Category: Music

Disco-graphy

It’s been a few days, so I’d better say something to prove I’m not in the hospital.

In the 70’s I was into categorizing Girl Music and Boy Music.

  • Bread? Girls.
  • The Who? Boys.
  • Carpenters? Girls.
  • John Denver? Girls.
  • Black Sabbath? Boys.
  • Eagles? Hmm.

You get the idea. Disco was Girl Music. The arrival of Punk and New Wave provided welcome relief! One thing I have to acknowledge about Disco were the many outstanding arrangements and productions. The Supremes couldn’t have sounded any better doing this one.

Here’s an instrumental I thought of as “Green Onions” for the 70’s. It was as much Funk as Disco, which was probably what grabbed me.

And how about these lyrics??

But wait, there’s more! That’s right!

Rainy Day Sunshine

The summer heat is hitting the west coast hard, with record sustained temperatures, wildfires and drought. But where I am the ground is saturated and there’s street flooding, with more rain to come.

I don’t know if Andrew Sandoval coined the term Sunshine Pop, but this record is one of the most enjoyable examples of the musical genre. The reference to lemon curd in the song got me started buying the delicious stuff!

Petty Girls

In the absolutely delightful film Here Come the Huggetts, perfectly adorable Petula Clark mistakenly believes that her father is involved with a teenage girl. This premise was taken even further a year later in The Romantic Age.

Petula was seventeen when she appeared in this film, playing a girl whose father has fallen under the seductive charms of a classmate. As in the Huggetts, Petula’s sweetness is contrasted with a much more womanly girl her age. But unlike the previous movie, with Diana Dors being only months older than Pet, the libidinous Mai Zetterling was 23 years old.