When Disco Was Everything: Pop Gallery eBooks, #10
By Marc Platt
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“When Disco Was Everything” (Includes 9 Video & 17 Audio Notebooks at the End of the Manuscript)
The difference between Disco AND R & B, Soul and Funk is the intended audience. Disco was the first genre that brought white and black audiences together in the dance clubs. Before Disco music was even segregated on television with ‘American Bandstand’ playing mainstream and the more watered-down acceptable black acts AND ‘Soul Train,’ which played the grittier black acts.
Disco brought them all together for a period of time and changed both the consumers and the artists. All of a sudden white artists like The Rolling Stones (“Miss You”) and Rod Stewart (“Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?”) started jumping on the trend.
We will discuss those artists and acts like Abba, Bee Gees, Blondie and The Jacksons, as well. Cher recorded Disco songs. Radio DJ Rick Dees scored with “Disco Duck.” It was an art form and a gimmick all at the same time. Read on for more clues.
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When Disco Was Everything - Marc Platt
When Disco Was Everything
Intro
Chapter One: You Should Be Dancing
Chapter Two: Didn’t You Used To Be?
Chapter Three: Buy This Record
Chapter Four: Every Night is a Party
Chapter Five: Last Dance, Last Chance
Chapter Six: More Than a Movie (To Me)
Epilogue
Intro
I entered high school in 1974 and mainstream radio was filled with Terry Jacks "Seasons in the Sun, Redbone’s
Come and Get Your Love, Grand Funk’s
The Loco-Motion, Elton John’s
Bennie and the Jets, Ray Stevens’
The Streak AND Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s
Takin’ Care of Business." Those were the WHITE ACTS.
Looking back on radio in that year, you would also hear Rufus’s "Tell Me Something Good, Love Unlimited Orchestra’s
Love’s Theme, Jackson 5’s
Dancing Machine, Kool and the Gang’s
Jungle Boogie, Stylistics’
You Make Me Feel Brand New, Eddie Kendricks’
Boogie Down, Hues Corporation’s
Rock the Boat, and The Spinner’s
Mighty Love."
This was a Pre-Disco year, but it was on the horizon. Some of these songs by African American artists would find their way into the dance clubs for years to come. R & B, Soul and Funk had a dedicated audience, but did not connect with white audiences who liked to dance.
The difference between Disco AND R & B, Soul and Funk is the intended audience. Disco was the first genre that brought white and black audiences together in the dance clubs. Before Disco music was even segregated on television with ‘American Bandstand’ playing mainstream and the more watered-down acceptable black acts AND ‘Soul Train,’ which played the grittier black acts.
Disco brought them all together for a period of time and changed both the consumers and the artists. All of a sudden white artists like The Rolling Stones ("Miss You) and Rod Stewart (
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?") started jumping on the trend.
We will discuss those artists and acts like Abba, Bee Gees, Blondie and The Jacksons, as well. Cher recorded Disco songs. Radio DJ Rick Dees scored with "Disco Duck." It was an art form and a gimmick all at the same time. Read on for more clues.
Marc Platt
Winter, 2015
Chapter One: You Should Be Dancing
This was a movement that emerged from the dance clubs. In New York in the mid-1960s, a club called ‘Arthur’ opened and spun records with a DJ Terry Noel becoming the first DJ to ‘MIX’ records. There would be other clubs to follow like ‘Regine’s,’ ‘Le Club,’ ‘Shepheard’s,’ ‘Cheetah’ and ‘Ondine.’ These were the precursors to what would be the Disco scene 10 years later. France had a few clubs pop up in the 1960s as well. ‘Chez Castel’ and ‘Chez Regine’ are a few of the noted Euro-Discos from that era.
You must remember that the music business was always