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It's Gibberish, But Italian Pop Song Still Means Something". NPR.org. Archived from the original on March 18, 2017 . Retrieved April 1, 2017. Beta, Andy (February 2008). "Boogie Children: A new generation of DJs and producers revive the spaced-out, synthetic sound of Euro disco". Spin: 44. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011 . Retrieved August 8, 2008. Shapiro 2006, pp.205–206 "'Broadly speaking, the typical New York discothèque DJ is young (between 18 and 30) and Italian,' journalist Vince Lettie declared in 1975. [...] Remarkably, almost all of the important early DJs were of Italian extraction [...]. Italian Americans have played a significant role in America's dance music culture [...]. While Italian Americans mostly from Brooklyn largely created disco from scratch [...]." Pre-existing non-disco songs, standards, and TV themes were frequently "disco-ized" in the 1970s, such as the I Love Lucy theme (recorded as "Disco Lucy" by the Wilton Place Street Band), " Aquarela do Brasil" (recorded as "Brazil" by The Ritchie Family), and " Baby Face" (recorded by the Wing and a Prayer Fife and Drum Corps). The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era—which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements, including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1945 song " Temptation", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.
In Washington, D.C., large disco clubs such as "The Pier" ("Pier 9") and "The Other Side", originally regarded exclusively as " gay bars", became particularly popular among the capital area's gay and straight college students in the late '70s.
Popular Videos – Prisencolinensinainciusol – YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on April 10, 2017 . Retrieved April 1, 2017. Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nded.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 344. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
Once a Hot Disco, Now a Cool Opportunity – Philadelphia Magazine". Philadelphia Magazine. May 18, 2016. Archived from the original on October 28, 2017 . Retrieved October 27, 2017. Powerful, bass-heavy, hi-fi sound systems were viewed as a key part of the disco club experience. "[Loft-party host David] Mancuso introduced the technologies of tweeter arrays (clusters of small loudspeakers, which emit high-end frequencies, positioned above the floor) and bass reinforcements (additional sets of subwoofers positioned at ground level) at the start of the 1970s to boost the treble and bass at opportune moments, and by the end of the decade sound engineers such as Richard Long had multiplied the effects of these innovations in venues such as the Garage." [27] DISCO History @ Disco-Disco.com". disco-disco.com. Archived from the original on January 21, 2017 . Retrieved October 27, 2017. In France, Dalida released " J'attendrai" ("I Will Wait") in 1975, which also became successful in Canada, Europe, and Japan. Dalida successfully adjusted herself to disco and released at least a dozen of songs that charted in the top 10 in Europe. Claude François, who re-invented himself as the "king of French disco", released "La plus belle chose du monde", a French version of the Bee Gees song " Massachusetts", which became successful in Canada and Europe and "Alexandrie Alexandra" was posthumously released on the day of his burial and became a worldwide success. Cerrone's early songs, "Love in C Minor" (1976), " Supernature" (1977), and "Give Me Love" (1978) were successful in the US and Europe. Another Euro disco act was the French diva Amanda Lear, where Euro disco sound is most heard in " Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)" (1978). French producer Alec Costandinos assembled the Euro disco group Love and Kisses (1977–1982). Other disco producers such as Tom Moulton took ideas and techniques from dub music (which came with the increased Jamaican migration to New York City in the 1970s) to provide alternatives to the "four on the floor" style that dominated. DJ Larry Levan utilized styles from dub and jazz and remixing techniques to create early versions of house music that sparked the genre. [66] Motown turning disco [ edit ]As promised, I’ve got a slew of new Diva Series for you folks over the upcoming weeks. There are so many that I’ll start dropping them on Sunday and release one every other day after that. The birth of disco is often claimed to be found in the private dance parties held by New York City DJ David Mancuso's home that became known as The Loft, an invitation-only non-commercial underground club that inspired many others. [17] He organized the first major party in his Manhattan home on Valentine's Day 1970 with the name "Love Saves The Day". After some months the parties became weekly events and Mancuso continued to give regular parties into the 1990s. [56] Mancuso required that the music played had to be soulful, rhythmic, and impart words of hope, redemption, or pride. [43] By far the most successful Euro disco act was ABBA (1972–1982). This Swedish quartet, which sang primarily in English, found success with singles such as " Waterloo" (1974), " Take a Chance on Me" (1978), " Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" (1979), " Super Trouper" (1980), and their signature smash hit " Dancing Queen" (1976). Fashion [ edit ] Dancers at an East German discothèque in 1977. Due to the constant scarcity of consumer goods in the then socialist part of Germany, particularly more exotic fashion items like disco wear, people often sewed them themselves. The Night" by the Four Seasons was released in 1972, but was not immediately popular; it appealed to the Northern soul scene and became a hit in the UK in 1975 [51]
