Holiday" by Change (1980), "Evening of Love" by the Main Ingredientįeaturing Cuba Gooding (1981), "Let Your Body Move It" by Fat Eddy Band "Dance What 'Cha Wanna" by Loleatta Holloway (1980), "A Lover's Why was the word "disco" referenced in the lyrics of songs like Release a follow-up "More Christmas Disco" album at the end of 1980? And Such hot sellers? And how did the Mistletoe Disco Band successfully "Never Knew Love Like This Before", and the "Mickey Mouse Disco" album If disco was "dead" inġ980, then why were "Give Me the Night", "Funkytown", "Celebration", In fact, disco music was still popular during the year 1980 andĮven to a limited extent until the summer of 1982. Listing, and those for 1981-1984, will help to disprove that Music was not being made and released during the early 1980s. There exists a misconception that true disco were more than just one-hit wonders.Disco Savvy: 1980 Disco 1980 Disco Disco after 1979.
Detroit techno innovator Carl Craig even borrowed an alias from “Designer Music”-confirming that Lipps, Inc. would release three more albums full of lush, innovative dance singles-like the vocoder-soaked “Hold Me Down” or the almost New Wave-flavored “Designer Music”-that helped pave the way for Minneapolis’ electro-funk explosion. Perhaps the masterstroke was to structure it as though it were two songs in one, playing the verse off the bridge in such a way that gave radio listeners a taste of DJ culture right in their own homes or cars. On Lipps, Inc.’s follow-up, they added modest tweaks to the same essential formula, fleshing out bold string vamps with jangling guitar and playful cowbell patterns that captured the era’s disco at its most vividly kinetic. Their debut single, 1979’s “Rock It,” landed on the hip Casablanca label and boasted a sleek electronic pulse in keeping with the fashionable cybernetic grooves Giorgio Moroder had only recently pioneered. In the late ’70s, Minneapolis producer/songwriter Steven Greenberg, a former wedding DJ, hooked up with singer Cynthia Johnson, who had been working with an early version of Morris Day’s group, The Time. But the tune didn’t come out of a New York hit factory. needed to secure their own legacy in pop culture: “Funkytown” is one of a handful of songs so universally beloved that it is practically synonymous with disco, itself. It turned an album-oriented era upside down by revealing a simple truth: Sometimes one song is all it takes.
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