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Would you call You Know To Love Me Disco, Pedro? Searling played that at Wigan in 1979/80. More of a stepper, innit?

Ay up mate.

 

Yep, you're right - I don't think half of what has been posted is necessarily disco - I did ask the question! I guess the ones I posted I posted because of their release date - and just an excuse to air some nice records.

 

Peter

 

 

:thumbsup:

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I just couldn't resist could I, the temptation overcame me.  :lol:

 

 

What makes it worse is this tune is now gonna be stuck in everyones head.  :D

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Tongue in cheek, check out some of the Blackpool Mecca CD compilations and you will find some disco tunes. Here's a few others worth checking out for the high soul content...

Jesse Green - Nice And Slow

Tony Etoria - I Can Prove It

Sunny - Doctors Orders

Moments And Whatnauts - Girls

La Belle Epoque - Black Is Black

5,000 Volts - I'm On Fire

Blackbyrds - Walking In Rhythm

George Mc Crae - Rock Your Baby

Also, check out the pop charts for 1978-1979 as there's a few decent acts amongst the dross.

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Best disco act I ever saw was by the Wigan locals at the Saturday eve bop before 1.00 a.m. chucking out time - anyone whiling away a few hours before the main event would see half a dozen shaggy haired lads throw beer at each other then drop their trousers and stumble around on the dance floor to Carl Douglas' Kung Fu Fighting...

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Never thought of Sister Sledge "Love Don't Go Through No Changes" as being Disco, always thought it was a 70's Soul record.

 

Thought of things like "Disco Inferno" by Trammps to be Disco!      "Hold Back The Night" as a 70's Soul record!

 

Whats the difference between a Soul record made in the 70's and Disco?

 

dude - your guess is as good as mine. let's put it  this way, 5 years ago i had never even heard anything from after 1972 (i was in diapers in the 70s, and up until a few years ago only listened to gritty 60s stuff). 

 

to my ears, things like pointer sisters "send him back" and sister sledge "love don't go..." sound super disco (and i really like them now!), but maybe i am way off base calling them disco. 

 

anyway, i am just enjoying all the tunes people are putting up!

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Ay up mate.

 

Yep, you're right - I don't think half of what has been posted is necessarily disco - I did ask the question! I guess the ones I posted I posted because of their release date - and just an excuse to air some nice records.

 

Peter

 

 

:thumbsup:

 

what does "stepper" mean? i've heard people say it, but don't know what it means...

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Anything on 'Prelude' or 'West End' records and youre on a winner. Mostly the less commercial stuff.

 

yes! somebody shared this with me and it is AWESOME!

 

 

...it is shocking to me that i am liking this stuff! i guess tastes do change....

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If it made the charts, it's 'disco'

If it didn't make the charts, it's called 'soul'.

It's all contradictory and self opinions as far as I'm aware.... For example, don't leave me this way, is a fine record! but some would call is disco, some would call it a soul record (which , indeed it is)

I call it 70s soul. But the novelty records and the bee gees etc were bandwagon jumpers.


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Tongue in cheek, check out some of the Blackpool Mecca CD compilations and you will find some disco tunes. Here's a few others worth checking out for the high soul content...

Jesse Green - Nice And Slow

Tony Etoria - I Can Prove It

Sunny - Doctors Orders

Moments And Whatnauts - Girls

La Belle Epoque - Black Is Black

5,000 Volts - I'm On Fire

Blackbyrds - Walking In Rhythm

George Mc Crae - Rock Your Baby

Also, check out the pop charts for 1978-1979 as there's a few decent acts amongst the dross.

 

La Belle Epoque, Sunny, 5,000 Volts...High soul content..... you have to be kidding :lol:..... and they're not even good disco.

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mmmmmmmmmmmm...........

 

Played on modern scene mid 80s,was a Soul Bowl front page item.Not a Disco record.

Nice group flip though.

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Doctor Buzzards Original Savannah Band - I'll Play the Fool

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8tdnbk99D0

 

Swifty :wink:

 

 

Used to have this on the orange US RCA issue thought it would have been the standard for RCA at time of release, then on a digging trip somewhere I saw it on a black issue RCA with the doggy logo, just had to have it as it was unusual.  :thumbsup:  

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I don't normally listen to disco, but have recently watched a couple of videos on youtube that (*sigh*) really made me wanna dance. 

