nice video

Thanks, will check that out. Do you have IDs for some of the background disco records that were playing towards the start of the video? Just after the Trammps - Disco Inferno there are a couple of really great tracks that are being played quietly in the background. I would love to know what they are called.

African American girl.

@@jetblackhair92 black

Once the LGBT started embracing it or being heavily involved, mainstream America moved on from it. I remember when House Music came out. It was looked at as an underground College movement sound. I used to go to Raves on different campuses etc. I was introduced to it by a friend who was attending Moore house College, and It was Disco's predecessor it seemed. However once again, the LGBT community started embracing it. Mainstream radio stopped playing it, and today many people look at it as a gay form of music. However I will say, it got it's name from The Warehouse club in Chicago and the DJ responsible for promoting it Frankie Knuckles R.I.P was gay. Shrugs

Mostly black, Latinx women didnt get much attention in the spotlight, and I dont really see any prominent Asians, MidEastern or Native Americans.

Get over yourself, there's more than just black people in POC

Thats a timeless record.

It was ahead of it's time. Still sounds that way to some degree. Donna still has never received her just dues in terms of a really great deserving tribute. She's rarely ever on any list for the greatest singers of all time and she should be.

Have you heard Sam Smith's new single "I Feel Love"? It's an exact cover of Donna Summer's original and it has been released as mainstream radio single. Check it out :)

@@mjg239 I've heard it but I don't like it that much to buy it. I love Sam's falsetto but the music itself lacks the energy of the original and I'm not fond of the speaking part on his version. At the same time, I'm glad the release of it helps keep Donna's name out there and, hopefully, it attracts some of Sam's fans to her music and not just to her version of "I Feel Love".

2001lextalionis well that’d piss her off now she’s a born again Christian,she denounced all her music and the LGBTQI community 🙄

Thank you so much for acknowledging that!!

Thank you bro ✊🏾

In parts remember American is a melting pot black , latinos Asian even whites

😆❤

We literally gave this country life. I appreciate you for this ✊🏿

Yes!! Totally agree!! aka EDM!!! ❤️

@Sharon Mathiu EDM and House music both fall under the category of Dance music. They are just different types of Dance music. Generally speaking, it's all Dance. The breakdown comes when you ask, "What kind of Dance music?" EDM? House? Freestyle? NRG? Dubstep? Techno? All these and more all fall UNDER the general category called Dance.

Once the LGBT started embracing it, mainstream America moved on from it. I remember when House Music came out. It was looked at as an underground College movement. I used to go to Raves on different campuses. I was introduced to it by a friend who was attending Morehouse College, and It was Disco's predecessor it seemed at the time. However the LGBT community started embracing it and mainstream radio stopped playing it. Today many people look at it as a gay form of music. I will say it got it's name from The Warehouse club in Chicago. The DJ responsible for promoting it was Frankie Knuckles R.I.P shrugs

@Sharon Mathiu House music is EDM you pompous.

@@javierl5487 are you insane edm is an abomination

Electronic artists sampled all kinds of genres all over the place, but SPECIFICALLY disco and funk, and that's how I learned that I actually loved disco and funk SO much. There are basically unlimited resources from which to sample, just from disco and funk. And they fit especially well with a lot of the electronic beats and BPMs. I feel really fortunate for getting to know the genres through electronic music, and then through curiosity and the Internet, to learn the originals. 😊👍🏻

I really do hear Donna Summers influence in new music year after year. When I was 10 I wanted to buy Live and More at the record store my dad told me it was too expensive and he said there was no talent on the album.

Electronic music or edm is nothing but bad disco music. Lol

@@derricknregina nice no true scotsman

That's true, Katinka! :)

Hi mama!

Mr " I don't like disco, therefore let's destroy something other people enjoy" top tier logic

Steve Dahl is a moron. It's because of clowns like him that I left commercial FM radio in the 80s.

