Friday, 8 February 2019

The Dean of Boogaloo



The writer of such pop standards as You've Got a Friend, I'm into Something Good, It Might as Well Rain Until September, (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, It's Too Late, Up on the Roof, I Feel the Earth Move, Take Good Care of My Baby and - erm - The Loco-Motion, tomorrow's birthday girl Miss Carole King was certainly a major contributor to the musical world we know today.

But who knew she turned her hand to disco?!


If you want to get a real education
Come to the friendliest school in the nation
Rhythm is our way of communication
You won't ever want to take a vacation

You can meet the Dean of Boogaloo
He's gonna get down and boogie with you
At Disco Tech
Let me be your teacher
Disco Tech
Why don't you take home a diploma from
Disco Tech

We won't give you pomp and circumstance
All you're gonna need to do is dance
Why don't you enroll, give your soul a chance
You might even find a new romance

Everybody here is graded A
The only school records are the ones we play

At Disco Tech
Let me be your teacher
Disco Tech
Why don't you take home a diploma from
Disco Tech

A school we would all have loved to attend. Thank Disco It's Friday!

Have a good weekend, peeps.

Many happy returns, Carole King (born Carol Joan Klein, 9th February 1942)

6 comments:

  1. I don't remember this....disco never really being my thing though! I like all her others though - Happy Birthday, Carole!
    Sx

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    1. I'm not sure even Miss King really remembers it (or wants to) - the "Last Days of Disco" have been shut out of many an artist's memory, I'm sure... Jx

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  2. so much great music...neil sedaka was so in love with her. I was singing every one of those songs you listed above, except for the disco tune.

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    1. You mean you weren't bopping round the kitchen to Disco Tech? Me neither. Jx

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  3. I have never knowingly heard this before either -
    BUT
    as we know EVERY one did DISCO at some point back then.

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    1. They were all at it - Engelbert Humperdinck, Al Martino, Max Bygraves, Paul Anka, Geoff Love and His Orchestra, Andy Williams, Jack Jones...and, of course, Ethel Merman! Jx

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