Word: discoing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makings of an international conspiracy. It's the lowest musical common denominator since the bongo drum; Sonny and Cher, Hall and Oates, Stiller and Meara, Leopold and Loeb, local starving artists in the street, they're all into it. Hendrix and Joplin are releasing posthumous albums of it. Disco. May the Good Lord take me, take us all, to the great Disco in the sky. The dam has burst, and vapidity in three-quarter time now envelopes us all. Yea, though I Hustle through the Valley of the Shadow...
Boys of the Lough: A folk band from the British Isles, these boys surely must realize that they'd better clean up their act with a little contemporary U.S. disco muzak to rope in those big bucks (or "pounds," if you will...
Mary Travers: Mary's quivering soprano should lend itself ideally to a disco version of "Puff the Disco Dragon." Symphony Hall, Sunday, October...
...with two former Volcanos, Norman Harris, 28, and Ronald Baker, 35. It was Baker who wrote That's Where the Happy People Go, the group's biggest hit. They are a congenial trio who have their eyes ever on the latest trend. The Trammps feature the new disco dances like the Abbey (danced in a crouch) and the Sly (mostly a series of jumps, splits and kickouts) and teach them to their audiences. Says Young: "We sort of look at ourselves as the Johnny Appleseeds of disco...
...they are all that zealous about it: "It's not gonna last forever. Right now everybody's talking about the Philly sound. Six months from now, it could be the Cleveland sound." As far as the people in Philly are concerned, however, the Trammps' identification with disco is complete. In addition to their current success as a live act, they were one of the lucky groups earlier on to have their records picked up by discotheques. "When they started the disco thing, we were just sitting there waiting for it," says Harris. And they knew what...