# Underrated Disco Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994 "2009-02-15T21:38:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/21 "2009-02-16T01:49:13Z")
> [@holmes](#): > > One more:[For the grace of god go i](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K41ukDlBuaY&feature=related) > > I was living in Brooklyn, in the middle of a white flight and this song was really timely for me. Hi Mr. Holmes, I don’t know whether or not your post was a follow-up to mine, but I’ll mention that “There But For the Grace of God Go I” was written and produced by August “Kid Creole” Darnell. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/22 "2009-02-16T04:12:19Z")
I don’t know how to link, but Born To Be Alive by Patrick Hernandez and You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) by Sylvester are a couple of my favorites from the mirrored spinning ball days… Bad Girls and Hot Stuff by Donna Summer bring back that wearing a-halter-top-on-a-hot-city-night feeling, too. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/23 "2009-02-16T05:47:16Z")
[Don’t You Want Me Baby.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arUqoKjU3D4) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/24 "2009-02-16T06:55:27Z")
Heh - the amount of these songs that I have in my iTunes…😃 My nominations - “Daddy Cool” and “One Way Ticket” by Boney M, “Boogie Woogie Dancin’ Shoes” by Claudja Barry, “Rock Your Baby” by George McRae, and “Get Down Boogie Oogie” by Evelyn “Champagne” King. Some of these may have been high-rated, but I think they’ve been all but forgotten now. [Here’s a list of the top 700 disco songs.](http://www.discomusic.com/charts-more/2664_0_8_0_C/) ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/25 "2009-02-16T07:15:28Z")
Santa Esmeralda. They did covers of [Don’t let me be misunderstood](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVUTeTSIHOM), and [House of the Raising Sun.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfJjS6r41Kw) ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/26 "2009-02-16T08:52:45Z")
Pablo Cruise did a great cover of _I Go To Rio_. Loved dancing to it. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/27 "2009-02-16T09:50:37Z")
Daddy Cool - Boney M Supernature - Cerrone Romeo and Juliet - Alec R. Costandinos The Chase - Giorgio Moroder ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/28 "2009-02-16T13:16:43Z")
Loved the bass line in this song–great vocals, too. [Undisputed Truth - You + Me = Love (1976 DISCO)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lYA5iZX5vE) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/29 "2009-02-16T14:48:33Z")
Here’s where I admit to liking the song [Boogie Oogie Oogie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUclIoNpPO0). (Please don’t tell anyone.) Irresistably fun, for me anyway, and you have to like the fact that the ladies of A Taste of Honey laid down some impressive guitar tracks. (The link is to a live performance, so you can see what I mean.) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/30 "2009-02-16T16:30:53Z")
Don’t forget the instrumentals from that era: _The Sounds of Philadelphia_, by MFSB _The Hustle_, by Van McCoy (maybe too well-known and popular, but what the hell) _A Fifth of Beethoven_, by Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band And a shout out to _Native New Yorker_ by Odyssey. It has vocals, but it just occurred to me as I was posting the above. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/31 "2009-02-16T17:51:11Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > Here’s where I admit to liking the song [Boogie Oogie Oogie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUclIoNpPO0). (Please don’t tell anyone.) Irresistably fun, for me anyway, and you have to like the fact that the ladies of A Taste of Honey laid down some impressive guitar tracks. (The link is to a live performance, so you can see what I mean.) That was awesome - I don’t think anyone needs to apologize for liking a Grammy award winning band. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/32 "2009-02-16T18:09:11Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > That was awesome - I don’t think anyone needs to apologize for liking a Grammy award winning band. 🙂 But it could destroy my hipster “disco sux” cred! Incidentally, looks like the video I linked got pulled so here’s another: [Boogie Oogie Oogie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaBmaZ9chgo&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/33 "2009-02-16T18:31:34Z")
> [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > “Smoke from a Distant Fire” by the Sanford-Townsend band has always been a favorite of mine. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wGKNiQ6oQc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wGKNiQ6oQc) Hmm. That feels more like Southern boogie than disco. (Though, no doubt, it got spun at many a disco in its day.) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/34 "2009-02-16T18:48:48Z")
I stumbled over this video while checking out the random disco songs Youtube is pulling up - [Judy Cheeks singing “Mercy”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHva7zOJOJ4&feature=related) - heh. Hee hee hee. BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!1!!! She’s cute as a button, but wow, that’s quite some video. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/35 "2009-02-16T19:24:57Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > _Dr. Buzzard and the Savannah Band_ were a law unto themselves, hitting in 1976 with a blend of disco, Cab Callaway and Cole Porter. Supposedly they had the top disco album of that year. > > This is [I’ll Play the Fool](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI7mHkSLkz4) in which the singer declares she’s so deeply in love that she’ll be going back to school, “…just to get my equivalency diploma.” > > Eventually parts of the band reformed as _Kid Creole and the Coconuts_. I can’t believe I’ve found another Dr. Buzzard’s fan! I just posted them on my all time favorite band list. Corey’s voice is the perfect everything to my ear. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/36 "2009-02-16T22:47:49Z")
Boogie Oogie Oogie was the cat’s whiskers, the bee’s knees and the dog’s…well, you get the picture! How about [Jingo by Candido](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm8SF8uoNi4) or [Low Rider by War](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lis9kjGHbdo&feature=related)? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/37 "2009-02-16T22:59:16Z")
One more disco song I will cop to liking is [Boogie Nights](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-V9P03APl4) by Heatwave. (Check out David Spade on the keyboards.) ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/38 "2009-02-18T05:18:26Z")
> [@jali](#): > > I can’t believe I’ve found another Dr. Buzzard’s fan! I just posted them on my all time favorite band list. Corey’s voice is the perfect everything to my ear. Hi Mr. or Ms. Jali. I’m really more a Kid Creole fan, but respect the amazing originality of the Savannah Band. In case you are unfamiliar with these sites: Here’s “The Dean Of Rock Critics” Robert Christgau: [Dr. Buzzard](http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=383&name=Dr.+Buzzard%27s+Original+Savannah+Band) [Kid Creole and the Coconuts](http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist2.php?id=743) and [The Chameleon’s Fan Site](http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Studio/7054/) ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/39 "2009-02-18T12:04:32Z")
Lots of good disco (did I just say that?) in the movie **Thank God It’s Friday**. Donna Summer’s “_Last Dance_” is a good song, and anything by the **Commodores**. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994/40 "2009-02-18T15:16:45Z")
Why all the disco shame? Stand proud 'cause disco is some of the best music (still) around! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/underrated-disco-songs/485994.md?page=3)