The following lists groups or individuals primarily associated with the disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 era of the 1970s and early 1980s and some of their most noteworthy disco hits. Numerous artists, not usually considered disco artists, implemented some of the styles and sounds of disco music, and are also included.

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• Faith, Hope & Charity
  • "To Each His Own" (1976), "Life Goes On" (1978), "I'm Ready for a New Love" (1978)
• Fantasia
  • Sweet, Sweet City Rhythm" (1979), "Fantasia" (1979)
• Fantastic Four
  • "I Got to Have Your Love" (1977)
• Fat Larry's Band
  Fat Larry's Band
  Fat Larry's Band was an American R&B/funk band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who enjoyed some commercial success in the early 1980s.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Center City" (1977), "Fascination" (1977), "Lookin' for Love" (1979), "Here Comes The Sun" (1979), "Last Chance to Dance" (1979)
• Fatback Band
  Fatback Band
  The Fatback Band is an American funk and disco band. Most popular in the 1970s and 1980s, The Fatback Band is most known for their Top Ten R&B hits, " Spanish Hustle", "I Like Girls", "Gotta Get My Hands on Some ", and "Backstrokin'"...
  
  
  • "Spanish Hustle" (1975), "Disco-Crazy" (1977), "NYCNYUSA" (1978), "Mile-High" (1978), "Do the Boogie Woogie" (1979), You're My Candy Sweet" (1979)
• Fay Hauser
  • "Reaching Out for Happiness" (1977)
• Fenati
  • "From the New World Symphony" (1977), "Moto Perpetuo" (1977)
• Ferrante & Teicher
  Ferrante & Teicher
  Ferrante & Teicher were a duo of American piano players, known for their light arrangements of familiar classical pieces, movie soundtracks, and show tunes.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Classical Disco" (1977)
• Fern Kinney
  Fern Kinney
  Fern Kinney is an American R&B and disco singer, who is best remembered for her releases, "Groove Me" and "Together We Are Beautiful".-Career:...
  
  
  • "Groove Me" (1979), "Pillow Talk" (1979), "Together We Are Beautiful" (1980)
• The Fiestas
  The Fiestas
  The Fiestas were an American Rhythm and Blues musical group from Newark, New Jersey.Organized in 1958, The Fiestas contracted with Old Town Records company in 1959 after the company's owner, Hy Weiss, overheard the group singing in a bathroom adjacent to his office in Harlem...
  
  
  • "Tina, the Disco Queen" (1977)
• Final Touch
  • "I'm Ready to Give up My Love" (1976)
• Finished Touch
  • "You Danced into My Life"
• Fire and Ice
  • "Devil Woman" (1979)
• First Choice
  • "Armed and Extremely Dangerous" (1973), "Smarty Pants" (1973), "Doctor Love" (1977), "Let No Man Put Asunder" (1977), "Hold Your Horses" (1979), "Let Me Down Easy" (1979), "Double Cross" (1979), "Love Thing" (1979)
• Floaters
  • "I Just Wanna Be with You" (1978)
• Flower
  • "Classical Love" (1979), "Midnight Dancing" (1979), "Our Never-Ending Love" (1979)
• Floyd Smith
  Floyd Smith
  Ronald Floyd Smith was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Buffalo Sabres and who coached for 4 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres...
  
  
  • "I Just Can't Give up on You" (1976)
• Four Below Zero
  • "My Baby's Got E.S.P." (1977)
• The Four Tops
  • "Catfish" (1976), "The Show Must Go On" (1977), "H.E.L.P." (1978), "When She Was My Girl" (1981)
• Four on the Floor
  • "Any Day Now" (1979)
• Foxy
  Foxy (band)
  Foxy is a Latin Dance/disco group formed in 1976 in Miami, Florida.The group consisted of vocalist-guitarist Ish "Angel" Ledesma , percussionist Richard "Richie" Puente, keyboardist Charlie Murciano, bass guitarist Arnold Paseiro and drummer Joe Galdo...
  
  
  • "The Way You Do the Things You Do" (1976), "People Fall in Love (While Dancing)" (1977), "Teena's Song" (1978), "Get Off" (1979), "Hot Number" (1979)
• France Joli
  France Joli
  France Joli is a Canadian singer, born 1963, who is best known for the disco classic "Come to Me."-Teen stardom:A native of Montreal, Quebec, Joli grew up in the Montreal suburb of Dorion...
  
  
  • "Come To Me" (1979), "Feel Like Dancing" (1979), "Let Go" (1979), "Playboy" (1979), ""The Heart to Break the Heart" (1980), "Gonna Get Over You" (1981), "Don't Let Go" (1981)
• Francine McGhee
  • "Delirium/Feelin' Good" (1978)
• Frank Hooker & Positive People
  • "Rock Me" (1979)
• Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
  
  
  • "Night and Day" (1977)
• Frankie Avalon
  Frankie Avalon
  Frankie Avalon is an American actor, singer, playwright, and former teen idol.-Career:By the time he was 12, Avalon was on U.S. television playing his trumpet. As a teenager he played with Bobby Rydell in Rocco and the Saints...
  
  
  • "Venus" (1976)
• Frankie Gee
  • "Mixed-up, Shook-up Boy" (1978)
• Frankie Valli
  Frankie Valli
  Frankie Valli is an American musician, most famous as frontman of The Four Seasons. He is well-known for his unusually powerful falsetto singing voice...
  
  
  • "Who Loves You" (1975), "Swearin' to God" (1975), "Our Day Will Come" (1975), "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)" (1976), "Grease" (1978), "Passion for Paris" (1979)
• Frantique
  Frantique
  Frantique was an American disco group signed to Philadelphia International Records. They released the albums titled Strut Your Funky Stuff in 1979. The title track from Strut Your Funky Stuff charted on the UK Singles Chart in 1979, peaking at #10 in August.Strut Your Funky Stuff was produced by...
  
  
  • "Strut Your Funky Stuff" (1979), "Heaven" (1979)
• Freda Payne
  Freda Payne
  Freda Charcilia Payne Some sources give a birth year of 1945, but this appears to be an error as all sources agree that she is older than her sister Scherrie, born 1944. is an American singer and actress best known for her million selling, 1970 hit single, "Band of Gold". She was also an actress in...
  
  
  • "Love Magnet" (1977), "Master of Love" (1977), "Happy Days Are Here Again/Happy Music" (1978), "Red Hot" (1979), I'll Do Anything for You" (1979)
• Freddie James
  Freddie James
  Freddie James is a renowned former American football coach. He played under Billy Nicks at Prairie View A&M in the late 1950s, before working in a steel plant for a couple of years, then as a physical therapist in Houston, Texas. His former coach Nicks later recommended him for high school football...
  
  
  • "Dance Little Boy Blue" (1979), "Get up and Boogie" (1979)
• Free Life
  Free Life
  Free Life is an album by Dan Wilson, the frontman of the rock band Semisonic. It was released on October 16, 2007.-Track listing:#"All Kinds" - #"Free Life" - #"Breathless" - #"Baby Doll" - #"Come Home Angel" -...
  
  
  • "Dance Fantasy" (1979)
• Freedom
  • "Set You Free" (1979), "Dance, Sing Along" (1979)
• French Champagne
  • "Christmas & New Year's Eve Super-Medley" (1979)
• Friday All-Star Orchestra
  • "Last Dance" (1979)
• Frisky
  • "You've Got Me Dancing in My Sleep" (1979)
• Front Page (featuring Sharon Redd
  Sharon Redd
  Sharon Redd was an American singer from New York. She was the half sister of R&B singer Pennye Ford.-Biography and career:...
  
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  • "Love Insurance" (1979)
• The Futures
  • "Party-Time Man" (1978)

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• GQ
  • "Disco Nights (Rock Freak)" (1979)
• Gail Eason
  • "Have a Good Day" (1979)
• Ganymed
  Ganymed (band)
  Ganymed was an Austrian/German space disco band founded in 1977.In 1978, they released their biggest hit, “It Takes Me Higher”, which hit #5 on the Austrian charts for four weeks and also hit #23 on the German charts...
  
  
  • "It Takes Me Higher" (1978), "Saturn" (1978), "Future World" (1979), "Dancing In A Disco" (1979)
• Gap Band
  Gap Band
  The Gap Band was an American funk band, who rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s. Comprising brothers Charlie, Ronnie and Robert Wilson, the band first formed as the Greenwood, Archer and Pine Street Band in 1967 in their hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The group shortened its name to The Gap Band...
  
  
  • "Baby Baba Boogie" (1977)
• Gap Mangione
  Gap Mangione
  Gaspare "Gap" Mangione is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader from Rochester, New York, United States.Born and raised in Rochester, Mangione's younger brother is Grammy-winning flugelhornist Chuck Mangione. Members of a music-loving family, both Gap and Chuck took up instruments...
  
  
  • "Dancin' Is Makin' Love" (1979), "You're the One" (1979)
• Garcia's Super Funk
  • "I Didn't Know That You Could Dance" (1978)
• Garnett Mimms
  • "What It Is" (1977)
• Gary Toms
  • "Party Hardy" (1976), "Love Me Right" (1977), "Turn It Out" (1978), "Welcome to Harlem" (1979)
• Gary's Gang
  Gary's Gang
  Gary's Gang was an American funk/soul/R&B/disco group who just missed having a U.S. Top 40 hit, when their lone Billboard Hot 100 entry, "Keep on Dancin'", reached #41 in 1978...
  
