Artist	Song	Buy
Bohannon	Let's Start the Dance
from The Best of Funk Essentials: Funky Stuff (2006)
Grace Jones	La Vie en Rose
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Grace Jones (2003)
Jackie Moore	This Time Baby
from Club Columbia (1990)
Cerrone	Love In C Minor
from Best of Cerrone Culture (2004)
Chakachas	Jungle Fever
from Eso Es el Amor - Single (2005)
Linda Clifford	Runaway Love
from Linda Clifford: Greatest Hits (2006)
Gino Soccio	Dancer
from Outline (2008)
The Originals	Down to Love Town
from Disco Gold (2005)
South Shore Commission	Free Man
from Rhythm & Blues 1960-1975 - Music Sampler, Vol. 3 (2006)
Kool & the Gang	Open Sesame
from Funk Essentials: Kool & The Gang - The 12" Collection and More (2025)
Love Unlimited Orchestra	My Sweet Summer Suite (12" Version)
from The Best of Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra (1995)
Patty Brooks	After Dark
from The Casablanca Records Story (Box Set) (1994)
Madleen Kane	Forbidden Love
from 12 Inches and More (1994)
Don Ray	Got to Have Loving
from Disco Gold (2005)
Don Armando's 2nd Av. Rhumba Band	Deputy of Love
from Mutant Disco Volume #1 (2005)
Carl Bean	I Was Born This Way
from I Was Born This Way (2005)
Loose Joints	Is It All Over My Face?
from Is It All Over My Face? - EP (1999)
John Davis & The Monster Orchestra	Love Magic
from Disco Classics: Sam Records Extended Play, Vol. 2 (2004)
Ultra High Frequency	We're On the Right Track
from Philly Groove - Early Singles - Volume 2 (1998)
Debbie Jacobs	Don't You Want My Love
from Undercover Lover (2007)
Inner Life	I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair)
from I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair) (1979)
Phreek	Weekend (12" Extended Version)
from Journey Into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story (Remastered) (2006)

Comment:

Too long, too black, too intense, too gay . . . or maybe just [i]too cool[/i]: '70s-era Top 40 radio programmers spun an ever-whirling wheel of excuses to justify keeping these underground favorites off their playlists. But [i]no one[/i] could keep them off of dance floors. Carolyn Crawford's throat-shredding savagery launches an earth-shaking stampede with the ladylike delicacy of a cattle prod on Bohannon's "Let's Start the Dance." Spurred by a bass line that surges like blood through a clenched fist, Don Ray fuses a Euro beat to Gamble & Huff-style love-potion lyrics in the Cerrone-produced "Got to Have Loving." And who but a Jamaican fashion queen and New York's mixmaster king (Grace Jones and Tom Moulton, respectively) could transform Edith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose" into the sensual evening-closer that leaves clubgoers on a mellow high? But don't stop here: from Loleatta Holloway to the Love Unlimited Orchestra, you're about to pull back the curtain, taking a peek into the secret DJ stash that kept dance floors moving night after night.

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