Club Nights - Welcome To The 80's

=====================================================================================================

Contrary to popular belief, the Disco Music era did not die on New Years Day of 1980.  There were several somgs that

would enjoy huge success between 1980 and 1982 that were taken right out of the disco mold.  Having said that, the

bulk of 70's Disco Music which often featured the combination of an orchestra and band was almost immediately

replaced by a more funkier sound... with a little R & B thrown in as well.  The lyrics were definitely naughtier and

more sexual in tone than most of the 70's Disco Music.  This was my time!  My DJ career was really picking up now

and for the next 15 years I worked just about all the time behind the turntables.  The 80's brought good club...

freestyle... and of course House Music.  This mix focuses on the early 80's and is the first of three that I will make

covering the 1980's.  Enjoy!

======================================================================================================                                                                             

                                        The Artists featured in this mix by  appearance

1. Imagination was a British pop/soul trio from the early 1980's who scored with their huge dance hit "Just An Illusion".

2. France Joli  (born January 26, 1963) is a Canadian singer, best known for the disco classic "Come to Me." "Come to Me"

began a six-week reign atop the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play on 22 September 1979 and the France Joli album rose to

26. On the Billboard Hot 100 "Come to Me" peaked at #15 a symptom of the increasing disenchantment of pop radio with

disco music. Her other hits include Gonna Get Over You.

3. Hall & Oates is an American musical duo composed of Daryl Hall and John Oates. They achieved their greatest fame in

the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s with a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues styles, which they dubbed

"rock and soul." They are best known for their six No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100: "Rich Girl", "Kiss on My List", 

"Private Eyes", "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)", "Maneater", and "Out of Touch", as well as many other songs which

charted in the Top 40.

4. Sharon Brown is a singer-songwriter and musician who was born in Harlem, New York, US. She is the niece of songwriter

Phil Medley, who co-wrote the song "Twist and Shout".  She is also the daughter of drummer William Brown, who played

with musicians such as The Isley Brothers and Cannonball Adderley. She had a hit single on the Billboard Hot Dance Club

Play chart in 1982 with the song "I Specialize in Love".  This song spent three weeks at #2 on the Club Play chart, crossed

over to R&B Dance Music Charts.

5. Vicky “D” was a short-lived New York-based post-disco/garage house group best known for their club hit "This Beat Is Mine".

As of January 23, 1982, "This Beat Is Mine" was at #30 on Billboard Club Play Singles chart.

6. Aurra was a 1980s soul group, which, at the time of its biggest success was composed of Curt Jones and Starleana Young.

Aurra started off in 1980 as an offshoot of the R&B-funk band Slave, which featured Jones, Young, Charles Carter, and

Buddy Hankerson. Their biggest hit was Checking You Out.

7. Central Line was a Brit-soul - funk quartet from the early 80's who had the had major dance hits with "Walking On Sunshine"

and "Nature Boy".

8. Unlimited Touch was an American, New York-based post disco group, who had some regional fame in the early 1980s.

"I Hear Music in the Streets" and "Searchin' to Find the One", which were major hits on the US Billboard charts.

9. Suzi Q was a Canadian studio group who had a hit dance single "Get on Up and Do It Again" in 1981. The song peaked

at number 4 on the Billboard Dance chart and the second 1982 version at 12 on the same chart.

10. Sharon Redd was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1945 and got a major break when she starred in an Australian production

of the rock musical Hair. In 1979, Redd recorded the disco hit "Love Insurance," under the name Front Page, her own vocals

going uncredited. But she soon signed a recording contract with Prelude Records, and placed several songs on the

Hot Dance Club Play chart, including "Beat the Street," "In the Name of Love," and "Love How You Feel." and

"Can You Handle It". In the midst of mounting a comeback in the early 1990s, Redd died of pneumonia on May 1, 1992.

11. Geraldine Hunt (born February 10, 1945 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American R&B singer best known for the 1980 #1

Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit Can't Fake the Feeling. Hunt is the mother of three children; Rosalind Hunt of the musical

group Chéri, singer Freddie James and writer Jeanne Dupuis.

12. Sinnamon was an American female R&B and dance music vocal trio, consisting of Barbara Fowler and Marsha Carter from Springfield, Massachusetts, and Melissa Bell from New York. Bell is currently a writer, living in New York City. Their greatest

success occurred in 1982 when their song "Thanks to You" spent two weeks at number one on the US Hot Dance Music/Club

Play chart in Billboard. The song also reached number 44 on the US Billboard R&B chart.

13. Class Action was a garage house and disco musical project comprised Christine Wiltshire best known for the club hit

"Weekend". The 1983 version was remixed by Morales and Munzibai and Larry Levan and produced by Bob Blank and

Lola Blank.                                                     

Tracklist