  
  • "Keep On Dancin'" (1978), "Let's Lovedance Tonight" (1979), "Knock Me Out" (1983)
• Gateway
  Gateway (band)
  Gateway was an American jazz trio formed in 1975. The members were John Abercrombie, guitar, Dave Holland, bass, and Jack DeJohnette, drums.-Discography:*1976: Gateway *1978: Gateway 2 *1995: Homecoming...
  
  
  • "Can't Accept the Fact" (1976)
• Gene Chandler
  Gene Chandler
  Gene Chandler also known as "The Duke of Earl" or simply "The Duke", is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, producer and record executive. He is one of the leading exponents of the 1960s Chicago soul scene...
  
  
  • "Get Down" (1978), "When You're #1" (1978), "That Funky Disco Rhythm" (1979), "Dance Fever" (1979)
• Gene Farrow
  • "Move Your Body" (1977)
• Gene Page
  Gene Page
  Eugene Edgar "Gene" Page, Jr. was an influential conductor, composer, arranger and record producer most active from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s....
  
  
  • "Wild Cherry" (1976), "Close Encounters" (1978)
• General Johnson
  • "Let's Fool Around" (1977), "Can't Nobody Love Me Like You Do" (1978)
• Genty
  • "You Don't Know Like I Know" (1979)
• George Benson
  George Benson
  George Benson is a ten Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist....
  
  
  • "Good King Bad" (1976), "On Broadway" (1977), "Love Ballad" (1979), "Give Me the Night" (1980), "Love X Love" (1980), "Turn Your Love Around" (1982)
• George Bussey
  George Bussey
  George Bussey is an American football offensive lineman who is currently a member of the Tampa Bay Storm. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the fifth round of the 2009 NFL Draft...
  
  
  • "Disco Extravaganza" (1979)
• George Deffet
  • "European Nights" (1978)
• George McCrae
  George McCrae
  George McCrae is an American soul and disco singer, most famous for his 1974 hit "Rock Your Baby".-Early life and career:...
  
  
  • "Rock Your Baby" (1974), Givin' Back the Feeling" (1977), "Love in Motion" (1977), "Let's Dance (People All Over the World)" (1978), "(You've Got) My Love, My Life, My Soul" (1978)
• Geraldine Hunt
  Geraldine Hunt
  Geraldine Hunt is an [United States|American]] R&B singer best known for the 1980 #1 Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit "Can't Fake the Feeling".-Life and career:...
  
  
  • "Hot-Blooded Woman" (1978), "Hang on to Love" (1978)
• Gerri Granger
  • "Can't Take My Eyes off You" (1976)
• Gibson Brothers
  Gibson Brothers
  The Gibson Brothers are a France based musical group, who had their greatest success during the disco boom of the late 1970s. Their best known hit singles included "Cuba" and "Que Sera Mi Vida"....
  
  
  • "Symphony" (1977), "Que Sera Mi Vida (If You Should Go)" (1978), "Jenny" (1978), "Ooh What a Night" (1979), "Cuba" (1979), "Mariana" (1980)
• Gino Soccio
  Gino Soccio
  Gino Soccio is a Canadian disco record producer. His heritage is Italian. His only US Billboard Hot 100 entry was the #48 hit single "Dancer" in 1979, but he did hit #1 on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart twice...
  
  
  • "Dance to Dance" (1979), "Dancer" (1979), "It's Alright" (1980), "Try It Out" (1981)
• Gladys Knight
  Gladys Knight
  Gladys Maria Knight , known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman, humanitarian, and author...
  
  
  • "Love Is Always On Your Mind" (1977), "It's a Better-Than-Good Time" (1978), "You Bring Out the Best in Me" (1979)
• The Glass Family
  • "Disco Concerto" (1979)
• Gloria Gaynor
  Gloria Gaynor
  Gloria Gaynor is an American singer, best known for the disco era hits; "I Will Survive" , "Never Can Say Goodbye" , "Let Me Know " and "I Am What I Am" .-Early career:Gaynor was a singer with the Soul...
  
  
  • "Honeybee" (1974), "Never Can Say Goodbye" (1974),"Reach Out I'll Be There" (1974), "Casanova Brown" (1975), "If You Want It (Do It Yourself)" (1975), "How High the Moon" (1975), "Walk On By" (1976), "Let's Make a Deal" (1976), "I've Got You Under My Skin" (1976), "Be Mine" (1977), "You're All I Need to Get By" (1978), "Anybody Wanna Party" (1978), "Substitute" (1978), "Goin' Out of My Head
    Goin' Out Of My Head
    "Goin' Out of My Head" is a song written by Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein, initially recorded by Little Anthony & the Imperials in 1964. Randazzo, a childhood friend of the group, wrote the song especially for them, having also supplied the group with their previous Top 20 Hit "I'm On The...
    
    " (1978), "I Will Survive" (1978), "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)" (1979), "Ain't No Bigger Fool" (1980), "Tonight" (1980), "Let's Mend What's Been Broken" (1981), "Tease Me" (1982), "Stop! In the Name of Love" (1982), "I Am What I Am" (1983),
• Gloria Jones
  Gloria Jones
  Gloria Richetta Jones is an American singer and songwriter from Los Angeles, California. She recorded the 1964 northern soul song, "Tainted Love", later a hit for the British synth-pop duo, Soft Cell. She was the girlfriend of glam rock artist Marc Bolan of the band T...
  
  
  • "Bring on the Love" (1977), "Woman Is Woman" (1977), "When I Was a Little Girl" (1979)
• GMT Sound
  • "Malaguena" (1979)
• Gonzalez
  • "Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet" (1978)
• Good News
  • "Australia" (1979)
• Goody Goody
  Goody Goody
  "Goody Goody" is a 1936 popular song composed by Matty Malneck, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.Benny Goodman and his Orchestra recorded this song. Frankie Lymon performed this song live on television on several occasions, including in 1957 on The Ted Steele Show...
  
  
  • "#1 Dee-Jay" (1979)
• Gotham
  Gotham (band)
  -Biography:The band featured Sky Ford , Frank Vicari and Pee Wee Ellis , John Eckert and John Gatchell , Chris Qualles , Linc Chamberland and Jimmy Strassburg...
  
  
  • "I'm Your AC/DC Man" (1979)
• Grace Jones
  Grace Jones
  Grace Jones is a Jamaican-American singer, model and actress.Jones secured a record deal with Island Records in 1977, which resulted in a string of dance-club hits. In the late 1970s, she adapted the emerging electronic music style and adopted a severe, androgynous look with square-cut hair and...
  
  
• "I Need a Man" (1977), "La Vie en Rose" (1977), "That's the Trouble" (1977), "Do or Die" (1978), "Warm Leatherette" (1980), "Love is the Drug" (1980), "Pull Up to the Bumper" (1981), "Feel Up" (1981), "My Jamaican Guy" (1982), "Cry Now Laugh Later" (1982), "Slave to the Rhythm" (1985)
• Graham Bonnett
  • "Warm Ride" (1978)
• Grand Tour
  • "The Grand Tour" (1978)
• Gregg Diamond
  Gregg Diamond
  Gregg Diamond was a pianist, drummer, songwriter, and producer who was active in the jazz and disco music scenes of the 1970s.-Career:...
  
  
  • "This Side of Midnight" (1978), "Fancy Dancer" (1978), "Danger" (1979), "Starcruiser" (1979)
• Guy Delo and His Orchestra
  • "The Pink Panther (Discostar)" (1978)
• Gwen McCrae
  Gwen McCrae
  Gwen McCrae is an American R&B singer, best known for her March, 1975 hit "Rockin' Chair".-Career:...
  
  
  • "Rockin' Chair" (1975), "Funky Sensation" (1978), "I Found a Love" (1979), "Melody of Life" (1979)

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• Hall & Oates
  Hall & Oates
  Hall & Oates are an American musical duo composed of Daryl Hall and John Oates. They achieved their greatest fame in the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s. Both sing and play instruments. They specialized in a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues styles, which they dubbed "rock and soul."...
  
  
  • "Running from Paradise" (1979)
• Halloween
  • "Lady Midnight" (1979)
• Hamilton Bohannon
  Hamilton Bohannon
  Hamilton Bohannon is an American percussionist, band leader and record producer, who was one of the leading figures in 1970s disco music...
  
  
  • "Disco Stomp" (1975), "Let's Start the Dance (1978), "Disco Symphony" (1979)
• Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
  Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
  Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American singing group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. The group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco...
  
  
  • "The Love I Lost" (1973), "Bad Luck" (1975), "Don't Leave Me This Way" (1975), "Wake Up Everybody" (1975), "Prayin'" (1979)
• Harry Booker
  • "Bicentennial (4th Day of July)" (1976)
• Harry Thumann
  Harry Thumann
  Harry Thumann was a German electronic composer, record producer and sound engineer. He designed and built groundbreaking synthesizers and studio equipment from the early 1960s onwards....
  
  
  • "American Express" (1979), "Underwater" (1979)
• Harvey Mason
  Harvey Mason
  Harvey William Mason is an American jazz drummer. He has worked with many jazz and fusion artists such as Bob James, The Brecker Brothers, Lee Ritenour, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters and almost all the Mizell Brothers productions with Donald Byrd, Johnny Hammond, Bobbi Humphrey and Gary Bartz...
  
  
  • "Groovin' You" (1979)
• Harvey Scales
  Harvey Scales
  Harvey Scales is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and producer. Scales has been active in the music industry since the 1960s, and has composed songs for groups with a long standing history in the industry as well such as The Dells, The Dramatics, and The O'Jays...
  
