Gay Disco Classics

One Donna Summer song?

Pull Up To The Bumper - Grace Jones -- a song about anal sex with BBC

R1, Hot Stuff is the only one I could think of that fits thematically. You can suggest others.

Surely, this counts. Right?

Ring My Bell -- Anita Ward

Don't Leave Me This Way -- Thelma Houston

Funkytown -- Lipps, Inc.

Love Train -- The O'Jays

Alexander's Ragtime Band -- Ethel Merman

"Turn the Beat Around" - Vicki Sue Robinson

[Quote]Never Can Say Goodbye - The Communards

Right song. Wrong artist.

Sylvester - I Need Somebody (To Love Tonight)

Dancing Queen by ABBA

Danny Boy & The Serious Party Gods - Castro Boy

Born to Be Alive by Patrick Hernandez

LeFreak by Chic

R8, The Communards covered it. Masterfully. I included their version because it’s gayer.

[quote]Born to Be Alive by Patrick Hernandez

I hate that song more than almost anything. “Born to Be Alive”? The title alone is completely inane.

This song should be at the top of any disco list:

"I Feel Love" - Donna Summer

"Let's All Chant"

Required.

"Hot Stuff" is Donna's all-time best song, but as for gay disco, I would suggest "Last Dance" or "Could It Be Magic".

No Madonna, Patti Labelle, Aretha, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan or Kylie Minogue on the list and only one Diana Ross and one Donna Summer song.... smdh

Your Love - Lime

Somebody Else's Guy - Jocelyn Brown

You Spin Me Round - Dead or Alive

Let No Man Put Asunder and Dr. Love - First Choice

Got to Be Real, You Saved My Day and Star Love - Cheryl Lynn

Disco Heat, Do Ya Wanna Funk, I Need You, Someone Like You - Sylvester

Bizarre Love Triangle, Blue Monday - New Order

God Don't Like Ugly - Roberta Flack

This belongs here.

R15 yes, this is the song that belongs at the top.

All the others are good, too. Thanks, OP, for bringing back some great memories.

The Break - Katmandu

R20 - YES!

Love & Desire by Arpeggio

Babe We're Gonna Love by Lime

Best Part of Breaking Up - Ronni Griffiths

There But For The Grace of God -- Machine

Shame--Evelyn "Champagne" King

Love In The Shadows - Paul Parker

Relight My Fire - Dan Hartman

R26 So underrated.

Another.

Don’t Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston

I'll take late night sleaze over more predictable gay disco 101 any day...

This is a fantastic thread.

Come to me.

Dee Dee - I Put A Spell On You

God damn. Thanks DL. I thought I had them all. Forgot some amazing (or cheesy, your call) ones. Roni Griffith. Best part of making up. Wow. Havnt thought of it in years.

The gayest disco classic of all:

"No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" - Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer

Souvenirs.

Chemise - She Can't Love You

This Time Baby - Jackie Moore

Love Rush - Ann-Margret

I played this while DJing for a Pride parade float, and the crowd and marchers went OFF!

Here's some sleaze for you.

Empire Projecting Penny - Freakman

Nice one, r40. Sylvia Love - Extraterrestrial Lover

Give Me A Break by Miss Vivien Vee!

What we need is a thread for contemporary updates of that divine disco sound.

"Shame" by Evelyn Champagne King.

Dancer by Gino Soccio

R46 Excellent.

He's The Greatest Dancer by Sister Sledge

Cultural Vibe - Ma Foom Bey (Love Chant Version)

A favorite from the early 80s...

Flashlight On A Disco Night by Rofo

My Forbidden Lover by Tapps (from Canada!)

This song and poppers on the dance floor.

When this song comes on, shirts come off!

She Has A Way by Bobby "O"

That "CHIC" sound...Sheila and B Devotion style.

Spacer!

Oh, for God's sake.

Cum in My Pussy ("Hot Stuff") - Donna Summer

Cum in My Ass ("Pull Up to the Bumper") - Grace Jones

Cum on My Face ("Is It All Over My Face") - Arthur Russell

Every man wants to be a macho, macho man!

R46 - LOVE that dancing style. Miss Watley was the queen of it.

Calling All Boys. The Flirts. (This video remix is great)

Shadow Dancing, Upside Down, More, More More, Push, Push in the Bush

Such a vacuous time but the music was fun!

Kano - It's A War

Oh God, what's the song by that dyke with white buzz cut who pronounces that one word funny. I think she wore a shiny silver catsuit in the video. Help me on this, girls!

R64 See 24 on OP’s list.

Duncan Sisters - Boys Will Be Boys

Landers Sisters - Teach Me How To Rock.

Kylie - What Do I Have To Do?

Toni Van Duyne - Be A Star

Lonnie Gordon - Happening All Over Again.

Euro-sleaze! Freddy the Flying Dutchman - Wotjyla Disco Dance

Easy Going - Do It Again

Number One Ensemble - Flor De Coca

Hey I'm glad you came in here tonight. I'm so into the dance I can't stand it. And I was countin' on dancin' with you!

