Disco Changed Everything. So Why Did It Die?
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- Опубликовано: 24 окт 2019
- When you hear the word disco, it might bring to mind the sound of cheesy manufactured dance music or images of John Travolta on the dance floor in “Saturday Night Fever” - but disco was more than that. In fact, it was radical.
Disco clubs arose out of gay subculture and its sound, which came to be dominated by female artists, was rooted in soul and R&B. As disco became mainstream, it started to redefine American sexuality and Black and female artists took over the airwaves, prompting a backlash by radio DJs and rock ‘n’ roll fans.
Some might say disco is dead, but its legacy lives on. Not just through its impact on dance music and club culture, but in the ways that it redefined what it meant to be gay, what it meant to be a woman, and what it meant to be a man - and what sex in America was all about.
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nice video
Thanks, will check that out. Do you have IDs for some of the background disco records that were playing towards the start of the video? Just after the Trammps - Disco Inferno there are a couple of really great tracks that are being played quietly in the background. I would love to know what they are called.
"particularly women of color" just say black, theres nothing wrong with specifiers esp since all of those albums were BLACK WOMEN
African American girl.
@@jetblackhair92 black
Once the LGBT started embracing it or being heavily involved, mainstream America
moved on from it. I remember when House Music came out. It was looked at as an
underground College movement sound. I used to go to Raves on different campuses
etc. I was introduced to it by a friend who was attending Moore house College, and
It was Disco's predecessor it seemed. However once again, the LGBT community
started embracing it. Mainstream radio stopped playing it, and today many people
look at it as a gay form of music. However I will say, it got it's name from The
Warehouse club in Chicago and the DJ responsible for promoting it Frankie Knuckles
R.I.P was gay. Shrugs
Mostly black, Latinx women didnt get much attention in the spotlight, and I dont really see any prominent Asians, MidEastern or Native Americans.
Get over yourself, there's more than just black people in POC
I’m not American but I’ve studied American culture and the history of American music and let me say it loud: BLACK AMERICANS contributed the most and without them there won’t no American culture/ music as we know it today so on behalf of myself as a millennial who loves disco: Thank you for black Americans and the LGBT community of the 70s
Thank you so much for acknowledging that!!
Thank you bro ✊🏾
In parts remember American is a melting pot black , latinos Asian even whites
😆❤
We literally gave this country life. I appreciate you for this ✊🏿
Disco never died. It's still here, only it's called by different sub genre names. The main name that describes its existence today is simply Dance music.
Yes!! Totally agree!! aka EDM!!! ❤️
@Sharon Mathiu EDM and House music both fall under the category of Dance music. They are just different types of Dance music. Generally speaking, it's all Dance. The breakdown comes when you ask, "What kind of Dance music?" EDM? House? Freestyle? NRG? Dubstep? Techno? All these and more all fall UNDER the general category called Dance.
Once the LGBT started embracing it, mainstream America
moved on from it. I remember when House Music came out. It was looked at as an
underground College movement. I used to go to Raves on different campuses. I was introduced to it by a friend who was attending Morehouse College, and
It was Disco's predecessor it seemed at the time. However the LGBT community
started embracing it and mainstream radio stopped playing it. Today many people
look at it as a gay form of music. I will say it got it's name from The
Warehouse club in Chicago. The DJ responsible for promoting it was Frankie Knuckles
R.I.P shrugs
@Sharon Mathiu House music is EDM you pompous.
@@javierl5487 are you insane edm is an abomination
Donna Summer's "I feel love" still makes me move
Thats a timeless record.
It was ahead of it's time. Still sounds that way to some degree. Donna still has never received her just dues in terms of a really great deserving tribute. She's rarely ever on any list for the greatest singers of all time and she should be.
Have you heard Sam Smith's new single "I Feel Love"? It's an exact cover of Donna Summer's original and it has been released as mainstream radio single. Check it out :)
@@mjg239 I've heard it but I don't like it that much to buy it. I love Sam's falsetto but the music itself lacks the energy of the original and I'm not fond of the speaking part on his version. At the same time, I'm glad the release of it helps keep Donna's name out there and, hopefully, it attracts some of Sam's fans to her music and not just to her version of "I Feel Love".