I was 9 years old back in Chicago when the death of Disco happened at Comisky Park on the southside. Sadly I used to listen to Steve Dahl on WLUP which was a major Rock music station plus I listened to WGCI and WBMX that played Soul, R&B and Disco music. As a 9 year old I sided with the Disco crowd which later birthed House Music in Chicago in my teen years. I’ll never forget those days.

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Me too!!! I love it! I gave myself 65th birthday party and my son was my DJ!! Had an amazing birthday especially with my family enjoying too!🔥disco will never die with me!!😍💃🏻

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City pop doesn't exist in Japan. City pop is a name made by clueless white people on Reddit. New music is what that music was called in Japan, and new music isn't rooted in disco, but in jazz. New music is mostly jazz fusion.

It was about these discriminations indeed but also about the fact it was overplayed. Every genre fades a bit eventually and even madonna who came after that and "was disco" as they said she actually was already an other type of disco-pop.

Actually punk started in the New York clubs with the Ramones and the Stooges. The manager of what would become the Sex Pistols saw these groups and loved it so much he exported the sound to Britain. It just so happened that the culture at that time, with mass inflation, unemployment, and increasing conservative backlash that was highlighted by the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister led to punk being the rebellious form of music that spread like wildfire in the UK. There were other American punk rock groups that were influenced by the British punk scene, but the rebellious form of music that would dominate the USA was hip-hop. BTW, there was a major backlash to disco by a lot of blue collar, middle American white males, and there was a definite racist, misogynist, and homophobic component to thst. Having said that,there were a lot of opportunistic artists who put out horrible disco records. "Disco Duck" was considered one of the worst disco singles ever released, but at least Rick Dees wasn't trying to make a serious disco record. The same can't be said for classic swing and 50's rockabilly tunes set to a disco beat or the release of stuff like the Ethel Merman Disco Album. The disco era peaked in 1979 but died almost as suddenly the following year when Ronald Reagan got elected President and many of the most ardent disco enthusiasts began dying from AIDS.

@@728huey, *Hear! HEAR!!!*

Disco really never died, but when they played disco songs on the radio in the 80s, they'd call it "soft Rock".

BS. People finally heard what was coming-out of CBGBs....and figured-out that it was REAL, and BETTER. Music with a voice, a message, a purpose. PUNK killed disco, and it should-have.

Same😁

#MeToo I'm like damn for real.

That was my mom's favorite song and jesus, a car full of kids doing disco from the waist up on long rides. No wonder we got so many odd looks.

I was 17 when I first heard it on the radio in 1979 & got it the first time I heard it. Teenage boy with my mind always in the gutter I suppose. Although I was 22 when I heard Cyndi Lauper's She Bop and I didn't know what She Bop meant until I heard people on TV wanting the song to be banned from the radio.

Kasey Morist what does it mean? 😅

bobpeters61 OH MY GOD I'm 29 and I've never looked at the metaphor that way. Mind blown. Thank you

It’s turned into house

bobpeters61 Didn’t Wham record Love Machine? Disco only died in America...it only grew and morphed outside the US👍🏾👏🏾😎

I miss George! MAKE IT BIG!

😂 when other people tell our story

Thank you, I typed that in a comment but, now It's gone missing! ❤️🖤💚🎵🎧🗣️💯

cindy Queen huh loo

simba cali uhm

Madeleine Price u already know

Racist!

You're getting ahead of yourself. Disco died in late 1979. The AIDS epidemic really gets underway in late 1982. By mid-1983, the news media first calls the disease "GRID" (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) had published many articles on the pandemic. This was well after the Disco Era died and the era of Dance music was already in swing. with Michael Jackson, Robert Palmer, and Kool and the Gang, Rick James some of the big stars of that type of music.

Disco icons are still with us, the genre died.

