Boogie Friday

Well all know that House music basically grew out of Disco but it's not often you hear the influence as obviously as on this record. With its pumping, one-note piano riff punctuating a rolling 4/4 beat this could be a House record from the late 80s by someone like CeCe Peniston or Alison Limerick instead of the underground Disco classic from 1976 that it actually is. Not surprisingly this piano riff did appear on a House record when it was sampled by David Morales for his "Needing U" in 1998. The song was also covered by Salsoul band First Choice in 1979.

This was written and produced by some bloke called David Jordan and came out on the small Cherie label. Not a lot I can tell you about Rare Pleasure themselves though, like a lot of Disco "groups" they were probably a bunch of anonymous session singers and this is just one of the many moments of one-off magic that dance music conjures up. You can get this on the terrific compilation Disco Spectrum 1.

The lovely young lady grooving away in the photo above is from the book New York In The 70s by photographer Allan Tannenbaum. People sure knew how to have fun back then, how could they not with a soundtrack like this? The drugs and rampant sex probably helped a lot too.

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Let Me Down Easy - Rare Pleasure