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To: rhoda_penmark

Invent disco? They rode a trend. Disco was pioneered by European D.J.s and got its’ start in night clubs. People like Barry White were recording the music long before the Brothers Gibb.


143 posted on 05/25/2016 12:00:14 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Yeah, but see, I don’t care a thing about disco.


152 posted on 05/25/2016 12:20:34 PM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: Borges

Invent disco? They rode a trend. Disco was pioneered by European D.J.s and got its’ start in night clubs. People like Barry White were recording the music long before the Brothers Gibb.

The Bee Gees didn't invent disco but they probably legitimized it. They were the first mainstream band to go all-in on disco.

Where is the exact start of any form of music? No one can say for sure since every artist builds on what came before. Everyone borrows a little from here and a little from there to create a different sound. Barry White and others may have done songs that sound like disco but the disco movement itself generally started with the commercial success of the Bee Gees and KC and the Sunshine Band.

You are correct about the disco movement starting in Europe. Maurice Gibb said that the Bee Gees were vacationing in Germany and were intrigued by the dance music they heard in the dance halls. It became the idea behind the Main Course album and hits like Jive Talkin', Nights on Broadway,and Fannie.

154 posted on 05/25/2016 12:21:56 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of incompetence and corruption.)
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To: Borges; Pelham; Mr. Mojo; LS; Travis McGee; miss marmelstein; Salamander

Disco still sucks

The music of Bill O’Reilly and Levin

We laughed at it

Now all this bullshit social import attached to it

The music of cocaine, Amyl Nitrate and herpes

Man we hated it but it was where the superficial but hot girls were and they usually had a pool table area

To even out the odds since we were “freaks” we brought weed and ludes

Polyester sucks too and clunky Elton John oxfords


182 posted on 05/25/2016 3:30:54 PM PDT by wardaddy
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