![]() In 1979, Greenberg had written a disco song called “ Rock It,” and he called Johnson cold, recruiting her to sing it after some friends recommended her. Johnson had experience she’d sung lead and played saxophone for the local Minneapolis funk band Flyte Tyme. Then it was just Greenberg and Cynthia Johnson, a former beauty queen from Saint Paul who was working as a secretary for the police department. ![]() (The name, I somehow only just learned, is a pun.) Early on, the project was just Greenberg. eventually became a full-on multiracial seven-piece band. He figured he could write his own disco song, and the song he wrote was one of the simplest, catchiest earworms ever to hit #1. Greenberg, the son of a storage mogul, was a part-time record producer and a party and wedding DJ.
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