When XE was just a slip of a middle-aged girl and disco had come to the fore, she worked for a company that received promotional records from record companies. Being as she was the company's editor in charge of radio/print, the records often wound up on her desk. If nobody else wanted them, XE took them home. Her very favorite was a pink record with Dolly Parton singing "Baby, I'm Burnin"--a disco hit at the time. I've always been rather fond of it, despite not hearing it all that well. Maybe that's why.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Remember Disco??
Ronniecat's blog recently featured Sean Carman's "Reasons to Fear Canada." One of the reasons is that Canada "has never had a disco phase." I don't know why that would render Canada fearsome, but maybe it means their brains are still intact.
When XE was just a slip of a middle-aged girl and disco had come to the fore, she worked for a company that received promotional records from record companies. Being as she was the company's editor in charge of radio/print, the records often wound up on her desk. If nobody else wanted them, XE took them home. Her very favorite was a pink record with Dolly Parton singing "Baby, I'm Burnin"--a disco hit at the time. I've always been rather fond of it, despite not hearing it all that well. Maybe that's why.
When XE was just a slip of a middle-aged girl and disco had come to the fore, she worked for a company that received promotional records from record companies. Being as she was the company's editor in charge of radio/print, the records often wound up on her desk. If nobody else wanted them, XE took them home. Her very favorite was a pink record with Dolly Parton singing "Baby, I'm Burnin"--a disco hit at the time. I've always been rather fond of it, despite not hearing it all that well. Maybe that's why.
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I always kind of liked the beat of disco, maybe because I liked to dance so much. For some reason I thought of Laugh-In when I listened to this.
ReplyDeleteyou heard me laugh-in' when i read the lyrics for the first time!!
ReplyDeleteHeh heh.Canadians were hopping around to fiddle music at that time, I believe, or waving their arms about in an indefinite way . Where I LOVED disco was in Europe. It went on longer there, even into the 80's, and was fun and even glamorous.
ReplyDeleteglamorous!!! imagine! thanks for a fascinating view.
ReplyDeleteWow, M.E., you just triggered a memory -- but not of disco. I had forgotten all about those special promo disks that record companies sent out, pressed on colored vinyl. We used to get lots of them at the radio station I worked at when I was a high schooler, and I thought they were really cool. Some were even transparent!
ReplyDeleteME--Thank goodness I was too old to have to endure listening to disco. Gah!
ReplyDeleteCop Car
I don't remember ever hearing this Dolly Parton song, but I do remember the queen of disco, Donna Summer. I still like to dance to her "Last Dance."
ReplyDeletePeople are so critical of disco, but you know what it did? If finally brought men and women back into each other's arms, dancing together. I thought that was kind of an improvement over gyrating on the dance floor like strangers in a sea of other strangers.
Sherwood: Never saw a transparent one!! That must have been before my time (ROFLMAO!!!)
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: I couldn't hear disco except for the beat, which I liked.
Diana: Dancing....I loved folk dancing in the convent, and polkas and schottisches and waltzes in the tiny little bars in N. Wisconsin, but I missed all the rest. I think I'd like to try Latin dancing. There's sure to be places here that offer dance lessons for the elderly....
Diana--My comment was a bit judgmental, wasn't it? I'm sorry. (But...please don't make me listen to disco. *grinning* It is just that I find the beat boring.)
ReplyDeleteXE/ME--I recall the transparent demos. As I recall, they were mostly red. And they were flexible. And the ones that I recall were 78 rpm, but I think there were also 45 rpm demos. On the other hand, there were red (and green), semi-transparent 45 rpm records...that were/are not flexible.
All--Let us tango! It gives an opportunity to dance in one another's arms and apart. I grew up fox trotting, waltzing, and bopping, mostly.
Cop Car
I liked some disco but was -- and continued to be -- into jazz -- a long-lasting pleasure for me. Pop music with novelty tunes were briefly enjoyed as new ones took their place. Early fifties I recall for our campus radio station which I helped manage and had a radio show, we received lots of huge discs -- ETs (electrical transcriptions -- probably public service type shows as I recall.) We were also on some music record producers promotional lists receiving duplicates of R&B (rhythm and blues) tunes before they were accepted and appreciated by many listeners including ours. I expect some of them would be collector's items now.
ReplyDeleteBy the late fifties, early sixties when I was associated with a live teen TV dance show our dances were mixed with traditional two step, waltz, other, and lots of rock --the dance names of which all escape me -- lots of bum wiggling and arm wagging with one I recall being somewhat like swimming -- may have been "The Swim" and some others with some crazy names like the pop dances of earlier eras.
joared: thanks for your comments. i entered the convent at age 17 and left at age 22 (only classical music allowed on recreation days, and never anything on radio, ever). then i became deaf at age 26. i'm still deaf now, but i can hear music a bit better, especially on program 3 of my cochlear implant processor.....it's all technology. so it's fun to see how popular music tastes evolved among my contemporaries.
ReplyDeletecop car: TANGO? isn't that a difficult dance to learn??
ReplyDeleteAnonymous... oh I wasn't directing that statement at you, I just meant in general, but I'm not defensive about disco. I quite agree that the beat is boring. I do prefer the tango :)
ReplyDeleteM.E. the wonders of technology :)
ReplyDeleteXE--I didn't say that I knew how to do a Tango. *grinning*
ReplyDeleteDiana--You are a gracious blogger!