FRANCE JOLI - "Come To Me" - A True Disco Diva

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France Joli was a true disco dance sensation. Everybody danced to her music -- not enough people knew who she was. And she was something! She did "Come To Me" - but everybody was thinking (and DAZZ was one of /em, isn't Donna Summer Great?). Joli was a disco diva who actually starting her career when she was 15 years old! That's as young as Evelyn Champagne King was.

A collection of some of her hits follows to disco you out of your seat and onto the floor. The videos leave a great deal to be desired, and I've left out my customary embedded video players. Instead, I put a fine (!) photograph of France in her prime at the top of this post.

She'll be appearing live and in concert (with a dance floor for getting you up and out of your chair) On October 5th at DanceSceneWest at The Westchester Ballroom in Mount Kisco, Westchester County New York. The disco night is a benefit for The Children's Cancer Fund.

You can grab tickets (at around $32.00 per ticket, first-come, first-served -- limited seating) by clicking on DISCO NIGHT TICKETS

Now, listen to some classic late 70's early 80s RadioDAZZ Disco Dynamite.

COME TO ME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voxU5X2VOCg

GONNA GET OVER YOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elLBEwi9PUE&feature=related

DON'T LET GO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmOoaL4pXSg&feature=related

Remember: If you need a disco fix (I'll be there)...You can grab tickets (at around $32.00 per ticket, first-come, first-served -- limited seating) by clicking on DISCO NIGHT TICKETS

That RadioDAZZ guy loves you. Retweet me to complete me. Thank you!

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Earth, Wind And Fire - BRAZILIAN RHYME - Disco Meets Samba

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Oh yes. Oh yes. Finger poppin', hip bumpin', fire on the dance floor... Breeze coming in through the windows, curtains waving in the summer wind of an August night.

Earth, Wind and Fire - Brazilian Rhyme:  Disco + Samba

What a smooth ride, with a gentle lapping of subtle funk and a slight musky undercurrent of deep, rich soul!

My sister used to love this song. Doesn't need lyrics. It is a wildly, melodic and rhythmic hybrid between late 70's disco and Brazilian Samba. It is brief, but wonderfully invigorating. Better than coffee. Closer to a kiss. So MUSICAL!

Enjoy this one. Click:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAR45a229i4&feature=related

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Donna Summer, R.I.P. - RadioDAZZ Remembers

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Disco has lost Donna Summer -- its first Queen-caliber disco diva extraordinaire. She will be hurtfully missed, but always remembered.

With an incredible string of hits from "Love to Love You Baby," "Last Dance," "She Works Hard For The Money," "On The Radio," and my personal favorite, "Spring Affair," she had us sweating and swinging across the disco dance floor, fully intoxicated with the chemistry of youth, combined with the liberating sound of her powerful voice backed by a pulsing beat that made every person's heart leap in simultaneous rhythm under the rainbow light of the crystal disco ball.

RadioDAZZ remembers. I'll never forget the exhilarating sensation of hustling around on my platform shoes to her phenomenal hits...in my late teens to my mid-twenties, my blindingly bright faux silk shirt fashionably unbuttoned to mid-chest, my cowardice thinly-veiled behind a nervous, witty veneer of false bravado... Donna helped us dream of endless possibilities, crazy romance and a perfect future. She invigorated every cell of our youth with boundless energy and a spirit of adventure.

After you've had an opportunity to read the news release below, click back to this page to listen to "Spring Affair," which has great personal significance for me.

Singer Donna Summer dead at 63

The legendary disco queen passes away in Florida after a battle with cancer, her family confirms. Tried to hide illness 
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And here, for Donna's last dance, is my favorite song from her giant catalog of hits: "Spring Affair." Click and enjoy. Our sympathies and thoughts go out to Donna's family and loved ones. Thank you, Donna Summer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcREzFgLJRs

*And as a special bonus, I offer you the beautiful but underplayed love ballad, "Winter Melody":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUlaj3b5Whc&feature=related

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Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free - RadioDAZZ Disco Delight

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Image via Wikipedia
Candi Stanton was a one-hit wonder during the golden era of disco. This song is a sparkler. She deserved much more airplay, and a longer run. The song really gallops. Please put on your platform shoes, bellbottoms, drugstore perfume or cologne, turn up the volume, close your eyes and sway.

Terrific song, great riffs, rich instrumentation and that disco pulse that kept my heart in sync when it was so much wiser than my brain. Heck - You know what I mean.


She was up there with Donna Summer, Evelyn Champagne King, Freda Payne and a host (or hostess) of others. Please -- mercy, sakes, get her a slot on that list of disco Greats. This performance deserves it.  Candi -- wherever you are...I'm calling out to all of you fans who never got to know your name but danced to your fine, fine music.


Please click on the hyperlink or the video player and savor the flavor of Candi.

[Hmmm....I could have been a DJ....]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlXKfFPx7po&feature=related



Douglas E Castle - DAZZ' Agent.




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