Disco Tex & His Sex-o-lettes ~ Get Dancin' 1974 Disco Purrfection Version
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Four years before the Village People made their gay macho debut, celebrity hairdresser Monti Rock III (born Joseph Montenez Jr on May 29, 1942) was making the rounds of "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson and "The Merv Griffin Show" dressed as a Mack Daddy in furs, rings and hat as kind of a running gay joke.
His big, effusive personality and quick wit made him a media darling and producer Bob Crewe (he of Four Seasons fame) suggested that Monti form a studio disco group. Out of that meeting came Disco Tex & His Sex-o-lettes and the iconic "Get Dancin'". Written by Kenny Nolan (Firefly, "I Like Dreaming") and Crewe, the song took the disco sound to a new level by adding party crowd sounds when they recorded the song to give it a live feeling.
This collaboration was important as it was the first time that gay men were making the music rather than remixing the song or just playing it in the clubs. The album art conveyed a man with rings on every finger, long flowing robes and even a feather boa designed to appeal to gay men, as flashy as Liberace.
The group was comprised of Monti Rock III, Cindy Bullens (who would go on to record a song for "Grease" in 1978), Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan. "get Dancin'" became a #10 Hot100 hit and #8 in Canada and the UK. The song was also the first record to be released as a 10" single and the second to break out of the gay clubs and onto mainstream radio after Love Unlimited Orchestra's "Love's Theme".
If you saw "Saturday Night Fever", you saw Monti, he was the foul mouthed macho Latino DJ. As a cultural touchstone, "Get Dancin'" was included in two Simpsons episodes, "Bart VS Thanskgiving" and "I'm Going To Praiseland" but credited to "Hooray For Everything".
The official follow up was "I Wanna Dance Wit' Choo (Doo Dat Dance)" which peaked at #23 pop and #7 disco then never had another top 40 hit and the band broke up in 1982.
What a funky funny song, loved it as a teen!
Darn tootin
Back in 1979 I was 5 and just starting to listen to records. An older siblings friend left this 45 by the family turntable. I had to play it since it looked so inviting. Loved it and then my love for disco started that day and has never ended.
I was 4 that year and I made my brother play that record all day long so i could dance! I'll shake a leg to that song to this day! ❤
I was 14 when this came out,friggen loved it then.Still love it now
The same for me I was born in 73 and when I was about 405 I started listening to my mom‘s 45 and this was one of them. I actually still have this record with all the others. They’re just not in the best shape anymore, I will be 51 this August 2024 time flies
In the 70s we had so much FUN!!
I was 8 years old when this came out. Two months before George McCrae's Rock Your Baby in July 1974. I went Disco crazy 🤣 after those two were released. The real Disco music was found in the gay underground clubs and was started there in the early 70's 😮. Missed those days very dearly.
But we are still alive.
@Angelo4424 Too bad we have to get old. The last 25 years until death are them worst. Wish I were young again and despise aging immensely.
1974 I was 3. I love this song I’ im 53 now
The energy of this jam is unreal! And Monti doing his thing in both English and Spanish is awesome!
I see you have taste
This song is an absolute jam! There is no way you can sit still while this is on. Every remix DJDiscoCat makes is super hot fire, 100% Pure Funk-a- licious!
One of the most subversive things the Simpsons did was having this song as "hooray for everything" by Up with People at the Super Bowl.
This is the shytt
This song Weill make you act a fool in a good way
Da shit
I used to love that song when I was in 6th grade
Haha! I still do today!
Always love the extended version of this song! Radio version would cut it off just as it got going! Thanks DJ!
OMGOODNESS!!!!! I can't believe I forgot about this one! That song among others helped bring me through one of many of the hardest years of my life. 1974. I was in the fourth grade y'all. Thank you for sharing, I needed this today. 13Jan2021 💕 you and blessings to you!
Absolutely the best party disco record. No other creates a fun frenzied atmosphere like this one. Definitely belongs in the Disco Hall Of Fame
Dancin keep
Star wars was nonexistant in 1974. I used to collect issues of a magazine called Song Hits which had all the lyrics of the famous songs. These sounds were stuck in a little memory bank forgotten in the back and filled with dust. And now i found the key to my early childhood.
I bought this 45 RPM single when I was 7 Years Old. I still have it.
Me too!
THIS was my favorite disco song back in the day, with the exception of a song from a group called "Miami". I've never found that disco song though.