Lula : Take your shirts off! ( some of you keep your shirts on)

This seems like a good candidate for the list...

Native New Yorker by Odyssey

Thank you for this thread. Thank you.

Everybody Dance-- Chic

R57, it’s in OP’s original list, so don’t get your panties in a bunch. And anyway, it wasn’t half as gay as Diana’s true gay anthem.

There was not a single drunk queen who wouldn’t holler to this song’s bridge in the middle of the dance floor.

High NRG circuit anthems of the seventies and eighties that held on much longer:

Lovin’ Is Really My Game - Brainstorm

Hold On To My Love - Jimmy Ruffin

In The Name Of Love - Sharon Redd

Without Your Love - Cut Glass

Savin Myself - E. Fachin

The Visitors - ABBA

Rofo’s Theme - Rofo

I Can Fly - Forgot Her Name

Souvenirs - Voyager

And the grandmama of techno -

I Feel Love - Donna Summer (by way of Giorgio Moroder). Still being mixed in and sampled into countless dance songs.

Ok I remembered her name:

I Can Fly - Louise Thomas

Great thread!

"Let The Music Play"

Campy Richard Simmons

Hit 'N Run Lover by Carol Jiani

Hills of Katmandu by Tantra

It's A Girl's Affair by Change

Jennifer Holliday - No Frills Love

The Break - Kat Mandu

If You Could Read My Mind - the Late, Great Viola Wills

The GREATEST Viola Wills.

When other Divas couldn’t hit the notes, Viola was called in to record over the kinks.

Cruising the streets !!!!!

Speaking of Phyllis Nelson, this one kept me dancing in 1985.

"If I Can't Have You" - Yvonne Elliman

65 year old Ms Elliman was arrested in Guam for Meth possession

There But for the Grace of God Go I - Machine

Shame - Evelyn "Champagne" King

Young man, there's no need to feel down I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground I said, young man, 'cause you're in a new town There's no need to be unhappy…

Lovin’ Is Really My Game - Brainstorm

Hell yeah R81! What a burner! My favorite, I remember jamming to that on my transistor radio in bed.

Don't forget Lady Bump.

Melba Moore - We used to sing "You slipped it into my wife / And she's oh-so happy..."

Sharon Redd - Never Give You Up

R93, Bless Cynthia for workin' that stage. But she deserves better than that karaoke-ish set up. :)

"Dance, Its My Life"

No BeeGees? How is that right? They started the whole thing.

Magnifique - Magnifique (Disconet remix)...I danced to this remix live at the Galleria in SF. High energy. The crowd loved this one. Bobby Viteritti was great at his job.

Some italo

No Erasure?

That stupid Neverending story song

Call Me - Blondie

Car Wash - Rose Royce

The Second Time Around - Shalamar

Right On Target - Paul Parker

A Lover's Holiday - Change

R114 Highly underrated tune.

This thread needs more early Chicago house from when the scene was mostly gay. Here's a user friendly song with lyrics, for you squares who don't like techno.

Stomp! - Brothers Johnson

Too Shy - Kajagoogoo (12" Extended)

Speaking of Evelyn:

Get up and Boogie - Silver Convention

It's the GAP BAND -- "You Dropped a Bomb On Me."

This is hands down the best song of hers, no one ever posts it. The extended mix, which would only be heard in discos, is the best.

Heard in every bath house... Menergy - Patrick Cowley (RIP)

Gloria - Laura Branigan

"Step Back In Time" and "Spinning Around" - Kylie

Everybody - Madonna

If You Feel The Funk - La Toya Jackson

"D.I.S.C.O." and "Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart)" - Ottawan

"Blood and Honey", "Tomorrow", "Follow Me", "Fashion Pack (Studio 54)" and "Lili Marleen" - Amanda Lear

Don Quichotte - Magazine 60

Lovergirl - Teena Marie

R126, I love Don Quichotte by Magazine 60.

Dancing the Night Away - Voggue

Patrice Rushen -- "Forget Me Nots"

High Energy - Evelyn Thomas (club mix)

SOS Band. -- "Take Your Time Do It Right"

Love Pains - Yvonne Elliman

Heaven Must Have Sent You - Bonnie Pointer (12 inch)

More, More More - Andrea True Connection

I'm Ready - Kano

Heartbeat - Taana Gardner

R105 has got to be a frau.

"Boogie Oogie Oogie" - A Taste of Honey

I just want to say that sorry for getting all pissed off at the DL and yelling at him the way he did. I only wanted to make a happy posting about homosex things, and I end up getting attacked. I thought that the flaming had stopped, and that all the trolls had gone away, but then they just keep coming coming back.

I just wish this could be a fun group with people posting about happy, fun stuff like music and tv, but I guess that will never be. It seems there others who would rather be mean and attack people than be civil, and my wish for a fun and happy place to talk about things I love will never exist.

