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

i've spammed ilm about this song before but i've been binging on it once again lately...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y1lgh166rk
Fern Kinney - Groove Me (1979)

starts off as a pretty sweet pop reggae track and then it veers off into outer space about halfway through. so good and pretty easy to find cheap ime. cover of a king floyd southern soul song btw, original is fucking excellent too if you don't know that.

and this is another track off the same fern kinney album as the above

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaxyQF0jegQ
Fern Kinney - Baby Let Me Kiss You (1979)

bit more of an electronic one but still really spacey and again it's really easy to find the 12" in the UK - it's the b-side of her big hit 'together we are beautiful'

Both of those big staples on the Balearic scene

Early Cameo is SUCH a treasure trove. "It's Serious" is one of my top jams (and I suspect it's the first track to use the "oo-wa oo-wa" chant, swiftly plundered by Michael Zager), almost all of the Secret Omen album is great, and I've just discovered "Cameosis" from 1980.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9av9tY3vTY

hooooly shit, more incredible afro disco edits. the flip of this one's great, too, and there are still cheap copies on discogs. i will be snapping one up tonight for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwXJ4OyLpwM

here's another great discovery for me this week. all 4 tracks are hot on the brazilian tip. someone on discogs is saying that it will be getting another pressing in the next couple weeks. gotta have it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRPBvCXrzDs

xp i dig those Cameo tunes. didn't realize what a big band they were.

that amadou balake is gorgeous!

those cameo boys sound drilled as fuck on those tunes - so tight!

This is my discovery of the week (again thanks to the James Hamilton blog): Debbie Jacobs - 'High on Your Love'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSKwGJtOs-8

That intro!

Ooooh, I missed that, creamy!

Re: the Kleeer song, I keep hearing "Internet Connection" :)

Weird Al needs to get on that right quick.

In today's post: The Invisible Man's Band - All Night Thing (1979)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MMntuWZ5o4

The band were formerly known as Five Stairsteps, of "O-o-h Child" fame, featuring Keni "Risin' To The Top" Burke and his brothers.

my roommate funky brewster just put this on the turntable, ufff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKqLmiMXja8

and now this one. dude has expensive taste:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIZ5suObstA

Cubie Burke - Down For Double (1982)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKO7BW1mIFU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkTTE1CAJ8

Anarchy In The UK covered in a disco stylee :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnx4Ky8v6tg

Memorably deployed near the climax of Can't Stop the Music.

Well, memorable to me in any case.

Thanks for that Sex Pistols cover, Paolo! I love it. The original is by the Black Arabs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZmZ1Z9o73E

Aha, I suspected as much and had been meaning to cross-check, thanks for confirming!

In today's post: Carrie Lucas - Dance With You, as liberally sampled by a certain late 90s monster hit. The YouTube doesn't do it full justice compared with the 12", but HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO GREAT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BHww8urQGE

Obv introduced to that song via the sample that eclipsed it, but man the original is a barnstormer. Way closer to the on-beat than most disco

Yeah that carrie lucas bangs, love that!

Playlist from last Friday's DJ gig at the bar up the road:

Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes - Wake Up Everybody
Bill Withers - Lovely Day
ned doheny - to prove my love
donald byrd - love has come around
candi staton - when you wake up tomorrow
invisible man's band - all night thing
Norman Connors - Captain Connors
light of the world - pete's crusade
george duke - brazilian love affair
mass production - shante
tower of power - lovin' you is gonna see me thru
charles earland - let the music play
kleeer - it's magic
raul de souza - daisy mae
azymuth - jazz carnival
eddie henderson - prance on
debbie jacobs - high on your love
double exposure - ten percent
grey & hanks - dancin'
herbie mann - hijack
shalamar - right in the socket
d train - you're the one for me
david joseph - you can't hide (your love from me)
loose joints - is it all over my face?
talking heads - I zimbra
narada michael walden - I shoulda loved ya
gene chandler - get down
shalamar - I owe you one
the source ft candi staton - you got the love (original 1986 version)
sister sledge - thinking of you (dimitri from paris remix)
george benson - give me the night
Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
queen - another one bites the dust
sugarhill gang - rappers delight
Positive Force - We Got The Funk
Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
players association - turn the music up
bobby thurston - check out the groove
Quincy Jones - Ai No Corrida
chic - le freak (dimitri from paris remix)
marvin gaye - got to give it up (the reflex re-edit)
Freeez - Southern Freeez
odyssey - use it up and wear it out
Sly & The Family Stone - Dance To The Music (John Luongo remix)
gloria gaynor - never can say goodbye
sylvester - you make me feel (mighty real)

nice! how did it go down? am picturing the ruins still smouldering here

The original Source/Candi Staton went down particularly well, as nobody seems to know it; I had a similar reaction with Tony Lee's "Reach Up" a few weeks ago, when people realised it had the vocal from Phats & Small. Looking forward to pulling a similar trick with Carrie Lucas on Friday.

George Duke, D-Train and Players Association were all requests. The D-Train sounded particularly fantastic; I never quite know what's going to sound best on my PA system, until I play it out. On the downside, the Debbie Jacobs didn't sound great, although it plays fine at home.

Sylvester got the most dancers, obviously. But the early-set jazz-funk was much appreciated, too.

can't argue with the d-train, huge song!

got lucky and picked up this bomb for a couple of quid at the weekend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5XS1CZV9w4
Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love (1979)

Great track, I also bought it a couple of months ago.

