Dance music for Radio 2

http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.3482.17

Stunning idea

Eric

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http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.3482.17

Stunning idea

Eric

That isn't as daft as I thought it might be. If we accept that Radio 2 is aimed at Radio 1's audience of 15–20 years ago, then that is a real starter as I suspect many of the younger R2 listeners would have grown up on a diet of dance music in the late 80's/early 90's.



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http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.3482.17

Stunning idea

Eric

That isn't as daft as I thought it might be. If we accept that
Radio 2 is aimed at Radio 1's audience of 15_20 years ago, then
that is a real starter as I suspect many of the younger R2
listeners would have grown up on a diet of dance music in the late
80's/early 90's.

Exactly

Eric

From: "Alan Milewczyk" <...>
 

Nominations for greatest dance record, anyone?

OK got a few favourites, from different eras.

Yazz & The Plastic Population – The Only Way Is Up from 88
Snap – Rhythm Is A Dancer from 92
Baby D – Let Me Be Your Fantasy from 94
DJ Jurgen presents Alice DeeJay – Better Off Alone from 99
DJ Sammy – Heaven from 2002

Alan Milewczyk <...> said:

Re: Dance music for Radio 2Great idea!

Nominations for greatest dance record, anyone?

The Charlston?

Quoting a previous Alan Milewczyk contribution:-

Nominations for greatest dance record, anyone? Mine would be the first
record I ever bought way back in 1962 and still fills the dancefloors at
parties – Little Eva's "The Locomotion".

That sort of begs the question: Which was the earliest 'dance record'? As in what we currently think of as 'dance' of course rather than going back to the waltz era!
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Quoting a previous Steve Martin contribution:-

Yazz & The Plastic Population – The Only Way Is Up from 88
Snap – Rhythm Is A Dancer from 92
Baby D – Let Me Be Your Fantasy from 94
DJ Jurgen presents Alice DeeJay – Better Off Alone from 99
DJ Sammy – Heaven from 2002

Heh heh. Of that ilk, I always remember Caroline staggering back on air in 1989 after the raid and playing on quite high rotation Ride on Time – Black Box. Unashamedly fond of hearing it being 'jocked' by Peter Chicago to whom musically it was very probably a bit of a mystery.

And, on the theme of history being changed, doesn't the video include some attractive slim lady dancing about and miming to what was actually the voice of what some might unkindly call 'some huge fat bird' who actually did the singing?
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And, on the theme of history being changed, doesn't the video include
some attractive slim lady dancing about and miming to what was actually
the voice of what some might unkindly call 'some huge fat bird' who
actually did the singing?

Correct.

Quoting a previous Steve Martin contribution:-

And, on the theme of history being changed, doesn't the video include
some attractive slim lady dancing about and miming to what was actually
the voice of what some might unkindly call 'some huge fat bird' who
actually did the singing?

Correct.

See? What recall I have for a 19 year old who was only born in 1989!

I'll get my coat.
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From: "Christopher England" <...>

Quoting a previous Steve Martin contribution:-

And, on the theme of history being changed, doesn't the video include
some attractive slim lady dancing about and miming to what was actually
the voice of what some might unkindly call 'some huge fat bird' who
actually did the singing?

Correct.

See? What recall I have for a 19 year old who was only born in 1989!

I'll get my coat.

To refresh your memory even more

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vgWJTyk0Bm0

Christopher England wrote:

Quoting a previous Steve Martin
<http://www.anoraknation.com/tags/people/Steve%20Martin> contribution:-

Yazz & The Plastic Population – The Only Way Is Up from 88
Snap – Rhythm Is A Dancer from 92
Baby D – Let Me Be Your Fantasy from 94
DJ Jurgen presents Alice DeeJay – Better Off Alone from 99
DJ Sammy – Heaven from 2002

OK, my pitch for 'oldest dance record' is
I Feel Love by Donna Summer, 1977
and Wikipedia appears to agree with me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Feel_Love

Andy

Quoting a previous Steve Martin contribution:-

To refresh your memory even more

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vgWJTyk0Bm0

Yeah, thanks for that. There was an unusually good write up alongside the video too, basically saying that a slim attractive lip-synced to the original fat bird. Well, nearly.