2001lextalionis well that’d piss her off now she’s a born again Christian,she denounced all her music and the LGBTQI community 🙄
I was a DJ for 42 years, (1973-2015), starting with a stack of
45's and albums. I had an amazing career and was able to go to the top Discos from coast to coast. Had the pleasure of meeting many artists, some I'm still friends with today (thanks to FB!). Disco never 'died'. As everyone says, the name just changed... Dance, House, etc. No matter what you call it, Mr. Young's '4 on the floor' is still the driving beat to the best music ever made!
When I was clubbing in the 90s to electronic music, I didn't realize the influence of disco music until I put on a Donna Summer record and was like, "Didn't I just here this at the club last night?"
Electronic artists sampled all kinds of genres all over the place, but SPECIFICALLY disco and funk, and that's how I learned that I actually loved disco and funk SO much.
There are basically unlimited resources from which to sample, just from disco and funk. And they fit especially well with a lot of the electronic beats and BPMs. I feel really fortunate for getting to know the genres through electronic music, and then through curiosity and the Internet, to learn the originals. 😊👍🏻
I really do hear Donna Summers influence in new music year after year. When I was 10 I wanted to buy Live and More at the record store my dad told me it was too expensive and he said there was no talent on the album.
Electronic music or edm is nothing but bad disco music. Lol
@@derricknregina nice no true scotsman
BLACK FOLKS CREATED WHOLE WORLD POP CULTURE!!
Thank you, I typed that in a comment but, now It's gone missing! ❤️🖤💚🎵🎧🗣️💯
cindy Queen huh loo
simba cali uhm
Madeleine Price u already know
Racist!
Disco is still my favourite music genre. Been listening to it for almost 50 years.
If you like Disco the old way, you might enjoy this one ruclips.net/video/dkYsw5Bwa8k/видео.html
Me too!!! I love it! I gave myself 65th birthday party and my son was my DJ!! Had an amazing birthday especially with my family enjoying too!🔥disco will never die with me!!😍💃🏻
Dahl looks exactly like how I’d picture someone who hates disco to look
That's true, Katinka! :)
Hi mama!
Mr " I don't like disco, therefore let's destroy something other people enjoy" top tier logic
Steve Dahl is a moron. It's because of clowns like him that I left commercial FM radio in the 80s.
I was 9 years old back in Chicago when the death of Disco happened at Comisky Park on the southside. Sadly I used to listen to Steve Dahl on WLUP which was a major Rock music station plus I listened to WGCI and WBMX that played Soul, R&B and Disco music. As a 9 year old I sided with the Disco crowd which later birthed House Music in Chicago in my teen years. I’ll never forget those days.
Disco never died in Japan. It went on to inspire their genre called city pop in the 80's, among other influences. Many Japanese songs today still have a strong disco influence, especially in the bass lines.
City Pop:
m.ruclips.net/video/3bNITQR4Uso/видео.html
Bradio:
m.ruclips.net/video/IWg9uPU6YYE/видео.html
Also Bradio:
m.ruclips.net/video/9YQCvM1-jIc/видео.html
City pop doesn't exist in Japan. City pop is a name made by clueless white people on Reddit. New music is what that music was called in Japan, and new music isn't rooted in disco, but in jazz. New music is mostly jazz fusion.
I'm 40 and have been in radio since I was 16.. I just realized Ring my Bell wasn't about a bell. Bwhahha. That's hilarious. I just sitting here... Mind blown
Same😁
#MeToo I'm like damn for real.
That was my mom's favorite song and jesus, a car full of kids doing disco from the waist up on long rides. No wonder we got so many odd looks.
I was 17 when I first heard it on the radio in 1979 & got it the first time I heard it. Teenage boy with my mind always in the gutter I suppose. Although I was 22 when I heard Cyndi Lauper's She Bop and I didn't know what She Bop meant until I heard people on TV wanting the song to be banned from the radio.
Kasey Morist what does it mean? 😅
And this video proves me right with all the arguments I've had about why disco "died". It wasn't just becasue people thought it was "bad", it was because it was centered with women, POC, and LGBTQ+ folk, sexual liberation, and the change in what it means to be any kind of man, which we all know the US just loves /s. Amazing video as always, really loving this series!! I would love to see a video on something to do with how punk and hardcore music wasn't just a white British thing. Although I feel like you guys already did a video on that before
It was about these discriminations indeed but also about the fact it was overplayed. Every genre fades a bit eventually and even madonna who came after that and "was disco" as they said she actually was already an other type of disco-pop.
