Bad ideas really don’t come much worse than this, now do they? In 1979 — the very tail-end of the disco era, if not the beginning of the post-disco era — A&M thought it wise to make “The Ethel Merman ...

One-time Denverite Ethel Merman released a disco album in 1979 on A&M Records. The Ethel Merman Disco Album came out in 1979. The genre was declared dead a year later. We can't say if that's Ethel's ...

Disco! The very word hustles you back to the 1970s, the decade in which it was gloriously born in the loft parties and basement clubs of New York, where it blossomed into a national obsession and ...