Before the word disco existed, the phrase discotheque records was used to denote music played in New York private rent or after hours parties like the Loft and Better Days. The records played there were a mixture of funk, soul and European imports [LP-cuts or 45s]. We will call this genre of music "proto disco". These "proto disco" records are the same kind of records that were played by Kool Herc on the early hip hop scene.
Kool Herc The Father of Hip Hop
Disco dancing evolved alongside musical influences by Rock, Soul, Blues and Funk music on the genre. Individual styles were choreographed to meet the demands of the soaring sound effects, reverberating vocals and the popular quaver and semi-quaver hi-hat pattern. Soon the Hustle became a common name for a number of individual moves. This partner-dance involved elaborate hand movements and sleek twists and turns. It was not very different from the Swing of the 1950s-1960s. Much of disco dancing came from older dances. The moves were combined forms of the Mambo and the Salsa. Dancing in a line was popularized first in Florida and New York City, during the early 1970s. The dance incorporated the Salsa foot rhythm and in time introduced the hip sways of Swing.
Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby(1975)
A disco craze was born out of the line-dance, in 1975. Actually, the name 'Hustle' was given to the first dance identified with this music genre, after the popular Soul City Symphony and Van McCoy song, 'The Hustle'. Thereafter, dance moves choreographed to promote 'Disco Baby', by David Todd, became a rave in the new discotheque venues across New York City's East Side, and subsequently the rest of the world. While the song earned McCoy the title of 'Top Instrumental Artist – 1975', the Hustle was taken to the next level. Hustle moves soon resulted in the popular, jerky, back and forth movements of the 'Continental Walk'. The dance moves became as bold as the music, incorporating suggestive jumps, forward and backward, and elaborate clicking of the heels.
Do the hustle by the late great Van McCoy
The 'Bus Stop' was another line-dance that actually took on variations with regards to location and time! All through 1976 and 1977, the dance was popularized via instructional videos and live shows. A variation of the Merengue, Bus Stop involved hip rotations that helped change direction and partner orientation. Subsequently, 'the 'Electric Slide' was born.
Fatback Band - (Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop
Most Disco dances have strong roots in Swing, Samba, Cha Cha, Mambo, Merengue, Fox Trot and Tango. The Hustle is believed to have originated in New York in 1970. It went through many variations in the seventies, with line dances for groups of people, solo movements that came and went, and partnership dances. These partnership dances included The Basic Hustle, Latin, Spanish and Tango Hustle, and the most popular Street, Three-Count or Swing Hustle that originated in California as the street Hustle by skaters in Venice and Malibu. John Travolta and "Saturday Night Fever" made dancing the "in" thing for many people, especially men.
Saturday Night Fever (1977) Trailer
Popular disco music of the 70's included Bee Gees "Stayin' alive", "Night fever", "More than a woman", "Everybody Dance" (Chic) and Donna Summer's "Love to love you baby".
Hustle is danced to the contemporary pop dance music of the last 20 years. It is a fast, smooth dance, with the lady spinning almost constantly, while her partner draws her close and sends her away.
"Things may come to those who wait, but only things left by those who hustle." ... Abraham Lincoln.
Only by killing disco could rock affirm its threatened masculinity and restore the holy dyad of cold brew and undemanding sex partners. Disco bashing became a major preoccupation in 1977. At the moment when Saturday Night Fever and Studio 54 achieved zeitgeist status, rock rediscovered a rage it had been lacking since the '60s, but this time the enemy was a culture with "plastic" and "mindless" (read effeminate) musical tastes. Examined in light of the ensuing political backlash, it's clear that the slogan of this movement--"Disco Sucks!"--was the first cry of the angry white male. --Peter Braunstein
Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive ( 1977 )
Discotheques
Discotheques originated in occupied Paris during the Second World War. The Nazis banned jazz and closed many of the dance clubs, breaking up jazz groups and driving fans into illicit cellars to listen to recorded music. One of these venues - on the rue Huchette - called itself La Discothèque. Then Paul Pacine opened the Whiskey a Go-Go, where dancers would hit the floor accompanied by records played by disc jockeys on a phonograph. Pacine went on to open other clubs in Europe, while in Paris Chez Régine opened in 1960, catering to the self-styled beautiful people. The upmarket thrills of Régine's enjoyed by the American jet-set in turn inspired New York's Le Club, although it didn't last long, closing soon after a new venue in New York took off in 1961: the Peppermint Lounge.
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