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Beginning and end of the Oldies era

Starbucks hit it right on the head, all those groups he mentioned and many more, another interesting phenom that I experienced as a Mobile DJ during the heyday of Disco was the advent of the 12"extended Mixx's.....most labels had very clever DJ's that created some of the best extended mixx's of all the current hits. And the most consistent with the best Product came from Mercury subsidiary "Dee-Lite Records" featuring Kool and the Gang, Joanna, Celebration, Too Hot, Ladies Night, etc. Probably the two Hottest Mixx's That I encountered from the standpoint of popularity on the dance floor and Quality were, Sugarhill Gang's original 15 minute full version Of "Rapper's Delight" and the Extended Dance Mixx of Chic's "Le Freak" those two were in a class of their own untill Rick James' 12" extended version of "Super Freak". These of course as Starbucks pointed out, are classified as Funk than Disco, but I played them side by side during that Era...and finally (love him or hate him) nobody put out the kind of material over a five LP run than Michael Jackson, partly with his brothers, mostly his solo effort and "Thriller" based on sales alone may have no Equal.
During this period honorable mention goes to KC and the Sunshine band they had a nice run too. The Bee Gees run doesn't need highlighing.
 
I could have sworn this thread was titled "Beginning and end of the Oldies era".

How the hell did Disco enter the discussion?

But as long as it has, consider that 70's-style disco actually had its modern beginnings in the "Go-Go" clubs of the early and mid-60's. The music didn't get played on most domestic radio stations way back then but it was very popular in the dance clubs here and in Asia and Europe.
 
hornet61 said:
The term "Disco" which dates back to the late fifties and early 60's , when it meant, Discoteque , "A Club that played records" or the spanish meaning "Record Store" , that term was shortened and changed in the 70's to mean more "A style of music and a style of Dance"
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Discothèque is a French word which blends disc (for record platters) with bibliothèque (French: Library), and was first used to describe a nightclub which played recorded music by “Discaires” (disc jockeys) over a PA system rather than use live bands. The discothèque was an extremely popular night life venue in France during the early to mid 1960s. The first known club to use this term was La Discothèque on the Rue de la Huchette in Paris, France, sometime in the early 1940s.

The term was shortened to “disco” when the craze hit the United States, and was used not only in reference to the venue, but to the music.
 
hornet61 said:
The term "Disco" which dates back to the late fifties and early 60's , when it meant, Discoteque , "A Club that played records" or the spanish meaning "Record Store" , that term was shortened and changed in the 70's to mean more "A style of music and a style of Dance"
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The spanish word is Discoteca, not "Discoteque(sic)" or "Discotheque."

The spanish term came to mean a disco or club, but the real meaning is "record library." A record store can be a discoteca, but is more often a "tienda de discos" or, in deep South America, a "disquería."
 
landtuna said:
Can we agree that disco sucks, in any language, and just move on? ;D
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Agreed.
 
Can we agree that disco sucks, in any language, and just move on?

Hey! I'm still wondering from another thread where it or how it switched direction on the TV series Two and A Half Men. I'm still waiting for that dude to explain himself. (please refer to Classic Rock - Screaming Bloody Murder. We can discuss that if you guys are willing. (LOL).
 
now, now everyone .......the disco era was a natural progression of the original subject, so lets not get carried away here, I haven't heard "Disco Sucks"....since my DJ days in 1978.

If you are true haters, and you know what you are talking about........who is Steve Dahl.
 
radioman148 said:
landtuna said:
Can we agree that disco sucks, in any language, and just move on? ;D
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Does that mean I can't request "Disco Duck?" ;D
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I like disco.

You'll be glad to know that thanks to me, this song is now mentioned in the Wikipedia article about the radio station where Rick Dees first played it.
 
hornet61 said:
now, now everyone .......the disco era was a natural progression of the original subject, so lets not get carried away here, I haven't heard "Disco Sucks"....since my DJ days in 1978.

If you are true haters, and you know what you are talking about........who is Steve Dahl.
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Steve Dahl...Chicago...Disco Demolition...Comisky Park
 
Very good GLB.........Steve Dahl also had a record called "Do you I'm Disco" a parody of Rod Stewarts "Do you Think I'm Sexy".

Good Day
 
vchimpanzee said:
radioman148 said:
landtuna said:
Can we agree that disco sucks, in any language, and just move on? ;D
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Does that mean I can't request "Disco Duck?" ;D
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I like disco.

You'll be glad to know that thanks to me, this song is now mentioned in the Wikipedia article about the radio station where Rick Dees first played it.
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Speaking of Disco Duck anybody remember Dees followup Discorilla? That was a real gem.
 
Ahem!

Taking back this thread which I started and has grown into a healthy 6 pages (It makes it's father proud),

I've refined my definition of Oldies. My iTunes Rock & Roll Oldies playlist will cover 1955-1970. I've created another playlist called "EZ Listening/Standards" which will include the other kind of oldies (Sinatra, Nat K. Cole, Big Band, Perez Prado, etc. and other oldies that don't quite fit with rock & roll (Winchester Cathedral for example).

1971-1980 will have it's own playlist. Specialized genres like Classic Rock and (gasp) Disco will have theirs too. And, me being an 80's teen will have a an 80's playlist as well.

Thanks for all your input.
 
Ditto Radioman.......Hey Houstonradio checkout our Hit Parade Era fantasy programming..we got alot of EZ Listening/Standards that you might like for your format.
 
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