  
  • "Follow the Disco Crowd" (1977), "Hot Foot" (1979)
• The Heart and Soul Orchestra
  • "Love in C-Minor" (1976), "Poinciana" (1977), "The Very Thought of You" (1977), "Moonlight in Vermont" (1977)
• Heather Parisi
  • "Disco Bambina" (1979), "Blackout" (1979)
• Heatwave
  Heatwave (band)
  Heatwave was an international funk/disco musical band featuring Americans Johnnie Wilder, Jr. and Keith Wilder of Dayton, Ohio, Englishman Rod Temperton , Swiss Mario Mantese , Czechoslovak Ernest "Bilbo" Berger , Jamaican Eric Johns and Briton Roy Carter .They were known for their successful...
  
  
  • "Boogie Nights" (1977), "Beat Your Booty" (1977), "The Groove Line" (1978), "Central Heating" (1978), "Eyeballin'" (1979)
• Helen Reddy
  Helen Reddy
  Helen Reddy , often referred to as "The Queen of 70s Pop", is an Australian-American singer and actress. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed fifteen singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six of those 15 songs made the Top 10...
  
  
  • "I Can't Hear You No More" (1976), "Make Love to Me" (1979)
• Henry Mancini and His Concert Orchestra
  • "African Symphony" (1975), "Get It On" (1979)
• Hemlock
  Hemlock (band)
  Hemlock is a heavy metal band from Las Vegas, Nevada. The band has been together for more than 17 years , and has played concerts with likes of Lamb of God, Hatebreed, Soulfly, Otep, Slipknot, Snot, Coal Chamber, Obituary, Drowning Pool, Hed PE, Chimaira, Meshuggah, Korn & Ministry.- Biography...
  
  
  • "Disco Break" (1979)
• Herb Alpert
  Herb Alpert
  Herbert "Herb" Alpert is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB. He is also a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M Records...
  
  
  • "Aranjuez (Mon Amour)" (1979), "Rise" (1979)
• Herbie Hancock
  Herbie Hancock
  Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
  
  
  • "I Thought It Was You" (1978)
• Herbie Mann
  Herbie Mann
  Herbert Jay Solomon , better known as Herbie Mann, was a Jewish American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music...
  
  
  • "Waterbed" (1976), "The Piper" (1977), "Jisco Dazz" (1978), "Body Oil" (1979)
• Herman Kelly and Life
  Herman Kelly and Life
  Herman Kelly & Life were a short-lived funk musical group who released records on the Miami, Florida based T.K. Disco, Alston, and Electric Cat labels in the late 1970s. Their 1978 song "Dance to the Drummer's Beat" later appeared on the breakbeat compilation "Ultimate Breaks and Beats", and has...
  
  
  • "Dance to the Drummer's Beat" (1978)
• High Inergy
  High Inergy
  High Inergy was an American R&B and soul girl group who found fame on Motown Records in the late 1970s. They are best known for their hit, "You Can't Turn Me Off ".-History:...
  
  
  • "Shoulda Gone Dancing" (1979)
• Hodges, James & Smith
  • "Since I Fell for You/I'm Falling" (1977), "What Have You Done for Love" (1978), "Dancing in the Streets (1979)
• The Honeybees
  • "Dream Express" (1977)
• Hot Blood
  • "Terror on the Dance Floor" (1977)
• Hot Chocolate
  • "Disco Queen" (1974), "You Sexy Thing" (1975), "Don't Stop It Now" (1976), "Heaven's In The Backseat Of My Cadillac" (1977), "So You Win Again" (1977), "Every 1's A Winner" (1978)
• HOT R.S.
  • "House of the Rising Sun" (1977), "Slow Blow" (1977), "In A Gadda Da Vida" (1978), "Heads or Tails" (1980)
• Houston Person
  Houston Person
  Houston Person is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer. Although he has performed in the hard bop and swing genres, he is most experienced in and best known for his work in soul jazz. Person is also known for his distinctive sassy sound and his expressive style of playing...
  
  
  • "Disco Sax" (1975), "Dancing Feet" (1976)
• Howard Kenney
  • "Can't Wait to Make You Mine" (1978)
• Hues Corporation
  Hues Corporation
  The Hues Corporation was a pop and soul trio formed in Santa Monica, California in 1969. They are best known for their 1974 hit, "Rock the Boat" which sold over two million copies.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Rock the Boat" (1974), "I Caught Your Act" (1976)

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• Idris Muhammad
  Idris Muhammad
  Idris Muhammad is a jazz drummer. He changed his name in the 1960s upon his conversion to Islam. He is known for his funky playing style. He has released a number of albums as leader, and has played with a number of jazz legends including Lou Donaldson, Johnny Griffin, Pharoah Sanders and Grover...
  
  
  • "Could Heaven Ever Be Like This" (1977), "Dancing in the Land of Lovely Ladies" (1978), "Disco Man" (1979)
• Invisible Zoo
  • "Night Time"
• The Immortals
  • "The Ultimate Warlord" (1979)", "Warlord Part 2" (1979)
• Imperials
  • "Fast Freddie the Roller Disco King" (1979)
• The Impressions
  The Impressions (American band)
  The Impressions are an American music group from Chicago, originally formed in 1958. Their repertoire includes doo-wop, gospel, soul, and R&B....
  
  
  • "Dance" (1977)
• Inner-City Jam Band
  • "What I Did for Love" (1977), "Theme from Bob Newhart Show" (1977)
• Inner Life
  Inner Life
  Inner Life was an American R&B/soul studio project of the post-disco era that enjoyed success with "I'm Caught Up " and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" . Both tracks featured the vocals of Jocelyn Brown and Leroy Burgess...
  
   (vocals by Jocelyn Brown
  Jocelyn Brown
  Jocelyn Lorette Brown is an American R&B and dance music singer...
  
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  • "I'm Caught Up (In a One-Night Love Affair)" (1979), "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" (1980)
• Inspired
  • "The Bare Necessities" (1975)
• Instant Funk
  Instant Funk
  Instant Funk were a 1970s disco band, best known for their disco classic, "I Got My Mind Made Up ".-History:Instant Funk came out of New Jersey consisting of Raymond Earl, Scotty Miller and guitarist Kim Miller. The group was then called The Music Machine and they were very successful as a back-up...
  
  
  • "I Got My Mind Made Up" (1978), "Crying" (1979)
• Intruders
  • "Be Thankful for What You Got" (1974), "Everyone's a Star" (1975)
• The Invisible Man's Band
  • "All-Night Thing" (1979)
• Irene Cara
  Irene Cara
  Irene Cara 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 she also starred in the 1980 film Fame.She married Hollywood stuntman...
  
  
  • "Fame" (1980), "Flashdance...What a Feeling" (1983), "Breakdance" (1983), "Why Me" (1983), "The Dream (Hold On to Your Dream)" (1983)
• Isaac Hayes
  Isaac Hayes
  Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the...
  
  
  • "Chocolate Chip" (1975), "Disco Connection" (1976), "Stranger in Paradise" (1977), "Zeke the Freak" (1978), "Shaft II" (1978), "Don't Let Go" (1979)
• Ish Ledesma
  • "Don't Stop" (1979)
• The Isley Brothers
  The Isley Brothers
  The Isley Brothers are a highly influential, successful and long-running American music group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper...
  
  
  • "The Pride" (1977), "It's a Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop)" (1978), "I Wanna Be with You" (1979)

J

• The Js
  • "When Did You Stop" (1977)
• Jackie Moore
  • "This Time Baby" (1979), "How's Your Love Life Baby" (1979)
• Jacksons
  • "Dancing Machine" (1974), "I Am Love" (1975), "Enjoy Yourself" (1976), "Show You The Way To Go" (1977), "Goin' Places" (1978), "Blame It On The Boogie" (1979), "Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)" (1979), "Lovely One" (1980), "Walk Right Now" (1980), "Can You Feel It" (1980), "This Place Hotel" (1981), "Torture" (1984), "State of Shock" (duet with Mick Jagger
    Mick Jagger
    Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and a founding member of The Rolling Stones....
    
    ) (1984)
• Jacques Lafleche Orchestra
  • "Noel C'est L'hiver" (1978)
• James Bradley
  James Bradley
  James Bradley FRS was an English astronomer and served as Astronomer Royal from 1742, succeeding Edmund Halley. He is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light , and the nutation of the Earth's axis...
  
  
  • "I'm in Too Deep" (1979), "Let's Paint the Town" (1979)
• James Brown
  James Brown
  James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
  
  
  • "Get Up Offa That Thing" (1976), "It's Too Funky in Here" (1978), "The Spank" (1978), "For Goodness Sakes, Look at Those Cakes" (1979), "Star Generation" (1979), "Rapp Payback" (1980)
• James Wells
  • "That's the Way the Wind Blows" (1979), "My Claim to Fame" (1979)
• Jamiroquai
  Jamiroquai
  Jamiroquai is a British jazz funk and acid jazz band formed in 1992. Jamiroquai were initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement, alongside groups such as Incognito, the James Taylor Quartet, and the Brand New Heavies. Other Acid Jazz artists such as...
  
  
  • "Cosmic Girl
    Cosmic Girl
    "Cosmic Girl" is the second single from British Acid Jazz band Jamiroquai's third studio album, Travelling Without Moving. Released in November 1996, it achieved great chart success, peaking at #6 on the UK Singles Chart.-Background:...
    
    " (1996), "Canned Heat
    Canned Heat (song)
    "Canned Heat" is the second single from British funk band Jamiroquai's fourth studio album, Synkronized, released in 1999. The song was their second #1 on the U.S. Dance Chart and peaked at #4 on the UK Singles Chart. The music video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund...
    
