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At this time, when the discotheque culture from Europe became popular in the United States, several music genres with danceable rhythms rose to popularity and evolved into different sub-genres: rhythm and blues (originated in the 1940s), soul (late 1950s and 1960s), funk (mid-1960s) and go-go (mid-1960s and 1970s; more than "disco", the word ...
Donna Summer's Bad Girls (LP cuts) topped the Disco Top 80 chart for seven consecutive weeks, the longest that year. "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" became Summer's seventh disco number one, the most by any act of the decade. [7] 1980: Change's The Glow of Love (LP cuts) topped the Disco Top 100 chart for nine consecutive weeks, the longest ...
The series documented the impact that disco music had on popular culture in the 1970s. The show featured several disco innovators and people related to the culture including: Marty Angelo - Producer, Disco Step-by-Step; Charlie Anzalone - Club DJ; Maurice Brahms - Club owner, Infinity; Harry Wayne Casey - Lead singer of KC and the Sunshine Band
The origins of disco in the Black and Brown gay clubs of New York City is commonplace knowledge, but Disco sets the story in the social, political, economic, and musical context of the time. As ...
All-disco radio stations became a thing, proving that too much means it’s soon to die. The infamous Disco Demolition Night in particular turned the tables. Fans of the Chicago White Sox baseball ...
The story of Casablanca Records has been told by many — in books, articles and by the larger-than-life characters who lived through the salad days of mid- to late-1970s rock and disco music. Its ...
As the original generation of rock and roll fans matured, the music became an accepted and deeply interwoven thread in popular culture. Beginning in the early 1950s, rock songs began to be used in a few television commercials; within a decade, this practice became widespread, and rock music also featured in film and television program soundtracks.
Oct. 30—Grainy TV news footage from 1979 shows thousands of people swarming over the field at Chicago's Comiskey Park, burning stacks of dance records and holding banners that read "Disco Sucks."