When you walked into Pete and Lenny\\\’s you were never really certain if the band or the DJ was playing. Ecstacy were that good. It was rare to find a group performing current material, let alone nightclub hits usually reserved for the club\\\’s DJs . “Of all the house bands that went through Pete &
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As a young DJ, I was accustomed to glitzy, colorful , \\\”artsy-fartsy\\\” record covers. So when a friend of mine showed me his promo copy of the Village People\\\’s first album with a plain black and white cover depicting a bunch of guys ( some of the wearing plaid, a \\\”Disco fashion No-No \\\”) I
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In 1994, A Remix of The Four Seasons\\\’ \\\”December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)\\\”written by original Four Seasons keyboard player Bob Gaudio, re-entered the US Hot 100, where it stayed for 27 weeks, just as it did when it first charted in 1976. The combined Chart presence established a record for the longest total chart
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Produced by Disco Music Icon Ray Martinez founder of Paris International Records and creator of the groups Amant and Passion, Foxy was formed in 1976 here in Miami. The group consisted of vocalist Ish Ledesma ,percussionist Richard \\\”Richie\\\” Puente ( son of Tito Puente), keyboardist Charlie Murciano, bass guitarist Arnold Paseiro and drummer Joe Galdo
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Since it\\\’s release on Casablanca Records in 1983 Rags to Riches \\\” El Watusi/ La Bamba \\\” has been a standard must play in the progamming schedule of every veteran DJ here in the South Florida Area . Of course our large Hispanic population may play a major role in this decision by the jocks,
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I got in trouble ,BIG trouble when my father walked in to a group of us huddled around my stereo listening to the 1972 song \\\” Jungle Fever\\\” by the Belgian group \\\” The Chakachas\\\” The lady in the song was yelling and screaming, and although we weren\\\’t quite sure why, we felt very \\\”
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Put on your Polyester Pajamas and settle in for a Disco Movie Marathon, although it may not be as long as you would imagine. There were alot of movies made during the Disco Era ( and slightly after),many of them wanted to make you believe they were about Disco , but how many true Disco
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Although it only represented a \\\” localized\\\” Disco experience, specifically that of Italian Americans living in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. The film helped propel Disco into the mainstream. Although the music and dancing were secondary in the telling of the story of Tony Manero ,the visuals defined the period
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Morris E. Day (born December 13, 1957)He became the lead singer of \\\” The Time\\\” releasing four albums with them. The band\\\’s first Warner Bros. album, 1981\\\’s The Time, was created almost entirely by Prince (who wrote and played on tracks he produced under the early pseudonym Jamie Starr), Morris Day pursued a solo career
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So Disco became a \\\”bad word\\\’ Radio stations went back to playing Top 40 and Rock and before you knew it Hip Hop took over.But did it go \\\” Undercover\\\” ? Did artists influenced by this music continue to produce \\\” Disco infused\\\” tracks? Do contemporary artists such as Daft Punk, Bruno Marrs,Justin Timberlake, DJ Cassidy,