How Bryan Adams started his career by making... disco !

The Twelve Inch 112 : "Let Me Take You Dancing" (Bryan Adams)

Diving into Dance Music History: Bryan Adams' 'Let Me Take You Dancing' and the Disco Influence

Welcome back to my weekly exploration of dance music history, one Twelve Inch record at a time. Thrilled to have you join me! In last week's discussion on New Beat, I explored the technique of “pitch control”, used by Dj’s to seamlessly blend two records. However, remixers also commonly used techniques like “speeding up” or “slowing down” songs to craft the perfect beat. The twelve inch we’ll discuss this week is proof of that.

Now there’s a good chance that you will not be familiar with “Let Me Take You Dancing” and you are certainly not the only one. The reason is that Bryan Adams would prefer that this song be forgotten, much to his chagrin. Apparently he even engaged the help of a company actively looking for postings of the song on the different platforms in order to make those platform remove it immediately. By now you know that every episode of this newsletter is accompanied by a 1 h…