My iTunes playlist - which classic DISCO songs did I forget to include.......

In case you have a list like this, may I see it??



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It took a while to compile this list in iTunes.....

Dont stopp till you get enough? Or do you consider it funk?

Nice list, but strange that you picked "Tragedy" instead of "Stayin Alive", the latter was pretty much the biggest and most popular disco song at the time..

Shawy89 said:

Nice list, but strange that you picked "Tragedy" instead of "Stayin Alive", the latter was pretty much the biggest and most popular disco song at the time..

Hi thanks.. "Stayin Alive" by Bee Gees is on there as well - song #45...

The reason why "Tragedy" by Bee Gees is on my iTunes list as song #1, is the song is #1 on one of the CD compilations these songs are taken from..

In other words, the order of the songs, is "pure coincidense"....

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motownlover said:

Dont stopp till you get enough? Or do you consider it funk?

I agree with you, that song by MJ was a huge disco hit in '79,

Don't Stop Til You Get Enough, this was one of my first 7 inch singles I bought, actually.

I was 13-14 back then, buying vinyl singles.... wow, memories..

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^ "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough"..


-- this single was 1 of my first vinyls/ from my vinyl collection (the Prince 7 inch picture disk was much later)......

Shake Your Body The Jacksons

Tragedy is my favorite BeeGee's song

#87

dm3857 said:

Shake Your Body The Jacksons

Yup

#53 Good Quincy song

Cheryl Lynn-Got to be real missing

Unless my eyes are deceiving me.

Poison ~ Let Me Lay My Funk On You {Poison is a 1970's funk band, not the 1980's hair metal group}

The Joneses ~ Sugar Pie Guy

Frankie Valli ~ Swearin' To God

Herbie Mann ~ Superman

Ray Charles ~ Compared To What

Meco ~ Star Wars/Catina Band

Love De-Luxe ~ Here Comes That Sound

Brass Construction ~ Movin'

Cerrone ~ Love In C Minor

Chicago ~ Street Player

Ecstasy, Passion & Pain ~ Touch & Go

Grey & Hanks ~ You Fooled Me

The O'Jays ~ Sing A Happy Song

Sun ~ Wanna Make Love

Young & Company ~ I Like (What You're Doing To Me)

Gonzalez ~ Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet

Jerry Butler ~ Coolin' Out

Stars On 45 ~ Stars On 45

George Benson ~ Supership

Jimmy Bo Horne ~ You Got Me Hot

Vicki Sue Robinson ~ Daylight

Four Tops ~ Catfish

Johnny Mathis ~ Gone Gone Gone

Gap Band ~ Baby Baba Boogie

Van McCoy ~ The Hustle

Odyssey ~ Native New Yorker

The Jacksons ~ Different Kind Of Lady

Huey Lewis & The News ~ Exodisco

The quintissential disco songs:

Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
Night Fever - Bee Gees
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
More Than A Woman - Bee Gees/Tavares
YMCA - Village People
Macho Man - Village People

In The Navy - Village People

Le Freak - Chic

Good Times - Chic
Disco Inferno - The Trammps
Get Down Tonite - KC & the Sunshine Band

That's The Way I Like It - KC & the Sunshine Band

Shake Your Booty - KC & the Sunshine Band

Boogie Shoes - KC & the Sunshine Band

Keep It Coming Love - KC & the Sunshine Band

Dancing Machine - The Jacksons

Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) - The Jacksons

I Love The Nightlife - Alicia Bridges

He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge

We Are Family - Sister Sledge

Disco Lady - Johnnie Taylor

Turn The Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson

Rock Your Baby - George McCrae

Funkytown - Lipps Inc.

Don't Stop Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson

Boogie Nights - Heatwave

The Groove Line - Heatwave

I Just Want To Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb

Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb

Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey

Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston

Never Can Say Goodbye - Gloria Gaynor

Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer

I Feel Love - Donna Summer

Last Dance - Donna Summer

Hot Stuff/Bad Girls - Donna Summer

Dim All The Lights - Donna Summer

If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman

Love Hangover - Diana Ross

Upside Down - Diana Ross

I'm Coming Out - Diana Ross

Those are the most obvious songs I can think of. There are a ton of others that are more obscure to mainstream audiences like the folowing:

Fly Robin Fly - The Silver Convention

Get Up and Boogie - The Silver Convention
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester

Knock On Wood - Ami Stewart

More More More - Andrea True Connection

Young Hearts Run Free - Candi Staton

Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez

There are others that are even more obscure disco tracks and some that I won't list here because technically they are funk, soul and R&B tracks that crossed over into disco.

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^^Many of those are in the original list. I think the OP wanted songs not on the list.

MickyDolenz said:

^^Many of those are in the original list. I think the OP wanted songs not on the list.