    " (1999), "Little L
    Little L
    "Little L" is the lead single from British Acid Jazz band Jamiroquai's fifth studio album, A Funk Odyssey. The song was written by Jay Kay, and was inspired by the breakup between himself and Denise van Outen, his former girlfriend, over his cocaine problem. The song was featured in the film The...
    
    " (2001), "Corner of the Earth
    Corner of the Earth
    "Corner of the Earth" is the fourth and final single from British acid jazz band Jamiroquai's fifth studio album, A Funk Odyssey. The song was written by Jason Kay and is a bossa nova-type track, reflecting on the problems that people of the Earth have to suffer. The song peaked at #31 on the UK...
    
    " (2002), "(Don't) Give Hate a Chance
    (Don't) Give Hate a Chance
    " Give Hate A Chance" is the third and final single from British Acid Jazz band Jamiroquai's sixth studio album, Dynamite. The song was written by Jason Kay, Rob Harris and Matt Johnson. It was produced by Kay and Mike Spencer...
    
    " (2005), "Hollywood Swinging
    Hollywood Swinging
    "Hollywood Swinging" is a song by R&B/funk band Kool & the Gang from their album Wild and Peaceful. The song became their first number one R&B single, reaching that position in June, 1974. It proved to also be a successful crossover hit, peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart....
    
     feat. Kool & The Gang
    Kool & the Gang
    Kool & the Gang are an American jazz, R&B, soul, and funk group, originally formed as the Jazziacs in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964.They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of R&B and...
    
     (2005), "Runaway
    Runaway (Jamiroquai song)
    "Runaway" is the first and only single taken from British Acid Jazz band Jamiroquai's greatest hits compilation, High Times: Singles 1992–2006. The single was released on October 30, 2006. It was their fifth #1 on the U.S...
    
     (2006), White Knuckle Ride
    White Knuckle Ride
    "White Knuckle Ride" is the first single from British alternative group Jamiroquai's studio album, Rock Dust Light Star. The single was released via Digital Download on 31 October 2010, with a Limited Edition Vinyl release due to appear on 1 January 2011. The song was written by band frontman Jay...
    
     (2010)
• Jane Flores & The Bonet Band
  • "Symphony On Wheels" (1979)
• Janet Jackson
  Janet Jackson
  Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years...
  
  
  • "Young Love" (1982)
• Janice McClain
  Janice McClain
  Janice McClain is an American R&B singer, who signed to MCA Records in the 1980s. She scored a chart hit on the US R&B chart with the single "Passion & Pain"....
  
  
  • "Smack Dab in the Middle" (1979)
• Janis Ian
  Janis Ian
  Janis Ian is an American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. Ian first entered the folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-sixties; most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century...
  
  
  • "Fly Too High" (1979)
• Jay Black
  Jay Black
  Jay Black is an American singer, also known as "The Voice," whose height of fame came in the 1960s when he was the lead singer of the band Jay and the Americans. The band had numerous hits including "Cara Mia", "Come a Little Bit Closer", and "This Magic Moment".Black was born in New York and grew...
  
  
  • "One-Night Affair" (1977), "Love Is in the Air" (1979)
• J.B.s
  • "Rock Groove Machine" (1979), "Just Wanna Make You Dance" (1979)
• Jean Carn
  • "Was That All It Was" (1979)
• Jeanette Washington
  Jeanette Washington
  Jeanette Washington is a funk vocalist best known as a member of the band Parliament.Washington appeared as a background singer on recordings by James Brown in 1975. That year she joined Parliament with Debbie Wright, becoming the first female members of the group...
  
  
  • "Turn Your Boogie Loose" (1979)
• Jeanne Napoli
  Jeanne Napoli
  Jeanne Napoli was an American singer, songwriter, and performer. She was signed to the Vigor sub-label of New York’s De-Lite Records in 1976. She is best known for her "Let’s make love" disco track....
  
  
  • "Oh, No, Don't Let Go" (1976)
• Jeanne Shy
  • "That Old Black Magic" (1979), "Night Dancer" (1979)
• Jermaine Jackson
  Jermaine Jackson
  Jermaine La Jaune Jackson is an American singer, bassist, composer, a member of The Jackson 5, older brother of American pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and occasional film director...
  
  
  • "Let's Be Young Tonight" (1976), "Let's Get Serious" (1979), "Let Me Tickle Your Fancy" (1982)
• Jerry Knight
  Jerry Knight
  Jerry Knight was an American R&B vocalist and bassist in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Along with Ray Parker Jr., he was a founding member of the group Raydio, singing vocals on their early hit, "Jack and Jill"...
  
  
  • "Overnight Sensation" (1980)
• Jesse Green
  Jesse Green
  Jesse Green is an American professional jazz pianist, composer, arranger, producer, and teacher. He is the son of ex-big band singer Kathy Preston and acclaimed Jazz trombonist Urbie Green. Jesse was married in June 2003 to Kristine and has three children...
  
  
  • "Nice and Slow" (1976), "Come With Me" (1976), "Gonna Flip" (1977)
• Jessica Williams
  Jessica Williams
  Jessica Jennifer Williams is an American pianist and composer who has deep roots in jazz. She has been called "one of the top jazz pianists of today."-History:...
  
  
  • "Gamble On Your Love" (1978), "The Queen Of Fools" (1979), "Save The Last Dance For Me" (1979), "I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten" (With The Simon Orchestra) (1979), "(They Call Me)The Queen Of Fools" (1982), "Tie Me Down" (1983), "Casanova" (1986), "These Boots Were Made For Walking" (With Man 2 Man) (1987)
• Jimmy Castor Bunch
  • "Bertha Butt Encounters Vader" (1978)
• Jimmy "Bo" Horne
  • "Get Happy" (1977), "Gimme Some" (1977), "Dance Across the Floor" (1978), "Spank" (1979), "Is It In?" (1979)
• Jimmy James
  Jimmy James (Singer)
  Jimmy James is a soul music singer, known for songs like Come To Me Softly, Now Is the Time and I'll Go Where the Music Takes Me.-The Vagabonds:...
  
  
  • "Now Is the Time" (1976)
• Jimmy McGriff
  Jimmy McGriff
  James Harrell McGriff was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who developed a distinctive style of playing the Hammond B-3 organ.-Early years and influences:...
  
  
  • "Sky Hawk" (1978), "Tailgunner" (1978)
• Jimmy Ross
  • "First True Love Affair" (1981), "Fall Into a Trance" (1981)
• J. J. Barnes
  J. J. Barnes
  J. J. Barnes is an American R&B singer.He has become a favorite artist of the UK Northern soul scene, and has performed frequently in the UK...
  
  
  • "How Long" (1977)
• J.M. with Love
  • "Love Is a Stranger" (1977)
• Jocelyn Brown
  Jocelyn Brown
  Jocelyn Lorette Brown is an American R&B and dance music singer...
  
  
  • "Angel In My Pocket" (1979)
• Joanne Spain
  • "Elevator" (1976)
• Joe Briscoe and the Beavers
  • "Living for Today" (1977), "Into the Milky Way" (1979)
• Joe Farrell
  Joe Farrell
  Joseph Carl Firrantello , known as Joe Farrell, was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. He is best known for a series of albums under his own name on the CTI record label and for playing in the initial incarnation of Chick Corea's Return to Forever.-Biography:Farrell was born in Chicago...
  
  
  • "Promise Me Your Love" (1977)
• Joe Kelly
  • "Disco Man" (1977)
• The Joe Long Sound
  • "Oh Holy Night" (1979)
• Joe Simon
  Joe Simon (musician)
  Joe Simon is an American chart-topping, Grammy Award winning, soul and R&B musician. Amongst other chart singles, Simon secured three number one hits on the US Billboard R&B chart between 1969 and 1975.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Going Through These Changes" (1977), "One Step at a Time" (1978), "Happy Birthday, Baby" (1979)
• Joe Tex
  Joe Tex
  Joseph Arrington, Jr. , better known as "Joe Tex", was an American Southern soul singer-songwriter, most popular during the 1960s and 1970s...
  
  
  • "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)" (1977), "Discomania" (1979)
• Joe Thomas
  Joe Thomas (saxophonist)
  Joe Thomas was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Thomas played alto sax under Horace Henderson, but played tenor from the time he joined Stuff Smith's band onward. He played with Jimmie Lunceford's band from 1933 until Lunceford's death in 1947, where he soloed often and occasionally sang...
  
  
  • "Funky Fever" (1977), "Plato's Retreat" (1978), "Two Doors Down" (1978), "Make That Move" (1979)
• Joel Diamond
  Joel Diamond
  Joel Diamond is an American music producer. He has been nominated for a Grammy twice and has produced 36 Gold and Platinum recordings and had over 54 recordings on the Billboard Charts.-Selected discography:Joel Diamond is an American music producer. He has been nominated for a Grammy twice and has...
  
  
  • "Heaven in the Afternoon" (1979)
• Joey Travolta
  Joey Travolta
  Joseph "Joey" Travolta is an American actor, producer, director and writer. His brother is actor John Travolta.-Early life:...
  
  
  • "What Did Love Ever Do for You?" (1979), "Heaven-Sent" (1979)
• John Davis & the Monster Orchestra
  • "Night and Day" (1976), "Up Jumped the Devil" (1977), "Ain't That Enough for You" (1978), "Love Magic" (1979), "That's What I Get" (1979)
• John Ferrara
  • "Love Attack" (1979)
• John Paul Young
  John Paul Young
  John Paul Young is an Australian pop singer who had a 1978 worldwide hit with "Love Is in the Air"...
  
