Keep the Disco Beat Alive

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  “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