(COLD OPEN)
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"That's Where The Happy People Go" - The Trammps
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"That's Where The Happy People Go" - The Trammps
(Apr./May 1976, highest chart pos. #1 Disco/#12 R&B,
#27 Hot 100, perf. on Dutch TV show TopPop)
Disco... "That's Where The Happy People Go," and you just saw and heard
Disco... "That's Where The Happy People Go," and you just saw and heard
The Trammps of Philadelphia, one of the pioneering disco bands of the 70s,
doing their crossover hit that topped the dance chart in the spring of 1976.
Live from Club Verdant, where the
happy people go in Star City... it's
Thea Queen of Clubs!
Hi there! I'm your
Hostess with the Mostest
Thea Queen
welcoming you into the club
and inviting you to dance
till dawn or till you drop,
whichever comes first.
As you recall from my previous
appearances on Shady's blogs,
I'm Oliver Queen's kid sister
on Arrow, the superhero TV
series based on the DC
comics character
Green Arrow.
Using the code name Speedy, I am a member of Team Arrow,
the gang of crime fighting vigilantes on a mission to save our city.
When I'm not suited up for combat,
I'm gussied up for hosting duties
as owner of Verdant, a nightclub
founded by Oliver and used as a
cover for his vigilante operation.
His Arrowcave headquarters
is located in the basement.
That's Ollie (above) at the grand opening of Verdant
proposing a toast and thanking the party people for coming.
Our mother was also there that night to show her support.
In previous appearances on Shady's blogs, I have been your host for rave parties.
This is my first official radio show as a new member of The Shady Bunch.
Thea Queen of Clubsis unique because it is the only S-P-M-M show that comes to you
live from a nightclub with simulcasts on radio and YouTube.
CLICK TO START
THE VIDEO NOW!
My mission is to keep you out on the
floor and begging for more as I play
the best of 70s disco and 80s dance
club sounds, and here now is another
great one. It's LA-based R&B thrush
Carrie Lucas performing the hit single
from her most successful album,
Carrie Lucas in Danceland.
The 1979 disco song brushed
the top 5 on the U.S. Dance
chart and went top 40 in the
UK. Here's Carrie Lucas
making it clear she wants
to-- "Dance With You!"
"Dance With You" - Carrie Lucas
(Apr./May 1979, highest chart pos. #6 U.S. Dance,
#27 R&B/#40 UK/#70 Hot 100)
From 1979, the last big year for disco,
that was a sizzling sound on both sides
of the pond... California dance diva
Carrie Lucas and her best known
song "Dance With You."
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We're still deep in the heart of disco
We're still deep in the heart of disco
as I play this seldom heard relic from
early 1979... another record that was
a hit in both the U.S. and the UK.
Here's child actor and singer
Leif Garrett doing his signature
song "I Was Made For Dancin'."
"I Was Made For Dancin'" - Leif Garrett
(Jan./Feb. 1979, highest chart pos. #10 Hot 100,
#15 Cash Box/#2 Australia/#3 New Zealand/#4 UK)
That was teen idol Leif Garrett performing "I Was Made For Dancin'"
... the biggest hit of his career as a recording artist. You first saw
Leif as an actor in 1969 when he played the son of Elliott Gould
and Dyan Cannon in the movie Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.
Just now tuning in? Hi, I'm...
Thea Queen of Clubs
from the TV series Arrow, and this is my first official radio show on
S-P-M-M... where we make old school new again and cool again.
I'm bringing you the best
of 1970s disco, freestyle
faves and 80s dance club
sounds. We're right in the
middle of a 7-in-a-row
seamless jam, so keep
that body movin'.
During the Thanksgiving
and Christmas holidays
of 1966, Diana Ross
and The Supremes
topped the charts
with "You Keep
Me Hangin' On."
CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!
Here's the Hi-NRG
remake by English pop
star Kim Wilde, a single
that also reached #1 in
the states. Go Wilde
on the dance floor as
Kim sings her cover
of "You Keep Me
Hangin' On!"