Actually punk started in the New York clubs with the Ramones and the Stooges. The manager of what would become the Sex Pistols saw these groups and loved it so much he exported the sound to Britain. It just so happened that the culture at that time, with mass inflation, unemployment, and increasing conservative backlash that was highlighted by the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister led to punk being the rebellious form of music that spread like wildfire in the UK. There were other American punk rock groups that were influenced by the British punk scene, but the rebellious form of music that would dominate the USA was hip-hop.
BTW, there was a major backlash to disco by a lot of blue collar, middle American white males, and there was a definite racist, misogynist, and homophobic component to thst. Having said that,there were a lot of opportunistic artists who put out horrible disco records. "Disco Duck" was considered one of the worst disco singles ever released, but at least Rick Dees wasn't trying to make a serious disco record. The same can't be said for classic swing and 50's rockabilly tunes set to a disco beat or the release of stuff like the Ethel Merman Disco Album. The disco era peaked in 1979 but died almost as suddenly the following year when Ronald Reagan got elected President and many of the most ardent disco enthusiasts began dying from AIDS.
@@728huey,
*Hear! HEAR!!!*
Disco really never died, but when they played disco songs on the radio in the 80s, they'd call it "soft Rock".
BS. People finally heard what was coming-out of CBGBs....and figured-out that it was REAL, and BETTER. Music with a voice, a message, a purpose. PUNK killed disco, and it should-have.
Donna Summer, forever the Queen of Disco.
I put Laura Branigan right there with Donna. Even her vocals were at Donna's level. Listen to Solitaire or Gloria , both disco classics and tell me I'm wrong. At third, also a major disco diva, Viola Wills (Stormy Weather, Gonna Get Along Without Now, If You Could Read My Mind. Fourth Madeliene Kane. Fifth Madonna. Donna Summers was a jewel to be sure.
What about Sylvester
We have a saying in Toronto’s music scene.
“Disco never died, It Evolved”
Here in America Disco Evolved from Funk, then Moved to Club, then House, then Dance..... An Evolution of Black American Music Genres.
@@ClarenceCM3 Disco mostly "evolved" into "pop" music. House already existed. They was created by the same culture.
Are you a Afro-american/Soulaan/Ebonian?
My favorite disco song is I'm every woman by Chaka Khan.♥️
So good
Anything from KC and the Sunshine Band for me.
Mines is I want ur love la chic
My favorite disco song is "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees.
When I first heard the lyrics, I thought she was saying “Climb every woman; it’s all you need.” Glad I listened more carefully!
Sadly we lost a lot of disco icons to the AIDS pandemic. That's another big reason why disco died.
You're getting ahead of yourself. Disco died in late 1979. The AIDS epidemic really gets underway in late 1982. By mid-1983, the news media first calls the disease "GRID" (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) had published many articles on the pandemic. This was well after the Disco Era died and the era of Dance music was already in swing. with Michael Jackson, Robert Palmer, and Kool and the Gang, Rick James some of the big stars of that type of music.
Disco icons are still with us, the genre died.
@@caraqueno Disco did NOT die in 1979 at the gay clubs...simply died on AM radio and pop FM stations. I was a DJ and the dance floors remained packed in the 1980's with disco stars like Sylvester, Patrick Cowley, Paul Parker, Bobby O and Viola Wills. Then AIDS hurt the nightclub business since bartenders and patrons would die and we all were scared...thus people did not dance like they use to...hurting the music business and disco record sales. Perception of disco being out of style by 1979 was way different to most of the straight community than gay discos who still wanted to hear pounding boom-boom music for many years after. I was there to witness it. And major record companies sent me thousands of disco promo records in the 1980's...though the word "disco" was now taken off the record jackets. The disco records were now simply called a 12" single. Great disco dance music came out in the 1980's that mainstream public never heard. I still have about 40,000 promo records that made a lot of people happy when I programmed music in Chicagoland clubs. Long live disco.
