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Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars . Disco started as a mixture of music from venues popular ...
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- John Paul Young - 'Love is in the Air' John Paul Young - Love Is In The Air (1978) Australian singer John Paul Young scored a massive hit in 1977 with this romantic disco banger.
- The Hues Corporation - 'Rock the Boat' Hues Corporation - Rock The Boat • TopPop. This 1973 track took a while to become the hit it deserved to be, but thanks to heavy plays in New York clubs, it became a disco favourite.
- The Real Thing - 'You To Me Are Everything' The Real Thing - You To Me Are Everything (1976) • TopPop. British soul group The Real Thing found fame on Opportunity Knocks, and in 1976 they released this excellent disco tune.
- Boney M - 'Rasputin' Boney M - Rasputin (1978) • TopPop. It's not often you get a dancefloor anthem that's also a mini-history lesson. The Story of... 'Rasputin'
- Mfsb, “Love Is The Message
- First Choice, “The Player”
- George Mccrae, “Rock Your Baby”
- Gloria Gaynor, “Never Can Say Goodbye”
- Banbarra, “Shack Up
- Joe Bataan, “The Bottle
- Abba, “Dancing Queen”
- Hamilton Bohannon, “Dance Your Ass Off”
- Cloud One, “Atmosphere Strut”
- Double Exposure, “Ten Per Cent
MFSB did for their decade what the Funk Brothers and the Wrecking Crew did in the ’60s, and an entire industry of drum machines had to be concocted just because not everybody could hire Earl Young to keep the hi-hat-heavy four-on-the-floor beat he invented and popularized. And this right here? This is their masterpiece. Sure, their backing-band rol...
One of the greatest elements of a classic disco song is drama — the highs and lows of life in general and romance in particular given the audio treatment of a Hollywood epic. And with this dagger-sharp hit from Philadelphia vocal trio First Choice, they turn the era’s platform-rocking, Eldorado-driving hustler figure into the antagonist that the la...
Anyone who dismisses disco as a singles-plus-filler genre could, like the rest of the world, benefit from hearing George McCrae’s 1974 debut album Rock Your Baby. As one of the finest interpreters of the Harry Casey/Richard Finch songbook (the same one that gave us all those KC & The Sunshine Band joints), McCrae’s first album is nothing but gold, ...
“I Will Survive” is such a cultural juggernaut that it’s considered the definitive moment of Gloria Gaynor’s career, but the fact that she notched the first #1 dance hit in Billboard’s history deserves just as much attention. Already an R&B standard just a few years after Clifton Davis wrote it and the Jackson Five had a massive hit with it, Gaynor...
What’s the actual line between funk and disco, anyways? Lord knows this one-and-done miracle by the short-lived DC-area group Banbarra — their only single, and the equivalent of hitting a walkoff grand slam in your only major league at-bat — shows you can straddle that line just so long as it makes you do the Bump. It has everything you’d want in a...
Joe Bataan was in his early thirties when his career took a fascinating new turn. A practitioner of top-tier salsa and boogaloo music in the late ’60s, he eventually left Latin music powerhouse label Fania in the early ’70s and co-founded a fledgling label that his self-coined genre would give a name: Salsoul. His first LP under the label’s banner,...
Regarded with initial suspicion in some parts by many of the same critics who came of age to Phil Spector girl-groups in the ’60s, ABBA’s later reclamation efforts came about with the help of fans, often queer, who found the kind of youthful promise and yearning in songs like “Dancing Queen” that a previous decade’s formative listeners found in the...
One of the big knocks about disco in the strictly musical sense is that it’s repetitive — which, well, yeah, that’s the fun part. That happens when the prime motivator is groove and the maintaining thereof. And groove rarely sounded more relentlessly monomaniacal than it did in the hands of Motown vet turned piston-beat wizard Hamilton Bohannon, wh...
The ether-frolic disco of “Atmosphere Strut” was almost singlehandedly the work of 26-year-old songwriter/producer/arranger/everything-elser Patrick Adams. When I say “everything else,” I mean it — he even shot the album cover photo. (The chorus, meanwhile, was a cast of assorted locals — including future Roy Ayers collaborator Sylvia Striplin.) Th...
Yes, it’s another Philly soul group-harmony cut, and a glorious one. At this point, many of the original MFSB musicians had followed arranger Vincent Montana Jr. in jumping ship to Salsoul, and Montana’s elaborate arrangements set the Salsoul Orchestra apart as, well, an orchestra instead of just a big band with strings. So that post-PIR version of...
Jun 1, 2022 · Legendary dance music producer Giorgio Moroder shares his 34 favorite disco songs of all time, featuring Donna Summer, Bee Gees and more.
Mar 9, 2024 · Disco, beat-driven style of popular music that was the preeminent form of dance music in the 1970s. Its name was derived from discotheque, the name for the type of dance-oriented nightclub that first appeared in the 1960s.
