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All the dance hits and club anthems you love from the mid-‘70s and early '80s, with no need to stay up or dress up. Put on the party mood any time with tracks by Donna Summer, the Bee Gees, Gloria Gaynor, the Village People and KC & the Sunshine Ban
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ABBA
ABBA was a pop music group formed in Sweden in November 1970. The band consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida), Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson (the "B-boys") and Agnetha Fältskog (Anna). Anni-Frid and Benny were a married couple, as were Bjorn and...
Boney M.
Boney M. is a pop and disco group created by record producer Frank Farian. Originally based in West Germany, the four original members of the group's official lineup were Jamaicans Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett, Montserratian Maizie Williams, and...
Commodores
The Commodores are a Grammy Award winning American funk/soul band, most popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The group is best known for their ballads, such as "Easy" and "Three Times a Lady", but, for the most part, the group mainly recorded funky,...
Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music.
In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she...
Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor (born Gloria Fowles on September 7, 1949 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American singer, best-known for the disco era hits; "I Will Survive" (Hot 100 #1, 1979), "Never Can Say Goodbye" (Hot 100 #4, 1974), "Let Me Know (I Have A Right)" ...
Olivia Newton-John
Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE (born 26 September 1948 in Cambridge, United Kingdom) is a British-born, Australian-raised singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100...
Barry White
Barry White (September 12, 1944(1944-09-12) – July 4, 2003) was an American record producer and singer-songwriter.
A five-time Grammy Award-winner known for his rich bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo...
CHIC
Chic (pronounced /ˈʃiːk/ "sheek", sometimes fully capitalized as CHIC) is an American disco and R&B; band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards. It is best-known for its commercially successful disco songs,...
Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English lineage.
With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart...
Funkadelic
Funkadelic was an African American music band most prominent during the 1970s. It and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, began the funk music culture of that decade.
The group that would become Funkadelic was originally formed by...
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, R&B; and Gospel...
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950; name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Blind from birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records at the...
Bee Gees
The Bee Gees were originally a singing trio of brothers — Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their forty years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a harmonic "soft rock"...
Donna Summer
Donna Summer (born LaDonna Adrian Gaines; December 31, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music, earning the title "The Queen of Disco".
Summer was trained as a gospel singer before her...
Labelle
Labelle is an American all female singing group who were a popular vocal group of the 1960s and 1970s. Originally forming as The Ordettes in 1960 by lead singer Patti LaBelle and childhood friend Sandra Tucker who was replaced by Cindy Birdsong in...
The Jackson 5
The Jackson 5 (also spelled The Jackson Five or The Jackson 5ive, and later known as The Jacksons) were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana. Founding group members Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael formed the group...
The Isley Brothers
The Isley Brothers (pronounced /ˈaɪzliː/) (IZE-lee) are an African-American R&B;, soul music and Funk group. They are one of the few groups to have long-running success on the Billboard charts placing a charted single in every decade since 1959 and...
Earth, Wind & Fire
Earth, Wind & Fire is an American R&B; band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 and led by founder Maurice White. Also known as EWF, the Elements or the Elements of the Universe, the band has won ten Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards....
Sister Sledge
Sister Sledge is an American musical group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in 1972 and consisting of four sisters: Kim Sledge (born 21 August 1958), Debbie Sledge (born 9 July 1954), Joni Sledge (born 13 September 1957), and Kathy Sledge ...
The Doobie Brothers
The Doobie Brothers are an American rock band. They have sold over 30 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present. The Doobie Brothers were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004.
Drummer John Hartman arrived in...
Blondie
Blondie is an American rock band founded by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American new wave and punk rock scenes of the mid-1970s. Their first two albums contained strong elements of these genres...
The O'Jays
The O'Jays are a Canton, Ohio-based soul/R&B; group, originally consisting of Walter Williams (b. August 25, 1942), Bill Isles, Bobby Massey, William Powell (January 20, 1942–May 26, 1977) and Eddie Levert (b. June 16, 1942). The O'Jays were...
The Average White Band
Average White Band (also AWB) is a Scottish funk and R&B; band who had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980. They continue to perform as of 2009.
AWB was formed in 1971 by Alan Gorrie and Malcolm "Molly" Duncan, with Onnie McIntyre,...
