So, from '79 to the first-ever house record, we take a look at a period where there were no rules and music was open to all sorts of influences. Dance music culture was born the club became a place of worship and the DJ became the preacher.
#DISCO SONGS FULL#
With major labels steering clear of a sound full of glitz and glam, disco became about independent labels in a singles-driven market, giving power to DJs like Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage, Frankie Knuckles at the Power Plant and Ron Hardy at the Muzic Box. Boogie, Italo disco, new wave, no wave, punk funk, synth pop, early electro and dub were all part of the post-disco landscape where the proliferation of synthesisers and drum machines helped artists pastiche their creations together.Īnd it wasn't just musically that post-disco would influence the incoming house and techno scenes. Disco was forced back underground where it would mutate and diversify into a myriad of genres that eventually came to be house music. The backlash was quick and punishing and the implicitly homophobic and racist ' Disco Sucks' rally at Chicago's Comiskey Park that year all but killed the sound in mainstream America. In 1979, disco had reached its commercial nadir, filtering its way into TV, advertising, comics and even music from Ethel Merman. But, quite simply, that's not true and we didn't go from ' I Feel Love' to ' Strings Of Life' overnight, there was a very important bridge that connected the dots between US and Europe, man and machine. House and disco have been inextricably linked ever since and the term disco has morphed into a catch-all term for dance music before house. Join Jung-Ho Pak, Cape Symphony Artistic Director & Conductor, and your fellow disco lovers for a dance party.When Frankie Knuckles famously described house music as disco's revenge, it set in motion an origin story tantamount to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The West End also hosts a “Studio 54” party from 9:00 PM until closing time. The West End will offer a 20% discount on dinner with your Symphony at the Disco ticket. In order to make this weekend of disco truly special, the Cape Symphony is partnering with The West End in Hyannis on October 13. Special Offers on October 13: The Cape Symphony is offering $20 tickets to guests under 50 on October 13 at 3:00 PM and 7:30 PM. Get your tickets now at or 508.362.1111. Join the Cape Symphony and the Boogie Wonder Band for Symphony at the Disco on October 13 and 14. The final years of the decade made huge stars of Chic and Kool & the Gang, and saw many established bands and singers turning to disco, including The Jacksons, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Diana Ross. Of course, the release of Saturday Night Fever and its soundtrack in 1977 truly cemented the massive popularity of disco.
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The first number one disco song on that chart was "You Should Be Dancing" by the Bee Gees. Today’s Billboard Dance Club Songs chart was launched as the Disco Action Top 30 chart on August 28, 1976, and was the first chart by Billboard magazine to document the popularity of dance music. By the mid-seventies, Gloria Gaynor and Donna Summer were topping the charts with disco hits. Big stars of R&B like Stevie Wonder and The O’Jays began to incorporate disco elements into their music. In the early ‘60s, the word came into use in the United States, frequently shortened to “disco.”ĭisco music itself evolved from different subcultures, with origins in Philadelphia’s R&B scene in the late ‘60s/early ‘70s, featuring African-American and Latino musicians and audiences, and in private dance parties thrown in the underground gay community of New York. “Discotheque” means "library of phonograph records" in French, and that term gradually came to refer to these clubs where records were the norm, rather than a band. Believe it or not, Nazis had a hand in the development of the nightclubs where disco music originated! During World War II, dance halls in Paris featured jazz music however, regulations in Nazi-occupied France banned live music, so records were played instead.