ALL DISCO ERA HISTORY and MATERIALS, DOCUMENTS, MAGAZINES, BOOKS, RECORDS. Because of my disco historian work and study I'm looking USA disco era magazines like: Discothekin; Disco World, Disco News, Disco Star, etc.
Music
R'n'B / DISCO and looking for old '70 R'n'B disco records as same as pioneer deejays sets recorded live in the discos or in the studios
DISCO HISTORY - I'm still looking for a few titles.
Heroes
DISCO ERA ARTISTS, PRODUCERS, DEEJAYS, JOURNALISTS, etc.
I'M LOOKING CONTACT TO DO INTERVIEWS AND PUBLISH SERIOUS AND COMPLETTE STORIES FOR THE REASON TO SAVE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
DISCO ERA DEEJAYS:
AL MAGLIANO, ALAN FREEMAN, BARRY LEDERER, ROBERT J. CASEY, ALAN DODD, BOB PANTANO, BOBBY GUTTADARO, BOBBY VITERITTI, CHARLIE ANZALONE, DANAE JACOVIDIS, DAVID DE PINO, DAVID MANCUSO, DAVID RODRIGUEZ, DELMAR BROWNE, EDDIE RIVERA, EMPEROR ROSKO, FRANCIS GRASSO, FRANCOIS KEVORKIAN, FRANKIE CROCKER, FRANKIE KNUCKLES, GLENN RIVERA, JIM BURGESS, JIMMY SAVILE, JIMMY STUARD, JIMMY YU, JOHN CEGLIA, DOUGALL, JOHN 'JELLYBEAN' BENITEZ, JOHN TC LUONGO, KENNY CARPENTER, LARRY LEVAN, MICHAEL CAPELLO, NICKY SIANO, RAY 'PINKY' VELASQUEZ, RENE HEWITT, AL PAEZ, RICHIE KACZOR, ROBBIE LESLIE, ROBBIE VINCENT, ROY THODE, RON HARDY, STEVE ALGOZINO, TEE SCOTT, TOM SAVARESE, TONY PRINCE, WALTER GIBBONS, MANNY SLALI, MIKE LEWIS, RICHIE RIVERA, BO CRANE, HOWARD MERRITT, GARY LARKIN, PAUL CASELLA, ROBERT OUIMET, JOHN HEDGES, JACKIE McCLOY, A.J. MILLER, KEVIN BURKE, DOUG RIDDIK, DAVID TODD, TONY SMITH, STEVE D'AQUISTO, JOHNNY GEORGE, TONY GIOE, DWAYNE DIXON, JOSEPH BONFIGLIO, MIKE STONE, RONALD COLES, JOHN COLON, RICHARD CONTE, DAVID PADILLA, BRIAN TAPPARD, TONY WILSON, KOOL HERC, PAUL DUGAN, KURT BORUSIEWICZ, BILL OWENS, ALFIE DAVIDSON, LOU DiVITO, JONATHAN FEARING, STEVE FABUS, LARRY PATTERSON, KEN COLLIER, BILL KELLY, BERT BEVANS, RONNIE RON, JERRY BONHAM, BACHO MANGUAL, WAYNE SCOTT, JENNY COSTA, BOBBY LOMBARDI, JOE PALMINTERI, DON FINDLAY, RAY YEATES, LARY SANDERS, VINCENT CARLEO, RICK SQUILLANTE, TIM RIVERS, CASEY JONES, COSMO WYATT, GARY TIGHE, TRIP RINGWALD, CRAIG MOREY, MARTY BLECMAN, ROB KIMBEL, HOWIE KLEIN, TONY HADLAND, DAVID SOKOLOF, DAVID PELLIGRINO, BRUCE FORREST, DAVID HARNES, RALPHI ROSARIO, MARK GRANT, MARQUES WYATT, RUBEN MANCIAS, NEON LEON, LARRY ROSSIELLO, DEREK JUAN, MICHAEL GARRETT, EDDIE B, JOEY CARVELLO, JIMMY FORNIA, RUFFY MUGICA, RUSSELL PRESTO, WENDY HUNT, BILLY COSTA, RON ROBIN, SUNNY JO WHITE, VINCENT PERUZZI, CHRYSLER SHELDON, LESTER TEMPLE, MICHAEL JORBA, SHARON WHITE, FRANK HOULIHAN, RICKY YBARRA, JOHN RANDAZZO, JOHN GERALDO, RALPH ZEPEDA, RAY CHATTERS, MICHAEL FIERMAN, DOC MARTIN, DAVID HAMESS, RUBEN MANCIAS, ANDREW D, TONY LARGO, EDDIE X, BLACKSTONE, PETE AVILA, MARK GRANT, HOSH GURELLI, DAVE