Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 07, 2014

How soon they forget.

So did he actually make it to Hollywood?

I think he made it to Newark.

Thank goodness disco had only one more year to be popular, it was so one dimensional, banal and insipid.For Pete’s sake, nearly every song was about dancing, I’m surprised it didn’t peter out sooner. But then we did a lot of things in the 70’s that didn’t make sense. I stuck to rock and roll and watched Led Zeppelin implode, but it was still way better than disco.

I sometimes listen to 70’s rock in my office, and I try not to be embarrassed when someone younger walks in, but it’s hard. Only about 3% of the songs have lyrics that make the tiniest bit of sense.

Pandora shows you the lyrics of the first few verses, and if you make the mistake of looking at them, (unless it’s Bob Dylan or The Boss) you’ll be slapped in the face by their randomness.

“I’d like to think the little people who helped me get here, but I can’t remember their names.”

Just two lost souls

Goodbye sister disco

…or the Electric Slide, or the Swim, or even Mashed Potato..But it does have to own up to the Hustle, the Bump, and, of course, YMCA.

Oh, YMCA is fun as all get-out, the song and the dance..It wouldn’t be the first bit of serious fun that was completely stupid.

…or had an “interesting” backstory.

You know, somewhere back in the 70s, there must have been a group of nice Jewish boys that entertained the crowd at a Bar Mitzvah with “It’s fun to stay at the Y… M… H… A!”

When I was in college there was a local band that had a regional hit entitled “Disco sucks, but we do it for the bucks.”

There were a few decent disco songs though. “Never can say Goodbye” and “I will survive” come to mind.