WFMU: The Evan "Funk" Davies Show: Playlist from August 17, 2022

Listener comments!
	12:00pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Hello! Is it disco time already?
	12:00pm Handy Haversack: efd! Lunch-time disco people!
	12:00pm G: Gettin this partay started...
	12:00pm luka: is it time
	12:00pm WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I'm ready. I've got my leisure suit on.
	12:00pm xtrakrispy: Disco on Fire Island for this duckie.
	12:01pm Figgsrock: Ah, my favorite show of the summer!
	12:01pm Stevel: This ain’t no party, this ain’t no… I stand corrected!
	12:01pm Krys O.: Good afternoon! Get down on it!
	12:01pm nycmusicnerd: Greetings fellow nerds...
	12:01pm queems: here we goooooo
	12:01pm love2laf: Going to enjoy this as much as I can, until work luncheon beckons. Cheers EFD, will love it live, and archive what I can't disco live.
	12:01pm Various Julius: Hi all
	12:01pm nycmusicnerd: I wonder if Jimmy Somerville/Bronski Beat falls within the chronological timeline here...
	12:02pm Carmichael: Good Lord, what a look and feel ...
	12:02pm Figgsrock: Wow EFD, that's some graphics work on the playlist page today!
	12:02pm Weems: I can listen live til 2!
	12:02pm Stevel: Working, but making a cowbell sound on my chair with my shoe.
	12:02pm efd: @nycmusicnerd Too late!
	12:03pm efd: @Weems noted! Thanks for being here until then!
	12:03pm Vertual: Nice graphics! Even the font is dancing!
	12:03pm clarke: howdy all!
	12:04pm Handy Haversack: Excellent Pop Roxx this morning, BTW, efd. I asked K8 if she knew the Sandwiches since she was in MPLS and going to lots of shows in the nineties, but she didn't recall them. I'll ask again when she's more awake!
	12:04pm Cp304: Hi hats and claps
	12:05pm karlward: Evan “Rock the Bells” Davies
	12:05pm efd: H.a.p.p.y. Wednesday afternoon, everyone! Welcome to the daytime Disco/Dance Party!
	12:05pm Cp304: Hi hand slaps people
	12:05pm nycmusicnerd: Gotcha. Thanks efd. Good to know.
	12:05pm jeff-m: woah
	12:06pm clarke: pee pee - why?!?
	12:06pm timinoak: How great is this song!
	12:06pm clarke: (i went There).
	12:06pm prof.fuzz: Yeehaw!
	12:06pm Midge: Very excited for the dance party!
	12:07pm ?: 💃🏻🐐🦋🦆🪩🐝🐇🦑😶‍🌫️🦝🎉
	12:07pm clarke: FuZZZZZ
	12:08pm clarke: @Handy - what was the nicest thing about michigan, this past trip?
	12:09pm Jessie: @efd-Today's shows reminded me that I own the Ethel Merman Disco Album. Absolutely helping with the monotony of work.
	12:09pm Andres: I’m trying to get some stuff done here but the disco is causing my body to rebel! :)
	12:10pm morphe': Can I get into the disco party if I make new "Disco Sucks" T-shirt ... Went to a Disco theme party/benefit for artists losing their Willyburg space 2000s???with a mandatory "Disco Attire" mandate and there was a tete-a-tete at the door amongst the gate keepers if my Haines hand made "Disco Sucks" shirt was acceptable and I got a pass.... "When I hear the word Disco ... I reach for my Haines and a Black Magic Marker.."
	12:10pm Various Julius: Great era for bass guitar
	12:10pm Andres: Also, CanCon!!!
	12:11pm efd: you got that right, @VJ!
	12:12pm K8: Hello EFD and Dancemaniacs! It's that time of year again...Bagpipe and I are ready to shake it!
	12:12pm clarke: i will post this a few times: Fri Aug 26th, 'fmu chatsters meet at The Corporation on S. Peters in the warehouse district in new orleans at 1:30pm. all welcome!!
	12:12pm Handy Haversack: Hey, clarke! The almost complete lack of passive-aggressive family nonsense was perhaps the best part, given we were anticipating a lot of it. Followed closely by the paddle on the Pentwater River, I guess, and the dog's joy at feeling like a "tractor bro" while I was doing some chores.
	12:12pm prof.fuzz: clarkEEE!
	12:12pm Daybreak, just Daybreak: It’s disco o’clock!
	12:12pm Handy Haversack: K8, what was YOUR favorite part of Michigan this year?
	12:12pm efd: @Andres that Carolyne Bernier track was orchestrated by legendary disco Canadian Denis LePage!
	12:13pm clarke: cool, Handy!! i need to look into pentwater.
	12:13pm Various Julius: Disco Canadian doesn't advertise.
	12:13pm prof.fuzz: Legendary Disco Canadian should be an official title, like Sir…
	12:14pm K8: Oh HI Handy...hmmm, Michigan. All the paddles, three swimming opps, seeing those piglets, sitting out in the evening with cocktails watching the gloaming come on in all the green. Dragonflies...
	12:15pm love2laf: Argh, my ride is on the way, must run. Will enjoy the archive later. Have a ball folks, a disco dance ball!
	12:15pm clarke: ah... the gloaming!!!
	12:15pm timinoak: love love love love this
	12:15pm Jack McGuire: Put your weight on it.
	12:15pm K8: Western Michigan gives some good gloaming...
	12:16pm dave: Hiiiiii
	12:16pm clarke: good gloaming is important.
	12:16pm morphe': Just Saw yer text EFD ... too funny ... No joke - I grew up in the 70s in Bay Ridge and the Disco crowd used to jump out of their cars and beat people up at random - calling them "hicks" for wearing corduroys and plain t shirts.... It was a fairly dangerous and unpleasant time at times around their discos ...
	12:17pm morphe': FYI: I self censored and did not say Guidos from Bensonhurst ... OOOPPPPsssss!!!
	12:19pm PKNY: "Boogie Wonderland" horn line ripoff in this Mizz track!
	12:19pm efd: @PKNY shameless!
	12:20pm Figgsrock: @PKNY--Yes, I was trying to place where that horn riff was from!
	12:20pm PKNY: Ayo Mizz, tell the truth, you owe EW&F some coin!
	12:23pm clarke: was this written FOR a coke commercial?? or the other way round?
	12:26pm karlward: I am wearing my dad's maroon velvet bell bottoms, the ones with the gold studs along the outside calf
	12:26pm karlward: I'm gonna guess that I'm also wearing a light blue short sleeve button down shirt
	12:26pm Baja Joe: Hey now EFD and everyone getting down on the sound
	12:26pm karlward: I know it doesn't go, but join me on the dance floor regardless
	12:27pm karlward: We will make it work
	12:27pm Baja Joe: When does the Donna Summer stuff begin?
	12:27pm clarke: all these songs remind me how much the Saints suuucked!!
	12:28pm Handy Haversack: This is a Parisian night suit!
	12:29pm Ken From Hyde Park: Here we go! 🪩
	12:29pm Andres: efd: You turned me onto Lime. Thank you for not buying all the 12”s on your cross border visits so that I could find some copies. ;)
	12:29pm Andrea True: Got any coke?
	12:30pm ?: It’s cool that rollerdisco is enjoying a comeback
	12:30pm prof.fuzz: No Coke. Pepsi!
	12:31pm Domenica: I had to make an appearance for the disco show!!!
	12:31pm Miss Georgia Peach: Hmmmm mmmm mmmm mmmmm
	12:31pm gauche knee: lol, Handy! Love that ep of F&G
	12:32pm efd: Domenica!! So good to see you here, hope you're feeling ok all things considered!
	12:32pm Jessie: Teddy Pendergrass styled vocals on this Moment of Truth track.
	12:32pm prof.fuzz: @MissGPeach: for the record, which side of Dallas is the “back side”?
	12:32pm Domenica: I am feeling quite good, thank you EFD!!
	12:33pm Handy Haversack: The one behind the front, prof.fuzz!
	12:33pm karlward: prof.fuzz: trick question, Dallas is its own backside
	12:33pm efd: excellent!
	12:33pm clarke: i don't know where it is FuZZ - but i have BEEN THERE (deep ellum?)
	12:34pm Domenica: Eeeee, K.I.D!! Love this song.
	12:34pm Hoboken Jack: Happy Disco Day, EFD!!
	12:34pm gauche knee: My shoulder shimmy went from demure to brazen, this gal needs to dance. Bless u, efd…but Damn u to hell capitalist overlords!
	12:34pm clarke: jaaaackl
	12:35pm PuraVida: Happy Disco Day EFD!!!
	12:35pm ?: Andrea @ 12:29 it wasn’t until your joke that I realized doing the Bump wasn’t just about a sexydance.
	12:35pm prof.fuzz: Never mind. I’ll just put it into my gps and see where i end up.
	12:36pm clarke: FuZZ - when do (ulp) classes start??
	12:37pm clarke: i'll say it again: don't stop (until 3pm EST)
	12:38pm prof.fuzz: clarkEEE: monday
	12:38pm ?: yes, this is a jam
	12:39pm clarke: ouch!!! also, what happened to yer avatar thingie??
	12:39pm K8: The rest of my swag just arrived! Even more reasons to dance!
	12:39pm Handy Haversack: Well put, gauche knee!
	12:39pm efd: bad job by me not waiting until 2 o'clock to play this Yarbrough & Peoples record!
	12:39pm Andres: Getting down and funky here! Yes!
	12:40pm bradford: coincidentally, yarbrough & peoples are from Dallas...
	12:40pm clarke: the backside!
	12:41pm karlward: Now I want Garcia People to out out a record called Garcia & People where they cover Yarbrough & Peoples hits.
	12:41pm clarke: peoples is the strangest peoples.
	12:41pm Domenica: Philly International, the sweetest sound of all.
	12:44pm clarke: it's not too easy to listen to disco and read a western pulp short story from the 40's.
	12:45pm nathan: just got a little yackety saxxy there for a second
	12:46pm Miss Georgia Peach: @oroffuzz I always picture an alley entrance to a bar, or a booty
	12:46pm Miss Georgia Peach: Whoops. @prof.fuzz ⬆️
	12:47pm Andres: clarke: “peoples is...” That line is from a Looney Tunes or Muppet Movie. Or other. Either way, a fave sentiment.
	12:48pm clarke: andres, it pre-cedes muppets AND looney tunes. it was a vaudeville comedian who said it, first, but i can't remember whom.
	12:49pm clarke: Looney Tunes appropriated most of their quotes from other sources.
	12:50pm clarke: it MIGHT have been the guy who progenoted Senior Wencas??
	12:51pm clarke: whoops: Senor Wincas
	12:51pm nycmusicnerd: "Peoples is peoples" was used by the diner owner in "The Muppets Take Manhattan".
	12:51pm ?: I was so disco-resistant as a youth, too cool for school. I’ve learned to embrace it as I age
	12:52pm Jessie: @clarke--You might be thinking of comedian Lew Lehr and his "cwaziest peoples" catchphrase.
	12:52pm clarke: that's what i was trying to remember, yes!
	12:53pm morphe': Prof Fuzz - Back Side of Dallas(she became a born again Christian) - I just listened to that yesterday .. for some reason ??? The East side or the South side of most cities are often the roughest - that is a worldwide thing I have noticed in a lot of travels... That is also a global thing as the South Hemisphere and the East tend to be poorer than the North and the West ??? A big generalization and no explanation, but it is my lived experience???
	12:54pm Andres: Peoples has got deep cultural roots! :)
	12:56pm Andres: Depeche Mode fits in there somewhere as well.
	12:57pm Yes: WHOA ITS TODAY!!!
	12:57pm clarke: it's not like i can't look this stuff up, like everyone else, i would prefer to rely on my (half)wits and sometimes be embarrassed.
	12:57pm Domenica: Such unmistakable claps!
	12:58pm clarke: life is something special? uhhhh...
	12:59pm johnk77: deep ellum roots in dallas
	12:59pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Being a gay POC in the 70s, I loved this music alongside all my predominately white "rock" music. There was room in my heart for it all.
	12:59pm efd: I love this song so much, but I always have to resist the siren songs of "On A Journey" and "Life Is Something Special" when I pull out this LP
	12:59pm morphe': Thinking of GrandMaster Flash and the Fab 5 ... ps Kidd Creole(not Coconusts but GMF+5) is upstate for a manslaughter that he admits to but the story is more complex than played out in most papers...
	1:01pm Domenica: @Hopey that is the attitude!
	1:01pm Domenica: @EFD, there is always the similar "Love Honey, Love Heartache" you can pull out.
	1:01pm Figgsrock: I've been wondering what's different about this disco/dance show compared to the past decade(?) I've been listening, and it's because I usually would have a beer (or two) during the night time version!
	1:03pm Andres: I will now stop favouriting every single song on the app and simply download the show as soon as available!
	1:04pm efd: @Domenica Not familiar with that one, will investigate later!
	1:04pm Yes: I am very happy . Didn’t know this was happening today. Thanks efd
	1:05pm efd: @Yes it's absolutely my pleasure!
	1:05pm efd: @Hopey Happy to have you tuned in today!
	1:06pm Figgsrock: This Barbara Pennington might be a debut, but I am certain I've heard it before and have no idea where.
	1:06pm morphe': Figgs.. - it is 19:05 in Madrid and the Rose is flowing...
	1:06pm paddy: anyone else hear the party boy theme in this one
	1:07pm efd: @Figgsrock Shh, it's on one of my premium CDs!
	1:11pm PuraVida: @EFD how long is the long version of gimme back my love affair?
	1:11pm efd: @PuraVida it's about 7:30 or so
	1:12pm PuraVida: @EFD cool...also GREAT show today!
	1:13pm Yes: ::applause::
	1:13pm Figgsrock: @EFD--HOLY CRAP! My brain works in weird ways.
	1:16pm clarke: RIP Lamont!!
	1:18pm Handy Haversack: Used to be able to make an honest living in the boogie business in this country.
	1:18pm Midge: Pardon me, I have to attend to some boogie business
	1:20pm Robm: Hello fellow disco listeners
	1:23pm Hopey Sockmonkey: "Ain't no more Motown Review/ And The Beatles have broken up, too" is brilliant.
	1:23pm efd: remind me to clean this record!
	1:24pm Johannes: lmao, authentic ;)
	1:24pm efd: with some 12"s playing at 45rpm and some at 33 that was inevitable
	1:25pm clarke: surprised you made it that far, ha ha ha! the boogie bizness is rough!
	1:26pm efd: @clarke me too!!
	1:27pm prof.fuzz: @clarkEEEE: i was posting from my phone app, so the avatar went missing. home now. @MissGP: i live on the north side of dallas, so trying to figure out if i'm on the front side, the back side, or one of the side sides...
	1:27pm clarke: i am relieved, FuZZ!! ha ha.
	1:28pm clarke: North Dallas Forty!!
	1:29pm Handy Haversack: Gotta figure you're on the fuzz side, prof.
	1:29pm clarke: @FuZZ - i am just seeing where Maestro just re-issued one of their early fuzz pedals...hmmm...
	1:30pm Andres: PuttinFinn the Ritz!
	1:30pm Crownless Gander: ZZ Top taking notes here.
	1:31pm Miss Georgia Peach: @prof.fuzz I think it’s a state of mind or a way of livin
	1:31pm clarke: Terry Manning taking notes, rather.
	1:31pm Andres: *Putting! (Where the heck does autocorrect get these things from?!)
	1:32pm prof.fuzz: technically,i'm in richardson, wedged between dallas (to the south), garland (to the east), and plano (to the north), and dallas again (to the west). @handy: wherever i am is the fuzzside. @MissGP: in that case, it's probably whatever dallas dive bar we're fuzzing up on any given friday or saturday night. @clarke: the "maestro" of today has nothing to do with the maestro of yesteryear. a handful of really good replicas of the original maestro fuzz out there.
	1:33pm clarke: yes, but whomever is doing the re-issues seems to be sticking close the maestro formula. right??
