"Dance (Disco Heat)" is a song by American singer Sylvester. The song appears on his 1978 album Step II and features backing vocals by Two Tons O' Fun.
| "Dance (Disco Heat)" | ||||
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| Single by Sylvester | ||||
| from the album Step II | ||||
| B-side | "Was It Something That I Said" | |||
| Released | August 1978 | |||
| Recorded | March 1978 | |||
| Genre | Disco, hi-NRG | |||
| Length | 5:46 | |||
| Label | Fantasy | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Eric Robinson[1]
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Chart performance edit
The song was Sylvester's first Top 40 hit in the United States, where it peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the fall of 1978,[2] it also reached #29 on the UK Singles Chart.[3] A 12" single was released in 1978, with "Dance (Disco Heat)" as the A-side and "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" as the B-side, and these two extended dance mixes proved to be very popular in the dance clubs at the time. The two songs held down the top spot on the Billboard Dance/Disco chart for six weeks in August and September of that year [4] and helped to establish Sylvester's career as a noted disco and dance music performer, both in the U.S. and abroad.
References edit
- ^ Gamson, Joshua (2005). The Fabulous Sylvester. Picador, Henry Holt and Company, New York. p. 144.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 619.
- ^ Official Charts Company info OfficialCharts.com. Retrieved 16 July 2009.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, (Record Research Inc.), page 252.