Crazy Disco Madness

To celebrate the L.A. Marathon, here’s Aural Exciters performing “Marathon Runner” (1979).

The Kid Creole anthology, “Going Places The August Darnell Years 1974-1983.”

The 1979 LP from Aural Exciters, “Spooks In Space.” Click here for this groups’ bio.

From 1983, Elbow Bones & The Racketeers performing “A Night In New York.”

The 1983 LP from Elbow Bones & The Racketeers, “New York At Dawn.”

From 1978, Machine performing “There But For The Grace Of God Go I.”

Carlos and Carmen Vidal just had a child
A lovely girl with a crooked smile
Now they gotta split `cause the Bronx ain`t fit
For a kid to grow up in
Let`s find a place they say, somewhere far away
With no blacks, no Jews and no gays

The 1978 self-titled LP from Machine. From Discogs: Machine was a studio disco group formed by August Darnell, previously of Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band and, later in the 1980s, Kid Creole And The Coconuts.