Oops!

Ouch, i should have known this. If only b/c its included in my 2 favorite favorite films ever.


From Wikipedia:

D.C. LaRue (born David Charles L'Heureux on April 26, 1948 in Meriden, Connecticut, U.S.A.) was a Disco artist His music was successful in dance/disco clubs and on dance music charts worldwide during the late 70s and early 80s.

His first big hit happened in 1976 and was titled "Cathedrals". With its release on Pyramid Records D.C. proved he could write, sing, produce and perform like a true veteran. LaRue's 1976 "Cathedrals" 12" 45 RPM caused an immediate sensation in the disco/dance clubs through out the world. D.C. was the first white male to ever hold the #1 R&B/Soul chart position in England. "Cathedrals" was the first commercially available 12" disco single in the USA and the only 12" single to be charted on Billboard Magazine's Top 100 Singles chart before or since.

In less than a year he began work on his second album "The Tea Dance." The 1976 recording featured such notable background singers as Lani Groves and Sharon Redd. It also included a duet with legendary 1960's rock/pop icon Lou Christie. The stand out cuts included the 12" of "Face Of Love," "Overture" and "Don't Keep It In The Shadows." The album presented itself was a concept capturing the essence and feel of a Broadway show. LaRue's "Cathedrals" album sold over 100,000 copies in its first three weeks of release but "The Tea Dance" more than doubled that sales figure and over the course of its life and became a bigger hit.

About the extended break on the 12" re-mix of "Indiscreet" from "The Tea Dance" rapper Grandmaster Flash is quoted as saying "It was first Hip Hop break I heard...the start of all the Hip Hop and Rap to come!"

LaRue's movie debut was a cameo in the Bee Gee's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. D.C. also appeared in the Village People film "Can't Stop The Music." (1980)

OUCH. I was just discussing in the drive thru of Dinko Ds that CSTM is probably, the most emotionally significant cultural um, "product" Ive come across in the past 7 years. I remember it like it was yesterday....watching Industrial TV at like 2 am and seeing the trailer for this movie. I cant even count how many times Ive seen it. I want to be cremated with my copy of it. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) someone has a real problem with posting clips from this MASTERPIECE on the toob.

And the award goes to....

What i did find:

The Ritchie Family so brilliantly disco discussing the glass ceiling


This is from the big party scene at the end of the movie, where the hetero village people go to San Fran. You know to play a gig to their screaming female friends. I read that filming this scene presented Nancy Walker (yes, the bounty lady directed this movie) with a problem: the producers or whoever littered SF with posters to see the band, and of course, only fabulous queens showed up. And this was a problem b/c they had to film the movie and well, screaming queens doesnt really "play in peoria". So these people paid to get in, and they just reshot "normal" person after "normal" person and mushed it all together to make it look like the crowd was larger, and more hetero than it was.