Featured DJ Mixes - exclusive high quality DJ mixes

Rub Ah DUB DUB!!! LIVE @ MIXIFY by JAYROCK

uploaded 5/24/2013 8:05:56 AM

1 1 77 1 1

MORE INFO

Disco Nights III - A Night To Remember by DJ Ciro

uploaded 5/24/2013 3:51:16 AM

0 5 113 12 2

MORE INFO

"Disco Music" - the music of a generation (including my own) made popular by the Latino, gay and Psychedelic communities of the late 1960's and early 1970's. The disco sound was soaring with often reverberated vocals over a familiar and steady "four-on-the-floor" beat. While we all know the more commercial disco/dance hits from groups like the Bee Gees, KC And The Sunshine Band and The Tramps, this mix is dedicated to the artists who created something special. Most of these songs did very well on the charts and were far from that disco/pop so many people hated. These were the songs I was hearing in the clubs at the New Jersey Shore and inspired me to learn the art of mixing music as a club DJ, as well as entertaining those great couples hustling on the dance floor. A much younger friend at work recently asked me why disco died if it was so popular. My answer: "It was so big it actually sunk under its own weight. It became too commercial. Once your mom and dad and grandmother are trying to learn all the new dance moves with you the game is over".

Disco Nights III - A Night To Remember

This is my final installment of my Disco Nights series and unlike Disco Nights - Legends Of The Dance Floor - which was about the artists that made a special mark on the genre of Disco Music, or Disco Nights II - A Touch Of Philadelphia - which was about a style of music - this set is all about fun and dancing. So have fun listening to it!

The mix opens with a tribute I mixed paying homage to both the Disco Era and the great summer Disco Nightclubs of the New Jersey shore resort areas from back in the day - where I live. Many of these great clubs were either severely damaged or washed away by Hurricane Sandy on October 28, 2012 - as well as the towns which they reside. It's in some of these clubs that my DJ career began and I have the best memories when thinking about them.

Featured in this mix are the musical talents of:

GQ

GQ was an American group, formed in The Bronx, New York, primarily noted for its success in disco music and R&B. The core membership of the group commenced playing professionally, under different group names, as of 1968. GQ became quite successful playing music representative of the period'sdisco influenced sound. They had several highly-ranked singles in multiple markets (US Pop, US Black, US Disco/Club). Their biggest hit was 1979's "Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)"

Jackie Moore:

Jackie Moore is an American R&B singer best known for her 1979 disco hit "This Time Baby.

Gino Soccio

Gino Soccio (born in September of 1955, Westmount, Quebec) is a Canadian disco record producer. His heritage is Italian. His only US Billboard Hot 100 entry was the #48 hit single "Dancer" in 1979, but he did hit #1 on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart twice("Dancer" "Dance to Dance" in 1979, and "Try It Out" / "Hold Tight" in 1981, six weeks each). "Dancer peaked at #46 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1979.[1] Soccio's third biggest hit, "It's Alright"

Suzi Lane:

suzi Lane (real name Suziliene McDonald) is an American female singer who had a number-one track on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1979 with the Giorgio Moroder-produced tracks, "Harmony"/"Ooh,La, La". The dance hit was number one for one week while remaining on the chart for six months. At the time the tracks charted some thought it was recorded by Donna Summer because they thought that "Harmony" sounded like Summers' 1977 hit "I Feel Love." That confusion alone may have fueled the song's climb to the top of the Dance chart. It was Lane's lone charting hit.

Gary's Gang:

Gary's Gang was an American funk/soul/R&B/disco group who just missed having a U.S. Top 40 hit, when their lone Billboard Hot 100 entry, "Keep on Dancin'", reached #41 in 1978. The song climbed to #8 in the UK Singles Chart,[1] #14 on the Hot Soul Singles chart in 1978 and also made #1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, as did two of the group's other songs: "Do It At the Disco" and "Let's Lovedance Tonight". The latter was later used as the sampling background track to Soulsearcher's 1999 #20 Club Play hit, "Can't Get Enough".

Edwin Starr:

Edwin Starr (January 21, 1942 – April 2, 2003) was an American soul music singer. Starr is most famous for his Norman Whitfield produced Motown singles of the 1970s, most notably the number one hit "War".The biggest hit of his career, which cemented his reputation, was the Vietnam War protest song "War" (1970). In 1979, Starr reappeared on the charts with a pair of disco hits, "(Eye-to-Eye) Contact" and "H.A.P.P.Y. Radio". "Contact" was the more successful of the two, peaking at #65 on the US pop charts, #13 on he R&B chart, #1 on the dance chart, and #6 on the UK Singles Chart.

