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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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Saturday Night Retro

Last week on the ‘Retro’ I featured a classic Miami-grown television commercial from right around 1965. This week we keep it ‘Retro’, but fast-forward 14 years into the future. It’s the Summer Of 1979, and disco was dying a slow death due to many intentionally orchestrated campaigns at the time to kill it. This was one of the last successful disco hits on the U.S. pop chart back during disco’s last remaining breaths. It’s a TOP 20 gold smash from Frenchman Patrick Hernandez. Ladies and Gentleman. I present to you for your ‘Retro’ review – “Born To Be Alive” !