@@duanethamm4688 ... your right ... and you know the great artists I see. Bravo on your short list. I'd add Gino Soccio and Lime (Denis Lapage) to the list. Of course there are a ton of one-hit wonders to boot. Viola Wills was a personal fav/ above Donna Summer for me. It ended in or around late '84 or mid '85 with songs like Tarzan Boy (Baltimora) or Unexpected Lovers (Lime). After that stretch, it was something else.
I was called disco duck in high school and although a late bloomer was an absolute freak from about '81 to '85. Worked in two clubs before leaving for a more serious career. What a blast we had in those days !!!!
As for the "afterlife" of disco, a lot of people thought I was off my rocker for suggesting that "Careless Whisper" by Wham was essentially a soft disco song since it came out a good half decade after the coffin lid was nailed down on disco. Even when I pointed out such things as the use of references to dancing as metaphors for love. I felt vindicated when it was revealed that George Michael had written the song when he was 16, dating it to the heart of the disco era even though it was only years later that he was the front man of a successful pop band and could record the song, get it on the radio and make it a hit.
bobpeters61 OH MY GOD I'm 29 and I've never looked at the metaphor that way. Mind blown. Thank you
It’s turned into house
bobpeters61 Didn’t Wham record Love Machine? Disco only died in America...it only grew and morphed outside the US👍🏾👏🏾😎
I miss George! MAKE IT BIG!
😂 when other people tell our story
Born in 75 in Kenya and my earliest memories were of my parents hosting parties with disco music with their big hair and bell bottoms and my uncle teaching us kids how to dance. Donna Summer, Saturday Night Fever, Boney M et al....
Disco didn't die. It evolved. And it is now stronger than ever, but in different forms. House is disco. Pop music such as Dua Lipa's "Levitating" is 100% disco.
I was 17 in 1977 when "Saturday Night Fever" came out and I was dressing exactly like that before the movie came out.
Disco never died. It just evolved.
Into something worse.
Disco did not die, it simply morphed into the club music of the 80's which gave rise to house and techno and all dance music since. It actually began in the Go Go's of 60's.
Correct
- Disco is NOT dead! Disco is LIFE!
- Yes, Tony. that is the passion I remember.
Great view, super line ... love it!
BLACK WOMEN RULING THE DISCO ERA.
Yasssss ❤️❤️🥰💯
I’m 19 and I listen to disco and post disco everyday. It may not be created anymore but it’s not dead because we still listen and talk about it.
Check out Escort! They are a full band with a fierce lead singer. Pure disco. First album is dope. It is definitely still being made.
Search “ Nu-Disco “ I go Juno.com for the latest Disco 🎶👍🏾
And you got also that song that pays a tribute to the vintage sound of Disco ruclips.net/video/dkYsw5Bwa8k/видео.html
"It may not be created anymore..." I guess you don't know about Nu Disco?
@@djsubculture2786 it’s more like an offshoot of disco house music
How did you guys not speak about MICHAEL JACKSON???? The Off The Wall album was massive back in the day.
I think Quincy did that
I would love to have seen Michael Jackson in this!
I know for 100% fact that Don't Stop Til You Get Enough was a huge hit in discos because I've seen another documentary talk about it.
Exactly! Thing is, :"Off The Wall" came in 1979, after the backlash, and the mainstream associates him with the 80s. But, the album was indeed massive! Almost every song was a hit. And, how did they ignore mentioning Chic? Really?
But he was part of the 70s too
Then from the ashes of disco rose house music. And a new genre was born.
YYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSS! House music is the best
and HI-NRG too
Gwen Guthrie. 💔🥺
Indeed !
ruclips.net/video/02CKkyhEzHc/видео.html
@@marcap9757 Yes Established by Donna Summer 💪
Bring disco back!
WE NEED A DISCO REVIVAL IT HAD NOT LEGITIMATE REASON FOR IT TO DIE THE WAY IT DID PLEASE SBSBDVDG
Disco still sucks
Chaka khan still makes music, she released a song recently
They did in 2013. Since then it's more accepted. Daft punk, the weeknd, brunoMars. Remember that era? And since rnb is so big right now theres a lot of disco influences.
