The hottest disco song of the eighties was "River Babylon".
The song, "River Babylon", was a masterpiece of the Boney M singing group from the former West Germany in the 70s and 80s. The song was a huge hit in the late 1970s, when the youth, as soon as they heard the song, would have the desire to dance, the song made them know the term disco for the first time, and it was at this time that the urban youth began to wear bell-bottoms and toadstools and dance to the dynamic music.
The song is a symbol of that era, in which a disco whirlwind was blown, and from then on opened the development of China's ballroom dancing, so it can be said that the song is is the originator of the domestic disco dance music.
Introduction of disco dance music
Disco, from the French discothèque, meaning those who play recorded dance music ballroom, disco is the short form of discotheque, the original meaning of the record ball, initially refers to black people in the nightclub according to the recording of the music of the dance, the 70s It actually became a catch-all term for any current dance music. In contrast to rock, it is characterized by a powerful, undistinguished, metronome-like 4/4 beat and simple lyrics and tunes.
Emerging in the 1960s and 1970s, disco music began to be popular in black neighborhoods in the United States and among the lower classes in Latin America, and soon became popular around the world. Disco music with exaggerated strength and weakness of alternating repeatedly induced the internal rhythmic impulses, the dance steps are more free, according to the personality to play. When men and women dance together, there is very little physical contact, and the movements are not exactly the same.