Disco Music - 60 Minutes Special Report (1978)

[@MileyonDisney]

Disco was a HUGE movement. Dress in your finest, meet all kids of people, loads of fun, and dance, dance, dance! I couldn't believe when it came crashing down. And it happened so quick. I still listen mostly to disco. Such great music! Yes, I'm old.

[@clemsonbloke]

Yeah here today, gone tomorrow. That is how disco was.

[@paleobc65]

Technically though discotechs never really died they just become night clubs

[@photogenius]

Disco never died.

[@MileyonDisney]

@@photogenius I'm listening to it right now.

[@EastSide-qc5oy]

It didn’t really come crashing down it just evolved into the club scene

[@sgtpppr]

One thing I'm most grateful for is that I'm old enough to have experienced disco. '78/'79 was the pinnacle.

[@MrPhilippeBrun]

77 78 79

[@activelow9297]

I'm grateful that I had a chance to help destroy disco! July 12, 1979 at Comiskey Park.

[@jerryp6731]

@@activelow9297 I lived outside of the US. And I never understood that event. Could you please tell me what was the motivation for that?

[@rickyhinesmon4109]

@@jerryp6731 The motivations were: Racism- Because great black vocalists and musicians/producers were putting out great music surpassing rock music. It drove them crazy that rockers like Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones had the audacity to make Disco music. Add in the homophobic overtones since gays were a big reason Disco culture/nightlife helped bring everyone together on the dancefloors. Rock was only about whites.

[@rickyhinesmon4109]

@@activelow9297 All you destroyed were records and Comiskey park! The music still plays on and guess what! The records you blasted can never erase the greatness of Disco!

[@LatinosOver40]

I was 23 in 1978. I hit 4 different discos per week starting on Thursday night. I tried to explain what it was like but you had to be there... It was magic.

[@showdown2006]

4 different discos a week? Geez were you rich? Lol

[@LatinosOver40]

@@showdown2006 I was a computer programmer for 45 years (since 1975). In 1978 I was making more money than I knew what to do with. Single, Women, Whiskey and disco. I can really say, I've had a full life and I'm still kick'n ... LOL

[@Lordmij]

Was it like the movie Saturday night fever or better

[@LatinosOver40]

@@Lordmij It was 10 times better.... Mix Whiskey + Music + Beautiful women = Magic .... amazing !!!

[@indigosunset70]

there was no aids/hivin those days...so there was no fear/paranoia of stds in those days. and no condoms. the party ended in 82/83 when news of aids broke. and from then on there was no such thing as carefree casual condomless sex.

[@larrydalesowell1016]

As a child watching my mom dance solo in the middle of the living room floor to Donna Summer was as close to Studio 54 as I got.

[@robertogarciajr.8618]

Smh. Lol😂

[@greggmitchell2392]

Fairy Tale High!

[@maxi-me]

Haha sounds like you were raised by the neighborhood _Koolaid_ mom 👌 If my mom had danced to Donna Summer it would have been more like _Area 51_ 🥺

[@rjam1974]

I was old enough to remember how big disco was. I was in kindergarten when the disco Mikey mouse album was made. Bee Gees, Donna Summer etc. Anita Ward "Ring my Bell" was a hit. Saw my mom practice dancing in the mirror before she went out to a disco club with my dad. I was sent to baby sitters to spend the night lol

[@ChildOfThe1970s]

@@maxi-me lol

[@DPhasely]

You will never know how big disco was unless you were living through it. I was ten years old in 1977 and disco was everywhere; even famous TV shows had disco segments with everybody dancing. Disco peaked in '78/'79, and then it crashed big-time and Heavy Metal dominated the 80's.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

Heavy Metal dominated the 80s? I thought it was New Wave. I didn't hear much Metal until toward the end when Guns n Roses came on the scene.

[@DPhasely]

@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398 yeah...Heavy Metal was huge from 1980 up till around 1988 and '89, then rap, hip hop, and grunge started gaining momentum. New wave was popular at the same time heavy metal was.

[@hausdecostudios]

@@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398it was NEW WAVE in the 80’s!!

[@markwoods4439]

I remember it clearly!!

[@DPhasely]

@@hausdecostudios yes, New Wave bands like Missing Persons, Cars, Gary Numan, etc., was popular, but Metal was bigger.

[@lgaytan65]

I can't believe it's been over 44 years that disco was the talk of the town. Wow, time just flies when you're having fun. The Disco era was short lived, but man those were some damn great times!

