One On One - Body Music ( Disco Funk 1981 )

[thefunkeyplanet]

Have not heard this in years! A great, great sound.

[insanelook]

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[Matrix1063]

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chessfunk]

jam yoooooo````

[earcrates]

good god, this is GORGEOUS!

[Ambianceteck2025]

Quality !!! ♫ ♪ ♫

[SkeeterVT]

On second listen, this version of "Body Music" reminded me of "The Beat Goes On" by The Whispers. Perhaps Frankie Crocker was worried about a possible copyright-infringement lawsuit by The Whispers. We'll probably never know the real reason why he banned Ibe o One's "Body Music' from WBLS.

[THCElectra]

This track is the jam!

[Motmasterflash]

who r these retarded people who clicked 'dislike' ?!

[medialinc]

This was a hot song that Frankie Crocker black balled because the strikers came out with the same name Body Music 3 weeks after this song was released. It went to the top 100 on the pop charts. then Frankie Black balled it, so that the Strikers song could hit. What a shame.

[SkeeterVT]

@medialinc I grew up in New York and listened to WBLS religiously in the '70s and '80s . . . I can't remember ever hearing this version of "Body Music" on either WBLS or WKTU. In fact, I never herd this version until I logged in to YouTube today. . .

[SPAZZOID100]

@SkeeterVT

Lots of good records like this one were slept on by radio...very sad indeed.

Becoming a record collector has enabled me to discover overlooked gems like this one...there are thousands of them out there!!

[alamecliche]

@SPAZZOID100 Seriously, you always hear people talking about how the radio sucks nowadays. Well, compared to what was out there on vinyl, the radio sucked back in the day too!

[SPAZZOID100]

@alamecliche

It's not that the radio sucks today, it's that today's MUSIC is putrid, and that is what the radio is payed to play.

Back in the early days of good music, good records got on the radio. (at least r & b radio)

Though there were still plenty of good records that slipped through the cracks.

[MrMallymal68]

@alamecliche What do you mean?' Everything was on vinyl until the early 90s! However, what was played on the radio then, compared to what's played on the radio now, is apples and oranges. Even the wackest of the wack songs back then had some grit, texture, and musicianship compared to these pro tool/logic produced crap that created today's hyper-overrated pop stars!

[hardcorehouse]

@medialinc Nah, it wasn't played because quite frankly this is a B side, nothin special. BLS and KISS were HOT, this is not lol

[SPAZZOID100]

@hardcorehouse

This is a great track..very soulful and funky. btw--not everything the radio played was good.

[hardcorehouse]

@SPAZZOID100 Nah. What ya have here is the handfull of peeps who dig this, everyone else took a pass LOL

[SPAZZOID100]

@hardcorehouse

It's a good song...I drop it in my sets all the time and people always inquire about it and dance to it. 

[SPAZZOID100]

@hardcorehouse

Compared to most of today's dance music, this is a sheer MASTERPIECE.

[TheFatyBella]

Top!!!

[SSnake94]

Elle dechire. merci

[TheJohnfinley]

Excellent track!!

[Discgallerynow1]

nice.....

[souloffunk1]

i like this music!!!!!!

[picposter67]

This sounds like Shalamar.

[lonniek220]

I have been looking for this song. Thank you for posting

[PupuTheClown]

I really don't remember hearing disco in 1981, by then it was outdated and this must have been a low key idea to record something like this by this era however I remember hearing disco in 1980 that was recorded in 79, 1979 was the final good year for commercial Disco.

[djJackMF]

@PupuTheClown The word "Disco" was originally an underground style that was hijacked by Pop Culture - used/abused for a couple of years - and left for "dead". That wasn't real Funk, that was Pop music in a Disco format. Meanwhile the heart of the boogie just keeps beating/morphing/changing right under all of your noses. This music/lifestyle is reserved for those who are meant to know it.

[ramboram03]

@PupuTheClown

Actually disco did survive well into 1982 , with funk and HiEnrg

[SPAZZOID100]

@PupuTheClown

Tracks like this are really simply danceable r & b/funk, than disco. After the 70's, dance music got a bit more soulful and went back into the underground, where it still thrives to this very day.

Mainstream america is clueless about real dance music and it's culture (and always was)

[MichToFunk]

¤ FunktastiC SinglE ¤

[likebigg]

great groove