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lillypaddle

(9,581 posts)
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 06:35 PM Nov 2019

What Loungers loved "Saturday Night Fever,"

frequented Discos, and danced the night away? Which of you ladies OR gents danced the night away in platform shoes?

Loved the Bee Gees? (This has been inspired by CTYankee's post about "Enough is Enough" and Donna Summer.)

Damn, we don't have a dance smiley?? That just isn't right!

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What Loungers loved "Saturday Night Fever," (Original Post) lillypaddle Nov 2019 OP
Had some platform shoes I may have worn twice and like the BeeGees better now than then. dameatball Nov 2019 #1
That movie made me want to dance lillypaddle Nov 2019 #2
I prefer to think that gravity has just gone rogue....:)) dameatball Nov 2019 #8
LOL - I like that! nt lillypaddle Nov 2019 #9
Loved and knew one of the dances by heart. Phoenix61 Nov 2019 #3
Dancing is good fun lillypaddle Nov 2019 #5
Liked the movie then MontanaMama Nov 2019 #4
Ha... Ha... Ha... Ha... my pants to tight! uriel1972 Nov 2019 #6
Loop a rubber band lillypaddle Nov 2019 #14
Loved the music Freddie Nov 2019 #7
Yeah, the plot sucked lillypaddle Nov 2019 #10
The plot sucked MissMillie Nov 2019 #11
I was a dancing fool in the sixties but disco was not my thing! Floyd R. Turbo Nov 2019 #12
It was probably too structured lillypaddle Nov 2019 #13
Here!!!! LeftInTX Nov 2019 #15
Well, if you couldn't dance to those tunes lillypaddle Nov 2019 #16
The dance music was great, got people up and moving appalachiablue Nov 2019 #17

dameatball

(7,401 posts)
1. Had some platform shoes I may have worn twice and like the BeeGees better now than then.
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 06:50 PM
Nov 2019

Good travelin music. That family experienced the highs and the lows. I never was that crazy about Saturday Night Fever, but it sure was popular. Actually I always thought it would typecast Travolta. I was wrong.

lillypaddle

(9,581 posts)
2. That movie made me want to dance
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 06:54 PM
Nov 2019

and I did. That's something I really miss since I've gotten old - dancing. My center of gravity has changed big time, and believe me, it just isn't the same!

Phoenix61

(17,023 posts)
3. Loved and knew one of the dances by heart.
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 07:35 PM
Nov 2019

I hate that people don’t dance anyone. Going out is no where near as much fun. Several pairs of platform shoes and bell bottom jump suits.

MontanaMama

(23,365 posts)
4. Liked the movie then
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 07:39 PM
Nov 2019

even though I wasn’t into disco at all. I appreciate the movie and the BeeGees more now.

Freddie

(9,275 posts)
7. Loved the music
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 07:56 PM
Nov 2019

I saw it at the movies when it first came out and none of the music was on the radio yet. Awesome. But I recall I found the plot pretty depressing.

LeftInTX

(25,700 posts)
15. Here!!!!
Thu Nov 7, 2019, 03:24 PM
Nov 2019

I loved the music and the dancing.

I saw a documentary about Disco. It took off like crazy in 1975 and started to fizzle in 1979.

Why did it take off? Record companies found Disco cheaper to produce. Unfortunately, it hurt artists because there was less artist time involved in Disco.

Why it fizzled? I can't remember.

But I loved the music.

In came the 80s, but I just couldn't dance to tunes like "Don't, don't you want me" and "Whip It"

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