	1:33pm efd: this is self-evident, since I'm playing it on the show and all, but I like this version of "Locomotion!"
	1:34pm clarke: i am referring to the Echoplex re-ish which is rather swell.
	1:34pm BH: checking into the Workday Disco Dance Party
	1:36pm efd: nice to have you, BH!
	1:37pm Figgsrock: Oh my goodness this Scherrie Payne is the "Evan drove me to Discogs to add it to my wishlist" track of this year's D/D Party.
	1:37pm prof.fuzz: @clarke: MXR did the echoplex reissues. i'll look into the maestro fuzz reissue and report back via email.
	1:38pm clarke: roger that!!
	1:38pm efd: @Figgsrock I was wondering if this would do it!
	1:38pm Bryant in TO: Loving this! It's like the start of Saturday night to 10cc's bleary-eyed Sunday morning comedown version.
	1:39pm clarke: well, i LOVE 10cc's version.
	1:39pm Andres: Took me a while to get the 10cc. Digging it!
	1:39pm efd: she's Freda Payne's younger sister!
	1:40pm efd: and Freda's singing backup on this record
	1:40pm Bryant in TO: @clarke Oh, yeah, I love 10cc's, too. The two versions just feel like two different cab rides
	1:40pm still b/p: I'm dismantling a prop made for a stage show -- a rough DIY sci-fi-ish rolling office chair with affixed gewgaws, apparatus and repurposed tech-junk. And this is the perfect happy soundtrack for the months-delayed task. Discomantling it.
	1:41pm clarke: i LIKE this version. LIKE, dottie!!
	1:43pm WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Gewgaws is an awesome word.
	1:43pm Handy Haversack: Definitive spellings are core efd!
	1:44pm Susan See: Haven’t heard this song in 40 years! Murphy’s Law! Feel like I’m back in art school.
	1:44pm bradford: this is cancon disco!
	1:44pm popchop: I haven't heard this in years! Sounds great! :-)))))))))))))
	1:45pm efd: @bradford I didn't realize Cheri was Canadian! Not the last CanCon we'll hear today either!
	1:49pm Figgsrock: Oh heck yeah. The Glow of Love is a stone cold classic.
	1:49pm Krys O.: LUTHER!!!
	1:50pm PuraVida: @Krys O I was like THAT VOICE
	1:50pm Krys O.: Had the pleasure of seeing Luther at Electric Lady when my friend was a manager there. He liked to record in a night shirt. So tall and gorgeous.
	1:51pm efd: @Krys wow, that must have been incredible!
	1:52pm Andres: Hoping there will be Cerrone later.
	1:54pm Krys O.: I was in complete awe, efd. My friend said he was a sweetheart to work with. Suffice it to say, I liked to go hang out with her at her job. This was in the mid-80s. Oh, and she was Wm. Berger's roommate for years.
	1:54pm still b/p: "He liked to record in a night shirt" sounds like a lyric Tom Waits might use.
	1:55pm prof.fuzz: "but he never did like that owl..." -- Imaginary Tom Waits
	1:55pm Tommy in Neversink: Today Evan Funk Davies earns his middle name
	1:55pm Krys O.: It was red/white striped. He looked so comfortable.
	1:56pm efd: would have been sacrilegious to fade Luther out early, we heard all eight minutes and one second of that one
	1:57pm PuraVida: I am so glad I reconnected with Wm. before he passed. I was best friends with him growing up in West Orange through 6th grade & then completely lost touch until 2011 ish
	1:59pm Krys O.: Hey, PuraVida! Cheers to you.
	1:59pm Krys O.: BTW-I'm grooving to the tunes while I work, efd. Thanks so much!
	2:00pm Mister Dobalina: Lots of booty shakin' and head noddin' on today's show!
	2:01pm Yes: =)
	2:03pm efd: it continues to absolutely KILL me that "Mandolay" was written by longtime Donnie Iris collaborator and bandmate Mark Avsec.
	2:05pm dave miss: Mando slaps
	2:06pm morphe': was hoping to hear the progression/or not to the end but Simon and I off to play some footie thanks EFD and all ..
	2:07pm clarke: misster MISS!
	2:10pm clarke: Mandolay was nice, but it ain't no Ah Leah!
	2:10pm clarke: (but, nothing really IS Ah Leah!).
	2:10pm efd: very close though!
	2:11pm clarke: Ah Leah is one of the greatest pieces of recorded history, in my book. just a complete perfect mess of sounds.
	2:12pm Jessie: @efd--Let's not forget C.J. & Company's "Devils Gun" disco hit which was masterminded by Dennis Coffey.
	2:12pm clarke: and even Donnie Iris could never re-create that mess.
	2:14pm Michael from the Left Coast: Dammit, I got a phone call and I missed Cheri--- I knew her a bit, she was very nice.
	2:15pm PuraVida: This song has 'Love Boat' vibes...
	2:15pm Michael from the Left Coast: and one more thing re Cheri, which I don't know if it was said because I was on the phone-- she was the daughter of Geraldine Hunt, who recorded Heartbeat
	2:18pm efd: @Michael I didn't know that! Thanks for the info, and for listening (between phone calls)!
	2:18pm Michael from the Left Coast: Did I say Heartbeat? That Taana Gardener-- Geraldine recorded Can't Fake the Feeling
	2:19pm Michael from the Left Coast: Originally Cheri was a group and Rosalind Hunt continued on solo later
	2:19pm clarke: was going to ask if the DeFranco Family covered Heartbeat??
	2:19pm Michael from the Left Coast: different Heartbeat
	2:19pm prof.fuzz: i'm assuming the day they got disco in brazil is a national holiday there now...
	2:19pm clarke: (which is totally possible).
	2:20pm efd: @Michael close enough for the WFMU comments board! :)
	2:20pm Midge: Oooh I love this version!
	2:20pm Andres: 🙌
	2:21pm olivia: I love the annual disco party so much!
	2:21pm efd: @Midge theeeeeee best!!
	2:22pm efd: oh thank you olivia!!
	2:23pm PuraVida: Off the Wall was recorded in December 1978 so Michael was already there...
	2:23pm steveo: Wait... Michael Jackson is disco ...My gosh you're right
	2:24pm PuraVida: (starting in December 1978)
	2:24pm still b/p: This base line....I play it every so often on the guitar just for several seconds and just for fun. Just feels good.
	2:25pm efd: @steveo point of order: this is The Jacksons. But that doesn't invalidate your point.
	2:25pm steveo: I stand corrected/not corrected
	2:25pm efd: Off The Wall is definitely a disco album imho
	2:26pm steveo: 👍
	2:26pm Krys O.: Michael was a denizen of Studio 54, btw. Of course the Jacksons had disco hits.
	2:28pm Andres: Space elevator sound effect!
	2:28pm clarke: hey whoah!
	2:29pm still b/p: Shake Your Body and album Destiny produced by Jacksons themselves. Interesting.
	2:29pm clarke: maybe the Bob Crane Generation?
	2:30pm steveo: There was a photo of people inside Studio 54 in Highlights magazine in probably 1978 and one of the people looked like one of my schoolmates so I wrote the magazine a letter asking if it was her but they never responded.
	2:31pm clarke: like, the Highlights for kids?!?
	2:31pm steveo: Indeed
	2:32pm clarke: wow, they took off from when i was in the doctor's office times.
	2:32pm Midge: Gallant shares his drugs
	2:32pm steveo: Her name was Naomi
	2:32pm clarke: and those mother fuckers never wrote you back!
	2:34pm efd: literally LOLing at @clarke calling the sweet innocent employees of Highlights For Children "motherfuckers."
	2:34pm Andres: Gotta leave early. Huge thanks, efd!! Massive disco party!
	2:34pm efd: I mean, I'm assuming they were sweet and innocent
	2:34pm Handy Haversack: They brought it on themselves!
	2:34pm efd: thanks for listening, Andres!
	2:34pm clarke: those bastards at Highlights!! i oughtta...
	2:36pm clarke: they must be in cahoots with Encyclopedia Brown 0- that rat bastid!!
