Talk about seamless transition! Warren really was a master, and the nicest person. Such a loss. "Can we try again?"

Just lovely! I adore Warren - clearly a master technician with a tremendous feel for music. A classically trained singer, too. Gods below, we are so lucky the greats recorded, and that digital tech brings it back so alive! 🎼🎶💕

Big ups to Mr. Fonk for this restoration and upload - it’s just beautiful 👍 Thenk you! Warren was a protege of the immortal Roy Thode. See also Marsha Stern’s Heartbet of the Dance Floor episode on Roy.

Whoops! “Thank you” and “Heartbeat” were meant.

Of all the master tapes from Roy Thode that I inherited most of the boxes and some of the reels have labels identifying the venue and date recorded.  A few of them however also have names. They are a handful of very special nights that Roy chose to give an extra designation to by naming them.  This is one of those meaningful nights, presented here in two parts, Roy Thode's debut performance at The Saint, NYC on October 25, 1980, simply titled: “First” 
(poster/cover art credit: Michael Vernaglia)

"First" by Roy Thode  The Saint 10251980 Part 1of2 - SOUNDCLOUD

"First" by Roy Thode, The Saint Part 1 of 2

"First" by Roy Thode Part 1 of 2

"First" by Roy Thode  The Saint 10251980 Part 2of2 - SOUNDCLOUD

"First" by Roy Thode, The Saint Part 2 of 2

"First" by Roy Thode Part 2 of 2

“Homecoming” is another of the few nights that Roy named. Recorded on the 28th of July at the Ice Palace Disco in Cherry Grove, it commemorates Roy's return to his Fire Island DJ booth after an unfortunate accident landed Roy in the hospital the night before the iconic Beach '79 party in the Pines, which he was scheduled to share the DJing responsibilities for with Howard Merritt and Jim Burgess. I offer this musical journey as a companion to Episode 10 of my The Heartbeat Of The Dance Floor podcast as we delve into this story and many others with a very special panel assembled to Remember Roy Thode on the 40th anniversary of his passing, May 21st 1982.

Roy Thode "Homecoming" Ice Palace Fire Island, Cherry Grove NY July 28, 1979; companion to HBOTDF episode # 10

Roy Thode "Homecoming" Ice Palace Fire Island, Cherry Grove NY July 28, 1979

DJ Mix for @danceoftheclones - a great project celebrating gay clubbing in the late 70s and early 80s when "The Clones" took over: Moustache men with perfect bodies in denim, plaid shirts, bomber jackets, and t-shirts, dancing their asses off to up-tempo Disco & HiNRG, at clubs like 12 West, Flamingo, The Saint, etc.

This mix contains tunes from 1979...1985. Feel free to ask for an ID!

Mr. Fonk - Dance Of The Clones Mixtape #10 // May 2023

+++ posted with kind permission of Marsha Stern (copyright holder) +++
...an epic 6.5 hour DJ set by legendary DJ Roy Thode at the even more legendary night club "The Saint" where dance music history was written. This is a special, so-called "morning music" set.

Quote from Tim Lawrence about this:
Robbie Leslie: "At around 6:00 AM, in a ritual that was not replicated in other venues, the DJ would let the final record of the peak set fade, accept applause from the crowd and acknowledge the work of the lighting person and the generosity of the crowd (if indeed the applause was enthusiastic, which wasn’t always the case). After that, the DJ would take the tempo right down and play a set that was commonly referred to as “sleaze” or “morning music”."
[taken from "The Forging of a White Gay Aesthetic at the Saint, 1980-84"]
http://www.timlawrence.info/articles2/2013/7/2/the-forging-of-a-white-gay-aesthetic-at-the-saint-1980-84-dancecult

...and Barry Walters on RBMA:
"As the night progressed, the tempo and intensity increased by tiny, nearly imperceptible increments until climaxing around 6 AM, when the DJ would stop the music and the still-sizeable crowd would applaud as if giving a Broadway cast their standing ovation.

