Disco Years DVD Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion ?

[Marcodj]

Hellooo,

Do you know the year of this LIVE show
" Disco Years DVD Get Down Tonight: The Disco Explosion " ?

Thankss! :D

[Bernie]

This just aired recently on PBS television so it most likely would be 2004.

[marc0]

and its was a "fine" show to watch. It was good to see them disco singers I played so many times.

[Marcodj]

Hello:

Your message was forwarded to me for response.

I checked the DVD's we have on hand for this program, and the date is
listed as "recorded" on September 17, 2004.

I hope that helps.

Janie Williams
Viewer Services

[DiscoMan]

The concert was held and filmed in the Asbury Park, NJ Convention Center in early August (3?), 2004. I have been told that the entire event started at about 7:30 P.M. and finished about 2:00 A.M. the next day.

It was first broadcast on USA PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) Stations on December 4, 2004.
I would expect a two volume DVD set to be available (Region 1?)
in a May or June timeframe.

Boogie On!!!!!! 8)

[jam master jay]

I'd like to know how the DVD compares to the actual show airing - the show had some great moments, but far too many breaks for commercials (maybe it was just when I watched it, during fundraising time). They were selling various versions of this set during that show airing, so I bet you could buy the multi-disc version now.

[DiscoMan]

The second DVD will show MOST of the rest of the program.
The two DVDs together will run about 3 hours.

I'm only speculating because this is how PBS sold the DVDs for their November, 2003 concert "'70s Soul Superstars" which is really an excellent show. If you haven't already bought this two DVD set I recomend that you buy it NOW!

[olskinflint]

of course the interruptions were annoying, and the television broadcast was only a fraction of the actual show. It sure was good to see Leo Sayer as I had been wondering what had happened to him. But I couldn't help wondering if some of the performances were "canned"; for example, when the Village People performed, you saw no band at all. I'm hoping one day someone will put on a televised show devoted to the dance music from Europe and France that we've never seen on TV at all. I usually wait until someone who has the DVD sells it at a local used music store and I buy it there. Then I transfer the songs I like from the DVD onto a cassette that I can listen to when I go out bike riding...

[judydoggie]

I just checked PBS's website and couldn't find this anywhere. I would give my eye teeth to have that wonderful show on DVD. I'll write 'em and keep trying.

About the Village People singing to a track. If one recalls the shows we saw in NYC at the big discos there was rarely, if ever, a band in sight. If one was lucky, one was hearing just a backup track and the talent was actually singing. Worse, many of the disco artists making appearances on the club scene were just lip-synching. I know for a fact this is what Madonna did when she sang "Holiday" at the Red Parrot in NYC when she was still wet behind the ears and pushing her first big Disco hit.

I'd love to hear from this group which part of PBS's website I need go to to get ahold of the Asbury Park concert. Or, for that matter, if someone else is selling 'em beside impelling me to resort to eBay (ecch!).

Love 'n music,

Paul - a.k.a. Judydoggie

[DiscoMan]

Send PBS a check for $275.00 now and they'll send you both DVDs or wait six months and buy 'em for $26.95 each.

[judydoggie]

Thanks, DiscoMan!!!

You know, it makes sense to send 'em the dough now -- those of us who can afford it (to support Public TV, which I do anyhow) -- would send a message loud and clear: "WE WANT MORE OF THIS PROGRAMMING."

Begrudgingly, I'm getting out the checkbook...

Love 'n music,

Paul - A.k.a Judydoggie

[QUINNY]

I'm really glad that we have the dear old B.B.C. Though dear old auntie hasn't got round to doing anything like this.....yet, but one B.B.C. channel had a good Jazz mini series a few weeks back and the output of all B.B.C. radio stations is quite astonishingly wide.

[DiscoMan]

Tthe BBC?
Isn't the BBC a mouthpiece for left wing welfare state propaganda?

[QUINNY]

Are you serious? Or, was this meant to be very tongue in cheek?

[DiscoMan]

It was tongue in cheek and it worked.
How are you?

[QUINNY]

Q is ............going round in circles.