​@@caraqueno Disco did NOT die in 1979 at the gay clubs...simply died on AM radio and pop FM stations. I was a DJ and the dance floors remained packed in the 1980's with disco stars like Sylvester, Patrick Cowley, Paul Parker, Bobby O and Viola Wills. Then AIDS hurt the nightclub business since bartenders and patrons would die and we all were scared...thus people did not dance like they use to...hurting the music business and disco record sales. Perception of disco being out of style by 1979 was way different to most of the straight community than gay discos who still wanted to hear pounding boom-boom music for many years after. I was there to witness it. And major record companies sent me thousands of disco promo records in the 1980's...though the word "disco" was now taken off the record jackets. The disco records were now simply called a 12" single. Great disco dance music came out in the 1980's that mainstream public never heard. I still have about 40,000 promo records that made a lot of people happy when I programmed music in Chicagoland clubs. Long live disco.

@@duanethamm4688 ... your right ... and you know the great artists I see. Bravo on your short list. I'd add Gino Soccio and Lime (Denis Lapage) to the list. Of course there are a ton of one-hit wonders to boot. Viola Wills was a personal fav/ above Donna Summer for me. It ended in or around late '84 or mid '85 with songs like Tarzan Boy (Baltimora) or Unexpected Lovers (Lime). After that stretch, it was something else. I was called disco duck in high school and although a late bloomer was an absolute freak from about '81 to '85. Worked in two clubs before leaving for a more serious career. What a blast we had in those days !!!!

I think Quincy did that

I would love to have seen Michael Jackson in this!

I know for 100% fact that Don't Stop Til You Get Enough was a huge hit in discos because I've seen another documentary talk about it.

Exactly! Thing is, :"Off The Wall" came in 1979, after the backlash, and the mainstream associates him with the 80s. But, the album was indeed massive! Almost every song was a hit. And, how did they ignore mentioning Chic? Really?

But he was part of the 70s too

I put Laura Branigan right there with Donna. Even her vocals were at Donna's level. Listen to Solitaire or Gloria , both disco classics and tell me I'm wrong. At third, also a major disco diva, Viola Wills (Stormy Weather, Gonna Get Along Without Now, If You Could Read My Mind. Fourth Madeliene Kane. Fifth Madonna. Donna Summers was a jewel to be sure.

What about Sylvester

Correct

So good

Anything from KC and the Sunshine Band for me.

Mines is I want ur love la chic

My favorite disco song is "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees.

When I first heard the lyrics, I thought she was saying “Climb every woman; it’s all you need.” Glad I listened more carefully!

Here in America Disco Evolved from Funk, then Moved to Club, then House, then Dance..... An Evolution of Black American Music Genres.

@@ClarenceCM3 Disco mostly "evolved" into "pop" music. House already existed. They was created by the same culture. Are you a Afro-american/Soulaan/Ebonian?

WE NEED A DISCO REVIVAL IT HAD NOT LEGITIMATE REASON FOR IT TO DIE THE WAY IT DID PLEASE SBSBDVDG

Disco still sucks

Chaka khan still makes music, she released a song recently

They did in 2013. Since then it's more accepted. Daft punk, the weeknd, brunoMars. Remember that era? And since rnb is so big right now theres a lot of disco influences.

Once the LGBT started embracing it or being heavily involved, mainstream America moved on from it. I remember when House Music came out. It was looked at as an underground College movement sound. I used to go to Raves on different campuses etc. I was introduced to it by a friend who was attending Moore house College, and It was Disco's predecessor it seemed. However once again, the LGBT community started embracing it. Mainstream radio stopped playing it, and today many people look at it as a gay form of music. However I will say, it got it's name from The Warehouse club in Chicago and the DJ responsible for promoting it Frankie Knuckles R.I.P was gay. Shrugs

Alliance of Reason like I’m really trying to figure out the issue!

@Funk O'Matic Did you watch the video? I didn't see them mention any Latinas? Who are you referring too? Stay on topic please.

The term People of Color was being pushed as the socially acceptable term in the late 1980's before African American came along. Your post brings back memories of a Bloom County strip where Opus was trying to explain to the lawyer character Steve Dallas that the term to use is "people of color" which at the end of the strip he twisted to "colored people", the latter or course considered racist. WMAQ the Chicago NBC station had a special in the early 90's called "Please don't call me colored" where the black people interviewed were perfectly fine with the term black. So it is interesting they use people of color here, it seems outdated unless they are including other groups as a few other commenters have suggested.

