YOU GOT THE STUFF & LOVELY DAY bill withers classics

Bill Withers had phenomenal success in the seventies.  With huge hits like Use Me, Lean on Me and Lovely Day he was known throughout the world.  But what many people don't know is that he had a very solid jump on the disco bandwagon release.  LOVELY DAY  original version of lovely day

A LOVELY DAY ZIP  THE BEN LIEBRAND 1988 SUNSHINE REMIX

The incredibly funky, sexy and downtempo You Got the Stuff was released in in 1978 and is known considered a disco classic.  It's quite collectible and fetches a pretty penny on websites like discogs and ebay.  I have stores on both sites so feel free to cruise my wares.  Perhaps you could do so while enjoying these hot downloads.  THE INSTRUMENTAL and THE EXTENDED VERSION and the rarest of them all BLACK COCK EDIT

Computer (in my mind) AGO

Ago had a string of italo disco releases.  Computer from 1986 was one of the later ones.  

I personally would have called this song If you really wanna see the show or Come to the future.

The first Agostino Presta release from 1982 is still the best.  I love the whole album.

I won't forget this record because I sold it back when I was first starting on Ebay.  I wanted to get a lot for it and I knew I would so I put it's starting price at $24.99 just in case it did poorly but like a distracted numskull I wrote it in the buy it now column.  Wouldn't you know that record wasn't even up for 5 minutes!

What a laugh, Ago re-did Fancy's Chinese Eyes but look what a mess they did with the record cover!

Speaking of Fancy's Chinese Eyes how much did I love that song?  Almost as much as Come Inside.  Weren't they a double A side?  At least on the U.S. pressing, they were actually a German act.  In any case, it was a song that really didn't need a re-make particularly one so totally similar.

listen to Computer

What were they dancing to in 1982?

I consider 1982 the year of my disco initiation.  Freshly graduated from high school and down in D.C. for university I probably went out on average five nights a week that fall and winter.  The impact of new wave was heavy in the clubs, some HI NRG was being produced and the Brits were calling disco, boogie.

How about that Chaz,  7 weeks on top, no small feat.

The following year would be my favorite and my full stop initiation into Italo Disco.

I CAN'T GET ENOUGH IN THE PRIME TIME, GERMAN ITALO DISCO

Ralf Roder is Prime Time and he had three italo disco releases.  I Can't Get Enough was his third and it was released on the German label Chic in orange transparent vinyl.

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