Dust off the platform shoes,send the leisure suit to the cleaners,and get ready to get down and funky,because ABC is throwing an all-star party celebrating that phenonemon called disco!

This once-in-a-lifetime event was taped at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles---and the Shrine never looked so cool! Legendary performers of the Disco era,as well as some of todays' biggest stars,will jump onto multiple stages and perform the classics that defined the Disco era,including:

**Whoopi Goldberg & Martha Wash---"It's Raining Men"
**Gloria Gaynor---"I Will Survive"
**Usher---"Ain't No Stopping Us Now"
**The Village People---"Macho Man" & "YMCA"
**Mya---"Turn The Beat Around"
**KC & The Sunshine Band--"Shake Your Booty" and "Get Down Tonight"
**Irene Cara---"Flashdance...What A Feeling"
**Chic---"Le Freak"
**Aaron Carter---"I Just Want To Be Your Everything"
**Taylor Dayne---"I Love The Nightlife"
**Roselyn Sanchez---"Hot Stuff"
**The Spinners---"Workin My Way Back To You"
**The Trammps featuring Earl Young---"Disco Inferno"
**Nicki French---"Total Eclipse Of The Heart"
**Natural---featuring a "Saturday Night Fever" musical tribute---"Stayin Alive","How Deep Is Your Love" & "You Should Be Dancing"---Wilmer Valderrama (That 70s Show) makes a special dance appearance
**Cheryl Lynn---"Got To Be Real"


Adding spice to this already tangy event is a special Disco fashion show,featuring some of the most outrageous models ever seen as they strut down the catwalk to the tune of "Dancing Queen".

Ticket receipts benefited AIDS Project Los Angeles,one of the nations's largest service organizations.





The show airs Thursday January 16 at 8/7c on ABC TV.
[This message was edited Thu Jan 16 1:14:13 PST 2003 by DavidEye]

sounds like a load of Bollocks 2 me crappy not real disco show... ( Gahbage) lol

Finess said:

But you KNOW you gotta watch it,Finess.It will be great to see Cheryl Lynn,The Spinners and Chic again!

Finess is getting his polyester shirt and platform shoes ready...lol...

its sad we have to see modern pop "acts" do some shitty renditionn of a disco era song...its sad we have to have our 70's era music updated to a "2002" look give it to me all or nothin whats the point in waterin it down?

P.S. Either Donna Summer was unavailable for personal reasons, or she simply disagreed with the presentations on this program. Because she was definitely one of the first disco superstars who capitalized and became really famous from disco. She had a 2-hour concert highlighting her entire career in disco 2 years ago on HBO cable and she received rave reviews.

i might be showing my age here but who still knows how to "Hustle" lol i do

Finess said:

my 5th grade teacher had one of them old k-tel compilation records, and he always had "the hustle" on durin recess, and most of my 5th grade class would be there hustlin along with him on the playground (me included!)...



as 4 the show, i ain't watchin it...usher re-workin "ain't no stoppin us now"?? gimme a break... and i can't bear 2 see chic do "le freak" without bernard edwards (r.i.p.)...


discotheque edit.
[This message was edited Thu Jan 16 9:34:45 PST 2003 by Handclapsfingasnapz]

i might be showing my age here but who still knows how to "Hustle" lol i do

Well,did you guys watch it? As someone who absolutely loves 70s Disco music,I didn't dare miss it.The highlights for me were Taylor Dayne singing "I Love The Nightlife" (I've had a crush on her for years...lol),Cheryl Lynn's performance (it was so good to see her again after all these years),and the Martha Wash/Whoopi Goldberg duet of "It's Raining Men" was alot of fun too.


Even The Village People put on a cool performance.Usher's performance of "Ain't No Stoppin Us Now" was visually exciting (he's a great dancer,although he borrows a little too heavily from MJ),but his rendition of the song fell flat,imo.And who were those awful guys doing the 'Saturday
Night Fever' medley? Aaaarrrggghhh!!


Irene Cara looked great,and it was good to see her again.And is it me,or is Paula Abdul looking better and better these days?

Surprisingly,Chic's performance of "Le Freak" wasn't very exciting,it was way too slow! Likewise,the Trammps rendition of "Disco Inferno" sounded kinda bland,imo.But Gloria Gaynor kicked ass during "I Will Survive'.


Overall,it was a great show and if you were around back then (the late 70s),this show was kinda like going down memory lane.

DavidEye said:

so david which brand of paint are u sniffing this week krylon or dutch boy..the disco wasjust that "BALLS" it was the most sorry excuse for a "disco revival" show i have ever seen... those lil queens who did u should be dancing need 2 be shot...and fez from that 70's show needed a beat down...the show blew goat dick...

Finess said:

OUCH! But come on,Finess,there must have been SOME performances that you liked.What did you think of Gloria Gaynor,Irene Cara and Thelma Houston's performances?

Finess said:

Here in Detroit we still hustle but it's a litt different from what you might remember .

DigitalLisa said:

The 90's dance the Electric Slide is somewhat un update of the 70's The Hustle as some of the steps are similiar to that of the hustle.