This morning's Go (01/29/05) on the CBC features the scholarly Lister Sinclair riffing between "The Masterpieces of Disco". What a concept! Thanks guys.
Nobody called me for any records, so I'm guessing that CBC music/record librarian Adrian Shuman was listening to my radio shows ("The Disco Source") all those years ago. (Adrian also got his radio start at CFMU-FM 93.3 at McMaster.)
Brent: Your assertion that Canada did not produce many disco masterpieces is not correct. So -- although you played France Joli -- you completely missed the genious of Gino Soccio.
One song featured on the show was "Let Me Take You Dancing", by Bryan Adams -- one of his earliest releases and it pre-dates his "rocker" image. The high-octave vocals by Adams on that record were not a result of his not having hit puberty (he was 18 or 19 when that was recorded). The vocal tracks were pitched up in speed. Years later it seems like a brilliant move; nobody seems to recognize Adams voice when that record is heard now, thus allowing him to shrug off his nascent disco career. I interviewed Bryan -- god where is that tape, somewhere in the basement -- in 1979. In that interview Bryan says "Yeah, I really like Disco..."
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