However, I did just get a, "Ha ha, wait till I tell [...] that you were listening to 1980s music!" and my protestations that it was for research purposes were not believed.

Anyway, loved the excessively complex techniques they used to put together the video! We've come a long way since then it seems.
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From: "Christopher England" <...>

Quoting a previous Steve Martin contribution:-

To refresh your memory even more

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vgWJTyk0Bm0

Yeah, thanks for that. There was an unusually good write up alongside
the video too, basically saying that a slim attractive lip-synced to the
original fat bird. Well, nearly.

I do seem to remember a newspaper article about it at the time, where legal action was threatened, and eventually the true story did come out.
I mean, even if you listen to the track, it is quite obvious to the old ear drums that it is a fat bird singing!

Anyway, loved the excessively complex techniques they used to put
together the video! We've come a long way since then it seems.

Yeah it is amazing to think that during the MTV/Music Box mid 80's era we thought we had cracked it with pop music videos! Now when you watch most of them they seem so dated compared to today's vids! But I'm sure if music vids are still going in 20 years today's will look dated in comparison!

Heh heh. Of that ilk, I always remember Caroline staggering back on air
in 1989 after the raid and playing on quite high rotation Ride on Time –
Black Box. Unashamedly fond of hearing it being 'jocked' by Peter
Chicago to whom musically it was very probably a bit of a mystery.

And, on the theme of history being changed, doesn't the video include
some attractive slim lady dancing about and miming to what was actually
the voice of what some might unkindly call 'some huge fat bird' who
actually did the singing?
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Well Christopher as one of the people who sometimes contributes to Garry's board to answer a question if I can help, but referred to by Steve Martin on this board as 'people needing to be worshipped for what they once did many years ago, and failed to do more recently',( I haven't actually failed at anything recently!). I can help you out here. 'Ride On Time' was played by Peter to wind up PM who hated and despised the song when played prior to the raid. So it was just his impish devilment I suspect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_music

1920s dance music

Dance music became enormously popular during the 1920s. Night clubs were frequented by large numbers of people at which a form of jazz, which was characterized by fancy orchestras with strings instruments and complex arrangements, became the standard music at clubs. A particularly popular dance was the fox-trot. At the time this music was simply called jazz, although today people refer to it as "white jazz" or big band. The late 1960s saw the rise of soul and R&B music which used lavish orchestral arrangements. These orchestras would gradually develop a new form of dance music, which came to be known as disco.

Sterling Times <2@slewis.biz> said:

<html><head><title></title></head><body><h2><br /></h2><h2>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_music<br /></h2><h2><span class="mw-headline">1920s dance music</span></h2><p>Dance music became enormously popular during the 1920s. Night clubs were frequented by large numbers of people at which a form of jazz, which was characterized by fancy orchestras with strings instruments and complex arrangements, became the standard music at clubs. A particularly popular dance was the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox-trot" title="Fox-trot">fox-trot</a>. At the time this music was simply called jazz, although today people refer to it as "white jazz" or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band" title="Big band">big band</a>. The late 1960s saw the rise of soul and R&amp;B music which used lavish orchestral arrangements. These orchestras would gradually develop a new form of dance music, which came to be known as disco.</p></body></html>

 

 Wasn't a Charlston dance song remixed in around 1993/4 - 'Doop' or something like that?

Da Guff

Quoting a previous DAVE RICHARDS 'JACK SPARROW' contribution:-

referred to by
Steve Martin on this board as 'people needing to be worshipped for what
they once did many years ago, and failed to do more recently',

a) Steve Martin never said that. I said that.

b) I wasn't referring to you. I don't even know who you are or what you be doing these days or those days!

'Ride On Time' was played by Peter to wind up PM who hated and despised
the song when played prior to the raid. So it was just his impish
devilment I suspect.

Aha. No wonder I used to really like Chicago. :-)

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