Disco also was a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period.

Disco was the last mass popular music movement that was driven by the baby boom generation.

Disco music was a worldwide phenomenon, but its popularity declined in the United States in the late 1970s.

King was honored at New York's " Disco Masters Awards Show " for 3 consecutive years ( 1979 – 1981 ) in recognition of his relentless push of the song.

The song was awarded the only Grammy Award ever for Best Disco Recording in 1980.

According to B. Boy Omega, a writer for The Source, the first Latino in hip hop music was DJ Disco Wiz, a product of a Puerto Rican father and a Cuban mother who was born in The Bronx.

Since hip hop was experienced primarily via audio and not by video, most people never knew that DJ Disco Wiz was Puerto Rican and Cuban until they saw him.

After DJ Disco Wiz, the second Puerto Rican DJ was an ex-salsa bassist turned DJ named Charlie Chase, who became the DJ along with DJ Tony Tone for the Cold Crush Brothers.

In 1981 a group called The Mean Machine released a 12 " single on Sugar Hill Records called " Disco Dream " which was the first rap record to emphasize Spanglish.

Nightclub Two Step ( Nightclub Two-step, NC2S, sometimes Disco Two Step or California Two Step ) was initially developed by Buddy Schwimmer in the mid-1960s.

The dance is also known as " Two Step " and was " one of the most popular forms of contemporary social dance " as a Disco Couples Dance in 1978.

A version of the song set to a disco beat was recorded by Ethel Merman for her infamous Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

Another version of the theme, ' Blake's 7 Disco ', was recorded by Federation and released in 1979 on Beeb Records with a B-side unconnected with the series.

According to Lawler's autobiogaphy It's Good to be the King ... Sometimes, WCW wrestler Glenn Gilbertti, better known to wrestling fans as Disco Inferno, was considered for the role of Lawler.

Electronic music was also explored from the early 1990s by indie electronic bands like Stereolab and Disco Inferno, who mixed a variety of indie and synthesizer sounds.

" Death Disco " ( aka " Swan Lake ") was released as a single in 1979 and reached No. 20 in the charts.

The band's greatest hits album Show Us Your Hits was released on December 21, featuring their new songs called " Altogether Ooky " and " Disco Pogo " alongside the band's older hits.

In the late 70s and early 80s, there was a new sound emerging with up and coming groups like McAllen's Espejismo, led by songwriter / lead singer Rudy Valdez, and more notably Brownsville natives Joe Lopez, Jimmy Gonzalez y El Grupo Mazz introduced the keyboard sound to Tejano which was influenced by the Disco sound of the era, and during that period, La Mafia became the first Tejano band to put on Rock Style shows for their generation.

James Ford, English musical composer, record producer and musician in the band Simian Mobile Disco was born in Leek.

Charanjit Singh's Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat ( 1982 ) anticipated the sounds of acid house music, but is not known to have had any influence on the genre prior to its rediscovery in the 21st century.

Before he opened " Eve After Dark " in 1979, Alonzo transformed from poplocking to DJ dances under the name of Disco Construction, which name is a influence from the funk group Brass Construction.

The music was dubbed " progressive " because it drew upon the influence of Giorgio Moroder's Eurodisco rather than the Disco inspired by the symphonic sound of Philadelphia soul.

In the United States, a backlash against commercialized disco, especially after Disco Demolition Night in 1979 and the subsequent rise and influence of the rock-oriented MTV, was reflected by a rapid decline in the amount of disco music being produced ; major record labels and consumers alike abandoned disco as passé.

Disco versions by Rhythm Heritage and Current were on the chart at the same time ( Conti's own version reveals some early disco influence in the orchestration ).

At The Disco " on his fifth studio album Where Is Danny ?.

Myron Floren, second-in-command on The Lawrence Welk Show, released a recording of the Clarinet Polka entitled " Disco Accordion ".

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

In the years since Disco Demolition Night, some social critics have described the backlash as implicitly macho and bigoted, and an attack on non-white and non-heterosexual cultures.

On January 31, Prince released two more songs on LotusFlow3r. com: " Disco Jellyfish ", and " Another Boy ".

Over the years new Eddies appeared on the bands albums including " Prickly Disco " ( Gene Eugene ), Picky Swelly, Newt York Newt York, Derry Air, and Judy Ism.

When Disney shut down their shorts department in 1962, Nash continued to voice Donald in various projects over the next two decades, notably performing the song " Macho Duck " on the Mickey Mouse Disco album in the 1970s.

A concerted drive, including a poll ( scrutinised by the Electoral Reform Society ) to select the track, saw " Bunsen Burner " — with music sampled from the Trammps song " Disco Inferno " and lyrics devised to help his daughter with her chemistry homework — reach number nine in the UK Singles Chart on 6 October, and earned Otway an appearance on Top Of The Pops, BBC Television's flagship popular music programme.

Indie electronic, which had begun in the early 1990s with bands like Stereolab and Disco Inferno, took off in the new millennium as digital technology developed, with acts including Broadcast from the UK, Justice from France, Lali Puna from Germany and The Postal Service, and Ratatat and BOBBY from the US, mixing a variety of indie sounds with electronic music, largely produced on small independent labels.

On 10 October 1970, Mott the Hoople and Bridget St John were showcased on BBC Two's, Disco 2.

Though Winner Takes All went gold and later spawned the number-one hit " I Wanna Be With You " as well as the top 20 UK hit, " It's a Disco Night ( Rock Don't Stop )", the brothers would struggle to make platinum on their next four releases.

" Following the tour in promotion of Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, she contributed vocals to eight tracks on Volume 9: I See You Hearin ' Me and Volume 10: I Heart Disco by Josh Homme's side project The Desert Sessions and appeared in the music video for " Crawl Home.

In 2004, Vibert explored acid disco when he remixed a Black Devil song, which was released on Disco Club ( Remix ) and released his first album under the alias Kerrier District.

Other early users of the TR-808 include Australian producer Mark Moffatt, with his studio project, the Monitors ( 1981 ), and Indian musician Charanjit Singh, who used it alongside a Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer to produce music resembling acid house in his 1982 album Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat.

The genre is also known as " Disco house ", " Neu-disco " ( new disco ), " French touch ", " filter house " or " tekfunk ".

* Disco Disco Disco disco pays respect to the godfather of house music.

In addition, Bracegirdle also worked under the aliases Disco Citizens, producing a handful of less radio-friendly, vocal-less tracks with a stronger progressive house sound.

* " Hustler " ( song ), a 2006 British house music single by Simian Mobile Disco

Frustrated by the acrimonious sessions for Soul Coughing's Irresistible Bliss, and attracted to Kramer's signature minimal, reverby sound, Doughty took a batch of songs — some rejected by, some withheld from Soul Coughing — and crossed the river to bang the disc out at Kramer's studio, Noise New Jersey, a gigantic, shag-carpeted room built as an addition to a house by a would-be Disco musician in the 70s, to which Kramer added huge echo plates running down either side of his garage — the source of his trademark haunting sound.

Another notable Indian pop musician is Charanjit Singh, whose 1982 album Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat anticipated the sound of acid house music.

French house, Italian house, Disco house, Latin house and many other types of house have all contributed greatly to what is today known as Funky house.

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His " Disco Blend " remix of Double Exposure's " Ten Percent " was once described by UK DJ Ashley Beedle as providing a " blueprint for house music ".

Disco music received little in the way of serious historical study and documentation until the mid 1990s, when those studying the explosion of house music began to seriously documents its roots.