The Disco Box

The Disco Box

1999: Rhino R2 75595

Disc One

Love’s Theme
Love Unlimited Orchestra
Dancing Machine
The Jackson 5
Rock the Boat
The Hues Corporation
Honeybee
Gloria Gaynor
Doctor’s Orders
Carol Douglas
Get Dancin’
Disco-Tex & The Sexo-O-Lettes Featuring Sir Monti Rock III
Shame, Shame, Shame
Shirley (& Company)
Never Can Say Goodbye
Gloria Gaynor
Get Down Tonight
KC & The Sunshine Band
The Hustle
Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony
It Only Takes a Minutes
Tavares
Fly, Robin, Fly
Silver Convention
I’m On Fire
5000 Volts
Love Machine (Pt. 1)
The Miracles
You Sexy Thing
Hot Chocolate
Boogie Fever
The Sylvers
That’s the Way (I Like It)
KC & The Sunshine Band
More, More, More (Part I)
Andrea True Connection
Young Hearts Run Free
Candi Staton
Turn the Beat Around
Vicki Sue Robinson

Disc Two

(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty
KC & The Sunshine Band
Get Up and Boogie
Silver Convention
A Fifth of Beethoven
Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
Play That Funky Music
Wild Cherry
Car Wash
Rose Royce
Don’t Leave Me This Way
Thelma Houston
The Best Disco In Town
The Ritchie Family
Disco Inferno
The Trammps
Boogie Nights
Heatwave
I Feel Love
Donna Summer
Keep It Comin’ Love
KC & The Sunshine Band
Dance With Me
Peter Brown
Everybody Dance
Chic
Shame
Evelyn “Champagne” King
Boogie Oogie Oogie
A Taste of Honey
Get Off
Foxy
I Love the Nightlife (Disco ’Round)
Alicia Bridges
In the Bush
Musique
Hot Shot
Karen Young
Got To Be Real
Cheryl Lynn

Disc Three

Shake Your Groove Thing
Peaches & Herb
Y M C A
Village People
Le Freak
Chic
I Will Survive
Gloria Gaynor
Livin’ It Up (Friday Night)
Bell & James
Instant Replay
Dan Hartman
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Sylvester
I Want Your Love
Chic
Knock On Wood
Amii Stewart
Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)
G Q
Love and Desire (Part I)
Arpeggio
He’s the Greatest Dancer
Sister Sledge
Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now
McFadden & Whitehead
Ring My Bell
Anita Ward
Bad Girls
Donna Summer
Born To Be Alive
Patrick Hernandez
Good Times
Chic
Don’t You Want My Love
Debbie Jacobs
H A P P Y Radio
Edwin Starr
I Shoulda Loved Ya
Narada Michael Walden
We Are Family
Sister Sledge

Disc Four

Heart of Glass
Blondie
Lost In Music
Sister Sledge
I’m Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair)
Inner Life
Got To Love Somebody
Sister Sledge
Funkytown
Lipps, Inc
Celebration
Kool & The Gang
A Lover’s Holiday
Change
I Like What You’re Doin’ To Me
Young & Company
The Glow of Love
Change
Cruisin’ the Streets
The Boystown Gang
On the Beat
The B B & Q Band
Forget Me Nots
Patrice Rushen
Get Down On It
Kool & The Gang
It’s Raining Men
The Weather Girls
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Indeep
I O U
Freeez
Give It Up
KC
Change of Heart
Change
Fresh
Kool & The Gang

Whatever other notes I may have about these tracks, I must call out "I Feel Love" as being both somewhat timeless and way ahead of its time. That track was as though someone had stumbled off a Studio 54-type dancefloor through an unmarked door and triggered into action some amazing machinery that was going to drive a huge amount of musical production that virtually obliterated Disco. And yet here it is on a Disco collection, and it belongs here even though it was Disco’s death knell in some ways.

"I Feel Love" remains breathtakingly good, by the way, even more than 40 years after its release. And that is some staying power, especially compared to how well much of the other tracks in this box set have fared: some have become classics but as almost museum pieces, one-hit-wonders, and the like—but "I Feel Love" rises above everything else here and becomes a combination of, say, Noah's dove and the phoenix. Nah, let's not say something that silly. But perhaps you get my drift.

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