Category: Music

One of the rarest and most sought-after, most-bootlegged remixes EVER.

One of my sister's favorites…

"Seriously, the best damn song about theoretical Einsteinian space travel-induced time dilation masquerading as a sea shanty EVER."

OMG, I've fallen down the rabbit hole! One video leads to another, leads to another…

So many in fact, that I've pre-published Dance Party posts for the next two weeks. THIS song, however, couldn't wait that long.

At the time this record came out (1980 or thereabouts), it was EXTREMELY hard to find. As I recall, I had to mail order it from a place in NYC, supposedly one of only a handful of stores in the country who had it. It was (and remains) an aural orgasm; I swear I almost wore my original copy out.

For some reason this is an extremely difficult mix to find on vinyl.

RIP, Viola. "Sing to the Angels, baby. You're in our hearts."

I've always preferred this song played at a slightly slower tempo, but I'm obviously not going to find that on YouTube. Lots of memories of dancing with my friend Lee at the Fineline.

Lee, if you're reading this (doubtful, as I know you're never online) call me!

I never noticed it back in the day, but I think Mr. Foster was trying to channel the BeeGees. (At this point I don't remember if this song came out before or after Saturday Night Fever.)

Alec Costandinos produced under several studio monikers, one of which was Sphinx. I always thought this to be an odd subject for a dance tune, but whatever. It has all the lushness Alec was come to be known for.

Continuing with yesterday's theme, more "symphonic" disco from Alec R. Costandinos… (It's broken into four parts because of YouTube's length/size restrictions.)

Possibly the greatest dance tune of the 70s. I know it's definitely in my Top 5.

Despite the rather depressing lyrics, this tune never fails to put a smile on my face.

…and a story of unrequited love.

Steve Golden and I met in 1979 and had a strange relationship from the very beginning. I think that in another timeline things might've taken a decidedly different course, but in this one, a full blown relationship was never meant to be.  That did not mean, however, that we did not love each other deeply; it just meant that circumstances never allowed either of us to fully move upon those feelings, physically or otherwise.

Steve is now gone from us for twenty years (twenty years!) and is another one of those stories I hope to blog about in more detail at some point, but suffice to say that he was a DJ at one of Phoenix's big gay clubs during the period this song came out.  One night I was down on the floor dancing with Dennis, my partner at the time, and out of nowhere Steve stopped the music (absolutely unheard of), came over the speakers and said, "Mark, this is for you." I looked up to the DJ booth and as he blew me a kiss, played this song.

Unrequited love, indeed.

But if things hadn't gone the way they did, I wouldn't be where I am now, or with who I am now, and that is infinitely better…