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.
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.
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.
Santa Esmeralda. They did covers of Don’t let me be misunderstood, and House of the Raising Sun.
Pablo Cruise did a great cover of I Go To Rio. Loved dancing to it.
Daddy Cool - Boney M
Supernature - Cerrone
Romeo and Juliet - Alec R. Costandinos
The Chase - Giorgio Moroder
Loved the bass line in this song–great vocals, too.
Here’s where I admit to liking the song Boogie Oogie Oogie. (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.)
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.
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
Hmm. That feels more like Southern boogie than disco. (Though, no doubt, it got spun at many a disco in its day.)
I stumbled over this video while checking out the random disco songs Youtube is pulling up - Judy Cheeks singing “Mercy” - heh. Hee hee hee. BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!1!!! She’s cute as a button, but wow, that’s quite some video.
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.
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 or Low Rider by War?
One more disco song I will cop to liking is Boogie Nights by Heatwave.
(Check out David Spade on the keyboards.)
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
Kid Creole and the Coconuts
and
The Chameleon’s Fan Site
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.
Why all the disco shame?
Stand proud 'cause disco is some of the best music (still) around!