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lgm128: Glam Sam And His Combo - "Disco Will Never Die" (June 21st 2013)
Glam Sam And His Combo - "Disco Will Never Die"
Ok, time for some facts.
Disco music was initially called discotheque music.
Its first audiences were club-goers from the African
American, Latino, Italian American, gay and psychedelic communities in New York
City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Disco was a reaction against the domination of rock
music and the stigmatization of dance music.
In what is considered a forerunner to disco clubs, the
DJ David Mancuso opened The Loft, a members-only dance club set in his own home
in New York City in February 1970.
Five years later there were more than 10 000 disco
clubs, only in the States.
The first article about disco was written in September
1973. Author: Vince Aletti for the Rolling Stone magazine.
The first disco radio show started in 1974 in New York
City. Station: WPIX-FM.
The first #1 song on the American disco chart upon its
debut on November 2, 1974 was "Never Can Say Goodbye" by Gloria
Gaynor. Disco diva Gloria Gaynor was crowned "Disco Queen" on March
3, 1975 by the National Association of discotheque disc jockeys.
The musical influences include funk, latin and soul
music. The disco sound has soaring, often reverberated vocals over a steady
"four-on-the-floor" beat, an eighth note or 16th note hi-hat pattern
with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and a prominent, syncopated electric bass
line sometimes consisting of octaves.
In most disco tracks, strings, horns, electric pianos,
and electric guitars create a lush background sound. Yeah.
The movie "Saturday Night Fever" and its
soundtrack are what really throttled disco into popular culture in 1977. Many
see this as the beginning of the end for disco.
The mass production of watered-down disco songs and
constant radio airplay led a lot of rock 'n' roll fans to coin the phrase
"Disco Sucks!"
Disco haters rallied in Chicago on July 12, 1979, to
attend the "Disco Demolition Night”, an event that many people peg as the
night disco died.
They were wrong.
Disco Will Never Die.
Glam Sam is back, and the man has got his Combo to
support him.
Glam Sam delivers a brand-new piece of art filled to
the brim with disco-flavoured tracks for the discotheque dance floors of the
world.
The disco music is spiced up with house, old school
hip hop, soulful vibes and acid jazz, and towards the end Glam Sam touches cool
jazz and electro funk.