Keep the Disco Beat Alive

 Pink Floyd's single edit version of "Another Brick in the Wall" was heavily remixed in 1979 for its single release, transforming it from a hard rock song into a disco-influenced track. This allowed the song to become a hit on the disco scene, allowing it to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 and become a one-hit wonder of 1979. Despite this, Pink Floyd is not considered to be a one-hit wonder since they have had numerous other hit singles and albums in the years following the release of "Another Brick in the Wall".

  Here is a commercial for the album Mickey Mouse Disco. I had this album. There, I admitted it. This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, November 26th 1979.

Commercial for the Let's Disco instructional music album and book from 1978.  

from 70's Preservation Society  

  “Disco Frog” is a song sung by Kermit the Frog on Sesame Street. It was recorded for the 1979 album Sesame Disco!. Kermit later performed the song on The Muppet Show in episode 418. In this version, Kermit wore a leisure suit and danced on lily pads in the swamp. Kermit danced in front of a black background, and puppeteers were dressed in black so that Kermit’s whole body could be used. In some shots, portions of the black outfits worn by the performers can be seen. Kermit was joined by many frogs (including his nephew Robin) and an alligator. Music Video The video of this song is a mixture of Kermit the frog and his female frog puppets singing and dancing in the full moonlight by the swampy waterside and regular people dancing at the discotheque.

  " Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone " was the epic club hit for the jazz-pop quartet  Manhattan Transfer . Five years after their initial top-40 pop hit in the nostalgic acappella of " Operator ", this combination of the theme to the sci-fi show from the early 60s with a deep, moody disco experience that's ten times more spooky than "Thriller" tried to be. The track was their biggest success in the clubs, peaking at #4 on  Billboard  magazine's Disco/Dance Tracks in 1980, spending over six months on the chart, while making it to #30 on the American pop Hot 100 and #25 on the British singles chart. The song appeared on their fifth album  Extensions ...

Tracklist Twilight Zone 6:32 A.a Twilight Zone (Vocal) Written-By – Bernard Herrmann A.b Twilight Tone (Vocal) Music By – Jay Graydon Music By, Lyrics By – Alan Paul   Companies, etc. Manufactured By  –  Atlantic Recording Corporation Phonographic Copyright ℗  –  Atlantic Published By  –  Blackwood Music Inc. Published By  –  Garden Rake Music, Inc. Published By  –  Heen Music Credits Arranged By  –  Alan Paul Producer, Arranged By  –  Jay Graydon Notes Disco Tonight Presenting Same tracklisting on both sides. a. Pub., Blackwood Music, Inc., BMI b. Pub., Garden Rake Music, Inc., BMI, Heen Music, ASCAP From Atlantic LP 19258 " Extensions " ℗ 1979 Atlantic Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout: ST-DK-38156-SP Rights Society: BMI Rights Society: ASCAP  

  Posted on  October 22, 2016   by  Mr. Groove Disco Lab #33 (Halloween Edition): The Manhattan Transfer – ‘Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone’ (1979) Sometimes disco was futuristic (robots controlled by the beat) and sometimes it looked to the past (New York high society steppin’ out to mingle). The retro vibe gave a boost to  The Manhattan Transfer , a swing-vocal combo formed in 1969 who found a surprise hit with the gospel number “Operator” in 1975. For a few years, the group’s retro ’20s-’30s sound struggled to have hit records in the US, though they broke through consistently in the UK. All this would change with the group’s fourth album  Extensions . One cut, the disco-inflected medley “ Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone ,” became a surprise hit for the group. It fused the trademark Transfer vocal sound with a spooky, mystical vibe.  Extensions  was released on Halloween, 1979, which meant that the diehard MT fans had a great supernatural dance party ja...

Barry from Sauquoit, Ny once said: On March 1st 1980, the Manhattan Transfer performed "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'... One month later on April 13th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #84; and on June 8th it peaked at #30 (for 2 weeks) and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100... It reached #25 on the United Kingdom's Singles chart... Jay Graydon produced the Extensions album and wrote this song with Alan Paul of The Manhattan Transfer. The song was inspired by the famous TV show. Says Graydon: "Channel 5 in L.A. would play Twilight Zones every night. I loved it when I was a kid, and watching the stuff, I was thinking, what would it be like to take the Twilight Zone theme and turn it into another song? There were three different intros to The Twilight Zone over the years. There was an original, and then they changed it twice. Well, it was right in the beginning of VHS video home recorders, so I recorde...

