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a long career as some Afro

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A great neighborhood bar serves the neighborhood's residents well. Tapper's is a perfect example of how well that works when the bar is in as diverse a neighborhood as this St. Paul pocket. In "I Wanna Dance Wit Choo (Doo Dat Dance)" by Disco Tex the Sex O Lettes, Tex yells out "Ol." The only remarkable thing about this is that in its context it s utterly unremarkable. I m the first person to remark on it, I bet. Monti Rock III) is Puerto Rican, though he could just as easily be Italian, and his on record patter (platter patter) has the verve of used car commercials (which is a lot of verve) and the excitement of the guy who s always wanted to play Las Vegas and here he is getting his first chance ever doing the performer intros and it s a gas! "It s disco time, baby! The disco kid is back!" And now that he s labeled the thing as disco (which in 1975 is all you have to do to make it disco), the Sex O Lettes launch into the second hoariest vaudevill