The Dance Music Hall of Fame -- the hell?

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Admittedly the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will never get around to this properly because they were too busy making sure Billy Joel was 'honored' but hmmm regardless:

Donna Summer, the Bee Gees and producer Giorgio Moroder will be among the first artists inducted into the inaugural Dance Music Hall of Fame.

They will be honoured alongside late singer Barry White and DJ Larry Levan at a New York ceremony on 20 September.

Recipients were chosen by a panel of 1,000 dance music professionals.

Thelma Houston and Evelyn "Champagne" King are set to perform Don't Leave Me This Way and Shame, among five songs to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Official site here. I do actually like the idea of celebrating songs specifically.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a pretty decent inaugural class. Larry Levan? Class choice.

Obv. it's too early to tell, but so far it seems "Dance" (to them) = disco, house.

I wonder if they'd consider someone like Derrick May, for instance.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Levan is an interesting choice because while I agree he deserves much attention it's almost rockist (for the field). Would Francois Kevorkian get in?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Would Francois Kevorkian get in?

I should hope so.

Ditto:
Kenny "Dope" Gonzales
Little "Louie" Vega
Lil' Louis
Todd Terry
Armand Van Helden
Sylvester (well, his estate. RIP, Sylvester)
Bobby Orlando
Frank Farian
Marshall Jefferson

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

little louie vega is halfway there already; he's on the hall of fame's board of advisers.

sylvester's halfway there too. "(you make me feel) mighty real" is one of the songs they're inducting this year.

they don't appear to have any kind of physical space. it seems to be entirely on paper (and the web), for now.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 4 September 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i was gonna ask 'how the hell is david mancuso not one of the initial inductees???' but he is so yeah

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 4 September 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

little louie vega is halfway there already; he's on the hall of fame's board of advisers.

sylvester's halfway there too. "(you make me feel) mighty real" is one of the songs they're inducting this year.

This is what I get for skimming the site without actually reading it.

Also, surely my post should have read "Little" Louie Vega and not Little "Louie" Vega.

*hangs head in shame*

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 4 September 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I assume May would get in eventually: All the honorees/tracks emerged in/are from the 70s, so it's both possible they didn't even consider May or anyone else from the 80s or later.

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Saturday, 4 September 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe in this context "dance music" only refers to funk and disco.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 4 September 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, they might well be doing what the R/R Hall does and have a 25 year limit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 September 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

They do have a 25 year limit.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 4 September 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.metroweekly.com/nightlife/soundwaves/?ak=883

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 4 September 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

And there ya go.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 September 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Armand Van Helden????

hmmm.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 5 September 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

going to be interesting to see what happens when they finally get out of the disco era.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 5 September 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

people who will never be included-

anyone european.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 5 September 2004 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

(from after the disco era)

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 5 September 2004 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

No Ronan, Fatboy Slim will be honoured in due course, if only for the contribution he made to late 90s hollywood teen flicks.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 5 September 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

the Chemical Brothers can be honoured for winning the "best rock instrumental" grammy award.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 5 September 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Maurice Joshua for remixing Destiny's Child.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 5 September 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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