Disco

really enjoying "speedy like gonzales" and "kings of clubs" now. do you have more, seandalai?

So basically what you're looking for is string-heavy disco with (somewhat) campy female vocals, not synth-led disco like Macho?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-78Szx2mJs

What about Erotic Drum Band, is it too normal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH6g3lpPwvg

really enjoying "speedy like gonzales" and "kings of clubs" now. do you have more, seandalai?

We're not too far off Euro pop stuff like Claude Francois, Baccara, Ottawan or Dschinghis Khan at this point...here's Sheila a few years before she hooked up with Chic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0vLXCS6m60

Amanda Lear, obv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8zp4cWix3E

La Bionda - Bandido

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCUJ5N_dAZQ

Boys Town Gang might be a good choice too? Their "Cruisin' the Streets" is a gay disco classic, and their version of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" is really beautiful, with some lovely strings.

yeah good call - described by Peter Shapiro as "perhaps the campest records ever perpetrated on humanity"

I played it at a friend's wedding, and if I ever get married myself, I definitely want to dance to it. It's so sentimental and gorgeous!

I always knew a Tuomas wedding reception would include a Boystown Gang needledrop.

I looked through my disco records collection, here's a few more recommendations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkUEgRru8DU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akp38JIXiZU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Zkw_JYS50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekHQYpI5858

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRLDX-hn1Kg

More tunes, some of these are maybe more campy than beautiful, but I love them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FlF_apwAyg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdKyKNBm-B0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EOhaFVw5DA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmdD9j-41c0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4-7oUFag1s

you guys never get to complain about the off a molly thread youtube content

macho: a really cool track but lacks this playfulness that I'm looking for.
erotic drum band: yeah I'm afraid it's a little too normal.
sheila b: hmm, a bit too cheesy for me. I guess this is normal-cheesy while I'm looking for quirky-cheesy.
amanda lear: same as above, I guess. I think I'm not too comfortable with mainstream big hits.
la bionda: sorry I can't stand this. I can tell if a disco song is "too mainstream" and this is one of them.
boystown gang: too normal, sorry.
peter jackson band: yup, I like this song and fits my criteria.
azoto: of course, my fav italian disco group.
boots clement: it fits the playful/quirky criteria but I'm afraid there's no hooks that caught me.
viola wills: not campy, but it's a pretty nice song.
gonzales: one catchy tune but really tries my mainstream tolerability and eventually I decided this is not for me.
supermax: didn't do it for me.
the immortals: yup, this is huge.
andy williams: sorry but I think this is boring.
philly usa: just a normal disco tune.
harlow: just discovered this a few days ago and yeah it fits my criteria.

phew. thank you, guys.

some rad tunes I just discovered:

oto gelb - love tragedy in verona
http://youtu.be/yDYN3JZ6I1Q

mandy b jones - 1234
http://youtu.be/AVePxF_pev4

rod - shake it up
http://youtu.be/1U2F5Mub3Tg

walter murphy - romeo and juliet & mostly mozart
http://youtu.be/jx9smvsaqwE

You're hard to please :-) Still not 100% what you're looking for...

Oto Gelb - This is just standard Eurodisco?
Mandy B Jones - This is cool, kind of a mutant disco thing
Rod - Kind of a rollerdisco sound, not sure why this stands out either?
Walter Murphy - Orchestral cheese disco is the worst thing in the world, can't hack this at all

yes, I know! I even sometimes fear there can't be any more disco songs that can blow my mind.

oto gelb and walter murphy: I first heard these in daniel wang's sets and I think his sequencing have a part in this.
rod: I love the playful girly shouts.

Going to stop after this, but these are all goofy in one way or another:

King Tim III - Charley Says! (Roller Boogie Baby)
DD Sound - Burning Love
Bumblebee Unlimited - Lady Bug
Hot Blood - Soul Dracula

I LOVE Lady Bug, one of my top 5 disco. Hot Blood - Soul Dracula is also a winner. Gonna check the rest later.

Ha i was going to post the Rod tune a few hours ago. Killer track, vocals go hard

what about Don Ray - "midnight madness"

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ACpXmfb1BC4

Oh and Must - Sado Maso Disco is very very silly.

not digging that don ray tune, sorry.

wow at that Must song. how could they get away with that?? anyway I really like the quirkiness.

