A disco revival with Sam Disco Classics

A disco revival with Sam Disco Classics

16 February, 2008 | 11.51AM

• Written by: Lewis Dene
• Filed under: Music News: sam records

Sam Records was there in the very beginning of New York’s great disco movement when music equaled “the three Fs” — Fun, Freedom and Flares!

If all disco means to you is records like ‘I Will Survive’, ‘Ring My Bell’ or anything by the Village People or Boney M, plus tacky glitter 1970s fashions and impossible-to-get-into nightclubs of the Studio 54 variety, ‘Nervous Presents Sam Disco Classics Volume 2’ will touch you on one level, but should also be a real eye opener.

Sure, the above description sums up disco on the mainstream surface, and to the casual Saturday night clubber 30 years ago, it really was so much more than a just camp footnote in pop music’s history.

When disco entered the vernacular, things would never be the same again — what’s one man’s karaoke classic, became another’s excuse to shout “disco sucks” and blow up thousands of records on the out-field of a baseball stadium.

If nothing else, disco was always colourful, glamorous and at times, never short of controversy.

This album is for those who loved disco so much, it became a necessary soundtrack to their lifestyles — as much as it is for the curious who have been fascinated by the recent mass interest in everything retro.

Tracks like Gary’s Gang ‘Keep On Dancin’ and Vicky D’s ‘This Beat Is Mine’ will instantly whisk you back to a bygone era.

The inclusion of one of my all time favourite records, Greg Henderson’s ‘Dreamin’, just makes me melt – a truly wonderful example of early 1980s New York boogie.

The funk of Mike & Brenda Sutton (pictured) with ‘Don’t Let Go Of Me’ and Glen Adams’ ‘It’s Just A Groove’ highlight the inspirational sample sources of latter day house producers.

It’s history, people!

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