Rolling thread for your recent DISCO and BOOGIE discoveries, enthusiasms and obsessions

Vera - Take Me To The Bridge (late 1980/early 1981)
The proto-hi-energy intro is a bit misleading, as it settles into a smoother and more satisfying groove thereafter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW1L9-GTOTc

NickB already posted that Vera song itt 6 months ago but damn if it doesn't deserve another few postings here. Such a magical song! Thanks, you two!

Ahaha so he did! Well, this is my current new favourite: Jean Carn "If You Wanna Go Back" (1976). I only wish it was longer.

https://youtu.be/wboKA2XpfyM

with my first post in this thread, please allow me to say WOWOWOWOWOWOW @ "She's So Divine" upthread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjpELZNsTD4

familiar to everyone I'm sure but it's such a perfect slow groove isn't it

i've been downloading 80s jams all night, getting ready for a gig tomorrow. this is one of my fave rediscoveries in a while. not sure how obvious it is, probably it's pretty obvious heh. but i had forgotten all about it. solo nile rodgers is my kind of throwback to play!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCN4WZYU9Y

I'm having a good afternoon. These are all from around October 1981.

Arthur Adams - You Got The Floor
This builds from a subdued start, hitting its stride around 1:49, then peaking with a long jazzy instrumental section that eventually closes the track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wm0e1fTpXo

The Frontline Orchestra - Don't Turn Your Back On Me
More strident and less weedy than Britfunk too often tended to be, and as such deservedly embraced by Knuckles and Levan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsr-dymmbKA

Letta Mbulu - Kilimanjaro
Sets out its stall early, then sticks there to pleasing effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI4clrzJZZk

very enjoyable stuff

Just discovered the french version and it's fye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdIvdGoLJRU

Metropole "Miss Manhattan" and Vera "Take Me To The Bridge", as posted upthread, have both just been reissued on 12", making them both vaguely affordable at last. Hallelujah.

Blue Feather - Let's Funk Tonight (Instrumental) (1981) - miles better than the weedy vocal version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPX548h6h4w

Nice one! And thanks again for the incredible job you're doing with the James Hamilton Disco Page, Mike. I have a daily script set up that downloads the audio of every track you link to, so whenever I'm in a disco mood I have a huge batch of new tracks to explore.

Ha, excellent!

Spent some time with <i>Disco Fever USA</i> recently - one of the latter volumes of the Disco Discharge series, so you can feel a bit of barrel-scraping. But I found this on it - sounds like Dr.John goes Disco, as the liner notes mention!

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

Haha! You probably know this one already but this is Dr John going electrofunk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4o2tWp8Vw

have got some serious catching up to do on this thread, every time it gets bumped i never seem to be in a place where i can listen

Haha Nick, that's pretty cool! Don't think I'd heard before.

some more cheri for the thread. "murhpy's law" stuck in my head all the time. such a good mix of melancholy and playfulness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7NRg4hoD0

I just found this thread, thank god. Keep em coming!

a recent score: rainbow brown. fonda rae, produced by patrick adams, which is an obsession. i know i'm not alone in this. "i'm the one" is maybe my fave. for now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP1s3rrFfb4

little dragon - lover chanting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiSTcdi82S0

btw the b-side on that EP is fresh too

this is my current favourite fonda joint, absolute rapturous stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J-F9M-KDBE

bumblebee vocals and all, I've been enjoying this for the past few days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5zTZRm1cT0

I've owned a copy of the Dr John "Jet Set" 12" for years, but never saw the video before today! So wonderful I'm in tears.

New arrival here, about halfway through the thread and my computer is now refusing to play any more music at this time so I'll need to take a break but what a lot of superb selections!

My favorite new discovery so far is Low Down Dirty Rhythm from the top comment. Although Patrick Cowley's star seems to be once again ascendant he remains criminally underrated.

I'd also rate these tunes:

Black Gold - C'mon Stop
Mark Clark - Take Me I'm Yours (obviously)
Donald Byrd - Thank You For Funking Up My Life
Melba Moore - Love's Comin' At Ya!
Shalamar - Right in the Socket
Dr Togo - Be Free
Vera - Take Me To The Bridge
The Brooklyn, Bronx & Queens Band - On The Beat
Empire Projecting Lisa ‎– Freakman

The credits on It Should Have Been You, incredible. Produced by Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, Steven Stanley and mixed by Larry Levan. I wonder what else I've missed from that team of superheroes.

This appeared on a spotify song radio, released in 1981, sailed under the radar for me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XT-iikjgH0s

love that, fern had some great songs!

Vera - Take Me To The Bridge

Love this song, such longing in the voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KIApAIztW8
The SD's ft Sherry Richards - Watch the Clock

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

^^^ alec mansion - ou es-tu

high fashion - next to you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRzbmTVNeCc

stephanie mills - try my love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvN8uyjc48E

i like "feelin' lucky lately" by high fashion, also i think it's hilarious that a chic ripoff band called themselves "high fashion"

that's harsh! hahah :)

james cobbin & prime cut - caught in the middle
https://youtu.be/SxWyvP94YA0

herre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxWyvP94YA0

i-level - "give me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2b6jgRCio0

questionable lyrics in this one

"minefield" off that same record is the other standout and has a killer drum workout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdk_Tvu3blI

slave - wait for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2crb0iFXro

one more from our man funky brewster's record collection. this is baxa, i'm not kool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Ss8iG8HCM

my discogs wantlist keeps growing thanks to this thread.

here's a new one to me. gives me the proper groove chills. c.m. lord, "don't run me away." b side to "flashback." please stick around for the breakdown at 3:45. so good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77-vXnu7Pcc

I've been crossreading Tim Lawrence's Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 and Vince Aletti's The Disco Files 1973-78: New York's Underground, Week by Week: the latter is def catnip for collectors, though both have plenty DJ playlists, DJ comments on particular tracks and albums (the 12" is still several years away, so they use a lot of album tracks, for full-length flow--no having to flip the 7" for part 2, if there is one provided---and sonic depth).
Also, Aletti provides comments and capsule reviews of stuff he likes, going around and around NYC as the scenes and places and star DJs take off (and sometimes crash or disappear).
Lawrence's saga, incl. interviews with DJs and dancers, puts it all in historical perspective, like "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" and Eddie Kendricks' "Girl You Need A Change of Mind" had the kind of wild-for-the-time changes x continuity that gave DJs and dancers some ideas as well as thrills. "Soul Makossa" was an example of one that became a hit because of club play, thence to radio---but some other hits never did get radio, did without it, screw you radio!

Since I never pass up the opportunity to mention it, here's another shout out to James Hamilton's Disco Page.

Another huge fan of Mike T-diva's work on James Hamilton's Disco Page.

Hip-hop with some great production behind it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ueuRDr8Hc
Rappermatical 5 - Party People

this was the filthiest record in my collection. gave it a couple washes with record vacuum and it's back to sounding great again :) everybody says the erot dub is the one, but i always played the a-side instead. can't wait play it under the stars in waimanalo tonight. that bassline is so funkay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kgVjOA_X8

it wasn't my crowd last night, people were not feeling the slutty norwegian disco

making good use of that next to you break

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJNajgq7Phs

i'm finally recording the long-awaited funky b mix tape now. so many gems in dude's collection. couple highlights:

dabeull - dr fonk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OCyYbW6zPY

sky tony - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9bA_gUIyE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9bA_gUIyE

kon - all night (everybody)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjJ4z65D-dU

tuxedo - roll along
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6VVnSPAWho