Once the LGBT started embracing it or being heavily involved, mainstream America
moved on from it. I remember when House Music came out. It was looked at as an
underground College movement sound. I used to go to Raves on different campuses
etc. I was introduced to it by a friend who was attending Moore house College, and
It was Disco's predecessor it seemed. However once again, the LGBT community
started embracing it. Mainstream radio stopped playing it, and today many people
look at it as a gay form of music. However I will say, it got it's name from The
Warehouse club in Chicago and the DJ responsible for promoting it Frankie Knuckles
R.I.P was gay. Shrugs
Favorite disco song : "Last dance" by Donna Summer. Because it's a very well crafted song. Complex chord changes, haunting melody, great arrangement, original structure. A great little epic musical odyssey. And, especially, Donna's interpretation. She builds up the song to reach a climax like no one could, not even Whitney. That richness of tone, that diversity of vocal timbre, that warmth, the depth of sound, the gospel inspiration. For me, Donna had the best instrument, regardless of music genre. Too bad she never had the recognition she deserved.
I hate most disco , but some disco music ,like Donna Summer`s songs and that one in particular are good multilayered music .
@@theincredibletvchannel4297 real Disco you probably never heard before. ruclips.net/video/NjdxLrWbS8k/видео.html , ruclips.net/video/l4A_L6Bs0o8/видео.html, ruclips.net/video/RLTJ95kj9ng/видео.html, ruclips.net/video/AbsZC257JP8/видео.html, ruclips.net/video/JqzMJKyASTg/видео.html
"I feel love" of Donna Summers was out of time still a song that still causing goosebumps.
I admit it, when I'm alone and nobody else can hear it, I sometimes listen to disco.
I cannot believe that this is Al Jazeera!!! This was one of the best productions I’ve ever seeThank you for this unbiased representation. Thank you for allowing us to make up our own minds.
Couldn’t stand Disco/1970’s culture in my youth...little did I know how much of the music/artists/fashion have influenced the songs/artists I so much love: Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, etc. Disco does not suck after all 👸🏾👸🏾👸🏾
Hip hop is low key the antithesis of disco. First hip hop in the late seventies over disco beats. But the culture became hyper misogynistic anti woman and anti gay. Unlike female and gay led disco. Sad but I love both. Just my critique of the culture. Either way both made by black people ✊🏾
You're absolutely right about hip hop and rap being so male (almost alpha male) dominated and the voice/playroom/soapbox of straight black American men. As a gay black American man, i've always felt a strange, don't-ask-don't-tell vibe about rap. It's so steeped in bravado and hypermasculinity. And sadly nonblacks and white suburbia fueled this as well, because this music played into their fears, fantasies and strange, outsider-peeking-in appreciation of black American culture. That's the feeling I get when I absorb hip hop -- even though I love a lot of the music, culture and messages. Much of this could also be said for country music too. "Old Town Road" by openly gay lil Nas X and other artists like him do give me hope for the genre, though.
M j G yes I feel you on so many levels. I feel like with nas x and also the surgence of female rappers this year there is some change. I feel like the hyper masculinity of hip hop lets it escape the me too media even though so many artists have been abusers. More lgbt artists are coming out like saucy Santana ! With or without the label
Actually, what you're missing is that backing a Funk band was more expensive that backing a rapper, which is the biggest reason aside the AIDs epidemic that overall drove Disco/Funk underground.
Disco was consumed by Hip-Hop.
Once the LGBT started embracing it or being heavily involved, mainstream America
moved on from it. I remember when House Music came out. It was looked at as an
underground College movement sound. I used to go to Raves on different campuses
etc. I was introduced to it by a friend who was attending Moore house College, and
It was Disco's predecessor it seemed. However once again, the LGBT community
started embracing it. Mainstream radio stopped playing it, and today many people
look at it as a gay form of music. However I will say, it got it's name from The
Warehouse club in Chicago and the DJ responsible for promoting it Frankie Knuckles
R.I.P was gay. Shrugs
When you said "Women of color" What other races are you referring too? Why can't you just say black because that was the only examples you gave were black women.
Alliance of Reason like I’m really trying to figure out the issue!
@Funk O'Matic Did you watch the video? I didn't see them mention any Latinas? Who are you referring too? Stay on topic please.
