r/Disco

Bernard Edwards, Louis Johnson, Verdine White, all legendary bass players in the classic disco/dance scene.

But what are more of the absolute best classic disco bass riffs, grooves and hooks? Like Good Times, Boogie Oogie Oogie, and Pleasure’s Glide, where the bass drives the track…

What's this song ? Thank you so much

Though apparently the German singers didn’t know English, you’d never guess that. It’s got this lush sound, with a strong and changing rhythm (the melodic reinforcement of the rhythm changes). It’s not an unknown song, but was a delight when I found it.

https://stereogum.com/2054604/the-number-ones-silver-conventions-fly-robin-fly/columns/the-number-ones#google\_vignette:

“Disco music changed when the Europeans got ahold of it. In early-'70s America, disco was an underground club culture, one based around the gay and black bars of New York and the frisky R&B that the DJs in those bars would play. The music was an outgrowth of soul -- in particular, the luxuriant, orchestrated soul of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. A lot of the early disco hits in America were basically just fast, simple funk songs. But European producers heard those sounds and figured out something else to do with them. They mechanized those sounds, using drum-machine pulses to make the music into endless-repeat floor fodder, a sound completely removed from American funk and soul. That story -- which fundamentally changed both disco and American pop music in general -- starts with Silver Convention's "Fly, Robin, Fly."
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South Africa '81!

With the incomparable Luther Vandross, 1980 release. Any other good remixes?

🔥 Fitting for the north east about now. 🥵

* thank goodness for pitch control, always pitched it down a bunch when I jammed this rhythmic beauty 😉

The radio version of the song is good, but the original long version used on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack like it would’ve been played at Studio 54 with people’s souls sucked into the dance groove is the one that really burns.

Once it locks in, the music doesn’t let up. And after the three-minute mark, it somehow gets even stronger — the groove expands, the energy builds, and the whole thing becomes a kind of controlled disco explosion.

“The song was originally recorded by the Trammps in 1976 and released as a single. It was inspired by the 1974 blockbuster film The Towering Inferno, in which a party in a top-floor ballroom is threatened by a fire that breaks out below.[5] According to Tom Moulton, who mixed the record, the Dolby noise reduction had been set incorrectly during the mixdown of the tracks. When engineer Jay Mark discovered the error and corrected it, the mix had a much wider dynamic range than was common at the time. Because of this, the record seems to "jump out" at the listener. With "Starvin'" and "Body Contact Contract", it topped the U.S. Disco chart for six weeks in the late winter of 1977.[6] On the other U.S. charts, "Disco Inferno" hit number nine on the Black Singles chart, but it was not initially a significant success at pop radio, peaking at number 53 on the Billboard Hot 100.[7]
"Disco Inferno" gained much greater recognition when the nearly-11-minute album version was included on the soundtrack to the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever. Re-released by Atlantic Records, the track peaked at number 11 in the U.S. during the spring of 1978, becoming the Trammps' biggest and most recognized single.
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[Wikipedia]

Not bad MJ...NOT BAD...💎🪩