	2:36pm nycmusicnerd: Goofus calls them "motherfuckers". Gallant calls them "those nice people who work there".
	2:36pm steveo: Lol Wait the Highlight magazine didn't have photographs right it was just drawings I must be misremembering some of the details.. no wait it must have been the Dynamite magazine that makes more sense haha
	2:37pm clarke: still... those MF's at Highlights are goin' down!! (oh wait, they already did?)
	2:39pm WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Dance Across the Floor, a KC & the Sunshine Band album with a superior vocalist....sez allmusic.com.
	2:39pm loveless: @efd Disco Dance Party is better than Christmas!
	2:40pm larry of lackawack: How do you follow this up?
	2:40pm prof.fuzz: I stole a song idea from Highlights, if that makes you feel any better, clarke. We’ve recorded it 2x but never released it.
	2:41pm clarke: it makes me feel a little better; however, we've already put a hit out on the Highlights entire staff, so you can't call that back.
	2:43pm prof.fuzz: I’ll send you the files so they can be played when the dime drops on those highlighted mofos…
	2:43pm Mike Sin: Digging the show! I’m actually conducting my “boogie business” while walking around the streets of NYC with my ear goggles in!
	2:43pm clarke: they will be ended to the chorus.
	2:44pm Merlin: Great show efd !!!!
	2:44pm prof.fuzz: “I am the Junk-O Man!”
	2:45pm JetBoy of Brooklyn: Good day all! I’ll see how much disco I can take. I honestly have no idea.
	2:45pm clarke: but, we're trying to direct the hit towards the entire Dynamite staff. but you know how it goes.
	2:45pm still b/p: @ Midge -- Hah! Perfect. Points. I thought there was something incongruous about the celebration of near nekkidness, drugs and hedonism that was Studio 54 getting some kind of Highlights media highlighting.
	2:46pm clarke: what was Junk-O Man, prof?? i don't recall that.
	2:49pm prof.fuzz: An issue of Highlights had kid readers send in pics and descriptions of “creatures you’ve never seen.” Junk-O Man was one. So i wrote a song about it. So technically, i stole the idea from some 7 year old kid, although I’m sure Highlights stole the copyright from the kid too.
	2:50pm clarke: niiiice!!
	2:51pm clarke: hearing the tune will be one of the "highlights" of my "dynamite" summer!!
	2:52pm Hopey Sockmonkey: The horns on this song are Soul Finger, right?
	2:52pm clarke: and Naomi may never know!!
	2:52pm still b/p: Stealing a tune for "Thievings... Nothing more than...thievings..."
	2:52pm Yes: = )
	2:52pm K8: Gotta head out for some errands...another great disco dancy party today, EFD! THANK YOU!
	2:53pm clarke: L8R K8!
	2:53pm Yes: Thank you , too, EFD! later all
	2:53pm prof.fuzz: At first I thought this song was called Love Fuzz…
	2:54pm prof.fuzz: Bye K8!
	2:54pm vinylmonkee: Thanks for the disco sparkle, EFD!
	2:54pm clarke: it IS FuZZ!! thanks for the Fun Evan!!
	2:54pm efd: @prof that'll be the remake
	2:54pm efd: Thanks for coming to the party, everyone!
	2:54pm Handy Haversack: Nirvana's interpretation is very loose. Thanks, efd! Discoed and danc'd the afternoon away!
	2:55pm larry of lackawack: EFD Gaylord and Pseu.
	2:55pm prof.fuzz: Thanks for throwing the party EFD!
	2:55pm PuraVida: Thank you EFD for such a fun, great show today!
	2:55pm clarke: ha ha ha ha! later handy haverknap
	2:55pm BH: for some reason i'm humming "True Blue" during parts of this song?
	2:55pm ILikedWaterworld: lotsa fun EFD!
	2:55pm bradford: thanks EFD, this was a blast!
	2:56pm clarke: sadly no disco airhorns.
	2:56pm Figgsrock: This was great EFD. Thank you as always.
	2:57pm prof.fuzz: Legendary Disco Canadians!
	2:57pm Midge: Thanks EFD! Good times!
	2:57pm JetBoy of Brooklyn: Well I guess I just caught the end. What I caught was an experience!
	2:57pm steveo: Thank you Evan that was fun
	2:58pm Asheville Jon: thanks EFD WE WANT THE AIR HORN!!!!
	2:58pm clarke: i think courtney noir might be in with the Highlights people.
	3:01pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Thank you so SO much for the annual party, efd!

The Evan "Funk" Davies Show: Playlist from August 17, 2022

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Every show starts with the ’70s! We’ll rediscover forgotten rockers, revisit unfairly maligned disco beats and replay power-pop favorites. Next: plenty of new releases, occasional live bands and more. Don’t let the nickname confuse you.

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Wed. Dec 25th, Noon - 3pm: The 18th Annual Holiday Music Funktacular! (More info...)
It’s the 18th year of the Evan “Funk” Davies Show Holiday Music Funktacular, and this year — for the first time ever — it will air on actual Christmas Day! Tune in for three hours of Christmas music that you won’t already be sick of hearing: old and new seasonal rock, punk, dance, glam, and power pop favorites. Even your family might enjoy it!

August 17, 2022: The 14th Annual Evan "Funk" Davies Show Disco/Dance Party!

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I'll admit it: in 1976 or '77, in thrall to punk rock, I sauntered into the Harvard Coop, a big department store in Harvard Square, made my way to the customized t-shirt department, and picked out a blank gold-colored shirt. I then selected the black block letters that I wanted to be heat-transferred onto that shirt:
D-I-S-C-O S-U-C-K-S.
Ultimately the shirt didn't get much use, though that was more because my Mom didn't care for the language.

Fast forward a few years and I'm in New York City in the summertime, between semesters at NYU. I still love punk and its offshoots, but listening to Ken "Spider" Webb and Ricky Ricardo and, of course the Chief Rocker Frankie Crocker on WBLS has made me realize the folly of that t-shirt. Fast forward several more years and now every summer I start itching to play my favorite records from that era (give or take a few years) -- favorites I loved back then, and new favorites that I never heard back in the day.

In that spirit, I'm excited to bring you the 14th annual Evan "Funk" Davies Show Disco/Dance Party! It's three hours of classic dance and disco jams from the '70s and early '80s, plus some lost shoulda-been-hits that just might become your new faves. Hook up the disco ball, pull your rug back and turn up the volume. Everybody's dancin', everybody's on the beat, and there ain’t no stoppin' us now!