The term People of Color was being pushed as the socially acceptable term in the late 1980's before African American came along. Your post brings back memories of a Bloom County strip where Opus was trying to explain to the lawyer character Steve Dallas that the term to use is "people of color" which at the end of the strip he twisted to "colored people", the latter or course considered racist. WMAQ the Chicago NBC station had a special in the early 90's called "Please don't call me colored" where the black people interviewed were perfectly fine with the term black. So it is interesting they use people of color here, it seems outdated unless they are including other groups as a few other commenters have suggested.
Funk O'Matic Latino isn’t a race there are black Latinos
they hate to give blacks any recognition for doing something without other people
Disco didn't die...it went underground. Dance music worldwide is very popular to this day, and it all owes its roots to Disco.
Club music always changes, it may have left the mainstream but it never died, just evolved.
Last night a DJ saved my life with a song!...
If I was born in the 60s I'd definitely been a disco fan in the 70s!
This my fav disco songs , WATCHING YOU, HOW LONG , YOU GONNA MAKE ME LOVE SOMEBODY ELSE DADDY COOL BABY WAIT 4 ME INSIDE OUT & MANY OTHERS.
This song still have me.
One of my favorites in disco is CHIC, 'I want your love'. Disco is still alive, though maybe it's not a main thing. See daft punk, some of their earlier stuff definitely had disco.
Loved learning more about the era! It's not a very talked about time I feel like (US history taught in high school seems to stop right after WWII) so I always enjoy hearing more :)
This was awesome. I was clubbing in 1982 so it was kinda more house/freestyle music but I know & love all the 70s disco songs bc I had older cousins. I wish we had a time machine.
I still dance to disco music! Now, that I'm older I appreciate a whole lot more! What a time it was! I was only a little kid!😂😂😀😀😀😀😻😻😻
This is really good content. Keep it up guys!
Thank you North South!
My dad hated disco, but it was because the radio stations ONLY played disco and would never play the 70s rock that he loved. So mostly an over-saturation of a music he didn't care for at the expense of one he did.
oversaturation by one genre also happened in the 90ies (and early 2000's to some extent) with hip-hop, until internet ended domination of traditional record labels.
Oversaturation does ruin a genre too
Really? I was around at that time and there were plenty of stations that played only rock.
There were cross overs towards the end, like blondie's heart of glass and kiss' I was made for loving you.
zenmastermtl it’s not really his fault, songs can get annoying when overplayed
I’m 19 years old and Disco music is my favourite genre of music and it’s the best music to dance to
Whoever said disco is dead are so wrong it’s been over 40 years and disco is still being loved and listened to by so many people
Name some songs that the younger crowd is dancing to ... other than Dancing Queen by Abba. Name a bunch if you can...
We can still play Disco today: ruclips.net/video/dkYsw5Bwa8k/видео.html
@@marqueenhotelguestservices5057 I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough by Michael Jackson, Staying Alive by The Bee Gees, those are just some songs
It's very hard for me to choose just one favorite disco hit, but if forced to choose, I guess I'd have to go with Knock On Wood. It's a great song! It's one of the few that my fellow disco employees and I used to abandon our work stations to get out on the lighted dance floor and show the customers how it's done!
The disco era was the most fun (and least responsible) period of my life. And yes, most of the clubs we all went to were gay clubs with unisex bathrooms. You haven't ever fought for mirror space to reapply lipstick until you're standing between two six-foot six-inch drag queens, both wearing six-inch platform shoes, and all you want is a tiny little four-inch square of mirror!
Knock on Wood is rock, not disco.!!!! Sorry.!!!!
'Remember' by Gino Soccio is an all-time great. Gun to my head thats my top choice ... of course there are 25 other top of the top songs. Donna Summers best dance hit wasn't 'I feel love' or 'Last Dance' ... its 'This Time I know its for Real'. An underappreciated artist was Madeline Kane. Her number 'You Can' is still the bomb. I could go on and on ...
Okay two more .... 'Let the Night take the Blame' by Lorraine Mclain and "Megatron Man' by Patrick Cowley
@@louisgonzalez8846 'Knock on Wood' is highly danceable rock and came out in the middle of the disco heyday. Actually, I think it is disco... straight up.