MOSS, TONY POWELL, PHIL SMITH, FRANKIE BEAUCHAMP, CHUCKY PARSON, FRANK SESITO, WAYNE GEFTMAN, BUTCHIE MULL, JOHNNY BURGOS, DJ RAYMOND, GEORGE WHITLEIGH, PHILIP LeBASH, TONY CITAINO, FRANK CORR, CHUCK DAVIS, ROBERT 'LIPPY' LIPPOLIS, VINCE MICHAELS, JOE O'BRIEN, STAN STEHANOU, JOHNNY 'ACE' WEINLAW, WARREN GLUCK, JACK 'COLA' COLASANTO, TONY SPENCER, ZINO AMATO, JOHNNY 'V' VICINO, RALPH D'AGOSTINO, JOHN BISCI, JOEY MADONIA, EDDIE CRUZ, MARK KAMINS, BEN LIEBRAND, DAVE LACH, ARON SIEGEL, STEVE 'SAGA' PEREZ, PETER SIS, GIANT GENE, PHIL WATERMAN, STEVE MACK, JOE CAUSI, RONALD NICHOLSON, KEVIN GUILMET, DWAYNE HOLT, KENNY YORKE, NELSON 'PARADISE' ROMAN, TONY CARRASCO, SHEP PETTIBONE, TONY HUMPHRIES, SERGIO MUNZIBAI, JOE T. VANELLI -----------------------------------
DISCO ERA ARTISTS:
Salsoul Orchestra, Crown Heights Affair, KC & Sunshine Band, Barry White, Earth Wind & Fire, Kool & Gang, Chic, Van McCoy, Brothers Johnson, Commodores, War, Bee Gees, Brass Construction, Sly & Family Stone, Avarage White Band, Gary Toms Empire, Voyage, B.T. Express, Emotions, MFSB, Isaak Hayes, Natalie Cole, Carol Williams, Gene Chandler, Peter Brown, Richie Family, Deniece Williams, Deodato, Tavares, Marvin Gaye, Dan Hartman, Lalo Schifrin, Edwin Starr, Chaka Khan, Evelyn Thomas, Carrie Lucas, Jimmy Castor Bunch, Trammps, Gino Soccio, Wild Cherry, SOS Band, Hamilton Bohannon, Rose Royce, Hues Corporation, Instant Funk, Loleatta Holloway, Jimmy Bo Horne, Silver Convention, Joe Bataan, Kashif, Heatwave, GQ, LaBelle, Gloria Gaynor, Leon Haywood, Sister Sledge, Change, Lou Rawls, Manu Di Bango, Donna Summer, Anita Ward, Disco Tex, Stephanie Mills, Miracles, Dennis Coffey, Yvonne Elliman, Aura, Oliver Cheatham, Cheryl Lynn, Peoples Choice, Andrea True Connection, Peter Jacques Band, Pointer Sisters, Quincy Jones, Real Thing, Ashford & Simpson, Boz Scaggs, Roberta Kelly, Narada Michael Walden, Yarborough & Peoples, Sharon Redd, Linda Clifford, Minnie Riperton, George McCrae, Michael Zager, Stargard, Odyssey, Supermax, Taste of Honey, Peaches & Herb, Double Exposure, Al Green, Rick Dees, Viola Wills, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Walter Murphy, Temptations, Claudia Barry, BB & Q, 5th Dimension, CRYSTAL GRASS, CLIMAX BLUES BAND, COZY POWELL, ALEC COSTANDINOS, Alicia Bridges, ANGELA BOFILL, ANN PEEBLES, ARPEGIO, BARRABAS, BIDDU ORCHESTRA, BILL WITHERS, BILLY PAUL, BOMBERS, BUNNY SIGLER, CARL DOUGLAS, CAROL DOUGLAS CAROL JIANI, CERRONE, CHANTAL CURTIS, CHI-LITES, CISSY HOUSTON, CONSTELLATION ORCHESTRA, CURTIS MAYFIELD, DEBORAH WASHINGTON, DENISE LaSALLE, DIONNE WARWICK, DIANA ROSS, DONNY HATHAWAY, EDWIN STARR, EDDIE KENDRICKS, EVELYN 'CHAMPAGNE' KING, EVELYN THOMAS, FIRST CHOICE, FOXY, FRANCE JOLI, FREDA PAYNE, GARY'S GANG, GENE PAGE, GEORGE