Hamilton Bohannon

And they thought you might dig a little dance called the double clutch.

These are just a bunch of cats from Detroit called Bohannon and the Cats.

So they got together and thought of this funky thing.

They wanted y'all to do the double clutch.

You see these cats from Detroit, Bohannon and Ray and Melvin playing the double cleats.

Now all through this album We played the double up Well, by now, you should be deep in it.

It's all over about now, y'all.

He sent me a clip where you were talking about How Soon Is Now and how you sort of developed that very distinct riff, and that was sort of...

Was it, uh, Disco Stomp by Hamilton Bohannon that was sort of one of the initial sparks on that one?

Of, uh, Nile Rodgers will tell you that the first, the very first conversation we had was about Hamilton Bohannon.

Yeah.

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It was listed in the Paradise Garage top 100, got to number nine on Vin Saletti's disco file top 20.

Vince Letty reviews it in July 78 when it's a track on Bohannon's Summertime Groove LP.

Vince says, Carolyn Crawford's a knockout on the album's opening track, Let's Start the Dance, also available on a promo 12-inch, which is basic Bohannon, heavy on the bass groove, jittery guitars, full of striking funk changes, sent soaring by her rambunctious, rough guitar.

shouting vocals a month later james hamilton reviews it and says incredibly exciting disco smash rhythm romper finally out on reedy edited seven inch or full 12 inch comes back to it in october 79 does james he says still available on 12 inch last autumn's disco smash sounds brand new again as it mixes superbly with al hudson you can do it and several other new is

It got 56 in the UK, number nine on US R&B chart, number seven US disco.

These were South African Man, Disco Stomp and Foot Stomping Music.

Foot Stompin' Music would scrape into the US R&B top 40 after Disco Stomp had become a US dance hit, reaching number 11.

Foot Stompin' Music was one of its first four top 10 US dance hits, along with Bohannon's Beat, Let's Start the Dance, and The Derivative, which was 1981's Let's Start To Dance Again, which featured Philadelphia radio DJ Dr. Perry Johnson on rap duties.