Eddy’s 80s Grooves Part 46 Positive Disco Energy

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Ali Pazani

MTV refused to play black music when it started back in 1981, because the executives thought that disco was over. This cloudcast proves that they were wrong and that some very good disco was made after the glory days of the 1970s. A shame that it took several years before the music station started to play major R&B artitsts like Michael Jackson and Donna Summer.

British band ABC reinvented themselves multiple times in the 1980s. After making consecutively a bombastic pop, a rock and an electro pop album and prior to their move into house, Alphabet City saw the light of day in the late summer of 1987. Soon after this soul pop album was brought out, the two remaining members, Martin Fry and Mark White, released the single The Night You Murdered Love. The Whole Story featuring Contessa Lady V was on the B-side of the 12”. The song was a minor chart success in the UK, but went top ten in a number of European countries, including the Netherlands.

Enjoy the positive disco energy of Eddy's Eighties Grooves part 46!

Tracklist:

Webster Lewis – You Are My Life (1981)
Keith Sweat – My Mind Is Made Up (1985)
ABC – The Night You Murdered Love [The Whole Story] (1987)
Lemelle – You Got Something Special (1982)
Angela Bofill – Can’t Slow Down (1984)
Larry Wu – Let Me Show You (1984)
Evelyn King – I’m In Love (1981)
Roger – I Heard It Through The Grapevine (1980)
Staci Lattisaw – You Don’t Love Me Anymore (1980)
Kwick – Shake Till Your Body Break (1981)
Southroad Connection – Positive Energy (1980)
The Dells – Whatever Turns You On (1981)
Mtume – Green Light (1983)
Mighty 7 – Call Me (1984)
Elaine & Ellen – Fill Me Up (1980)
Krystol – After The Dance Is Through (1984)
The Ritchie Family – Real Love [Eddy’s Edit] (1983)
Gary Taylor – Looking Back (1983)

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