[@yell0wberry]

Due to the fact that some of us were too young to get into a disco, we would sit and watch the adults of the house spin records on the weekend while dancing in the living room, what a fun experience

[@ZviJ1]

@@yell0wberry You were among the lucky ones. My parents didn't seem to give a damn about disco, so they didn't do that.

[@70sgirl51]

As someone old enough to have lived in the seventies, it was awesome. So much originality and good times. Not like today's world, which is just a reboot of what's already been done.

[@oliverv291]

All holograms today, nothing there except cartoon and ghetto images,...wigs, tattoos etc .. people today look like carnies from the 1920's ...I call it the Ghettoization of America

[@Robertonyc]

Very that.

[@Muswell]

And it was HAPPY !! Everyone was happy & dancing to happy music !! We were filled with SO much optimism ! God, what happened?

[@maxi-me]

I think back on that decade fondly as well but I remember my dad having the same criticism about the 70s while reminiscing about the good ole 40s (he'd apparently just heard a disco rendition of the Jimmy Dorsey classic _Tangerine_ ). I guess the more things change, the more they stay (remembered) the same haha

[@INTERROBANG-by7ys]

@@maxi-me Yes, exactly! I enjoy watching KZbin videos about music from bygone eras, but seeing comments about how music, artists, or styles were “so much better than the trash of today” really spoils it for me. The truth is that regardless of generation we’ll always believe the very best of everything was whatever the trends were when we came of age and grew into adulthood, from around age 14 to age 28. And because we were young with no frame of reference we believe everything we did was completely original. But parents and grandparents who have been around longer recognize that it’s really a mashup of borrowed trends from prior eras conjured through a lens of evolving technology and social norms.

[@Kenistyless]

They filmed the legendary " Do you wanna get Funky with me" Album...with Betty Wright...and they didn't even know...Sooo much fun dancing to " dance wit me"...A true Classic!!!

[@johnbrowneyes7534]

Wow......amazing! 😎💙👍

[@corneliuswhite5139]

And they even showed where it charted on Billboard. #4

[@scottlarson1548]

I loved "Dance With Me" when I saw this on 60 Minutes. Unfortunately I had never heard it before because the radio stations in my small town at that time felt that disco was a "big city" thing and rarely broadcast disco music. I had to listen to the American Top 40 on the weekends to hear songs like this.

[@xHeadcleanerx]

Betty Wright was a spunk

[@MrSteeljazz]

Peter Brown’s Dance With Me is one of my favourite disco songs. This was a fascinating look behind the scenes. Thanks for posting.

[@chuckdieselkicksdisks2380]

same here - love it! Such a neat treat

[@brendaleake]

I loved Dance with me by Peter Brown! I was 13 going into 8th grade the summer it came out. good times!

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

That would be me, too. It came out in late spring of my 7th grade, if I remember correctly.

[@ocker2000]

And in 2022 new disco songs are being created! Disco has been back a bit, but the young generation is making it come alive again!

[@michaelwilliams4410]

I was born in 1973, but I remember when Disco was all the rage! As a matter of fact, it happens to be my favorite music genre!

[@overcomerbtboj]

Me too i was born the same year and remember disco music as well it brings back happy childhood memories 😊

[@cindypruitt9534]

I was born in 1972 and remember it too. I remember my aunt and uncle got to go see the Bee Gees and I thought they were so lucky.

[@chuckdieselkicksdisks2380]

born in 1980 love disco music

[@whatthefunkisgoingon3820]

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[@chuckdieselkicksdisks2380]

@@whatthefunkisgoingon3820 I checked it out and commented on it

[@Seekthetruth3000]

Good music never dies.

[@whatthefunkisgoingon3820]

Disco influences new artists kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpy8pKprd9yUbs0

[@debbiehenson1096]

A fab time in history, there will never be anything like it ever again. It was SO much fun going out dancing every fri n sat night. 74-80, dominated for six years and was gone in a flash.

[@ChildOfThe1970s]

I recall the disco era when I was a kid in the '70s. Lots of people hated it but I was pretty young then, so I thought the beats were rather catchy to listen to. Once in a while I listen to some of the old disco hits in a walk down memory lane.

[@mxxjss]

I was around 8 when this aired in 1978. Too young for the night clubs of course but not the skating rinks where disco also was king.