"You Keep Me Hangin' On" - Kim Wilde
(May/June 1987, highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100,
#2 Cash Box/#2 UK/#1 Australia)
That was the official music video for UK popper Kim Wilde's
That was the official music video for UK popper Kim Wilde's
chart-topping 1987 cover of "You Keep Me Hangin' On."
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THE VIDEO NOW!
Now here's the King of Pop,
Now here's the King of Pop,
Michael Jackson, with a song
everyone in the civilized world
knows. This single spent nine
weeks at #1 and helped Thriller
become the fastest selling album
of all time and top that chart for
37 weeks. The song is ranked
high on Rolling Stone's list of
Greatest Songs of All Time and
was named the greatest dance
record of all time in a poll of
BBC Radio 2 listeners. Here's
Michael with his monster
hit-- "Billie Jean!"
"Billie Jean" - Michael Jackson
(Jan. thru Apr. 1983, highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100 & Cash Box
& R&B & UK & France & Switzerland & Belgium)
Number one in America and
a smash heard round the world
beginning in the early months
of 1983, that was "Billie Jean"
by The King of Pop...
Michael Jackson.
Thea Queen
of Clubs
keeping your feet busy
and giving up the funk
with another early 80s
dance club classic.
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Here's one of the baddest sounds around. It's by the LA-based,
all-female R&B band Klymaxx. Time to party with "Wild Girls!"
"Wild Girls" (12 inch remix) - Klymaxx
(Nov./Dec. 1982, highest chart pos. #78 R&B)
From the ace record producing team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis,
From the ace record producing team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis,
that was "Wild Girls," the best song on the 1982 Klymaxx album
Girls Will Be Girls. At the time of its release, the single didn't
have much impact, but has since grown into a fan favorite.
Dawn's breaking and the dance party's over. Hope you had fun dancing
the night away at Star City's hottest night spot, Verdant, and being
part of this special live blogcast on S-P-M-M Retro Radio.
Stick around. Coming up on the flip side of Gary Owens' news,
Dell Rat Tom returns to Shady's Place with Part 7 of his series
SAVED BY THE BELL DELL
And I'll be back before you know it to bring you more
of the great sounds from the disco 70s and clubbin' 80s.
To play us off, one of the hottest disco hits of the 70s,
"Born To Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez...
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And look-- the awesome sight of a flash mob grooving to the song. Now
this is your Rockin' Royalty of Retro Radio, your #1 Dance Diva DJ
Thea Queen of Clubs aka "Speedy" urging you to shed the
blues and put on your boogie shoes. See you next time!
"Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez
(Aug./Sept. 1979, highest chart pos. #1 Disco/#16 Hot 100,
#17 Cash Box, Flashmob Dance, Feb. 2023)
Michael Jackson is always a treat! ~Kelly (and Pat)
ReplyDeleteHi, Kelly & Pat!
DeleteYou two old reliables are the first through the door again, and I thank you for coming on a Saturday, dear friend!
Welcome to Thea Queen's 12-inch platter party, her first official SPMM radio show as a new member of The Shady Bunch. I'm happy that you liked the song by the unknown one-hit-wonder recording artist named Michael Jackson. :)
Thanks again for coming early to take a look and a listen. Have a wonderful weekend, dear friend Kelly!
I remember most of those songs! I think that's a first. Leif Garrett has had an interesting career.
ReplyDeleteHi, Alex!
DeleteYou arrived early enough to take second, good buddy. Welcome to Thea Queen's disco bash!
Yes, I believe this is the first time in my blogging career that I have posted a song by child actor and singer Leif Garrett. It won't be the last, because I have another already in the pipeline. Stay tuned.
I'm glad you remember most of these songs from the 1970s and early 80s. Thanks again for stopping by, good buddy Alex, and enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Hey my friend Shady! You certainly made me want to get up and dance with this set. I don't remember all of them but there were a few. Sad story of Leif Garrett. I really like Kim Wilde's version of You Keep Me Hanging On. I think Vanilla Fudge does the one I know best.
ReplyDeleteHave a great rest of your weekend my friend. I'm hoping to get into San Francisco to try and get some more pictures for my A to Z. I really need to get going as the month is flying by!
