some simple help here in this post if you can please?

[rovingcowboy]

in the list below is what i have listed in my computer as disco genere.
but my sister says half of them are not disco but she won't help me find
out what are not disco.

so can some one go through this list that knows disco and tell me what are disco songs and what are not? thanks.

• "Abba ","Chiquitita"
  "Abba ","Dancing Queen"
  "Abba ","Does Your Mother Know"
  "Abba ","Fernando"
  "Abba ","Gimme Gimme Gimme"
  "Abba ","Knowing Me, Knowing You"
  "Abba ","Mamma Mia"
  "Abba ","S.O.S"
  "Abba ","Super Trooper"
  "Abba ","Take a Chance On Me"
  "Abba ","Voulez Vous"
  "Abba ","Waterloo"
  "Alicia Bridges","I Love The Nightlife"
  "American Breed","Bend Me Shape Me"
  "Andy Gibb ","I Just Want To Be Your Everything"
  "Andy Gibb ","Shadow Dancing"
  "Carl Carlton","Everlasting Love"
  "Climax Blues Band","Couldn't Get It Right"
  "Danny and The Juniors","At The Hop"
  "Daryl Hall & John Oates ","Kiss On My List"
  "Daryl Hall & John Oates","Rich Girl"
  "Donna Summer ","Hot Stuff"
  "Donna Summer ","Last Dance"
  "Donna Summer ","On The Radio"
  "Free ","All Right Now"
  "Gloria Gaynor ","I Will Survive"
  "Heatwave ","Boogie Nights"
  "Irene Cara ","Flashdance"
  "James Brown ","I Got You I Feel Good"
  "KC & The Sunshine Band ","Keep It Comin' Love"
  "KC & The Sunshine Band ","Shake Your Booty"
  "KC & The Sunshine Band ","That's The Way I Like It"
  "Kool & The Gang ","Celebration"
  "Love Unlimited Orchestra","Love's Theme"
  "MFSB ","TSOP the sound of Philadelphia"
  "Orleans ","Dance With Me"
  "Peaches & Herb","Shake Your Groove Thing"
  "Q ","Dancin' Man"
  "Sam & Dave ","Soul Man"
  "Silver Convention","Fly, Robin Fly"
  "Spinners ","The Rubberband Man Long"
  "Starland Vocal Band","Afternoon Delight"
  "Steam ","Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"
  "Stephanie Mills ","Never Knew Love Like This"
  "Taco ","Puttin' On The Ritz"
  "The 5th Dimension ","Aquarius/Let The Sunshine"
  "The Bee Gees","Jive Talkin'"
  "The Bee Gees","Love So Right"
  "The Bee Gees","Night Fever"
  "The Bee Gees","Stayin' Alive"
  "The Bee Gees","You Should Be Dancing"
  "The Commodores ","Brick House"
  "The Contours ","Do You Love Me"
  "The Emotions","Best Of My Love"
  "The Hues Corporation ","Rock The Boat"
  "The Miracles ","Love Machine"
  "The Spencer Davis Group ","Gimme Some Lovin'"
  "The Sylvers ","Boogie Fever"
  "The Trammps ","Disco Inferno"
  "The Weather Girls ","IT's Raining Men"
  "Van McCoy ","The Hustle"
  "Vicki Sue Robinson ","Turn The Beat Around"
  "Village People","In The Navy"
  "Village People","Macho Man"
  "Village People","Y.M.C.A."
  "Walter Murphy","A Fifth of Beethoven"
  "Yvonne Elliman ","If I Can't Have You"

[alanl]

You got me there! Although I listened to all that stuff in the 70s and knew I was listening to Disco when I heard it (although it wasn't actually a "genre" at the time), I've never been able to define it. Maybe it's the tempo

"Initially, most disco songs catered to a nightclub/dancing audience only, rather than general audiences such as radio listeners, but there are many aspects proving opposite tendencies as well; popular radio-hits were being played in discothèques, as long as they had an easy to follow rhythmic bass-pattern close to 120 BPM (beats per minute). Most 1970s Disco genre songs had a distinctive four/four bass drum beat."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco

From your list I'd go for "The Bee Gees","Jive Talkin'" , "The Hues Corporation ","Rock The Boat", "Gloria Gaynor ","I Will Survive" for instance, but wouldn't include "Sam & Dave ","Soul Man" or "The Contours ","Do You Love Me". I've no idea why I used those examples but I suppose, like all music, it just comes down to what you feel.