  
  • "Standing In The Rain" (1977), "Love Is In The Air" (1978), "The Day My Heart Caught Fire"
• John Tropea
  John Tropea
  John Tropea is a guitarist with extensive experience in the rock, pop, and jazz genres. Tropea has written for and played with major recording artists from around the world...
  
  
  • "Livin' in the Jungle" (1979)
• Johnny Mathis
  Johnny Mathis
  John Royce "Johnny" Mathis is an American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standards, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status, and 73 making the Billboard charts...
  
  
  • "Night and Day" (1978), "Begin the Beguine" (1979)
• Johnnie Spence and the Family Tree
  • "The Caves" (1977)
• Johnnie Taylor
  Johnnie Taylor
  Johnnie Harrison Taylor was an American vocalist in a wide variety of genres, from rhythm and blues, soul, blues and gospel to pop, doo-wop and disco.-Early years:...
  
  
  • "Disco Lady" (1976), "Mister Melody-Maker" (1979)
• Johnny "Guitar" Watson
  • "Miss Frisco (Queen of the Disco)" (1978)
• Johnny Bristol
  Johnny Bristol
  Johnny Bristol , was an American musician, most famous as a songwriter and record producer for the Motown label in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
  
  
  • "Do It to My Mind" (1976)
• Johnny Copeland & the Cloud One Orchestra
  • "Atmosphere Strut" (1976), "Happy Music" (1977)
• Johnny Nash
  Johnny Nash
  John Lester "Johnny" Nash, Jr. is an American pop singer-songwriter, best known in the US for his 1972 hit, "I Can See Clearly Now". He was also the first non-Jamaican to record reggae music in Kingston, Jamaica.-Life and career:...
  
  
  • "Closer" (1979)
• Jonelle Allen
  Jonelle Allen
  Jonelle Allen is an American actress, singer, and dancer.Born in New York City, Allen grew up in Harlem's Sugar Hill among neighbors that included Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, and Johnny Hodges, all of whom had an influence on her career choice...
  
  
  • "Baby I Just Wanna Love You" (1978)
• Joneses
  • "Sugar-Pie Guy" (1978)
• Joy Fleming
  Joy Fleming
  Joy Fleming is a German singer who is probably best-known for her performance in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1975...
  
  
  • "The Final Thing" (1979)
• Juggy Murray Jones
  • "Disco Extraordinaire" (1976)
• Julie Budd
  • "Music to My Heart" (1977)
• Jumbo
  • "Turn on to Love" (1976)
• Jupiter Beyond
  • "The River Drive" (1979)
• Jupiter Sunset Band
  • "Disco Rhapsody" (1978), "Stranger in Paradise" (1978)

K

• Karen Cheryl
  • "There's a Sweet Melody" (1978)
• Karen Silver
  • "Make Me Feel Alright" (1979)
• Karen Young
  Karen Young (American singer)
  Karen Young was an American disco-era singer best known for her hit, "Hot Shot".-Biography:Young grew up in a Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania rowhouse. Before becoming an international recording star with "Hot Shot," she recorded jingles and background vocals for the Philadelphia based...
  
  
  • "Hot Shot" (1978), "Bring On the Boys" (1978)
• Karla Garrison
  • "This Could Be the Night" (1978)
• Kat Mandu
  • "The Break" (1979)
• Kay-Gee's
  • "Let's Boogie" (1975), "You've Got to Keep on Bumpin'" (1975), "Waiting at the Bus Stop" (1976), "Kilowatt Invasion" (1978), "Burn Me Up" (1979)
• KC & the Sunshine Band
  • "Blow Your Whistle" (1973), "Sound Your Funky Horn" (1974), "Queen of Clubs" (1975), "I Get Lifted" (1975), "Get Down Tonight" (1975), "That's the Way (I Like It)" (1975), "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty" (1976), "I Like to Do It" (1976), "I'm Your Boogie Man" (1977), "Keep It Comin' Love" (1977), "Boogie Shoes" (1978), "Who Do Ya Love" (1978) "It's The Same Old Song" (1978), "Do You Wanna Go Party" (1979), "Yes I'm Ready" (duet with Teri DeSario
    Teri DeSario
    Teri DeSario is a singer/songwriter from Miami, Florida. DeSario worked within several music genres out of high school. She was vocalist, played recorder and harp from 1970 - 1977 with a Medieval and Renaissance music group, the Early Music Consort, headed by scholar and Pro Musica member Arnold...
    
    ) (1980), "Please Don't Go" (1980)
• The Keane Brothers
  The Keane Brothers
  The Keane Brothers was an American pop music duo from 1976 to 1982, composed of pre-teens Tom Keane on piano and John Keane on drums. The duo released four albums and briefly hosted a television variety show on CBS...
  
  
  • "Dancing in the Moonlight" (1979), "Candy" (1979)
• Kebekelektrik
  • "War Dance" (1977), "Magic Fly" (1977)
• Kelly Marie
  Kelly Marie
  Kelly Marie is a Scottish disco singer. Her only notable hit was "Feels Like I'm in Love", a #1 hit in the UK in 1980.-Early career:...
  
  
  • "Make Love To Me" (1978), "Run to Me" (1979), "Feels Like I'm in Love" (1979), "Lovin' Just For Fun" (1980), "Hot LOve" (1981), "I'm On Fire" (1982), "Breakout" (1984)
• Kelly Patterson
  • "Turn on the Lights" (1978), "Let Go - Let Love Be the Driver" (1979), "I'm So in Tune with You" (1979)
• Kenny Brawner & Raw Sugar
  • "Rock Rock Drop" (1979)
• Kenny Nolan
  Kenny Nolan
  Kenny Nolan is a Los Angeles, California based singer-songwriter.He is best remembered for his 1977 self-penned song "I Like Dreamin'", which achieved the #3 chart position on the Billboard Hot 100 early that year....
  
  
  • "Wine, Women and Champagne" (1979)
• Kenny St. Lewis
  • "Shine On" (1977)
• Kikrokos
  • "Jungle D.J." (1978)
• King Errisson
  • "Space Queen" (1977), "Manhattan Love Song" (1979)
• King Sporty
  King Sporty
  King Sporty is a Jamaican DJ, reggae musician, and record producer for the Tashamba and Konduko labels. He is best known for co-authoring the Bob Marley song, "Buffalo Soldier".-Biography:...
  
  
  • "Keep on Dancing" (1977), "Fire Keep on Burning" (1978)
• Kinsman Dazz
  • "Keep on Rockin'" (1979)
• Kiswell
  • "My Disco Town" (1979)
• Kitty and the Haywoods
  • "Disco Fairyland" (1978)
• Kleeer
  Kleeer
  Kleeer was an American New York based funk, disco and post-disco band which was formed in 1972 under the name The Jam Band, as a backup group to different disco bands and vocalists...
  
  
  • "Keep Your Body Working" (1978), "Tonight's the Night" (1978), "Winners" (1979), "It's Magic" (1979)
• Kool & the Gang
  Kool & the Gang
  Kool & the Gang are an American jazz, R&B, soul, and funk group, originally formed as the Jazziacs in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964.They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of R&B and...
  
  
  • "Hollywood Swinging" (1973), "Open Sesame" (1976), "Ladies Night" (1979), "Tonight's the Night" (1979), "If You Feel Like Dancin'" (1979),
• Krypton
  • "Can You Read My Mind" (1979)

L

• L.A. Express
  L.A. Express
  The L.A. Express was an American jazz-pop ensemble. Members of L.A. Express played on several Joni Mitchell albums, including The Hissing of Summer Lawns and Miles of Aisles ....
  
  
  • "Dance the Night Away" (1976)
• La Bionda
  La Bionda
  La Bionda is a musical duo formed by brothers Carmelo and Michelangelo La Bionda, who are considered the inventors of Italian disco music.-Biography:The grew up in Milan....
  
  
  • "One for You, One for Me" (1978), "Sandstorm" (1978), "Never Gonna Let You Go" (1979)
• La Flavour
  • "Mandolay" (1979)
• La Pregunta
  • "Shangri-La" (1978)
• LaBelle
  Labelle
  Labelle is an American all female singing group who were a popular vocal group of the 1960s and 1970s. The group was formed after the disbanding of two rival girl groups in the Philadelphia/Trenton areas, the Ordettes and the Del-Capris, forming as a new version of the former group, later changing...
  
  
  • "Lady Marmalade" (1975), "What Can I Do For You?" (1975), "Messin' With My Mind" (1975), "Gypsy Moths" (1976), "Get You Somebody New" (1976)
• Lady Love
  • "Wrap Your Arms Around Me" (1977)
• Lalo Schifrin
  Lalo Schifrin
  Lalo Schifrin is an Argentine composer, pianist and conductor. He is best known for his film and TV scores, such as the "Theme from Mission: Impossible". He has received four Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations...
  
  
  • "Theme from Jaws" (1976)
• Lamar Thomas
  Lamar Thomas
  Lamar Thomas is a former NFL player and former color commentator. Thomas played college football, college basketball and ran Track at the University of Miami before being drafted in the third round of the 1993 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.With the University of Miami Thomas set a...
  