Hi, Janet!
DeleteThanks for paying an evening visit, dear friend! Looks like you were boogieing on the dance floor at Thea Queen's Club Verdant while I was snoozing away in bed! :)
I'm delighted that you enjoyed this dance oriented post featuring classic disco hits of the 1970s and post-disco club sounds of the early 80s. These were the same songs I danced to night after night at various venues around Central PA (Lancaster - York and Harrisburg) during my second bachelorhood. In the case of Kim Wilde's 1987 Motown hit remake, I was already living down here in Florida by then and going to clubs in the greater Tampa Bay area. Kim's Hi-NRG cover of the Supremes biggie reached #1 in America and deservedly so. In addition to being one of the most exciting and danceworthy singles ever, the music video is of particular interest to me because it is so nicely produced. It was during this time period that I was working in MTV and making music videos of my own. I carefully studied big budget videos like Kim's to get ideas for my own productions. Thanks for reminding us that psychedelic white soul band Vanilla Fudge also released a noteworthy cover of "You Keep Me Hangin' On."
Yessum, I was just re-reading the story of Leif Garrett's troubled life. In late 1979, only a few months after he was riding high on the success of this major disco hit I posted, Leif drove under the influence of drugs and alcohol, crashed his mom's car and left his friend, a passenger in the car, a paraplegic. He has had numerous drug arrests in the years since.
Good luck capturing pics for your A to Z run starting soon. I can't wait to see what you have to offer and learn more about the area you call home.
Thanks again for your visit and comment. Please give my buddy Benny a hug and a smooch for me and enjoy the rest of your weekend, dear friend Janet!
Among other things, Leif Garrett appeared sporadically on the 1970s TV drama Family. I think he played Kristy McNichol's boyfriend on a few episodes. As you stated, Garrett was a child actor, but once he hit adolescence, his pretty boy looks just cried out "Teen idol!" and was pushed into being a recording star. Disco was the music back then that was deemed best to win the hearts of young Tiger Beat readers, though I recall reading an interview with Garrett at the height of his fame where he said that he preferred Led Zeppelin-type music. Obviously, Garrett had genuine talent along with looks (I just checked now to see what he looks like these days. Overweight, jowly, double-chinned, yet he STILL has those pretty eyes, always the last thing to go, unless you wipe 'em out with plastic surgery as Madonna did, but I digress.) I think it was just too much too fast for Garrett, as it often is with those who achieve fame at a young age.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of fame at a young age, there's perhaps the ultimate, the definitive, example, Michael Jackson, but I won't go into all of that. You know, I was watching a lot of MTV in the early 1980s, and have seen that Jackson video many, many times, yet all I remember of it is him doing his dance as the sidewalk squares light up beneath him. For the life of me I don't recall a guy in a trench coat following him around trying to take a picture. Nice joke ending that has the photographer nabbed by the cops, but it just didn't make my memory's cut.
That's all I got.
Hi, Kirk!
DeleteThanks for being Mr. Saturday Night and staying up late to visit Shady's Place, good buddy!
Thanks too for sharing memories and observations about the rise and fall of child actor and teen singing idol Leif Garrett. Like many other actors and musicians who found fame at an early age, Leif couldn't handle life in the fast lane and paid a terrible price. Just now, I found a clip of Leif performing "Uptown Girl," a 1981 single that only charted in Germany and only reached #74. Note that it is a different song with the same name, not the song made famous by Billy Joel two years later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vla612BvnZY
It's a shame Leif was still dabbling in lightweight, dance style pop songs in the early 1980s, because disco was dead by that time and rock was hot. He might have been able to make a successful transition to the Led Zeppelin style of music he preferred or become one of the pretty boys (like Bon Jovi/David Lee Roth) of the 1980s heavy metal hair band wave. I see that in the early 2010s, Leif began collaborating with a punk rock artist and songwriter on new material in that vein. However, his official list of recorded singles ended in 1981, his album releases ended in 2007 and his list of TV appearances and TV and film acting credits ended by 2010.