[@ivanj.conway9919]

I can't find the words for what I feel sometimes, when I see material from the 70s and 80s. Those decades, man; wild beyond belief. Everything was so RICH, COLOURFUL and VIBRANT. The lights, the sounds, the colours, the textures, the clothing, the styles, the music; I mean, ABSOLUTELY, EVERYTHING! Young people simply, cannot understand the torture of living throughout the 2000s because of this. The past 20 to 25 odd, years or so, has felt like wandering through a dead, barren, wasteland compared to all we had throughout the 70s and 80s, and yet, people can't seem to make it bleak and barren enough, STILL! I truly, cannot understand the current, time period, at all. I really, can't. And rightly or wrongly; I pretty much, hate the kids today, because of all they have ripped away from me and my generation.

[@kellyf5004]

I agree with you

[@ivanj.conway9919]

@@kellyf5004 : Thank You. That comment may have came across a little melodramatic but I assure you, it was heartfelt. I most certainly, exist in the wrong time period and day and age now, big time. I have always, felt somewhat, alien in this world, but never more so than I have felt over the past 20 to 25 plus, years or so. Hopefully, I'll fit in better in my next life, as clearly, it does not ever, seem as if it will ever, happen in this one. My Disco, 80s, Best. Out For Now. And the Best of the Christmas Season to You. 😑🖐🏼😔

[@SongSubtitleChannel]

I'd travel from Montreal to NYC almost every other week in the summers of '75 to '78 to hang out mostly in the Brooklyn discos. Got into Studio 54 twice after trying a few dozen times. We had a music pipeline going and brought all the latest dance hits back to the Montreal discos, which, btw, were world-renowned. NYC and Montreal were the centers of the disco universe. One club we hung out in was called the 2001 Odyssey in Brooklyn. If you know your disco history, that's where the dance sequences for Saturday Night Fever were shot. The multi-colored dance floor was added for the movie. A local reporter wrote a feature article for one of the NY mags which attracted the attention of a film producer. He bought the rights and turned that into SNF. It was literally based on my Brooklyn bros. What you see in the movie was exactly us: hair, dress, attitude. I had a white suit before Travolta lol. Then in '78, I called my paesan bro Carmelo. He warned me to forget about coming down. Some nutcase was going around shooting his friends. Yes. Son of Sam. That was the end of my disco adventures in The Big Apple and, pretty well, the end of disco.

[@mrob75]

We had a ball during the disco years!

[@alexchiasson322]

Disco is still great!!!! thanks for the memories!!!!

[@nandofigueira2005]

I was 11 years old in 1977 and it was a wonderful time. I remember my older brother would come home with friends to practice dancing and then they would go to the disco, I feel a lot of nostalgia for those 70s.

[@brianbates3583]

Disco brought all types of people together. There was no racial, sexual, or social discrimination. That cannot be said for some other types of music

[@play2win166]

HIP HOP

[@brianbates3583]

@Play2win. Hip Hop is one of the spin-offs from disco. It did not have the drawing appeal as disco to wider audience classes

[@play2win166]

@@brianbates3583 True Hip Hop in its infancy appealed to the inner city urban youth. It was initially seen as a fad like Disco. Now Disco ended up being the fad while Hip Hop is the dominate number one form of music. Hip Hop is the only music that brings all people together and its still here. LoL

[@brianbates3583]

@play2win. Not sure if hip-hop has the drawing power as disco in its prime. There are many--even blacks--who are repulsed by hip-hop. Hip-hop is universally viewed as gangster music.

[@play2win166]

@@brianbates3583 FALSE. We are talking about how Hip Hop brings all people together. Not all Hip Hop is Gangster. Hip Hop has different styles and flavors. Party Rap, Conscious Rap, Pop Rap, Gangsta Rap and the likes. At the end of the day Hip Hop has had the bigger influence overall in music especially over Disco in its prime , longer staying power and more dominate across all forms of entertainment. Sure, you may not personally like Hip Hop but it's never going away and its here to stay unlike Disco. LOL. The better argument would be to compare Hip Hop to some other form of music that still exists. Its all good my friend.

[@amitchell4575]

The good and bad about the power of the dj is they were solely responsible for the success of a song but equally responsible for the failure of it. Imagine all the amazing tunes that never got a chance due to their tastes.

[@tartgreenapple]

Known as the "Father of Disco", Bill Wardlow died 2002 (80 yrs old). 3:05 "Butterfly Records", a disco record label created in 1977 by A.J. Cervantes in Los Angeles, California, and closed down in 1980. 3:36 Peter Brown had a successful music career until the late 80's a severe case of tinnitus prompted Brown to quit the music business in an attempt to preserve his damaged hearing. 5:30 TK Records was an American independent record label founded by record distributor Henry Stone and Steve Alaimo in 1972.The record label went bankrupt in 1981. 5:46 Betty Wright made history as the first black female artist to score a gold album on her own label, when her 1987 album, 'Mother Wit' achieved that certification. She died in 2020 (66 yrs old) 6:04 John Ferrara scored a big disco hit in 1979 with "Love Attack" off of his "Wuthering Heights" album. 7:00 Tom Morrera, known as The Brick and Father Thom was a longtime DJ at WNEW FM in New York city, died in 2012. 13:04

[@yell0wberry]

Well, at least Brooklyn’s own Joe Causi is still around

[@patcronenberg2258]

So when did John Ferrara die?

