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Authors: Peter Shapiro

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Chapter 5. PRISONERS OF THE NIGHT: The Disco Craze

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. One measure of how important the hustle and “The Hustle” were to disco’s mainstream success is the number of hustle records that appeared in its wake: Salsoul Orchestra’s “Salsoul Hustle,” the Kay-Gee’s’ “Hustle Wit Every Muscle” and “Tango Hustle,” Eddie Drennon’s “Let’s Do the Latin Hustle,” Joe Cuba’s “Latin Hustle,” James Brown’s “Hustle!!! (Dead on It),” Fajardo ’76’s “C’mon Baby Do the Latin Hustle,” the Fatback Band’s “Spanish Hustle,” Alcatraz Black Band’s “The Dynamic Hustle Samba,” Sweet Charles’s “Hang Out and Hustle,” Tommy Stewart’s “Bump and Hustle,” Rice & Beans Orchestra’s “Blue Danube Hustle,” Hidden Strength’s “Hustle on Up (Do the Bump),” Mastermind’s “Hustle Bus Stop,” and Hi-Tension’s “British Hustle” to name but a few.

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. See Tom Moulton, “Disco Action,”
Billboard,
November 23, 1974, and Radcliffe Joe, “The L.A. Scene: Growing, But Second to N.Y.,”
Billboard,
December 16, 1978, p. 53. With disco proliferating out of control and the inevitable thinning of the DJ talent pool, New York’s Sugarscoop Records came to the rescue of dancers in provincial outposts everywhere forced to listen to lousy transitions and clunky mixing. In October 1977 they started a DJ subscription remix service called Disconet that offered premixed medleys and special remixes of individual tracks by New York’s most talented DJs. The first Disconet record featured a mix by 12 West DJ Tom Savarese that included Chic’s “Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah),” Sheila & B. Devotion’s “Love Me Baby,” and the Hues Corporation’s “Telegram of Love.”

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