Then the DJ would resume, but at a somewhat slower tempo, and in a more lyrical and romantic style known as “morning music.” In a morning music set, the tempo of the tracks might build again, but typically not their intensity. Instead, DJs programed morning sets to ease dancers off stimulants and take them down an ethereal, more relaxing and soulful path for several more hours. Then the jock would usually take another encore, henceforth playing what many call “sleaze.” Sleaze might be overtly sexual, like Skatt Bros.’ “Walk the Night,” but usually not; its foundation was openhearted R&B; songs of longing, or regret, or sorrow or unmitigated joy.

This misnomer – Leslie emphatically objects to it – was especially deceptive because quintessential “sleaze” selections like Sharon Ridley’s “Changin’” or Viola Wills’ “Somebody’s Eyes” ranked among the evening’s most sensitively arranged tracks. Even when club music lost much of its compositional sophistication as the decade progressed, a “sleaze” set always radiated class. "
[taken from: "Nightclubbing: New York City’s The Saint"]
http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/07/nightclubbing-the-saint

Roy Thode - Morning Music at The Saint (6.5 hours!) NYE 1981/82

GayMarvineDiscoSet

DJ Warren Gluck - 'The Saint' Closing Party 1988

Track listing
1 Intro from the film Dune
2 Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
3 Peter Brown - They Only Come Out at Night
4 Patrick Cowley - Lift Off 
5 Ken Laszlo - Tonight
6 Sparks - Beat the Clock 
7 Sylvester - Stars
8 Stefano Pulga - Love Taker
9 Julius Brown - Party 
10 Kat Mandu - The Break 
11 Tantra - Wishbone
12 Sylvia Robinson - Extra-Terrestrial Lover 
13 Venus Dodson - Night Rider 
14 Kumano - I’ll Cry for You 
15 Lime - Your Love
16 Suzy Q - Computer Music 
17 Lime - Wake Dream
18 Easy Going - Fear 
19 ABBA - Lay All Your Love on Me
20 Sylvester - Take Me to Heaven
21 Azul y Negro - The Night
22 Technique - Can We Try Again 
23 Debbie Jacobs - Maybe This Time 
24 Technique -  Heaven to Me 
25 Dorothy Moore - Just Another Broken Heart
26 Bear Essence - The Big Hurt
27 Amanda Lear - No Regrets
28 Beautiful Bend - Make That Feeling Come Again 
29 Voyage - Souvenirs
30 Quartlock - No Regrets
31 George Monroe - I’m Not in Love 
32 Baiser [80s] - Darling Forever 
33 Duncan Sisters - Sadness in My Eyes 
34 Space - Save Your Love for Me
35 Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams 
36 Barry White - You’re My First, My Last, My Everything 
37 Mystery - Hold on to This Moment 
38 Stereo Fun Inc. - Got’cha Where I Want You Babe 
39 Irene Cara - Hot Lunch Jam
40 Peter Allen - Once More Before I Go
41 Thelma Houston - Live Performance

DJ Warren Gluck - 'The Saint' Closing Party 1988

Two mixes, must be early 80s... If anyone knows the real date, please let me know!

Warren passed away very recently. I am devastated the Dance Music scene has lost such a big icon, so early. His legacy remains, his perfect transitions, his monolithic taste and seamless storytelling in his mixes - just perfect. Disco music and DJ culture lose one of their greatest, yet most humble figureheads.

Discomix - Warren Gluck - Fire Island's Monster Tape 1

Discomix - Warren Gluck - Fire Island's Monster Tape 2

DJ Roy Thode October 24, 1978 (Jim Hopkins Remaster)

A segment of DJ Jim Burgess's set at THE SAINT's legendary The Last Party (April 30 - May 2, 1988)

The Last Party - DJ Jim Burgess

++ booking/contact: david@smileforawhile.de  ++ I am running the Labels "smile for a while", "All that jelly" and "Edits for the common man." I'm also doing some stuff under the "Cracked Actor" Moniker. 

I've been listening to electronic music since 1991, DJing for 22 years now...

Some clubs I played at:
- U60311 / Frankfurt
- KitKat / Berlin 
- Das Werk / Wien
- MTW / Offenbach
- ARM / Kassel
- Galerie Kurzweil / Darmstadt
- LIDO / Frankfurt
- Distillery / Leipzig
- Metropol / Berlin
- Golden Pudel Club / Hamburg
- Hirsch / Nürnberg

Discomix - Warren Gluck - Fire Island's Monster Tape 1

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