  
  • "Chained (To Your Love)" (1979)
• Lamont Dozier
  Lamont Dozier
  Lamont Herbert Dozier is an American songwriter and record producer, born in Detroit, Michigan. Dozier has either co-written or produced several US Billboard #1 hits.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Boogie Business" (1979), "Going Back to My Roots" (1977)
• Larry Page Orchestra
  • "Slinky Thighs" (1977), "Thunderstruck" (1977), "You Do It Good" (1978), "Erotic Soul" (1978)
• LaSo
  • "Chico and the Man" (1975), "Another Star" (1977), "LaSo Square (Are You Ready)" (1977)
• Latimore
  • "Something 'Bout Cha" (1977), "Goodbye Heartache" (1979)
• LaToya Jackson
  • "If You Feel the Funk
    If You Feel the Funk
    "If You Feel the Funk" was the debut single from artist La Toya Jackson. It was released in 1980 on Polydor Records, and comes from Jackson's self-titled debut album...
    
    " (1980), "Night Time Lover
    Night Time Lover
    "Night Time Lover" is the second single by American singer La Toya Jackson, from her eponymous debut. The track was produced by her brother Michael, who provides co lead vocals on the chorus. They originally wrote the song for Donna Summer under the title "Fire Is The Feeling".The song peaked at...
    
    " (1980), "Stay the Night" (1981)
• Laura Branigan
  Laura Branigan
  Laura Ann Branigan was an American singer-songwriter and actress of Italian and Irish ancestry. She is best known in the United States for her 1982 Platinum-certified hit "Gloria" and in Europe for the number-one single "Self Control"...
  
  
  • "Gloria" (1982), "Self Control
    Self Control (song)
    "Self Control" is the name of an international hit song recorded in 1984 by Laura Branigan, as well as the album on which it appears. The song was recorded that same year with the same English lyrics by Italian singer Raf, who co-wrote the song with Giancarlo Bigazzi and Steve Piccolo. Branigan's...
    
    " (1984), "The Lucky One
    The Lucky One (Laura Branigan song)
    "The Lucky One" is the second single released from the 1984 album Self Control by Laura Branigan. It was a moderate-sized hit in the United States reaching number 10 on the Billboard Hot Dance chart and number 13 on the Adult Contemporary chart...
    
    " (1984), "Spanish Eddie
    Spanish Eddie
    "Spanish Eddie" was the lead single from Laura Branigan's fourth album, Hold Me. The single was produced by Jack White and arranged by Harold Faltermeyer. A moody black-and-white photo appeared on the picture sleeve and the single was promoted by a music video. Released in July 1985, the record...
    
     (1985), "Shattered Glass
    Shattered Glass (Laura Branigan song)
    "Shattered Glass" is a song written by Bob Mitchell and Steve Coe which was recorded by Laura Branigan with the Stock/Aitken/Waterman production team to serve as the first single released from Branigan's fifth album, the 1987 release Touch.-Background:...
    
    " (1987), "Dim All THe Lights
    Dim All the Lights
    "Dim All the Lights" is a song by Donna Summer released as a single in the latter half of 1979. Taken from her Bad Girls album and produced by longtime collaborator Giorgio Moroder with Pete Bellotte, the track combines Summer's trademark disco beats with a more soulful/R&B-esque sound...
    
    " (1995)
• Laura Lee
  Laura Lee
  Laura Lee is an American soul and gospel singer and songwriter, most successful in the 1960s and 1970s and influential for her records which discussed and celebrated women’s experience.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Sat-Is-Fac-Tion" (1979)
• Laura Taylor
  Laura Taylor
  Laura Taylor is a Brazilian singer and one of two new singers in Baile Funk band Bonde Do Rolê. Born in Belo Horizonte, Laura lived many years in New Zealand. She was added to the band after a talent search on MTV Brasil discovered her along with fellow new member, Ana Bernardino.-References:...
  
  
  • "Dancin' in My Feet" (1979), "All Through Me" (1979)
• Lawrence Hilton Jacobs
  • "Fly Away" (1978)
• LAX
  • "Dancin' at the Disco" (1979), "Saturday Night" (1979), "All My Love" (1979)
• Le Googie
  • "Disco Robin" (1979)
• Les Funky Boys
  • "Hoonie Fonque Wonque" (1977)
• L.E.B. Harmony
  • "Disco Boogie" (1977)
• Leif Garrett
  Leif Garrett
  Leif Garrett is an American singer and actor. He became famous in the late 1970s as a teen idol, but received much publicity in later life for his drug abuse and legal troubles.-Early life:...
  
  
  • "I Was Made For Dancin'" (1978)
• Lemon
  • "Freak On (1978)
• Lenny Williams
  Lenny Williams
  Leonard Charles "Lenny" Williams is an American singer known for his work in the R&B and soul music genres. During the 1970s, he was the lead vocalist for Tower of Power...
  
  
  • "If You're in Need" (1979), "When I'm Dancing" (1979)
• Leo Sayer
  Leo Sayer
  Leo Sayer is a British singer-songwriter, musician, and entertainer whose singing career has spanned four decades. Sayer became a naturalised Australian citizen in 2009. Sayer was a top singles and album act on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1970s...
  
  
  • "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" (1977), "Thunder in My Heart" (1978)
• Leroy Gomez (of Santa Esmeralda
  Santa Esmeralda
  Santa Esmeralda is a U.S./French Disco group formed in the 1970s, which earned a #1 club hit in 1977 with a cover version of the song "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood".-Mr. "Misunderstood":Leroy Gómez was born in Wareham, Massachusetts of Cape Verdean descent...
  
  )
  • "Get Up Boogie" (1979)
  • "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (1977)
• Leroy Hutson
  Leroy Hutson
  Leroy Hutson is an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter, arranger, producer and instrumentalist, best known as former lead singer of the R&B band, which came to fame vocal group, The Impressions....
  
  
  • "Unforgettable" (1979)
• Les McCann
  Les McCann
  Les McCann is an American soul jazz piano player and vocalist whose biggest successes came as a crossover artist into R&B and soul.-Biography:...
  
  
  • "Just the Way You Are" (1978), "Dance Again" (1979)
• Lew Kirton
  • "Heaven in the Afternoon" (1978)
• Lightning
  • "Disco Symphony" (1979)
• Lime
  Lime (band)
  Lime was a synth-pop group from Montréal, Canada, during the 1980s. The group was composed of husband and wife Denis and Denyse LePage, although two younger and more attractive singers, Joy Dorris and Chris Marsh, were chosen to tour and appear as the act. They are most noted for their songs "Angel...
  
  
  • "Your Love" (1981), "You're My Magician" (1981), "Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight" (1982), "Angel Eyes" (1983), "Unexpected Lovers" (1985)
• Linda Clifford
  Linda Clifford
  Linda Clifford is an American R&B, disco and house music singer and actress, who scored hits from the 1970s to the 1980s, most notably "If My Friends Could See Me Now", "Bridge over Troubled Water", "Runaway Love" and "Red Light"....
  
  
  • "From Now On" (1977), "If My Friends Could See Me Now" (1978), "Don't Give It Up" (1979), "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (1979), "Red Light" (1980), "Shoot Your Best Shot" (1980)
• Linda Evans
  Linda Evans
  Linda Evans is an American actress. She is known primarily for her roles on television, and rose to fame playing Audra Barkley in the 1960s Western TV series, The Big Valley...
  
  
  • "Don't You Need" (1979), "I Can Tell" (with Chanson
    Chanson
    A chanson is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" or "chanteuse" ; a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier.-Chanson de geste:The...
    
    ) (1979)
• Linda G. Thompson
  • "Ooh, What A Night" (1974)
• Linda Williams
  Linda Williams (singer)
  Linda Williams is a Dutch singer, best known for her participation in the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest....
  
  
  • "City-Living" (1979)
• Liner
  • "Keep Reaching out for Love" (1979)
• Lion's Den
  • "Born Free" (1979)
• Lipps Inc.
  • "Rock It" (1979), "Funkytown
    Funkytown
    "Funkytown" is a 1980 disco hit song by the disco band Lipps Inc. The song expresses the singer's pining for a metaphorical place that will "keep me movin', keeps me groovin' with some energy". It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Dance charts in 1980, also reaching number 1 in Germany,...
    
    " (1980), "How Long" (1981), "Addicted to the Night" (1983)
• Liquid Gold
  Liquid Gold
  Liquid Gold was an English disco group, from Brackley in Northamptonshire. Their biggest success came in 1980 with Dance Yourself Dizzy, which peaked at number two on the UK chart.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Dance Yourself Dizzy" (1979), My Baby's Baby (1979)
• Little Nell
  Nell Campbell
  "Little" Nell Campbell is an Australian actress, club owner and singer.-Early life:She was born in Sydney, to Ruth and Ross Campbell, a writer, who called her "Little Nell" in his family life column in the Sydney Daily Telegraph...
  
  
  • "Fever" (1978)
• Loleatta Holloway
  Loleatta Holloway
  Loleatta Holloway was an American singer, mainly known for disco songs such as "Hit and Run" and "Love Sensation", both of which have been sampled extensively.-Biography:...
  
  
  • "Hit and Run" (1976), "Catch Me on the Rebound" (1978), "I May Not Be There When You Need Me" (1978), "All About the Paper" (1979), "That's What You Said" (1979), "Love Sensation" (1980)
• Long Island Boogie
  • "Let's Dance" (1978)
• Lonnie Liston-Smith
  • "Funk Reaction" (1978), "Do It" (1979), "Space Princess" (1979)
• Lorraine Johnson
  • "The More I Get, the More I Want" (1977), "Feed the Flame" (1978)
• Lou Hemsey & the New York Ensemble
  • "Soap Factory Disco Theme" (1978)
• Lou Rawls
  Lou Rawls
  Louis Allen "Lou" Rawls was an American soul, jazz, and blues singer. He was known for his smooth vocal style: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game"...
  
