 This is the SF Productions podcast network It's the Popory of a popery addition. It's the disco sucks edition Well, that'll be the topic today. The disco thing the whole disco thing that just kind of Hit in mid mid to later 70s and well, we'll talk about it Well, um, say that this is Vasley's land. I guess That's my land And we're on at least Wednesdays at 10 and Thursdays three And if you don't see enough right right complain tell them you want more Vasley's land Just like we used to have anyway Or but at least the Wednesday at 10 and Thursday at 3 there and If you want to write that's what happened to the Tuesday at 6 You're right box 15 14 11 Columbus, Ohio 4 3 2 1 5 And then tell us cuz we'd like to know too Yes, well what happened to it or why Well before we before we jump into the night's big topic. Let's we've got a letter here So I read it. Yes read that letter please This is from Perplexed actions by thriller comedy moviegoer Okay, that's confusing Dear Vasley slam The other day I was watching one of my all-time favorite movies cannonball run get a light and one of the move one of the Many many many stars Roger Moore was making a cameo as himself And he was talking about that TV show he used to be in that is now in Syndication what in the world is the name of that TV show look some punctuation man Well, first of all Roger Moore was not playing Roger Moore He was playing a person who believed that he was Roger Moore in the show He was a little Jewish guy anyway The series that he was talking about which was in syndication Which still isn't the syndication that Roger Moore starred in back in the late 60s or so was the same There he played Simon Templar who was the same And well there we have it there and perplexed actions by thriller comedy moviegoer. You need to study Okay, so I'm with the big Disco Phenom Phenom. Oh, okay. Phenom and on well it happened and How did it happen? Well, I'll tell you what back When this whole first thing started it was it was your late your late 70s there when Yes, it was just done. They were really doing great there and They were on this record kid label Casablanca. They were actually the first the first group signed to this label And the second person signed to the label was Donna summer. Would that be Casablanca records Casablanca. Yes Records and film works. Well, it was just the records at first. They do the film works until later when they started doing movies of Groups performing which kind of became well it later became known as videos, but oh, but I gotta explain something This is a record record It's also a 45 song a Single it's not as shiny as the CD, but it has music on it And it has a great big hole in the middle and it's black It has grooves which the needle no no no no no how many grooves does a record excuse me? It has one groove And it ends in here somewhere one single group don't be stupid record needle Which was on the arm the tone arm of the record player would fit into the groove and produced music when it was Moved at the proper number of rotation This is a 35 record Record there were also larger records known as Albums, but hey something that the disco movement brought out the Disco single disco single the same size as an album 33 33 and a third RPM revolutions per minute And this one is the Jackson and what would that song be? Shake your body down to the ground Oh the Jackson Okay, they have a flip side, which is that's what you get for being polite I guess the Jacksons were trying to be nasty on this one. Hmm the Jackson This is a disco single so that you can dance for about ten minutes on the same God made the break It made the DJ's job a whole lot easier now you take these records and you And that's where That's the heart part of a whole maybe disco be got hot because nobody wanted to listen to that crappy music anymore Actually disco music was not terrible for the first two or three weeks And and there were there were your performers who were big in the disco scene I believe we might go I did mention Donna summer already Donna summer She did a lot of help up the nasty picture of Donna here This is Donna once you really got in the disco This this is probably for the the cover of that big song love to love you, baby Baby, I think that one lasted a full 20 minutes and here's the Isley brothers They were a group that like well They started off back in the late 50s early 60s And they just rolled the whole musical tide and came right into that disco thing with a bang and here It's Van McCoy who was very famous and became popular for one song They kind of just took off with the whole disco thing the hustle I had a friend who thought it was do the hot We've all had trouble with music Anyway, this whole disco thing by golly. I look at disco as being the the great um, oh What what would I call it the movement that the movement that brought a lot of other things that had died out back or at least tried to because Well with disco it kind of brought back the whole the whole Latin dance movement Which had kind of died down, but then disco came out and all these Latin dance steps started coming back like the hustle and The Latin hustle and oh, I don't know what all they were just all these different dance steps That were like Latin influence and they just came back and got to be real popular because a lot of disco dancing was done with couples And in close proximity and they twirl them around and dip them and flip on their heads and do all kinds of things And then we'll see along with the disco thing they they just started started doing Disco roller skating And like I said disco just brought back a lot of things that were either just kind of falling down or something And they made them popular again disco roller skating doing all these dance steps with roller skates on in the roller Ring, but you know what industry really boomed with disco The polyester industry a polyester and spandex industry did very well very very well with the disco thing also the idea of bringing along Personal kind of like noisemaker. I whistle whistles became very very popular again during the disco era Like you kid wear pacifiers around your neck, which is so cute now. We were with well I didn't I couldn't wear polyester and made me itch Well see there you are I left out a little disco break as I can wear polyester Oh, I didn't dance and still don't I'll attest to that he does not dance. He's still done But but disco by golly. It just made a lot of things popular Okay, if you could know that if you could put the blame on One person for bringing the plague of disco To the to the front of the American people. Who would you blame? Who would you blame? Who would you blame? You would have to blame this man Johnny to revolt Johnny revolted He was a sweat hog. He started out as a sweat hog He started out like dumb and cute like men should be and Then he decided he could dance and this was the look the look notice flares flair pants White suit black shirt black shirt It's usually well open open neck and he was usually like a gold chain at least one if not several He jumps This person right here face should have been on a wanted poster along with these guys Be who also rode the musical tide from the 60s right up into the 70s And we're at the real forefront of the whole disco phenomenon Is it fair to say they wouldn't have a career if it wouldn't have been for disco? Yeah Other ones out of them here and such it says stay in alive stay in alive Staying alive Of course they sound much higher than I can sing I'm a girl night fever night fever. It must be the night fever Of course the other great bands got got in on this one KC and the sunshine band get down tonight get down tonight That's the way. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I like it. Uh-huh Yeah, what up Tavares, ooh, they're even on here. Oh, ooh The brothers Tavares notice hair afro hairdo hair do oh large hair Very nice very nice. I can see this come back without the polyester. I wouldn't mind I wouldn't mind at all great hits were on here. Oh Jive talking You're telling me lies More than a woman More than a woman to me that's scary You should be dancing. Yeah, yeah You should be dancing Oh, here's a good one night on disco mountain Which was the disco version of the the classical night on balls mountain, which made its big debut in old the Fantasia thing But well there we are Lip-soul breakdown. Yes. Here's another one of those wonderful Latin things that just went in straight into the disco thing Why here's another person that made a lot of Disco thing he thought element. She was in that movie Jesus Christ superstar wasn't she? Lord of I think Back when They didn't say what this movie was about and they were just Advertising the Saturday night fever thing. They just had posters with Saturday night fever. I looked at this I said, whoa, look at that lightning bolt shiny letters a science fiction movie Why was I disappointed? It was a polyester movie one of the better scenes in this movie I did go see it with my friends because well, we had to we didn't have lives We were 17. It was the first R-rated movie we could get into It's the first R-rated film. They are a movie we could get into But the best thing John Travolta in his underwear little underwear Screaming Al Pacino. I didn't quite understand it, but hey Yeah, it's like an identity thing. Yeah, and when he's getting ready to go to the disco Of course, can we leave out the silvers? Silver the don't have a picture of the silvers, but let me tell you they had hair The silvers, but the silvers hair moves like this. Yes, if they did this their hair would touch the ground They could fall over doing this fly with their hair But they were a family right it was it was a family thing boogie fever got to boogie down Okay, one of that. This was one of my favorites. I don't know why No, it was this one Alisha Bridges who was a woman DJ Okay, this is like her one one hit Edit it was weird song. I love the nightlife. I got to boogie key words in disco got to boogie on The disco round. Oh, yeah, and Gloria Gaynor. I will survive She didn't And Your song said I will survive you didn't have a money back guarantee good The thing I the things that happened though quite soon with disco was the idea that a lot of people decided We're gonna make fun of it Hi on that list. It's not funny. This was serious. Well, okay Educational disco in the educational sense Now and you know who did this one? Okay, you see the brothers give well, this was little brother gives album This was Andy's contribution Oh, that's funny in no, it's Robin give wait a minute Andy. Okay, this was Robin's contribution So Robin was on there. Yes Well Robin is one of these he's one of these guys. He's one of the twins guess who the twins are They never really like for those of you who like watch Barney now Whoever Barney is the big headed dinosaur. This is Sesame Street fever And look at little Grover look at him job. Oh, he can do the same thing the job trip ultra was doing This is Sesame Street fever Great hit by Robin give trash He probably was at the time trashed And boy golly disco rubber ducky is also on here the disco version of rubber ducky and See is for cookie. That's good enough for me. Of course later on Sesame Street. They went ahead and did this great single I left my cookie at the disco. Oh, no Oh But this wasn't really comedy this was serious this was education But it's still a parody of the whole Which several DJs at several stations decided to take it upon themselves to do further parodies of the disco era with disco Destruction Well, that's true. Um, just go duck Rick D. Rick D. Who was a DJ? He did several Let me see. He did it. He did a parody of Rod Stewart's if you think I'm sexy or do you think I'm sexy? Yeah, this was a sad thing because like people like Rod Stewart who'd like who'd like had roots in like folk music and rock music and Well, Rod made a serious error here. He did this real tragic thing he decided to be like disco and Yeah, that's there he is This is Rod Stewart like during his disco days right here next to Donna summer during her disco days Poor Rod just above the Bee Gees during their disco days only day No, no, no the Bee Gees 60s and doing pop and but I think they really like me got into the disco to start doing coke Anyway, well They could have had Dr. Pepper. Yeah, they're from Australia pepper. You're a pepper. Would you like to be a pepper to be a pepper That's a commercial so the disco era Destruction yes, um Which which station? Qfm John Fisher in fact Yeah, he had fun with that. They what they would do is they would basically play a disco song and They'd let it get old maybe about 30 seconds into it and then you'd hear the The record being Yanked off the turntable and they'd throw it and We blow it up Be it I was from Cincinnati area WBN did that but they they just actually put the record on let it play for like a Revolution a revelation