But when I did watch this video, the creator talks about the history of James Brown's song that was a breakout hit for him so late in his career after such a dry spell. He talked about how it was written and produced by Dan Hartman. I didn't know Dan Hartman from a hole in the wall (is that a saying?) so his name didn't ring a bell of any sort but when he played a snip of one of Dan's hit songs from the 70s, I nearly jumped to my feet. Oh yes, I remembered this song!
Instant Replay. 1978. For probably the better half of that summer and into the fall of that year, my sister, brother and I couldn't get enough of this song! It was on non-stop rotation in our house at full volume! We were total disco-fied kids and we loved all things disco. And unlike many parents of the times, so did our parents, especially my mom who would "get down and boogie." But like all fads, the sun eventually set on our disco mania and within a few months, I had moved on to New Wave (primarily DEVO and the B-52s, of course), my sister tucked more heavily into folk and my brother clung to disco for a little while longer but eventually he too went astray, probably venturing into heavy metal. And the world too had seemingly abandoned the disco craze. In our rough-and-tumble working-class New England mill town, it was soon deemed "faggy" to even acknowledge you ever liked disco. And I never heard this song again.
So other than this short snippet on this random clip, I hadn't heard this tune for over 45 years!
As far as I can remember, I never heard it on the radio since that summer and I never heard it randomly out of the blue anytime since the late 1970s. But it hit hard and I recognized it immediately! Funny how memory works like that!
Needing to relive it all, I found this full song and video clip. Enjoy! This is the music of my youth! According to Wikipedia, this was released in August of 1978 and hit number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It hit much bigger in the UK and Australia. But at 27 Pearl Street in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, it was Number One!