Feelin' good in every way

We may not be in work (we're actually visiting our friends Baby Steve and his butler Alex at the palatial "Braintree Manor"), but weeks always have to end with a bit of a bop in my world...

In the immortal words of Mr Frankie Knuckles: "Disco never died. It just changed its name to protect the innocent!" And if you needed any proof of that wise fact, here's the immortal combination of the divas Jocelyn Brown and Martha Wash with Todd Terry from 1996, and Something's Goin' On:

Todd Terry & Martha Wash & Jocelyn Brown - Something Goin' On

Thanks Disco It's Friday!

Have a fantabulosa (pay day and Hallowe'en) weekend!

Changed the world

This week in 1997 was a strange one, as the world began to wake up to the loss of Princess Diana. Her death had a particularly (and well-documented) moving effect on the people of Britain, and tributes in music - as well as those floral and political - were just about to flood the scene, with Elton John predominant to the end of the year.

But what was the musical state of play just before Royal funereal hysteria took hold? Were there any significant choons we have forgotten from that long, hot summer of 1997? How about these..?

The Course - Ain't Nobody

Todd Terry featuring Jocelyn Brown and Martha Wash - Something Goin' On

Gala - Freed From Desire

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping