Ok, I'll "wade" in out of boredom... I told my wife during Tuesday night's performance that with the exception of just a couple of songs, I didn't think ANY of them were "disco". When I think of disco, I always conjure up an image of Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (I THINK I have the movie name right, but I'm no disco fan), but I just couldn't "see" that image on Tuesday night. Plus, I admit that I'm getting old, overweight, and POSSIBLY not as smooth on the dance floor as I once was, so there is NO WAY I'm going to get on national TV and huff and puff my way through a song while stumbling around out of step with a bunch of other geezers. Sheesh!
By the way, did I mention I hate disco? Give me classic hard-rock any day! Randy ----- Original Message ----- From: John Vega To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:01 AM Subject: [gatortalk] Re: So, what are we going to talk about for the next 90 days? On Apr 22, 2009, at 5:37 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: The pictures of Randy's pink vehicles were pretty funny. I hate the offseason. I figure if their first game is like September 5 then they start fall practice either 4 weeks or 30 days before which means August 5 or 10. If we lie to ourselves and say it is May 5th and practice starts August 5th - then we only have to suffer for 3 months. We could talk about American Idol and how it is rewriting history. Disco is a genre of music that peaked in popularity between 1974 and 1979. The Hues Corporation is often seen as heralding the beginning of the era on the charts with Rock the Boat. There are songs that date back a couple of years (Soul Makossa by Manu Dibango being one) that have elements of disco, and people argue as to which was the first disco song much like they do what was the first rock song (some fun nominees "Birmingham Bounce" by Hardrock Gunther and the original "Hound Dog" by Big Mama Thornton). That said, not one argues that disco stretches back to 1970 to include the Holland/Dozier/Holland composition "Band of Gold" sung by Freda Payne, yet AI led of its "disco" medley last night with that song. It is also important to remember that not all songs released between 1974 and 1979 were disco. If that were true, Anne Murray would have had a number of disco hits - yet I never heard her at the disco. R&B, AOR, Funk, Easy Listening, even Spoken Word all charted during that time. So, who allowed Lil Rounds to sing "I'm Every Woman," an R&B song if there ever was one? While I can see the argument for The Jacksons' "Shake Your Body Down to the Ground," I'd stick the song in either Pop or Funk before I'd consider it Disco. So, are we re-writing musical history? Even radio stations are getting into the act. Our local "Oldies" station plays nothing but 70s music. -Zeb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