[@BellaFirenze]

I was shocked to see myself dancing at Studio 54. It seems it was a lifetime ago. I am not a fit and handsome young man anymore. C'est la vie. Good memories.

[@tylermcneil5239]

It's crazy watching old-school music production and bringing in DJs to assist with the mixdown is interesting.

[@mogadon7]

Glenn MIller + Disco = NOOOOO !!! Awful.

[@rizmid]

A great time capsule! And a great break down on musicians at work!! ♥️

[@lvlinda6]

🤣Filming at Studio 54. All I kept thinking was “Dan Rather is going to filming. Everyone put on your work clothes and keep it clean.” Great piece. 🤟🏼💖🎶

[@tomservo56954]

If Mike Wallace had done the report...he would have gotten the camera into the secret places there.

[@alexander2685]

🤣🤣🤣

[@bicyclist2]

I was two in 78". I was a teen in the 80's. Synth-pop was built on the ashes of disco. This was great to see. Thanks.

[@jeromelombardo6053]

In Philly we had Pulsations, The Bongo Room, Emerald City...such good times, Woody's, The Nile.

[@vegasbaby3669]

Peter Brown - “Dance with Me” is the disco jam!!!!!!!

[@THECLARENCES]

Disco rules! 74-80! It was the 2nd coming of Classical Music! xoxo The Clarences

[@jamesaraujo6296]

Loved this, especially the look at the making of a record. Very interesting to see musicians at work. A big plus that it was Dance with me by Brown and getting to see Betty Wright singing!

[@videosuperhighway7655]

I was so busy flying a King Air helping import tons of disco records into the US

[@Muswell]

Everyone was happy - dancing to happy music ! We just went to dance. We were filled with SO much optimism. Youngsters don't have that now. What on Earth happened?

[@EddietheHouserocker]

They're feeding kids aggressive sounding music, it isn't cool to dance as they see that as corny or"gay". Plus there's no musical unity, everybody likes something different. Take a look at how may so called genre of dance music there is, it's ridiculous!

[@CaskStrength777]

There was a time like that I had and I'm a millennial. The mid '90s to late 90s were full of so much optimism for me with techno going mainstream. When I listen to stuff like Fluke, Prodigy, Aphex Twin of the era, I'm reminded of how magical and optimistic it felt back then for me. We as a culture I think have disconnected from Mass expressions of music the way we did for many decades and now individual taste has become so niche there is no shared musical gestalt that leads to a defining feeling of an era.

[@Muswell]

@@CaskStrength777 My most favourite time for music is 1986-1995. . SO much great House &, what is now, OldSkool.

[@rickyhinesmon4109]

@@Muswell I agree with you, only I'm going to go back to 1976-1995 for my favorite years for music. Still listening to everything I can find.

[@JoshMaxPower]

There were a FEW drugs assisting that "happiness," you know...:)

[@NEWNEON]

The Disco years were exciting for me. Too young to go to the clubs, but I was able to listen to the live radio broadcast from the DJ booth of a huge Disco here in Texas. It made a massive impression on me, ended up being a nightclub DJ for decades. Always a place in my heart for Disco.

[@herbalpudding]

Every time I watch this I'm struck by how the Peter Brown segment shows the creative triumph of disco, followed immediately by John Ferrara illustrating how mundane and commercialized it became before the movement went underground.

[@AgentOrangeTheDJ]

Facts!

[@maxi-me]

IKR! Felt that too when I saw the focus group in the mixing session. Must have changed his name around 1979, that's the latest you find any mention of him. Probably went on to sell Amway💀

[@EphemeralProductions]

Peter was so talented! And cute. :)

[@rickberglund2134]

It was all about vitality and exuberance. It was elegant, and glamorous. Yes, I’m glad I lived through it, and after all this time, I still own the same disco records from 45 years ago...hundreds of them, mostly 12” singles, all in excellent shape. I often wonder who I’ll leave them to.

[@kendavid891]

My mom's Lil sister would get trophy after trophy 🏆 for best dancer in the NJ,NYC clubs with her boyfriend,I was 11 but remember it well, good times

[@davidrice6724]

wow.....glad I ran across this. Fascinating and interesting.... I am a fan of disco music who was not quite old enough to be a part of the original scene and I appreciate this behind the scenes look.

[@trippinout.]

When a song like Disco Duck becomes a hit, you know something ain't quite right.

[@rickyhinesmon4109]

That was ridiculous wasn't it? But some folks liked it. But the real listeners know the music's true vibes. I ignored the inferior music.

[@JimmieJamOfTheDay]

Or, Disco was soooo huge, people loved the song. I, personally, didn't like that song.

[@mariohenley716]

That was the downfall of the genre .... Producers started thinking that they could make anything and it becomes a hit

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

Maybe it was because it provided comical relief during rough times. Disco Duck was certainly not the first silly song to become a hit and it certainly was not the last.

[@booth2710]

yes but if the lyrics were completely different and nothing to do with a randy dancing duck there would be no shame at all in liking it

[@georgerivera8834]

The good old days of disco how I miss it all

[@marioreoyan3405]

We thank donna summer

[@wildcalmxtra]

Donna Summer never gets the credit she deserved! She was the pinnacle of disco. But her voice transcended it… I’d say her vocal talent was on a par with Whitney’s.

[@originalkingalpha5116]

@@wildcalmxtra Donna would never and couldn't ever come close to Whitney Houston's vocal capabilities. Let's not insult her legacy.

[@joancollins54]

great to see STUDIO inside again! very rare footage of one of the light affects which unfortunately can't be captured on film... but still I remember it well

[@maricedixion3357]

I love disco music back in the day in 70s that's all they play I like the bee gees Donna summer the best of the Chic and more and the movie i saw Saturday night fever with John Travolta the village people YMCA the cool and gang the sister Sige we are family the pointer sisters and more I grew up in the 70s so for me I love disco

[@phil8702]

Do miss it. Used to be a club D J. for several Florida Discos.

[@johnandrews5479]

I began college in '76 in Fairmont, WV and even there we had a spot, The Cabaret, where the dancers went for great disco. It was a hella lot more integrated than what Studio 54 looked like in this video. As disco was fading the place burned down and we all sang to Disco Inferno. Place was mob connected so we all thought.....

[@JonniePolyester]

Never saw the whole of this special report! Thanks so much for posting ❤️

[@1cnevarez]

I have heard this music all my life since 197s.. I'm really thankful for this 60 mdocumentary.... I really appreciate seeing the singers I guess for the first time. Very cool 😎

[@detoxmuscle]

Bring disco back! Please! ❤

[@richard_red_64]

It's still alive and well in my world. 😁

[@whatthefunkisgoingon3820]

We are trying to do it with our new single kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpy8pKprd9yUbs0

[@fredpagniello3267]

And hopefully a club that Ian Schrager desperately wants to enter but is denied...karma on steroids...and double that for Marc Benecke...

[@TheSpritz0]

I was 12 years old when it was at it's peak and my friends older cousins, etc... who went out were SO conscientious of their suits, shoes, hair!!!!

[@93seronica]

I wish disco was still around

[@yell0wberry]

It morphed into something called club/dance music

[@paulmc3457]

I can literally smell the hairspray and cigarette smoke, lol

[@LOVEizGOLD]

AquaNet n' Kools

[@rosiejimenez3953]

Thats funny. I always remember showering the next morning and smelling the smoke being shampooed out of my hair. All the while my feet were aching and felt as if I was going to throw up any moment. It was all worth it and I was ready to do it all over again!!!

[@reggieongoogle3583]

Such a good song. Had totally forgotten it. Thank you!

[@JonniePolyester]

Love all the footage of Studio ❤

[@anthonyriche552]

I was a little kid when disco was out and I loved it. My older sister knew I loved disco and Donna Summer but I remember the day she came home with the Sugarhill Gang album (rap) and started talking about this new genre and how it's gonna take over. So I asked her what about disco and she looked at me and said, "disco is dead." I cried that night thinking I'd never ever hear disco again. Oh, the mind of a child lol.

[@gandhiangles3213]

Best time for dancing!

[@robertwiles8106]

The classic funk and disco made between 1969 and 1982 is the most amazing, structurally advanced, expertly played and downright original popular music ever created by man. It kind of never went away, and STILL is used as a cultural shorthand for "cool" anywhere it is used in movies and whatnot. If you perk your ears up, you hear it ALL OVER the place. Most importantly, it got guys to dress up and look their best, and got girls out on the dance floor, which is step one. Punk was music for incels.

