Posted on 07/13/2019 6:32:43 AM PDT by C19fan
Nothing but a bunch of haters. Disco revolutionized the music industry and proved that once again, blacks are innovators when it comes to trends.
Fun fact: The late Michael Clark Duncan was at the game!
“but now people are saying this promotion gone wrong was racist and homophobic.”
Those people are idiots. I was there.
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Compared to "pop" music today, Disco was rock. At least it had electric guitars in it.
That's exactly right. A lot of people are unable to make the distinction and group them together. It's too bad, because a lot of great R&B acts from the 70's and early 80's are unnecessarily and unfairly pigeon-holed as disco, some of which (especially toward the end of the disco era) was admittedly dreadful.
I thought the worst part of disco was the fashion. Polyester shirts, white belts and shoes, leisure suits.
Italians too?
Damn.
One interesting thing about DISCO is that it did help some cross cultural music introduction, although before that, Motown, The Philadelphia Sound and Rosalie Trombley did far more.
Rosalie Trombley was the music director for CKLW, a powerhouse station in Windsor, Ontario. Their signal reached several states and provinces. She simply erased color barriers and introduced lots of black music to white audiences.
The music of the late 60’s to mid ‘70’s in almost every major format is simply the best era. Just go to any big box store and listen to what’s playing.
I’m not a fan of pure disco, but the soul and R&B influence of that music was awesome.
“Disco Duck”
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Comes to mind.
Steve Dahl was a funny guy. I was sad when he left Detroit for Chicago.
Where did White Sox fans come from in 1978? What parts of Chicago?
I wasn’t really a rocker guy. Was he at W4 or WABX?
Not according to https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/?date=1979-07-12 (click on the DET/CWS first game box), then when the box score appears, scroll down to the umpires)
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Shortly after, Tom (won’t use his last name to spare him the embarrassment) a kid in my college dorm in St Louis from Elkhart Indiana, staged a copycat demolition of disco records at the halftime of a soccer game. He’s a radiologist now.
By definition Disco was another iteration of pop music. Just as swing bands were pop music back in the 40s.
Pop music is market based and sensationalized music to generate hyper-profitibility.
Disco never really died. It just morphed slightly into “danceable pop” - Madonna, e.g.. And it has since gotten even lazier musically by substituting “production” for musicianship.
Steve Dahl had been a victim of that forced culture change, when the Chicago radio station where he worked (FM rocker WDAI) abruptly changed formats to “Disco DAI” and gave him the boot.
I think ABX but I’m not 100% sure. According to Wikipedia ABX and W4.
Neither was I, then or now. In fact I would love to hear Al Martino's disco version of "Volare'" again. And remember the disco versions of the theme from "I Love Lucy", "Baby Face", and "Chattanooga Choo Choo"?.
I was, as they say in the UK, coming up for 18, getting ready for college, when the Comiskey riot happened.
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Chicago has long been polarized when it comes to baseball...if you’re a North Sider you’re a Cubs fan, and if you live south of Madison Street you’re a Sox fan. Or at least, that’s how it’s “supposed” to be.
Sox fans were primarily working-class from the surrounding south side neighborhoods, and suburbanites who could (with some effort) pull in the games on low-budget WSNS TV-44.
Then there was always A Fifth of Beethoven
Actually heard that the other day on a Kasey Kasem rerun.
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