Wow, had no idea about that Mac Davis LP. I definitely passed up some Mac Davis LPs in a 25-cent rack a couple weeks ago, too; now I wonder if that one was in there.
Carlene Carter's Blue Nun from 1981 (produced by hubbie Nick Lowe, my copy is a U.K. import on F-Beat) has what sounds to me like two fairly blatant disco attempts on it, both of which at least halfway seem to comment on the move in their lyrics/titles: "I Need A Hit" and "Born To Move," also two of the few tracks on the album not at least partially writing-credited to Lowe. (The latter's credited to "Fogerty" -- uh, apparently a Creedence cover from Pendulum? Interesting.) Neither seems all that great to me, though, or even really all that country.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGECts7TZrM
There's a bunch of so-so, ok, and pretty great Travis Wammack disco cuts on two albums that were simultaneously released in 1982, "Follow Me," and "A Man... And A Guitar." This extended version of Hold On To Your Hiney is the best of 'em.
― barry leavitt, Saturday, 6 August 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEu1t4oeR7E
― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 6 August 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVqXxK-gK0w&feature=related
Probably Tony Joe White got mentioned upthread, but has anyone heard his 'Real Thang" LP? Didn't look too hard, but "Get Off On It" is pretty nasty!
― barry leavitt, Saturday, 20 August 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
^ I mean, I haven't heard anything else off the album but this one song... would be interested to know what the rest of the album sounds like. There's a track called "disco blues" also.
― barry leavitt, Saturday, 20 August 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMoasSfLFQ8
― I gave your mom morgellons (buzza), Saturday, 19 November 2011 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
That was awesome. Thanks for posting.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 19 November 2011 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
really dig steve young but had not heard that one until today
― I gave your mom morgellons (buzza), Saturday, 19 November 2011 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
Fabulous Poodles weigh in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEaI9xj9e8w
― xhuxk, Monday, 23 April 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
Just remembered this existed today, after at least 25 years - Presumably the only Eddie Rabbit cover ever produced by Was (Not Was).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS8OMOXIObA
― xhuxk, Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
Lacy J. Dalton - "Imagine That" (on #23-country-charting album 16th Avenue, 1982)
― xhuxk, Monday, 10 September 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
Glen Campbell and Tanya Tucker - 'Why Don't We Just Sleep on It Tonight' is a lost country-disco classic. Just incredible.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSW0ZjiNu_k
― Cheeba McEntire, Monday, 10 September 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
Sheila B. Devotion "Seven Lonely Days" (1979) sounds to me a like a pop-country song from that era given an over-the-top Eurodisco-synth rhythm.
― xhuxk, Friday, 1 February 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
Gimme Baby I'm Burnin' instead
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 May 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
This is not that different from Hot Chocolate's "You Sexy Thing." In fact I think I prefer it.
That was a wild sequence of #1s though, the ones you mention. I remember it so well. Peak singles bar era.
― Josefa, Friday, 18 May 2018 04:13 (six years ago) link
Is Dolly the only country artist to get the proper 12" treatment or is this thread holding out?
― plax (ico), Friday, 4 January 2019 23:30 (five years ago) link
Extended version of baby I'm burning is the best thing that ever happened to me. Did Tammy just do this with the klf?
― plax (ico), Friday, 4 January 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
not disco-era, but reba mcentire had a hit 12-inch when her version of "you keep me hangin' on" from her 1995 album was remixed
― dyl, Saturday, 5 January 2019 03:23 (five years ago) link