Glad that you like the Immortals tune, when it comes to "quirky but awesome" disco, that one is pretty much my all-time favourite

Interesting that you mention that Rod's "Shake It Up (Do the Boogaloo)", do you just like it in general, or do you think it fits what you're looking for in this thread? I could recommend several other tunes like it, but I would've assumed that sort on funky disco is too normal to meet your "campy but beautiful" criteria.

Aren't there a couple of the Disco Discharge comps which are in this general direction? I'm far from being an expert - only dipping my toes in after discovering Voyage late last year then trying Boris Midney - but there must be one of the myriad of comps which cater for this? Loving the recommendations, by the way.

I don't own any of the Disco Discharge comps, but looking at the tracklists, these ones seem to have plenty of tunes like this:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Disco-Discharge-Cruising-The-Beats/release/2739764

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Disco-Discharge-Disco-Exotica/release/3533019

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Disco-Discharge-European-Connection/release/2271359

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Disco-Discharge-Mondo-Disco/release/2678479

Actually I only love the girl shouts. I can live without the male vocal. I don't think the song as a whole fits my criteria.

There are many songs that fit my theme in that series but they're spread across the volumes; there's no particular volume that has this theme.

Wait, Mondo Disco is pretty close.

Yeah, Mondo Disco looks pretty cool, I was thinking I should get if myself.

I like the look of that set too - I love the two Voyage tracks on there. I have the European Connection set and that's very good, highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez0Z2naY3DY

Beautiful and campy seem like such two different things to me w/r/t disco.

Might as well post this one here too, I did an all-boogie disco mix:

https://soundcloud.com/kukka-dj/boogiemix/s-6PvKP

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3jh3ki

Today I checked out this album by "the Brazilian Donna Summer", Lady Zu:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KqndcpjQSek/Sr4TzC0qi4I/AAAAAAAATe4/gdgVEfUDCL4/s400/Lady+Zu+A+Noite+Vai+Chegar.jpg

It's not amazing but you can hear an influence from the "Samba Soul" sound and some of the songs are pretty cool, e.g. Novidades.

The Disco Handbook from way upthread is online! http://www.scribd.com/doc/3242075/The-Disco-Handbook

fn love disco

yez, good genre!!

on a recent youtube cruise discovered this slightly deranged proggy disco jam from the mind of baciotti of "black jack" fame (and songwriting partner pamela forrest, don't know much about her): http://youtu.be/n6nIqVre7dY
i love it

God knows why, but that Disco book used to be in my 6th grade classroom library (c. 1991). The Sam Viviano illustrations just triggered a long-buried memory!

High Inergy - I Just Can't Help Myself
High Inergy - Sweet Man this whole lp is awesome
Delilah - Dancing in the Fire (this one's kinda weird and second tier but i love it)
Caroline Crawford - I'll Be Here For You this whole album is just jaw-droppingly great. it's slow but impossible for me to not dance to and the production is just wwow

not strictly female but....

Dan Hartman - Vertigo / Relight My Fire later dan hartman cut, out of this world

^found on Classic Disco Mastercuts which is five stars five times. a lot of those mastercuts comps (the 90s ones, not the later ones after the company was bought by someone else iirc) are stellar. there's a mellow quiet-storm slow-boogie one that changed my life.

also does sylvester count? female, campy and absolutely beautiful. love it all but "over and over" is pretty special.

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-343706-1108855771.jpg

On repeat this week: Archie Bell and the Drells - Strategy

re: dan hartman >> that's actually a big cut, no? especially relight my fire.
re: sylvester >> what do you mean by female? haha. yes I like him but I'm afraid his style are kinda outside of the disco range I'm looking for. he's more like hi-nrg perhaps?

sylvester was part of an sf ensemble / live band and his earlier highlights are full of energy yes but lush and 'soulful,' not a synth in sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7VL8caYxms

I got the most recent Boris Midney reissue in the mail, this one includes his discofied versions of Evita and The Empire Strikes Back soundtracks. You might enjoy the Evita disc, unless you think it's too camp? Personally I think it's fab, I'm not the biggets fan of the musical, but Midney's arrangements are just so impeccable!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFkITYXUQe8

Skip to 4:30 to hear "Rainbow High", which is probably the best tune on the album.

Also, his disco version of the Star Wars theme rules over the better known Meco version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xkAf_MhnJs

https://soundcloud.com/20twin/twins-reflected-image-vinyl-disco-mix