James Michael Burgess (July 21, 1953 – January 18, 1993) was a disco record producer and New York DJ of the 1970s.[1] He was openly gay.[2]
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He remixed and produced numerous disco versions of popular songs, with a number of them being million sellers. His most successful and best known production was Alicia Bridges' I Love the Nightlife, which has become a "Disco standard". First released in 1978, it went to number five on the Billboard charts, and was given a new lease of life with its use in the 1994 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Other successful productions included:
- Rod Stewart's Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
- The Doobie Brothers' What a Fool Believes (12" disco remix version) and
- Madleen Kane's Fire In My Heart and Secret Love Affair
He was also a popular DJ at several New York clubs (including The Saint) and was "one of the most influential remixers for the disco era".[3]
- ^ Jim Burgess Bio, www.disco-disco.com, accessed 2008-07-20.
- ^ Death notice, NYTIMES, 25 January 1993, accessed 2008-07-20.
- ^ "Moulton, Gibbons and their contemporaries (Jim Burgess, Tee Scott, and later Larry Levan and Shep Pettibone) at Salsoul Records proved to be the most influential group of remixers for the disco era. The Salsoul catalog is seen (especially in Great Britain and Europe) as being the "canon" for the disco mixer's art form." For more information see Remix#Roots of the remixing of sounds and Disco#Production.