In selecting "Billie Jean" for vol. 1 of Thea Queen of Clubs, I watched the video for the first time in years. Like you, I didn't remember the furtive photog in the trenchcoat trying to track down Michael throughout the vid. I'm sure Michael's def dance moves on the illuminated sidewalk squares is the only aspect of the vignette most people remember.
Thanks again for visiting early in the post's run and for contributing so much to the conversation. For your convenience, my next two posts also go live on Saturdays with an entire week in between, starting with my next post on the 25th and followed by my time sensitive annual April Fools Day post on Saturday, April 1. Have a nice Sunday and a great week, good buddy Kirk!
Now we're talking! Leif Garrett was my teenage crush. Those eyes... lol
ReplyDeleteArrow was such a good show. I didn't want it to end.
Kim Wilde has some great songs. This was a really good cover.
Of course Michael Jackson is just iconic. He had so many great hits.
Klymaxx had a few good ones but they were never a group that I liked a lot.
I hope you have a good week.
Hi, Mary!
DeleteYour comment went straight through, dear friend. Yay! Welcome to Club Verdant, where all the happy people go in Star City!
I'm happy that this post resonated with you for several reasons, beginning with teen heartthrob Leif Garrett. It's too bad he screwed up his life the way he did. With his looks and charisma, he could have given us much more as a singer and as an actor.
I am also happy that you watched Arrow. I think you might be the only friend I have who has followed the DC Comics series.
It pleases me that you also liked Kim Wilde's cover of The Supremes' chart-topper from 1966. Having paid little attention to Kim as a recording artist most of my life, I have developed an appreciation of her output in recent years.
I'm pleased that you also give props to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, whose "Billie Jean'" smash I felt deserved to be included in this vol. 1 post featuring grade-A dance numbers of the 1970s and 80s.
Thanks again for joining the fun, dear friend Mary. Please take good care of yourself and my buddy Falcor and have a wonderful week!
I'm here and got my disco boots on and my sequined top and I'm ready to dance! Harley is wearing his purple hat with a bright pink feather on it.
ReplyDeleteThe first dong was a good old fashioned Dosco hit but I don't know the 2nd song nor the last one which was just meh for me...sorry Klymaxx.
Leif Garrett was do big in the day. My friend had his teen beat pic on her wall. I told her he looks like a girl. But I do know this song well and danced to it.
Kim Wilde did a great job on this Supremes hit and made it her own.
Billy Jean was a big hit for freak boy aka no nose aka M. Jackson back when he still looked ok. I think this was to be a response to the gossip that he got some chick pregnant.
Love the last song and danced my heart out often, to this tune.
Have a great day and week. Today it is -5 but it's supposed to get up to 11 by Thursday. Balmy!
Hi, Birgit!
DeleteThanks for coming to the potty, dear friend, and for bringing my good buddy, your smooch pooch Harley along with you! As the sign out front clearly states, I run a dog friendly blog.
Yessum, you are wearing a sequined top. I identified you immediately in row 16 of that flash mob. :) I like how you were waving a banner that read: "Meryl Streep's #1 Fan." :)
This is a family show, BB, and therefore I need to throw down the red flag and march off a 15-yard penalty to punish you for using the word "dong" so early in the day. :) You also threw me for a loop with the word "Dosco." Is it a naughty term? :) Is it anything like Disco? :)
You might not have been impressed with "Wild Girls," but the song is my Pick To Click for Thea Queen's entire post, a little known, seldom heard club gem hidden away on the Klymaxx album. I picked up the rare track on a various artists CD several years ago and it became a favorite in no time.
To this day, I am often mistaken for Leif Garrett and mobbed by women at malls. All seriousness aside :) ... the only way I actually resembled Leif was in my pattern of self destructive behavior during my first marriage and bachelor years.
I'm glad you went Wilde over Kim's killer kover, and that you dig the showender, the disco anthem by Patrick Hernandez and the flash mob video.
I hope by the end of the week spring will have sprung in your neck of the woods, so that you can take my buddy Harley out hunting for taboo treats to chew on. Is it true that he will soon publish a road kill cookbook? :)
Thanks again for joining the fun, dear friend BB, and have a super week!
