disco-pick only ten

"Love To Love You Baby" -- Donna Summer
"Girl You Need A Change of Mind" -- Eddie Kendricks
"That's The Way I Like It" -- KC & The Sunshine Band
"Supernature" -- Cerrone
"Funky Sensation" -- Gwen McCrae
"Ain't No Stoppin Us Now" -- McFadden & Whitehead
"I Like What You're Doing To Me" -- Young & Company
"A Lover's Holiday" -- Change
"Heartbeat" -- Taana Gardner
"Body Music" -- The Strikers

and just for kicks, tongue in chic,
Jakki - Sun Sun Sun (12")
Yellow Cat - The Disco Scene

Most anything by Leroy Burgess & Patrick Adams : Bumblebee, Sine, Could One, Inner Life, Logg, Musique, Phreek, Universal Robot Band...

I'd second Sun Palace & Katmandu/Kebekelektrik (check out "War Dance" too) among many others.

then perhaps you should have Brooklyn Express's 69/Change Position on your list instead?

Amii Stewart, "Knock On Wood"
Parliament, "Flash Light"
George McCrae, "Rock Your Baby"
Foxy, "Get Off"
Hot Chooclate, "Every 1's A Winner"
Eruption, "I Can't Stand The Rain"
Donna Summer, "Sunset People"
Jacksons, "Shake Your Body Down To THe Ground"
Santa Esmeralda, "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
Commodores, "Machine Gun"

(Holy shit - mere seconds ago I was lamenting the lack of room for "Rasputin", and doesn't the radio start to play it right now!)

But the stuff I do know and love would probably start with...
Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You
Jackson Sisters - I Believe in Miracles
Young & Company - I Like What You're Doing To Me
Diana Ross - Upside down
Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love
Andrea True Connection - More More More
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
KC & The Sunshine Band - Keep It Coming Love
Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way

Instant Funk - Bodyshine
Salsoul Orchestra - Runaway Feat. Loleatta Holloway
Stephanie Mills - I Never Knew Love Like This Before
Two Tons of Fun - Do You Wanna Boogie
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
The Three Degrees - Givin Up, Givin in
Double Exposure - Ten Percent (Tom Moulton Mix)
Musique - In The Bush
Earth, Wind And Fire - Boogie Wonderland
Harvey Mason - Groovin' You
Love Committee - Just As Long As I Got You (Tom Moulton Mix)
Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
First Choice - Double Cross
Teddy Pendergrass - You Can't Hide From Yourself
Dexter Wansel - Life On Mars

and I'd be lying if I didn't include "Funkytown" somewhere in here too.

Rock Creek Park - The Blackbyrds
Holly Dolly - Kano
Number One Song In Heaven - Sparks
Double Dutch Bus - Frankie Smith
Let's Start the Dance - Bohannon
Dance to the Drummer's Beat - Herman Kelley
I Wanna Be Your Lover - La Bionda
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life - Indeep
Primavera (Stop Bajon) - Tulio de Piscopo
The Mexican - Babe Ruth

And the 5 I cut because they were already mentioned:

Girl You Need a Change of Mind - Eddie Kendricks
Kiss Me Again - Dinosaur L
Is it all over my face - Loose Joints
I Feel Love - Donna Summer
Chic - Good Times

(... which, incidentally, are nearly the exact same song, but the latter is melted cinnamon atomic fireballs, whereas the former is icy elegance...)

Walter Murphy, "A Fifth of Beethoven"
Pointer Sisters, "He's So Shy"

You're right about the track having a universal appeal. I was at a party a few weeks ago where this was dropped and it got EVERYBODY to dance. Truly magical, indeed.

Eddie Kendricks - Goin' Up in Smoke

-- Andy K (Andy K), Friday, May 23, 2003 8:50 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

when theo does his eq thing on that 'these days and times part 2' mix i about lose my mind

unbelievably great song

TALKED TO MY FRIEND AGAIN TODAYYYYYYY

i've pared a list down to about 20 but can go no further!

ranks with scott's 1001 psychedelic thread as the most useful ever.

Lamont Dozier, "Goin' Back to My Roots"

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

i like how eddie kendricks' vision of fiery hell is based on the sun getting a bit closer to the earth every day. it is reassuringly practical?

Chas Jankel - Glad to Know You
Bionic Boogie -- Risky changes
Ronnie Dyson -- It's All Over Your Face
Barbara Roy and Ecstasy, Passion & Pain - If You Want Me (new disco mix)
East Coast - The Rock
Sea Level - Fifty Four
Patrick Cowley - Get A Little
Salsoul Orchestra - Love Break
Kazino - Binary
Gary's Gang - Making Music (dub mix)

Marlena Shaw - Love Dancing
Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman
Sparks - The Number One Song in Heaven
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove
The Crusaders - Street Life (the 11 minute version with the slow intro, not the shorter version sometimes credited to Randy Newman)
Anita Ward - Ring My bell
Curtis Mayfield - Do It All Night
Lalo Schifrin - Jaws (a wonderful disco version of the Jaws theme)
The J.B.'s - Rock Groove Machine

Everyone who hasn't heard it should check out "Rock Groove Machine", it's an incredible stripped-down proto-house tune with a squeaky, modulating synth line that sounds like a 303.

Boogie only list this time:

Unlimited Touch, "Searching To Find The One"
Tom Browne, "Thighs High (Grip Your Hips And Move)"
Alicia Myers, "I Want To Thank You"
Logg, "Something Else"
Slave, "Steppin' Out"
Extra T's, "E.T. Boogie"
Odyssey, "Inside Out"
Edwin Birdsong, "Cola Bottle Baby"
Empress, "Dyin' To Be Dancin'"
Pino D'Angio, "Ma Quale Idea"

Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice

I lie awake at night wondering if "Disco Juice" has a 3/4 measure followed by a 4/4 one or if it's just one big long 7/4 measure.

