Disco 1975 (74?)

[discooriginal]

I don't like this: I love it! What an amazing documentary, I LOVE anything from back in the day. I thought the Laurin Rinder on Sixty minutes vid was all I was going to find on here..This is great. Also wonderful to see Van Mc Coy, one of my favourite producers and composers.

[enoughalready1000]

Fantastic!

[Discovios]

Credit to you! This is an excellent insight to the era and the flavour of the time. Thank you.

[Discovios]

Class!!!

[CofCGuy]

Your haircut makes me believe in the magic of music.

[hankaaron1961]

Anyone interested in the origins of disco should do a YouTube search on "What's My Line Discotheque". The clip has a lady DJ as a contestant. The show is from 1965 or earlier(one of the panelist on the show died in 1965, and she is on the clip). The show makes it very clear that the lady DJ works in a discotheque, and the show's moderator mentions a story about a man in a Paris discotheque.

It also mentions that the discotheque club was upscale, and inside a posh hotel.

[hankaaron1961]

Nice historical video. But there is one central fallacy, and that is that disco started in the US Black and Gay bars. Disco and disco style dancing was started in Europe. There are many examples of disco style songs in the late 60s from European artists.

It should be noticed that the music in the video is actual disco music. It has became fashionable, for instance, to label all black artist as disco acts. When in truth, artist like KC & sunshine band were not disco acts.

[discooriginal]

@hankaaron1961 K.C and the Sunshine Band weren't disco? Sorry, I think they were. One of the songs played in this video is "More More More" by Andrea True Connection (she was white). Why the racial bias?

[Discofunkytrain]

Great documentary !!!

[TheLizardKing1967]

Disco....1974 to 1980 ?

[daviddiebel]

tdpdx I think it had to be 1976 cause The Trammps song at the beginning didn't get released till 1976... there were a few promos in late 75 however...

[MrYahudeejay]

absolutly unique history material. I love it as disco historian  yahudeejay

[alobosk]

How come there's not one soul in earth who has reproduced exactly what discothèques were like in 1975 with the music and all?? It'd be so easy

[unique74muzik]

Ps: Props to B'more!!

[unique74muzik]

been trying to find this doucmentary for MONTHS!! I even typed in Van Mccoy for the tags..I stumbled into it while looking for Blue Magic!!! My day is made!!! Bless whoever put this documentary together and it participants and of course the late great VAN MCCOY in a RARE archive interview.

[MrPj2001]

WTF???

[pasi68]

2:23....Does anyone know the name of the track? Nice!

[DomUmR]

Yes, the band in the film are covering Dreaming a dream by Crown Heights Affair

[lovehowto]

Some of the music was not recorded or released until 1976 so the piece couldn't have aired before then.

[poppersandahandfan]

I wish it were 1975 right now. Id be at Zanzibar every night, hustlin my face off honey. Born too late :( If it were 1975, atleast I could find parts for my Pacer.

[defect530]

and now we have RAVES!!!!!!

[knucklehead66]

*had* raves. They're not what they used to be. 1993-1997

[defect530]

:'( that is to true

[debkatz]

And I tv journalist is born. Hey, that's no bad haircut; that's one sexy, good-looking dude!

[fiatrotwild]

@bongomag:

"do it yourself (if you want)" from gloria gaynor

[Bongomag]

cheers! great song

[Bongomag]

tdpdx - this documentary is brilliant, including the hair. Anyone an idea on the song played at 6:20 to 6:40?

[chiflamico]

Nice era, but unfortunately from 1976 to 1979 the entire world suffered the most cruel and ruthless dictatorships at the same time as ever in history, I remember

[mrob75]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!!!!!! Wow...What an authentic look at disco the way I remember it! In one scene I think they're even playing "Pong"! Ha! This is neither 1974 or 1975....This is definitely 1976!!! Good memories here! Thank you, tdpdx for this greeaat post! :-)

[Nurikane]

True! Now, Studio 54 is a great venue for Broadway plays and some concerts.

[fussionfunk]

Anybody knows the song starts at 4:30 ??

Awesome video great job !!

[GunnarWilj]

Ten percent by double exposure. The first commercially available 12inch single ever. On Salsoul records. 1975

[disco1999]

Definitely 1976

[agfagaevart]

Very interesting. Besides Tramps, most of the clubs seemed to be quite segregated.

[PolskaRezystans]

Songs Identified:

The Trammps - That's Where The Happy People Go

Double Exposure - Ten Percent

Andrea True - More More More

Moments of Truth - Helplessly

[Victorian105]

The song at 2:25 is Crown Heights Affair  - Dreaming A Dream

[DomUmR]

Does anyone know the name of the tune at the end of this clip? It starts at 8:10. Sounds like Levi Stubbs singing 'Key to my happiness'. Great work tdpdx !

[GenaralMike]

Moments of Truth - Helplessly

[marcag205]

The name of the song is "Helplessly" by Moment Of Truth. Type it in the You Tube search bar. Try the trickydickydj post. Enjoy.

[hanbone76]

this documentary is from 1976

[tdpdx]

how do you know? i'm the one who made it.

[hanbone76]

how do i know? becuz u have Ten Percent by Double Exposureplaying in the background and that song was recorded in december of 1975,mixed by Norman Harris in march 1976,& released in june of 76.How do i know? Becuz my i have a cousin who played on that record who was a part of Salsoul/MFSB and a lot of TSOP classic recordings.thats how I know.

[nymphomix]

@tdpdx lol ;)

[knucklehead66]

whats that song that starst at 3:41ish, anyone?

[sastal]

Van McCoy: R.I.P.

[JimmyMDsko]

This is from sometime in 1977 as theres tunes played from early that year in this.

[FranklinDisco]

Oh...I cant thank you enough for posting this. It made my day!

[Myrolex]

Where did this air?

[tdpdx]

The Critic's Place show on Maryland Public Televison

[FranklinDisco]

For your first story, you did an awesome job!

[Myrolex]

A great piece of history from a unique era! I am a fan of the music I must admit. Thanks for posting!

[connVee]

wow, i would love to see more footage like this. during our disco times we had very lil media coverage so unlike today. So to see this brings back memories. I'm orinaly from L.A so our discos then were Ginos and Oscos

[robsman1958]

I remember that at a disco underground club. Only certain new about it.

[harryshand]

Really interesting report. This is why I love youtube. I'm surprised they let you in the disco looking like that!! (no offence, ha ha)

[zheik]

Man, that haircut is pretty cool.

[petrocelli77]

i love that haircut admission :-)

[tdpdx]

Thanks. It was my first post-hippie haircut. The mid-70s featured the worst hair of that century.

[benbom]

this video is made in 1976/77?

[tdpdx]

yes. by me.