I write on my phone and my big fingers hit the wrong letters. Sometimes the autocorrect does s real number
DeleteThat's AOK, dear friend BB. The judges have overturned the 15-yard penalty and you are back on the 3 yard line - first and goal! Thanks again for visiting me, dear friend BB. I look forward to your songfest tamale!
DeleteTom,
ReplyDeleteYikes, I so meant to come by on Saturday and it totally slipped my mind! I'm so sorry about that, my friend. As you know my presence online is usually zero during the weekends. With your visit this morning I wanted to do this, too. Good grief, I'm losing my mind!! What a fun set of songs - tunes to get you to your feet and onto the dance floor. I had a crush on Leif Garret when I was younger. What a shame how his life spiraled downward during his youth. I do remember his highest charting song, though. It came out the year DH and I got married. I made the rediscover of this track when I did a feature on the artist. "Keep Me Hanging On" and "Billie Jean" are oldies I recall from the 80s. You piqued my interest with the band Klymaxx. I don't remember them at all. Thanks for putting the groove in my move this morning, my friend. Have a boogietastic week!
Hi, Cathy!
DeleteThanks for attending Thea Queen's dance party, dear friend! That's AOK. I didn't expect to see you over the weekend, just glad you could make it today. Currently, and from now on, most of my posts will be 6 days apart. This one actually runs 7 days as does the next post which will also start on a Saturday. I am doing this to give myself more time to generate my own content and to make the rounds on the blog circuit and read and comment on the posts of friends like you. It was getting to be too much, overwhelming, extremely time consuming, and this adjustment should help a little in that regard.
I'm pleased that you liked Thea's first official radio show as a Shady Buncher. Seems like you and a couple of other friends had a crush on Leif Garrett back in the day. It's too bad he couldn't handle his success and fame, turned to booze and drugs and spiraled downward, as you put it. It makes me shudder to read how he drove impaired, crashed and left his buddy a paraplegic. I don't know how he lived it down, but I suppose it helps explain why he kept on using drugs to ease the pain and blot out the memory of what he did to the guy.
Thanks for singling out Klymaxx, one of the most underrated girl groups ever. They made some excellent, danceworthy recordings. Ironically, their biggest hit is the quiet storm ballad "I Miss You." I strongly prefer their up tempo material on that 1982 album Girls Will Be Girls which contains "Wild Girls." The album was produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who were responsible for the highly successful sound of Janet Jackson's recordings later in the 1980s and 90s. I also love the danceable 1985 Klymaxx clubbin' hit "Meeting In The Ladies Room," a song and video that I posted several years ago.
I'm so glad you had fun here on Shady's dance floor. Thanks again for coming and enjoy the rest of your week, dear friend Cathy!
Tom,
DeleteI do remember reading about the horrific accident Leif was in that you're referring to and as it is so often the one who suffered the greatest at least physically is not the driver but the passenger. It really is sad when people can't handle fame falling into the clutches of chemical dependency.
I need to get back over to YT to listen to Kymaxx. Thanks for sharing some of your favorites. I did a little on Monday but didn't spend enough time. I have too much to do and not enough time to do it. Thanks for dropping by this morning to learn about last week's BOTB outcome. Have a bandtastic day, my friend!
Hi, Cathy!
DeleteThanks for coming back over to chat, dear friend!
Yessum, what a shame Leif Garrett screwed-up his life the way he did. I'm sure you remember a similar thing happening to Mötley Crüe lead singer Vince Neil. in late 1984, Neil drove drunk, hit another car head-on and killed his passenger, another rock musician. Two people in the other car also suffered brain damage. Neil was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of alcohol. It is a bell that you cannot unring. I shudder to think of all the times I drove impaired in my youth. I am lucky to still be alive, and lucky that I didn't hurt anyone else as a result of my self destructive behavior all those years.
I would say that "Wild Girls" and "Meeting In The Ladies Room" are the two best songs by Klymaxx, but you might find more gems if you hunt for them on YouTube.
Thanks again for coming back over, and enjoy the rest of your week, dear friend Cathy!