 

sister sledge - love don't you go through changes on me (1974?)

hodges james and smith - since i fell for you (197?), etc

are there some other good (cheapies) like this i could pick (45 only)? probably only female vocals...thanks to all the disco queens out there! if you leave a comment only to make fun of me....i don't blame you!

 

LJblanken....from all above you  have been dished some Diva tunes indeed....but shame on em all.....for leaving these out.....!!!x

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBDK_M45Myc

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-uW7_IuAT4

 

....me 2 FAVOURITES dancing in me bedroom 1975/6...and lead to this at Youth Clubs and learning how to dance....which I went on to play thru' the 90's at A/Nighters happily...as I did 'Love Don't Go thru No Changes'......!x

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLpRdwul2j4

 

 

...and became refined with stuff like this...before I focused back onto music 10 years later circa '91 which has now encompassed music from all decades and genres....me fav being Northern...... !x

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPlNrP9B2Zs&list=PL3FEF88F8348F2367

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_oGq1USOIo

 

Some that din't make it 'big' but should have I feel...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAP1xZFDSxY

 

...and a B side....which i've always liked...t'other side of Young Hearts Run Free...!x

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX79Cn1nDWc

 

I know nowt except....there's loads init!!!!x....oh and that Pete99is a diva obviously....Peeta the Deeva....swing em gal...and handbag in that corner with the rest taaa....hehe!!x

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LUV

SOOTY

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Never thought of Sister Sledge "Love Don't Go Through No Changes" as being Disco, always thought it was a 70's Soul record.

 

Thought of things like "Disco Inferno" by Trammps to be Disco!      "Hold Back The Night" as a 70's Soul record!

 

Whats the difference between a Soul record made in the 70's and Disco?

 

I think Disco has many meaning to different people.  I used to love the music played at our disco so I called it disco music, this meant old Motown classics, Sex Machine, Band Of Gold type oldies, plus the latest release like the aformentioned Trammps and Hamilton Bohannon, stuff like that.  But when it became a genre of it's own with horrors like Instant Replay and Born To Be Alive, thats where the lines start to blur - so if people ask "do you like disco", it's a very big no because it reminds me of 1978 to 80 when disco was the very antethisis of all we liked about soul music, especially Northrn Soul

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still play this to death

 

 

 

 

Wonderful album - three brilliant tracks on it - like you, still play it to this day - give it a spin tomorrow Dave  :)

 

When most of these tracks were contemporaneous releases far more were played on the Northern scene than people care to admit now.   There was far less naval gazing and more partying back then !   Tavares, Originals, Esther Phillips, George Benson - loads of them!

 

Mike

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Wonderful album - three brilliant tracks on it - like you, still play it to this day - give it a spin tomorrow Dave  :)

 

When most of these tracks were contemporaneous releases far more were played on the Northern scene than people care to admit now.   There was far less naval gazing and more partying back then !   Tavares, Originals, Esther Phillips, George Benson - loads of them!

 

Mike

 

 

Fat Larrys Band, Rimshots, Bo & Ruth, Brainstorm, even Car Wash was a massive record on import.

Loved all of them.

Am afraid I can't see much attraction in that Dr Buzzard track though, maybe you had to be at the Ritz..

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Hamilton Bohannon, totally synonymous with disco.  Posted this one because of the excellent dance tutorial that accompanies it.  Enjoy.

 

Disco Stomp....

 

https://youtu.be/X86qgsDL_4k

 

oh my....i actually started doing all these moves in my kitchen and spilled my coffee on myself!

 

the guy in the vid looks like Anthony Hopkins in "A Bridge too Far"! 

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No where near blatant disco like Anita Ward "Ring my bell" but I seem to recall this epic tune unbelievably being derided as discoshite  by some at the time of release.

 

Got a lot of modern room plays and rightly so before it charted.

 

And it still sounds rather wonderful today even after all these years.

 

Now that's what you call a proper singer.

 

Throughout his career he's dropped some massive tunes along the way.

 

And that's just given me an idea for a separate thread.

 

Derek

 

Oh and Sooty beat me to it - damn - but Evelyn King's "Shame" was the first 12" I ever bought as a new release.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KraIB1z0aac

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