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This is not the biggest or most dramatic Sylvester song, but it is the one that holds the most special place in my heart. When this record was huge in the clubs I was incredibly enamored with going out. I was the quintessential up and coming disco bunny. And when I would hit the floor I'd be out there for hours with my friends. Badlands, The Lost & Found, Tracks, The Frat House, if you were there you know where I'm talking about! Luckily Sylvester came around a lot to promote his stuff during the Megatone years so I had the pleasure of seeing him live somewhere near 10 times. He was basically the biggest club music celebrity there was in that period. And though the pop charts were no longer kind to him in the 80's he did make quite a good career for himself until that fateful day that A.I.D.S. took him away from us.
Lots of great appearances have been preserved on you tube. Another great one of course is when he was on the Joan Rivers show. Especially since it was one of his last and when he had finally gotten a release on a major label again, and even a Larry Levan remix.
We at Disco Vinyl never really even mention current releases. But The Lady Bunny is channeling her disco inner self in her latest dance release and it's not to be missed. Just in time to capitalize on her t.v. success as an essential component of Logo T.V.'s Drag University, and her 17 years organizing Wigstock and starring in the film about it.
The Lady Bunny spent 17 years creating and promoting Wigstock and is now an in demand DJ. She has been flown to Morocco, Paris, London and many other destinations to spin her mix of disco classics and crowd pleasers. She's currently touring her dance hit TAKE ME UP HIGHon Lybra Records. She's got a real Sylvester groove to her voice and the beat can really take you up high.
She's charting too. If you know anyone that buys current dance music do encourage them to check Take me UpHigh out. Perhaps Bunny will go to the top!
Do check out Lady Bunny stuff on you tube. In case you haven't been introduced to her whacky sense of humor you're in for a treat!
Take me up High is being promoted by industry legendary Bobby Shaw.
Lady Bunny can turn a glamour look when she wants to.
An avid animal rights activist here is a photo of Bunny and I at a PETA benefit in Rome a few years back. I introduced Bunny to Dan Mathews in the late 80's and their collaboration the FUR is a drag! events have become legendary all over the world. PETA has aligned itself with camp and there ain't no goin' back.
Ever the jet-setter for a price you can have Bunny at your next birthday!
Most don't know that Lady Bunny had a twelve inch dance single on Maxi Records in the mid 90's. It was her re-make of the 1975 disco hit by Sheila and Company Shame, Shame, Shame.
If you are traveling to N.Y.C. you can catch Bunny at her weekly event at XL in Hell's Kitchen.
Jazz keyboardist, pianist and composer Herbie Hancock has had a long career moving in and out of different genres of music. His foray into Disco was extremely successful and made for some very smart dance floor music.
In 1978 his vocoder laiden track I thought it was You was an early mix of Electro, Vocoder and Disco/Funk. 1979 was filled with gems from his Feets Don't Fail me Now l.p. with You Bet Your Love, Honey from the Jar and Ready or Not being pressed onto 12" vinyl.
1980 double A side of Go For It and the sublime Stars in Your Eyes has become his most coveted 12" single. The double A side with Stars in Your Eyes on both sides features the 11:21 version which is in the zip I provided above. I had two copies and I sold them both on Ebay about five years ago for just under $200.00 each. They have since become less coveted with I Thought it Was You often fetching the higher bids of the two. 1980's Monster l.p. was over the top. Gavin Christopher's vocal performance on Stars in Your Eyes, Saturday Night and Don't Hold it In were nothing short of perfection. Gavin had his own best chart showing more then ten years later when the House record Don't Lose the Magic went to #1 on the Billboard dance chart.
1981 was another hot year for Herbie Hancock with his dabbling in hip hop, Everybody's Broke which seems like it would be just as appropriate in 2009 as it was then. Also the phenomenal collaboration with Sylvester, Magic Number again fusing Funk, Disco, and R&B.
1982's 12" release was Lite Me Up while in 1983 with Electro and breakdance so prominent, Herbie had the biggest hit of his career with RockIt but I chose to stick to the disco era stuff in my zip.