DUKE, GERALDINE HUNT, GLADYS KNIGHT, GONZALEZ, GOOGY GOODY, GWEN GUTHRIE, HAMILTON BOHANNON, HEART & SOUL ORCHESTRA - FRANKIE CROCKER, HI ENERGY, Hot Chocolate, HUES CORPORATION, JACKIE MOORE, JACKSON 5, JESSIE GREEN, JIMMY BO HORNE, JIMMY JAMES, JOCELYN BROWN, JODY WATLEY, JOE BATAAN, JOE SIMON, JOE TEX, JOHN DAVIS MONSTER ORCHESTRA, JOHNNIE TAYLOR, JOHNNY BRISTOL, KAREN YOUNG, KELLEE PATTERSON, KENNY LATTIMORE, KLEEER, KURTIS BLOW, LEON HAYWOOD, LEROY BURGESS, LINDA CLIFFORD, LINDA LEWIS, LOLEATTA HOLLOWAY, LORRAINE JOHNSON, LOU RAWLS, LOVE UNLIMITED ORCHESTRA, LUTHER INGRAM, LUTHER VANDROS, MADLEEN KANE, MANTUS, MARVIN GAYE, MECO, MELBA MOORE, MIGUEL BROWN, MTUME, MUSIQUE, NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN, NORMA JEAN WRIGHT, O' JAYS, Osibisa, PATRICE RUSHEN, PATTI AUSTIN, RANDY CRAWFORD, ROBERTA FLACK, ROSE ROYCE, SALSOUL ORCHESTRA, SHALAMAR, SLY & FAMILY STONE, T – CONNECTION, TAMIKO JONES, TASTE of HONEY, THELMA HOUSTON, VICKY SUE ROBINSON
YAHUDEEJAY unique and very real disco pioneer deejay - start mixing 1970 and still in action after 38 years - writer and disco, deejay historian for www.djsportal.com view more
About me: YAHUDEEJAY - an polish disco pioneer discjockey - TRAMPLED DREAMS by Yahu Pawul - (excerpts from the book) - I remember that my first big fascination, something new and unknown to me, was The Beatles movie "A Hard Days Night", which played at my local cinema in 1966. I remember the thrills all down my backbone when I first heard the sounds and music behind the screen. I was only 14 years old and a kind of revolution started in my young mind that evening. I couldn't sleep late into the night - thinking hard how to become someone like those marvelous four, The Beatles. That was a magic time.
Before that movie, I was a normal Polish kid like millions of others in the '60s Poland. I would run to the school, then tear trousers on the trees and fens. On Sunday I would help in the church. I did not realize that there was any Communist system, other country, cultures, people and lifestyle. My existence and life was my home, father, mother, my brother Frank and a lot of friends around - similarly poor kids of workers. I was so happy during my childhood in the neighbourhood public garden, a few nearby streets and places around.
One hour in front of cinema screen and that movie changed all my life. I staredt to collect rock 'n' roll star magazines and newspaper pictures, then created a band together with school friends. If there had been no Beatles, Elvis Presley or Rolling Stones, then probably the world would be completely different than is today. The '60s cultural revolution changed the whole planet - one place more, another less, but definitely changed. It changed one poor Polish kid - me!
