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Jackson 5’s “Forever Came Today,” featuring the first example of what would become the quintessential disco bassline, is released.
Summer 1975. The Hustle craze is in full flight, leading to disco seemingly taking over the music industry.
December 1975. There are an estimated ten thousand discos across the United States.
May 1976. Double Exposure’s “Ten Percent,” mixed by Walter Gibbons, becomes the first commercially available twelve-inch single.
1977. The Warehouse opens in Chicago with Frankie Knuckles at the helm. The club would become the crucible of House music, into which disco eventually dissolved.
April 26, 1977. Studio 54 opens.
July 1977. Disco’s ultimate synthesizer record, Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love,” is released and creates not only the template for Hi-NRG but also for the mechanized, dehumanized feel that disco detractors hated.
December 1977. Saturday Night Fever is released.
February 1978. The Paradise Garage, the club presided over by the person nearly everyone calls the world’s greatest DJ, Larry Levan, officially opens.
November 1978. James White & the Blacks release “Contort Yourself,” the first merger of punk and disco.
February 1979. America’s disco industry is valued at $4 billion.
July 12, 1979. Chicago DJ Steve Dahl explodes ten thousand disco records in between games of a double-header at Comiskey Park, setting off a riot that destroyed not only the outfield but disco as a mainstream genre.
December 6, 1979. Europe’s most famous gay discotheque, Heaven, opens in London.
September 20, 1980. The gay discotheque to end all gay discotheques, the Saint, opens in New York’s East Village.
1981. John “Jellybean” Benitez takes over as the DJ at the New York club the Funhouse, and presides over the rise of freestyle, one of the many forms into which disco mutated.
1983. Ian Levine produces Miquel Brown’s “So Many Men, So Little Time,” and Hi-NRG is born.
1994. Terrace chants to the tune of the Village People’s “Go West” echo across European football/soccer stadiums.
November 17, 1999. Disco is enshrined by the U.S. Postal Service with a disco stamp.
DISCOGRAPHY
1. THE ROTTEN APPLE
Abaco Dream. “Life and Death in G & A,” 1969, A&M 1081.
Ace Spectrum. “Keep Holding On,” 1975, Atlantic DSKO60.
Afrique. “Soul Makossa,” 1973, Mainstream 5542.
All Directions. “Soul Makossa,” 1973, Buddah 362.
Anderson Brothers. “I Can See Him Loving You,” 1974, GSF GS003.
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. “The Twist,” 1960, King 5171.
Darrell Banks. “Open the Door to Your Heart,” 1966, Revilot RV201.
Barrabas. Barrabas, 1972, RCA APL10219.
_____. “Mellow Blow,” 1975, Atlantic DSKO56.
J. J. Barnes. “Our Love Is in the Pocket,” 1969, Revilot RV222.
Rose Batiste. “Hit & Run,” 1966, Revilot RV204.
Biddu Orchestra. “Summer of ’42,” 1975, Epic 50139.
_____. “Blue Eyed Soul” from Blue Eyed Soul, 1975, Epic 80836.
_____. “I Could Have Danced All Night”/“Jump For Joy,” 1976, Epic 50173.
_____. “Rain Forest,” 1976, Epic 4084.
Black Blood. “AIE (A’Mwana)” from Chicano, 1975, Biram 6325634.
Genie Brown. “I Can’t Stop Talking” from A Woman Alone, 1973, Dunhill/ABC DSX50155.
James Brown. “Night Train,” 1962, King 5614.
_____. “(Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine,” 1970, King 6318.
_____. “Hot Pants (She Got to Use What She Got to Get What She Wants),” 1971, People 2501.
Polly Brown. “Up in a Puff of Smoke,” 1975, GTO 1002.
B.T. Express. “Do It (’Til You’re Satisfied),” 1974, Scepter 12395.
Buari. “Advice from Father” from Buari, 1975, RCA APL11045.
John Cage. Imaginary Landscape No. 1 from Early Modulations: Vintage Volts, 1997, Caipirinha CAI2027.
Calhoon. “(Do You Wanna) Dance Dance Dance,” 1975, Warner Bros. PRO601.
Carstairs, The. “It Really Hurts Me Girl,” 1973, Red Coach 802.
