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| Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady |
Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady Youtube Music Videos and LyricsAlbum:
Eargasm Released:
1976 Shake it up,
Shake it down;
Move it in move it round,
Disco LadyMove it in move it out move in and about disco lady.
Shake it up shake it down
Move it in move it out, disco lady.
Hey sexy lady ,
Said I like the way you move your thang,
Lord have mercy girl,
You dance so fine,and you're right on time.
Girl you ought to be on T.V. on soul train.
When you get the groove,
It ain't no stopp-in. just can't help it, I'm finger pop-pin;
Shake it up shake it down; move it in move it round, disco lady.
Move it in move it round ;move it in round about,disco lady.
Shake it baby shake it baby shake your thang;
Shake it baby shake it baby shake your thang,
You got me groovin,
I feel like movin,
Can't sit still I'm groovin. (spoken- I like that funky stuff)
Shake it up
Shake it down; move it in move it round, disco lady
Move it in move it round
Move it in round about, disco lady
Hey sexy lady! girl, you drive me crazy,
You dance so fine and your right on time.
Girl you drive me right out of my mind.
If it wasn't for the girl sit-tin next to me,
I'd jump right up and out-ta my safe-ty seat.
You got me hyp-no-tized, soul mes-mor-ized. girl ,
Your mov-in me girl your groov-in me.
Writer/s: Davis, Don / Scales, Harvey / Vance, Al
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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LyricFindDisco Lady Written by Don Davis, Harvey Scales and Lee Vance, this song was originally titled "Disco Baby." Scales brought the song to Davis, who was Taylor's producer, Davis came up with new lyrics inspired by an African dancer he saw in Spain who would draw all eyes to her when she started dancing. The Impressions had a song called "Gypsy Woman," and Davis used those themes to create his song - instead of a Gypsy Woman, he had a Disco Lady. Johnnie Taylor, nicknamed the "Soul Philosopher," recorded for Stax Records until the label imploded in 1975. Moving to Columbia, his first release was this massive Disco hit, which finds Taylor singing the praises of a lady on the dancefloor. Members of George Clinton's crew, including Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell, played on the track, and Telma Hopkins - of "Shut Your Mouth!" fame - sang backup. It was recorded at United Sound Studios in Detroit, where Davis usually worked. The Platinum award was instituted in 1976 by the RIAA for albums selling one million units and singles selling two million units (in 1989 they lowered the requirements for singles so Gold was 500,000 units and Platinum was a million). This was the first single to ever be certified platinum and it's claimed that to celebrate his success, Taylor took a bath in Dom Perignon champagne. Though there had previously been several disco songs that had reached #1, this was the first Hot 100 chart-topper with the word "disco" in its title. "A lot of people thought it was disco," mused Taylor. "But it was not a disco tune. We were just talking about disco." This song was a huge hit on both the Pop and R&B charts, which it climbed simultaneously. It spent 4 weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 and 6 weeks at the top of the R&B chart.
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