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Disco/dance disclaimer! I'm keeping the lines blurry and using "disco" and "dance" as catch-all terms for my own take on fun dance music from the mid-70s to the early '80s, expanding the boundaries (and sound) of the traditional disco era. Don't @ me!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
edwin starr	h.a.p.p.y. radio "h.a.p.p.y. radio" by "edwin starr"	12"	20th century	1979	last played on the Disco/Dance Party in 2014!	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
carolyne bernier	hold me, touch me	12"	private stock	1977	Disco/Dance Party debut!	0:06:24 (Pop-up)
creative source	don't be afraid (take my love)	7"	polydor uk	1975	last played on the Disco/Dance Party in 2016!	0:11:19 (Pop-up)
mizz	tell the truth "tell the truth" by "mizz"	s/t	casablanca	1980	Disco/Dance Party debut!	0:15:20 (Pop-up)
melba moore	this is it "this is it" by "melba moore"	12"	buddah	1976	Disco/Dance Party debut!	0:19:36 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: silvetti	spring rain "spring rain" by "silvetti"	7"	salsoul			0:25:43 (Pop-up)
moment of truth	you got me hummin'	12"	salsoul	1977	last played on the Disco/Dance Party in 2017!	0:28:12 (Pop-up)
k.i.d.	don't stop "don't stop" by "k.i.d."	7"	sam	1979	Disco/Dance Party debut!	0:33:46 (Pop-up)
yarbrough & peoples	don't stop the music	7"	mercury	1980		0:37:09 (Pop-up)
the futures	party time man "party time man" by "the futures"	12"	phila. int'l	1978		0:41:04 (Pop-up)
poussez!	come on and do it "come on and do it" by "poussez!"	12"	vanguard	1979	Disco/Dance Party debut!	0:46:49 (Pop-up)
rockers revenge feat. donnie calvin	walkin' on sunshine	12"	ariola	1982	last played on the Disco/Dance Party in 2016, shockingly!	0:50:41 (Pop-up)
nyc peech boys	don't make me wait	life is something special	island	1983		0:56:32 (Pop-up)
barbara pennington	twenty-four hours a day	12:	ua	1977	Disco/Dance Party debut!	1:02:55 (Pop-up)
sister power	gimme back my love affair (short version)	12"	ariola america	1979		1:09:03 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: walter murphy	new york city suite	rhapsody in blue	private stock	1977		1:12:42 (Pop-up)
lamont dozier	boogie business "boogie business" by "lamont dozier"	7"	warner bros.	1979	RIP to one of the greatest songwriters of our time, and a fine solo performer as well	1:16:57 (Pop-up)
philly cream	motown review "motown review" by "philly cream"	7"	fantasy/wmot	1979	last played on the Disco/Dance Party in 2014!	1:20:35 (Pop-up)
deborah washington	love shadow / standing in the shadow of love	12"	ariola	1978	Disco/Dance Party debut!	1:24:03 (Pop-up)
ritz	locomotion "locomotion" by "ritz"	12"	epic	1979	Disco/Dance Party debut!	1:29:08 (Pop-up)
scherrie payne	i'm not in love / girl, you're in love	12"	altair	1982	Disco/Dance Party debut!	1:34:37 (Pop-up)
cheri	murphy's law "murphy's law" by "cheri"	12"	venture	1982	last played on the Disco/Dance Party in 2017!	1:42:45 (Pop-up)
change	searchin' "searchin'" by "change"	the glow of love	rfc/warner bros.	1980		1:48:27 (Pop-up)
southroad connection	you like it we love it	12"	mahogany	1977		1:56:24 (Pop-up)
la flavour	mandolay "mandolay" by "la flavour"	12"	sweet city	1979		2:02:13 (Pop-up)
gary toms	don't fight the feeling	turn it out	mca	1977	Disco/Dance Party debut!	2:08:30 (Pop-up)
miquel brown	the day they got disco in brazil	symphony of love	polydor	1978	Disco/Dance Party debut!	2:14:32 (Pop-up)
the jacksons	shake your body (down to the ground)	12"	epic	1978		2:20:06 (Pop-up)
the bob crewe generation	menage a trois	street talk	elektra	1976	Disco/Dance Party debut!	2:28:03 (Pop-up)
beautiful bend	boogie motion "boogie motion" by "beautiful bend"	7"	marlin	1978	Disco/Dance Party debut!	2:32:33 (Pop-up)
jimmy "bo" horne	i wanna go home with you	dance across the floor	sunshine sound	1978		2:36:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: herbie mann	pick up the pieces "pick up the pieces" by "herbie mann"	discotheque	atlantic			2:39:24 (Pop-up)
dorothy moore	let the music play "let the music play" by "dorothy moore"	12"	tk	1977		2:42:40 (Pop-up)
montreal sound	music (very special disco mix by paj)	12"	smash disco	1977	Disco/Dance Party debut!	2:47:21 (Pop-up)
voggue	love buzz "love buzz" by "voggue"	12"	celsius	1981	Disco/Dance Party debut!	2:52:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: disc-o-tech	control tower "control tower" by "disc-o-tech"	the magic disco machine	motown	1975		2:56:13 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:00pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Hello! Is it disco time already?
	12:00pm Handy Haversack: efd! Lunch-time disco people!
	12:00pm G: Gettin this partay started...
	12:00pm luka: is it time
	12:00pm WoodsOfNH (now Maine): I'm ready. I've got my leisure suit on.
	12:00pm xtrakrispy: Disco on Fire Island for this duckie.
	12:01pm Figgsrock: Ah, my favorite show of the summer!
	12:01pm Stevel: This ain’t no party, this ain’t no… I stand corrected!
	12:01pm Krys O.: Good afternoon! Get down on it!
	12:01pm nycmusicnerd: Greetings fellow nerds...
	12:01pm queems: here we goooooo
	12:01pm love2laf: Going to enjoy this as much as I can, until work luncheon beckons. Cheers EFD, will love it live, and archive what I can't disco live.
	12:01pm Various Julius: Hi all
	12:01pm nycmusicnerd: I wonder if Jimmy Somerville/Bronski Beat falls within the chronological timeline here...
	12:02pm Carmichael: Good Lord, what a look and feel ...
	12:02pm Figgsrock: Wow EFD, that's some graphics work on the playlist page today!
	12:02pm Weems: I can listen live til 2!
	12:02pm Stevel: Working, but making a cowbell sound on my chair with my shoe.
	12:02pm efd: @nycmusicnerd Too late!
	12:03pm efd: @Weems noted! Thanks for being here until then!
	12:03pm Vertual: Nice graphics! Even the font is dancing!
	12:03pm clarke: howdy all!
	12:04pm Handy Haversack: Excellent Pop Roxx this morning, BTW, efd. I asked K8 if she knew the Sandwiches since she was in MPLS and going to lots of shows in the nineties, but she didn't recall them. I'll ask again when she's more awake!
	12:04pm Cp304: Hi hats and claps
	12:05pm karlward: Evan “Rock the Bells” Davies
	12:05pm efd: H.a.p.p.y. Wednesday afternoon, everyone! Welcome to the daytime Disco/Dance Party!
	12:05pm Cp304: Hi hand slaps people
	12:05pm nycmusicnerd: Gotcha. Thanks efd. Good to know.
	12:05pm jeff-m: woah
	12:06pm clarke: pee pee - why?!?
	12:06pm timinoak: How great is this song!
	12:06pm clarke: (i went There).
	12:06pm prof.fuzz: Yeehaw!
	12:06pm Midge: Very excited for the dance party!
	12:07pm ?: 💃🏻🐐🦋🦆🪩🐝🐇🦑😶‍🌫️🦝🎉
	12:07pm clarke: FuZZZZZ
	12:08pm clarke: @Handy - what was the nicest thing about michigan, this past trip?
	12:09pm Jessie: @efd-Today's shows reminded me that I own the Ethel Merman Disco Album. Absolutely helping with the monotony of work.
	12:09pm Andres: I’m trying to get some stuff done here but the disco is causing my body to rebel! :)
	12:10pm morphe': Can I get into the disco party if I make new "Disco Sucks" T-shirt ... Went to a Disco theme party/benefit for artists losing their Willyburg space 2000s???with a mandatory "Disco Attire" mandate and there was a tete-a-tete at the door amongst the gate keepers if my Haines hand made "Disco Sucks" shirt was acceptable and I got a pass.... "When I hear the word Disco ... I reach for my Haines and a Black Magic Marker.."
	12:10pm Various Julius: Great era for bass guitar
	12:10pm Andres: Also, CanCon!!!
	12:11pm efd: you got that right, @VJ!
	12:12pm K8: Hello EFD and Dancemaniacs! It's that time of year again...Bagpipe and I are ready to shake it!
	12:12pm clarke: i will post this a few times: Fri Aug 26th, 'fmu chatsters meet at The Corporation on S. Peters in the warehouse district in new orleans at 1:30pm. all welcome!!
	12:12pm Handy Haversack: Hey, clarke! The almost complete lack of passive-aggressive family nonsense was perhaps the best part, given we were anticipating a lot of it. Followed closely by the paddle on the Pentwater River, I guess, and the dog's joy at feeling like a "tractor bro" while I was doing some chores.
	12:12pm prof.fuzz: clarkEEE!
	12:12pm Daybreak, just Daybreak: It’s disco o’clock!
	12:12pm Handy Haversack: K8, what was YOUR favorite part of Michigan this year?
	12:12pm efd: @Andres that Carolyne Bernier track was orchestrated by legendary disco Canadian Denis LePage!
