Disco Christmas?  Yes, even Christmas music couldn’t escape the Disco invasion.  It seems like in the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties, everything was getting the Disco treatment.  Pop Standards, TV Themes, TV commercials, Movie Themes and even traditional Pop Standard singers were recording Disco albums.

I was curious as to how much Christmas Disco music might be out there.  I was shocked as to how much there was.  My curiosity was piqued after I had already stumbled across a few obscure Christmas Disco albums.  So, I started digging through Discogs.com and was pleasantly surprised as to how much of what was released was also for sale.

I tried to stay true to the original Disco sound.  By 1980, Disco was pretty much dead.  By 1980, Disco had become Hi-NRG, Euro-Disco and Synth Pop.  The sound was still there.  The BPM (Beats Per Minute) hadn’t really changed.  And the passion was still there.  But it was different.  With more synthesizers and digital production techniques, the music just didn’t sound the same or have the same impulse as it did in the mid-seventies.  Trust me, I know.  I lived it.  Disco music was born, lived and died just as I was living in my teens.  It was my generation that the music was targeted at.

While searching for authentic Christmas Disco music, I ignored most everything from the 1990s and beyond, except for a few artists that were very popular during the original Disco era.  Claudja Barry, KC & The Sunshine Band, The Trammps and The Salsoul Orchestra are some of the biggest names.  Everything in my collection is either by artists that were active during the Disco era, or studio bands that were formed just to capitalize on the Disco fad at the time.

I ignored Euro-Disco from the late eighties and nineties, and 21^st century new Disco.  Mainly due to affordability, but also because I wanted to stay true to the Disco sound.  There was a ton of modern Christmas Disco music available.  But due to the reasons explained earlier, I had to draw the line somewhere.  Perhaps someday I will go back and get the newer Christmas Disco music.  There is a ton of Christmas House music and Christmas Techno available as well.

I am anxious to digitalize all the Christmas Disco LPs that I have.  I really can’t imagine hearing Christmas standards played with an authentic Disco beat.  Currently, only 4 out of the 20 I have are in CD form, and 3 of those are by artists that established their careers during the original Disco era, and their Christmas albums may be more Holiday music than Disco.  We’ll see.