  
  • "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" (1976), "Let Me Be Good to You" (1979)
• Louis Lesther
  • "Deshabille-Moi" (1978)
• Louise Mandrell
  Louise Mandrell
  Thelma Louise Mandrell, also known as Louise Mandrell, was born July 13, 1954 and is an American country music singer. She is the younger sister of country singer Barbara Mandrell, and older sister of actress Irlene Mandrell. Louise had a successful singing career in country music with a string of...
  
  
  • "Everlasting Love" (1977)
• Love & Kisses
  Love & Kisses
  Love & Kisses was a 1970s disco group assembled by European producer Alec Costandinos, with a variety of male/female singers.After collaborating on Cerrone's debut album Love In C Minor , Costandinos assembled Love & Kisses in early 1977, and shortly after the group released their first album,...
  
  
  • "I Found Love (Now That I Found You)" (1977), "Accidental Lover" (1977), "You're the Most Precious Thing In My Life" (1978), "Thank God It's Friday" (1978), "How Much, How Much I Love You" (1979)
• Love Unlimited Orchestra
  • "Love's Theme" (1973), "Satin Soul" (1975), "Sweet Summer Suite" (1976), "Theme from King Kong" (1977), "Bring It on Up" (1978), "Don't You Know How Much I Love You" (1978), "High-Steppin' Hip-Dressin' Fella" (1979), "Welcome Aboard" (1981)
• Love De-Luxe
  Love De-Luxe
  Love De-Luxe was a disco studio group assembled by British producer Alan Hawkshaw . They had one chart entry: "Here Comes That Sound Again", which spent a week at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1979...
  
  
  • "Here Comes That Sound Again" (1978)
• Lovers
  • "Discomania" (1977)
• Lowrell Simon
  Lowrell Simon
  Lowrell Simon is an American soul singer. He began as a singer in The LaVondells, which became The Vondells which featured Butch McCoy and Jessie dean and enjoyed some regional success in the 1960s with the song "Lenore". When the Vondells broke up, Simon formed the group The Lost Generation...
  
  
  • "Mellow, Mellow Right On" (1978), "Overdose of Love" (1979)
• L.T.D.
  L.T.D.
  L.T.D. is an American R&B/funk band best known for their 1977 hit single, " Back in Love Again," as well as their many ballads, such as "Love Ballad," "We Both Deserve Each Other's Love," and "Where Did We Go Wrong?."-Career:L.T.D...
  
  
  • "(Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again" (1977)
• Luke Goslin
  • "Bouzoukist" (1975)
• Luther Vandross
  Luther Vandross
  Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...
  
  
  • "It's Good for the Soul" (1976), "May Christmas Bring You Happiness" (1976), "Never Too Much" (1981)

M

• Machine
  • "There But for the Grace of God Go I" (1979)
• Mad Dog Fire Department
  • "Cosmic Funk" (1979)
• Made in USA
  • "Melodies" (1979)
• Madelaine
  Madelaine
  Madelaine is a feminine given name. It is the english form of the name Madeleine....
  
  
  • "Who, What, When, Where, Why" (1978), "I Love Making Love" (1978)
• Madison Street
  • "Mr. Minstrel Man" (1977), "Hey Look Who's Dancin'" (1979)
• Madleen Kane
  Madleen Kane
  Madleen Kane is a model and singer, born on 4 March 1958 in Malmö, Sweden, to a Swedish father and American mother. A former Elite fashion model , she worked since 17 y.o. to 19 above all for the German fashion magazine Burda Moden...
  
  
  • "Rough Diamond" (1978), "Touch My Heart" (1978), "Forbidden Love" (1979),
  • "You Can" (1981)
• Major Lance
  Major Lance
  Major Lance was an American R&B singer. After a number of US hits in the 1960s, including "The Monkey Time" and "Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um", he became an iconic figure in Britain in the 1970s among followers of Northern soul.-Life:Major Lance was born in Winterville, Mississippi...
  
  
  • "Love Pains" (1978)
• Major Lee Vincente
  • "Let Me Take You Higher" (1978)
• Mandrake
  Mandrake (band)
  Mandrake is a German gothic metal band from Emden, Ostfriesland, formed by Lutz de Putter in 1996.- History :Lutz de Putter founded Mandrake in 1996. The band's name derives from the Latin name of the Mandragora officinarum mandrake, which are said to give eternal life. The band recorded their...
  
  
  • "Dancing the Night Away" (1979)
• Mandrill
  Mandrill (band)
  Mandrill is an American funk band formed in Brooklyn, New York City in 1968. The band was formed by three brothers: Carlos Wilson , Lou Wilson and Ric Wilson . The brothers were born in Panama and grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn...
  
  
  • "Stay Tonite" (1978)
• Mandy Ann Hughes
  • "Motion Man" (1978)
• The Manhattan Transfer
  The Manhattan Transfer
  The Manhattan Transfer is an American vocal music group. There have been two manifestations of the group, with Tim Hauser being the only person to be part of both...
  
  
  • "Clap Your Hands" (1976), "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone" (1979)
• Marathon
  • "I Wanna Dance" (1978)
• Marboo Wishnant
  • "What about Love" (1976), "Macumba" (1977)
• Marcia Hines
  Marcia Hines
  Marcia Elaine Hines, AM is a vocalist, actress and TV personality who achieved success in her adopted homeland of Australia. Hines made her debut, at the age of sixteen, in the Australian version of the stage musical Hair and followed with the role of Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar...
  
  
  • "Dance, You Fool, Dance" (1979)
• Margaret Reynolds
  Margaret Reynolds
  Margaret Reynolds served as an Australian Labor Party Senator for Queensland from 1983 to 1999.Reynolds had two ministerial appointments during her time in the Senate, serving as Minister for Local Government from September 1987 to April 1990 and as Minister assisting the Prime Minister for the...
  
  
  • "Keep On Holdin' On" (1979)
• Margot Thomas
  • "Don't Stop the Carnival" (1979), "I'll Set You Free" (1979)
• Marilyn Chambers
  Marilyn Chambers
  Marilyn Chambers was an American pornographic actress, exotic dancer, model, actress and vice-presidential candidate...
  
  
  • "Benihana" (1977)
• Marilyn McLeod
  • "I Got Love on My Mind" (1978)
• Marilyn McCoo
  Marilyn McCoo
  Marilyn McCoo is an American singer, actress, and television presenter, who is best known for being the lead female vocalist in the group The 5th Dimension, as well as hosting the 1980s music countdown series Solid Gold...
  
   and Billy Davis Jr.
  • "Shine on, Silver Moon" (1978)
• Marlena Shaw
  Marlena Shaw
  Marlena Shaw is an American singer. Shaw began her singing career in the 1960s and is still singing today. Her music has often been sampled in hip hop music, and used in television commercials.-Biography:She was first introduced to music by her uncle Jimmy Burgess, a jazz trumpet player...
  
  
  • "It's Better Than Walkin' Out" (1976), "Love Dancin'" (1979), "Touch Me in the Morning" (1979)
• Marsius
  • "Suite for Lovers" (1978)
• Martha High
  Martha High
  Martha High is an American female vocalist.Harvin grew up in Washington, D.C., attending Roosevelt High School and singing in Trinity AME Zion Church. She began singing in The Four Jewels after the departure of Carrie Mingo...
  
  
  • "He's My Ding-Dong Man" (1979)
• Martha Reeves
  Martha Reeves
  Martha Rose Reeves is an American R&B and Pop singer and former politician, and was the lead singer of the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. During her tenure with The Vandellas, they scored over a dozen hit singles, including "Jimmy Mack", "Dancing in the Street" and "Nowhere to Run"...
  
  
  • "Love Don't Come No Stronger" (1978), "Skating in the Streets (Dancing in the Streets)" (1979)
• Marti
  • "Hey Love" (1979)
• Martin Stevens
  Martin Stevens
  Martin Stevens was a British Conservative Party politician.Stevens was educated at Orley Farm School, Bradfield and Trinity College, Oxford, and was a company director. He served as a member of the London County Council from 1955–58 and a councillor on Camberwell Borough Council from...
  
  
  • "Siempre Hay Amor" (1978)
• Marvin Gaye
  Marvin Gaye
  Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. , better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range....
  
  
  • "I Want You" (1976), "Got to Give It Up" (1977), "A Funky Space Reincarnation" (1978), "Ego Tripping Out" (1979), "Praise" (1981)
• Martinique
  • "Love Me One More Night" (1979)
• Marvin Hamlisch
  Marvin Hamlisch
  Marvin Frederick Hamlisch is an American composer. He is one of only thirteen people to have been awarded Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and a Tony . He is also one of only two people to EGOT and also win a Pulitzer Prize...
  
  
  • "Bond '77 (James Bond Theme)" (1977)
• Mary Love
  Mary Love
  Mary Love, born as Mary Ann Allen or Mary Ann Varney , and later known as Mary Love Comer, is an American soul and gospel singer, and Christian evangelist....
  
  
  • "Dance to My Music" (1979)
• Mary Welch
  • "I Could Have Danced All Night" (1979)
• Mary Wilson
  Mary Wilson (singer)
  Mary Wilson is an American singer, formerlymember of the Motown female singing group The Supremes during the 1960s and 1970s. Wilson was the only singer to be a consistent member of the group in its eighteen-year tenure...
  
