Suggest me some brazilian disco songs...not samba!

**EL COCO** · May 12th, 2004, 03:36 AM

If You know "The Vamps" (DISCO BLOOD or DANCIN' DANCIN') "Fredoom Machine" (FREE LOVE or JANGADA) on Building Records Label, you understand what I mean...ciao fram Italy.

**JussiK** · May 12th, 2004, 06:11 AM

FREAK LE BOOM BOOM by the amazing Gretchen is mondo beyondo disco done in Brazil.

**EL COCO** · May 12th, 2004, 07:06 AM

thanx jussik

**Paulo** · May 13th, 2004, 03:34 PM

EL COCO:

I don't know if this helps... but there was a brazilian girl group at the end of the 70's (a-la-Sisters Sledge or Ritchie Family)... They were 6 girls... her albums were entirely disco... their name was AS FRENÉTICAS (The Frenetics).

The music was disco - brazilian style (i. e. very pop and commercial).

I think the albums have been recently released in CD format, but as I don't like them I did not buy and don't know if they are easy to find now. I can take a look for you if you are really interested.

**EL COCO** · May 14th, 2004, 10:53 AM

Thanx Paulo,
I know Freneticas... I got two songs by them "Dancin' Days" and "A Felicidade bate a sua porta" :really nice!
I forgot to write Freneticas in my post!!
Ciao from Italy.

**Paulo** · May 14th, 2004, 12:25 PM

El Coco:

Jussi Kantonen mentioned Gretchen... There was a follow-up to Freak Le Boom Boom... it was CONGA LA CONGA (if I am not mistaken).

When the disco movement finished in the early 80`s, Gretchen tried to sing other styles of music, but the 80`s were really cruel to her.... and so she vanished.

Anyway, even in the height of the disco madness, she had absolutely no credibility over here (in the way that brazilian soul singers like TIM MAIA had). Even FRENETICA were more respected.

Very slowly, since the mid 90`s onwards, Gretchen resurfaced in saturday evening TV programs singing House mixes of Conga or Boom Boom. She can regularly be seen on cheap TV programs.

**EL COCO** · May 15th, 2004, 06:21 AM

Good information...I hope to find some Gretchen records around here...Ciao from Italy.

**sirius** · May 15th, 2004, 09:26 AM

Dear Friends!
What about ALICE STREET GANG or SAMBA SOUL???
Cosmic Love & Kisses From SIRIUS & DARKTUNES...

**EL COCO** · May 16th, 2004, 11:39 AM

Thank you again Sirius...ciao from Italy.

**discofrank** · May 16th, 2004, 11:50 PM

SAMBA SOUL recorded in Brazil
I have the LP and the 12" on RCA records of "Chove Chuva" and B-side "Mambo #5". GREAT Brazilian Disco cuts! Especially love the LP that included disco-ized versions of traditional brazilian tunes.

Did Samba Soul ever record another record or LP after the 1977 release?? Love their sound!

Marcio** · May 17th, 2004, 07:26 PM

Samba Soul also recorded an album in 1978 called "Do It". The vocals were totally in English and Diva Gray appeared as lead vocalist. It was a Warren Schatz project :D .

**JussiK** · May 19th, 2004, 02:23 AM

Regarding Gretchen, whan can her appearance be like these days if she's still in the public eye? Already in 1979 the woman looked very peculiar - she had a shapely body but an insanely grinning, rather unattractive visage. This is odd since all other stars and starlets out of Brazil have always been raving beauties.

**Paulo** · May 19th, 2004, 03:08 PM

Jussi:

Gretchen's body hasn't changed that much, thanks to plastic surgery and silicon which keeps some parts of her body upwards. Concerning her face, one can notice the passage of time.

Her recent new exposure wasn't music conncected (although she has recorded Dance versions of old songs, but we can never hear them because they are not played in radios or MTV because of the bad stigma attached to her). Altough I don't watch, I know we sometimes can see her lip-synch in saturday evening cheese programs (that was on the 90's).