Bette Midler
Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress and comedienne, also known (by her informal stage name) as The Divine Miss M. During her more than forty year career, she has been nominated for two Academy Awards; and won four...
KC and the Sunshine Band
KC and the Sunshine Band is an American musical group. Founded in 1973 in Miami, Florida, their style has included funk, R&B;, and disco. Their most well known songs include the disco hits "That's the Way (I Like It)", "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake...
Irene Cara
Irene Cara (born March 18, 1959) is an American singer and actress. Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling". She is also known for her recording of the song "Fame", and...
Joe Tex
Joe Tex (born Joseph Arrington Jr. and later known as Yusuf Hazziez following religious conversion 8 August 1933 — 13 August 1982), was an American Southern soul singer-songwriter, most popular during the 1960s and 1970s. His style of speaking over...
Village People
Village People is a concept disco group formed in the late 1970s, well known for their on-stage costumes as well as their catchy tunes and suggestive lyrics. Original members were: Victor Willis (police officer), Felipe Rose (American Indian chief),...
Rick James
Rick James (February 1, 1948 – August 6, 2004) was an American Grammy Award winning musician. James was a popular R&B; and funk singer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four #1 hits on the U.S. R&B; charts. Among his best-known songs are ...
The Miracles
The Miracles (known from 1965 to 1972 as Smokey Robinson & the Miracles) is an American rhythm and blues group from Detroit, Michigan, notable as Motown royalty, the first successful group act for Berry Gordy's Motown Records. The Miracles went on...
Thelma Houston
Thelma Houston (née Jackson; born May 7, 1943, Leland, Mississippi) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She scored a number-one hit in 1977 with her cover version of the song "Don't Leave Me This Way", which won the 1978 Grammy Award for...
Jimmy Ruffin
Jimmy Ruffin (born May 7, 1939, Collinsville, Mississippi) is an American soul singer and elder brother of David Ruffin, one of the lead singers for The Temptations. Jimmy himself was offered a chance to sing with the Temptations, but he declined in...
The Pointer Sisters
The Pointer Sisters are an American pop/R&B; recording act from Oakland, California that achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s. Spanning over three decades, their repertoire has included such diverse genres as pop music, disco, jazz...
Lipps Inc
Lipps Inc. (pronounced like "lip sync") was a studio band that achieved one significant hit, "Funkytown" in 1979.
The group was formed in Minneapolis by Steven Greenberg, who wrote and produced all of the group's music, and who also played several...
Silver Convention
Silver Convention was a German disco recording act of the 1970s. The group was originally named Silver Bird Convention, or Silver Bird.
The group was initiated in Munich by producers and songwriters Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze. "Silver" was...
Nicolette Larson
Nicolette Larson (July 17, 1952 – December 16, 1997) was an American singer best known for her 1978 cover of Neil Young's "Lotta Love". This song, her debut single, was a Number One Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks hit and #8 pop hit that year. It was...
Shalamar
Shalamar, IPA: [ˈʃæləmɑːr], was an American music group of the 1970s and 1980s, that was originally a disco-driven vehicle created by Soul Train booking agent Dick Griffey. They went on to be an influential dance trio, masterminded by Soul Train...
Bobby Orlando
Robert "Bobby" Orlando, also known as Bobby O, is a dance and Hi-NRG artist and record producer from post-disco era who was most successful in the early-mid 1980s.
The son of a suburban New York schoolteacher, Bobby declined a classical music...
Eruption
Eruption was a popular disco / R&B; / Soul band in the 1970s and 1980s.
Silent Eruption was formed in 1974 in Britain. In 1975 they won the RCA Soul Search Contest, whilst their first single "Let Me Take You Back in Time" was released in 1976....
Hot Chocolate
Hot Chocolate was a British pop band of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s formed by Errol Brown. The band were chart regulars throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The act had at least one hit every year between 1970 and 1984 and "You Sexy Thing" made the Top...
Wild Cherry
Wild Cherry was a funk/rock band which had a great success during 1976 with the funk song "Play That Funky Music."
Rob Parissi (lead vocals & guitar) was raised in the steel mill town of Mingo Junction, Ohio . Parissi graduated from Mingo High...
