DJ Pascoe's Top 10 Tunes - D.I.S.C.O.

A subgenre of dance music, Disco blends the influences of funk, Latin, and soul music with a solid “four-on-the-floor” beat, prominent electric bass guitar lines, and synthesized keyboard parts. The music charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre’s popularity peaked during the late 1970s. Disco’s initial audiences were club-goers from the African American, Latino, gay, and psychedelic communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s; it was a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture of the time.

1. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
2. Celebration – Kool And The Gang
3. Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now – McFadden and Whitehead
4. Staying Alive – Bee Gees
5. My First My Last My Everything – Barry White
6. Young Hearts Run Free – Candi Staton 
7. It’s Raining Men – The Weather Girls
8. Car Wash – Rose Royce
9. I Feel Love – Donna Summer
10. We Are Family – Sister Sledge