![]() ![]() ![]() But, man, what a great run it had!ĭisco’s origins were inspired by R&B, soul and funk, which is why many of the early Disco songs were from Black artists like Hues Corporation, Van McCoy, The O’Jays, Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, The Trammps, and Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Once the “I Love Lucy” theme was made into a Disco remix, it was quite honestly time for the genre to die. Although it was a music genre people loved to hate (many considered Disco a scourge in much the same way I felt about Rap in the 1990s), it was immensely popular, lasting from early 1974 to around 1980, by which time the genre rapidly flamed out. ![]() Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area and coming of age as a gay man in the 1970s, I absolutely loved Disco. ![]()
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