I'm noticing a trend in disco songs trashing the comic superhero, Superman, just like the earlier post on the Kink's disco hit '(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman' and also in the Sugarhill Gang's seminal Rapper's Delight, where Big Bank Hank calls him 'a sucker in a blue and red suit' over a Chic sample.
Anyhow this interesting gem from promising Funk band, The Commodores, features a young Lionel Ritchie singin from the perspective of Kal El. It's a novelty disco song mixing harsh sound effects such as horse whips, along with soaring saxes, throbbing clavinets and Milan Williams' aggressive synth licks in a bizarre song from the band's and Ritchie's discography.
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