Not much help, I know, but perhaps others more knowledgeable could follow up?

Cheers

Alan

[Steegy]

Most of them are Disco (at least my definition of Disco) but I don't have my music with me to check.

@rovingcowboy: If you haven't got a satisfactory answer in the next week, you can send me a PM to remember me to check the songs.

[tinana]

Oh yea, that's all disco for sure. The fact that your sister says half of it's not but won't say which ones aren't tells you there she's joshin' you

[rovingcowboy]

yep thats what i thought too at first but then looking it over again

i see danny and the juniors at the hop. and i know that is a late 1950's song
but it has the same tempo as disco so i loaded in the list.

but i am not sure about the rest of them as they all seem to be the same beat. but i know they were not all released under the disco genera.

i just don't know which were and which were not.?

[Scooter]

Whats R&B and what's Disco? Depends on whose catagorizing them.

Whats jazz and whats big band?

Whats rock and whats vocal?

Whats country and whats bluegrass?

The genre's aren't absolute--they are there for your convenience so you can find the songs you want. If you think the Allman Brothers are disco, then you go girl, they're disco.

[rovingcowboy]

yes that is so true scooter but the songs are released under a genera from the record companys.

i think that is what my sister ment when she said half of them are not disco. and so i posted here.

i remember some 45's alanl that were listed as disco as a genera, so they must have started it in the late 70's

i know the above list has some disco that is very clearly disco like the songs that have disco and boogie in their names. so we can remove them i guess and the ones that are not disco but blues. or just dance songs, and then just try and get the rest of them found out.?
so the list below is the revised list from above. and what i am not sure
about.?

• "Abba ","Chiquitita"
  "Abba ","Dancing Queen"
  "Abba ","Does Your Mother Know"
  "Abba ","Fernando"
  "Abba ","Gimme Gimme Gimme"
  "Abba ","Knowing Me, Knowing You"
  "Abba ","Mamma Mia"
  "Abba ","S.O.S"
  "Abba ","Super Trooper"
  "Abba ","Take a Chance On Me"
  "Abba ","Voulez Vous"
  "Abba ","Waterloo"
  "Alicia Bridges","I Love The Nightlife"
  "American Breed","Bend Me Shape Me"
  "Andy Gibb ","I Just Want To Be Your Everything"
  "Andy Gibb ","Shadow Dancing"
  "Carl Carlton","Everlasting Love"
  "Climax Blues Band","Couldn't Get It Right"
  
  "Daryl Hall & John Oates ","Kiss On My List"
  "Daryl Hall & John Oates","Rich Girl"
  
  
  
  "Free ","All Right Now"
  "Gloria Gaynor ","I Will Survive"
  
  "Irene Cara ","Flashdance"
  "James Brown ","I Got You I Feel Good"
  "KC & The Sunshine Band ","Keep It Comin' Love"
  "KC & The Sunshine Band ","Shake Your Booty"
  "KC & The Sunshine Band ","That's The Way I Like It"
  "Kool & The Gang ","Celebration"
  "Love Unlimited Orchestra","Love's Theme"
  "MFSB ","TSOP the sound of Philadelphia"
  "Orleans ","Dance With Me"
  "Peaches & Herb","Shake Your Groove Thing"
  "Q ","Dancin' Man"
  
  
  "Spinners ","The Rubberband Man Long"
  "Starland Vocal Band","Afternoon Delight"
  "Steam ","Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"
  "Stephanie Mills ","Never Knew Love Like This"
  "Taco ","Puttin' On The Ritz"
  "The 5th Dimension ","Aquarius/Let The Sunshine"
  
  
  
  
  
  "The Commodores ","Brick House"
  "The Contours ","Do You Love Me"
  "The Emotions","Best Of My Love"
  "The Hues Corporation ","Rock The Boat"
  "The Miracles ","Love Machine"
  "The Spencer Davis Group ","Gimme Some Lovin'"
  
  
  "The Weather Girls ","IT's Raining Men"
  "Van McCoy ","The Hustle"
  "Vicki Sue Robinson ","Turn The Beat Around"
  
  
  
  "Walter Murphy","A Fifth of Beethoven"
  "Yvonne Elliman ","If I Can't Have You"

thanks again.

[Peke]

For me "Kool & The Gang ","Celebration" is Dance Hall rather than Disco or at least it is Disco/Dance

"KC & The Sunshine Band ","Shake Your Booty" Is for me Disco Funk

"Irene Cara ","Flashdance" Disco Dance

"Gloria Gaynor ","I Will Survive" 100% Disco

"Daryl Hall & John Oates ","Kiss On My List" it is more Pop than Disco or both
Same goes for "Carl Carlton","Everlasting Love" but more Disco than Pop

"The Weather Girls ","IT's Raining Men" Disco/Funk

[junglemonkey]

well i just been finishing up on this post.
here is what i found out by looking for the songs and artists at online stores.

my sister was right half or about half of them were not listed as disco.

but some of the ones she said were not disco are on disco albums so they are disco weather she likes it or not.

here is the list i got it is not an absoulte answer because i could not find the genre listed for the songs. but the songs are found in the following
album circles as i have found online.

• these are the songs from the second list i posted above and are those that appear on disco albums alot, and on the groups own albums.
  which are either under dance or soul. or motown,
  
  "Abba ","Chiquitita"
  "Abba ","Dancing Queen"
  "Abba ","Does Your Mother Know"
  "Abba ","Fernando"
  "Abba ","Gimme Gimme Gimme"
  "Abba ","Knowing Me, Knowing You"
  "Abba ","Mamma Mia"
  "Abba ","S.O.S"
  "Abba ","Super Trooper"
  "Abba ","Take a Chance On Me"
  "Abba ","Voulez Vous"
  "Abba ","Waterloo"
  "Alicia Bridges","I Love The Nightlife"
  "Andy Gibb ","I Just Want To Be Your Everything"
  "Andy Gibb ","Shadow Dancing"
  "Gloria Gaynor ","I Will Survive"
  "KC & The Sunshine Band ","Keep It Comin' Love"
  "KC & The Sunshine Band ","Shake Your Booty"
  "KC & The Sunshine Band ","That's The Way I Like It"
  "Kool & The Gang ","Celebration"
  "Peaches & Herb","Shake Your Groove Thing"
  "Spinners ","The Rubberband Man Long"
  "The Commodores ","Brick House"
  "The Emotions","Best Of My Love"
  "The Hues Corporation ","Rock The Boat"
  "The Miracles ","Love Machine"
  "Van McCoy ","The Hustle"
  "Vicki Sue Robinson ","Turn The Beat Around"
  "Walter Murphy","A Fifth of Beethoven"
  "Yvonne Elliman ","If I Can't Have You"
  
  
  these are songs that i did not find on disco albums at all.
  but rather i found on their own albums or on classic , R&B, Soul, rock albums.
  
  60's 70's rock "American Breed","Bend Me Shape Me"
  70's R&B "Carl Carlton","Everlasting Love"
  70's rock "Climax Blues Band","Couldn't Get It Right"
  70's rock "Daryl Hall & John Oates ","Kiss On My List"
  70's rock "Daryl Hall & John Oates","Rich Girl"
  60's 70's rock "Free ","All Right Now"
  80's rock "Irene Cara ","Flashdance"
  60's soul or R&B "James Brown ","I Got You I Feel Good"
  70's rock "Love Unlimited Orchestra","Love's Theme"
  70's R&B "MFSB ","TSOP the sound of Philadelphia"
  70's rock "Orleans ","Dance With Me"
  70's rock "Q ","Dancin' Man"
  70's rock "Starland Vocal Band","Afternoon Delight"
  60's 70's rock "Steam ","Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"
  70's rock "Stephanie Mills ","Never Knew Love Like This"
  60's 70's rock "Taco ","Puttin' On The Ritz"
  60's rock "The 5th Dimension ","Aquarius/Let The Sunshine"
  60's 70's R&B rock "The Contours ","Do You Love Me"
  60's rock "The Spencer Davis Group ","Gimme Some Lovin'"
  80's rock "The Weather Girls ","IT's Raining Men"

if any one knows the real riaa released genera of a song listed above and it is listed in this third list improper please tell us so i and the rest will know also. thanks.

rovingcowboy / keith hall / junglemonkey

[Steegy]

Relying on the album genre or the RIAA genre is one of the lastest things you should do. In contradiction to what most people think, albums like "Trance 2006" contain more Dance than the genre that they are supposed to contain.
Music albums are commercial and made to make money. So their creators don't mind assigning it another genre, or don't even know what that genre is.

The best thing to do is to listen to real, base genre songs and then listen if other songs have similar style. If so, then it's the same genre (at least the same main genre).