Roberta Kelly
Roberta Kelly is an African American singer born in 1949 in Los Angeles who scored three hits on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1976-78. Her biggest hit, "Trouble-Maker", spent two weeks at #1 on that chart.
Prior to releases in the U.S....
Linda Clifford
Linda Clifford (born 14 June 1948, New York City, New York) is an American R&B;, Disco and House music singer and actress who scored hits in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s into the new millennium.
Clifford is also a former Miss New York State, and fronted...
Meco
Meco (real name Domenico Monardo, born 29 November 1939) is an American record producer and musician, as well as the name of a band or production team based around him. Meco is best known for his 1977 disco (Space Disco) version of the Star Wars...
Seals and Crofts
Seals and Crofts are Jim Seals (born James Seals, October 17, 1941, Sidney, Texas) and Dash Crofts (born Darrell Crofts, August 14, 1940, Cisco, Texas). The soft rock duo was one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. They are best-known...
Tavares
Tavares may refer to several things:
Tavares is a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil and other places – especially very common in the Cape Verde islands. It was originally a toponym. It is a name associated with...
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American musician, dancer, and entertainer. Referred to as the King of Pop, he is the most commercially successful and one of the most influential entertainers of all time. His unique...
Carl Carlton
Carl Carlton (born January 1, 1953, Detroit, Michigan) is an American R&B;, soul, and funk singer and songwriter best known for his hits "Everlasting Love" and "She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)".
Carlton first began recording in...
Wings
Wings (sometimes credited as Paul McCartney and Wings) was a rock group formed in 1971 by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Linda McCartney. The group was the only "permanent" group that any of the former members of The Beatles were ever...
Dan Hartman
Daniel Earl "Dan" Hartman (December 8, 1950—March 22, 1994) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer best known for the songs "I Can Dream About You" and "Instant Replay".
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Hartman joined his first band...
Heatwave
Heatwave was an international funk/disco musical band featuring Americans Johnnie Wilder, Jr. and Keith Wilder (vocals) of Dayton, Ohio, Englishman Rod Temperton (keyboards), Spaniard Mario Mantese (bass), Czechoslovakian Ernest "Bilbo" Berger ...
Johnnie Taylor
Johnnie Harrison Taylor (May 5, 1937 – May 31, 2000) was an American vocalist in a wide variety of genres, from Gospel, blues and soul to pop, doo-wop and disco.
Johnnie Taylor was born in Crawfordsville, Arkansas. As an adult, he had one release, ...
Patti Austin
Patti Austin (born August 10, 1950, in Harlem, New York) is an American Grammy-winning R&B; and jazz music singer.
She made her debut at the Apollo Theater at age four and had a contract with RCA Records when she was only five. Quincy Jones and...
Peaches & Herb
Peaches & Herb are a vocalist duo, once comprising Herb Fame, and Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker (April 28, 1947 - August 13, 2005). Herb has remained a constant in "Peaches & Herb" since its creation in 1966, while six different women have filled...
Leo Sayer
Leo Sayer (born Gerard Hugh Sayer, 21 May 1948, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex) is an English-born singer-songwriter and musician whose singing career has spanned four decades. A distinctive singer-songwriter, Sayer was a top singles and album act on both...
Odyssey
Odyssey was a New York based dance music band. It grew out of the talent of the Virgin Islands born Lopez sisters: Lillian Lopez (born 16 November 1945), Louise Lopez (born 22 February 1943), and Carmen Lopez who later dropped out of the group....
Hues Corporation
The Hues Corporation was a pop and soul trio formed at Santa Monica, California in 1969. They are best known for their 1974 hit, "Rock the Boat".
Before their success they were the opening act for some stars including Frank Sinatra, Milton Berle,...
Anita Ward
Anita Ward (born December 20, 1956, Memphis, Tennessee) is an African-American singer and musician. She is best known for her 1979 million selling chart-topper, "Ring My Bell".
Before signing a recording contract, Ward obtained a degree in...
Evelyn "Champagne" King
Evelyn "Champagne" King (born July 1, 1960) is an American R&B; and disco singer. Some of her best-known songs are "Shame", "Love Come Down", and "I'm in Love".
Born in The Bronx, New York, and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, King's uncle had...
