Disco Days~

I suppose that one of the things I’ve never discussed on BCDC would seem a little embarrassing to some people.  It’ll make some people cringe.  It’ll show my age…

I love Disco…and I’m sad.

I realized that in less than a week’s time two people who shaped my musical youth are gone.

Donna Summer…

As a true Disco Diva…I had hair like Donna.  Lucky for all of you, I can’t put my fingers on any of the photos.

Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees…

Who could resist tight shiny pants, hairy chests and British/Australian accents?

I’m being funny, because I am really sad.  Because it’s the music I love.  As I’m writing this, I’m listening to Donna Summer sing No More Tears (Enough is Enough) a duet she did with Barbara Streisand.  Of course it’s Donna who shines in the song.  If you’ve never tried it…it is the Best song in the world for working out.  It builds slowly, but as you go through the almost 5 minutes of the song, it builds and builds until Enough is truly Enough!  Try it.

I thought about playing some Bee Gees but then I would be in tears.  I was a Bee Gees fan long before Saturday Night Fever when they burst into everyone’s consciousness and helped make John Travolta a star.  It wasn’t him, it was how he walked when Their music was playing.

This was the first album I had and I played it so many times, I think my Dad was ready to strangle me.  I just loved them. I don’t remember who that scary fourth guy is hiding in the background.

The voices dug deep inside me and carried me away.  It made me proud when their voices launched the phenomenon of SNF. Even as they got older their voices never betrayed them.  They were always pure and clear.

Their younger brother, Andy died in 1988.  Maurice was the first from the group to pass away in 2003, how awful it must have been for Robin to lose his twin.  But Barry and Robin carried on.  Then Robin’s illness took him.  Now I sadly think of Barry all alone.

I prefer to think of them like this…

Young and vital and hitting those high notes like no others.

Strangely enough I had a somewhat humourous “Disco Flashback” yesterday.

I was in K-Mart with my friends Gail and Alice.  There was music playing on the PA system.   Is it still called that?!  They were playing Heart of Glass by Blondie…perhaps a little more New Wave than Disco, but it still felt Disco.  I started dancing down the aisle to the music thinking nothing of it, being taken in by the music.  I expected to hear Gail make some smart comment about my dancing.  Instead I hear a man’s voice say, “You go, Girl!”  I turned around and there was an older bearded man smiling and bobbing his head in time with the music in an appreciative way.  I just smiled…

Thank you, Donna…Thank you, Bee Gees…You brought me joy and got me up and “Dancin’, Yeah!!”  For me, Disco will never be Dead!   Give me a glass of wine and I’ll tell you about my nights at Emerald City…maybe that’s a post for another day…

Enough will never be Enough…Happy Thursday!