True. I just listed what I thought were the most obvious disco songs, and I even missed some of them. There were others that I omitted because they were dumb novelty songs (Disco Duck anyone?) and others, particularly those in the 1973 to 1976 period and those after 1980 that were really funk and R&B songs. But I forgot this gem:

Heart of Glass - Blondie

There were other non-disco artists that released danceable pop tunes that got lumped in as disco but were really not. "Miss You" by the Rolling Stones is often listed as disco but is really a funk rock track. And "I Was Made For Loving You" by Kiss was just a really bad pop track. And "I Keep Forgettin'" by Michael McDonald was really a funky pop track that was also released after 1980 that got a lot of play on the dance floor.

MickyDolenz said:

Poison ~ Let Me Lay My Funk On You {Poison is a 1970's funk band, not the 1980's hair metal group}

The Joneses ~ Sugar Pie Guy

Frankie Valli ~ Swearin' To God

Herbie Mann ~ Superman

Ray Charles ~ Compared To What

Meco ~ Star Wars/Catina Band

Love De-Luxe ~ Here Comes That Sound

Brass Construction ~ Movin'

Cerrone ~ Love In C Minor

Chicago ~ Street Player

Ecstasy, Passion & Pain ~ Touch & Go

Grey & Hanks ~ You Fooled Me

The O'Jays ~ Sing A Happy Song

Sun ~ Wanna Make Love

Young & Company ~ I Like (What You're Doing To Me)

Gonzalez ~ Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet

Jerry Butler ~ Coolin' Out

Stars On 45 ~ Stars On 45

George Benson ~ Supership

Jimmy Bo Horne ~ You Got Me Hot

Vicki Sue Robinson ~ Daylight

Four Tops ~ Catfish

Johnny Mathis ~ Gone Gone Gone

Gap Band ~ Baby Baba Boogie

Van McCoy ~ The Hustle

Odyssey ~ Native New Yorker

The Jacksons ~ Different Kind Of Lady

Huey Lewis & The News ~ Exodisco

Thanks for this list. MikeyD,...

I know "these".... the rest on the list are unknown to me....

A pleasure to track new great songs, by new I mean unknown....

iaminparties said:

dm3857 said:

Shake Your Body The Jacksons

Yup

Great disco song indeed, thanks both..

728huey said:

The quintissential disco songs:

Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
Night Fever - Bee Gees
You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
More Than A Woman - Bee Gees/Tavares
YMCA - Village People
Macho Man - Village People

In The Navy - Village People

Le Freak - Chic

Good Times - Chic
Disco Inferno - The Trammps
Get Down Tonite - KC & the Sunshine Band

That's The Way I Like It - KC & the Sunshine Band

Shake Your Booty - KC & the Sunshine Band

Boogie Shoes - KC & the Sunshine Band

Keep It Coming Love - KC & the Sunshine Band

Dancing Machine - The Jacksons

Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) - The Jacksons

I Love The Nightlife - Alicia Bridges

He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge

We Are Family - Sister Sledge

Disco Lady - Johnnie Taylor

Turn The Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson

Rock Your Baby - George McCrae

Funkytown - Lipps Inc.

Don't Stop Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson

Boogie Nights - Heatwave

The Groove Line - Heatwave

I Just Want To Be Your Everything - Andy Gibb

Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb

Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey

Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston

Never Can Say Goodbye - Gloria Gaynor

Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer

I Feel Love - Donna Summer

Last Dance - Donna Summer

Hot Stuff/Bad Girls - Donna Summer

Dim All The Lights - Donna Summer

If I Can't Have You - Yvonne Elliman

Love Hangover - Diana Ross

Upside Down - Diana Ross

I'm Coming Out - Diana Ross

Those are the most obvious songs I can think of. There are a ton of others that are more obscure to mainstream audiences like the folowing:

Fly Robin Fly - The Silver Convention

Get Up and Boogie - The Silver Convention
Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester

Knock On Wood - Ami Stewart

More More More - Andrea True Connection

Young Hearts Run Free - Candi Staton

Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez

There are others that are even more obscure disco tracks and some that I won't list here because technically they are funk, soul and R&B tracks that crossed over into disco.

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^ Thanks for "these" suggestions.....

Disco Lady - Johnnie Taylor this track is unknown to me.. I will take a listen on YouTube..

728huey said:



There were other non-disco artists that released danceable pop tunes that got lumped in as disco but were really not. "Miss You" by the Rolling Stones is often listed as disco but is really a funk rock track. And "I Was Made For Loving You" by Kiss was just a really bad pop track. And "I Keep Forgettin'" by Michael McDonald was really a funky pop track that was also released after 1980 that got a lot of play on the dance floor.

^

"Miss You" by the Rolling Stones
"I Was Made For Loving You" by Kiss

Both are great disco tracks/ or...... maybe more pop/ rock songs.... ?


I like them both..... yeah I know... a guilty pleassure.....

I know these 2 are getting a lot of "hate" / dislikes, but I still like them never the less, both...

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Both were classified as DISCO (written on their covers), back when released on vinyl 12 inches...

I own them both in 8 minutes versions ------ but are these really "disco"..

thedance said:

Both were classified as DISCO (written on their covers), back when released on vinyl 12 inches...

I own them both in 8 minutes versions ------ but are these really "disco"..

What some people think of as disco is really Eurodisco or Barry White and Philadelphia International style music with lush orchestration and a lot of high hat. But many people just considered any dancable music as disco. A lot of it was late 1970's R&B or funk, which is what some of the Bee Gees stuff was. Other than the title, Disco Lady technically isn't really a disco song. I've seen disco compilations with Black Betty by Ram Jam on them, and I don't know what's disco about that at all. It's like southern rock.

dm3857 said:

Shake Your Body The Jacksons

My favorite MJ song...with his bros or solo

One of the best disco songs is "Souvenirs" by Voyage (1978)

Look it up on youtube.....it's a sensational track.....a somber melody mixed with lush instrumentation and a relentless beat.

^ thanks SoulAlive,

indeed a great disco track.. "Souvenirs" by Voyage..

the fact that they choose a bee sing as a number 1 song says a lot about the fact that they don't known shit about disco.

jackson35 said:

the fact that they choose a bee sing as a number 1 song says a lot about the fact that they don't known shit about disco.

^ nonsense... you do like disco, but don't you like Bee Gees?

"Tragedy" is a great disco track (back in 1979 I believe the song was a number 1 hit on the charts also),

Btw, like I wrote in reply #3. The songs are not ranked, like number 1 on the list is "the best" song.

The order of the songs is to some degree, made from the CD's, and the order is... random.

"Tragedy", well "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever" are better known, but still "Tragedy" - it is a fantastic disco track, isn't it, can't we agree......?


I am not sure why you wrote that sour remark.....

Bee Gees wrote some of the most acclaimed disco songs, actually they defined disco in the late 70's... right?

thedance said:

The order of the songs is...., made from the CD's

I chose myself what I think are the greatest 100 disco songs - in random order, some from:

Disco Fever vol 1 (2CD)..:

http://www.discogs.com/Va...se/2558675


some from:

Disco Fever vol 2 (2CD)..:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Disco-Fever-2/release/3678454


Plus,

I added a lot more.... from a few more compilations........

Bette Midler "My Knight In Black leather",
Amii Stewart "Light My Fire",
Ritz "Locomotion",

These weren't big disco hits afaik in the US, but these were huge in Europe afaik, at least they were huge in Denmark where I live. Back in 1979.

Not to include Michael Jackson "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" is clearly a mistake. And I agree "Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)" is great disco as well..........

Some more disco tunes:

Boogie Fever - The Sylvers
Love Machine - The Miracles
I'm Your Boogie Man - KC & the Sunshine Band
Shining Star - Eath Wind and Fire
Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players
Best of My Love - The Emotions
Dazz - Brick
(Love Is) Thicker Than Water - Andy Gibb
Do It (Till Your Satisfied) - BT Express
I Got My Mind Made Up - Instant Funk
Makin' It - David Naughton
The Second Time Around - Shalamar
A Night To Remember - Shalamar

Take Your Time (Do It Right) - The S.O.S. Band
Never Knew Love Like This - Stephanie Mills

Another One Bites The Dust - Queen

Fantastic Voyage - Lakeside

Body Language - Queen

Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) - Gap Band

More Bounce To The Ounce - Zapp & Roger

The Glow of Love - Change (feat. Luther Vandross)

I Want Your Love - Chic
Call Me - Skyy

728huey said:

Some more disco tunes:

Boogie Fever - The Sylvers
Love Machine - The Miracles
I'm Your Boogie Man - KC & the Sunshine Band
Shining Star - Eath Wind and Fire
Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players
Best of My Love - The Emotions
Dazz - Brick
(Love Is) Thicker Than Water - Andy Gibb
Do It (Till Your Satisfied) - BT Express
I Got My Mind Made Up - Instant Funk
Makin' It - David Naughton
The Second Time Around - Shalamar
A Night To Remember - Shalamar

Take Your Time (Do It Right) - The S.O.S. Band
Never Knew Love Like This - Stephanie Mills

Another One Bites The Dust - Queen

Fantastic Voyage - Lakeside

Body Language - Queen

Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) - Gap Band

More Bounce To The Ounce - Zapp & Roger

The Glow of Love - Change (feat. Luther Vandross)

I Want Your Love - Chic
Call Me - Skyy

Alot more Skyy