[@claudiahansen4938]

Great post! That's the way I heard it when it was first made, marveling at it, and couldn't help dancing to it.

[@donnastar7615]

Never went to a disco because I was too young but oh what a time!!

[@greatadventures7378]

I enjoyed the disco era and recall being in my uncle’s shag carpet van with full bar, velvet bed, and great disco blaring from the back.

[@yell0wberry]

What about the bumper sticker “ if the van is a rocking, don’t , come a knocking”

[@DupageDragonsFan94]

It's a shame that the backing vocals at 6:48 never made the final mix... not even for one of the multiple choruses throughout the song. Still, "Dance With Me" is a fantastic track and Peter Brown is a marvelous talent.

[@coqui1550]

I remember at school in the 70s in Chicago; it was disco vs rock. We even had fights over which music was better. Oh, the memories!

[@michaelcunninghamherrera7923]

In 1977, I was dragged, kicking and screaming, into the disco dance scene and I haven’t been the same since. Those early days were the start of something new as I was unaware of this hidden talent. Since that time I’ve been heavily involved in other forms of dance such as ballet and modern jazz. In recent years I’ve performed on demonstrations teams of the following: Thriller and MJ style, hip hop, and Scottish Country Dance. I still dance socially at age 74.

[@richardmorgan9627]

In Los Angeles they still dance to Disco

[@markwoods4439]

It was dance music, a phase that caught on in the 70’s. I remember the 70’s very clearly!

[@bsame]

Wish I could have been there to experience the haydays of disco

[@rosiejimenez3953]

I guarantee you would have loved it.

[@akinkunmicook2977]

Wow 😲! That’s why House Music 🎶 sounds so good 😊!!!! So many memories!!!!

[@jelsner5077]

I had the disco Moonlight Serenade album in high school. It was the first album my dad appreciated. He remembered the 1940s original. I preferred Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me!

[@pelonmartinez2732]

Thank god I still have my disco al us like 2000 of them

[@christopherdonaldson8231]

This was aired on April 23, 1978 - The "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack was by far on top with "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever" by the Bee Gees. Another disco film, "Thank God It's Friday," which features Donna Summer with her hit song "Last Dance," was released the following month.

[@BigG833]

When I was a kid from between 3 to 10 years of age (1973 to 1980), disco was at its peak. I wish more of this music was played, not just the Top 40 songs, but the less popular disco songs as well. It sounded way better than 21st Century music. In 1973, War sang the song "Cisco Kid". In my life, I'm a Disco Kid.

[@keithhoward3577]

I wish it would come back,damn those were the days, Zanzibar n the 80's

[@RobertMatteis-pe7vh]

Wow, to go back in time would be amazing. Anyone who lived through the disco era there is never going to be anything like that again it was a good time to be alive.. there is nothing like that now. Well, there are some artist, they would be considered disco back in the day.. Lizzo, David Guetta, Kylie Minogue Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa . Nowadays it’s called techno, which was really disco.

[@NPRGAdmin]

Man those were the days. I was just a teen during the disco era but I would have no way of knowing what I was in for. As the racists and early INCELS thought they were destroying disco, on the Black, underground and mostly gay scene, house music and culture were being born in Chicago and NY. They couldn’t kill it; it’s now global, is a multi-billion dollar industry and has millions of fans. Those idiots couldn’t kill disco.😂

[@BlackDoveNYC]

The popular narrative is that they did kill disco. Smart people know it never died it just changed its name, updated its hairstyle and bought some new clothes. One example besides what you mentioned is the fact that in the ‘80s most pop hits had a 12” dance version, so clearly dance music and dancing didn’t die. If it wasn’t for disco a lot of really good rap songs would have never been made.

[@DavidJ-ms4iq]

Who is trying to kill disco? It implodes in itself. Was the mainstream hit and something new just came along. Just becomes stale after awhile and people want something new. Or someone comes out with a new sound and everyone starts to emulate that and before you know it everything sounds the same. And becomes bland again. Becomes diluted too much. Once a nice original organic process of music that produced beautiful art. Becomes commercial and used until drained of its nectar for money.. and left barely what it once was.

[@NPRGAdmin]

@@DavidJ-ms4iq Learn history.

[@clubhead433]

I wish I could grab all those Rinder & Lewis LPs @ 2:34! They go for $25 - $50 bucks today. Wow, there they are at 4:50! We ate up that "Lust" tune in the hood back in 77-78!

[@alainvincent1309]

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[@clubhead433]

@@alainvincent1309 I know right!

[@RealArtfulDodger]

Remember when people dressed to impress to go out on the town? Remember when people when out to meet other people? Good people watching and good times. Now people wear rags and most girls are overweight and smoke. All while burying their heads in their phones and sipping a beer all night after they paid $20 cover. Depressing. Too bad I wasn't born about 10-20 years earlier LOL.

[@MrPhilippeBrun]

That comment is somewhat so close to the truth :(

[@philaman1972]

Oh man, what a time capsule of debauchery, lol! Too bad Dan didn't capture all the drugs, sex, etc. that was going on at 54! Anyhow, I am only 50, but remember the TV shows from that time period that I watched as a kid that had disco episodes infused in them like "Incredible Hulk", "Wonder Woman", "Love Boat", "Chips", "Supertrain", etc. Also, if I am not mistaken, "Disney" even produced a disco album to capitalize on the music craze!

[@yell0wberry]

You left out the Jeffersons, and even some of the animated cartoons, such as the Flintstones and Popeye did the same

[@kevincollins7300]

Donna Summer. I Love You

[@psychologixselfmastery]

Very melodious music!

[@fujifrontier]

I wish we had that fast paced disco again

[@Eyeris625]

a fad is something that goes away....they call it disco but it's really Hustle and it's still around

[@alamc200]

I notice that young people now don't dance or don't know how to dance. What happened? Our generation used to love to dance. I've always loved to dance and when I became a teenager in the 1970s my friends and I would love to practice the latest dances any chance we got. In my 20's I used to go to the dance clubs a few times a week even on work nights - I lived for that! Then as I got older I really got addicted to salsa dancing, going to classes and salsa clubs. Even in our older age my husband and I would go to salsa clubs or ballroom dancing until Covid. Since then only to outdoor events a handful of times.

[@beckigreen]

Younger people don’t know how to do anything. They can’t even count out change back correctly.

[@originalkingalpha5116]

@@beckigreen Damn I love your name!🕺🏽🌹💃🏻💕

[@drifter402]

Phones

[@ActiveAussie2024]

2023, it's truly the "dumb generation". Useless society.

[@mxxjss]

I believe the men shown at 4:51 are the LA based production team of Laurin Rinder and W. Michael Lewis who produced acts like Saint Tropez & Le Pamplemousse. They also produced themes for tv shows including the “In Search Of” documentary show.

[@HelenTudor-Douglas]

At 4:32 it sounds like this is a mockumentary, & a disco version of Spinal Tap will come walking through the door while she's on the phone asking about "Tuxedo Junction". 🤣 I graduated High School in 1978. At the time, we all thought disco was Awesome. The Vietnam war was FINALLY over & everybody just wanted to dance. You have to understand the global perspective, during 1978.

[@jorgenavarro4887]

Possez, Destination, Cerrone and many others made the disco era evolved to another level...Madonna, M. Jackson and some others were clearly influenced by disco music in early 80's...the music changed later but disco era let the bar too high for other genres to reach up to it...and you know what? It shall return...

[@BlackDoveNYC]

Madonna was around NYC at the time if I’m not mistaken and Michael Jackson (and his brothers) made many popular disco hits during the time.

[@realmac3k]

I was born after Disco peaked but still have feelings of nostalgia when I hear the songs my parents would play frequently from that era. The modern EDM genres feel an evolution of Disco. Less analog, faster tempo, more layering and effects.

[@reginagooch9028]

disco roots did not start with Elvis or the Beatles.

[@paulmc3457]

Yeah, more like COCAINE. AND LOADS OF IT. 😤😒

[@MickJay3]

@@BrownSugarBaby1992 Its something colored people have gone through for years. You would think by now the world would no this.

[@newwavepop]

@@BrownSugarBaby1992 black people and America deserve a huge amount of credit for it. but i am so sick of this incorrect revisionist history that black people created everything by themselves. African tribal people did not create this music, Americans did. black people that were taken from Africa and grew up in a new world around instruments and music they never knew, created hybrids of old traditional music. if you want the credit they deserve then stop trying to take credit away from the others that contributed as well.

[@PhilMoskowitz]

Yes it did. Rock n' Roll roots started with swing jazz. In it's first decade Rock n' Roll was dance music, and for most of it's history rock music was danceable. You can call bands like Led Zepplin, The Who, and especially Van Halen, classic rock all you want. It was still danceable.

[@MickJay3]

Chuck Berry was the Father of Rock and Roll.

