The Top Of The Poppers - 50 Rocketing Disco Hits - Pickwick Records - Disco
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Track ListingA1 See My Baby JiveA2 At The Club A3 You To Me Are Everything A4 Swing Your Daddy A5 Ride A White Swan A6 Knock Three Times A7 Kiss And Say Goodbye A8 Give Me Just A Little More Time A9 Money Honey A10 Looking Thru The Eyes Of Love A11 Summer Of \'42 A12 Get Your Love Back A13 You Should Be Dancing B1 Let The Music Play B2 You\'ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine B3 Get It On B4 Purely By Coincidence B5 Jeepster B6 Sugar Sugar B7 Gudbuy T\' Jane B8 La La Means I Love You B9 Girls B10 Hello Hello I\'m Back Again B11 Honky Tonk Women B12 Rockin\' Roll Baby C1 Tiger Feet C2 You\'ve Got Me Dangling On A String C3 Young Hearts Run Free C4 Simple Game C5 Skywriter C6 Elmo James C7 Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da C8 Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) C9 Love Train C10 Son Of My Father C11 Kissing In The Back Row Of The Movies C12 Down On The Beach Tonight D1 Teenage Rampage D2 You Gotta Have Love In Your Heart D3 Lola D4 Automatically Sunshine D5 Baby Jump D6 Red Dress D7 Lady Marmalade D8 Sugar Candy Kisses D9 The Night D10 Can\'t Get By Without You D11 Hallelujah Day D12 I Can\'t Leave You Alone D13 Give A Little Love Media Condition » Very Good Plus (VG+) Sleeve Condition » Very Good Plus (VG+) |
Artist | The Top Of The Poppers | ||
Title | 50 Rocketing Disco Hits | ||
Label | Pickwick Records | ||
Catalogue | 50 DA 305 | ||
Format | Vinyl Double Album | ||
Released | 1977 | ||
Genre | Disco |
Other Titles by The Top Of The Poppers
• The Best Of Top Of The Pops '77 • The Best Of Top Of The Pops '80 • Top Of The Pops Vol. 30 • Top Of The Pops Vol. 32 • Top Of The Pops Vol. 33 • Top Of The Pops Vol. 35 • Top Of The Pops Vol. 64 • The Best Of Top Of The Pops '76 • Top Of The Pops Vol. 2 • Top Of The Pops Vol. 21 •
Information on the Disco Genre
The disco sound, style and ethos has its roots in the late 1960s. New York City blacks, gays, heterosexuals, women and Hispanics adopted several traits from the hippies and psychedelia. They included overwhelming sound, free form dancing, "trippy" lighting, colorful costumes, and hallucinogens. Psychedelic soul groups like the Chambers Brothers and especially Sly and The Family Stone influenced proto-disco acts such as Isaac Hayes, Willie Hutch and the Philadelphia Sound discussed in the next paragraph. In addition the positivity, lack of irony and earnestness of the hippies informed proto-disco music like M.F.S.B.'s "Love Is the Message.Philly and New York soul were evolutions of the Motown sound. The Philly Sound is typified by lavish percussion, which became a prominent part of mid-1970s disco songs. Early songs with disco elements include "Only the Strong Survive" (Jerry Butler, 1968), "Message to Love" (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1969), "Soul Makossa" (Manu Dibango, 1972) and "The Love I Lost" (Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, 1973).
The early disco sound was largely an urban American phenomenon with producers and labels such as SalSoul Records (Ken, Joe and Stanley Cayre), Westend Records (Mel Cheren), Casablanca (Neil Bogart), and Prelude (Marvin Schlachter) to name a few. They inspired and influenced such prolific European dance-track producers as Giorgio Moroder and Jean-Marc Cerrone. Moroder was the Italian producer, keyboardist, and composer who produced many songs of the singer Donna Summer. These included the 1975 hit "Love to Love You Baby", a 17-minute-long song with "shimmering sound and sensual attitude". Allmusic.com calls Moroder "one of the principal architects of the disco sound".
The disco sound was also shaped by Tom Moulton who wanted to extend the enjoyment of the music — thus single-handedly creating the "Remix" which has influenced many other latter genres such as techno, and pop. DJs and remixers would often remix (i.e., re-edit) existing songs using reel-to-reel tape machines. Their remixed versions would add in percussion breaks, new sections, and new sounds. Influential DJs and remixers who helped to establish what became known as the "disco sound" included David Mancuso, Tom Moulton, Nicky Siano, Shep Pettibone, the legendary and much-sought-after Larry Levan, Walter Gibbons, and later, New York–born Chicago "Godfather of House" Frankie Knuckles.
Disco was also shaped by nightclub DJs such as Francis Grasso, who used multiple record players to seamlessly mix tracks from genres such as soul, funk and pop music at discothèques, and was the forerunner to later styles such as house. Women also played important roles at the turntable. Karen Cook, the first female disco DJ in the United States, spun the vinyl hits from 1974 – 1977 at 'Elan, Houston, TX, and also programmed music for clubs throughout the US that were owned by McFaddin Ventures.
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