70's Disco Returns to Atlantic City!

KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND






KC & The Sunshine Band & Donna Summer are performing in in Atlantic City on 8/28 & 8/29 @ Resorts & Trump Taj Mahal!

Tickets were inexpensive; $35 KC (all seats) & also $35 (2nd tier seating-elevated) for DS--thru Ticketmaster.

MrKen has tickets for these shows, which are to me--as a lover of 70's Disco-a tremendous bargain.***

I have seen KC & the Sunshine Band perform in person and on cable TV; IMO they put on a terrific show that takes one back to the carefree, happy music of the 1970's.

The following descriptions are from Resorts--and the Trump Taj Mahal entertainment sites in Atlantic City.

KC and the Sunshine Band

It’s time to put on your “Boogie Shoes” and dance with the high energy of 70’s sensation KC & The Sunshine Band. Among KC & the Sunshine Band’s hits are “Get Down Tonight,” “That’s the Way (I Like It),” “Please Don’t Go,” and “Rock Your Baby.”

Date:
Friday August 28, 2009 - 9pm
Saturday August 29, 2009 - 8pm
Price: $35
Location: Resorts Superstar Theater

And from the official KC & The Sunshine Band Website...

KC & The Sunshine Band is still as widely popular today as they were when they first danced onto the music scene 36 years ago. Harry Wayne Casey – KC, for short – developed a unique fusion of R&B and funk, with a hint of a Latin percussion groove, giving us an impressive string of hits like Get Down Tonight, That’s The Way (I Like It) and Shake Your Booty.

Resorts also has a retro 70's & 80's dance club --"Boogie Nights"-- open Friday & Saturday evenings for a modest entrance fee. Video below...

Donna Summer Sat. August 29, 2009 Donna Summer will be performing in the Arena at Trump Taj Mahal on Sat., August 29, 2009. Show time is 8:00pm with doors opening one hour prior. Ticket prices are $75, $50 & $35. Tickets can be obtained by either calling Ticketmaster at 1-800-736-1420, on line at www.ticketmaster.com or in person at the Taj Box Office. For box office hours and more information call (609) 449-5150. Donna Summer, of course, rocketed to international superstardom in the mid-1970s when her groundbreakingmerger of R&B, soul, pop, funk, rock, disco and avant-garde electronica catapulted underground dance music out of the clubs of Europe to the pinnacles of sales and radio charts around the world. Maintaining an unbroken string of hits throughout the 70s and 80s, most of which she wrote, Donna holds the record for most consecutive double albums to hit #1 on the Billboard charts (3) and first female to have four #1 singles in a 12 month period; 3 as a solo artist and one as a duo with Barbra Streisand. A five-time Grammy winner, Donna Summer was the first artist to win the Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female (1979, "Hot Stuff") as well as the first-ever recipient of the Grammy for Best Dance Recording (1997, "Carry On"). In 2004, she became one of the first inductees, as both an Artist Inductee and a Record Inductee (for 1977’s "I Feel Love") into the Dance Music Hall of Fame in New York City. It is estimated that Donna Summer has sold more than 130 million records worldwide. Donna Summer has been working hard on CRAYONS, her bold and long-awaited new collection of songs, the artist’s first full-length studio album of newly-penned material since 1991’s "Mistaken Identity. The album debuted at #17, making this her all-time highest debut on the US Album Chart and her highest charting album since She Works Hard For The Money reached #9 twenty-five years earlier. Some hits include: "Love to Love You Baby," "I Feel Love," "Last Dance," "MacArthur Park," "Heaven Knows," "Hot Stuff," "Bad Girls," "Dim All the Lights," "On the Radio."

http://www.heykcsb.com/

http://donnasummer.com


***Should any readers of my blog have an interest in attending these events, please contact me at the e-mail address shown in my profile (not the Yahoo IM address but the gmail address link shown above in my profile).

"DISCO INFERNO"- The Trammps Perform at Atlantic City's Resorts Superstar Theater!

One of MrKen's A-T-Fave 1970's disco bands will perform in the Superstar Theater at Resorts Atlantic City for five groovy shows beginning on Sunday, September 9 thru Wednesday, September 12-- and Friday Sepember 14.

The Trammps unique blend of pulsating beats, catchy melodies and vocal harmonies embodied the essence of a style that grew to define the disco era.

MrKen still owns the wonderful 1976 LP album, "Where The Happy People Go". The album included the songs, 'Disco Party', 'Hooked for Life', and Soul Searchin' Time.' This album was showered with honors: Best Disco Album, Best Disco Artist, Best Disco Single and Best Disco Single Unreleased (Billboard, 1976).

And, of course, the Trammps cemented their place in music history with the Saturday Night Fever hit, "Disco Inferno" (of course MrKen owns both the album of the same name & the 'Fever' LP). And in 1994, Rhino records released on Cd "This is Where the Happy People Go: The Best of the Trammps --1--

Indeed, the Trammps produced some of the happiest, carefree & danceable music ever!
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But take notice! There is a new disco orchestra, "Escort", that's been performing lately in Brooklyn & Stuyvesant town ("Brooklyn's Finest Disco Orchestra"- Village Voice 8/1-8/7/07)! Here is a quote from Dan, one of the producers...

"For a lot of people who do production, when you're digging for samples on disco records, you're like, 'Oh, I actually like this better than the stuff that's coming out now...The engineering's better, the production's better--and oh my god, it's actually musical."

This guy has my vote...but then, the music reflects the times.

Footnote -1- Disco aficionados may be disappointed that only the 'short' version of "Where the Happy People Go" is reprised on the Rhino CD. The "long" club version, which includes the tantalizing piano intro, can only be found on the original LP and possibly the CD, if still available. However, the collection itself is terrific. (MrKen).

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The Trammps will perform in Resorts’ Superstar Theater, September 9 through 12 and 14. Showtime is at 7 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday and 9 p.m. on Friday. Tickets are priced at $30 and can be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at 1-800-736-1420 or by visiting www.ticketmaster.com.

Link to Resorts News Release :

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:VhIEWa9NCHkJ:www.resortscasinos.com/
media/resortsac/docs/newsrelease_070803-2.doc+resorts+atlantic+city+Trammps&hl
=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us

Link to Trammps official website:

http://aaeg.com/trammps.htm

Link to Trammps Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trammps

Link to YouTube - The Trammps, "Disco Inferno"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opY4qcidFk

'Escort' Disco Band - MySpace Website

http://www.myspace.com/weareescort