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The Major’s Friday Night Disco Party

We sure knew how to party back in 1976 – the year of our U.S. Bicentennial. We turned 200 on July 04TH of that year, but we didn’t look a day over 175 !

Disco music was still growing up during the Summer of 1976, and 26-year-old Memphis Tennessee Radio Deejay Rick Dees (one of my personal all-time ‘American Idols’) decided that the time was right to gather his ‘Cast Of Idiots’ together in a recording studio and lay down that track all about that ‘Disco Duck’. It went on to become a U.S. # 1 platinum retail and pop radio smash later that year, and the whole nation was quacking up a storm out on the dance floors.

So you think you can dance the duck ?  Give it a shot !

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Saturday Night Retro

Here’s a song that was originally written back in the early-1960s and remade on several occasions by various music acts during that decade and into the 1970s and beyond. Canadian singer / songwriter Terry Jacks produced a version of it for the legendary Beach Boys, but then he realized that it would work out better if he simply recorded the song himself. He was right. He turned it into a U.S. # 1 gold pop radio smash 35 years ago in 1974. It’s “Seasons In The Sun”, and I present it to you for your ‘Saturday Night Retro’ review.

Here he is as he appeared 35 years ago performing this smash:

And here he is just last year at the age of 64 performing it again:

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The Major’s Friday Night Disco Party

The first time this single was released here in the U.S. it was surprisingly a retail and radio flop. It didn’t even reach the TOP 40. And then came along the release of the box office smash “Saturday Night Fever” at the end of 1977. It was included on that movie’s Grammy award-winning hit soundtrack album, radio eventually picked up on it, and it became a TOP 15 pop radio smash and eventual longstanding anthem of the disco music era.

These are The Trammps out of Philadelphia Pennsylvania, and this is their HOT disco smash from the Spring of 1978 – “Disco Inferno”. BURN BABY BURN !

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Thursday Night Mini Thoughts

It’s time for the most spontaneous blog series of the week:

– My work week is done and over with.
– My extended 87-hour 4TH of July holiday weekend has begun.
– Next week will be a long and hectic work week for me.
– I’m actually looking forward to the intense action and excitement.
– Tomorrow afternoon I have a 4 to 6 hour appointment here at home.
– It’s with AT&T, and they will be here to install U-Verse in my home.
– I’m dropping Comcast just as soon as AT&T gets my TV and Internet up.
– Comcast has been my TV and Internet provider for nearly 3 years.
– They took over when Adelphia went away in October 2006.
– I’m looking forward to the new TV technology here in my home.
– I’ll be learning how to use all of my new equipment for the rest of the weekend.
– It’ll take me all weekend to check out my 220 or so digital channels.
– I went to Publix on my way home from work this afternoon.
– Publix is my playground.
– I’m happy and I know it, so I clap my hands – at Publix.
– It has a lot to do with the loud hit music that they play all throughout the joint.
– But really – it’s the food that’s screaming at me to buy it.
– I hear voices from both sides of the aisles – “BUY ME !!!”
– Be sure to hit up this blog tomorrow night for something new that’s old.
– It’s the series premiere of ‘The Major’s Friday Night Disco Party’.
– I’ll kick it off with one of the greatest disco music anthems of the time.
– Feel free to wear your favourite leisure suit to the party.
– You won’t regret it pal.
– But until then – REMEMBER THIS: