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[now-playing] - ost - various artists - saturday night fever - 1977

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Year-End Poll #27: 1976

[Image description: a collage of photos of the 10 musicians and musical groups featured in this poll. In order from left to right, top to bottom: Wings, Elton John & Kiki Dee, Johnnie Taylor, The Four Seasons, Wild Cherry, The Manhattans, The Miracles, Paul Simon, Gary Wright, Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band. End description]

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Disco has officially breached containment.

I've talked a bit about the stylistic origins of disco from the Philly soul scene and it's growing popularity in the Black and gay community. However, I haven't talked much about disco's presence in mainstream America. And now, since this is the year that Billboard started publishing their national Dance Club Songs charts (the previous two years gathered their data from dance clubs in major cities), this seems like the perfect chance.

To set the stage (or dance floor) for what will happen eventually, disco was everywhere at this moment in time -- not just in the clubs and also not just on the disco stations. As disco became the hot new thing, it seemed like everyone was scrambling to tear off a piece for themselves.

We're also seeing more disco fusions this year. Silly Love Songs by Wings is notable for its disco influence. However, the true sign of the times for me is Wild Cherry's Play That Funky Music. Twenty years before, there was a song on the Billboard Charts called The Rock and Roll Waltz, in which Kay Starr sings about seeing her parents try to dance the waltz to a rock and roll song. For the 1956 poll, I wrote about how this signifies the cultural shift in the mainstream (I like it when songs on here are about music. Gives me more to talk about). Play That Funky Music is notable for similar reasons, as even though it is a blend of these two styles. However, the lyrics seem to suggest that for a rock band to evolve, they had to incorporate funk and disco into their sound. Needless to say, not everyone was thrilled by that message. Parallel to the rise in disco's commercial popularity, the anti-disco backlash was growing as well -- and it was about to get ugly. But we'll get to that later.

Also, the first wave of punk rock was growing in popularity around this time in New York and London. Sadly, we won't see much of this movement represented in these polls. I still felt the need to mention it here, both for its place in music history, and we will be discussing the various descendants of this movement in due time.

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Currently Playing

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER The Original Movie Sound Track

Bee Gees

Yvonne Elliman, Walter Murphy, Tavares, David Shire, Kool and The Gang, KC and The Sunshine Band, MFSB, and The Trammps

You can tell by the way I use my walk: I'm a woman's man. No time to talk.

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Feature LP / Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band - A Fifth of Beethoven (1976) / 5pm ET / 12-19-24

Walter Anthony Murphy Jr. (born December 19, 1952) is an American composer, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for the instrumental “A Fifth of Beethoven”, a disco adaptation of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony which topped the charts in 1976 and was featured on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in 1977. Further classical-disco fusions followed, such as “Flight ’76”,…

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Give this album a listen: The Family Guy 25th Anniversary EP

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WALTER MURPHY'S A FIFTH OF BEETHOVEN IN MY FINALE!??!?!?! OHHHHHHH FUCK YEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Saturday, April 29, 2023 2pm ET: Number One Album of 1978: Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack (1977)

Saturday Night Fever is the soundtrack album from the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta. The soundtrack was released on November 15, 1977. It is one of the best-selling albums in history, and remains the second-biggest-selling soundtrack of all time, after The Bodyguard, selling 40 million copies worldwide (double-disc album). In the United States, the album was certified 16×…

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All I think of now when I hear this beat is Robin Thicke.

Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band - A Fifth Of Beethoven

Disco era classic… revisiting classical music !

Released in 1976.

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Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band, A Fifth Of Beethoven, 1976

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Volume 3 ❤️

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Eddie Murphy, 48 Hrs. (1982)

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Observation: Every Walter White impression starts with “Jesse” every Frank Reynolds impression starts with “Charlie” and every Shrek impression starts with “Donkey”

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WIP Poll!

Thanks for the tag @sarahowritesostucky

Game Rules: Make a 24hr poll listing the titles of every WIP you want to work on. (It’s fine if you only have one, still make a poll for the vote count). Whichever WIP title gets the most votes, write 1 sentence for every vote received.

No Pressure Tags: @mrvl-addict @imyourbratzdoll @reallyrallyauthor @caplanbuckybarnes @ozwriterchick @iwudbutnah

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Currently Playing

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER The Original Movie Sound Track

Bee Gees

Yvonne Elliman, Walter Murphy, Tavares, David Shire, Kool and The Gang, KC and The Sunshine Band, MFSB, and The Trammps

[radiomaxmusic]

Feature LP / Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack (1977) / 4pm ET / 11-27-24

Saturday Night Fever is the soundtrack album from the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta. The soundtrack was released on November 15, 1977. It is one of the best-selling albums in history, and remains the second-biggest-selling soundtrack of all time, after The Bodyguard, selling 40 million copies worldwide (double-disc album). In the United States, the album was certified 16×…

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New Star Trek Explorer short story collection, "A Year to the Day I Saw Myself Die", out next month

Titan Comics will publish a new collection of Star Trek stories from Star Trek Explorer next month - some only previously seen by the magazine's subscribers

Titan Comics will publish a new collection of Star Trek stories from Star Trek Explorer next month – some only previously seen by the magazine’s subscribers. Cover by Neil Edwards As we previously reported, the collection takes its name from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine short story written by comic creator Michael Collins, the hardback collection, Star Trek Explorer: A Year to the Day I Saw…