Best Night Ever at the bar up the road on Friday; I hit a sweet spot with this sequence, and was rewarded with a packed floor.
Tailgunner - Jimmy McGriff
You And I - Rick James
Can't Live Without Your Love - Tamiko Jones
Everybody Here Must Party - Direct Current, with a flukily spot-on long-running mix into...
R.R. Express - Rose Royce
Backstrokin' - Fatback
Far Beyond - Locksmith
On The One - Cameo
Let's Get Funktified - Boiling Point
Let's Get Serious - Jermaine Jackson
You Got The Love (1986 original version) - The Source & Candi Staton
Going Back To My Roots - Odyssey
Take Me I'm Yours - Mary Clark (I'll play requests when they're as good as this one)
Which Way Is Up - Stargard
Star - Earth Wind & Fire

Dance With You - Carrie Lucas into Streetplayer - Chicago also worked a treat.

Out today on Be With Records

https://www.discogs.com/The-Whispers-Keep-On-Lovin-Me/release/12031106

Such a great video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6aRvVTSC0I

I'm a bit of a boogie dilettante but listening to a few bits recently. I can sort of take or leave Leroy Burgess's voice on this but even so. Damn.

The Fantastic Aleems, Hooked On Your Love 12".

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

Through the letterbox yesterday: Rhyze - Just How Sweet Is Your Love (SAM, 1980). Creamy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxtNcDPmfy0

This is a nice one:
Queen Samantha - 'Singing Hallelujah'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HITBzKqmt3g

It's the B-side of her cover of 'The Letter'

i've had this in my collection for a while

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy4nrCYMMcM

and just learned it rips off lipps inc., which i'm now convinced is the superior version!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr69NcmYg3Q

lol i like timecode better

you've heard the original by Ace? nice soft rock eagle-y romp

omg, i have heard the original and totally forgot about it. and it's also pretty great

Dee Dee Sharp Gamble - Breaking And Entering. (late 1980/early 1981)

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

courtesy of my now former roommate, funky brewster, who sent it via text message. i miss him lots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZbdPtRSv-s

xp track is groovy as hell :)

cool, bookmarked this thread.

holy moly this tune tho. is there a "songs where there are handclaps after the singer says clap your hands" thread?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RulvW5IqIrg
bileo - you can win

From excellent sister thread I Love Deep Cuts--a yard sale treasure:

Another xpost Deep Cuts album mostly, though I think/hope Chic's "I Need Your Love" got a decent amount of airplay. Seems like a Chic album with well-served guest lead vox---Carly Simon at her best! The only track I kinda listen askance at is the closer w Debbie Harry. From the solo debut, and Nile & Nard produced that too, but the CREEM reviewer who liked it was not a Chic fan, so that put me off listening, and it disappeared pretty quickly, so another DC album but here's this---thanks again Discogs!

Various ‎– Soup For One - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label:
Mirage (2) ‎– WTG 19353
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country:
US
Released:
1982
Genre:
Funk / Soul, Stage & Screen
Style:
Soundtrack, Disco, Funk
Tracklist Hide Credits
A1 –Chic Soup For One 5:33
A2 –Carly Simon Why 4:06
A3 –Teddy Pendergrass Dream Girl 4:08
A4 –Fonzi Thornton I Work For A Livin' 3:31
B1 –Chic I Want Your Love 6:53
B2 –Sister Sledge Let's Go On Vacation 5:08
B3 –Chic Tavern On The Green 2:15
B4 –Deborah Harry Jump, Jump
Written-By – Chris Stein, Deborah Harry
4:02
Credits
Bass, Vocals – Bernard Edwards
Bells [Tubular] – José Rossi*
Drums – Tony Thompson (2)
Engineer – Bill Scheniman, Bob Clearmountain, Scott Litt
Engineer [Assitant] – Barry Bongiovi, Dave "The Rave" Greenberg*, Jason Corsaro, Jeff Hendrickson, Josh Abbey
Guitar – Nile Rodgers
Horns – Edward Daniels*, Meco Monardo, Robert Millikan
Keyboards – Ray Jones*, Rob Sabino
Percussion – Sammy Figueroa
Producer, Written-By, Arranged By, Conductor – Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers
Vocals – Alfa Anderson, Diva Gray, Fonzi Thornton, Jocelyn Brown, Luci Martin, Michelle Cobbs, Robin Clark (2)

― dow, Sunday, July 22, 2018

i'm sure i've posted this a few times but i love this b-side from "bad bad boy" by theo vaness. it's kind of cheaply constructed and really doesn't need to be so long but it BANGS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LtNlT2SV_k

Revelation - Feel It (1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y2JapLMkSQ

oh hell yes

i've been getting reacquainted with how good "music and lights" by imagination is.

fyi the bass playing on that theo vaness track is so killer, it just pours out of whoever's playing it... and i really want to know who it is but i can't find any credits.

and i should say it's not a b-side! it's from a double a side released in 1987

That 1987 release was a re-issue. It was on the B-side of Paradise Garage classic "Sentimentally It's You", released in 1979. I vastly prefer this to "Sentimentally It's You", but would still prefer an instrumental version; Theo's vocals rub me up the wrong way.