Your My Heart, Your My Soul by Modern Talking holds up real well ... even today. Slow disco. It wasn't played much stateside back then for some reason. Must have been a legal or rights issue involved. I think that its a top 20 all-time disco hit.
“TSOP” by MFSB …… “Loves Theme” by The Love Unlimited Orchestra. 1973 😀🪩💕
Back then, you actually dressed to go dancing. When Disco died, so did the dress code.
Donna Summer!!! She was my favorite. Gorgeous, talented and her voice was incredible!
I'd say that Disco went underground and cross continental, Italo disco would go on to birth to electropop, electrorock, and mondern edmp and house and rave music.
Italo pop, love it
Japanese City Pop also has a lot of the elements of disco
it never died. It was absorbed into every subculture of dance music you hear to this day.
Sooo many Disco classics but a few I never tire of hearing: Got To Be Real- Cheryl Lynn, Loving Is Really My Game- Brainstorm, Dim All The Lights- Donna Summer, I Love Music- O'Jays, He's The Greatest Dancer- Sister Sledge and I'm Your Boogie Man- K.C. & Sunshine Band.
George McRae’s “Rock Your Baby “! Is still my fav Disco 💃 song!! PLAY LOUD
Disco Never Died!! She Gave "Birth" to House, Dance, Trance, Free Style, Electronica, Jungle Etc......
Disco didn't die. It revenged in the 80s and 90s as HOUSE music.
Over here as a straight man trying to learn about disco music bc I love the sound as a1990s baby. it’s all good disco was always before it’s time :)
Before I watch this video: Disco didn't die- it evolved into House, then Techno and now EDM...
NO IT DIDNT...PEOPLE USE TECHNOLOGIES OR BEATS OR INFLUENCED. NONE OF THESE ARTISTS KEPT DOING DISCO WENT INTO TECHNO EDM TRANCE ...ECT?? THEYRE FOLKS FROM A NEWER GENERATION.
Every one of these artists mentioned and more are in my playlist... There is no one better than Donna Summer!
It's not gone, it's just changed form. I'd say it's in some House music now. Listen to Jamiroquai. It's still out there.
Disco will never die. Just like anything in life. Things evolve
0:22 You are absolutely correct! There was a glamour about disco.
"They locked the cops in the building and lit it on fire." Pure genius!
It never died. Not even for a moment. It was rebranded as “Dance Music.”
Favorite Disco Song: Blondie - Heart Of Glass
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(band)
And they didn't even mentioned her.
I'd say Blondie is more electropop and not so much disco
Blondie's new wave.....
@@lucillebluna It was a Disco song outlier from the rest of their music. The music video shows the outside of Studio 54 before the band is revealed too.
I'm in my 30s and I just figured out what "Ring my bell" means. Thanks
I always heard that Disco died because of oversaturation. The record companies and the radio owners shut out the other genres to sell "All Disco All Day" and everybody got sick of not having any of the other popular genres played on the air. The same thing happened in Britain where everything was Punk and no one was giving space to New Wave Heavy Metal.
No, Sana. You’re not the only one who wants to dance right now, I wanna boogie 💃🏾
Not all the Village People were gay. The guy that pictured as the motorcycle cop was straight and married to a woman. I think he still is married to the same woman. The others shown here were through.
At the time, I didn't get that their costumes were gay stereotypes. I thought they were mocking the macho aspect of disco culture by taking hypermasculine and tough guy cliches and twisting them to look exaggeratedly gay. Especially since the first time I heard of them was seeing a TV performance in which they were dancing in a line in such costumes singing, "Ma-cho, ma-cho ma-an; I've got to be a macho man." I found that hilarious.
Here's a video describing the various members of the group over the years. ruclips.net/video/FVh-n93cWzw/видео.html
He was married to actress Phylicia Allen (Debbie Allen Nixon’s sister) - later Rashad when she remarried.
Kairi Ali They didn't think the Navy could be gay? Lol
Favorite Disco Song: Last Train to London. The perfect blend between an AMAZING rock band, Disco, and dance beats. Hmmmmm.
I love how creative the disco clubs were . The 747 Club was so cool , it was a jet and it would do a simulated , audio take off twice a night and show a video on the tv screens . Also one club was a submarine , so cool .
