I'm Going to Go Jago

This Italo disco project was originally released in 1983 on Full Time Records.  Members include Claudio Donato, David Calzamatta, and Michele Violante.  It created quite a buzz on WBMX and at clubs like The Warehouse where Frankie Knuckles was spinning.  So much so that in 1985 he did a remix.  One of the earliest ones before he became incredibly prolific.  In any case both versions are italo disco genius.

 Note that they spelled his name incorrectly.  I'm sure Frankie was pleased about that.   Jago Zip

Hangin' on a String (Contemplating)

Loose Ends had a string of hits mostly in the U.K. but they hit #1 on the U.S. R&B charts with the delicious Contemplating and then the whole thing got really real when Frankie Knuckles did a remix in 1992 and it rode up the charts again.

To me it's one of those definitive songs that sums up the whole decade.  Which is sweet because it's neither new wave or Hi nrg of my beloved italo disco.

BOTH VERSIONS

Klein and M.B.O. ITALO DISCO MAGIC at it's best

Refreshing the zip on this one too.  It now includes more music.

Anyone who worships Italo Disco like me knows that Klein and M.B.O. are the pinnacle. Their releases feature every aspect of Italo Disco that make it such a special and enjoyable off-shoot genre of Disco in the first place.

an edit of Dirty Talk
M.B.O. Zip
Quality Klein

From the vocal stylings of Italian Jazz singer Rosanne Casale, who gives us just the right amount of Euro pronunciation to techno electro beats provided by masterminds Tony Carrasco and Mario Boncaldo. From 1982 to 1986 their releases under one of many aliases Klein and M.B.O., had crowds boogieing the night away at the best clubs around the world.
THE WHOLE ALBUM

Their sound embraced by influential Chicago radio station WBMX was instrumental in influencing what later came to be called HOUSE music. Masters like Frankie Knuckles Larry Levan, and Ron Hardy pumped Klein and M.B.O. at their respective clubs, The Warehouse, The Paradise Garage and The Music Box.

They are of course best remembered for the classic Dirty Talk but here I choose to feature another gem. The Klein and M.B.O. Theme from their debut l.p. on Phoenix Records Italy in 1982.

Klein and M.B.O. records still sell 30 years later.  In fact in my Ebay store I recently had the 12" remix of Wonderful (sung by Rosanna Casale).  Again another track off their stunning debut l.p. in this special Phoenix double A side 12" it's paired with Taffy's, White and Black. Taffy of course had her own Italo Disco hit a few years later with I Love my Radio (Midnight Radio). 
Well that was about 7 years ago.  With the way mp3's going flying around at this point I doubt he'd care that I made a more extensive zip.  It's still worth buying all of the Klein and M.B.O. stuff however cause it's all pretty fabulous.

Don't Stop, Don't Stop the Music Oh No, Don't Stop the Music!!!!! BAY CITY ROLLERS DISCO DISCO DANCE GEM

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Yes I was Bay City Rollers smitten but come on guys I was not even a teenager yet!

OH NO DON'T STOP THE MUSIC!

MASSIVE DISCO REMIX of the the Bay City Rollers compliments of the Canadian Record Pool in 1977.

Those guys must have had a hot thing going. They actually were responsible for several mixes which were big crowd-pleasers in the states. I don't think I ever saw mixes in the states credited to a record pool though clearly most of the guys doing the mixes back in the day were in the pool that David Mancuso put together in mid 1975. From whose ashes later rose Judy Weinstein's For the Record. A pool which has featured all the big New York star d.j.' over the years and up until it folded, not that long ago. This batch featured the Superstar New York City DJ Kings like Junior Vasquez, David Morales and Frankie Knuckles.

David Mancuso wiki

In this vintage photo we have Judy, RCA's Tony King, T.O. Featherstonshaw, Jane Brinton and a young and dashing David Steele from Polydor.  It was taken at The Paradise Garage for the 1 1/2 year anniversary of For the Record.

I mean hell the Bay City Rollers! The boys 'o tartan from Scotland making the boogier's get their grooves on in serious disco's in places like New York City and London and L.A.  Peaking at #24 on the Billboard Dance Charts in 1976 on import.

Well they did just that. Had it been picked up in the States it probably would have been even more massive. It only got a 45" 7" release there.

At the time I didn't know a thing about this 12". If I had I would have gone to great efforts to get my allowance together to buy a copy. I was definitely a rollers fan and not just for their only #1 pop hit in the states, Saturday Night (S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT). I think I had about five of their l.p.'s and I could sing along to a lot of their songs. Oh the innocence of youth!
YOU MADE ME BELIEVE IN MAGIC
Here is a more recent edit by Glenn Rivera of one of the band's U.S. Top Ten hits You Made Me Believe in Magic a hit from 1977.

Frankie Knuckles on Larry Levan from the film Maestro

Why didn't Jamie Principle become a huge star?

Championed early on by the Godfather of House Frankie Knuckles, Jamie Principle was responsible for a few of the most haunting and delightful early Chicago house records.

JAMIE PRINCIPLE ZIP

Jamie was of course at Frankie's memorial just a few days in Chicago.

You're all I've Waited 4 was like a big comeback for Jamie after the few hits he had in the 80's.

