DATE: August 2, 2004
   
FOR RELEASE: Immediate
   
CONTACT: contact
   

Invitation to Media to Attend Taping of
Get Down Tonight – The Best of 70s Disco and Dance Music
At the Asbury Park Convention Hall
Tuesday, August 17 at 7 pm

WHAT - The media is invited to attend an evening television taping of the third program in the national PBS My Music series by NJN and TJ L Productions. My Music: Get Down Tonight – The Best of 70’s Disco and Dance Music will feature the greatest recording groups from the Disco era.

WHERE - The Asbury Park Convention Hall in historic Asbury Park , New Jersey .

WHEN - Tuesday, August 17 at 7 pm . Taping takes place from 7 pm until approximately 11 pm . Please contact Aimee Fisher, Public Relations Assistant at (609) 777-5058 or email afisher@njn.org to obtain media passes for the taping. RSVP by August 15.

WHO - Co-hosts Frankie Valli, Karen Lynn Gorney and Denny Terrio with live performances by Peaches and Herb, Wild Cherry, A Taste of Honey, Martha Wash of The Weather Girls and more. Groups listed are confirmed at this time but are subject to change. See list below for artists scheduled to appear.

BACKGROUND – The program is the creation of executive producer and New Jersey native TJ Lubinsky, who is partnering with NJN Public Television and Radio to produce this national television event. Lubinsky has brought together a group of some of Jersey ’s favorite 70s dance and disco hit-makers in a performance that preserves a segment of American music and offers viewers an opportunity to witness music history in the making.

Artists Scheduled to Appear
Co-host Frankie Valli
-Oh What A Night
-Swearin’ to God

A Taste of Honey
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Boogie Ooogie Oogie
-Sukiyaki

Peaches and Herb
-Shake Your Groove Thing
-Reunited

Norma Jean Wright
& Lucy Marti
-Le Freak
-Good Times

Wild Cherry
-Play That Funky Music

Martha Wash of The Weather Girls
-It’s Raining Men

Leo Sayer
-You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
-When I Need You

The Original Trammps
-Disco Inferno
-Hold Back the Night

 Anita Ward
-Ring My Bell

Irene Cara
-Flashdance
-What a Feeling
-Fame

Carol Douglas
-Doctors Orders

Bonnie Pointer
-Heaven Must Have Sent You

The Hues Corporation
-Rock the Boat

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