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I'm pretty sure there was a recent PBS special with old disco acts performing their hits (unless I dreamed it!). The old Rhino Records (and now Shout Factory, a new label begun by the guys who founded Rhino) did a good job of collaborating with PBS to put together concert shows of performers from the past performing their old hits. There were a few Doo Wop shows, at least one old rock'n'roll show, a '70s soul show, and, I believe, a separate disco show. As I recall the doo wop shows were produced by the Philadelphia area PBS station, but I don't recall which stations produced any of the others. In the San Francisco Bay Area, the "South Bay" PBS station seems to regularly play these concerts (and other interesting music shows), but San Francisco's KQED unfortunately seems bent on showing only old Lawrence Welk and Ed Sullivan shows.

I could sit here all day typing my suggestions because (a) I love music and have a lot of it and (b) I specifically love old disco and have a lot of it. So I'll just add a few titles now: Jackie Moore's "This Time Baby" Bonnie Pointer's "Heaven Must Have Sent You" Evelyn "Champagne" King's "Shame" (though you could play some of her later hits, too, if you're willing to go into the '80s) Odyssey - "Native New Yorker" Cheryl Lynn - "Star Love" Machine - "There But For The Grace Of God Go I" Linda Clifford - "If My Friends Could See Me Now" Geraldine Hunt - "Can't Fake The Feeling" (early '80s) okay...I'll stop now.

I've been hooked on the multichannel SACD mix of Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" lately. I also never seem to get enough of Julie London. I made a 30 track custom cd-r "best of" and play the thing at least every couple of weeks. (That might not seem very often to some, but I've got so many cd's that if I play something every other week over a long period of time it really is remarkable.)

I have never "been with" Blade, but I spoke with him for a minute or so many years ago when he did a show at the Campus Theater in San Francisco. His strip-act was very lame but I still thought he looked adorable. He was even more adorable in the lobby signing autographs. He indulged me by signing two pictures for a friend in another state, writing provocative stuff that caused my friend to gush profusely over the phone. It was probably his best birthday present to that date! lol. Of course just because someone "seems nice," whether for two minutes or two years or two decades, doesn't mean much. I particularly recall Jeffrey Dahmer's neighbors' shock and statements that he seemed like a "quiet, nice guy."