This is one of my favorite disco jams....

vainandy said:

ummm wow,.

The original:

I heard Amii Stewart's version first and never heard the original until two or three years later. When I heard it, I said, "Too slow".

I eventually grew to like the original but I will always remember that song with the wild woman singing it with knocks and crashes of thunder.

vainandy said:

I understand.

Oddly enough Eddie's original was the first time I heard this song.

That's because you weren't born yet when Amii's version was released. I used to be all up in the skating rink back then. When they played this song, they would do a "blackout" skate, meaning they would turn all the lights off except for the disco ball and some strobe lights. One boy even had a light on the toe of his skates.

vainandy said:

Well duh of course I wasn't.

I just remember hearing Eddie's on oldies radio. I didn't hear Amii's until sometime after 1994 or 1995 when VH-1 was doing specials on disco.

I wasn't trying to be a smartass, you know me better than that. I was just sayin'. As far as radio goes, I never heard Amii's version due to the disco backlash until the mid 1990s when VH1 started playing some disco.

vainandy said:

Yeah I know you weren't.

Yeah I definitely remember hearing more disco played on oldies radio after VH-1 aired their disco specials.

vainandy said:

Actually, same here! I prefer this disco rendition.

I ain't gonna lie tho, I dig the disco version myself.
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I think it revived disco because a lot of the younger people weren't around during the disco era and had never been exposed to it due to the disco backlash of the 1980s. But house music was around and younger people were definately familiar with it. When VH1 started airing some disco in the mid 1990s, I think people realized the similarities of disco and house music (I've always said that house music is just a reincarnation of disco). That's when I started hearing old disco songs in the clubs being mixed with the current house jams of the day. Then I started hearing some radio stations playing nothing but disco on Saturday nights.

I got into this song when it was the last track on a 1995 Old School compilation presented by Much Music's Electric Circus:
http://www.discogs.com/Va...ase/432658

That's one of the very few remakes that I like better than the original. That one and Roger's "Heard It Through The Grapevine".

vainandy said:

I just tend to prefer whatever rendition I heard first (and fell in love with first)

vainandy said:

I always believed that too, that house was the reincarnation of disco. That's why when I first started hearing disco music, I realize the similarities between that and house and notice that most of the disco legends were involved in house music too so it made sense.

vainandy said:

Roger turned that song out! I didn't even recognize it as a Motown track when he was done with it.

IAintTheOne said:

I got high just watching it

The production on this song is superb.They take an old soul classic and turn it into a vibrant,explosive disco number.

I bought the 12" vinyl of this song when it first came out (...yes, I was actually ON the dancefloor for the last days of DISCO, lol), and still have it in my collection. I used to play this song everyday when I was still living at home (late teens), and my Mom would be like... "Oh, I used to love this song!". And I was like "What are you talking about, this JUST came out!", and she was like "No, your Aunt Rene and I used to love this song", and I was like "Whatever!", thinking my Mom was nuts, lol. Years later, like in the 90's, I finally heard Eddie Floyd's version, and that's when I realized there was nothing new under the sun, lol. I like both versions, but Amii Stewart's version will always mean the most to me personally, because it came out in the day when I was just finding my MOJO, lol. Yeah Baby!

Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell" or Bell & James' "Living It Up (Friday Night)" was usually the next song the DJ would mix in, lol.

Classic!

PDogz said:

that DJ sucked because those 2 you cant pitch em without train wrecking em

I also bought the 7" when it came out (the single, not me)

Loved it then, love it now.

IAintTheOne said:

Oh, I see.

PDogz said:

no no what I am saying is that those 2 songs do not go together i've been mixing since 75 and would never attempt that.I would mix that with this

SoulAlive said:

I agree. : headbang: I had some infinity tower speakers, I'd turn this song up.. way up and my wood floors & walls would vibrate.

IAintTheOne said:

I understood that to be what you were saying.

All these years of listening to that song/album,,,I didn't know there was a video for it, a KICK ASS one at that, wow that woman is a brick house, it ain't even a joke.