Sylvester:

Sylvester James (Los Angeles, September 6, 1947 – San Francisco, December 16, 1988), better known as Sylvester, was an American disco and soul singer-songwriter. Known for his flamboyant and androgynous appearance, he was often described as a drag queen, although repeatedly rejected such a description. Responsible for a string of hit singles,in the late 1970s, Sylvester became known in the United States under the moniker of the "Queen of Disco".His first solo album, Sylvester (1977), was a moderate success, and was followed by acclaimed disco album Step II (1978), which spawned the hit singles "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" and "Dance (Disco Heat)". He produced three more albums with Fantasy Records before signing to Megatone Records, the dance-orientated label founded by friend and collaborator Patrick Cowley, with whom he produced four albums and the hit Hi-NRG track "Do Ya Wanna Funk". An activist who campaigned against the spread of HIV/AIDS, Sylvester died from complications arising from the virus in 1988.

Debbie Jaccobs:
Debbie Jacobs is a female Black American singer born in Baltimore, Maryland who had several Disco hits.[1] Her biggest chart hit was "High on Your Love," which climbed to #70 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1980. The song, along with "Hot Hot (Give It All You Got)" went to #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. Other '70s hits included, "Don't You Want My Love" and "Undercover Lover", which are her best known hit singles. She enjoyed a second #1 dance hit in 2000 in a new version of her 70s club hit song "Don't You Want My Love" (as Debbie Jacobs-Rock), produced by Rosabel.

Cheryl Lynn:

Lynda Cheryl Smith (born March 11, 1957), known better by her professional name Cheryl Lynn, is an American disco, R&B and soul singer known best for her 1978 disco song, "Got to Be Real". After her performance on The Gong Show, Ahmed Ertegun of Atlantic Records company couldn't come to an initial meeting with Lynn, with the result that she was contracted with Columbia Records company. Lynn released her first and best-known song, "Got to Be Real," which was composed by keyboardist David Paich (of the band Toto), David Foster and Lynn. The song scored #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart and #1 on the Rhythm & Blues chart. The success of the single album prompted a full scale debut album. Named Cheryl Lynn, it was produced by Paich. The album sold more than a million copies and scored #5 on Billboard magazine's R&B albums chart and #23 on Billboard's top 200 album charts. The next single album, "Star Love"', also became a success.

Evelyn Champagne King:

Evelyn "Champagne" King (born July 1, 1960) is an American R&B, disco and post-disco singer. Some of her best-known songs are "Shame", "Love Come Down," and "I'm in Love." Evelyn King was born in the Bronx, New York, and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her uncle Avon Long had played the part of Sportin' Life in the first Broadway revival of Porgy and Bess and worked with Lena Horne at the Cotton Club. Her father sang back-up for groups at Harlem's Apollo Theater.

Voyage:

Voyage was a French disco (1977-1979) and pop-funk (1980-1982) group, with the French musicians recording studio like André "Slim" Pezin (guitar/vocals), Marc Chantereau (keyboards/vocals), Pierre-Alain Dahan (drums/vocals) and Sauveur Mallia (bass), by the significant and important participation of the British lead vocalist Sylvia Mason-James during the first two albums in 1977 with Voyage and in 1978 with Let's Fly Away. Their lone Billboard Hot 100 entry was "Souvenirs," which hit number forty-one in 1979.[1] They had more success on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, where two of their albums, Voyage (1978) and Fly Away (1979), hit number one.

A Taste Of Honey:

"Boogie Oogie Oogie" is the name of a popular song by disco/R&B group A Taste of Honey. Released from their self-titled album in 1978, it became an extremely popular "crossover" song. The lyrics urge listeners to "boogie oogie oogie till you just can't boogie no more." It topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the Hot Soul Singles chart,[1] and the Hot Dance Club Play chart.[2] It would eventually sell over two million copies and has become one of the most recognizable songs from the late 1970s disco era. It would also help the group win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist of 1978. It also reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart.

If you haven't had the chance - check our my Disco Nights - Legends Of The Dance Floor and Disco Nights II - A Touch Of Philadelphia"

Coming Soon
Here Comes That Sound Again (A night in the 80's)

Previous 7 days statistics

0 6 113 12 3