Disco never died, it just changed its name a few times, and then it came back as Nu-Disco.
Great show. You guys deserve more views and likes. 👯🕺💃
Great video!! Thanks so much for sharing!! I was there in the late 70's, early 80's in the NYC nightlife scene and it was FABULOUS!!!! NYC will never be that great again!! The music, the people, the fun, everyone hung out together, gay and straight, black, white, hispanic, rich, poor and middle class!!
Disco, oh my, I miss those days. Going into a club with my 3 piece Levi suit, big collar shirt, big heeled shoes I was so clean. The girls my goodness they were fantastic. Dressed so nice, hair awesome. If a guy could dance the odds of spending after club time with a princess was outstanding. I was in my early twenties and spent more money on my clothes then my car. By todays "standards" Disco was elegant. As far as the "gay scene" I did not notice. Was so busy working on my moves. Disco dancing with beautiful women, lights flashing, moving to the beat. What a stellar time!
It was a great time. There was nothing gay about it that I can remember. It was just people having fun. I was more into the roller skating scene than dance but nevertheless it was a wonderful time. Great music never bettered.
Did you meet your wife (or former wife) on the dance floor?
@@carlosvila77 Yes, I did. Two of them matter of fact.
what an exciting place new york must've been then. disco and cbgb both.
Disco didn't die it transformed in to Techno, and club music
Disco didn't die. It just morphed into different types of dance and R and B music.
Le Freak by Chic is my favorite Disco song.
I still love Disco In 2019!
Racism is why disco died tbh. There was not one poc protesting disco in that baseball field.
Sad but true
Exactly!!
Today Madonna is showcasing DISCO back into the public mainstream, by educating these Millennials🎉
Imagine being mad at the ymca song
The irony when the Trump fanbase used that disco song for their MAGA song 😬
“Push In The Bush” by Musique.
“Bad Girls”, Donna Summer. That has got to be one of the best singles ever.
“Heart Of Glass”, omg.
José Bordas yes yes yes !
You should cover how europop made its way into the US in the 90s
favorite songs oh boy, heart of glass, disco kicks, rough diamond, born to be alive, funkytown, disco inferno, get off, i can go on and on
this is so well done. Great Job guys
It didn't die, it became House music.
Allen Williams house is very different
@@dontatme289 house is modified disco just like grindcore, deathmetal, metalcore are modified punk/metal hybrids
You should talk about the influence of hip hop in America, the Tango Dance of Argentina and Samba in Brazil!
Great video. I was just listening to Sylvester today! Then this video popped up.
Chicago born and bred and raised on House Music! Disco Circus by Martin Circus and Shame by Evelyn "Champagne" King are two of my favorites.
to be honest i really wish disco was still a thing in 2019. it is the COOLEST thing ever to me as a 15 year old who didn’t get to experience that time in history ✌🏼
We can still do new Disco songs in the 2020's : ruclips.net/video/dkYsw5Bwa8k/видео.html
I must recommend the book "Turn the Beat Around" by Peter Shapiro as well, it's really really good
thanks for a different video & the good aspects!! . . .
ربَّنَا اغْفِرْ لَنَا ذُنُوبَنَا وَإِسْرَافَنَا فِي أَمْرِنَا وَثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَنَا وانصُرْنَا عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْكَافِرِينَِ
It evolved into house music, techno, edm, etc..
Disco never died, it morphed into house and then on from there.
AWESOME video ... thank you ....
Don’t Leave Me This Way recorded by Thelma Houston is my favorite disco song.
This is really great. Have you covered The Motown movement yet? Very poignant and significant from the 50s-60s on down to today. We even have DJ nights dedicated to this in San Francisco and many cities across the world.
Awesome topic!
My favorites weren’t all top 40 Disco 💃🏿. I love Disco Inferno, but I live for the following:
KC & SSB: Do You Wanna Go Partay,
Bohannan: Let’s Start the Dance,
Sylvester: Mighty Real, Disco Heat, I Need You, Stars
Carrie Lucas: Dance With Me
mFSB: TSOF
Sister Sledge: You Fooled Around, Thinking if You, Lost in Music
Inner Life: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough!!!