Was the song either "Party Freaks" or "I Can See Through You"; or "Kill That Roach"?
My chiffon is wet my wig is wet. I can listen to this song all day. (And I do. 😁)
Disco Purrfection Versions are always excellent!!! Very good work, thanks!!!
A couple of years ago my older brother (born 1954) asked me (born 1961) what was the first disco song. It’s probably debatable but I told him Get Dancin’ as it had all the elements of disco not to mention I also had/have the 45 single. I’ve always loved the song and praise you for giving it your treatment.
The first official one was "The Hustle" by Dan Mc Coy...
But boy o boy does THIS song ever move the feet!:)
This song seemed to be everywhere, in the halls at school, during our senior year! So was "Fly Robin Fly...right intoo the skyyyyyy!"
I"m so happy this was recorded way back in the Way Back Then Days, the style of the recording, the overlay of vocal tracks over the music tracks, it was a gimmick used often in ''live'' records, 72 had several talk over the music political comedy records using 'sampling'. most of you missed the 70's HA HA - Nelson Munce.
THE BEGINNING OF DISCO ERA!!!
I can’t hear this song anymore without picturing Disco Stu’s version of heaven 😆 🕺🏿 🕺🏿 🕺🏿
Dithko stewwww
or homer jamming in the car
FOR ME THIS IS HELL, KID
@@officialFredDurstfanclub Frank Sinatra totally deserves it.
This was my 2nd 45 rpm single I purchased after George McCrae's Rock your Baby. I was in 2nd grade and fell in love with Disco.
Yes… I’m 63 ….. mine was living for the city, stevee wonder …..1974ish….
@@MrSanpj You Haven't Done Nothin' Yet is more my style. Same year, same album. You got me by 5 years, I'm 58.
This is Parliament levels of Funk.
Heard this song for the first time yesterday and been playing this version continuously since. Where has it been all my life? Brilliance!
There's a slight connection to the song Double Barrel with the randomness of the lyrics and the catchiness of the main hook.
I can remember line dancing to this song back in the day. At the Farm House in Houston. It was like a different life.
I remember this jam from backyard parties in Baltimore during the late 70's they were jaming then and jaming now. They made another song to "I wanna dance with you.
What a fun jam !!!!!!!!!
Thank you DJ for this classic. I was a junior in High school, when I first listen to this. During those days this song was played extensively on many FM station's in the midwestern market's.
My grandfather gave me that album when I was 5 years old. I spent thousands of hours dancing this. ...and I never heard it until today....maybe this is why prince is my hero.
This was an awesome song back in the days and it still is
First heard it on a K-Tel 22 original hits, 22 original stars! record in about 1974. Awesome
Yessss!!!! It sounds great!!!!
ı have this record
Awesome!!! Just Awesome.... brings me back to my childhood... such great memories!!
I love this song. It brings back memories. 💕
This is in fact a PERFECT version of this song!
The shit love it
Thanks for taking my suggestion.
Now let's all prepare for a salute to the greatest hemisphere on earth…the western hemisphere!
This jam brings back greatest memories since I was a little girl at 5 years old💝💝💝💝💝40 + years ago💝💝
This brings back some memories! I used to have this album! Very strange record lol. Thanks for this great mix!
i was there when it came out - he did a second song i was 16 when this came out, I still have 2 of this record
Hey DJDiscocAT!!!, diste en el clavo!!!....hacía falta una versión larga de GET DANCIN!!!, con Joe Tex and The Sexolettes, este tema es de gran recordación, me acuerdo mucho de una radio acá en Perú, : Radio Panamericana, en la época en que el mundo empezaba a conocer el sonido Discotec (años 1974, 1975), emitía cada día a partir de las 6:00 p..m. su programa: "Panamericana Discotec" y no precisamente ponía música Disco, pero si la cortina musical del Show era este tema, en ese entonces de moda y que representaba el emergente movimiento de la música Disco...excelentes recuerdos de la época dorada del Disco...volverá alguna vez??'?...espero que sí!...es tiempo de retornar a la buena vibra, diversión y alegría que dejó para la posteridad la música Disco!!!....Felicitaciones DiscoCat!!!, saludos desde Lima Perú!!!.
Today I heard Disco Tex singing Get Dancing on my car radio Studio 54. It was probably the remix version. So I had to play it again as soon as I got home. I was really a little girl when this was a hit, but I remember it and BOY, OH, BOY MUSIC WAS GREAT THEN!
