Average White Band - 'Pick Up the Pieces' (1974), 'Cut the Cake' (1975) (ibid).Eumir Deodato - 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' (1973).Incredible Bongo Band - 'Bongo Rock' (1973) (ibid).Diana Ross - ' Ain't No Mountain High Enough' (1970).Stevie Wonder - 'Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday' (1969), 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours' (1970), 'Superstition' (1972), 'Higher Ground' (1973) (ibid).Jackson 5 - ' I Want You Back', ' ABC', ' The Love You Save', ' Mama's Pearl' (1969-71).Friends of Distinction - 'Grazing in the Grass' (1968).Sly and the Family Stone - ' Dance to the Music' (1968), ' Everyday People' (1968) (Jones and Kantonen, 1999), 'Family Affair' (1971).The Supremes - ' You Keep Me Hangin' On' (1966), 'Reflections' (1967).Soul and funk records that influenced disco include: Social trends that contributed to disco music include the surpassing of white people by racial and ethnic minorities, black and Hispanic people in the purchasing of records and sound equipment, the increased independence of women in finance and leisure, gay liberation, and the sexual revolution. Musical influences include funk, soul music, and salsa and the Latin or Hispanic musics which influenced salsa. Initially, most disco songs catered to a nightclub/ dancing audience only, rather than general audiences such as radio listeners, but there are many aspects proving opposite tendencies as well popular radio-hits were being played in discothèques, as long as they had an easy to follow rhythmic base-pattern close to 120 BPM (beats per minute). In general it can be said that first true disco songs were released in 1973, however, many consider Manu Dibango's 1972 Soul Makossa the first disco record (Jones and Kantonen, 1999). As with all such musical genres, defining a single point of disco's development is difficult, as many elements of disco music appear on earlier records (such as the 1971 theme from the film Shaft by Isaac Hayes) (Jones and Kantonen, 1999).

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