Could Deb Harry and Blondie have saved disco

[Norbert]

This thought accured to me while listening to "Eat to the Beat" Blondie was and still is an eclectic rock group rock-a-billy, sixties, raggae, early rap and disco.

If they had more influence on disco and songs like "The Hardest Part" would have been more the staple of disco instead of "La Freak" maybe it would have had a longer shelf life at least.

[mr_hat]

1. Blondie was witless pop looking for an idiom. >

Not that I have anything against witless pop; see Ramones.

She/they are fortunate to have been swept up in a movement and scored the success they did.

[Teddy_Salad]

2. I was in love with Deborah Harry.....

.....when I was 12 years old!

I would swoon when she was on television.

She made me feel feelings I never before felt!!

Am amazing woman.

[Jim Sagle]

3. Le Freak didn't kill disco. Disco died when the white guys like the

Bee Gees and John Stewart took over and wrecked it.

Before that happened you had cool musicians like Linda Clifford, Chic, Sister Sledge, Norma Jean, Musique, the Sylvers, and Faith, Hope, and Charity. And many others. An unfairly maligned genre.

[EstimatedProphet]

6. John Stewart?

The guy on the Daily Show did disco?

[Jim Sagle]

9. Rod Stewart. Shows how much I care about him.

[blondeatlast]

10. YES! I loved disco and still do. "Saturday Noght Fever"

was a great movie, but the music pretty much was crap.

I think ultimately the SNF soundtrack killed disco when it had a chance to become a legit genre.

[LoZoccolo]

4. Disco never died in Chicago.

House came out before disco had died and was kind of underground in Chicago until acid house came out in the late eighties.

Techno was kind of like that in Detroit, too.

[skooooo]

5. Blondie was more punk/new wave

than disco.

[Norbert]

7. I guess that's what I'm getting at.

If they would have turned disco into the new wave attitude maybe it would have survived only in a different form. Maybe their one time club mates the Talking Heads woul have helped too.

[skooooo]

8. sorry...dunno...i see disco & new wave

to be quite different, so I don't know how you could turn one into the other. Totally different attitude. New Wave was more thoughtful and alienated & not about dancing. Disco was kind of vapid, but less given to the quasi-nihilism of alot of new wave. I dunno, just musing. Maybe you're right.

[MrSlayer]

11. No. And let's all thank our respective deities.

Disco was horrible.

[Laughing Mirror]

12. In spite of what happened in Wrigley Field that fateful day in 1979

Disco really didn't die, it just morphed into other styles of dance music. Think about Michael Jackson and Madonna in the 80s. That was disco music certainly, it was just a newer more electronic sound. The wonderful strings and violins of the sound of Philadelphia and Barry White were being replaced with synthesizers and rhythm boxes. Electro was born. Hip-hop. House and Techno. All of this was just continuation of disco. But all disco was anyway was dance music. And a lot of music that is called disco was not really disco, but was soul and funk and even pop.