This one really takes me back!❤❤
I’m 50 years old born in 73 but for some crazy reason this was my song I would dance to as a young kid. I still have the 45 record (not in the best shape anymore). This song brings back so many emotions and what’s crazy is I haven’t heard the song in so long, but still remember it so well. I was looking at the 45 record not long ago along with a bunch of other ones. My mom and dad kept them in some spindle looking thing so all the records don’t look like they’re in the best shape, it’s crazy what you remember it’s also crazy to think how long ago that song came out. Thanks for posting it.
The first time I ever heard this song was on one of those K-TEL compilation albums... don't ever remember hearing it on the radio
Where were you in 1974, 75???...this was a hit on the radio..at least here in Lima Perú...was contemporary with Silver Convention, Andrea true Connection, and T Connection. Golden years of the Disco Music!!!.
K-Tel.
Now there's something I haven't heard in I don't know when!!! 😀😀
@@backtothemusiccesarferreyr5930 I live in the United States always been a big fan of disco music but that one somehow Pass Me By on the radio
there was a ktel compalation album called Get Dancing .great tune well ahead of its time
They used to play it on the radio back then,thats why I bought it.
1 billion likes!
era una chamita y estaba de moda el baile del caderú, ufff como bailé esta canción, todavia em encanta, la sigo bailando 🥰❣💋
Si💕💕💕💕
Que es una chamita??
Es una expresión muy usada por los amigos Venezolanos us saludos de Miami Beach Fl 🇺🇸🕺🏻✌🏽
Great music for dancing!Thx DJDC!
Glad this wasn't changed much, parts 1 and 2 together. Still one of my favorites from that era.
I truly truly Thank Studio 54 on Sirius XM for introducing me to this cool azz disco song!!! Thanks for the remix of it!!
Anyone else think that" Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem"would absolutely kill this!!!🎉😅??
I was the DJ at our Jr. High dances in our school auditorium after school with the use of one little record player with a microphone pointed at the speaker…LOL…I remember the kids would form a line to this record…Boys on one side, girls on the other…facing one another and dance to this record. Couples would take turns dancing and strolling between the lines, Soul Train style. I didn’t have the album with this song; only the 45. When it would end, I’d quickly flip it over to the “B” side which had the rest of the song. 🤣 That’s as good as it was going to get in 1975!
Oh, man!
I never knew how to find this one.
I’ve had the UA-cam algorithm giving me disco for a few hours, and WHAM! There it is!
Thanks DJ!🎉😅
Get dancing 🕺 💃
Hey Dj Disco Cat I Was Dj 🎵 At Clubs In Nyc At The Time This Song Came Out It Was Playing Everwhere ☺😂Thanks For This Now😛Get Dancing Stay Safe Nyc 📀📀
❤❤❤❤, just found this one!!!! STANDARD PERFECTION YET AGAIN THK U
the 1st time i heard it was in a club here in london named ;the Sombrero' in the 70s, it was Fiya on the dancefloor everytime it was played & remains so to this day! ...
I remember this song as a child. I thought it was a strange song
Yah, yah, yah, yah, yahhhhh! Keep dancin 🕺🕺🕺🕺🎶🎶🎶🎶
Wuhuuuuu 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
DANCIN' 👏🏻👏🏻🎈👏🏻👏🏻🤩
🍸💃🏻🍸🍸💃🏻🍸🍸💃🏻🍸
HAPPY WEEKEND 🤗🥰
This is just a song that is just plain FUN!!!!!
This is exactly what I needed. I have gotten addicted to your remixes. Your remixes have become the stuff of legend. My favorites are Fantasy and Listen to the Music. I can't express how much your remixes help an autistic man like myself. I do hope you can do some remixes of the German band Dschinghis Khan, but that's just me.
It'd be great to have Dschinghis Khan remixed!
@Crosby Isaac what does Flixzone have to do with this epic remix?
@@jennyvinyl85 Hey Y'all? I'm dancing right now in my walker now. I'm still dancing though.
@@sandralawson8943 - Don't go breaking your hip, now! Ya hear me? hehe
@@dadewd7061 I Won't. Heheeee!!!
I was in college in the early '70s and I was too involved in my studies to pay much attention to what the current hits were. I think it was between semesters. I was going to the dentist when this song came on the radio. Somehow I knew that this would be the first of a long progression of hits.
