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Nile Rodgers and The CHIC Organization at Lincoln Center 2012
After a thirty second emergency phone call from Josheeba, I ran to the train and arrived after the first number. Front and center with plenty of room to boogie. UNREAL. The sound was perfect and the band was tighter than maybe…well…ever before! It was a New York moment – to be listening to and loving so hard, the songs I call my favorites. To hear lyrics like, “Cute ponytails and curls,” or “Clams on the halfshell – and rollerskates,” being blasted from the bandshell at Lincoln Center was getting me close to a disco seizure. HELL YEAH! This is one to cross off the bucket list, seeing Nile Rodgers perform live with CHIC? Oh yes darling, I did that. AMAZING!
Nile said recently, “You have to remember, all CHIC songs are non-fiction. We always tell the truth.” Works for me, kids. Now ask yourself – what other artists can say that about their music? Certainly not Janet or Madame (MDME). Truthful lyrics make the music have magic. LONG LIVE NILE RODGERS. Amen to CHIC. Watch the video in the previous post for more drops of disco wisdom from Nile.
Here are some bits from the show… the sound recording is not good, but you can get a taste of the excitement. PLEASE NOTE: Everyone is in all white and Nile wore a turquoise tie. CHIC. The lead vocalists wore custom dresses with a nod to the the cut up t-shirt effect. CHIC. They use rhinestone studded wireless earpieces. CHIC CHIC. A little choreography goes a very long way with songs like these. CHIC. And, as Josh put it, that move is called a “shake your bangle snap.” CHIC!
and now, enjoy the slideshow:
“(Without love) There’s no reason to live
(Without you) And what would I do with the love I give
(All my lovin’) To you I’ll be giving
And I promise, yes I’ll do, as long as I’m living”
♥
Nile Rodgers tells it…
If you have an hour. Spend it on this.
“All CHIC songs are non-fiction. We always tell the truth.”
Jubilee Disco
Deodato – Keep It In The Family
The Jacksons – Walk Right Now
No idea what the lyrics mean – but Michael sounds great and this production is GLOSSY. (three horn hits) Valentina played this one on Thursday night high up overlooking Manhattan from the closed in terrace of Company 3. It filled the floor. It’s a floor filler. When you just can’t listen to “Can You Feel It” one more time, throw this one on. It has all the same effects and did I mention?…(Three horn hits.) This would be a great track to teach a toddler how to count to three.
Written, produced, arranged and performed by The Jacksons, this track never made it past seventy-three but went to number seven in the UK in 1981 (when the music was better.) This is a special promo 12″ version. The album is TRIUMPH by
CRANK IT
Love Is In Control (Finger On The Trigger) – Dance remix
OK – I gotta stop now. It’s the ’70s classics and the Non-Stop Suites that are the most important to have. Everybody should have them. Donna Summer had many more hits after 1982 when this one came out. I think I better leave it up to each of you individually to find them and add them to your collections. Now let’s go back and listen to all of them again!
I’m Donna’d out. But it feels great.
9/11 dust! Why am I still alive? I was down near ground zero cooking hamburgers and hot dogs for the firemen! It’s a cruel world, but the Non-Stop Suites make things easier. They just keep playing and playing and playing….
State Of Independence
Vangelis in the house of Summer. This one may cause emotional flashbacks to a happier time. Listen with caution and if you are using headphones, for God’s sake please have a few extra Kleenex stuffed into the cuff of your sleeve. This music is very powerful and should be played with consideration.
I Feel Love – Patrick Cowley Mix
One of the greatest important remixes of all time….this is history you can listen to.
In 1978, disco and Hi-NRG pioneer Patrick Cowley created a 15:45 remix of “I Feel Love” which, despite not impressing Moroder, became a popular “underground classic” available only on acetate discs. The remix used loops, keeping the song’s bass-line going for extended passages of overdubbed effects and synthesizer parts.
In mid-1980, Cowley’s mix was released with the title “I Feel Love / I Feel Megalove” and subtitle “The Patrick Cowley MegaMix”, but only on a limited vinyl pressing by the DJ-only subscription service Disconet.
Heaven Knows – 12″ Version
Click the pics – download the mp3’s for free – play at least one daily – feel better.
This track features vocals by the group Brooklyn Dreams with lead vocals by Joe “Bean” Esposito.
Try Me I Know We Can Make It – 12″ Version
That would be the eighteen minute version. Dee Jays call this type of track a “Bathroom Break.”
Could It Be Magic? – 12″ Version
Probably my favorite…
Sunset People – 12″ Version
Download the 12″ for free.
This is a TV special from 1979. Looks like Hollywood Blvd to me…??
Walk Away – 12″ Version
Now I will start with a few of my favorite 12″ mixes. There are so many – but a few are what makes me weak. DISCO TRISTE we called it.
No More Tears (Enough is Enough) – 12″ Version
Two voices – like DNA strands – intertwining, spiraling around each other in a double helix of endless disco divinity. ( HA! That’s gay. )
Do It To The Music
Get movin, get groovin,
Come on everybody do it (with feeling!)
That’s the perfect production sound of Raw Silk, not to be confused with Raw Satin, which are Ann Margret’s back up dancers. (cheek suck with eyebrow lift.)
The group consisted of two Crown Heights Affair members, Ron Dean Miller and Bert Reid, and three female vocalists Jessica Cleaves, Sybil Thomas, Tenita Jordan.
The memories consist of Sister Dimension looking down from above teaching us, Lady Kier with extremely short hair and Bunny suddenly becoming very serious about dancing to this rare groove. We studied hard. We learned.
This is known as…
“classical music.”
Love Me Right
Love Me Right (Dance Version) – Aretha Franklin
Produced by Luther Vandross who was also the first president of The Aretha Franklin Fan Club. This production is still some of the finest you will ever hear. The background vocals are dynamite. Love me right.
Accept Change
Change of Heart – 12″ version – Change
“…and you knew that.”
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