The Disco Demolition event was 30 years ago tomorrow, so here's a sequel to "Disco Sickness," one of my 365 Project contributions and, actually, one of the most popular internet projects I've done. This fascinating 8 minute video of various Chicago news clips details the anarchic event that put the stake in disco's heart (in America at least).These tunes are funny, awful, sometimes both. Mad Magazine's "It's A Gas" is downright disgusting. Whether they're humorous parodies, kitschy thrift-store atrocities, foreign interpretati
ons, or downright strange outsider oddities, these tunes are never less then highly entertaining. Some I got off the web, such as a couple of other 365 Project contributions, but they make sense in the context of a big sick disco party. And if you liked Myron Floren's disco polka or the Brazilian disco samba from the first collection (or even if you didn't), there's more here - leftovers I recorded off my vinyl but didn't have room for. Lots of covers, even a Kate Bush tune sung by a Japanese group - a true "wtf" moment. I got the sound off the video (that I can no longer find on YouTube) so audio's a little poopy. But it must be witnessed.Disco Suicide
Disco Suicide - MAD Magazine (Norm Blagman, Dick DeBartolo)
Get Up And Boogie - Marimba Orquesta Virreynal De Hugo Reyes
Star Wars Theme - The Wonderball Disco Orchestra
R2D2_C3PO_Disco - Music for Children's Disco
Popeye Disco - Pam Todd & Love Exchange
Disco Hotline - National Lampoon
Disco Charlie Brown - Springbok Hits
Disco Communist - Semi-Not
Rolling The Ball (Them Heavy People cover) - Yukari Itô and Hatsumi Shibata
Pinball Playboy (Playboy Theme) - Cook County
Things We Said Today - Joah Valley
Yiddishco - National Lampoon
Barbeque - Joe Cutajar
Love Is Blue-Lovers Concerto - Myron Floren
Height Report Disco - National Lampoon
I Was Born To Disco - Strawberry Shortcake
It's a Gas (disco version) - MAD Disco
Disco samba2 - Freddy Ventura
Disco's in the Garbage - the Incinerators
6 comments:
hmmmmm.....funny to see what sounds like my rip of disco's in the garbage as posted on the www.cheezepleeze.com website...I guess I made it when I ended up in a M4M compilation...LOL!
Brother Jake Edwards does lead vocal, a very well known radio personality for the last 30 years in canada, currently doing a morning show in Vancouver, sorry don't know the station.
This was cut over a weekend when he was with a station in Winnipeg. writer producer George Raymond emailed me the details, and was rather surprised anyone cared about the song...I guess we still do :)
Ah, THAT'S where I got that song - I knew I got some off the web but didn't remember from where. It's probly in the song's id tag. But with Cheeze Factory's (very understandable) policy of not keeping stuff on line for long, I'm glad to give some of these gems a second chance.
"George Raymond...was rather surprised anyone cared about the song" - it's a historical artifact!
ooh missed your Disco Sickness although I do have the disco version of Beer Barrel Polka I love Disco Polka as you know :-D
More disco evilness! Yay! Coming to a bootleg near you, probly...
P.S. Did you original post Disco Accordion? Still can't remember where I originally got that...
"More disco evilness! Yay! Coming to a bootleg near you" Yipee! (waves arms in air) Go NoNo! Go NoNo!
I think April Winchell posted the song you're referring too, so that's why I chose other songs off the same album. Couldn't believe that someone else had that album...
hola, I sure wanna hear this silliness ....but the link is Dead any new link to share??
I'll try to get the link back, but am technologically handicapped right now. Might be a while...
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