Rock Around the Clock – Billy Haley & the Cometsĥ0. Hustle, the – Van McCoy & the Soul City SymphonyĤ4. No Parking on the Dancefloor – Midnight Starrģ9. You Make Me Feel Like Dancin’ – Leo Sayerģ0. I’ve Got the Next Dance – Deniece WilliamsĢ4. Get Down Tonight – KC & the Sunshine BandĢ0. Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On – Jerry Lee Lewisġ7.

One Nation Under a Groove – Funkadelicġ6. He’s the Greatest Dancer – Sister Sledgeġ1. Turn the Beat Around – Vicki Sue Robinsonġ0. Larry Flick is the dance music editor at Billboard.ĩ. Larry Flick Picks the 50 Greatest Dance Hits Electric Spanking of War Babies – Funkadelic Nuggets: Original Artyfacts of the Psychedelic Era – Various ArtistsĢ2. New Hope for the Wretched – Plasmaticsġ6. Fiddler on the Rock – Sugarcane Harrisġ4. Pedro Bell – aka Capt Draw – composed the intricate, urban sci-fi flavoured covers for eight Funkadelic albums, as well as all of George Clinton’s solo albums.Ĩ. Pedro Bell’s Favorite Album Covers of All Time Wackiest of all is that this review of Jim Steinman's Bad for Good, reproduced below in its six-word entirety, was written by two (2!!) people (Wayne King and Debbie Geller): 'Good for nothing, more like it.' Yma Sumac - 'Patti Smith for xenophiles' or The Village People - 'Kiss for grownups') or the scandalously say-nothing one-liners (Cats: 'Bad mid-seventies rock band' or Hot City: 'Disco product'). Chase - Flee or Phyrework - Pheh), the '(artist) for (type of listeners)' constructions (e.g. Who on earth thought alphabetically was a good idea?īut there are sooooo many other wacky things I love about the early editions though, like the one word reviews (e.g. Later editions suffered ridiculously from Marsh's non-involvement and from the utter lack of half-literate music writers.īlows all those later stick-up-the-butt editions out of the water.Īnother oddity about the red book: The discographies were all presented alphabetically rather than chronologically, even tho the catalog numbers were all dutifully included.

In case it wasn't clear, red is 1979, blue is 1983, and red, white, and blue (and black) is 1992 and hands down the worst as these OTM remarks attest to: All this red vs blue talk is confusing me.

The Book of Rock Lists by Dave Marsh