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| Wednesday, August 06, 2008 |
| Disco Returns |
Songs from the 1960’s play and I’m moved, body and soul, right back to the place I was when that song was new, or new to me. My brother still insists I talked during the Beatles first performance on Ed Sullivan, and ruined it. Everyone else in America loved that ‘really big show’. The Beatles will always be my first love.
The Mamas & The Papas music always makes me sad. Such beautiful voices, and so much talent, but their history was a short, sad story.
Motown will always be my second love. The girl groups, singing so sweetly about love and disappointment, then there were the guys, singing and stepping to the beat. All that love, and pain, in matching gowns and suits.
Disco arrived next for me, and the memories still make me smile. It’s all about those spectacular voices, crossover influences, and a hard dancing beat. Late 1970’s music…The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Barry White, ‘The Hustle’, and Saturday Night Fever dance moves.
Then there was a huge lonely black hole, no music, no sound, no sleep, no adults...unless the opening chorus of Sesame Street by day and some fond memories of the Muppet Show each night counts?
Now Heather Murphy Monteith has arrived like Kevin Bacon in Footloose. We can sing, we can dance, ‘Boogie Nights’ (ok, afternoons) are back. Her goal was “to allow children and adults the opportunity to enjoy music in a fun and safe way.” Brad Schleifer highlighted the Fort Lauderdale, FL event last week, and Disco Baby’s history. “In 2004, she rented out Philadelphia’s Fluid nightclub and daytime disco parties started.” Known as Baby Loves Disco Family Dance Party, the “events now occur regularly in scores of cities, including London and Manchester in England.” Ms. Monteith says the music is carefully picked. “You won’t hear kid-specific songs or anything vulgar. The playlists are compiled by DJs and usually focus on disco and ‘80s dance music. It can play as long as it’s clean, the lines are simple and has a solid rhythm.”
“The Baby Loves Disco events cross the nation like a rock concert tour, and sell out like one, too.” Kathleen Seiler Neary, a correspondent for The Washington Post, explained in March, 2008, after her first time, “The dance parties, which are as much for adults as they are for children, have become popular among parents as a fun way to socialize.”
“Andy Blackman Hurwitz, a New York Dad and music producer, was hooked after his first event. ‘It was the first time my kids, my wife and I all walked out of an event and all had a good time.’ Hurwitz and Monteith cloned the concept in other cities; there are Baby Loves Disco events in more than two dozen cities in the United States and the United Kingdom.”
Cell phone lights on, stand, sway, sing Eddie Kendricks “No more lonely days, no more lonely nights”…followed quickly by Abba’s “Thank you for the Music”.
These two are dedicated to you, Heather Murphy Monteith.
- Nancy
Labels: Mind-Body Connection, Nancy, Physical Activity
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