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mickymusic69 · 05-10-2009, 07:55 PM

The majority of the Disco, Soul & Funk floor fillers, were not available to buy in the UK only on US & Euro import, as already mentioned the dance music as a whole was being very unlawfully blocked from getting 'any' air play at all on any main stream / peak time radio stations in between the whole of the 70's and up to 1986.
It was only the small minority getting through such as Motown artists plus a few other artists on other major labels whose agents and promoters were paying huge regular backhand 'Mafia Type' payments to get their Black music artist songs played on the main radio stations.
When Disco really exploded and became very popular indeed in the UK in 1976, as mentioned by Barbarella, pressure on the record companies to release certain songs which were being played regularly to thousands of people in clubs all over the UK and 'not on radio stations at all' became too much to hold off and also was politically embarrassing, but in their own corrupt corporate way they ganged up and stopped the titles getting released in the UK from becoming really successful and entering the national top 20 music charts by making each release 'Limited pressings & editions'.
How many of the Beatles,Bay City Rollers,T-Rex,10cc,Abba,Andy Williams,Bee Gees and so on had any of any their single releases ever as limited pressings or editions NONE; when mainstream artists/groups records sold well the companies pressed more copies, but not with any Disco, Soul, Funk or Jazz Funk releases when they sold really well nationally and stock sold out they could never be reordered by the specialist shops; they automatically were deleted by the companies involved and it was all the big boys they didn't even mind losing out on making thousands/ millions of pounds of extra profit, they would rather lose out financially and keep the gates closed and locked for black dance music to be controlled not to be succesful in the UK. Even more pressure because of the growing success and following of the new music genre; made them agree to syphon let an agreed percentage through the gates and receive mainstream airplay and unlimited stock control (To cover themselves legally).
The very expensive U.S. imports was the only way to get the majority of the songs being played all over the UK in the clubs and bars but they were also limited in the U.S so when copies arrived in the UK they were very limited editions indeed, they did play a huge part in the success of the Disco era because without them being brought into the UK 2/3 of all the dance classics we all know and love would never have existed here because none were never ever on general release in the UK...

05-10-2009, 07:55 PM	#3 (permalink)
mickymusic69 Groupie Join Date: May 2009 Location: London Posts: 4	The majority of the Disco, Soul & Funk floor fillers, were not available to buy in the UK only on US & Euro import, as already mentioned the dance music as a whole was being very unlawfully blocked from getting 'any' air play at all on any main stream / peak time radio stations in between the whole of the 70's and up to 1986. It was only the small minority getting through such as Motown artists plus a few other artists on other major labels whose agents and promoters were paying huge regular backhand 'Mafia Type' payments to get their Black music artist songs played on the main radio stations. When Disco really exploded and became very popular indeed in the UK in 1976, as mentioned by Barbarella, pressure on the record companies to release certain songs which were being played regularly to thousands of people in clubs all over the UK and 'not on radio stations at all' became too much to hold off and also was politically embarrassing, but in their own corrupt corporate way they ganged up and stopped the titles getting released in the UK from becoming really successful and entering the national top 20 music charts by making each release 'Limited pressings & editions'. How many of the Beatles,Bay City Rollers,T-Rex,10cc,Abba,Andy Williams,Bee Gees and so on had any of any their single releases ever as limited pressings or editions NONE; when mainstream artists/groups records sold well the companies pressed more copies, but not with any Disco, Soul, Funk or Jazz Funk releases when they sold really well nationally and stock sold out they could never be reordered by the specialist shops; they automatically were deleted by the companies involved and it was all the big boys they didn't even mind losing out on making thousands/ millions of pounds of extra profit, they would rather lose out financially and keep the gates closed and locked for black dance music to be controlled not to be succesful in the UK. Even more pressure because of the growing success and following of the new music genre; made them agree to syphon let an agreed percentage through the gates and receive mainstream airplay and unlimited stock control (To cover themselves legally). The very expensive U.S. imports was the only way to get the majority of the songs being played all over the UK in the clubs and bars but they were also limited in the U.S so when copies arrived in the UK they were very limited editions indeed, they did play a huge part in the success of the Disco era because without them being brought into the UK 2/3 of all the dance classics we all know and love would never have existed here because none were never ever on general release in the UK...