10 for me right now:

Taste of Honey "Boogie Oogie Oogie"
Toney Lee "Love So Deep (Dub)"
Gino Soccio "It's Alright"
Love Unlimited presents Webster Lewis "Welcome Aboard"
Lex "14 Days"
D.C. Larue "Cathedrals"
O.R.S. "Body To Body Boogie"
Jones Girls "You're Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else"
Barry White "It's Ecstacy When You Lay Down Next To Me"
Lee Ritenour "Countdown(Captain Fingers)"

and one to grow on:

Pacific Blue "Argentina Forever"

Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love

this song!!! >_<

If "Jacob (Jacob)" is still on ILX, please post more selections, those are KILLER!

lately-

Gino Soccio-There's a Woman
Baccara-Yes Sir, I can Boogie
Azoto-Any Time or Place

that Azoto track is a killer, and so is the entire album ...
http://dreamchimney.com/slvs/Azoto_-_Disco_Fizz_20060815085105.jpg

ahhh i love "there's a woman". for all time - "get another love" by chantal curtis. and "love has come around" by donald byrd

ooh also "standing in the rain" by don ray

and "sea hunt" by patrick cowley (one of the most deeply beautiful songs i've ever heard)

i'm starting to think "happy man" is the killer track on c'est chic

couple of things not mentioned yet on this thread that i love love love

azoto - san salvador
t-connection - at midnight
kool & the gang - open sesasme
ltg exchange - corazon
two man sound - que tal america

oh and people mentioned gino soccio but not "dancer"?!? WTF

i gotta second these: "going up in smoke," "got to get your love," "there but for the grace of god," and "bourgie bourgie"

leftfield selection that's more rock-disco: "not tonight". incredible!

i think i said que tal america at some point

on the pop tip "pull up to the bumper" and "miss you" i never really tire of

<3 "Circles" by City Limits, "Disco Madness" by Sparkle <-----heard this at a deep house page show the other day

xpost: I live to please...

Ten gamey, well-hung and not for the faint-hearted selections:

Powerline - "Double Journey"
I'm sure lots of "cats" like this record but the jazz chops aren't what makes it great, it's just, like, a journey man

First Choice - "Double Cross"
If you only like disco that doesn't sound like disco you're going to fucking hate this one. Strings, melodrama and slap bass make it fruitier than a make-up convention on a mango plantation

T-Connection - "At midnight"
This could well be the biggest tease in disco, even more so than "work that body". About 6 minutes of hard, forceful drumming that you'd swear is a house track, and then *bang* vocals, horns, organs everything hits at once. There's nothing light or fluffy about this.

The Whatnauts - "Help is on the way"
Bassline.

Erotic Drum Band - "Jerky Rhythm"
Drums that hang out on street corners and bother pensioners.

The Cats'n'Jammer Kids - "Disco drum"
Yeah the C2 edit is better than the original. But it's still good. Punchy punchy horns.

Kano - "It's a war"
Token italo mention. OTT space battle disco.

Slimline - "If you can dance you can do it" (inst. with count)
Like a workout video with cocaine and strippers. Imperious, demanding strippers.

Loleatta Holloway - "Hit and run" (Walter Gibbons mix)
More like hit, hit, hit and eventually run.

Billy Nichols - "Give your body up to the music"
I'm not ashamed. I can walk down the street in broad daylight looking like this. There's no room for apologies on the dancefloor.

Also, Don Ray "Standing in the rain" is on the Roy Ayers radio station in GTA4. That made me chuckle when I heard it come on...

cant believe so few Change songs were mentioned!!!

"Glow of Love," "Girls Affair," "Searching," "Angel in my Pocket," "The End," so uh yeah the entire "Glow of Love" album

"love you inside and out" by the bee gees

When I hit 100, I'm going to turn that into a POX and it will kill me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV1nBb60Tqg

mentioned upthread but that youtube link has expired. Been listening to this a bunch the last few weeks. Humming it going to the bank today.

Lime - Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, May 23, 2003 4:37 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this song is, like, so good, just sooooo good

Lime - Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight
― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, May 23, 2003 4:37 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this song is, like, so good, just sooooo good

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, June 29, 2009 2:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yahhhhhhhhhhh played this last time i dj'd & it brought teh house downnnnn

yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rQROoRqHpc&feature=related

Phyllis Hyman, "You Know How To Love Me" <-- really? no one listed this yet?
Candi Staton, "When You Wake Up Tomorrow"
Change, "Miracles"
Average White Band, "Let's Go Round Again"
Rinder & Lewis, "Gluttony"
Chaka Khan, "I Know You, I Live You"
Rose Royce, "Do Your Dance"
Billy Ocean, "Nights (Feel Like Getting Down)"
Instant Funk, "Wide World of Sports"
Sharon Redd, "Can You Handle It"

Change, "The Glow of Love"
Cheryl Lynn, "Got to Be Real"
Earth, Wind & Fire, "September"
The Brothers Johnson, "Light Up the Night"
Fantasy, "You're Too Late"
Phyllis Hyman, "You Know How to Love Me"
George Benson, "Give Me the Night"
The Fatback Band, "(Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop"
The Emotions, "Best of My Love"
Rose Royce, "First Come, First Serve"

smh that "September" only has two mentions so far on this thread

clearly I hadn't heard "My Love Is Free" yet when I posted

i feel like i do this post all the time now but

last night i played my vinyl rip of the danny krivit edit of "my love is free" to a mostly empty bar and at least it took me to church

this was after "over and over" by sylvester naturally

Nice to see some Lime mentions. RIP

Can we pick 10 hours?