Autumn 1968 was cold and rainy. I spent a lot of time then in my small room planning my life. I was 15 and so excited when, late in the night, in deep secrecy under my mother's nose, I listened to the voice of a man on the radio. It was the legendary UK service of Radio Luxembourg 208 and voice of Australian-born Alan Freeman - the first discjockey I ever heard in my life. At the same time, I became fascinated by the deejay profession and pop music. A few weeks later, I started to copy the deejays' way of speaking, introducing music from records.
I just pretended because I was too poor to buy records or turntables or any electronic equipment. I did not realize at that time what I was doing and where it was all leading. It was something not controlled by me, a kind of feeling stronger than me. Life goes on giving new experiences. I had to choose between the normal lifestyle for all young people that time and between something that was total fantasy, unreal at that time in Poland. It was a big problem for me and for my future.
One day I made a life changing decision - I chose to become a discjockey. It was a decision that went against everybody's advice - mother, school, family, friends. I mean no one supported me then. I started thousands of hours of training my voice, style of speaking, learning about music, artists etc.
One day, I got my first job. I started to work as a deejay at the Culture House and played hard rock band records with my commentary for public / audience. The first one I remember was Led Zeppelin - their second album presented to over 400 young people. I was playing track by track, with my commentary between. The audience was sitting around and listening. No dancing yet. Then followed similar gigs, popularizing the records of: Deep Purple, Budgie, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Black Sabbath, Ten Years After, Jethro Tull, Grand Funk Railroad, etc.
I say as a joke (but this is really true) that I was a disco deejay at the time when there were no discotheques in Poland yet. When in 1970 I first heard about discotheques, I then started my first disco, called BEATOLAND.
There were a very few 18 - 20-year-old young people who created the Polish discotheque and deejay scene. We were so excited and fascinated by the whole idea of disco and deejays that we did not care about money, etc. We did our job for free almost and were happy we could do it at all. Our main problem was how to get proper records produced outside of Poland and it was very hard to access any new music. We did not care about the law, regulations, customs etc. We just wanted to pursue our passion in real life. It created huge troubles for us then. But thanks to our determination, discotheques became reality on Polish territory in 1970.
At first, I played and mixed with deejay comments music which was popular at that time mostly in Europe:
Led Zeppelin, Cream, Deep Purple, Budgie, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Black Sabbath, Ten Years After, Jethro Tull, Grand Funk Railroad etc. The real disco pioneer deejays / old school disco deejays were kind of radio style deejays. We were talking to the microphone between the songs and mix, in the same way radio deejays did. I mean short, fast speech comments and snippets of information were inserted at the end of the introduction and end of the 3 - 4 minutes music of 7" singles.
Then in the early '70s the "UK wave" came - labels such as Bell, RAK, PYE and artists like Gary Glitter, Suzy Quatro, Smokie, Bay City Rollers, Status Quo, Slade, Kenny, Elton John, Rod Stewart, etc. I mixed this "UK wave" sound with early and mid '70s USA soul and R&B records - most of all labels like Stax, Motown, ABC, Epic, Columbia.
That was all popular and good music to dance to but not really the disco sound yet. Disco music came a little bit later and then I started to play Gary Toms Empire, Crown Heights Affair, Commodores, Kool & Gang, Barry White, Sly & Family Stone, Sister Sledge, Bee Gees, Peter Brown, Earth Wind & Fire, Chic, KC & Sunshine Band, Isaac Hayes, Salsoul Orchestra, Donna Summer, Silver Convention etc.
Between 15 - 21 October 1973 there was the First Discotheque Discjockeys Tournament (a kind of competition) in Poland. I got into the final team then as one of the 16 best Polish deejays. Poland was such a backward country then but discotheque deejays were very close to their deejay friends in the western Europe world. Such a "paradise" lasted only a very shot time. Suddenly the Communists started to control everything.
