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80smusicfreak View Drop Down
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Originally posted by musicmanatl musicmanatl wrote:

I'm glad to see someone else hating on "Chattanooga Choo Choo"...[it's] simply awful in every way - so formulaic and by the numbers.

Disco for the "over 70" crowd, lol. Hey, if you thought "Disco Duck" was bad, just imagine if they'd used "Chattanooga Choo Choo" instead during the old-folks scene in "Saturday Night Fever", and included it on the iconic soundtrack, sandwiched in between "Stayin' Alive" and "How Deep is Your Love". :-) Don't forget, even (then) 71-year-old Ethel Merman released a disco album on a major label (A&M) in '79...

Originally posted by sriv94 sriv94 wrote:

Originally posted by 80smusicfreak 80smusicfreak wrote:

But there was also plenty of BAD disco that still makes me cringe to this day, inc. songs like "Copacabana (At the Copa)"


Why, sir, do you hate America? :)

See response to "Chattanooga Choo Choo" above... :-)
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<However, in the end, I'm afraid we're gonna have to agree to disagree on this one. :-) After listening to both of the above versions of the '76 re-make on YouTube as a refresher, IMO, this version of "Venus" epitomizes the WORST of disco music! >

Gregg, don't get me wrong. I bought this Frankie Avalon for the kitsch factor. Same with buying Andy Williams "Theme from Love Story" '76, and Paul Mauriat's "Love Is Still Blue" (1976 disco version). Those, however, are about the only 3 disco songs I bought for kitsch factor. (And I have a friend who bought the '1979 Ethel Merman disco LP, but I couldn't go that far.)

All others I've bought is because I really like the disco songs in question - e.g. "Copacabana", "Take Me Home", and I even somewhat like the Leif Garrett ones you mention :)
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Originally posted by EdisonLite EdisonLite wrote:

<However, in the end, I'm afraid we're gonna have to agree to disagree on this one. :-) After listening to both of the above versions of the '76 re-make on YouTube as a refresher, IMO, this version of "Venus" epitomizes the WORST of disco music! >

Gregg, don't get me wrong. I bought this Frankie Avalon for the kitsch factor. Same with buying Andy Williams "Theme from Love Story" '76, and Paul Mauriat's "Love Is Still Blue" (1976 disco version).


Yikes! There's even a "Love is Blue" [a song KI LOVE] remake/:)

BTW Right the year he died, Percy Faith did a
"Summer Place" disco remake...nothing like taking your biggest hit and dping a disco version. I know of the "Venus" remake,too.
You know you're really older when you think that younger singer Jesse McCartney's related in anyway to former Beatle Paul McCartney.
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