Tom,
DeleteI vaguely remember something about Motley Crue band member Vince Neil but I think it was many years afterwards. I think someone in Blogosphere brought this to my attention. We're watching the A&E series, Gene Simmons: The Family Jewels and I was really surprised when he said something to the effort of there are no drugs and alcohol in his home. Behind the make-up and crazy stage presence, he seems like a normal dad. I'm beginning to think even when he speaks of his good looks that's really an imagine thing and not conceit. I'm actually enjoying the series. Anyway, I'm very thankful you lived through those reckless years unscratched and with no one suffering at your hands. That would be a hard thing to live with and only God can give someone the strength to deal with it, you know?
I still haven't had time to really dig into Kymaxx's music library but I did play "Meeting In The Ladies Room". It reminds me a little of something the Pointer Sisters might've done, don't you think? The only thing I'm not crazy about is some of the songs I've listened to has talking lyrics which I'm not a huge fan of. It's okay every now and then but if an artist repeats the same behavior in all of their music then it's disappointing. I do plan to dig a little deeper in their music when time allows. I've been wild with all of these routine appointments that I'm knocking off my list. Phew! Thanks for dropping by this morning for a peek at my art contributions for TAD. I'll try to make by on Saturday but if not you know I'll visit again on Monday. Have a doodletastic weekend, my friend!
Hi, Cathy!
DeleteThanks for the follow-up, dear friend!
It might have been me who discussed the Vince Neil car crash with you. Yessum, I have watched a few episodes of Family Jewels and agree that Gene Simmons seems like an excellent dad and a great influence on his kids. Unlike many rock stars, he is an advocate of clean, drug and alcohol free living. Another thing I know about Gene is he always preaches that you should save your hard-earned money rather than spending most of it. That's a bad habit may young people get into, and I was one of them. As you know, Gene is married to Playboy playmate Shannon Tweed. Coincidentally, I was just watching one of her mainstream erotic thriller movies the other day on Tubi.
Regarding the Klymaxx ladies talking in their songs, I get what you are saying. I can take it to a certain extent, but if most songs or every song contains chatter, that's too much and I lose interest in the group.
Thanks again for coming back over, dear friend Cathy. I hope all goes well at the dentist's office today. I'll be thinking about you. Take care and enjoy the rest of your week!
Hi Shady! Lots of moves and grooves with this post. I don't remember all the tunes of the disco age as I was busy with work and family stuff but Leif Garrett was a tv actor that I remember and he was so cute back then...but weren't we all? It's too bad he went the way of lots of child actors except maybe Ron Howard! I loved the flash mob dance and think those are so fun to watch and always think it would be fun to run into one some day. Kim Wilde did a good job with "You keep me hanging on". I think when it's already a good song that even the remakes are good. Well, I'm heading out with sis for some shop therapy and thankfully I'm feeling a lot better this morning! Have a good start of this beginning of Spring week! I bet there will lots of flash mobs down in Florida for Spring break! My niece is heading down there to check out colleges for her daughter! Take care Shady!
ReplyDeleteHi, Yaya!
DeleteI'm delighted to see you, dear friend! Thanks for setting aside time to visit Shady's Place during your trip to see Midge and Hope in Chicago. (I'm sure Annabelle will smell Hope dog on you when you get back home.)
Thea Queen from Arrow extends a warm welcome to you as she hosts her first official radio show on SPMM... the station with poison-ality. Yessum, given the time frame of these songs, it makes sense that you were focused on your medical career and raising a family and are therefore unfamiliar with some of them. These are the songs that I danced to in clubs in Central Pennsylvania and Central Florida during my "carefree" bachelor years while you were busy putting down those roots with a family.
Yessum, Leif Garrett seems to be the center of attention in this post. I didn't pay much attention to him as a singer or as an actor, but I did watch the movie Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice in which he appeared.
i'm so glad you enjoyed watching that flash mob. The phenomenon fascinates me, and I always look forward to watching videos of flash mobs staged inside shopping malls and outdoors in courtyards, parks and other public gathering places all over the world. Like you, I never saw one first hand, but would like to. In 2010, a flash mob event took place in the square of my old hometown, York, PA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6VRFsSidIc
I'm pleased that you appreciate Kim Wilde's cover of the 1966 Supremes chart-topper. With her Hi-NRG version, Kim repeated the success of the Motown girl group and reached #1 in America.