Funk O'Matic Latino isn’t a race there are black Latinos

they hate to give blacks any recognition for doing something without other people

Into something worse.

YYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSS! House music is the best

and HI-NRG too

Gwen Guthrie. 💔🥺

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@@marcap9757 Yes Established by Donna Summer 💪

Check out Escort! They are a full band with a fierce lead singer. Pure disco. First album is dope. It is definitely still being made.

Search “ Nu-Disco “ I go Juno.com for the latest Disco 🎶👍🏾

And you got also that song that pays a tribute to the vintage sound of Disco kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtGJptpmp93FaJ8.html

"It may not be created anymore..." I guess you don't know about Nu Disco?

@@djsubculture2786 it’s more like an offshoot of disco house music

You're absolutely right about hip hop and rap being so male (almost alpha male) dominated and the voice/playroom/soapbox of straight black American men. As a gay black American man, i've always felt a strange, don't-ask-don't-tell vibe about rap. It's so steeped in bravado and hypermasculinity. And sadly nonblacks and white suburbia fueled this as well, because this music played into their fears, fantasies and strange, outsider-peeking-in appreciation of black American culture. That's the feeling I get when I absorb hip hop -- even though I love a lot of the music, culture and messages. Much of this could also be said for country music too. "Old Town Road" by openly gay lil Nas X and other artists like him do give me hope for the genre, though.

M j G yes I feel you on so many levels. I feel like with nas x and also the surgence of female rappers this year there is some change. I feel like the hyper masculinity of hip hop lets it escape the me too media even though so many artists have been abusers. More lgbt artists are coming out like saucy Santana ! With or without the label

Actually, what you're missing is that backing a Funk band was more expensive that backing a rapper, which is the biggest reason aside the AIDs epidemic that overall drove Disco/Funk underground.

Disco was consumed by Hip-Hop.

Once the LGBT started embracing it or being heavily involved, mainstream America moved on from it. I remember when House Music came out. It was looked at as an underground College movement sound. I used to go to Raves on different campuses etc. I was introduced to it by a friend who was attending Moore house College, and It was Disco's predecessor it seemed. However once again, the LGBT community started embracing it. Mainstream radio stopped playing it, and today many people look at it as a gay form of music. However I will say, it got it's name from The Warehouse club in Chicago and the DJ responsible for promoting it Frankie Knuckles R.I.P was gay. Shrugs

Thank you North South!

Great view, super line ... love it!

I hate most disco , but some disco music ,like Donna Summer`s songs and that one in particular are good multilayered music .

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"I feel love" of Donna Summers was out of time still a song that still causing goosebumps.

This my fav disco songs , WATCHING YOU, HOW LONG , YOU GONNA MAKE ME LOVE SOMEBODY ELSE DADDY COOL BABY WAIT 4 ME INSIDE OUT & MANY OTHERS.

This song still have me.

oversaturation by one genre also happened in the 90ies (and early 2000's to some extent) with hip-hop, until internet ended domination of traditional record labels.

Oversaturation does ruin a genre too

Really? I was around at that time and there were plenty of stations that played only rock.

There were cross overs towards the end, like blondie's heart of glass and kiss' I was made for loving you.

zenmastermtl it’s not really his fault, songs can get annoying when overplayed

Italo pop, love it

Japanese City Pop also has a lot of the elements of disco

Knock on Wood is rock, not disco.!!!! Sorry.!!!!

'Remember' by Gino Soccio is an all-time great. Gun to my head thats my top choice ... of course there are 25 other top of the top songs. Donna Summers best dance hit wasn't 'I feel love' or 'Last Dance' ... its 'This Time I know its for Real'. An underappreciated artist was Madeline Kane. Her number 'You Can' is still the bomb. I could go on and on ... Okay two more .... 'Let the Night take the Blame' by Lorraine Mclain and "Megatron Man' by Patrick Cowley

@@louisgonzalez8846 'Knock on Wood' is highly danceable rock and came out in the middle of the disco heyday. Actually, I think it is disco... straight up.