FRANKIE KNUCKLES MIXES, THE PARADISE GARAGE 1978, WAREHOUSE 1981, more mixes and some reminiscing

WAREHOUSE CHICAGO 1981 MIX  YOUR LOVE  
So I'm a little late to the Frankie tribute game.  But I'd have to say that it's because I've been beside myself.  But by now I've cried it out and I'm ready to share, like I always do here in Disco Vinyl.
YOUR LOVE DUSTY KID EDIT

I feel like Frankie Knuckles is the soundtrack to my years in New York City.  He was freshly back from Chicago and spinning in The Crystal Room at The World in 1988 when I was just coming up in the club kid scene and working the ticket ripping post at The World's v.i.p. club IT.
FRANKIE MIX SOUND FACTORY 1991
Then magically he got to take over the wheels of steel at The Sound Factory for a period in 1990 to 1991.  Definitely the period in which I went to factory the most.  Why?  Because with Frankie you could be insured the pretty.  You knew you'd get female vocals and not just bitch tracks.  You knew you'd never get pots and pans.  Frankie had a dreamer's touch.  The magic of a man who loved what he played and wanted you to love it too.

And when the spot got snatched back and returned to Junior Vasquez, Frankie made the ex Private Eyes, Sound Factory Bar Fridays into the primo dance spot that it was for those years in the early 90's.  A cozy spot and a great night out with his sweet buddy Manny Ward spinning downstairs.
SOUND FACTORY BAR 1993
He got a gig in Philadelphia at a circuit party.  I can't remember the name other then it had colors in the title.  But I do know that agroup of my friends and I went down and had a great time.
THIS TIME FRANKIE KNUCKLES BOMB MIX
I remember I went up to the booth once at Sound Factory Bar and even though Frankie and I had only said a few words in passing over the years, he knew exactly who I was.  And when I handed him a cassette he gladly recorded the next 90 minutes and what a 90 minutes that it was.  I played that tape out!  If only I could figure out what I did with it.
A HOT ZIP OF FRANKIE MIXES
Oh and the tears on that last Friday night in 1995.  I remember a gorgeous moment when rose petals fell from the ceiling during the peak of This Time by Chante Moore.  One of the definitive Frankie Knuckles mix masterpieces.
NOTGONNACHANGE CLASSIC CLUB MIX
I also remember that night at The Roxy on a Saturday when Frankie debuted his mix of Swing Out Sister's NOTGONNACHANGE.  Oh my God it was simply astonishing.  I was dancing yet I felt like I was being transported into the heavens.  I might've had a little help in reaching those celestial heavens but I was in my 20's and that was then.
GROOVE ON wild pitch mix...another dance floor fave from that era

LIVE AT THE PARADISE GARAGE

SOUND FACTORY BAR 1991

Tracklist Sound Factory Bar mix from 1991.

1. Michael McDonald - All We Got (Shep Pettibone Remix) [Reprise]
2. Frankie Knuckles - Workout (Original Demo) [Virgin]
3. Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives (Red Zone Mix) [Arista]
4. Basscut - I'm Not In Love [Charisma]
5. C&C Music Factory - I wanna Rock and Roll ]Sony]
6. Sounds Of Blackness - The Pressure (Frankie Knuckles Classic Mix) [Perspective/AM:PM]
7. Mike Wilson Feat. Shawn Christopher - Another Sleepless Night (Red Zone Mix) [BMG]
8. Fast Eddie - Let's Go [D.J. International]
9. Trilogy - Love Me Forever Or Love Me Not [ACTO]
10. Frankie Knuckles - The Whistle Song [Virgin]

5 DEFINING TRACKS FROM FRANKIE'S CAREER ROLLING STONG MAGAZINE

What other DJ has his own street name?

And how many DJ's have ever been photographed with the President and the First Lady?

And what D.J. did they mention in the N.Y. Times?
N.Y. TIMES FASHION AND STYLE SECTION

INSTINCTUAL by IMAGINATION paired with LEEE JOHN'S SENSUALITY

Instinctual was Imagination's only #1 hit on the U.S. dance charts.  It was not among their bigger hits in Europe however.  Released in 1987 it tore up the dance floors in New York City clubs and featured the sound that David Morales and Frankie Knuckles would increasingly pump in their DEF MIX productions and remixes.

download Instinctual

Arthur Baker productions often gave me a certain sense of joy at the time.  Instinctual reminds me of a very happy time.  I was fresh out of University and trying to break into the New York scene and I truly lived to go out.  It was huge on the dancefloor at clubs like Boy Bar on St. Marks Place and Whispers at The Pyramid on Sunday nights. 

LEEE JOHN

Leee John's ferocious vocals and super flamboyance will always be one of my favorite musical memories of the 80's.

His 2009 comeback single was called Sensuality.  It was a remixed version of an earlier released single.

Paul Simpson, Barbara Roy, and the sound of the Paradise Garage

The 1982 12" release on on StreetWise Records by the Paul Simpson Connection, Use Me, Lose Me is a Garage classic. So is the Paul Simpson remix of Barbara Roy's Gotta See You Tonight from 1985.

http://www.mediafire.com/?2mz23jdkyzd

Barbara Roy was a prominent vocalist in the 70's R&B group Ecstasy, Passion and Pain who had a string of hits including Ask Me and the Garage classic Touch and Go.

http://www.mediafire.com/?33jxz1yyywd

Paul Simpson had a fruitful career including working with the legendary Vince Montana on a Goody Goody record, "Let Me Work on You," R&B groups Deja and Surface, and even Rick James. Later he went on to produce and mix house music too. A couple noteworthy releases were collaborations with Adeva (Patricia Daniels). Musical Freedom (Free at Last) by Paul Simpson featuring Adeva and Adeva's house anthem Respect from 1988 which were highpoints in her dance output. Adeva later worked most often with Frankie Knuckles quite often but she never really broke big other then in the club scene.

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