<P> Notable disco songs based on film and television themes included a medley from Star Wars, "Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band" (1977) by Meco, and "Twilight Zone / Twilight Tone" (1979) by the Manhattan Transfer . Even the I Love Lucy theme was not spared from being disco - ized . Many original television theme songs of the era also showed a strong disco influence, such as "Keep Your Eye On the Sparrow" (theme from Baretta, performed by Sammy Davis, Jr. and later a successful single for Rhythm Heritage), "Theme from S.W.A.T." (from S.W.A.T, original and single versions by Rhythm Heritage), and Mike Post's "Theme from Magnum, P.I.". </P> <P> Several parodies of the disco style were created . Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded "Disco Duck" (1976) and "Dis - Gorilla" (1977); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in "Disco Boy" on his 1976 Zoot Allures album, and in "Dancin' Fool" on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album; "Weird Al" Yankovic's eponymous 1983 debut album includes a disco song called "Gotta Boogie", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco move to the American slang word "booger". Comedian Bill Cosby devoted his entire 1977 album Disco Bill to disco parodies . </P> <P> By the mid-1970s, the United States was dealing with the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal . Also by this time the economic prosperity of the previous decade had declined, and unemployment, inflation and crime rates had soared . Disco music and disco dancing provided an escape from these negative economic issues . As well, in the 1970s, the key counterculture of the 1960s, the hippie movement, was fading away . The disco movement was far more than just music . It was also a subculture based around nightclubs, dance clubs, and DJs . In Beautiful Things in Popular Culture, Simon Frith highlights the sociability of disco and its roots in 1960s counterculture . "The driving force of the New York underground dance scene in which disco was forged was not simply that city's complex ethnic and sexual culture but also a 1960s notion of community, pleasure and generosity that can only be described as hippie," he says . "The best disco music contained within it a remarkably powerful sense of collective euphoria ." </P> <P> Film critic Roger Ebert called the popular embrace of disco's exuberant dance moves an escape from "the general depression and drabness of the political and musical atmosphere of the late seventies ." Pauline Kael, writing about the disco - themed film Saturday Night Fever, said the film and disco itself touched on "something deeply romantic, the need to move, to dance, and the need to be who you'd like to be . Nirvana is the dance; when the music stops, you return to being ordinary ." </P>

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