These trolls don't even care about how much they hurt people and ruin their lives. I'll just be putting them in my ignore list, but I bet they're change their names to bounce right out of my killfile. But I'll just ignore list them all over again. But I'd better shut up I guess, since people will probably attack me and blame me for this anyway, instead of blaming it on the trolls who only try to hurt me. But I do hope all this ends and that we can soon have fun and be happy. OK, I'll shut up now.

George McCrae - Rock Your Baby

Where the fuck are “Native New Yorker” and “Cherchez la femme?”

Sunset People - Donna Summer & Pink Floyd

Dare Me

r142 Just for you.

Native New Yorker was posted above, r142. And here is Cherchez La Femme.

Que Sera, Mi Vida!

Young & Company - I Like What You're Doing To Me

Diana Ross - The Boss (extended version)

Gwen McCrae - Rockin' Chair

Donna Summer - Last Dance

Melba Moore - This Is It (1976)

Stephanie Mills-Never Knew Love Like This Before

Heatwave - Boogie Nights - please note 'copulatory ' dance moves, and sweet Johnny rocking a turban.

Donna Summer and Brooklyn Dreams - Heaven Knows

Bonnie Pointer - Heaven must have sent you

Phyllis Hyman - You Know How To Love Me

Laura Branigan - Gloria

Blondie - Heart Of Glass

Laura Brannigan - Self Control. Possibly the most '80s' video that ever 80d.

More ItaloDisco: Ivan - Fotonovela

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

Depeche Mode - Policy Of Truth

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again

A Paradise Garage classic: Central Line - Walking Into Sunshine

Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy

Evelyn 'Champagne' King - Shame

A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie

Anita Ward - "Ring My Bell"

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax

[quote]No BeeGees? How is that right? They started the whole thing.

First of all, no they didn’t. By a long shot.

Secondly, The Bee Gees lucked out by being asked to write most of the soundtrack for what ended up being a wildly popular film cum cultural phenomenon. But it was very clear that they knew nothing about disco’s Latin/black/gay roots. All of that is fine and they even ended up adding to if not redefining the genre, making tons of money in the process, but their shit is too slow and bassless for gay tastes.

Night Fever et al were scarcely played at Studio 54 and almost never at gay clubs. The one exception: You Should Be Dancing - precisely because it had many more beats per minute and a heavier bass line.

I'm a convert of filing sharing (yeah I know I used to bitch about it in the past), and I was wondering where you get music from? I am PaulWebbFan00, because I'm a fan of the former Talk Talk bassist, Paul Webb.

I've found some great downloads so far. And please don't flame me, because I used to say that downloading from was bad, because after using it, and finding songs I never hear anymore I've decided downloading and torrenting can be good. A girl can change her mind, can't she

Don't think this has been posted yet.

Modern Rocketry - Homosexuality

[Quote] But it was very clear that they knew nothing about disco’s Latin/black/gay roots.

I don't think that's true at all. Disco is an offshoot of soul music. The Bee Gees have strong ties to that tradition, and not just because black artists covered their material.

MANY of you don't understand what disco is, so many of these songs in the second half of this thread are NOT disco!

I'm certain Debbie Harry would be dismayed that anyone thinks "Heart of Glass" or ANY of her records are thought of as disco!

You should do a little research. Blondie purposefully went disco, just as they purposefully incorporated rap into their repertoire.

R177, Heart of Glass was originally called The Disco Song. It was meant to be an homage to European disco, which Harry liked, even though other New Wavers thought it was “uncool.”

Dolly

Carol Douglas for those old enough to remember.

I'll try again

Give Me Just a Little More Time - Angela Clemmons

Trippin on the Moon - Cerrone

Dont tell Me - Blancmange

It Feels like im in Love - Kelly Marie

I Can't Wait - Nu Shooz

The Best part of Breakin Up - Roni Griffith

Finger on Trigger - Donna Summer

R182, Some music experts consider Doctor’s Orders, along with Gloria Gaynor’s cover of Never Can Say Goodbye, the first songs that fulfilled all the necessary components to be considered disco music. Both were released in December 1974, years before the Bee Gees’ You Should be Dancing.

1973-1974 were the years the key components of disco came into focus. Doctor's Orders and Never Can Say Goodbye are definitely disco, as are MFSB's Love is the Message and George McCrae's Rock Your Baby, which came out earlier in 1974.

But back to gay disco classics. This, Free Man, is out-and-proud R&B/disco in 1975. Did anyone ever hear it in a club? I know it only from compilations. It was co-written and produced by Bunny Siegler, a important R&B figure. Sorry about the ad; you can bypass it in a few seconds.

I played the Tom Moulton Free Man remix in 1975 - The Back Door Madison WI.

Rock Your Baby doesn’t have the syncopated high hat, does it? That’s a must for disco.

R187, I think it does, actually. It also has that smooth, repetitive bass line that's perfect for dancing. And anything that says "just say you want to do it" is probably disco.

I've always loved how joyous disco was.

Pink Floyd Remix - we danced to this all night long

Lady Diana.....