The Best of the Chicago Party

The Best of the Chicago Party

2015
1h 40m
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"For fans of electronic soul with a public access aesthetic."

Overview

For 23 straight Saturday nights of 1982, The Chicago Party dance show assaulted Chicagoland UHF eyeballs with Spandex, Southside fly guys, tender tenderonies, magicians, contortionists, prismatic video gimmickry, and lip-synched singles by a rising regime of local post-disco casualties. Unfettered nightlife and outlandish humor poured out of oddball outpost The CopHerBox II and onto TV screens. Pooling business acumen with music scene prominence, James Christopher and Willie Woods opened the CopHerBox II in 1979 at 117th and Halsted on Chicago’s Southside. To promote their venture, they purchased airtime on Chicago’s WCIU-TV Channel 26 for weekly installments of The Chicago Party. Each Saturday, the club’s adult clientele filled the illuminated dance floor, providing vibrant B-roll between tapings of breakdancing magicians and Jheri curled ventriloquists, giving an audience to a rising regime of Chicago Soul heavyweights.

Status: Released

Language: EN

Production Information

Production Companies
The Numero Group

Quick Facts

Release Date February 7, 2015
Status Released
Language EN
Website Visit Site

Cast

Willie Woods
Willie Woods

Himself

James Christopher
James Christopher

Himself

Key Crew

James Christopher
Director
Willie Woods
Director
Jon Kirby
Director
Ken Shipley
Director