Your My Heart, Your My Soul by Modern Talking holds up real well ... even today. Slow disco. It wasn't played much stateside back then for some reason. Must have been a legal or rights issue involved. I think that its a top 20 all-time disco hit.

“TSOP” by MFSB …… “Loves Theme” by The Love Unlimited Orchestra. 1973 😀🪩💕

Name some songs that the younger crowd is dancing to ... other than Dancing Queen by Abba. Name a bunch if you can...

We can still play Disco today: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtGJptpmp93FaJ8.html

@@marqueenhotelguestservices5057 I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough by Michael Jackson, Staying Alive by The Bee Gees, those are just some songs

Sad but true

NO IT DIDNT...PEOPLE USE TECHNOLOGIES OR BEATS OR INFLUENCED. NONE OF THESE ARTISTS KEPT DOING DISCO WENT INTO TECHNO EDM TRANCE ...ECT?? THEYRE FOLKS FROM A NEWER GENERATION.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(band)

And they didn't even mentioned her.

I'd say Blondie is more electropop and not so much disco

Blondie's new wave.....

@@lucillebluna It was a Disco song outlier from the rest of their music. The music video shows the outside of Studio 54 before the band is revealed too.

At the time, I didn't get that their costumes were gay stereotypes. I thought they were mocking the macho aspect of disco culture by taking hypermasculine and tough guy cliches and twisting them to look exaggeratedly gay. Especially since the first time I heard of them was seeing a TV performance in which they were dancing in a line in such costumes singing, "Ma-cho, ma-cho ma-an; I've got to be a macho man." I found that hilarious.

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He was married to actress Phylicia Allen (Debbie Allen Nixon’s sister) - later Rashad when she remarried.

Kairi Ali They didn't think the Navy could be gay? Lol

The irony when the Trump fanbase used that disco song for their MAGA song 😬

It was a great time. There was nothing gay about it that I can remember. It was just people having fun. I was more into the roller skating scene than dance but nevertheless it was a wonderful time. Great music never bettered.

Did you meet your wife (or former wife) on the dance floor?

@@carlosvila77 Yes, I did. Two of them matter of fact.

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Allen Williams house is very different

@@dontatme289 house is modified disco just like grindcore, deathmetal, metalcore are modified punk/metal hybrids

José Bordas yes yes yes !

"Rapper's Delight" by the "Sugarhill Gang" (late 1979) was sampled on Chic's "Good Times" guitar and bass line

Could not have said it any better. This was the real truth.

Exactly

Facts

Disco's run was about '75 to '84 to '85ish give or take a few months to a year. That's not too short but I say that as a whole disco is way underappreciated. I have much younger friends today that have for years asked me about those songs and dig them. There may have been a few songs before it but I see Rock the Boat by Hues Corp. as one of the first mainstream disco song in the popular consciousness along with Rock your Baby by George McRae and the other end of what be classic not a morphed version of disco as Unexpected Lovers by Lime and Tarzan Boy by Baltimora. For example, around then, West End Girls was a huge dance hit but was not disco in my opinion. That was more of what they called progressive or alternative music which was highly danceable and already making big inroads with New Order's as well as Depeche Mode. Tears for Fear's 'Change' and some, not all, Orchestral Maneuvers songs (say Enola Gay and Electricity) represent the newer sound after disco's run. The newer sound started well before '85 , it just completely took over by then. My take.

i am still trying to figure out what that song was about! ''someone left the cake out in the rain....'? lol

@@asher6657 I was told that the cake symbolised a romantic love. The lyrics make it pretty bizarre. I love how beautiful and dramatic the chorus is, but if you take the lyrics literally it sounds hilariously ridiculous.. There are other cake recipes.. You could also maybe buy a cake..? Or something to cover a cake? But you cannot purchase, protect, or pursue a new love so easily.