Facts about Disco
Disco is a genre of dance-oriented music popular from the mid-1970s through the early '80s.
Famous disco bars included the very important Paradise Garage as well as cocaine-filled celeb hangouts such as Manhattan's Studio 54, which was operated by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager.
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Some cities had disco-dance instructors or dance schools that taught people how to do popular disco dances such as "Touch Dancing," and "the Hustle."
Frank Zappa famously parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in "Dancin' Fool" on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album.
Music with proto-"disco" elements appeared in the late 1960s and with "Tighten Up" and "Mony, Mony," "Dance to the Music," and "Love Child."
The release of the film and soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever in December 1977, which became one of the best-selling soundtracks of all time, turned disco into a mainstream music genre.
The Hues Corporation's 1974 "Rock The Boat," a U.S. number-one single and million-seller, was one of the early disco songs to top the charts.
In 1975, hits such as Van McCoy's "The Hustle," Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby," and "Could It Be Magic," brought disco further into the mainstream.
Several parodies of the disco style were created, most notably "Disco Duck" recorded by Rick Dees, at the time a radio Disc Jockey in Memphis, Tennessee.
Prominent European pop and disco groups included Luv' from the Netherlands and Boney M, a group of four West Indian singers and dancers masterminded by West German record producer Frank Farian.
Two early songs with disco elements include Jerry Butler’s 1969 "Only the Strong Survive" and Manu Dibango's 1972 "Soul Makossa."
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Some historians have referred to July 12, 1979, as the "day disco died" because of an anti-disco demonstration that was held in Chicago.
A number of Motown hits also resembled the disco style and were later covered by disco artists.
The Rolling Stones, tongues firmly in cheeks, released a long playing (8:26) disco version of the song "Miss You" to accompany their 1978 album Some Girls.
Influential DJs and remixers who helped to establish what became known as the "disco sound" included Moulton, David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Shep Pettibone, Larry Levan, Walter Gibbons, and later Frankie Knuckles.
A lively club culture developed around disco, characterized by youth-oriented fashion, strobe-lighted dance floors, and often drugs and promiscuous sex.
The term disco was first used in print in an article by Vince Aletti in the September 13, 1973, edition of Rolling Stone magazine titled "Discotheque Rock '72: Paaaaarty!"
Disco's popularity began to fade in the 1980s but has experienced a revival in recent years.
Musical influences on disco include Motown, funk, soul music, mambo, and salsa.
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Many of these songs were not "pure" disco, but were instead rock or pop songs with disco overtones.
The release of the film and soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever in December 1977, which became one of the best-selling soundtracks of all time, turned disco into a mainstream music genre.
Disco was also important in the development of Hip-Hop music, as well as disco's direct descendants: the 1980s and 1990s genres of house music and its harder-driving offshoot, techno.
Well-known late 1970s' disco performers included Chic, the Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Grace Jones, Gloria Gaynor, Diana Ross, the Village People, and The Jackson 5.
Disco has its musical roots in late 1960s' northern soul music, especially the Philly and New York soul, both of which were evolutions of Detroit's Motown sound.