	12:13pm clarke: cool, Handy!! i need to look into pentwater.
	12:13pm Various Julius: Disco Canadian doesn't advertise.
	12:13pm prof.fuzz: Legendary Disco Canadian should be an official title, like Sir…
	12:14pm K8: Oh HI Handy...hmmm, Michigan. All the paddles, three swimming opps, seeing those piglets, sitting out in the evening with cocktails watching the gloaming come on in all the green. Dragonflies...
	12:15pm love2laf: Argh, my ride is on the way, must run. Will enjoy the archive later. Have a ball folks, a disco dance ball!
	12:15pm clarke: ah... the gloaming!!!
	12:15pm timinoak: love love love love this
	12:15pm Jack McGuire: Put your weight on it.
	12:15pm K8: Western Michigan gives some good gloaming...
	12:16pm dave: Hiiiiii
	12:16pm clarke: good gloaming is important.
	12:16pm morphe': Just Saw yer text EFD ... too funny ... No joke - I grew up in the 70s in Bay Ridge and the Disco crowd used to jump out of their cars and beat people up at random - calling them "hicks" for wearing corduroys and plain t shirts.... It was a fairly dangerous and unpleasant time at times around their discos ...
	12:17pm morphe': FYI: I self censored and did not say Guidos from Bensonhurst ... OOOPPPPsssss!!!
	12:19pm PKNY: "Boogie Wonderland" horn line ripoff in this Mizz track!
	12:19pm efd: @PKNY shameless!
	12:20pm Figgsrock: @PKNY--Yes, I was trying to place where that horn riff was from!
	12:20pm PKNY: Ayo Mizz, tell the truth, you owe EW&F some coin!
	12:23pm clarke: was this written FOR a coke commercial?? or the other way round?
	12:26pm karlward: I am wearing my dad's maroon velvet bell bottoms, the ones with the gold studs along the outside calf
	12:26pm karlward: I'm gonna guess that I'm also wearing a light blue short sleeve button down shirt
	12:26pm Baja Joe: Hey now EFD and everyone getting down on the sound
	12:26pm karlward: I know it doesn't go, but join me on the dance floor regardless
	12:27pm karlward: We will make it work
	12:27pm Baja Joe: When does the Donna Summer stuff begin?
	12:27pm clarke: all these songs remind me how much the Saints suuucked!!
	12:28pm Handy Haversack: This is a Parisian night suit!
	12:29pm Ken From Hyde Park: Here we go! 🪩
	12:29pm Andres: efd: You turned me onto Lime. Thank you for not buying all the 12”s on your cross border visits so that I could find some copies. ;)
	12:29pm Andrea True: Got any coke?
	12:30pm ?: It’s cool that rollerdisco is enjoying a comeback
	12:30pm prof.fuzz: No Coke. Pepsi!
	12:31pm Domenica: I had to make an appearance for the disco show!!!
	12:31pm Miss Georgia Peach: Hmmmm mmmm mmmm mmmmm
	12:31pm gauche knee: lol, Handy! Love that ep of F&G
	12:32pm efd: Domenica!! So good to see you here, hope you're feeling ok all things considered!
	12:32pm Jessie: Teddy Pendergrass styled vocals on this Moment of Truth track.
	12:32pm prof.fuzz: @MissGPeach: for the record, which side of Dallas is the “back side”?
	12:32pm Domenica: I am feeling quite good, thank you EFD!!
	12:33pm Handy Haversack: The one behind the front, prof.fuzz!
	12:33pm karlward: prof.fuzz: trick question, Dallas is its own backside
	12:33pm efd: excellent!
	12:33pm clarke: i don't know where it is FuZZ - but i have BEEN THERE (deep ellum?)
	12:34pm Domenica: Eeeee, K.I.D!! Love this song.
	12:34pm Hoboken Jack: Happy Disco Day, EFD!!
	12:34pm gauche knee: My shoulder shimmy went from demure to brazen, this gal needs to dance. Bless u, efd…but Damn u to hell capitalist overlords!
	12:34pm clarke: jaaaackl
	12:35pm PuraVida: Happy Disco Day EFD!!!
	12:35pm ?: Andrea @ 12:29 it wasn’t until your joke that I realized doing the Bump wasn’t just about a sexydance.
	12:35pm prof.fuzz: Never mind. I’ll just put it into my gps and see where i end up.
	12:36pm clarke: FuZZ - when do (ulp) classes start??
	12:37pm clarke: i'll say it again: don't stop (until 3pm EST)
	12:38pm prof.fuzz: clarkEEE: monday
	12:38pm ?: yes, this is a jam
	12:39pm clarke: ouch!!! also, what happened to yer avatar thingie??
	12:39pm K8: The rest of my swag just arrived! Even more reasons to dance!
	12:39pm Handy Haversack: Well put, gauche knee!
	12:39pm efd: bad job by me not waiting until 2 o'clock to play this Yarbrough & Peoples record!
	12:39pm Andres: Getting down and funky here! Yes!
	12:40pm bradford: coincidentally, yarbrough & peoples are from Dallas...
	12:40pm clarke: the backside!
	12:41pm karlward: Now I want Garcia People to out out a record called Garcia & People where they cover Yarbrough & Peoples hits.
	12:41pm clarke: peoples is the strangest peoples.
	12:41pm Domenica: Philly International, the sweetest sound of all.
	12:44pm clarke: it's not too easy to listen to disco and read a western pulp short story from the 40's.
	12:45pm nathan: just got a little yackety saxxy there for a second
	12:46pm Miss Georgia Peach: @oroffuzz I always picture an alley entrance to a bar, or a booty
	12:46pm Miss Georgia Peach: Whoops. @prof.fuzz ⬆️
	12:47pm Andres: clarke: “peoples is...” That line is from a Looney Tunes or Muppet Movie. Or other. Either way, a fave sentiment.
	12:48pm clarke: andres, it pre-cedes muppets AND looney tunes. it was a vaudeville comedian who said it, first, but i can't remember whom.
	12:49pm clarke: Looney Tunes appropriated most of their quotes from other sources.
	12:50pm clarke: it MIGHT have been the guy who progenoted Senior Wencas??
	12:51pm clarke: whoops: Senor Wincas
	12:51pm nycmusicnerd: "Peoples is peoples" was used by the diner owner in "The Muppets Take Manhattan".
	12:51pm ?: I was so disco-resistant as a youth, too cool for school. I’ve learned to embrace it as I age
	12:52pm Jessie: @clarke--You might be thinking of comedian Lew Lehr and his "cwaziest peoples" catchphrase.
	12:52pm clarke: that's what i was trying to remember, yes!
	12:53pm morphe': Prof Fuzz - Back Side of Dallas(she became a born again Christian) - I just listened to that yesterday .. for some reason ??? The East side or the South side of most cities are often the roughest - that is a worldwide thing I have noticed in a lot of travels... That is also a global thing as the South Hemisphere and the East tend to be poorer than the North and the West ??? A big generalization and no explanation, but it is my lived experience???
	12:54pm Andres: Peoples has got deep cultural roots! :)
	12:56pm Andres: Depeche Mode fits in there somewhere as well.
	12:57pm Yes: WHOA ITS TODAY!!!
	12:57pm clarke: it's not like i can't look this stuff up, like everyone else, i would prefer to rely on my (half)wits and sometimes be embarrassed.
	12:57pm Domenica: Such unmistakable claps!
	12:58pm clarke: life is something special? uhhhh...
	12:59pm johnk77: deep ellum roots in dallas
	12:59pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Being a gay POC in the 70s, I loved this music alongside all my predominately white "rock" music. There was room in my heart for it all.
	12:59pm efd: I love this song so much, but I always have to resist the siren songs of "On A Journey" and "Life Is Something Special" when I pull out this LP
	12:59pm morphe': Thinking of GrandMaster Flash and the Fab 5 ... ps Kidd Creole(not Coconusts but GMF+5) is upstate for a manslaughter that he admits to but the story is more complex than played out in most papers...
	1:01pm Domenica: @Hopey that is the attitude!