[@Angelina-bi1ld]

PASTELS, FUNHOUSE, PALLADIUM, STUDIO 54, ROXYS, THE UNDERGROUND, ROSELAND, LAMORE'S EAST, JIMMYS BRONX CAFE ..omg!...so many clubs my husband and i went to,💃🕺🎶...those were the days,...and then there was...😎🥰CRUZIN 86ST BENSONHURST,. in the caddy and that place was just magic after the stores closed, it was an outside DISCO itself.

[@seand67]

Great episode

[@steinhvik4380]

They look so happy just dancing and it seems alot of them are not even drinking.

[@fujifrontier]

Quaaludes and coke lol

[@BlackDoveNYC]

@fujifrontier I was just thinking the same thing.

[@reginagooch9028]

it's funny how no one will admit to pay ola in this interview, lol.

[@imaginarycanary9956]

Cause they’re still taking it.

[@newwavepop]

yeah that had me laughing, he was basically acting like "oh no not us, Disco has integrity unlike those other types of music".

[@algernonblackwood1707]

I lived through this magical period and performed in many California nightclubs and can say that Peter Brown was a true musical genius. Unfortunately, there were a lot of stupid and gimmicky "disco" songs that ruined the artistry.

[@fob1xxl]

Our generation really had a great time ! It's amazing how everyone had Disco as part of their lives. The music, the clothes, the dancing. We controlled everything. The younger generation that followed hated Disco and they helped kill the Era. New wave, Hip hop, punk all basic crap took it's place. I guess that happens with every generation. They want their own, even if it doesn't last either.

[@petercofrancesco1620]

I Was There 😎 54 ! WBLS 107.5 MANHATTAN New York RIP STEVE , FRANKIE CROCKER 🙏

[@foxmccloud7055]

This is before cocaine was found at Studio 54 and the anti-disco backlash that culminated in the infamous Disco Demolition Night fiasco at Comiskey Park began.

[@ZviJ1]

Please .. can somebody who knows it reveal what's the tune heard from 9:00 to 9:40 called and the name of the artist performing it?

[@charlessmith263]

The hustle. Disco duck. Line hustle. Yes, "Saturday Night Fever" and the Bee Gees. Studio 54. There were moves like the "car wash" and the "sprinkler". Disco was a big-time form of entertainment that only lasted for a short time in the 1970s. That is enough to make Rick Dees proud of appreciating disco----before disco itself was destroyed in 1979.

[@mrtonytechnics]

I love it! ❤️

[@lyndajay4407]

Betty Wright RIP!❤

[@dannystine1669]

I can see that what started out as new and unique, something originally made for a certain niche audience had grown and saturated the culture to the point where companies were springing up to turn 30 year old public domain songs into disco hits. It seems that just said screw it, Chattanooga Choo Choo - throw a sizzling disco sound behind it and we’ll be raking in some cash soon. Not that I wasn’t impressed by the lushness of the sound the company in the video went for, but it seems by this time disco was so prominent that taking any song, add the disco treatment and bam- money

[@Centervillejim]

Yeah, I never liked Peter Brown nor the cover stuff like "Chattanooga Choo Choo". I was starting to get bored with disco by then.

[@DiscoMatty79]

@@Centervillejim what were you getting into musically at that time?

[@Centervillejim]

@@DiscoMatty79 I still liked Chic and Donna Summer, but I was also getting into new wave bands like Blondie.

[@oliverv291]

Don't forget about Disco Duck by Rick Dee's and Disco Gorilla ...that was the bottom for me !

[@TurboGent]

I was about 12 when this was going on and loved disco and would dance to Donna Summer in my basement alone. I do remember everyone trying to cash in on disco, and not only do I remember the big band songs, but also remember hearing on the radio a disco version of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” (originally a 3/4 song!) and the infamous Ethel Merman disco album. I wasn’t old enough to be a tastemaker but even at that age I was thinking “whoa boy, they are trying to redo just about everything into disco…” I loved watching this 60 minute segment! Never saw it back when it aired. Thank you for posting! Dan Rather must’ve thought he was on the cusp of something newsworthy, but little did we all know, that era of disco was heading towards the exit door very quickly. A backlash was inevitable for something so insanely and quickly popular, and many of the people trying to cash in with subpar material and shoehorned covers very likely helped give the public a bad taste in their mouth and hastened disco's demise.

[@IrnBruNYC]

Peter Brown went on to write “Material Girl” for Madonna.

[@cnfuzz]

Listen to the bassline groove of ' can you feel it' jacksons and you have material girl

[@robertwandlaincourt314]

How did you get this video? I worked at CBS news archives for 16 years. I'm just curious.