70s/80s Gay Dance Club

[eastofeden]

I am finally going through my 12" collection and gonna try to thin it out...I got a lot of promos I never even listened to...but I have been listening to stuff...some I haven't heard in 20-30 years instead...

Gonna post my favorites (if I can find them on YouTube)

John Davis & the Monster Orchestra...Ain't That Enough For You (1978)

 

[eastofeden]

Queen of Fools...Jessica Williams (1979/1983)

 

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Move On Up...Destination (1979)

 

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Have A Cigar...Rosebud (1977)

 

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What's On My Mind...Watson Beasley (1980)

 

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French Kiss...Lil Louis (1989)

 

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Can't Fake The Feeling...Geraldine Hunt (1979)

 

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This Time Baby...Jackie Moore (1979) ...BTW....1978-79 were probably the best years for gay disco...along with 1983 and possibly 1987

 

[eastofeden]

Don't Stop The Train...Phylliis Nelson (1981)

 

[m1thousand]

EastofEden,
I just realized I watched your 'namesake' yesterday . . the movie East of Eden (James Dean) he he

I dont think we attended the same clubs. I only know French Kiss

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[m1thousand]

 

[lambdaboy]

I took all our LP's which included 300 Disco Records and needless to say loads of others and put them on my IPOD CD's and everything Mozart ever wrote have 9300 [pieces of Music it would take 24 days to hear it all.

 

[Adrock-JD]

Don't Stop The Train...Phylliis Nelson (1981)

 

[eastofeden]

EastofEden,
I just realized I watched your 'namesake' yesterday . . the movie East of Eden (James Dean) he he

I dont think we attended the same clubs. I only know French Kiss

Yeah....I love Steinbeck and EastofEden was my favorite book (long before Oprah found out about it )....

I think we attended the same clubs..I just dug into the bin a little farther back...I think I am older than you When did you start going to clubs?

Betcha know this one....

It's Raining Men...Weather Girls (1983)

 

[eastofeden]

Love and Desire...Arpeggio (1979)

 

[eastofeden]

OK...1976...Oil Can Harrys on Larkin Street and The Mind Shaft on Market Street (SF)....

The songs I remember the most in gay clubs...

Love Machine...The Miracles

More More More...Andrea True

Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking...Supremes

...and the REAL Queen of Disco

Love Hangover...Diana Ross

 

[eastofeden]

...and speaking of The Miracles...one of the first songs that addressed gay men and homosexuality.....

Ain't Nobody Straight in LA...the Miracles (1975)

..and then in 1977...Motown released this

I Was Born This Way...Carl Bean (1977)...if you never appreciated this or listened to it...it was a great accomplishment in 1977

..

 

[eastofeden]

Boogie Woogie Dancing Shoes....Claudja Barry (1979)

 

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So Many Men So Little Time...Miguel Brown (1983)

 

[eastofeden]

High Energy...Evelyn Thomas (1984)

(Side note...I actually had no idea just how many disco 12" singles and LPs I had...it has been awhile since I visited that part of my collection...DAMN!)