Joy Retro Disco presents What a Wonderful World by Axwell & Bob Sinclair feat. Ron Carroll

Joy Retro Disco presents
Uplifting Tunes for your Weekend

I must have first heard this tune when I was having a really bad day, as I recall my initial thoughts of it being “bloody useless hippy crap”. 
However, my bad day passed and after hearing this 2008 dance anthem a few more times, I really really warmed to [...]

Joy Retro Disco presents I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash

Uplifting tunes for your weekend.
 
 
Oh, it was tough to decide which version of this uplifting tune to go with this week, but I had to go with the original by the dude who actually wrote and performed the original hit, Johnny Nash. Nash had a number one hit with I Can See Clearly Now in [...]

Joy Retro Disco presents Shackles (Praise You) by Mary Mary

Uplifting tunes for your weekend

Take those shackles off my feet so I can dance.
Okay, I may not be about to praise “him” because I’m, like, an atheist, and as a feminist, I would have difficulty believing in a patriarchal all-loving, all-condemning god. But. 
I love this song because it taps into a joyful hope that is [...]

Joy Retro Disco presents H.A.P.P.Y. Radio by Edwin Starr

Uplifting tunes for your weekend!

Soul singer Edwin Starr might be more well-known for his 1970 classic, War (What is it good for), but it’s this little 1979 stomper that I love.
I’m not sure what it is about this tune but it has been well and truly stuck in my head all week. It’s infectious and [...]

4 My People by Missy Elliott

Joy Retro Disco presents
Uplifting Tunes for your weekend!

Oh, I had a dilemma this week folks. Choose a tune with god- or drug-references?
Drug won. But only because I was trying to redress a very bad I did in my Top Tunes for a Women’s Dance list last weekend. I didn’t put any Missy Elliott in. So [...]

Ten top tunes for a Women’s Dance 2009-style

Happy International Women’s Day! Woooo!
Wave your handbags in the air! Shake your chardies like you just don’t care!
International Women’s Day is usually a time when we stop and take stock of where our society’s at on the gender agenda. We acknowledge and celebrate those who have come before us, who lobbied, yelled, insisted, or politely [...]

Can’t Stop Moving by Sonny J

Joy Retro Disco presents:
Uplifting tunes for your weekend!
 

I thought I’d get a little bit modern with this weekend’s tune and play something new(ish).
This little sampled leg-shaker from Sonny J is one of the most infectious pop-dance tracks I’ve heard in recent years. I’m not sure if it’s because it samples one of my favourite musical [...]

Valentine tune: You + Me = Love by Undisputed Truth

Joy Retro Disco presents:
Uplifting tunes for your weekend!

Twas the night before Valentines and all through the house, not a creature was sleeping, not even a mouse. 
Oh, it’s been a frantic V Eve here at Club C’ran. With the day of the valentine tomorrow, we’ve been a-looking for a festive tune to bring in the new [...]

Proud by Heather Small

Joy Retro Disco presents:
Uplifting tunes for your weekend

“What have you done today to make you feel proud?” asks Ms Small, in this anthem to self-belief and the power of positive change.
I thought this was a fitting tune for this weekend as the show that made it a mainstream earworm, The Biggest Loser, is back on [...]

The first disco record? Soul Makossa by Manu Dibango

Joy Retro Disco presents:
Uplifting tunes for your weekend

Could there be a better way to start off the weekend than with the tune that is often credited with being the first disco record in town?? I’d never heard of the 1972 hit, Soul Makossa by Cameroon sax player, Manu Dibango, but it only takes one listen [...]