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disco country

Don't know if he was the 1st. I do know that Dolly Parton's "Baby I'm Burnin'" came out the same year.
Dang, it's breaking my heart to hear Bill floopin' Anderson talk about bodies touching.
Reading his Wiki discography, I also hope this thing didn't really get up to #4 on the country chart, or was really his last top-10 country hit. "Baby I'm Burnin'"'s chart-fate was much more well-deserved.
 
Yes, I am like you. For the longest time, I thought that "Baby I'm Burnin'" was the first disco country song, but then I saw a documentary on CMT (I think) which gave that honor to the Whisperin' Bill Anderson track.

Nothing against country artists trying to "go disco," but that song was simply an embarrassment, to both "Whisperin' Bill," and to music in general. Dolly's track was much more "believable." Of course, she had already done some crossover tunes (and would go on to do more) so recording a disco tune was much less of a "stretch" for her. With the Anderson song, it just seemed like they were "trying too hard" to record a disco country song.
 
Then there was that instrumental disco version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that Porter Wagoner was involved with.
 
Bill Anderson followed up "I can't wait" with another disco-type song called "Double S'. It peaked at only #30 in early 1979, very early in my radio days. In this day and time the song could make a pretty interesting video. Here's a link to hear it. This is the shorter version. The longer one continued with the disco beat music and it timed out at around 6 minutes if I remember correctly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOMEJ82SaAk
 
Lynn Anderson's 1978 "Isn't It Always Love" had a disco repetitive cymbal beat to it. Several Tanya Tucker album cuts from the late '70's have a disco sound, too.
 
backin the late 70's there was a song possibly called "disco country" or similar that was sort of a talking record with a disco beat mixed with country twang and the lead singer talking about how they were going to do this "new sound". For the life of me I can't remember what it was called or who it was by. It got lots of airplay for a few weeks around 1979 if I'm not mistaken. Does anyone know who it might have been? It was mostly a novelty record and kind of reminded me of Moe Bandy and Joe Stamply. Not sure if it was them, but it's been a long time since I've heard it. I happen to think of it the other day and have been racking my brain trying to remember it.
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1250WTAE said:
I always said on air that Exile's I Wanna Kiss You All Over was the ultimate country disco record
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Yeah, Exile actually started out as a "pop" group, and "Kiss You All Over" was a "ChinniChap" song, but later, their own songs, like "Take Me Down" and "The Closer You Get" became hits for Alabama, and some of their other material was covered by folks like Dave & Sugar, Janie Fricke, and Kenny Rogers. Exile later recorded more of a "country" mix of "Kiss You All Over," but I seem to recall that the beat was the same or similar to their original version, which I have always described as being "soft disco."
 
"Moody Blue" by Elvis Presley actually goes disco on the chorus. Kind of jarring to hear that now, but I don't believe that it would have been recorded that way if it had been recorded at any other time in history.
 
Never thought Moody Blue was disco in any way..Recorded in Graceland..Was actually a little ahead of its time as to what country would sound like by 80-81..I have heard a story that Elvis actually liked David Bowie's Golden Years..That would have been interesting to hear him do..
 
flytrap said:
backin the late 70's there was a song possibly called "disco country" or similar that was sort of a talking record with a disco beat mixed with country twang and the lead singer talking about how they were going to do this "new sound". For the life of me I can't remember what it was called or who it was by. It got lots of airplay for a few weeks around 1979 if I'm not mistaken. Does anyone know who it might have been? It was mostly a novelty record and kind of reminded me of Moe Bandy and Joe Stamply. Not sure if it was them, but it's been a long time since I've heard it. I happen to think of it the other day and have been racking my brain trying to remember it.
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Might that have been a country-disco hybrid called "Disco Sucks" that Dr. Demento used to play back then? Couldn't tell you who did it.
 
Bill Anderson also had a couple of disco sounding hits in 1977 with Head To Toe and his version of Orleans' Still The One.

If you have Bill's 1978 album Ladies' Choice, you'll get to hear his versions of Kiss You All Over, Stay With Me, Three Times A Lady and the other hits mentioned (I Can't Wait Any Longer, Double S and This Is A Love Song (the only non sounding disco song on the whole album))
 
allenv said:
Never thought Moody Blue was disco in any way..Recorded in Graceland..Was actually a little ahead of its time as to what country would sound like by 80-81..I have heard a story that Elvis actually liked David Bowie's Golden Years..That would have been interesting to hear him do..
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNfFpP_OkNA

Take a listen to this. Very "'70s" production on this one. It goes disco on the chorus. Mark James' (songwriter) demo version also goes disco on the chorus. Cool song! (I was not able to find Mark James' version on youtube. :'()

It would not surprise me that Presley liked "Golden Years." Also a cool song, and one that I would call "soft disco." 8)
 
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