I am relieved and overjoyed to learn that you are feeling better this morning. Now you can truly have a good time shopping with the birthday girl today. It's neat that you and your sister have birthdays that are so close together.
It's been chilly here in Florida the last couple of days, but your niece should encounter moderating temperatures by the time she gets here. It might even be uncomfortably warm for her. I'm afraid spring breakers coming to Florida's west and southwest Gulf coast will find the beaches littered with dead and rotting fish that were killed by the wave of red tide plus mounds of rotting seaweed from a gigantic seaweed blob twice the width of the U.S. that is coming ashore in Florida. They will also need to endure the horrible smell and burning eyes associated with all of the above. It's a one-two punch and a P.R. disaster for Florida tourism.
Thanks again for coming to Thea's platter party, dear friend YaYa. Have a wonderful day and week, and please drive carefully on the way back home to my sweetie Annabelle in Ohio!
Hi Shady,
ReplyDeleteAfter a scrapbooking and video date of a weekend, I am so glad I caught this dance party. What a fun entry!
The only artist I'm not familiar with is Patrick Hernandez. I dig his style. You got me grooving with Michael Jackson, Kim Wilde, Klyymaxx, and Leif Garrett. I haven't listened to the last three artists in a hot minute.
You have me dancing into the evening and you may get me into the groove at both jobs tomorrow, dear friend.
Hi, Jessica Marie! How goes it, dear friend? Thanks for coming to Thea Queen's dance till you drop all-niter!
DeleteI'm pleasantly surprised that someone your age knows all of these artists except Patrick Hernandez. His hit disco anthem "Born To Be Alive" was huge in my neck of the woods. I owned the 12-inch dance single of that song and the 12-inch dance version of the Carrie Lucas number "Dance With You." I also had "That's Where The Happy People Go" by the Philadelphia disco band The Trammps on an album. (They are the group that started out in the 60s as R&B/Soul act The Volcanos and singles they released during that period were played heavily by Jerry "The Geator" Blavat on his TV and radio shows and at his in-person record hops. During my stint as a freelance DJ, I played all three of the above mentioned disco nuggets at parties. One such party that I hosted myself in early 1981 is legend. To this day, people still gather round the water cooler and reminisce about that huge bash. It lasted more than 12 hours - from early evening until approx. 9 am the next morning! Hundreds of people from all over Central PA attended, some of them friends and associates that worked at my TV station and at other TV and radio stations around the region. Some of the attendees were bartenders and waitresses from nightclubs where I hung out. They arrived in waves as their shifts ended. It was amazing. Just when the party seemed to be dying down, 50 more people would arrive! My roommate and I rented a large clubhouse with a portable dance floor, and the party people tore the roof off the sucker. Those were the days (and nights), my friend. We thought they'd never end.
Yessum, I hope this seamless set of dance classics keeps you movin' and groovin' at both jobs. I'm glad you liked what Thea has to offer.
Have a terrific week, dear friend JM!
Hi Shady,
DeleteDisco was my go to when I was a little girl and it was also my roller skateing go to as well. Roller disco is fun! I might have to go again this summer. I put my headphones in and go to town.
My dad was 17-22 during the disco era and we listened to disco a lot when the oldies stations played it. Mom was 8-13, I may have to ask her if she's familiar with these artists.
Have a great day, dear friend.
Hi again, Jessica Marie!
DeleteI still remember specific songs that I, my brother and my folks listened to when I was a very young child. Therefore, there's a good chance your mother, young as she was during the disco years, might remember some of the big hits of the genre such as these by Patrick Hernandez, The Trammps and Carrie Lucas. I'm happy to know that roller disco is still a thing and that you like to engage in the activity. Yessum, by all means, if there is a roller disco venue near you, then you should go and do a post on it.
Happy Tuesday, dear friend JM!