This was a huge dance song when we were in college-----many moons ago!

Seems there was a bar in NY where the jukebox was out of order.

So one of the bartenders brings in his stereo and some records to play at the bar.

This J Geils record was one of the ones he played, and the owner of the bar noticed that when "Give It to Me" played and it got to the breakdown section, everybody would get up to dance. He had the bartender play the song over and over and people seemed to never get tired of it.

Other bars followed suit, and the record company put out a ten-inch single of "Give It to Me" that sold very well. Instead of jukeboxes and live bands, bars changed over to a guy playing records. The dance records got the most approval amongst the bar patrons, and record companies and performers started putting out overlong dance singles to cater to the bars.

Of course, soon the bars became known as discos and dance records took over the music industry.

Was to Blue Neen which I don't seem to be able to post a reply to. This one for Midnight Writer. Sounds like bullshit to me, like someone is trying to take credit for a genre of music because people like the song and got up and danced to it?

One of their least massaginistic tunes

Speech to text still needs a little work

You were my first vote after they lowered the age to vote

Got rid of it long ago, but the red editions are now going for $50 or $60.

Was liberated from me about 40 years ago😢

...Wheels of Fire (Cream) which was tge first album I ever bought with my own money.
And, a Jake Jones album on Kapp records that I played piano on. Signed by the 4 guys in the band.

My first album bought with my own money, the first album I picked out was Joey Dee and his Starlighters Doing The Twist at The Peppermint Lounge, I was so young I debated between that and a Yogi Bear record. Got to see Cream, I remember Ginger Baker going off stage for a bit before Toad