	1:01pm Domenica: @EFD, there is always the similar "Love Honey, Love Heartache" you can pull out.
	1:01pm Figgsrock: I've been wondering what's different about this disco/dance show compared to the past decade(?) I've been listening, and it's because I usually would have a beer (or two) during the night time version!
	1:03pm Andres: I will now stop favouriting every single song on the app and simply download the show as soon as available!
	1:04pm efd: @Domenica Not familiar with that one, will investigate later!
	1:04pm Yes: I am very happy . Didn’t know this was happening today. Thanks efd
	1:05pm efd: @Yes it's absolutely my pleasure!
	1:05pm efd: @Hopey Happy to have you tuned in today!
	1:06pm Figgsrock: This Barbara Pennington might be a debut, but I am certain I've heard it before and have no idea where.
	1:06pm morphe': Figgs.. - it is 19:05 in Madrid and the Rose is flowing...
	1:06pm paddy: anyone else hear the party boy theme in this one
	1:07pm efd: @Figgsrock Shh, it's on one of my premium CDs!
	1:11pm PuraVida: @EFD how long is the long version of gimme back my love affair?
	1:11pm efd: @PuraVida it's about 7:30 or so
	1:12pm PuraVida: @EFD cool...also GREAT show today!
	1:13pm Yes: ::applause::
	1:13pm Figgsrock: @EFD--HOLY CRAP! My brain works in weird ways.
	1:16pm clarke: RIP Lamont!!
	1:18pm Handy Haversack: Used to be able to make an honest living in the boogie business in this country.
	1:18pm Midge: Pardon me, I have to attend to some boogie business
	1:20pm Robm: Hello fellow disco listeners
	1:23pm Hopey Sockmonkey: "Ain't no more Motown Review/ And The Beatles have broken up, too" is brilliant.
	1:23pm efd: remind me to clean this record!
	1:24pm Johannes: lmao, authentic ;)
	1:24pm efd: with some 12"s playing at 45rpm and some at 33 that was inevitable
	1:25pm clarke: surprised you made it that far, ha ha ha! the boogie bizness is rough!
	1:26pm efd: @clarke me too!!
	1:27pm prof.fuzz: @clarkEEEE: i was posting from my phone app, so the avatar went missing. home now. @MissGP: i live on the north side of dallas, so trying to figure out if i'm on the front side, the back side, or one of the side sides...
	1:27pm clarke: i am relieved, FuZZ!! ha ha.
	1:28pm clarke: North Dallas Forty!!
	1:29pm Handy Haversack: Gotta figure you're on the fuzz side, prof.
	1:29pm clarke: @FuZZ - i am just seeing where Maestro just re-issued one of their early fuzz pedals...hmmm...
	1:30pm Andres: PuttinFinn the Ritz!
	1:30pm Crownless Gander: ZZ Top taking notes here.
	1:31pm Miss Georgia Peach: @prof.fuzz I think it’s a state of mind or a way of livin
	1:31pm clarke: Terry Manning taking notes, rather.
	1:31pm Andres: *Putting! (Where the heck does autocorrect get these things from?!)
	1:32pm prof.fuzz: technically,i'm in richardson, wedged between dallas (to the south), garland (to the east), and plano (to the north), and dallas again (to the west). @handy: wherever i am is the fuzzside. @MissGP: in that case, it's probably whatever dallas dive bar we're fuzzing up on any given friday or saturday night. @clarke: the "maestro" of today has nothing to do with the maestro of yesteryear. a handful of really good replicas of the original maestro fuzz out there.
	1:33pm clarke: yes, but whomever is doing the re-issues seems to be sticking close the maestro formula. right??
	1:33pm efd: this is self-evident, since I'm playing it on the show and all, but I like this version of "Locomotion!"
	1:34pm clarke: i am referring to the Echoplex re-ish which is rather swell.
	1:34pm BH: checking into the Workday Disco Dance Party
	1:36pm efd: nice to have you, BH!
	1:37pm Figgsrock: Oh my goodness this Scherrie Payne is the "Evan drove me to Discogs to add it to my wishlist" track of this year's D/D Party.
	1:37pm prof.fuzz: @clarke: MXR did the echoplex reissues. i'll look into the maestro fuzz reissue and report back via email.
	1:38pm clarke: roger that!!
	1:38pm efd: @Figgsrock I was wondering if this would do it!
	1:38pm Bryant in TO: Loving this! It's like the start of Saturday night to 10cc's bleary-eyed Sunday morning comedown version.
	1:39pm clarke: well, i LOVE 10cc's version.
	1:39pm Andres: Took me a while to get the 10cc. Digging it!
	1:39pm efd: she's Freda Payne's younger sister!
	1:40pm efd: and Freda's singing backup on this record
	1:40pm Bryant in TO: @clarke Oh, yeah, I love 10cc's, too. The two versions just feel like two different cab rides
	1:40pm still b/p: I'm dismantling a prop made for a stage show -- a rough DIY sci-fi-ish rolling office chair with affixed gewgaws, apparatus and repurposed tech-junk. And this is the perfect happy soundtrack for the months-delayed task. Discomantling it.
	1:41pm clarke: i LIKE this version. LIKE, dottie!!
	1:43pm WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Gewgaws is an awesome word.
	1:43pm Handy Haversack: Definitive spellings are core efd!
	1:44pm Susan See: Haven’t heard this song in 40 years! Murphy’s Law! Feel like I’m back in art school.
	1:44pm bradford: this is cancon disco!
	1:44pm popchop: I haven't heard this in years! Sounds great! :-)))))))))))))
	1:45pm efd: @bradford I didn't realize Cheri was Canadian! Not the last CanCon we'll hear today either!
	1:49pm Figgsrock: Oh heck yeah. The Glow of Love is a stone cold classic.
	1:49pm Krys O.: LUTHER!!!
	1:50pm PuraVida: @Krys O I was like THAT VOICE
	1:50pm Krys O.: Had the pleasure of seeing Luther at Electric Lady when my friend was a manager there. He liked to record in a night shirt. So tall and gorgeous.
	1:51pm efd: @Krys wow, that must have been incredible!
	1:52pm Andres: Hoping there will be Cerrone later.
	1:54pm Krys O.: I was in complete awe, efd. My friend said he was a sweetheart to work with. Suffice it to say, I liked to go hang out with her at her job. This was in the mid-80s. Oh, and she was Wm. Berger's roommate for years.
	1:54pm still b/p: "He liked to record in a night shirt" sounds like a lyric Tom Waits might use.
	1:55pm prof.fuzz: "but he never did like that owl..." -- Imaginary Tom Waits
	1:55pm Tommy in Neversink: Today Evan Funk Davies earns his middle name
	1:55pm Krys O.: It was red/white striped. He looked so comfortable.
	1:56pm efd: would have been sacrilegious to fade Luther out early, we heard all eight minutes and one second of that one
	1:57pm PuraVida: I am so glad I reconnected with Wm. before he passed. I was best friends with him growing up in West Orange through 6th grade & then completely lost touch until 2011 ish
	1:59pm Krys O.: Hey, PuraVida! Cheers to you.
	1:59pm Krys O.: BTW-I'm grooving to the tunes while I work, efd. Thanks so much!
	2:00pm Mister Dobalina: Lots of booty shakin' and head noddin' on today's show!
	2:01pm Yes: =)
	2:03pm efd: it continues to absolutely KILL me that "Mandolay" was written by longtime Donnie Iris collaborator and bandmate Mark Avsec.
	2:05pm dave miss: Mando slaps
	2:06pm morphe': was hoping to hear the progression/or not to the end but Simon and I off to play some footie thanks EFD and all ..
	2:07pm clarke: misster MISS!
	2:10pm clarke: Mandolay was nice, but it ain't no Ah Leah!
	2:10pm clarke: (but, nothing really IS Ah Leah!).
	2:10pm efd: very close though!
	2:11pm clarke: Ah Leah is one of the greatest pieces of recorded history, in my book. just a complete perfect mess of sounds.
	2:12pm Jessie: @efd--Let's not forget C.J. & Company's "Devils Gun" disco hit which was masterminded by Dennis Coffey.
