Bands/Artists that DID NOT do a Disco song/album
mrmatthew
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So who did NOT give in to the Disco Fever of the late 70's?Artuhur Fiedler, Ethel Merman, Kiss, Rod Stewart, Rolling Stones, Lionel Hampton, the Sesame Street gang.....they all did disco albums. What artists, who were around and recording at the time, had the presence of mind to fend off Disco Fever? (obviously, Punk Rock bands and blatantly Anti- Disco bands arent to be included in this).I'll start it out....Charles Mingus never made a disco album.
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VH had a couple of Disco-ish tunes....On Fair Warning and Women and Children First.
She has an album from 1979 that has a weird proto-rap
disco-ish song ... the one where she's dressed like a
pilot on the cover...
Lee Hazelwood
Pat Boone??
Alice Cooper Goes To Hell
Sex Pistols - see qualifiers (actually, see The Black Arabs cover on the Great Rock and Roll Swindle lp).
Lee Hazelwood - not farmiliar enough.
Pat Boone - I bet he did one....
Undiputed Truth?
Stevie Wonder, songs like Do You Do and Jammin were straight up Stevie songs even if they work in a disco mix. I can't think of disco song he did.
The most disco-like Stevie tune I could think of is "If You Read My Mind" off of Hotter Than July.
SG
Carl Craig even re-edited it recently under his Moxie Disco Edits label
im not sure if its best call but Stan Getz never did any record with disco rhythm
Hell yes, buddy,they went disco! I'm thinking of their 1976 hit "You + Me = Love," although I'm sure everything they did up to the end on the Whitfield labelhad a disco feel.
Try Otis Clay. That guy has been pretty consistent in the 40-plus years he's been making records. But from what I've heard, the disco bug never bit him. I have a single he did on Kayvette in 1977, you'd expect it to have a disco-ish production based on the year, but no, he was like the last holdout.
When the disco boom hit, was he still making records?
And even if he was, would you EXPECT him to make a disco record? Some aging soul act I can see having to go in that direction, but Hazelwood??
Funky Funky Boone: Unreleased
DiscoModern Soul Gold From The Uni Vaults!Aaron Fuchs needs to get on this.
I also have a cajun rap record.
On Maison de Soul, right?
(I'm not making this up, either - when he played Chicago back in November, I had him autograph this 12" disco single from the album. I interviewed him some years back, and he referred to his Casablanca LP as "techno swamp!")
Is that the one with "Do You Wear a Garter Belt?"
No, that was from his 1983 LP, Dangerous (on Columbia). And that was supposed to be his COUNTRY album!
(He still performs "...Garter Belt" live, BTW...)
I always thought Trampled Underfoot had a kind of disco-ish feel to it. Obviously it pre-dates the disco era and, realistically, it's probably more an attempt at a Superstition-type vibe, but that's probably as close as they got to anything you could comfortably call disco.
NAME THEM. Women came out in 1980 and out side of "So this is Love" the album is very arena rock, while Fair Warning has the very bluesy "Push Comes to Shove" it would never be considered something for the DAnny Terio set.
It may not have been disco, but I know their cover of "Dancing In The Streets" was dancable. If you play "I'll Wait" on 45, it's Lil' Jon.
Yeah, I can't think of any real disco he did, but I think he skipped
the disco and went electro: check out the "Love Bandit" single from
1983, with the "vocoder version" on the B-side. Just wait until the
pop-lockers and the electro-trash party kids find out about this one.
C'mon dude - I know some of yall can't never be wrong, but cotdamn. So anything danceable in 1980 was a disco record?
That opening bass part on Push Comes To Shove is a BIG TIME disco sound. Thats the one I was thinking about.
I actually wouldnt call that cover of "Dancing..." disco at all. Disco has a sound.