Tracklist A Santa Maria 4:15 B Easy-Breezy 3:20 Companies, etc. Record Company – Movieplay S.A. Licensed From – Solar (11) Marketed By – Movieplay S.A. Manufactured By – Iberofon, S.A. Produced For – Hungaroton Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Movieplay Printed By – Moviegraf Credits Written-By – I. Bradányi *, E. Hatvani *, Gy. Jakab *, L. Pásztor * Notes ℗ 1979 MOVIEPLAY. Made in Spain. Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Side A, on runout, hand-etched): 02.1444·A·1N' Matrix / Runout (Side B, on runout, hand-etched): 02.1444·B·1N' Depósito Legal (On label): M.41516-1979 Depósito Legal (On back cover): M - 41516 - 1979 Rights Society: B.I.E.M. Other (PMS N.º): 6714-5854  

  Tracklist A1 Dancing Machine 4:34 Written-By – Dean Parks, Donald Fletcher & Hal Davis A2 We Made It 4:31 Written-By – Oliver Russell Stone & Thor Baldursson A3 Disco Bones 4:16 Written-By – Al DeLory, Cheryl Christensen & Jeff Kutash A4 Ease On Down 4:28 Written-By – Oliver Russell Stone & Thor Baldursson B1 Midnight Hour 5:00 Written-By – Steve Cropper & Wilson Pickett B2 Whack Attack 5:59 Written-By – Al DeLory, Cheryl Christensen & Jeff Kutash B3 Come On 4:58 Written-By – Günther Moll, Judy Jones & Michael Hoffman Credits Arranged By – Al DeLory* (tracks: A3, B2) Arranged By, Conductor – Thor Baldursson (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B1, B3) Backing Vocals – Carolyn Dennis, Gregory Wright, Judie Jones*, Julia Waters, Maxine Waters, Roger Kenerly-Saint*, Ron Green, Stephanie Spruill, Yolande Howard Bass – Les Hurdle Contractor – Trevor Veitch Drums – Ed Greene, Keith Forsey Engineer – Juergen Koppers* (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B1, B3), Shannon O'Neil (tracks: A3, ...

Written-By – Aldo Franck , Yves Dessca Companies, etc. Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Barclay Printed By – Offset France Credits Photography By – Alain Marouani Notes Made in France Barcode and Other Identifiers Price Code: EA Rights Society: SACEM SACD SDRM SGDL  

The edited pop version of “I Love America” is much better than the extended version of that song.

The French Kiss group judging from the album back cover, Panic! (Polydor, 1979), consisted of Yvette Johnson, Lamarr Stevens and Muffi Durham, an actress whose credits seem to fall around 1980. Aside from Stevens, it is not certain who else sang, but their image and their names on the back cover are the closest thing to the music credits on the album. The rest of the music on the album is attributed, quite anonymously, to "The Simon Orchestra". However, the credits for "Disco Mix Consultants" are quite plentiful in contrast, and each track on the album is credited to a different mixer. Among the accredited 'mixed consultants', Gary Blair, featured on the first Arpeggio LP, is credited for mixing the title track, and Will Crocker, a much more prolific name who has participated in quite a few Disconet mixes, is credited the mix of "Mischief". overall production is credited to Simon Soussan. Without a doubt of all the tracks that appear on this album ...

THE RECORD MIRROR (UK) – 1977 KC and the Sunshine Band: “I’m Your Boogie Man” (TK Records XB 62167). “Maybe a nice dance record, more thought has been put into the sound, but it’s still manufactured. Typical of so many mindless disco singles. I suppose disco records serve their purpose…”

Chanson was a male disco/R&B duo from the late ’70s that consisted of bassist James Jamerson Jr. (born James L. Jamerson II on August 24, 1957 in Detroit, Michigan) and guitarist David Williams (born on November 21, 1950 in Newport News, Virginia). The duo took their name from the French word for “song.” James was the son of legendary Motown sideman James Jamerson. During the early ’70s, he became an in-demand session bassist. David began his professional music career with The Dells, but put his music career to join the Army. After a stint with Tyrone Davis, David took a job playing with The Temptations’ road band where he and James brainstormed the idea of forming Chaison. They later began working on tracks together and gained a record deal with Ariola Records America. In 1978, they released their self-titled debut album; it’s unknown how or if the album made the charts at all. The lead single from the album, “Don’t Hold Back” became a hit, peaking at #11 on Billboard’s National D...

 ABBA's original from 1980 with weak europop beats While Debbie Sims' 1998 disco remake of their original has more fascinating, strong disco rhythm  

The Dutch singer Theo Vaness is better known to insiders as the singer of the pop band The Shoes. With the title As long as it's love he succeeded in 1979 as a solo artist in a dance floor anthem. He brought more songs on the market, but was never able to build on the success of the first single. I have Theo Vaness in my collection because of his typical, pounding disco sound. No one else but himself brought the disco music across better than him.  

  Disco fave the Dells “All About The Paper” Soulful and Funky Disco from 1980 on 20th Century Fox Records.

  Disco music was initially called   discotheque music . Early mainstream disco hits on the American pop charts included "The Love I Lost" by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes (released December 1973), "Rock the Boat" by the Hues Corporation (released February 1974 on their "Freedom for the Stallion" album and released as a single in May 1974), "T.S.O.P." by MFSB and the Three Degrees (on the January 1974 MFSB album "Love is the Message" and released as a single in March 1974), and "Rock Your Baby" by George McCrae (released July 1974). 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 Music released during 1972: The Intruders -  "(Win, Place or Show) She's a Winner"  - disco-soul (added to the Billboard Soul chart on August 19, 1972 but the single was already reviewed in the July 29, 1972 issue of Billboard magazine on pa...