What do you consider a good "Hustle" song?

**djsonic** · April 27th, 2004, 07:51 PM

i like eddie's latin hustle 12 version
spanish hustle fatback
salsoul hustle salsaoul
san francisco hustle silver conv.
but im told there were some good ones on scepter records
ummm.. i never heared them except the one 45rpm i have
Undecided love by the chequers 2 versions.not realy a hustle song,but i love it.
do you know any other hustle songs?

**efunk_adelic** · April 27th, 2004, 09:35 PM

I always thought Van McCoy's PARTY would be a good Hustle song...

so many others that fit into that catagory

**DiscoMan** · April 27th, 2004, 09:38 PM

I Hustle to just about any good Disco recorded from '75 to about '82 and some fairly modern music (Madonna, INXS, LeAnn Rimes!?) as well.

I particularly like "The Hustle" by Van McCoy (of course), "Freakout" and "Good Times" by Chic, "Forget Me Nots" by Patrice Rushen, I could go on and on :D

"After Dark" (128 BPM?) by Pattie Brooks is good for a fast Hustle.

Actually, I think I could keep a dance floor full for a good 2 or 3 hours with the Hustle/Disco music I've collected over the years.

I love to Hustle by the way. Been doin' it for a very long time. :D

**djsonic** · April 27th, 2004, 11:12 PM

i need more specific titles please.. you know the slower songs with the hard kick drum,example
"Where Do We Go From Here" The Trammps has a wonderfull kick drum line.. thats the stuff i go nuts for!!
when i hear a record with that kind of fantastic drum&symbal sound, i could just PEE on myself!
sonic....

**discosavvy** · April 28th, 2004, 01:52 AM

I nominate HEY GIRL, COME AND GET IT by the Stylistics, from 1974, as a good example of hustle-disco.

Around 1998 there was a website where the 1975 Van McCoy version of this was available to hear. I thought at the time, "Wow, this sounds so familiar, but it couldn't be THIS version I recognize, as it sounds rather silly and it wasn't a pop hit like THE HUSTLE... How can it be that I already know it?" Then some years later I rediscovered the original Stylistics version and realized that I had remembered the melody and particularly the "oompa oompa oompa oompa" almost 2 decades later.

**paul** · April 28th, 2004, 01:59 AM

Mine is The Jacksons, Show You The Way To Go. At least it was the song I partially learned how to do it. I was never as good at it at some people. My girlfriend at the time knew how to do it well and was trying to teach me with that song.

**djsonic** · April 28th, 2004, 03:09 AM

HEY GIRL, COME AND GET IT by the Stylistics
i forgot this one! it is a good hustle. and remember
i cant give you anything but my love? awsome tune!
sonic.

**MixMasterMax** · April 28th, 2004, 07:51 AM

How about some of these from when Hustle was king and men danced in high heals :lol:

Blue Magic - Look Me Up/Welcome To the Club
Double Exposure - Newsy neighbours
Ecstasy, Passion and Pain - I wouldn't give you up/Good things don't last forever/Ask me
First Choice - Armed and extremely dangerous/Player
Goody Goody - It looks like love/#1 Dee Jay
Hues Corporation - I caught your act/Rock the Boat
Jones Girls - Dance turned into romance
Joneses - Sugar pie guy
Van McCoy - Love is the answer
Main Ingredient - Happines Is Just Around The Bend
MFSB - Love Is The Message
Queen Samantha - Vlose Your Eyes
Salsoul Orchestra - Tangerine
Silver Convention - Save me
South Shore Commission - Free man/We're on the right track
Voyage - Souvenirs
Yambu - Sunny

**JussiK** · April 28th, 2004, 08:26 AM

It's got to be "Never Gonna Let You Go" by Jobell & The Orchestra de Salsa because the hustle is a latin kind of dance and Jobell has the right moves. Dee Dee Bridgewater's "My Prayer" is equally good. This 1976 track is not about jesus freaks, it's sassy and hot and dramatic, perfect for the choreographed stylizations of the hustle, plus the vocals of DeeDee would make you dance even if there were no beats. And she looks great in the cover.

