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Thursday, May 17. 2012

She Works Hard For The Money

Donna Summer, dead at 63, via Gateway.


Here ya go, with what I term the "unbalanced-dryer" disco beat. Memories.


 


 


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The disco beat is simply the rock back-beat in 4/4 time.
It's as if music composers gave up and said, "What the hell, let's write music that gets toes tapping but takes no particular musical imagination. We'll call it disco."
#1 PacRim Jim (Link) on 2012-05-17 15:45 (Reply)
Great performer with music even toddlers and grandparents enjoyed.
#2 jma on 2012-05-17 18:05 (Reply)
I don't know why---perhaps because I've never bothered to listen to the lyrics of the song---but I have always thought it was about call girls and escorts, a women's lib anthem for the likes of Eliot "Client #9" Spitzer's girlfriend, Ashley Dupre.
#3 Agent Cooper on 2012-05-17 20:18 (Reply)
Awful week for the music:
1. Donald "Duck" Dunn, bass player, of the Memphis powerhouse back-up band (Plus many hits of their own), Booker T and the MGs. Also appeared in both Blues Brothers movies. He died earlier this week while on tour in Japan.

2. "Belita Woods of Funkadelic. Hers is the sweet voice of estrogen that we heard at all of those acid drenched concerts for so many years, that neutralized the testosterone of the P." h/t Bob Davis at www.soul-patrol.com

3. This morning, I heard that Chuck Brown of the Soul Searchers had passed on. He was based in D.C., and really started the whole go-go craze. I remember him for his collaboration with Eve Cassidy (God rest her soul).
#4 Steve in CT on 2012-05-17 23:24 (Reply)

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