Song #370: "Got To Be Real"--Cheryl Lynn (1978)

Back in the late 1970's, many people set up in either one of two camps, "Disco Fans", or "Death To Disco". Though I thought the latter category was cool, there was no doubt that I was jamming, to lots of disco tunes.

Cheryl Lynn was part of a group of several artists who were able to have hits thanks to the huge disco wave. I mean, you couldn't get ready for school without having disco dance lessons thrown at you on television. Remember the "Disco Break"??

I think of Lynn, Alicia Bridges, Anita Ward, GQ, Heatwave, and others in this category. Nothing wrong with riding the wave, no pun intended, just as many artists would be doing in the early 1980's when New Wave took over for a time.

The radio version of this song was good, but the extended version is the preferred mix, and thus, what is presented below. Now, where's that old disco ball?