The Best of the Chicago Party
The Best of the Chicago Party
2015, English. Directed by Ken Shipley & Willie Woods & James Christopher & Jon Kirby.
For fans of electronic soul with a public access aesthetic.
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.
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If you liked The Best of the Chicago Party, try The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, South Park: The 25th Anniversary Concert.
Who directed The Best of the Chicago Party?
The Best of the Chicago Party (2015) was directed by Ken Shipley and Willie Woods and James Christopher and Jon Kirby and stars Willie Woods, James Christopher.