Artist	Song
Busby Lewis	Monkeyin' Around
uncredited	Greensleeves
uncredited	Baby Don't Weep No More
Don Costa	Hully Gully
uncredited	Linda's Choice
uncredited	Why Won't You Leave That Man
uncredited	Bobby Sox
uncredited	When The Saints Go Marching In
Busby Lewis	Tootsie Watusi
uncredited	Hully Gully Baby
uncredited	Beatles Move
Lester Lanin	Love Makes The World Go 'Round
uncredited	Bread & Jam
uncredited	Checkerboard Watusi
uncredited	Drag Race
Andre Kostelanetz	Washington Twist
uncredited	You Got Me Bugged
uncredited	Texas Ska
Busby Lewis	Scuba Time
uncredited	I've Got News For Hugh
Les Elgart	Recardo Bossa Nova
uncredited	Pony Tail
Busby Lewis	Foggy Frug
uncredited	Got To Get Another Girl
uncredited	Swim Cindy Swim
uncredited	Sweet Sugar
uncredited	Take A Chance
uncredited	Walkin' My Baby
Busby Lewis	Harmonica Hully Gully

Comment:

Ten years before Disco there was DiscothFque. In the aftermath of the Twist craze, a number of fad dances were spawned: the Monkey, the Hully Gully, the Swim, the Dog, the Frug, and on and on. The instrumental DiscothFque sound provided the soundtrack to the bars and dance clubs where hip white folks shook their tail feathers. The music itself exists in a purgatory between cool and square. Enoch Light and Lester Lanin performed the more sophisticated tunes, but I prefer the budget LPs with uncredited musicians, which have a rawer sound. These feature saxophone honkers, piano boogie woogies, guitar twangers, and the odd beat vocal thrown in for good measure.

Typical liner notes from the time:


From France comes the newest of crazes to cross the Atlantic Ocean since the exciting visit of the Beatles-the DISCOTHEQUE.

Almost overnight, clubs have sprung up all over the country. The Discotheque club is the spot for dancers. The club features a continuous flow of music in the most popular dance tempos: THE MONKEY, THE FISH, THE FRUG, THE JERK, THE WATUSI, THE HULLY GULLY, THE WALK, THE SWIM, and THE DOG. Also featured is music to which you can dance almost anything.

Any location is suitable for a Discotheque. Whether you use your basement playroom or take over an abandoned railroad station, the bottom of a mine or the top of a mountain, if you get music to the spot and have room for the happy dancing couples, you are ready for today's rage, the Discotheque.

In this album, we feature one of America's top groups playing for your dancing pleasure-GO! GO! DISCOTHEQUE!


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