Disco 1975 (74?)

A TV story for Maryland Public Broadcasting's show "The Critic's Place" on the disco phenomenon when it was happening.
This is the first TV story I ever did. This is the worst haircut I've ever had.
Producer: Tom D'Antoni/Tim Surstedt Camera/Editor: Tim Surstedt

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Disco
• Tom
• D'Antoni
• 1975
• 1974

[hanbone76]

this documentary is from 1976

[tdpdx]

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

[Myrolex]

Where did this air?

[tdpdx]

The Critic's Place show on Maryland Public Televison

[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.

[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?

[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!!!

[nymphomix]

@tdpdx lol ;)

[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.

[Discofunkytrain]

Great documentary !!!