Retro Runners - Disco Divas Playlist Released

It’s been a week since we lost Aretha, and so it seems a little too late in the day to be celebrating the Disco Divas with my latest playlist. Aretha’s Respect was the first song I chose for this list. Thanks to all, for the suggestions. Please enjoy it and perhaps ‘Say A Little Prayer’ for the ultimate diva of Soul Music, who will be sadly missed.

Playlist

Knock on Wood – Amii Stewart

Ring My Bell – Anita Ward

Respect – Aretha

Think – Aretha

I Say A Little Prayer – Aretha

Yes Sir, I Can Boogie – Baccara

Cruel Summer – Bananarama

Really Sayin’ Something – ditto with Fun Boy Three

Ma Baker, Sunny, Gotta Go Home – Boney M

Young Hearts Run Free – Candi Staton

I Feel For You, I’m Every Woman – Chaka Khan

Let’s Hear It For The Boy – Deniece Williams

Upside Down/Chain Reaction – Diana Ross

I Say A Little Prayer – Dionne Warwick

I Feel Love, Hot Stuff, Love To Love You Baby – Donna Summer

Love Come Down – Evelyn Champagne King

Rescue Me – Fontella Bass

Rhythm Is Gonna Get You – Gloria Estefan

Never Can Say Goodbye – Gloria Gaynor

Pull Up To the Bumper – Grace Jones

Ain’t Nothing Going On But The Rent – Gwen Guthrie

Somebody Else’s Guy – Jocelyn Brown

Funkytown – Lipps Inc

Borderline – Madonna

Heatwave – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Terrell and Gaye

Forget Me Nots – Patrice Rushen

Lady Marmalade/ Stir It Up – Patti LaBelle

Jump, Automatic, I’m So Excited – The Pointer Sisters

Street Life – Randy Crawford

Car Wash – Rose Royce

Ain’t Nobody – Rufus and Chaka Khan

Let the Music Play – Shannon

He’s The Greatest Dancer, Lost in Music – Sister Sledge

Object Of My Desire – Starpoint

Boogie Oogie Oogie – Taste Of Honey

Tell It To My Heart – Taylor Dayne

Don’t Leave Me This Way – Thelma Houston

What’s Love Got To Do With It – Tina Turner

It’s Raining Men – The Weather Girls

I Wanna Dance With Somebody, How Will I Know – Whitney Houston

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[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

Retro? I remember some of those being released! Oh my god... I’m that old that my youth is retro?

Nice list

[Hidden in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Me too - I cant remember the release of all of them, but quite a few....

[Irish-John Graduate in reply to Hidden]

You're only a youngster so Jan Thank God running is keeping me relatively young LOL. 😂

[Hidden in reply to Irish-John]

Younger in head than bod that’s for sure.nice to hear from you IJ!

[Irish-John Graduate in reply to Hidden]

And good to hear from you Jan

[cheekychipmunks Graduate in reply to UnfitNoMore]

And me! 🙄😳😅

[Agelesslass]

Superb thanks Jan

[Bandit14 Graduate]

What a fab list - thanks for compiling😊

[Razouski]

Thanks Jan. I’ve taken a lot of these and created my own Disco Divas playlist in Deezer and I’m looking forward to taking the girls out running in Jersey at the weekend.

X x x

[Irish-John Graduate in reply to Razouski]

Wow! The heck with Chris Rea and his Stansbury girls - I want to run with you Jersey Ladies! ☺

[misswobble Graduate in reply to Irish-John]

Stainsby Girls 👍

[Hidden in reply to misswobble]

but how do I categorise that one? I love the toon, but so far not any of my categories seem to fit it, and my next one which is Famous Names won’t work either... harrumph - confused JCR...

[misswobble Graduate in reply to Hidden]

I was just correcting Stainsby, not making any comment about the choice of track 😃

[Hidden in reply to Razouski]

Good I’m glad you can make some use of them - it’ quite a pacy list I found when testing it, but I like that anyway. have a fab weekend... XX

[Razouski in reply to Hidden]

I’m looking forward to running with it. I really like pacey tracks to run too, so it will suit me well. I’ve even left off the slower ones to stop me slowing down. X

[Polly2810 Graduate]

What a great list!!! I want to go running but stuck at my desk 🤣🤣

[Hidden in reply to Polly2810]

It’s been throughly road-tested, I love it, although you have to be in a pace mood to do it I find, so it’s an early morning run when its cooler, rather than one of my lazy lounge type runs.. Poor you stuck in an office, I am just making hokey pokey ice cream...

