In praise of Disco Tex and his Sex-O-Lettes

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"MY CHIFFON IS WET, DARLING."

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I really think in retrospect my AMG review is too negative (when, in fact, it is not negative at all).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I am lost in the moment, Ned, I am overWHELMED.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

well i'll just say that

'it doesnt matter *who you are*, nobody cares how you wear your hair darlin, just as long as you keep doin it...'

is in my top 10 moments in all pop.

GET DANCIN is better, has more atmosphere than most clubnights,
all by itself.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Monti actually say "I'm getting myself off" in a low almost-moan about midway through the song? It sounds like it to me ...

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"Get Dancin'" was on a various artists soul music CD (Deep Grooves? Soul grooves? something like that, I can't remeber exactly) I had playing the first time me and my (future) wife were making out. Whenever 'Get Dancin'" came on, we knew it was time to come up for air-- it just made us laugh every time it came on.

― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Monti actually say "I'm getting myself off" in a low almost-moan about midway through the song? It sounds like it to me ...

I had always heard "I'm turning myself on," but I like yours better.

"Radar love is here!" = teh best

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Thursday, 28 October 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

my love of this album has long been well documented.

does anybody know much about sir monti rock's solo career, under his own name? i have one LP, on the archives of folk and pop music label or something like that, and it's ok, but not very memorable, either --very short, and almost all covers of oft-covered songs like "wooly bully," if i remember right, and definitely it's devoid of the crazy swish and glitter of disco tex. did he have any other solo albums?

― chuck, Thursday, 28 October 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, i just noticed it's listed as *a piece of the rock* by disco tex on AMG -- but my copy is *a piece of the rock* by sir monte rock, with no discos or texes anywhere in sight. *manhattan millionaire,* the other actual disco tex album, is much more fun.

― chuck, Thursday, 28 October 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, Chuck, I recently found out that he played the DJ in Saturday Night Fever -- somehow I never knew about that!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 October 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll be doing a long piece on the two Disco Tex albums when I get to him in my 1974 blog thing (at the moment I've got 1974 writer's block - how on earth do you rouse yourself to say something, one way or the other, about Brownsville Station?).

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 October 2004 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Talk about the inspirational appearance of "Smokin' in the Boys Room" in Rock and Roll High School. Remove the adjective in the previous sentence as needed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I assume here we're talking about the super moaning, orgasmatron 7.17 12" of Get Dancin' and not the album fade out abomination. Pure disco gold of course to rival Hamilton Bohannon, Shirley & Co etc The sound of disco gels whirring under poppers.

"Do it baby.... dance, dance, daaaaaaaaaaaaaaance"

― Guy Beckett, Friday, 29 October 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

are those track timings on AMG right (two 19-minute songs)? and is that a CD? and is it still available?

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 29 October 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't there a fantastic Kogan article somewhat based on Disco Tex? I'm sure it was linked to from here, possibly put up by Sinkah.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The Disco Tex Essay

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this must a Chuck Eddy thread.

I'll have to try to hear this, one of the gaps in my musical knowledge. I know nowt about them other than the PSB reference.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 29 October 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the moment, late in side two, where that low-level buzz of constant audience scatter-chatter that provides the sonic foundation upon which Disco T and his S-O-Ls do their shimmy coalesces for a brief shining moment to deliver an as-one "WHOO!" before dissolving into scattered chatter once more.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

>>'it doesnt matter *who you are*, nobody cares how you wear your hair darlin, just as long as you keep doin it...'

Gee, I wonder if Monti knew he was paraphrasing Frances Faye's legendary, "As long as you have a pretty face, it doesn't matter how you wear your hair"? He certainly seemed to have all of the necessary qualifications to be a card-carrying Faye-natic.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Friday, 29 October 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, I must get my hands on this before the "Good-bye LA, Hello London" party...yes oh yes.

― Thea (Thea), Friday, 29 October 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Arrangements can indeed be made.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

GET DANCIN'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:52 (twenty years ago)

i just answered my own questions upthread using Google. i see that Amazonians be hatin' on the fidelity of the CD.

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:39 (twenty years ago)

i always consider getting this when i'm out used record shopping... i really should one day

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:45 (twenty years ago)

YES YOU SHOULD.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Sir Monti Rock is one of the multitudes in the closing B-list celebutasm that ends Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, I noticed recently.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

Just listening to this for the first time ever. WOW. How did the scissor sisters ever sell anything when this already existed?

It reminds me of the old Muppet Show albums, more than anything else. Which is a good, good thing.

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

How did the scissor sisters ever sell anything when this already existed?

Nobody truly appreciates the love. (Except us.)

It reminds me of the old Muppet Show albums, more than anything else.

This is a brilliantly accurate comparison.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 July 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

this record is a friggin masterpiece

― Nunca Llueve (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

MIAMI

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 21 July 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

I got the second album too, but I'm going to save that for a while.

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 21 July 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm wondering how and why Monti Rock III wound up on the Archive Of Folk & Jazz label, myself. As if they couldn't start a subsidiary label for someone who was obviously neither?

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Saturday, 22 July 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

I wrote a bit on it here (though I wish the guys who ran the site wouldn't try to brand things as "jsReviews"). I really liked it overall, though it could get a bit wallpaper at parts, what with the same beat all the way through.

― js (honestengine), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

thank you!
thank you so much i love you!

― pisces (piscesx), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

The b-side of "Get Dancin" is it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 24 July 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I've listened to Manhattan Millionaire too now, and OMG! Jimbo Salsa!!! I WANT THIS TO BE MY NEW THEME TUNE. I WANT IT TO BE PLAYED EVERY TIME I ENTER A ROOM FROM NOW ON. OK? THANKYOU.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 24 July 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

Also...this thing about every track on the first album having the same beat - it's just not true, is it? The second side definitely has a different groove for every track, and while the songs on the first side are all at pretty much the same tempo, there's still plenty of different feels in there. I think Get Dancin' is a beat or two slower than the rest of side 1, too.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 24 July 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

Reading this thread has prompted me to reprint this.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 08:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, neat. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

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