OED Appeal: disco

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here is a match in Google Books with an ambiguous date. The GB date is
1964, but it contains a January 1965 issue. It is probably too late.

Omnibus and Chicago FM guide - Volume 2 - Page 26
1964 - Snippet view - More editions

http://books.google.com/books?id=EgofAQAAMAAJ&q=disco#search_anchor

[Begin excerpt]
"You wear them for disco (discotheque) dancing, or for a formal party
at someone's home," explained the famous designer. "You wear them for
an entrance," Cyd Charisse said when she came for her fitting of the
flirtatious dance pants.
[End excerpt]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:49 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Here is an example of "disco" in March of 1964. The text does say
> "disco jockeys" and not "disc jockeys". The women are dancing and
> spinning records.
>
> Cite: 1964 March 10, Marietta Journal, Hollywood Reporter by Mike
> Connolly, Page 6, Column 3, Marietta, Georgia. (GenealogyBank)
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> CIRO'S, once the swingin'est spot In Smogville-on-the-
> Pacific, reopens this spring with a new gimmick. It will have
> glass booths suspended from the ceiling with a staff of skimp-
> ily-clad starlet-type disco jockeys dancing the Watusi inside
> while they spin those records.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson
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