fiilis", released August 2002 by Warner.

I'd like to hear Markku Aro's Finnish rendition of "Ainoain oot sä vain" (Barry White's You're the First, the Last, My Everything)! And Rolf Bergström and Pyhimykset with "Rokkibeibi" (George McCrae's Rock Your Baby).

Vicky Rosti also has a Finnish version of Gloria Gaynor's "Casanova Brown", titled "Sun mä aina oon" and released in 1976.

The only Finnish disco song I've actually heard is the instrumental "Paiste" by G-Litter, from 2002.

[Sami M]

Yeah, but G-Litter is new. They have a new record out. Listen to it from this link http://www.lifesaver.net/keskustelut...&i=65&t=65.php

Yes, its in finnish, but click the underlined words kuuntele. :D Two samples from their new 12".

Vicky really did mostly and plenty of covers in the seventies (Knock on wood/Koputa puuta, Ring My Bell/Soita kelloain, Givin Up Givin In/Antaudun) In the Finnhits collections, especially the first 4, there's Rokkibeibi and so on, but they also contain original finnish songs from the era. These, like Vicky, Paula, Lea and all are on cd.

The guy Frederik mentioned above on the playlist, made covers of crazy songs, for example those of the german band Tchingis Khan. Mad stud like vocalist!

You can shop some of those in here:
http://www.stupido.fi/english.phtml

http://www.blackandwhite.fi/newshop/

http://www.popangel.fi/

By the way, I'd really like to get some swedish disco cover-ups and so! Could someone tell me more! :o

[JussiK]

General Njassa had several small hits in France during the mid 80's but those are more hiphop than disco. As for disco proper, Le Baron churned out a series of records during the 76-78 perod. He is Baron Paakkunainen, a jazz musican famed for playing in the corps of Eero koivistoinen whose Grandma's Rocking Chair got digged up from the vaults durng the acid jazz boom and is still a much sampled jazz groove in England. I had a chat with Baron and he explained how the records were aimed at the German market mainly, and how some of the titles got included on comps there. "My Love Has Gone Away" could be the "Best" of this rather lame lot. The tune is sung by a British expat and does include strings, bongos etc - but not much drive or energy. So, just get the G-Litter stuff.

Nice to see Malinka Five and Kraftwerk getting votes but I'm going to have to have a serious talk with my friends who did not call and vote for The Pretty Maid Company.