Desecrated by Disco

I should have been more specific. Meant to say post cover dance versions of worldwide classics or standards (for instance, Auld Lang Syne), as opposed to original dance songs that became standards (YMCA)

Except for Ethel Merman's whole CD, this has got to be the worst:

Let's get the obvious thread owner out of the way so we can get on with it.

This one would make Dusty spin in her grave...and twirl and dance with approval because it's actually pretty good

Oh, shut up.

Your stale bon bons "desecrated"?

How about my masterwork for the ages crapped on by a thousand fat cunts with cholera after eating pork chili for a week?

R5 DO try to keep up.

I was offered to do the lead vocals on this one, but Gary talked me out of it.

Disco Twilight Zone

R8 that seems more like a Vegas approach to New Wave than disco.

Ethel turns into Barbra!!!

Festival - "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina"

Let's cut to the chase:

I read an interview with Linda Clifford that she originally refused to do "If My Friends Could See Me Now," because she said she was a theatre person and it would be a disaster to try to make a theatre song into a disco record.

But she did a great job on it.

A cover of Pink Floyd's Have a Cigar in generically disco-fied glory.

Rhapsody in Blue

This abomination... melody lifted from a well-known Quebecois song (the intro is done in its usual style), totally unrelated and uncreative lyrics...

Pardon me, boy

A Latin Twist* - the dance version of a dance.

Merry Christmas, everybody!

This album (and its successors) are the ONE and ONLY correct answer to OP's query.

They merrily desecrated all over the charts for years.

Can't forget the Motor City

Back in the 1970s there was a revival of Guys and Dolls on Broadway with an all black cast starring Robert Guillaume as Nathan Detroit. There were all new orchestrations, most of them with a disco beat. It sounds awful but it was actually a lot of fun. Motown released a cast album that didn't have the nearly same effect as seeing it in the theater.

Young puss

Gospel goes disco

Even ol' Blue Eyes got into the swing

Speaking of swing...

Meco does Star Wars.

Night on Disco Mountain.

The FUCK is going on in this thread?

Except that in the case of Star Wars, it was the disco version that put the movies theme song in people's heads.

Citrus disco

Gloria Gaynor was the Queen of Covers. Pretty much all her hit singles, except "I Will Survive" and "Honeybee", were covers.

🙊 oops meant to link this

Another dance version of a (fake) dance craze

I didn't know that The Jacksons and Isaac Hayes had recorded Never Can Say Goodbye before Gloria Gaynor.

What a wonderful thread OP! Everything improves as disco, like delicious stinky cheese! Post some more, ladies!

Linda Clifford was also responsible for this. "I need a bridge! We need a bridge!" I like it.

By definition, this was a disco "cover," but I would not have heard the song for years if not for this version.

Elton John did a disco album in 1979 called Victim of Love which was produced by Pete Bellotte who produced a lot of Donna Summer. It only has 7 songs on it, none of them he wrote or played piano on.

Dance, Dance, Disco Lucy!

How about The Lord's Prayer by Sister Janet Mead?

A lot of girls sitting on the floor in r41's clip

Champagne for Lulu!

Phantom!

The theme to the 1979 horror film Phantasm was given a disco remix and released on a yellow "blood" splattered vinyl 12" record.

For R39.

R39, r46. I know we're going a bit off topic with Elton John, but just to add an observation, there were in fact several Elton John songs (in which he also played the piano) with a clear, driving disco beat. Don't Go Breaking My Heart and Philadelphia Freedom come to mind.

Meco did Close Encounters too.

I could have disco danced all night...

The ballet goes disco!

R41 gives me violent chills. You immediately FEEL the Manson Family, or some other grungy free-love cult...!!!

(I wonder if someone [italic] molested [/italic] me to this song, and I [italic] repressed [/italic] it?? I HATE IT SO MUCH!!!)

I have a disco version of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love."

YouTube comment:

[quote]"This just one of those songs that can sound good no matter who sings it."

After the nuclear fallout, cockroaches and HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN will still exist...

MECO also did Superman

This is way post-disco (more 90s Euro House) but I'm fascinated by inappropriate dance versions of popular songs.

R2: That's worse by far. In fact, I take back every bad thing I said about Ethel's disco album. At least that had acoustic instruments. But that? What the hell were they thinking other than "get this played in gay bars by any means necessary"? This synth pop arrangement is beyond dorky; it scarcely sounds like Richard Rodgers anymore. It sounds more like one of the lesser cuts of Olivia Newton-John's post-[italic]Physical[/italic] output. If you took away the lead vocal, you'd barely know what song it was. Both Barbra and the song deserved better.

R55 Wow.....Let's hear it for DISCO CHILD ABUSE hits!

This is the opposite of a desecration as it's actually a pretty good arrangement of an iconic song; it even has an opening passage not in the movie it comes from and only sung by Doris Day when she recorded it in 1964.

Leapin' lizards!

That's still better than that Cameron Diaz thing, R59.

R60 speaking of Aileen Quinn do you know she came out with an album back in '82? I'm one of ten ppl who bought it.

Amazingly, it's on YouTube.