it went to #1 on the dance chart.ĭonna Summer - "I Feel Love". pop singles chart becoming the best selling song of the year there. The Communards recorded a cover version of "Don't Leave Me This Way" in 1986. The song became a significant anthem for the gay community in its battles against the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s. It earned Thelma Houston a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal. Her elegant performance entranced club audiences, and soon it was a #1 disco smash and also topped the pop chart. "Don't Leave Me This Way" was originally assigned to Diana Ross as a follow-up to her disco hit "Love Hangover." However, that recording never came to fruition and instead Thelma Houston, newly signed to Motown, was offered the song. Never released as an official single in the US, it reached #3 on the US disco chart after Thelma Houston's cover version of the song became a legendary smash. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes first recorded "Don't Leave Me This Way." Legendary Philadelphia soul team Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff co-wrote the song, and it appeared on the 1975 Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes album Wake Up Everybody. Thelma Houston - "Don't Leave Me This Way". She crossed radio formats as well hitting #4 on the adult contemporary chart and #13 on the pop chart. Gloria Estefan returned the song to #1 on the dance chart in 1994 with her cover version. Vicki Sue Robinson recorded her lead vocal in a single take on September 26, 1975. The orchestral arrangement with a dense percussion breakdown is emblematic of many early disco hits. It went all the way to #1 on the disco chart for a month and broke into the pop top 10. The heavily percussive "Turn the Beat Around" quickly became a disco smash. They connected with the vocalist via engineer Al Garrison, Vicki Sue Robinson's boyfriend. One of the first songs she recorded was "Turn the Beat Around," written by the brothers Gerald and Peter Jackson. She first appeared on a pop record as a backup vocalist for Todd Rundgren's 1972 hit album Something / Anything? RCA producer Warren Schatz was impressed enough with Vicki Sue Robinson's voice that he thought she could be a disco star. Vicki Sue Robinson's early performing career consisted of being mostly a bit player in Broadway shows and films. Vicki Sue Robinson - "Turn the Beat Around". In an unusual achievement for a group of White musicians, "You Should Be Dancing" hit #4 on the R&B singles chart. "You Should Be Dancing" is the first #1 pop hit by the Bee Gees which features Barry Gibb's trademark falsetto vocals. He was in the same studio as the Bee Gees recording the Stills-Young Band album Long May You Run. Among the studio musicians appearing on the record are Stephen Stills on the drums. It also spent a week at the top of the pop chart.
"You Should Be Dancing" remains the only Bee Gees record to hit #1 on the disco chart where it stayed for seven weeks. It was incorporated into the Saturday Night Fever film soundtrack for crucial dance scenes.
However, the trio's best and most complete disco record "You Should Be Dancing" hit the charts a year earlier. "Staying Alive," "Night Fever," and "How Deep Is Your Love" are legendary pop hits of the era. The three #1 pop hit songs that the Bee Gees wrote and recorded specifically for the soundtrack for the hit film Saturday Night Fever helped bring disco squarely into the pop mainstream. dance chart.īee Gees - "You Should Be Dancing". Their cover went all the way to #2 on the U.S. The British group, the Communards, released a version of "Never Can Say Goodbye" in 1987. Gloria Gaynor returned in 1978 with another career-defining disco hit "I Will Survive" which became a #1 pop smash. It is a landmark that paved the way for the disco revolution. "Never Can Say Goodbye" hit the top 10 on the US pop chart and soared all the way to #1 on the fledgling disco chart. It was a groundbreaking extended mix that would lay the groundwork for later 12-inch single remixes used in dance clubs. Among the producers was Meco Monardo who later hit #1 on the pop singles chart with a disco version of the "Star Wars Theme." Gloria Gaynor's recording of "Never Can Say Goodbye" is part of a 19-minute-long disco suite on the first side of the album of the same name. In 1974, producers reworked the song as a disco record for rising R&B vocalist Gloria Gaynor. They took the song all the way to #2 on the US pop chart. Courtesy MGMĬlifton Davis, part of Motown's team of songwriters, wrote "Never Can Say Goodbye," and it was first recorded by the Jackson 5 in 1970.
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