I’m sure we all know loads in this category, which was almost singlehandedly started by Stony Browder with Dr Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band, disco with a Prohibition era jazz influence. Here are a few of my picks.
Ray Martinez:
Donna Summer
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Carrie Lucas for the win.
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A great Kid Creole side-project, Elbow Bones and The Racketeers, “A Night in New York”
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You have to love the fact that after marrying a fan he met backstage (who worked in a record shop) they settled down in her home town of Dinnington outside of Rotherham. You can so see Augustus down Rotherham market on a saturday morning
Lovely story
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A couple I found in Vince Aletti’s Disco Files
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Always a bit of a guilty pleasure.
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As featured in the excellent TV series, Babylon Berlin (set in 1929)
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Super obvious answer: Sir Duke
Cool song, I wish it was a little longer with a nice breakdown somewhere.
Yeah, they’re both quite short. They’re from '74-'75 before 12"/extended mixes. It made DJs work a lot harder!
How about Anne Dudley’s theme from Jeeves and Wooster? Being her, I always wondered how much of this is actually programmed rather than live.
I don’t know if this flaps, but it definitely slaps. I could see somebody breaking out a charleston step to this
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I thought someone would have added this by now: