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blindguy
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Date: October 22, 2023 09:50PM
...when reading this thread is noting how many of the "disco" acts cited weren't really disco acts at all. Oh, they may have had a disco song or two in their careers, but they weren't primarily known for playing dance music. The Bee Gees, for example, whose greatest success came from recording disco music, had a much sturdier career as ballad singers before joining the disco bandwagon; the Electric Light Orchestra was essentially a rock band with strings who had three disco hits during their career--"Sweet Talkin' Woman," (1978), "Shine A Little Love," (1979); and "Last Train To London," (1979); and Abba was much more a European pop group than a disco group.
No. Whin I think of disco, I think more in the lines of Donna Summer (though she didn't like calling her music disco), Gloria Gaynor (the original queen of disco before Donna Summer took her crown), Patrick Hernandez, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, The Sylvers, Chic, Bell and James, The Village People, McFadden and Whitehead, Anita Ward, and Sister Sledge. With the exception of K.C. and the Sunshine Band, all of these artists were African-american, and I found I enjoyed some of the singles they released, especially after years of not hearing them.