**DiscoMan** · April 28th, 2004, 09:53 AM

SalSoul Orchestra's "Tangerine"
MFSB's "Love is The Message"
"Celebration" and "Ladies Night" by Kool and The Gang
Cerrone's "Love in C Minor"
Costandinos' "Accidental Lover"
"Best of My Love" and "Boogie Wonderland" by The Emotions
"Disco Inferno" by The Trammps

The above are all great Hustle songs!

**MixMasterMax** · April 28th, 2004, 11:06 AM

Some more;

Trammps - Zing went the strings of my heart
Tavares - Heaven must be missing an angel/It only takes a minute
Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle
Amant - If there's love
Arpeggio - Love and desire
Ashford & Simpson - Found a cure/It seems to hang on

**DiscoMan** · April 28th, 2004, 11:28 AM

Just ordered Cerrone's new "Hysteria" CD.
The title track "Hysteria" and "Love on the Dance Floor" sound like they'll be great Hustle tracks.

"Disco Nights" by GQ.
"Cher Chez La Femme" by Doctor Buzzard's Original Savannah Band" is good to Hustle by!

Who are the Hustle dancers on this board?
Please speak up! :D

I am! 8)

**efunk_adelic** · April 28th, 2004, 11:35 AM

Somebody mentioned STYLISTICS - Hey Girl, Come & Get It.... well, since it was produced by VAN McCoy... he also produced a similar song by FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY - Too Each His Own... a must hear!!

**DiscoMan** · April 28th, 2004, 11:46 AM

"To Each His Own" is a great Hustle song.

**HustleBaby** · April 29th, 2004, 02:06 AM

Good topic! Why didn't I think of this one??? :-? ????? Anyway I have to say the songs below are some of the best hustle songs ever:

Try Me/I Feel Love/Wasted/I Need You - Donna Summer
Magic Bird of Fire - Salsoul Orchestra
Let's Do The Latin Hustle - Eddie Drennon
Running Away - Roy Ayers
Sweet Summer Suite - Love Unlimited
Do The Spanish Hustle - Fatback Band
From Here To Eternity - Giorgio Moroder
Cocomotion - El Coco
Nowhere - Hocus Pocus
The Player - First Choice
Risky Changes/Chains - Bionic Boogie
Atomshere Strut - Cloud One
Peanut Vendor/Quiet Village - Ritchie Family
KGee/Love is the Messge/T.S.O.P - MFSB
Ask Me - Ecstacy, Passion & Pain
Let's Groove - Archie Bell & The Drells
Up Jumped The Devil - John Davis & Monster Orchestra
Hi Jack - Herbie Mann
War Dance - Kebekeletrik
We Got Our Own Thang/Devil's Gun - C.J & Co.
Remember/Dancer - Gino Soccio
Cathedral - D.C LaRue
Love Attack - Ferrara
Who Is He & What Is He To You - Creative Source
The Bottle - Gil Scott Heron
The Bull - Mike Theodore Orchestra
Touch Me Baby - Ultimate
Dance Disco Heat - Sylvester
Supernature/Love In C Minor/Give Me Love - Cerrone
and the lists goes on..........

btw DiscoMan.....I'm a hustler

!

*DEEEEELICIOUS*

**DiscoMan** · April 29th, 2004, 06:43 AM

btw DiscoMan.....I'm a hustler

KOOL :D

One Hustler in NYC and one in Mass. Cum there must be more on the board. Speak up and be counted. 8)

**paul** · April 29th, 2004, 11:46 AM

Originally Written by DiscoMan

btw DiscoMan.....I'm a hustler

KOOL :D

One Hustler in NYC and one in Mass. Cum there must be more on the board. Speak up and be counted. 8)

Well, on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the best, I'm a 6 DiscoMan. Maybe you can count me in :D

**sammyperez** · April 29th, 2004, 01:01 PM

Regarding this question, my first thought were songs of the faster variety; Such as:

Pow wow - Cory Daye
Two hot for love - The THP Orchestra
Get Dancin' - The Bombers

However, since you mentioned 'Hey girl, come and get' by The Stylistics, then some songs along that slower tempo that may be good to hustle to are:

Walk away from love - David Ruffin
Everything's coming up love - David Ruffin
Mysteries of the world - MFSB
Let's get it together - El Coco
I like what you're doing to me - Young & Company
More than a woman - Tavares

Though I could dance my ass off, I could never hustle; So I always appreciated the artistry of those who really could do it. I mean those that truly knew how to hustle and not those that perpetrated by spinning there partner and not knowing any steps. Frauds are easily spotted when it comes to hustling. That's why I spin the records and let the hustling to the pros. :lol:

Easy,

Sam "ALL JAM"

**paul** · April 29th, 2004, 01:06 PM

I'll be sure not to perpetrate around you Sammy :lol:

**djsonic** · April 29th, 2004, 04:47 PM

I hustled to Zing Went The String of My Heart by the Trammps... did yall know that this song had so meny difrent
labels? and also i saw it on an old trammps lp and it was like an 8:00 min VERSION!! i could not belive my eyes! id lov to get to listin to the extended version,even an mp3 would do..anyway great hustle tune as well as a pre-disco great. anyone agreeeee? :D

**originalbigm** · April 29th, 2004, 05:16 PM

Use to hustle but sadly haven't for years.I liked just about anything with an uptempo latin beat to hustle to!

**QUINNY** · April 29th, 2004, 07:37 PM

Originally Written by originalbigm

Use to hustle but sadly haven't for years.I liked just about anything with an uptempo latin beat to hustle to!

And many of the records listed in this thread are not remotely 'latin'.

Wasn't the Hustle a relatively short lived dance craze that was one of the final 'old fashioned' dance crazes, almost like a blast from the past? You know, in the context of how America more than any other nation, always needed a new dance craze in order to sell records. They were like the establishments' control valve. I found the notion of the Hustle rather beguiling. Why did we need a formal dance routine to go dancing? I found the notion most odd and I guess my instincts have been justified 'cos now, the Hustle is a semi recognised ballroom dance, isn't it?.

**DiscoMan** · April 29th, 2004, 09:14 PM

Frauds are easily spotted when it comes to hustling. That's why I spin the records and let the hustling to the pros

My wife and I Hustle on Saturday nights and I have an "unofficial" Hustle partner on Friday nights frequently.
And man can she Hustle my ass off!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm 52 and she's 36, maybe that has something to do with it :D

Oh, I might be 52 but I look at the world through 24 year old eyes. 8)

Well, on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the best, I'm a 6 DiscoMan. Maybe you can count me in

You're in! :D
Takes a certain kind of person to Hustle :D

The coasts are represented there must be more Hustlers out there 8)

**DiscoMan** · April 29th, 2004, 09:28 PM

Wasn't the Hustle a relatively short lived dance craze that was one of the final 'old fashioned' dance crazes, almost like a blast from the past?

Good question :-?

The Hustle was the LAST great couples dance. Sure, perhaps it was a fad though I don't really think so because those who Hustled sincerely enjoyed it for the exhuberant experience that it IS.

Hustle is still very popular today, though it has undergone many changes over the past 25 years and the "New York Hustle" (what I did? in '75 - '78) The "Latin Hustle" and the "Tango Hustle' are all now just the "Syncopated Hustle"
or "Disco Swing" as some people call it.

You haven't lived until you've Hustled (with a competent partner) to our favorite Disco classics AND some modern dance music (especially House and Euro House).

The "Night Fever" Line Hustle in "Saturday Night Fever" I remember as "The Bus Stop" :D

Anyone else recall that dance?

**DiscoMan** · April 29th, 2004, 09:43 PM

You know, in the context of how America more than any other nation, always needed a new dance craze in order to sell records. They were like the establishments' control valve.

No not at all true, actually way off the mark.

American kids have always looked for ways/new ways to move with our significant other (I describe this in an Urban Northeast heterosexual context) to our favorite music (DooWop from the '50s, Rock 'n Roll and MoTown from the '60s AND DISCO from the '70s).

Hustle dancing was the last great couples dance expression of this great American tradition.

As a key part of this we have had, since the end of WWII, an illegal drag/street racing culture (Hot Rods, Muscle Cars!!!! Choppers) that is integral to the American dating scene to this day. :D