STEVE DAHL Do You Think I'm Disco HQ

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[VortexBunche]

Bought this when it came out. At the time I was fiercely anti-disco.

[mgconlan]

We have Rod Stewart to thank for this song in more ways than one! Not only is it a parody of Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?, " but when it came out Stewart's manager tried to get him to sue Dahl and have it taken off the market the way Led Zeppelin did with Little Roger and the Goosebumps' "Gilligan's Island Stairway." Fortunately, Rod Stewart heard Dahl's record and loved it. He told his manager, "Leave it alone. I think it's hilarious!"

[OGCatDJM]

I love disco but I still love this song lol. Never fails to make me smile, and it is pretty true

[marcofreitas]

For a guy who has professed his utter hatred of Disco throughout the years, Dahl has certainly profited quite a lot from Disco itself

[flbartlett]

"Death before Disco" t-shirts. "STOP Disco" traffic signs. ('Disco' spray painted under the STOP.) Good fun.

[bruceshaw-si]

He has a book out for anyone who is interested about his infamous night at Comiskey Park in Chicago in 1979.

[spy]

I love Disco music, but I love this song too! It totally sums up the superficiality and artificiality of the Disco crowd! Actually if you really look at the storyline of Saturday Night Fever you'd notice that it really isn't a pro-disco movie, even though there IS a ton of disco music in it-the whole point of the movie is that Tony wants to get away from the dead-end cliched life he's been living and make something of himself. He loves to dance but he even states in the movie that dancing isn't something you can do all your life and he really wants to have something better to fall back on. That's one reason why he's not interested in Annette (his dancing partner in the beginning) because he doesn't see any decent future for himself with her-if he marries her he'll wind up stuck in another dead-end low paying job, probably at the same paint store where he currently works, working his ass off supporting his dead-end kids who are gonna wind up just like him, just as he would wind up like his own parents, in a dead-end life with no dreams, no hopes, no future and the dead-end cycle continues on and on and he wants more than that. He wants to be able to move up in the world.

[Justin-Hill-]

The way Steve Dahl felt about disco in the 1970s is how some people felt about country music and rap music crossing over onto the pop charts in the 1990s...

[scottburton]

Fantastic parody of Rod Stewart's "Do You Think I'm Sexy"?-This received a great deal of airplay on Dr.Demento's radio program in 1979.

[creeg]

I listened to Steve Dahl during my childhood in the late 70s and the 80s. I was fortunate enough to see him and Garry play a show in Elgin, Illinois back in 1988 where Steve was hammered. They were the best in Chicago radio. I miss them every time I try to find someone to listen to on talk radio.

[tyrssen]

Ah, the great Steve Dahl! Loved his stuff. 'Nother Dr. Demento fan here as well.

[ir]

happy 43rd anniversary to Disco Demolition! Tue 7-12-22.

[AgnostosGnostos]

The epic lyrics
What's happening, baby
How the heck are you
My name is Tony
Would you care to dance
No, hey, calm down
Let me get you another Pina Colada
I mean what did we join this
Exclusive disco club for anyway

You know, I mean it costs
A hundred dollars to join
And we're supposed to dance

Don't you like my
White three piece suit
My gold coke spoon
Gold razor blade and
Gold Italian snaggletooth, you know

Come on, please dance with me

I wear tight pants
I always stuff a sock in
It always makes the ladies
Start to talking

My shirt is open
I never use the buttons
Though I look hip
I work for E. F. Hutton

Do you think I'm disco
Cause I spend so much time
Blow drying out my hair

Do you think I'm disco
Cause I know the dance steps
Learned em all at Fred Astaire

Look, I know
You don't wanna dance
Cause, like, there's
A lot of creeps in here
Always hitting up on you

Let me tell you something
I'm not a creep
I mean, look at the way
I am dressed, sweetheart
Look at my hair, it's perfect

I saw Saturday Night Fever
Eighty-seven times
Please dance with me

Some people call me scum
Cause I don't have
A realistic set of values
And you know what
I'm beginning to maybe
Think they're right

Hey, where are you going
Wait a second, listen
Let's skip the dancing
Come back here and let's
Just go to my place

Do I live on the beach, no
I live in my car
I have a 280z

No, wait, where are you going
Let me have your phone number
Hey, come back, what do you mean
You don't have a phone

Let me have your address
I'll stop by and visit you
What do you mean
You don't live anywhere

I like to dance with
Girls in sleazy dresses
Lipstick, nail charms
And makeup in excesses

Buy them a drink
And try and get their number
Usually, they are as
Cold as a cucumber

Do you think I'm disco
Am I superficial
Looking hip's my only goal

Do you think I'm disco
Maybe it's not too late
To get into rock and roll

Rock and roll

I'll tell you something
I have never been happier
Now that I'm into
This rock and roll thing

I sold my white three piece suit
At a garage sale last weekend
Made twenty-five dollars

Got rid of my 280z
Picked myself up a
Beat up old '69 Dart
Melted down all my gold jewelry
Into a Led Zeppelin belt buckle
I mean, things are happening

Boy, it's so easy to be led astray
By all those pictures of
Margaret Trudeau in People magazine
Making you think you're supposed
To get into disco
I was a teenage disco duck

[jeffcoat]

The man who blew up a baseball diamond destroying disco records.

[steves]

Somewhere in the old family homestead in MD, I left a copy of this. Part of my collection of 45's.

[jennyl]

I’m 20 years old, studying music history. I’m currently writing a paper on Disco Demolition Night, featuring Steve Dahl and this song as soundtrack to the anti-disco movement of the late 70s. This era is so fucking rad and I wish rock fans were as hard core as they were in the 70s and 80s. Long live rock and roll 🤘🏻

[manman]

Remember this so well but was never able to find it! Thanks for posting!!!

[chrismccrea]

Omg this song defined my childhood. Listened to it thousands of times. Thank you Dr D!

[USCG.Brennan]

Thanks Steve for doing what most of us WANTED to ON DISCO!!!!

[garygiampa]

hi sounds great from 1979 I love it thank you the best