[Polly2810 Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Oh what I would give to be doing that rather than suspense accounts and cash book 🤣🤣🤣 bit it pays the bills!!

[Razouski in reply to Hidden]

What is hokey pokey ice cream? 🤔

I seem to get persuaded to make straciatella with monotonous regularity. And then hubby just goes and eats it! 🍦

[Hidden in reply to Razouski]

hokey pokey is the Kiwi term for cinder toffee. Make cinder toffee, and add to good quality vanilla (or as that is very rich I add it to yoghurt) ice-cream. Hokey Pokey is a Kiwi obsession and the level of ‘pokeyness’ hotly debated - personally I like the ice cream to be full of the sharp caramelly bits, but it is a straight sugar mainline experience, so exercise a must!

I love stracciatella and Zuppa Inglese flavour too - I keep explaining to Italians is that there is no such dessert in the UK called English Soup!

[MandiV]

thanks Jancanrun - I love your playlists and will sing along all the way around with this one...not retro for me either!!

[Hidden in reply to MandiV]

Well ‘retro’ is a catch all, relating to the toons not the people running to them, as we are mere spring chickens

[Irish-John Graduate]

I remember them all being released.

Great selection

Little did I know listening to them on an old 9v Bush radio in those now far-off days, that I would meet and chat with three on your list, and meet and issue a Stern warning about "unacceptable behavior" to a fourth 🙂

Aretha Franklin was one of the three good ones - and she was a lovely, warm hearted and generous lady. A pleasure to listen to, a pleasure to know. She certainly had my Respect.

[Hidden in reply to Irish-John]

I cant believe she’s no longer here, when I first thought of the theme - Respect just had to be track number 1. Nothing else stood out as much. Lucky you getting to meet and ‘scold’ some of these great ladies

[telford_mike Graduate]

Top list, thanks Jan 😀🎼

[Hidden in reply to telford_mike]

My pleasure - September’s theme is tinkling away in my grey matter...

[cheekychipmunks Graduate]

Oooo I like those! 🎵 🎶 🎤 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

[Languid_Lil Graduate]

Also good for a boozy Umbrian lunch

[Hidden in reply to Languid_Lil]

And for a Le Marche lunch too...., which is precisely where we are

[Languid_Lil Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Are you having thunderstorms?

[Hidden in reply to Languid_Lil]

Nope but feel certain that they are on their way at 5pm it was 32 degrees and you humid...

[misswobble Graduate]

I have Rescue Me on vinyl 😁

My early disco days we had Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep and Tweedle Dee tweedle dum No to mention the fabbo Tina Charles. I love to love but my babe just loves to dance, yes he does 😃

I can’t recall the Grace Jones one being played in the disco 🤔. She was a diva all right though 🤨

[Hidden in reply to misswobble]

I think the song I can remember from my first ‘grown up’ disco was at a school adventure holiday when I was about 11am and the song was Yellow River... I got asked to dance by a German bloke who punched his arms towards the floor.... What a mover!

[misswobble Graduate in reply to Hidden]

I have that too! Christie I love the fast bit! A tongue twister, do have a go😁 “got no time for explanations, got no time to lose, tomorrow night you’ll find me sleeping underneath the moon”. Or was it just me 😜

I got to thinking this afto about my real early disco days and one of the earliest must have been Little Eva “Locomotion” and Millie’s “ my boy Lollipop” Our disco was homespun so it was whatever they had.

I watched Three Degrees in a nightclub in Sheffield. They epitomised disco for me So glamorous. All lip gloss, wigs and huge nails 😃. That was later though.

[Mummycav Administrator Graduate]

I love this Hidden ...these are right up my street...matching good taste I think xxx thank you for another brilliant playlist xx

[Hidden in reply to Mummycav]

Of course we have immaculate taste we shared Mr Smooth!

[Mummycav Administrator Graduate in reply to Hidden]

Oooo yes...We’re both Smoothies x