Sounds of The Seventies

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 6:08 am

Angie Baby - Helen Reddy

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:35 am

By 1975 disco was crossing from the R & B to the pop charts, but 1976 was the year it truly arrived. Many white artists began performing this heretofore black music, and a number of noveity hits were spawned by acts that quickly disappeared again. The grand entrance of disco was illustrated by the emergence of Donna Summer, who proved to be one of the genre's enduring stars.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:05 pm

CLAPTON, ERIC - After Midnight

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:22 am

Indian Reservation - The Raiders

LICKING COUNTY FAN · Post by **LICKING COUNTY FAN** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:39 am

Natural High by Bloodstone
1973

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:12 pm

Rocki Me---Steve Miller Band

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:15 pm

takin' it to the Streets----The Doobie Brothers

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:02 am

1976

Born LaDonna Gaines in Boston in 1948, Donna Summer joined the Munich, Germany, cast of Hair in 1968 and went on to perform in the Vienna Volksopera's productions of Porgy and Bess and Showboat.

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:35 pm

Fooled Around And Fell In Love

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:24 pm

1976

In 1973, Donna Summer was back in Munich, performing in Godspell and singing backup vocals at Musicland Studio, where she met owner and producer Pete Bellotte and his partner, Glorgio Moroder.

Both men were keeping a keen eye on Americana's disco movement, which by 1975 was no longer the secret of urban blacks and gays. That year they had Summer record Love to Love You Baby, a heavy-breathing track inspired by the recent European sucess of Je T' Aime....mal Non Plus by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg.

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:26 pm

Sara Smile

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:10 am

Lay Down - Melanie & The Edwin Hawkins Singers

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:44 am

Slippin' Into Darkness - War

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:18 pm

say you love me

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 8:15 pm

1976

using new techniques spawned by the disco D Js, Moroder mixed a 17-minute version of Donna Summer's sighing,groaning and gasping R & B tune for nonstop dancing. He leased it to Neil Bogart of Casablanca records in America, where a few similar sexy tracks were underground disco hits.

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:47 pm

play that funky music

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:23 pm

You Should be Dancing

The Bee gees

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:47 am

1976

Wild Cherry typified the white novelty aspects of disco with Play That Funky Music. Leader Bob Parissi, who took the group's name off a box of cough drops while he was in the hospital, had already seen one incarnation of his band dissolve; he was getting frustrated with audiences on the Cleveland-to-Pittsburgh disco circut that the rockers were playing. Discussing the problem backstage one night, drummer Ron Davis repeated a cry they often heard from the audience; "Play that funky music." Only in jest, he added the phrase "White Boy" Parissi dashed off the song on a napkin at the disco where his band was playing, and it was later recorded as the B-side to a cover version of the Commodores--I Feel Satisfied

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:27 am

The Bee Gess were in the midst of a more enduring disco string of singles.In 1975, the Main Course album, produced by Arif Mardin , had yielded the Brothers Gibb their first #1 single in four years.

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:53 pm

Show me the way