Disco Fever was a New York City dance club located in the South Bronx that operated from 1976 to 1986. After initially failing to draw very many customers, Sal Abbatiello convinced his father, the owner, to hand over the reins. Abbatiello quickly began featuring hip hop artists including a young Grandmaster Flash, and the club greatly increased in popularity and fame. Hip hop group Run-D.M.C. performed their first show at the club.
The Dance Fever served as the filming location of the hip hop movie Krush Groove (1985), then closed shortly after because it operated without the proper license.
The club started out as a neighborhood bar. Albert "Allie" Abbatiello, an Italian American, already operated two nightclubs in the Bronx serving primarily African Americans: the Golden Hour and Pepper-n-Salt. He reworked the old bar to be his third nightclub, aimed initially at an older crowd. According to his son Sal, "We had been lookin' for a name for about three months, and we were sitting down watchin' tv and my mom saw an advertisement for Saturday Night Disco Fever [sic]; and she says why don't you name it Disco Fever – we said, 'nah, get outta here.' The next day we got up sayin' Disco Fever sounds pretty hot. So we got it from my mom, she named it."
Disco Fever, also known as Jukebox, is a 1978 American film about a nightclub owner who plans the comeback of an ex-teen idol.
A singer attempts a comeback at a disco, but won't sleep with the ruthless manager of the disco.
One critic said "Fabian is totally unconvincing... obviously the money men couldn't afford good script writers, a variety of sets or even good, reliable actors."
Disco Fever is a pinball machine produced by Williams. It is notable for being one of two pinball machines (Williams' 1979 Time Warp being the other) to use "banana flippers."
Private eyes, and investigators
Blind-sided, by all the haters
It´s all a blur but it´s really quite clear
I´ve gotta get the hell outta here
See ya, I see ya later
I can see right, right through you
Here´s no doubt, and no discrepancy
It doesn´t take, mental telepathy
Like thieves in the night,
Through infrared beams
To understand you´ve gotta look carefully
See ya, I see ya later
I can see right, right through you
I see right through it all, oh so easily
Don´t gotta cross the desert to find the prophecy
See ya, I see ya later