Readers' Poll: The Best Disco Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. May 23, 2012. Archived from the original on March 20, 2018 . Retrieved March 20, 2018. The anti-disco movement, combined with other societal and radio industry factors, changed the face of pop radio in the years following Disco Demolition Night. Starting in the 1980s, country music began a slow rise on the pop chart. Emblematic of country music's rise to mainstream popularity was the commercially successful 1980 movie Urban Cowboy. The continued popularity of power pop and the revival of oldies in the late 1970s was also related to disco's decline; the 1978 film Grease was emblematic of this trend. Coincidentally, the star of both films was John Travolta, who in 1977 had starred in Saturday Night Fever, which remains one of the most iconic disco films of the era. Disco Music". Sam Houston State University. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020 . Retrieved November 1, 2019.Abjorensen, Norman (2017). Historical Dictionary of Popular Music. Rowman & Littlefield. p.143. ISBN 9781538102152. a b c Brewster, Bill (June 22, 2017). "I feel love: Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder created the template for dance music as we know it". Mixmag. Archived from the original on June 22, 2017 . Retrieved January 9, 2019. The "disco sound" was much more costly to produce than many of the other popular music genres from the 1970s. Unlike the simpler, four-piece-band sound of funk, soul music of the late 1960s or the small jazz organ trios, disco music often included a large band, with several chordal instruments (guitar, keyboards, synthesizer), several drum or percussion instruments (drumkit, Latin percussion, electronic drums), a horn section, a string orchestra, and a variety of " classical" solo instruments (for example, flute, piccolo, and so on). Further, in addition to gay sex being illegal in New York state, until 1973 the American Psychiatric Association classified homosexuality as an illness. [41] This law and classification coupled together can be understood to have heavily dissuaded the expression of queerness in public, as such the liberatory dynamics of discotheques can be seen as having provided space for self-realization for queer persons. David Mancuso's club/house party, The Loft, was described as having a " pansexual attitude [that] was revolutionary in a country where up until recently it had been illegal for two men to dance together unless there was a woman present; where women were legally obliged to wear at least one recognizable item of female clothing in public; and where men visiting gay bars usually carried bail money with them." [43] History [ edit ] 1940s–1960s: First discotheques [ edit ]
The a cappella jazz group the Manhattan Transfer had a disco hit with the 1979 "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone" theme. The term "disco" is shorthand for the word discothèque, a French word for "library of phonograph records" derived from "bibliothèque". The word "discothèque" had the same meaning in English in the 1950s. Boney M. (1974–1986) was a West German Euro disco group of four West Indian singers and dancers masterminded by record producer Frank Farian. Boney M. charted worldwide with such songs as " Daddy Cool" (1976) " Ma Baker" (1977) and " Rivers Of Babylon" (1978). Another successful West German Euro disco recording act was Silver Convention (1974–1979). The German group Kraftwerk also had an influence on Euro disco. Funky House Music Ahead: Don’t Walk, Dance! No matter the weather, Party Favorz is set to elevate your mood and add a spark to your weekend with our latest Funky House music mix. "Don't Walk, Dance!" is one of those sets that's created in…By the late 1970s, most major US cities had thriving disco club scenes. The largest scenes were most notably in New York City but also in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Miami, and Washington, D.C. The scene was centered on discotheques, nightclubs and private loft parties. Discothèque" became used in French for a type of nightclub in Paris, after they had resorted to playing records during the Nazi occupation in the early 1940s. Some clubs used it as their proper name. In 1960, it was also used to describe a Parisian nightclub in an English magazine. Ihsan Al-Mounzer: The godfather of belly dance disco". Archived from the original on October 20, 2021 . Retrieved October 20, 2021.
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