Your whole channel is getting me through lockdown here in the UK. And bringing back so many memories of my teens in the 70s 😍
Jah Wobble!!!!
Wow! That's what DJs do! I sure remember this one!😁 🔥🔥🔥 appreciate you Kat! 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
My chiffon is wet, darling! Because I was dancing hard to this. I wish there was a disco open so I could get dancing!
Thanks for the memories 😊
I fell in love with this song when I first heard it on Soul Train. I was 11 or 12....made mom take me to buy the single. Later I acquired a DJ 12" copy of this with I Wanna Dance With Choo on the flip side. When I hit college I worked as a DJ in a nightclub and would spin this and the dance floor would fill up. I have it on several playlists.....and I'm NOT a disco fan. Never was. But this thing just makes me wanna dance. If this doesn't get your toe tapping, you dead.
Had no idea Monti was behind this studio band. Great song!
that brings back old memories from montreal.
I remember looking at my collection of Wacky Packages stickers while this song was playing on the radio and my mom saying how she liked the song!
MY CHIFFON IS WET DARLING!
MY CHIFFON IS WET!!!!!!!!!
His wig is wet too.
I like this song.
I had the 45 and I think it was on a KTel record mix. Does anyone remember the KTel records that were a mix of various artists?
I had it on a Ktel, Barry White too
Pure awesomeness! Please do the magnificent seven by the clash!
Super 👍👍👍👍💓💓💓💓
Bart vs. Thanksgiving brought me here lol
'The Review' is one of my fav albums (surprised i haven't worn it out). A brilliant mix for me to 'Get Dancin' again. 🎶🕺
I remember when this song came out in 1975 I was 13 years old .
I was 10 but I don't remember this song. But it's cool I think from the mid- late 1960s through 70s was the absolute best in music 🎶
I was 23; sob.😁
I was in high achool at the time at 17, and meet my first girl friend - New Utrecht High School
Buenísimo canción!!!!
Now you don't have to do Van McCoy's 'Soul Cha Cha' anymore.... ;-)
Thanks for this one!
I never believed dancing plagues were real until I heard this song
Love it!
Nice one used to do a dance called the bump to this song here in the UK 🇬🇧👍
Yea yeah the Bump Bump, was danced all over the world...Hiting the hips to each other: 1975!!!, even here in Lima Perú!!!...Regards.
A great dance cheers 👍
Ladies and gentlemen, Hurray for Everything invites you to join them in a salute to the greatest hemisphere on earth: the Western hemisphere! The dancing-est hemisphere of all!
Ah, Disco Stu, right this way.
For me this is hell, ya dig pally?
this just screams out FUN TIMES!!!!!
This song is the Disco era
The Western Hemisphere! The Dancing-est Hemisphere of all!
Memories... Back in NYC in the Bronx around 1976 I lived in a building on the 5th floor and this young lady was apart of the LGBT community, they use to throw parties and invite me... these ladies would show up in pen-strip zoot suits, wing tip shoes to match and hats... there were hard wood floors back then, you had to see this show... they would be stomping in unison and tapping with those tap shoes. You haven't partied until you've done it old school NY style.
Fantastic.
Bob Crew and Kenny Nolan writers? Who knew? 😃
Perfection.
OMG get dancin 🎶❤️❤️❤️
OMG I completely forgot about this track. If I could only have one UA-cam subscription it would be your channel ❤
The Simpsons Cartoon had an episode with this song
IKR?! I had forgotten about this fabulous music myself. I was so excited when I realized what song it is. Feel good music! ✨🎁💃🏾💝🎼
Great! Now give us the "Bertha Butt Boogie" by Jimmy Castor!
Un clásico en puerto rico
Pure genius
You should that for your next New Years Eve at the end of this year DJDiscoCat.
So near and yet so far!!!!!
Oh man this song is dedicated to my Main Blonde, Larry William Wright ❣️❣️👩🏼❤️💋👨🏼🤗💃🏼🕺🏼🎶🎵
“Hello Shirley”😂🎉
died and went to "Disco heaven"
💃💃❤👑💃💃❤👋
Doesn't seem like that long ago when it was top 40... remember like yesterday. Guess I'm tellin my age
KN ILD...is one of the best love songs of the 70's.....i know you don't do many slow extendeds....but maybe this could be one of them!!!