Archie Bell Tighten Up rhythms and weezling synthesizer push along the pretty instrumental and it’s truly infectious.Ġ1 01 Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony – The Hustle – AvcoĠ2 02 Hamilton Bohannon – Disco Stomp – BrunswickĠ5 NE Sister Sledge – Mama Never Told Me – AtlanticĠ7 NE Johnny Nash – Tears On My Pillow – CBSĠ9 06 Blackbyrds – Walking In Rhythm – Fantasyġ0 NE Frankie Valli – Swearin’ To God – Private Stockġ1 NE Showaddywaddy – Three Steps To Heaven – Bellġ2 NE Wings – Listen To What The Man Said – Capitolġ3 10 Status Quo – Roll Over Lay Down – Vertigoġ4 NE Chi-Lites – Have You Seen Her – Brunswickġ6 04 Tony Camillo’s Bazuka – Dynomite – A&Mġ7 16 Bimbo Jet – El Bimbo – EMI (Import)ġ8 12 Gary Glitter – Doing Alright With The Boys – Bellġ9 05 Disco Tex – I Wanna Dance Wit Choo – ChelseaĢ0 NE Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – Get Out (And Let Me Cry) – Route
The New York Sound sez the label and it sure is right ‘cos this Affair is a disco giant there. There can be no hard and fast rule of course other than to keep ’em happy and keep ’em dancing, but if you can entertain them AND yourself at the same time you should be really cookin’!ĬROWN HEIGHTS AFFAIR: Dreaming A Dream (De-Lite DEP 1570)
Consequently, unless you’ve got a super-hip crowd, at a mobile gig it’s always best to keep it obvious and simple with lots of hits to begin with – then later, when the talk has quietened down and you have felt out the crowd’s prevalent taste, get more adventurous. At many parties, people want to talk while they dance and are less likely to concentrate on the music. In clubs it’s much easier to play something that’s not well known – the speakers are likely to be mounted up higher and to have better penetration than at a mobile do. One of the very first things that I worked out when I started was that – amazing though it may seem – your average audience doesn’t dance to the music, it dances to the words. Obviously it’s a great buzz to turn people on to as yet unknown sounds, but unfortunately most people want to dance to tunes that they know. The primary aim of a discotheque is to entertain its audience, whether in a club or at a party. Until you’ve had time to join in – as I hope some of you other D-Js will – I’ll just continue with a few more of my own observations. LAST WEEK I began a discussion about the many differences between dee-jaying in clubs and at mobile gigs.
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