Ralph Carter. “When You’re Young and in Love,” 1975,
Summer 1975. The Hustle craze is in full flight, leading to disco seemingly taking over the music industry.
December 1975. There are an estimated ten thousand discos across the United States.
May 1976. Double Exposure’s “Ten Percent,” mixed by Walter Gibbons, becomes the first commercially available twelve-inch single.
1977. The Warehouse opens in Chicago with Frankie Knuckles at the helm. The club would become the crucible of House music, into which disco eventually dissolved.
April 26, 1977. Studio 54 opens.
July 1977. Disco’s ultimate synthesizer record, Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love,” is released and creates not only the template for Hi-NRG but also for the mechanized, dehumanized feel that disco detractors hated.
December 1977. Saturday Night Fever is released.
February 1978. The Paradise Garage, the club presided over by the person nearly everyone calls the world’s greatest DJ, Larry Levan, officially opens.
November 1978. James White & the Blacks release “Contort Yourself,” the first merger of punk and disco.
February 1979. America’s disco industry is valued at $4 billion.
July 12, 1979. Chicago DJ Steve Dahl explodes ten thousand disco records in between games of a double-header at Comiskey Park, setting off a riot that destroyed not only the outfield but disco as a mainstream genre.
December 6, 1979. Europe’s most famous gay discotheque, Heaven, opens in London.
September 20, 1980. The gay discotheque to end all gay discotheques, the Saint, opens in New York’s East Village.
1981. John “Jellybean” Benitez takes over as the DJ at the New York club the Funhouse, and presides over the rise of freestyle, one of the many forms into which disco mutated.
1983. Ian Levine produces Miquel Brown’s “So Many Men, So Little Time,” and Hi-NRG is born.
1994. Terrace chants to the tune of the Village People’s “Go West” echo across European football/soccer stadiums.
November 17, 1999. Disco is enshrined by the U.S. Postal Service with a disco stamp.
DISCOGRAPHY
1. THE ROTTEN APPLE
Abaco Dream. “Life and Death in G & A,” 1969, A&M 1081.
Ace Spectrum. “Keep Holding On,” 1975, Atlantic DSKO60.
Afrique. “Soul Makossa,” 1973, Mainstream 5542.
All Directions. “Soul Makossa,” 1973, Buddah 362.
Anderson Brothers. “I Can See Him Loving You,” 1974, GSF GS003.
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters. “The Twist,” 1960, King 5171.
Darrell Banks. “Open the Door to Your Heart,” 1966, Revilot RV201.
Barrabas. Barrabas, 1972, RCA APL10219.
_____. “Mellow Blow,” 1975, Atlantic DSKO56.
J. J. Barnes. “Our Love Is in the Pocket,” 1969, Revilot RV222.
Rose Batiste. “Hit & Run,” 1966, Revilot RV204.
Biddu Orchestra. “Summer of ’42,” 1975, Epic 50139.
_____. “Blue Eyed Soul” from Blue Eyed Soul, 1975, Epic 80836.
_____. “I Could Have Danced All Night”/“Jump For Joy,” 1976, Epic 50173.
_____. “Rain Forest,” 1976, Epic 4084.
Black Blood. “AIE (A’Mwana)” from Chicano, 1975, Biram 6325634.
Genie Brown. “I Can’t Stop Talking” from A Woman Alone, 1973, Dunhill/ABC DSX50155.
James Brown. “Night Train,” 1962, King 5614.
_____. “(Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine,” 1970, King 6318.
_____. “Hot Pants (She Got to Use What She Got to Get What She Wants),” 1971, People 2501.
Polly Brown. “Up in a Puff of Smoke,” 1975, GTO 1002.
B.T. Express. “Do It (’Til You’re Satisfied),” 1974, Scepter 12395.
Buari. “Advice from Father” from Buari, 1975, RCA APL11045.
John Cage. Imaginary Landscape No. 1 from Early Modulations: Vintage Volts, 1997, Caipirinha CAI2027.
Calhoon. “(Do You Wanna) Dance Dance Dance,” 1975, Warner Bros. PRO601.
Carstairs, The. “It Really Hurts Me Girl,” 1973, Red Coach 802.
Ralph Carter. “When You’re Young and in Love,” 1975,
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