Wake Up Everybody And Get Down Tonight!

Some funk, soul and disco to enliven your Friday. 

All date from 1975, apart from a Tom Moulton mix, which may have followed a few years later, and every single second oozes with groove!

For those of you interested in such things, some production statistics for today's selection.

90: Minutes from idea to design to creation and upload of this post (all of it!)

12: Number of songs in the '1975' shortlist, arrived at 80 minutes ago; whittled down to the final 6 approx. 5 mins later

6: Times removing cat from keyboard or mouse

5: Minutes to crop and resize cover photo for post and 'sleeve art' (photo of graffiti wall taken last week)

3: Mugs of camomile tea quaffed 

2: Minutes to prepare breakfast

1: Miaowing cat fed and fussed; breakfast eaten; post finished and posted

Enjoy!

1) Wake Up Everybody (Album Version By Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff): Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

2) Get Down Tonight ("A Tom Moulton Mix"): KC & The Sunshine Band

3) Somebody Up There Likes Me (Album Version By Tony Visconti & Harry Maslin): David Bowie

4) I Can't Turn Around (Album Version By Isaac Hayes): Isaac Hayes

5) Fly, Robin, Fly (12" Version By Michael Kunze): Silver Convention

6) Hope You Feel Better Love (Part 1 & 2) (Album Version By Malcolm Cecil & Robert Margouleff): The Isley Brothers

1975: Chocolate Chip: 4

1975: Fly, Robin, Fly EP: 5

1975: The Heat Is On: 6

1975: Wake Up Everybody: 1

1975: Young Americans: 3

1994: Part 3... And More (Expanded Edition) (USA): 2

Wake Up Everybody And Get Down Tonight! (43:14) (KF) (Mega)

I Only Knew The Cat And Dog In My Life

The title of today's selection is a line from the opening song by Suzi Lane, not a phrase that you'd necessarily expect to find in a disco tune, but there you have it.

Here's just over an hour of glitter ball grooves to set up the weekend. A few familiar names: Giorgio Moroder, Carly Simon, François Kevorkian, Shirley Bassey, Tom Moulton, Meco (who discofied the Star Wars theme tune) and Tony Bongiovi (Meco's co-conspirator on one of the greatest Christmas albums of all time and second cousin to this poodle-permed rocker).

 

A couple of other artists are lying low: Carly co-wrote Tranquillo (Melt My Heart) with producer Arif Mardin and then-husband James Taylor; Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You by Teri DeSario was written by and features backing vocals from Barry Gibb.

 

The common theme with all of these songs is that, with the exception of Fly, Robin, Fly by Silver Convention (#28 between 29th November and 12th December 1975), none of them troubled the UK singles chart. In fairness, several of them weren't even released as singles in the UK. Don't let that put you off. Bin your inhibitions, hit the dancefloor (or kitchen floor, if you're at home) and party!

 

1) Harmony (Long Version By Giorgio Moroder): Suzi Lane (1979)

2) Fly, Robin, Fly (12" Promo Version): Silver Convention (1975)

3) In The Forest (Extended 12" Version): Baby'O (1979)

4) Tranquillo (Melt My Heart) (Disco Mix By Arif Mardin): Carly Simon (1978)

5) Free Man (A Tom Moulton Mix) (Unreleased Acetate 12" Version): South Shore Commission (1976)

6) A-Freak-A (Disco Version By François Kevorkian): Lemon (1978)

7) This Is My Life (Disco Remix By Meco Monardo & Tony Bongiovi): Shirley Bassey (1979)

8) Fantasy (12" Version): Bruni Pagan (1979)

9) Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You (12" Version): Teri DeSario (1978)

I Only Knew The Cat And Dog In My Life (1:02:12) (Box) (Mega)