Let's disco!
02-01-09
Peter van Roomen 's
HOMEPAGE
Now on my site: The top selling disco tunes according to the Dutch Top 40
A TRIBUTE TO DISCO...
A discofan's site...
THE NETHERLANDS
DISCO NEVER DIED...
Disco music is the music which has survived every negative comment from people who thought that disco was only a temporary thing. It's still alive in the music today.
Disco began in my opinion in the sixties with the motown sound, but it came in a rapid in the early and mid-seventies when Mr. Tom Moulton made long versions of the popular songs in the disco's. When Salsoul made the 12" single commercial in 1976 the public became more aware of the disco music.
When the movie 'Saturday Night Fever' came out the disco music became less popular in the clubs, but more popular in the charts, even Rod Stewart, the Rolling Stones, Dolly Parton and many non-disco artists made disco records.
When in the early eighties people thought disco died other kind of disco became popular, such as Lime, Patrick Cowley and disco went on in the high energy sound and the Stock Aitken & Waterman sound. Later in the eighties the Chicago-sound came on and in my opinion it's also a kind of disco.
Even now in the new century disco is still there:Spiller, Phats & Small, and off course all the dance-mixes of Madonna, Britney Spears, Anastacia, Janet, Ricky Martin, etc. they all make disco-music.So as you can see disco is not dead it's still alive!!!!!!! Let's take the newest disco-rebirth with Madonna's hit "hung up"
For all the disco fans I've tried to make a complete disco top 200:
MY DISCO TOP PAGES...
NEW: The DISCO TOP SELLING RECORDS OF THE SEVENTIES
The Disco top 100 of the EIGHTIES!
The Disco top 100 of the NINETIES!
MY LIST OF LINKS
MY EURODISCO PAGE...
MY WANTED RECORDS LIST...
THE FIRST DISCO MIXES
By: Al Bottcher Beach Bum Collectables
The other DISCO-movie
Artist info
SHEILA FERGUSON (OF THE THREE DEGREES)
Disco today
WHO I AM...
I'm Peter van Roomen from The Netherlands. I live in the town of Roosendaal near the Belgian border. My work is at the local Volkswagen dealership managing the partsdepartment.
I'm a collector of 12" singles and albums of disco/dance music, mostly of the late seventies and early eighties. This music is my passion and it will last forever, just take a look at the modern records where disco is involved.
In the past thirty years I've collected about 7000 12" singles, but I'm always looking for titles which aren't in my collection yet. I found out that many dance classic records are originally released on 12" single-promo's or commercially.
My second hobby is air-cooled Volkswagens.
I have two beetles,one for daily driving and one for shows and driving in the summer, a type 3 fastback and a '67 bus.
left my '69 type 3 Fastback, right my '69 Bug
My '67 microbus
CHECK THIS OUT...
Here are some links to air-cooled Volkswagen pages:
Any suggestions or comments...
Please E-mail me...
Peter van Roomen pvanro@home.nl