I'd have to agree. Not to rain on anyones parade, the original poster just wants to do a fun comp for his family.
99% of the songs listed here are just really bad pop music done in a "disco" style and released way after Disco Train left. I'm a passionate lover of all things Disco and hate to see Village People, Abba and the Bee Gee's dragged up everytime the word Disco is mentioned.
Disco should start from - Salsoul, West End and Prelude. David Mancuso, Tom Moulton, Larry Levan, Walter Gibbons, Nicky Siano - the list is
huge.
I really recommend this book for the TRUE story:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...a=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPP1,M1
Disco is the music that America tried to forget. By the end of the 1970s "Saturday Night Fever" rocketed through the marketing stratosphere, Studio 54 was dominating the front pages, and the charts were controlled by the likes of the Bee Gees, Donna Summer, and the Village People. But then radio talk jock Steve Dahl publicly detonated a pile of 40,000 disco records during the interval of a Chicago White Sox double-header in July 1979, and by the end of the year some 20,000 discotheques had hastily closed. Opening with David Mancuso's seminal "Love Saves the Day" Valentine's party in February 1970, Tim Lawrence presses the rewind button and tells the definitive story of disco - from its murky subterranean roots in NoHo and Hell's Kitchen to its gaudy blossoming in midtown Manhattan to the out-of-town networks that emerged in the suburbs and alternative urban hotspots such as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and New Jersey.Tales of nocturnal journeys, radical music making, and polymorphous sexuality flow through the arteries of "Love Saves the Day" like liquid vinyl.
They are interspersed with a detailed analysis of the era's most powerful DJs, the venues in which they played, and the records they loved to spin. "Love Saves the Day" includes material from over three hundred original interviews with the scene's most influential players, including John 'Jellybean' Benitez, Michael Cappello, Ken Cayre, Alec Costandinos, Steve D'Acquisto, Michael Fesco, Rochelle Fleming, Francis Grasso, Alan Harris, Loleatta Holloway, Francois Kevorkian, Frankie Knuckles, David Mancuso, Vince Montana, Giorgio Moroder, Tom Moulton, Steve Ostrow, Marvin Schlachter, Nicky Siano, Judy Weinstein, Robert Williams and Earl Young. It also contains a series of specially compiled discographies and a unique collection of more than seventy rare photos.
Not to be a threadcrap but the topic is disco and IMO a number of the artists mentioned are not disco acts IMO. Even Chic, although they came along during the disco wave and rode it all the way -- you could even say were adopted by the disco crowd -- IMO are not really a "disco" group. The late Chic bassist Bernard Edwards must be rolling over in his grave. "Dance, Dance Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" is probably the only Chic song I would call disco. I understand that the lines between music genres can often be blurred but what part of the following groups is disco ? Just an opinion and wearing my flame retardant suit just in case.
Cameo
Bros. Johnson
Commodores
Funkadelic
Love Unlimited/anything Barry White (also rolling over)