That time in Poland, Communist power controlled everything - including discos and deejays. They simply tried to stop this new idea, because they were afraid it was not good for young Polish people. By which I mean such a fascination for western music, artists, culture, style of life, etc. They simply wanted all teenagers to be Communists who loved the USSR, Leninism, etc. The Communist administration quickly created troubles for discotheques and deejays. They created a kind of political / Communist theory test, complete with exams and administration - they called this shit 'deejay licence'. If anyone didn't go along with it, then they couldn't work as a deejay in Poland.
Via this famous and hated 'licence system' they started to create a different kind of discotheque style, music style and deejay style - different than in the western world. There was no other place on the planet Earth anybody controlled deejays in such crazy, stupid way by using special political "deejay license". But here in Poland there were a lot of sick mind Communists who wanted to advance their careers in any way they could. The world went its own way but Poland went in a completely different and opposite way.
I had many contacts and correspondence at that time with UK and USA deejays, and likewise with magazine editors and Associations like NADD (National Association of Discotheque Disc Jockeys) in the USA and NADJ (National Association of Disc Jockeys ) in the UK. I was so lucky to be an honorary member of those organizations as the one and only deejay from Poland. I got a lot of knowledge, experiences and promo materials from all those contacts and that correspondence. There were a lot of articles published about me in the UK and USA disco and deejay magazines. A few of those articles came any way to Poland to Communist deejays (those with that Communist "deejay licence") and their association. They got furious then that someone was doing international cooperation by passing them and not asking for permission. They started to create serious troubles for me. The first thing they did against me was to use the local Police to start to control what I did, how I earned my livelihood and to totally forbid me to work as a deejay. It was very simple for them. They just sent news all over Poland via all those Communist party offices which administered whole local areas. So, I was on a special black list - but I still did deejay work anyway, very secretly, under false names. Unfortunately they quickly learned about this because other deejays informed and denounced me to the Police and my work as a deejay was completely impossible for a few years. They printed articles in the Polish communist press for young people about me, saying that I was a very bad young man, an enemy of the system, and that I was a beggar and wrote begging letters to the UK and USA asking for free (promo) records etc. They started to control all my correspondence and any promo records anyone sent to me they confiscated and gave to their Communist deejays.
I then had to do very hard and dangerous work in a mining company, then in an iron foundry and a shipyard. That was the Communist system, dishing out punishment to any individual brave enough to stand up against them and try to go their own, free way, outside the control of the Communist system.
It was at that time that I started to think seriously about how to get out of Poland, ask for political asylum and emigrate for good. It was not easy because that time I was married and had two wonderful kids. But Communist persecution was so strong that I couldn't stand it. Life was so very hard everyday. All my youthful dreams were completely trampled! My deejay friends from the UK and USA had careers, money and a good life. Whereas I, in my homeland Poland, was on the verge of going to jail or commiting suicide. That was a painful time for all of my family, and also for my young and pretty wife, and for my old mother who believed in her beloved firstborn son's dreams.
After years of correspondence and cooperation with UK and USA friends I reached a crucial decision. I would try to organize my very secret emigration from Poland. So in March 1989 I secretly ran away from Poland and flew to NYC. Then I moved to LA and asked for political asylum at INS LA.
But early in 1990, the USA administration refused me political asylum. They explained to me - "there is no longer Communist power in Poland and there is no serious reason to let you stay in the USA". That decision came as a total shock to me, but I had no power and no chance to fight against it. It was a very stressful and sad time for me.
So, I had to come back to Poland in April 1990 and start to reorganize my life once more. I tried to get back to deejay work (never mind there was no longer Communist power) but there were still the same people who persecuted me before and who still secretly decided who could work as a deejay and who could not. That was, of course, a "SMALL" detail that the USA immigration administration (INS LA) didn't know about when they refused me political asylum. INS LA had just one idea - send this Polishman out of the USA and that's exactly what they did.
ALL DISCO ERA HISTORY and MATERIALS, DOCUMENTS, MAGAZINES, BOOKS, RECORDS. Because of my disco historian work and study I'm looking USA disco era magazines like: Discothekin; Disco World, Disco News, Disco Star, etc.
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