But as I was saying, her recent exposure wasn't because of music. She was going to get married to a guy who worked as hair-dresser.

One week before the marriage, she went to press, to TV, (and to the police), full of bruises claiming her future husband had beaten her.

For some weeks these cheese TV programs had a lot to talk about. They interviewd Gretchen and her ex-future-husband who denied everything. The programs even found some witnesses, etc...

Of course the marriage did not happen, but with the notoriety he won over the case, he was invited to appear naked in a brazilian gay magazine.

Some say that he was cocaine addicted and 2 or 3 months after the scandal, he was found dead in a Rio slum, shot in the head.

A friend who is watching me typing this right now is telling me that Gretchen is now married to another guy and has a recent born baby.

**Mixmachine** · May 20th, 2004, 02:53 PM

How about "the coffee song" by Osibisa, also does "Hot Hot Hot" by Arrow qualify as a brazilian jam?

Marcio** · May 20th, 2004, 08:55 PM

Originally Written by Mixmachine

does "Hot Hot Hot" by Arrow qualify as a brazilian jam?

I don't know that song by Osibisa :( . I think "Hot Hot Hot" by Arrow is a kind of soca (soul calypso) from Trinidad & Tobago :D.

Great disco songs with Brazilian beat:

"Sambame' Rio" by Foxy produced by Foxy :D
"Carnival" by Fantasia featuring Peggy Santiglia produced by Bill Terrell :D

dance the body music :P

**Disco Push!** · November 29th, 2006, 11:54 AM

Hello from Rio de Janeiro
If you want the real blend of brazilian disco:
1."festa legal" - conjunto rabo de saia
2."nossa imaginação" - don beto (LP)
3."marron glacê" - ronaldo resedá (LP)
4."chega mais" - rita lee
5."outra volta" - joelho de porco (track available in 7" only)
6."the vamps"(LP)
7."alice street gang vol1 and 2"
8."cara de pau" - ana e angela (7")
9."secos e molhados" - (1978)
10."não existe pecado ao sul do equador" - ney matogrosso
11."love me all through the night" - jane duboc
12."muito independente" - rosana (available 7" only)
13."samba soul" - lady zu
14"a noite vai chegar" - lady zu
15."Tim Maia disco club" (1978)
16."flash-o-disc" - black hole (1978)
too many to mention.....

**needlefingers** · November 29th, 2006, 01:52 PM

I don't know if this would count, but the disco remix of The Girl From Ipanema by Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful disco mixes out there.

Although I do think this mix was structured badly (i.e. could have used a better intro and outro), Gilberto's voice is still haunting and halting over a very, very nice arrangement. It is the "Sondheim" of disco.

BTW, anybody know if this mix is available on CD?

**tony98** · November 29th, 2006, 02:13 PM

What about an old favourite of mine Gilberto Gil "Palco". I could swear the E.W.F. horrns are on it.

**RenanSanson** · December 15th, 2006, 09:40 PM

Robson Jorge & Lincoln Olivetti haves a very good instrumental disco, specially the musics "Baila Comigo" and "Aleluia", typical brazillian style. :icon_mrgreen:

**Nano** · December 16th, 2006, 11:45 AM

Hey Tony98, "Palco" is an old favorite of mine too! Gilberto Gil had another dance hit with "Toda menina baiana" from his previous record REALCE (1978). These albums were recorded with state-of-the-art production and a clean-cut mix "California style".

Another track that was played at the discos (in Argentina) was Milton Nascimento's "Maria Maria", but not the original version but another with no lyrics, "la-la-la-ed". A Brazilian forum member explained in another thread that this version was included in an album Milton recorded in English for the American market.

In those years Caetano Veloso recorded an album called MUITOS CARNAVAIS with versions of Carnival music, very danceable if not disco per-se.