[Steegy]

This is Disco:

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Abba - Dancing Queen
Abba - Gimme Gimme Gimme
Abba - Voulez vous
(Alicia Bridges - I Love The Nightlife)
Donna Summer  - Hot Stuff
Gloria Gaynor  - I Will Survive
KC & The Sunshine Band  - Keep It Comin' Love
KC & The Sunshine Band  - Shake Your Booty
KC & The Sunshine Band  - That's The Way I Like It
Kool & The Gang  - Celebration
The Bee Gees - Night Fever
The Bee Gees - Love So Right
The Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
(The Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing)
The Hues Corporation  - Rock The Boat
The Trammps  - Disco Inferno
The Weather Girls  - IT's Raining Men
Village People - In The Navy
Village People - Y.M.C.A.
Yvonne Elliman  - If I Can't Have You

I don't know these songs:

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Andy Gibb - I Just Want To Be Your Everything
Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing
Carl Carlton - Everlasting Love
Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right
Daryl Hall & John Oates  - Kiss On My List
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Rich Girl
Donna Summer  - Last Dance
Donna Summer  - On The Radio
Heatwave  - Boogie Nights
MFSB  - TSOP the sound of Philadelphia
Orleans  - Dance With Me
Peaches & Herb - Shake Your Groove Thing
Sam & Dave  - Soul Man
Silver Convention - Fly, Robin Fly
Spinners  - The Rubberband Man Long
Steam  - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
Stephanie Mills  - Never Knew Love Like This
The 5th Dimension  - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine
The Bee Gees - Jive Talkin'
The Contours  - Do You Love Me
The Emotions - Best Of My Love
The Miracles  - Love Machine
Van McCoy  - The Hustle
Vicki Sue Robinson  - Turn The Beat Around
Village People - Macho Man
Walter Murphy - A Fifth of Beethoven

A big part of your songs are oldies/soul/...

Listen to the real Disco songs and you should definately hear what disco is (well, at least the main genre).

Disco: hear the very distinctive 2nd beat (hand clap, snare, hihat, ...), in a very 4/4 constant rhythm, with a tempo not too slow and not too fast (the right tempo to do disco dancing of course!)

If you still don't know, check Wikipedia: it has some basic definition of the disco main genre and has a list of Dsico artists/songs.

[rovingcowboy]

thanks i just relised i misspelled one name.

silver connvention should be

sylver connvention.

the songs you say are diso that you know are also ones i found to be disco.

the ones you don't know. of

• Andy Gibb - I Just Want To Be Your Everything
  Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing
  Carl Carlton - Everlasting Love
  Donna Summer - Last Dance
  Donna Summer - On The Radio
  Heatwave - Boogie Nights
  
  MFSB - TSOP the sound of Philadelphia (TV's soul train's show theme.) not many words but sure is played everywhere? i think it is disco soul.
  
  Peaches & Herb - Shake Your Groove Thing
  Silver Convention - Fly, Robin Fly
  Spinners - The Rubberband Man Long
  Stephanie Mills - Never Knew Love Like This
  The Bee Gees - Jive Talkin'
  The Miracles - Love Machine
  Van McCoy - The Hustle
  Vicki Sue Robinson - Turn The Beat Around
  
  Village People - Macho Man think of the commerical for nacho's. they used this song and changed the words to nacho nacho man i want to be a nacho man.
  
  Walter Murphy - A Fifth of Beethoven

those are disco also just not what apears to be straght disco but either disco dance or disco funk or disco soul.

[MarineBrat]

Some of them aren't even close to disco...

"American Breed","Bend Me Shape Me"
60's Pop/Rock

"Danny and The Juniors","At The Hop"
50's Rock

"Free ","All Right Now"
70's Rock

"Sam & Dave ","Soul Man"
R&B

"The 5th Dimension ","Aquarius/Let The Sunshine"
60's Pop

"The Contours ","Do You Love Me"
60's Pop/Rock

"The Spencer Davis Group ","Gimme Some Lovin'"
60's Rock/Pop

"Yvonne Elliman ","If I Can't Have You"
Pop (This one's disco-ish, but I give a break to Yvonne Elliman, because I have always been in love with her. She played Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar which was a smash hit when I was 11 years old. And as far as I know she's the only one of the primary characters who played in all three of the main productions... the Broadway play, the movie and the Rock Opera (the album). She's a beautiful and exotic woman!)