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Jana Bemol Around this time in 1979, you could not only dance to the biggest disco hits, most of the lyrics were about dancing too! In The Navy by The Village People and Hot Stuff by Donna Summer just missed the top 20. Like Cher's Take Me Home and Liquid Gold’s My Baby’s Baby , those songs were released by Casablanca Records. Spinning Gold , a movie about the founder of the company, Neil Bogart, is shown in theatres right now. Enjoy! Amii Stewart began attending Howard University in Washington but soon left to work with the D.C. Repertory Dance Company, studying ballet and modern dance. Before becoming a recording artist, Stewart was in the touring company of the stage production Bubbling Brown Sugar . When she was in London, she met record producer Barry Leng. Her debut single and biggest hit, a disco cover version of the 1966 Eddie Floyd hit Knock On Wood , reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1979, and earned her a platinum record and a Grammy Award nomination. It als...

My alternative soundtrack to the brand new movie Spinning Gold about the founder of record company Casablanca, Neil Bogart. I saw the film in a special preview today. Enjoy this month's Mixcloud Exclusive ! In his book And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Record s, co-founder Larry Harris writes: “Casablanca was not a product of the 1970s, it was the 1970s. And no person or company in that era of narcissism and druggy gluttony was more emblematic of the times than Casablanca Records and its magnetic founder, Neil Bogart.” Spinning Gold gives a beautiful, but not always truthful image of the time. Neil Bogart who named himself after actor Humphrey Bogart, is portrayed as a disco pioneer, but in fact he only knew how to sell artists and just jumped on the bandwagon. By signing Donna Summer to the label he found a golden trump card and the lifebuoy he needed for his company. The film suggests that Bogart changed her name into Summer, but she was already a big star i...