Great song, but it's not disco. It came out several years before the disco era.

JZ, that ain't disco! The Stories were a power pop band.

it's from 1973... here you go:

http://www.superseventies.com/sw_brotherlouie.html

I remember hearing them play this at the Pier in Ocean City, Maryland when I was in junior high. They were there with the Electric Light Orchestra and B.B.King. I was too young to go in, so I sat on the beach and listenend...

I love this song!

the best part is towards the end where instead of repeating the standard refrain "louie, louie, louie, lou-WAAH", he says "louie, louie, louie, LOUIE, louie, lou-WAAH". those extra 2 louies make the whole song worth while.

@4--TOTALLY.

@1 and 2--come on, you guys dont hear the proto-disco strings and swell in that track? no, its not a dance number, but its got disco written all over it. the stories mightve been a power pop band, but that song is not power pop.

nipper, didnt you tell me this track was a cover of someone?

Hot Chocolate.

There's nothing disco about those strings; they're pop strings. The main guy in The Stories was from The Left Banke, which is about as pop as you can get ("Just Walk Away, Renee").

It's disco, but barely. It's the chicka-chicka rhythm guitar that gives it away. Kind of like what early-70s-era Eagles would have sounded like if they'd all gotten bone-marrow transplants from the Bee Gees.

2nd best part: the dueling strings/guitar solo. has that ever been done anywhere else in the history of rock music? i think not.

no way no how is it disco, power pop in the early '70s sounded different than it did by 1980. Think post Bealtes Badfinger/Raspberries/Blue Ash as power pop...not the Knack or the Nerves as it became known.

fnarf it was Michael Brown from the Left Banke/Montage who was in the Stories, but...I think..he was only involved on the first Stories LP, not the second LP (About Us). but not having the LPs in front of me i'm not 100% on that...

the Bee Gees also started out pop/harmony pop...and LOVED pop strings. and the mellotron (1st LP)!

you just confirmed my point, nipper! youre gonna tell me the bee gees werent disco?

what? NOT ALWAYS! ha ha! The BEE GEEs didn't go disco until like 1975. During the twelve years (or more) before that, they we a beat/pop band in OZ, when they moved back to the UK (1967) they issued their first LP, a BRILLIANT pop sike LP drenched w/mellotron (fake strings!), then for the next few years a harmony pop/pop/CONCEPT rock group...and they did use LOTS of strings, but they weren't disco strings. I can't think of any pre-disco Bee Gees songs that were disco dancers. When they did make the disco jump THEN they used disco strings...