what are your memories of disco?
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PrometheusTree64 — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 08:38 AM)
The term "disco" meant a discoteque dance club until 1977, and people weren't really using the word much as an adjective for a specific kind of music until then (even though disco music had been around for years).
After the movie came out in Summer 1977, the true disco craze lasted about 18 months thru 1978 and then fizzled quickly, the term "disco" and music reviled before the decade had even ended.
Not that that's either fair or unfair. It's just what happened.
Anybody remember the 18 month stetson craze from Summer 1980 thru 1981? Feather-drenched stetsons were ubiquitous throughout America after URBAN COWBOY was released, and then they disappeared overnight. That was one fad I actually loved, although I didn't participate.
So Travolta has affected style profoundly, if briefly, on more than one occasion!
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daverindone — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 04:29 AM)
I was about 11-13 and sometimes hung with this kid whose Mother was a dance instructor. He knew all the current moves, so we'd go to these "Disco Days" things at a local hall on late Saturday afternoons and just hang out. I have to admit, it was really fun for a kid just getting into the idea of girls without getting too close to them (other than slow dances). I knew of the movie, but never saw the whole thing in one sitting. It was best when everything was all loose and fun, just jiving around the floor, chewing gum, flirting and shooting the breeze. The one thing the film caught was when you were all dancing together - friends, strangers and enemies alike - it was one big scene.
And like a carnival in the night, poof, all gone. Punk, Nu Wave, Heavy Metal, etc too over. -
krispykremekiller — 9 years ago(January 06, 2017 09:03 AM)
I was a kid at the time. People my sister's age went to discos. It was the same as going to a club is today. People hung out, singles in groups, couples too went on dates to dance and drink. Basically the same as today but the music and clothes were different. There were and still are rock clubs as well where a band played.
Discos came out of economics really. Just like clubs today have DJs instead of bands. It's cheaper. You're paying one person to leverage their music collection rather than a band. Sure being a DJ then was just gauging the crowd and getting a party going with playing a single track at a time, but basically it's the same thing. -
/. — 1 year ago(August 21, 2024 09:46 PM)
The movie got more popular in 1978 til 1980. The original release was at the end of 1977.
A PG version released so younger people could see it without their parents taking them.
The PG version was like an edited for TV version, which sucked.
"You F*ckers" replaced with "You Fakers" for example.
Many shows tried to copy the dancing. Dance Fever for example.
I doubt you saw anyone showing off like Travolta in the movie in real discos.
That seemed over the top.
Many of the people who went to discos in that time were about ten to twenty years older than the people's age in the movie.
Many old people enjoyed disco music and would dance at any type of place where people would dance. Not exclusive to discos.
Many fat women loved to dance.
Some clubs in cities would attract a large gay crowd.
Looking For Mr. Goodbar, Thank God it's Friday, Cruising are probably more realistic examples of the disco scenes in that time.
There were many who hated disco music.
Classic Rock, Punk and New Wave had large followers in that time. The people trying to be cool usually hated disco because of the types who were into it.
there were radio stations that would play the 12" long disco singles. Some would just play the music back to back without any DJ talking between songs.
Some of those Disco singles were ten to nearly twenty minutes long.
There were discos before the movie SNF. They were popular in the early 70s into the mid 70s.
Then more popular after the movie came out.
Rollerskating rinks were popular places that younger people could go hang out at that played disco music. Before and after the movie.
Crowds would skate to disco music. Instrumental disco music more often.
The movies, Roller Boogie, Xanadu and Skatetown USA tried to make that more popular a few years after, but that is when it started dying.
There were k-Tel disco compilation albums that were a popular fad.
There was a TV show like Happy Days but it was set in the 70s and trying to copy SNF.
It was called Making It.
It got cancelled in a short time.
New Wave music became the replacement for Disco in the early 80s.
MTV started when New Wave was most popular and the channel helped make it more popular.
The styles changed by the mid 80s.
Country music was also very popular in the early 80s.
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