A Step Back In Time Show Saturday 6th August 2011 For 10 Weeks

By DJ Sterling - Posted on 05 August 2011

Hi,

Having had some amazing Oldskool djs, Veterans, Producers and those who have shaped the scene. I am very excited to bring you an exclusive documentary called "Legends Of The Dancefloor "A Piece Of Paradise.

This documentary will run for the next 10 weeks over my show and is a real incite into the iconic Paradise Garage, a club that started and shaped dance/ house music today. This is an exclusive documentary which was only previously aired on one other station which I have full rights to broadcast to you the listener.

So sit back relax and reminisce and if you don't remember enjoy the education of how dance music started...

More info below:

Legends Of The Dancefloor "A Piece Of Paradise" The story of New York's Paradise Garage club and its DJ Larry Levan - produced by Eddie Gordon and Lenny Fontana. Today Interviews with Michael Linder, Vince Aletti, Nicky Siano Judy Weinstein and Tom Moulton. Reflections from New York City's highest table who saw the beginning from the floor up, created change and rode with the wave through the disco daze past the Millennium.

Legends Of The Dancefloor "A Piece Of Paradise" The story of New York's Paradise Garage club and its DJ Larry Levan - produced by Eddie Gordon and Lenny Fontana. Two Towers, Levan & Crocker own NYC. Nine interviews from the movers and shakers of Manhattan during those halcyon days from the 70's through to today

Legends Of The Dancefloor "A Piece Of Paradise" The story of New York's Paradise Garage club and its DJ Larry Levan - produced by Eddie Gordon and Lenny Fontana. The Weekend - Thank Larry Its Friday. Five interviews from people very close to Larry Levan including Manny Lehmann, Michael Debenedictus, Brian Chinn, Rochelle Flemming and Bobby Viteritti

Legends of The Dancefloor - A Piece Of Paradise - Love Is The Message In Paradise.

Commentary from Larry Levan, Kenny Carpenter, Eddie Gordon, Lenny Fontana, Mike Mourin & the 4 hour mix from 1979.

The finale of this huge 10 week documentary on the famous Paradise Garage night club in Manhattan, New York with its legendary DJ Larry Levan features a 4 hour live mix from the club on the night of its 2nd Anniversary which was first broadcast live on WBLS radio in New York in 1979. Amongst the music that night are live performances from Dan Hartman and Loleatta Holloway singing "Relight My Fire" the original version. UK pop sensation Take That covered this song in the 90's with LuLu and had a huge #1 hit but this live performance from Loleatta and Dan is a roof raising rendition that could never be matched by the Brits - you'll hear why. Also performing is Sylvestor who opens the show with his classic hit "You Make Me Feel Mighty Real" plus McFadden & Whitehead with their disco monster hit "Ain't No Stopping Us Now" - all MC'd beautifully by Frankie Crocker the number one radio DJ on the number 1 radio station in New York

Enjoy

DJ Sterling

Michael Linder a young news reporter in Manhattan pre 1975, who went on to create the hit TV show 'America's Most Wanted', gives the gritty view of life in a Big Apple bruised with the recession, the Stonewall Riots, the Hard Hat Riots, on the verge of bankruptcy, crime and grime rule the subway from 42nd Street to downtown - but there's a beat, created by Earl Young of The Trammps, that starts to reverberate from the DJ's playing in the five borough clubs which will turns the world on, seduces the world into a soulfully sexual, funky, grooving, dance music loving mass of human happiness. The pinnacle of which was the Paradise Garage, situated on the aptly named King Street, a huge parking lot of a building turned into a club for over 3'000 dancers with the world's greatest club sound system, an owner creating a dream of unifying people with dance music and a DJ gifted with an intuitive grasp on the sense of love in the songs he played through the loudest collection of speakers known that could turn his dance floor fanatics, gay, straight, black, white, hispanic, asian, male and women, into a collective loving mush, like a hypnotist working the congregation from the church pulpit.