or so just around it and then they like actually put the firecracker on the record and blow it up off of the turntable they could afford it I guess but That that sounds interesting over the radio. I think they should go back to doing I'll give them a list start with guns and roses And well the whole the whole disco era Well, it what what movies were there there was well, of course that's Saturday night fever There was a sequel to Saturday night fever. Well staying alive wasn't really about disco necessarily was more of a dance thing see somehow with this whole Saturday night fever thing somebody got the idea that any any dance thing that John Travolta did kind of Should become what everybody should do because after that there was that urban cowboy thing and you know why that movie didn't make it I swear I read this urban cowboy didn't make it because The audience that was aimed at the what 17 to 25 Did not know what the word urban meant thought it it meant something like gay and we're so homophobic They didn't go to the movie. Well now that's that's one thing I read when that was out That may well be true But I know that it seemed to have an impact around the central Ohio area because there became there were several Western bars with mechanical bulls and there's no one in town with a mechanical bull They probably still have just kind of hit here and Hit home or something because people just love that idea and it was because of that movie and then um but what was Didn't even like a robot-sized movie with somebody was grease out before the Saturday night fever thing No Or after that after well after was it after the urban cowboy thing? No, it was before urban cowboy. Well when the grease thing came out, too It was like you got your Saturday night fever. There's disco boom John Travolta did it Well, I guess everybody's got to grease came out. It was about the 50s boom of 50s late late 50s late 60s It was an early 60 movie. I thought it was like boom 59 60 They were nostalgia John Travolta did it everybody's go out do it the urban cowboy say boom John Travolta did it everybody's got to do it then the the um well staying alive was more like well that was after um flash dance which kind of brought Street dancing Sickness disco and and it is like John Travolta did it in this day and a lie Well, I guess everybody's good, but he was kind of trying to catch up because Jennifer be a little anyway disco It kind of just it melded its way into I Stayed away. I just don't know really what yesterday made me it kind of made Disco techs which were big in the 60s It kind of made them popular again because they were kind of a flagging thing too and and disco kind of made them popular again And all the flashing lights the floor the lighted floors The only place you could go in and get served high when you were actually low Which maybe we should explain high and low Because back in these days if you were 18 or between 18 and 21 You could go low, which means you could buy three two beer which they have now put in bottles and they call it light Like they had all this three two beer left over when they decided not to have that anymore had to do something with it boom 21 you could drink If you were 21 you could drink absolutely anything including the fire extinguisher on the wall So if you were like under 21 you could go in with somebody who was over 21 And they could buy your drinks and you could just pretty much sit there in the pretty lights and get drunk That's if you didn't dance or we're polyester or shoes that were this high That's right. The disco fashions were really what kind of made the whole thing go Lots of shiny shiny clothes shiny meltable clothes shiny Accessories and shoes that were That's big this darn big And you have dance in them And keep your mouth About your friend thought it was do the hot sauce yeah a friend of mine was at a disco She was like a dancing type person and she's dancing and a guy came up to her It says shake your propane shake your propane, baby Shake your groove She got out her bick and shook it out even to go away Shake your propane do the hot sauce Talk about to pick that up I believe in Malcolm you sexy thing Yes, that was another one that a friend of mine came up with words for disco by golly You sexy thing boogie down shake your fill in the blank Which which went into tear the roof off the sucker Burn the mother down Still use today in some songs What other groups just had a just had a life on disco Blondie pretty much just had her career around disco. Yeah, Deborah. Harry started off In the in the New York Kind of almost in the the alternative scene and then she was hip hop there into into the disco scene and Like only whereas Deborah harry now showing up in science fiction movies playing wicked people and then you've got your Well, the the Locker dance steps which kind of went into disco thing there Tony Basil Shabba do people like this they they really got to be popular during the disco thing and they went on further with Yes The hip hop thing when after flash dance came out they went and did a couple movies, you know Why I can't remember what they were called anyway and the dance show dance fever dance fever Oh, yeah, I need a little more Griffin was hot for so they say we don't know we weren't there We just going by the rumors. That's kind of what happened there It was kind of evolved from American bandstand and soul train Even though they tried to do their own things with that to that dance Kind of the big one so you get out here in the most sparkly polyester on bigger shoes and dance and not fall on their And the frilliest dress that would just fly up and so they're frilly under thingers you were looking Dresses were just flying up every day spin them around there goes the dress so disco We're so glad it's gone Certainly certainly are you can revive the sixties you can even revive the fifties But please God don't revive the disco And that that whole thing about the 70s preservation thing talking about I love these disco songs Well, I hope they buy them all And burn them. It's just sad. It's just sad Sad to think some people just grew up on this disco thing and think it was the most wonderful thing in the world Anyway, Mark's giving us the fist. I guess it's time to ski dad a lot of here So what's next time all the time it'll be all three of us again And we'll be doing something off on TV or something like that But that's the rumor until then I will see you next time