	2:12pm clarke: and even Donnie Iris could never re-create that mess.
	2:14pm Michael from the Left Coast: Dammit, I got a phone call and I missed Cheri--- I knew her a bit, she was very nice.
	2:15pm PuraVida: This song has 'Love Boat' vibes...
	2:15pm Michael from the Left Coast: and one more thing re Cheri, which I don't know if it was said because I was on the phone-- she was the daughter of Geraldine Hunt, who recorded Heartbeat
	2:18pm efd: @Michael I didn't know that! Thanks for the info, and for listening (between phone calls)!
	2:18pm Michael from the Left Coast: Did I say Heartbeat? That Taana Gardener-- Geraldine recorded Can't Fake the Feeling
	2:19pm Michael from the Left Coast: Originally Cheri was a group and Rosalind Hunt continued on solo later
	2:19pm clarke: was going to ask if the DeFranco Family covered Heartbeat??
	2:19pm Michael from the Left Coast: different Heartbeat
	2:19pm prof.fuzz: i'm assuming the day they got disco in brazil is a national holiday there now...
	2:19pm clarke: (which is totally possible).
	2:20pm efd: @Michael close enough for the WFMU comments board! :)
	2:20pm Midge: Oooh I love this version!
	2:20pm Andres: 🙌
	2:21pm olivia: I love the annual disco party so much!
	2:21pm efd: @Midge theeeeeee best!!
	2:22pm efd: oh thank you olivia!!
	2:23pm PuraVida: Off the Wall was recorded in December 1978 so Michael was already there...
	2:23pm steveo: Wait... Michael Jackson is disco ...My gosh you're right
	2:24pm PuraVida: (starting in December 1978)
	2:24pm still b/p: This base line....I play it every so often on the guitar just for several seconds and just for fun. Just feels good.
	2:25pm efd: @steveo point of order: this is The Jacksons. But that doesn't invalidate your point.
	2:25pm steveo: I stand corrected/not corrected
	2:25pm efd: Off The Wall is definitely a disco album imho
	2:26pm steveo: 👍
	2:26pm Krys O.: Michael was a denizen of Studio 54, btw. Of course the Jacksons had disco hits.
	2:28pm Andres: Space elevator sound effect!
	2:28pm clarke: hey whoah!
	2:29pm still b/p: Shake Your Body and album Destiny produced by Jacksons themselves. Interesting.
	2:29pm clarke: maybe the Bob Crane Generation?
	2:30pm steveo: There was a photo of people inside Studio 54 in Highlights magazine in probably 1978 and one of the people looked like one of my schoolmates so I wrote the magazine a letter asking if it was her but they never responded.
	2:31pm clarke: like, the Highlights for kids?!?
	2:31pm steveo: Indeed
	2:32pm clarke: wow, they took off from when i was in the doctor's office times.
	2:32pm Midge: Gallant shares his drugs
	2:32pm steveo: Her name was Naomi
	2:32pm clarke: and those mother fuckers never wrote you back!
	2:34pm efd: literally LOLing at @clarke calling the sweet innocent employees of Highlights For Children "motherfuckers."
	2:34pm Andres: Gotta leave early. Huge thanks, efd!! Massive disco party!
	2:34pm efd: I mean, I'm assuming they were sweet and innocent
	2:34pm Handy Haversack: They brought it on themselves!
	2:34pm efd: thanks for listening, Andres!
	2:34pm clarke: those bastards at Highlights!! i oughtta...
	2:36pm clarke: they must be in cahoots with Encyclopedia Brown 0- that rat bastid!!
	2:36pm nycmusicnerd: Goofus calls them "motherfuckers". Gallant calls them "those nice people who work there".
	2:36pm steveo: Lol Wait the Highlight magazine didn't have photographs right it was just drawings I must be misremembering some of the details.. no wait it must have been the Dynamite magazine that makes more sense haha
	2:37pm clarke: still... those MF's at Highlights are goin' down!! (oh wait, they already did?)
	2:39pm WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Dance Across the Floor, a KC & the Sunshine Band album with a superior vocalist....sez allmusic.com.
	2:39pm loveless: @efd Disco Dance Party is better than Christmas!
	2:40pm larry of lackawack: How do you follow this up?
	2:40pm prof.fuzz: I stole a song idea from Highlights, if that makes you feel any better, clarke. We’ve recorded it 2x but never released it.
	2:41pm clarke: it makes me feel a little better; however, we've already put a hit out on the Highlights entire staff, so you can't call that back.
	2:43pm prof.fuzz: I’ll send you the files so they can be played when the dime drops on those highlighted mofos…
	2:43pm Mike Sin: Digging the show! I’m actually conducting my “boogie business” while walking around the streets of NYC with my ear goggles in!
	2:43pm clarke: they will be ended to the chorus.
	2:44pm Merlin: Great show efd !!!!
	2:44pm prof.fuzz: “I am the Junk-O Man!”
	2:45pm JetBoy of Brooklyn: Good day all! I’ll see how much disco I can take. I honestly have no idea.
	2:45pm clarke: but, we're trying to direct the hit towards the entire Dynamite staff. but you know how it goes.
	2:45pm still b/p: @ Midge -- Hah! Perfect. Points. I thought there was something incongruous about the celebration of near nekkidness, drugs and hedonism that was Studio 54 getting some kind of Highlights media highlighting.
	2:46pm clarke: what was Junk-O Man, prof?? i don't recall that.
	2:49pm prof.fuzz: An issue of Highlights had kid readers send in pics and descriptions of “creatures you’ve never seen.” Junk-O Man was one. So i wrote a song about it. So technically, i stole the idea from some 7 year old kid, although I’m sure Highlights stole the copyright from the kid too.
	2:50pm clarke: niiiice!!
	2:51pm clarke: hearing the tune will be one of the "highlights" of my "dynamite" summer!!
	2:52pm Hopey Sockmonkey: The horns on this song are Soul Finger, right?
	2:52pm clarke: and Naomi may never know!!
	2:52pm still b/p: Stealing a tune for "Thievings... Nothing more than...thievings..."
	2:52pm Yes: = )
	2:52pm K8: Gotta head out for some errands...another great disco dancy party today, EFD! THANK YOU!
	2:53pm clarke: L8R K8!
	2:53pm Yes: Thank you , too, EFD! later all
	2:53pm prof.fuzz: At first I thought this song was called Love Fuzz…
	2:54pm prof.fuzz: Bye K8!
	2:54pm vinylmonkee: Thanks for the disco sparkle, EFD!
	2:54pm clarke: it IS FuZZ!! thanks for the Fun Evan!!
	2:54pm efd: @prof that'll be the remake
	2:54pm efd: Thanks for coming to the party, everyone!
	2:54pm Handy Haversack: Nirvana's interpretation is very loose. Thanks, efd! Discoed and danc'd the afternoon away!
	2:55pm larry of lackawack: EFD Gaylord and Pseu.
	2:55pm prof.fuzz: Thanks for throwing the party EFD!
	2:55pm PuraVida: Thank you EFD for such a fun, great show today!
	2:55pm clarke: ha ha ha ha! later handy haverknap
	2:55pm BH: for some reason i'm humming "True Blue" during parts of this song?
	2:55pm ILikedWaterworld: lotsa fun EFD!
	2:55pm bradford: thanks EFD, this was a blast!
	2:56pm clarke: sadly no disco airhorns.
	2:56pm Figgsrock: This was great EFD. Thank you as always.
	2:57pm prof.fuzz: Legendary Disco Canadians!
	2:57pm Midge: Thanks EFD! Good times!
	2:57pm JetBoy of Brooklyn: Well I guess I just caught the end. What I caught was an experience!
	2:57pm steveo: Thank you Evan that was fun
	2:58pm Asheville Jon: thanks EFD WE WANT THE AIR HORN!!!!
	2:58pm clarke: i think courtney noir might be in with the Highlights people.
	3:01pm Hopey Sockmonkey: Thank you so SO much for the annual party, efd!

The Evan "Funk" Davies Show: Playlist from August 17, 2022

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