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a complete introduction to disco 4 CD box set
A COMPLETE INTRODUCTION TO DISCO
Release Date: August 30th 2010
Label: Universal Music
Cat No: 5328514
Format: 4CD Hardcover book / Digital
For many it's impossible to imagine a time when disco wasn’t dressed up in a white designer suit with gold chains and a medallion around its neck. After the ‘Saturday Night Fever’ film and soundtrack went stratospheric in 1978 such was the impact of the genre on music it seemed that the only way established rock acts like Blondie, The Rolling Stones and Rod Stewart could keep up was to “go disco”, too. Before long the backlash began, culminating in a riotous ‘disco demolition night’ in Chicago’s Comiskey Park during a White Sox game when hundreds of disco records were blown up. The event resulted in several injuries and the demonization of the genre, which was apparently pronounced ‘dead’ in 1980.
But the rock reactionaries were to be proved wrong - we now know that disco lived on, in just about every permutation of dance and pop music since those heady, hedonistic dancing days of the 1970s. For the first time, Universal Music Catalogue’s 4-CD set ‘The Complete Introduction To Disco’ takes a chronological, decade-long journey tracing the metamorphosis and development of the genre from its roots in soul, funk and Motown into a form that effortlessly absorbed European electronica, Latin percussion, big bands, African grooves, thumping beats and gospel-influenced vocals. Indeed, once the disco scene was set – first in New York City before making waves all over the world - the 1970s period gave birth to modern clubland as we would recognise it today. It would be disco music that would, for the first time ever, soundtrack the coming together of a melting pot of sexes, races and sexualities…one nation under a disco groove.
Beautifully packaged and compiled in consultation with those at the centre of the storm at the time, and after exhaustive research into club DJ playlists and DJ charts, ‘The Complete Introduction To Disco’ throws the spotlight on disco’s
groundbreaking producers, vocalists, DJs and house bands, many of whom provide quotes and anecdotes for the set’s detailed sleevenotes. It contains the landmark records from the time – such as Diana Ross’s ‘Love Hangover’ and Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ – alongside overlooked classics that lit up the dance floors of the 1970s. Choc-full of some of the most musically adventurous and life-affirming music ever made, it’s both a serious attempt to rescue the genre from those white suit and medallion connotations AND the box set you can dance to.
Yowsah!
A COMPLETE INTRODUCTION TO DISCO: TRACK LISTING
Part One: First Steps
Love's Theme Love Unlimited Orchestra
Backstabbers The O Jays
Law Of The Land The Temptations
Soul Makossa Manu Dibango
Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys The Equals
Hot Pants…I'm Coming I'm Coming Bobby Byrd
Get Ready Rare Earth
Beggin' Timebox
Everyday People Sly & The Family Stone
I'll Take You There The Staple Singers
Theme From Shaft Isaac Hayes
Tell Me What You Want Jimmy Ruffin
Hey Girl Come And Get It The Stylistics
Rock Your Baby (Parts 1 & 2) George McCrae
Love Don't You Go Through No Changes On Me - Sister Sledge
Girl You Need A Change Of Mind Eddie Kendricks
Satin Soul Gene Page
Blue Eyed Soul Carl Douglas
Doctor's Orders Carol Douglas
Shame Shame Shame Shirley & Company
Machine Gun The Commodores
Part Two: Happy People
The Hustle Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony
Get Down Tonight KC & The Sunshine Band
Never Can Say Goodbye Gloria Gaynor
It's In His Kiss Linda Lewis
Forever Came Today Jackson 5
Walking In Rhythm The Blackbyrds
Dreaming A Dream (Disco Version) Crown Heights Affair
It Only Takes A Minute Tavares
Ten Percent Double Exposure
That's Where The Happy People Go The Trammps
Young Hearts Run Free Candi Staton
Open Sesame (Part 1) Kool & The Gang
Down To Love Town The Originals
Love Hangover Diana Ross
Turn The Beat Around Vicki Sue Robinson
Cherchez La Femme / Se Si Bon Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
Part Three: Disco In Excelsis!
Don't Leave Me This Way Thelma Houston
Let No Man Put Asunder First Choice
Cocomotion (Part 1) El Coco
Love In C Minor Cerrone
I Feel Love Donna Summer
From Here To Eternity Giorgio Moroder
Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) - Chic
I Need A Man Grace Jones
Romeo & Juliet Alec R Costandinos
Risky Changes Bionic Boogie
In the Bush Musique
Let's Start The Dance Bohannon
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) Sylvester
Souvenirs Voyage
Part Four: Take Me Home
Vertigo - Relight My Fire Dan Hartman
After Dark Pattie Brooks
The Runner Three Degrees
Take That To The Bank Shalamar
Dance With You Carrie Lucas
Dancer Gino Soccio
Space Bass Slick
Can't Live Without Your Love Tamiko Jones
I Need Your Lovin' Teena Marie
Casanova Coffee
The Boss Diana Ross
Take Me Home Cher
Last Dance Donna Summer
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