  
  • "Red Hot" (1979), "You Make Me Feel So Good" (1979)
• Maryann Farra & Satin Soul
  • "Just a Little Timing" (1976)
• Masquerade
  • "Wooden-Wooden Puppet"/"I'm Attached to You"/"Don't Leave Me Hanging"/"The Land of Miracles" (1979)
• Maureen McGovern
  Maureen McGovern
  Maureen Therese McGovern is an American singer and Broadway actress, well known for her premier renditions of the Oscar winning songs "The Morning After" from the 1972 film The Poseidon Adventure, and "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno in 1974.-Early life:McGovern was...
  
  
  • "Different Worlds (Theme from Angie)" (1979), "Can't Take My Eyes off You" (1979), "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" (1979)
• Mavis Staples
  Mavis Staples
  Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress and civil rights activist who recorded with The Staple Singers, her family's band.-Biography:...
  
  
  • "Tonight I Feel Like Dancing" (1979)
• Max Gregor and His Orchestra
  • "Never Can Say Goodbye" (1975)
• Maxine Nightingale
  Maxine Nightingale
  Maxine Nightingale is a British R&B and soul music singer. She is best known for her hits in the 1970s, with the million seller "Right Back Where We Started From" Maxine Nightingale (born 2 November 1952; Wembley, London) is a British R&B and soul music singer. She is best known for her hits in...
  
  
  • "Right Back Where We Started From" (1975), "Gotta Be The One" (1976), "Hideaway" (1979)
• Maynard Ferguson
  Maynard Ferguson
  Maynard Ferguson was a Canadian jazz musician and bandleader. He came to prominence playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra, before forming his own band in 1957...
  
  
  • "Pagliacci" (1976), "Sheherazade" (1977), "Gonna Fly Now" (1977), "Rocky II Disco" (1979)
• McFadden and Whitehead
  • "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" (1979), "Do You Want to Dance" (1979)
• George McCrae
  George McCrae
  George McCrae is an American soul and disco singer, most famous for his 1974 hit "Rock Your Baby".-Early life and career:...
  
  
  • "Rock Your Baby" (1974)
• Meco Monardo
  • "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" (1977), "Theme from Close Encounters" (1977), "Themes from The Wizard of Oz: Over the Rainbow/We're Off to See the Wizard" (1978), "Star Trek Medley" (1979), "Love Theme from Superman (Can You Read My Mind)" (1979), "Moondancer" (1979) "The Empire Strikes Back Medley: Darth Vader/Yoda's Theme" (1980), "Werewolf (Loose in London)" (1981), "Raiders of the Lost Ark Medley" (1981)
• Melba Moore
  Melba Moore
  Beatrice Melba Smith , known by her stage name, Melba Moore is an American disco, R&B singer and actress. She is the daughter of saxophonist Teddy Hill and R&B singer Bonnie Davis.-Early life:...
  
  
  • "This Is It" (1976), "Good Love Makes Everything Alright" (1977), "You Stepped into My Life" (1978), "Pick Me Up, I'll Dance" (1978), "Night People" (1979)
• Melissa Manchester
  Melissa Manchester
  Melissa Manchester is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s, she has recorded generally in the adult contemporary genre. She has also appeared as an actress on television, in films, and on stage....
  
  
  • "Pretty Girls" (1979)
• Memphis Sounds Orchestra
  • "Winter Wonderland" (1976)
• Merrilee Rush
  Merrilee Rush
  -Career:As a girl, Merrilee studied classical piano for 10 years. In 1960, Rush auditioned for a band, directed by her first husband, that played sock hops. Next, she was part of Merrilee and Her Men, doing covers of male pop hits. Then she joined a Seattle rhythm and blues group called Tiny Tony...
  
  
  • "You" (1977)
• Metal Weeds
  • "Sunshine Love" (1976)
• The Meters
  The Meters
  The Meters are an American funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their own music from the late 1960s until 1977...
  
  
  • "Disco Is the Thing Today" (1976)
• Methusalem
  • "Zombie" (1980), "Time Machine" (1980), "Robotism" (1980)
• Metropolis
  • "I Love New York" (1978), "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1979)
• MFSB
  MFSB
  MFSB was a pool of more than thirty studio musicians based at Philadelphia’s famed Sigma Sound Studios. They worked closely with the production team of Gamble and Huff and producer/arranger Thom Bell, and backed up such groups as Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, the O’Jays, the Stylistics, the...
  
  
  • "T.S.O.P (The Sound of Philadelphia)" (with The Three Degrees) (1973), "Love Is the Message" (1974), "Let's Go Disco" (1975), "Sexy" (1975), "Sunnin' and Funnin'" (1976), "Philadelphia Freedom" (1977), "K-Jee" (1977), "Use Ta Be My Guy" (1978), "Dance with Me Tonight" (1979)
• The Miami Disco Band
  • "I Wanna Go Home with You" (1978)
• Miami Sound Machine
  • "I Want You to Love Me" (1978), "You've Broken My Heart" (1979)
• Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
  
  
  • "Ease On Down the Road
    Ease on Down the Road
    "Ease on Down the Road" is a song from the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz, performed in the original production by Stephanie Mills and Hinton Battle...
    
    " (w/ Diana Ross
    Diana Ross
    Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
    
    ) (from The Wiz
    The Wiz
    The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of African American culture. It opened on October 21, 1974 at the Morris A...
    
    ) (1978), "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
    Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
    "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" is a single by American recording artist Michael Jackson. Released under Epic Records on July 28, 1979, the song is the first single from Jackson's fifth studio album, entitled Off the Wall. Written by Jackson, it is in the key of B major and in common time...
    
    " (1979), "Off The Wall" (1979), "Working Day and Night" (1979), "Rock with You" (1980), "Girlfriend" (1980)
• Michael Pedicin Jr.
  • "That's a Good One" (1979)
• Michael Zager Band
  • "This Is the Life" (1975), "Let's All Chant" (1978), "You Don't Know a Good Thing" (1978), "Life's a Party" (1979)
• Michel Legrande and His Orchestra
  • "Disco Magic Concorde" (1979)
• Michel Polnareff
  Michel Polnareff
  Michel Polnareff, born in Nérac on 3 July 1944, is a French singer-songwriter who was very popular from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s...
  
  
  • "Lipstick" (1978)
• Mick Jackson
  Mick Jackson (singer)
  Mick Jackson is an English singer-songwriter and the co-writer of the song, "Blame It on the Boogie"...
  
  
  • "Weekend" (1978)
• Midnight Rhythm
  • "Climb" (1979), "Rushin' to Meet You" (1979), "Midnight Rhythm" (1979), Workin' & Slavin Away (1979)
• Midnite Flite
  • "Don't Turn Away" (1977)
• Mike Theodore Orchestra
  • "The Bull" (1977), "High on Mad Mountain" (1979), "Disco People" (1979)
• Milkways
  • "Galactic Reaction" (1978), "Astroport" (1978)
• Millie Jackson
  Millie Jackson
  Mildred "Millie" Jackson is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter and comedienne. Three of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 copies....
  
  
  • "All-the-Way Love" (1978), "We Got to Hit It Off" (1979), "What Went Wrong Last Night" (1979)
• Minnie Riperton
  Minnie Riperton
  Minnie Julia Riperton was an American singer-songwriter best known for her 1975 single "Lovin' You". She was married to songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph from 1972 until her death in the summer of 1979. They had two children - music engineer Marc Rudolph and actress/comedienne Maya...
  
  
  • "Stick Together" (1977)
• Miquel Brown
  Miquel Brown
  Miquel Brown Miquel Brown Miquel Brown (born Michael Brown, 1954 is a Canadian actress and Disco/Soul singer from the 1970s and '80s most popular for the songs "Close to Perfection" and the Hi-NRG songs 'So Many Men, So Little Time' and "He's A Saint, He's A Sinner" (both now considered vintage gay...
  
  
  • "Symphony of Love" (1978), "The Day They Got Disco in Brazil" (1979), "This Is Something New to Me" (1979), "So Many Men, So Little Time" (1983), "Beeline" (1983), "He's a Saint, He's a Sinner" (1983), "Manpower" (1984), "Close to Perfection" (1985), "Black Leather" (1985), "One Way Street" (1986)
• M.J. Williams
  • "I Found Love Dancing on the Disco Floor" (1978)
• Moment of Truth
  • "Helplessly" (1976), "You Got Me Hummin'" (1977)
• Monday After
  • "Merry-Go-'Round" (1975)
• Montana Orchestra
  • "I Love Music" (1978), "Christmas Medley" (1979)
• Montreal Sound
  • "Music" (1977)
• Moon Birds
  • "Cosmos No. 1" (1977)
• Moonlion
  • "Little Drummer Boy" (1975)
• Morris Jefferson
  Morris Jefferson
  Morris Jefferson is an American disco/funk performer who produced only two know albums. His first, Spank Your Blank Blank, was released in 1978 on Parachute Records. It's a collection of rousing and highly danceable disco funk gems whose titles revolve around the theme of "spank": "To Spank With...
  
  
  • "Spank Your Blank Blank" (1977), "Get on up and Dance" (1979)
• Mother's Finest
  Mother's Finest
  Mother's Finest is a funk rock band founded in Atlanta, Georgia by Joyce Kennedy and Glenn Murdock in the early 1970s. The group charted with the singles "Fire" , "Baby Love" , "Don't Wanna Come Back" , "Love Changes" , and "Piece Of The Rock" in the mid to late 1970s.-History:Mother's Finest...
  
  
  • "Dis Go Dis Way, Dis Go Dat Way" (1977)
• Moulin Rouge
  Moulin Rouge (band)
  Moulin Rouge is a Slovenian popular music group consisting of vocalist Alenka Šmidová-Čenová and songwriter, keyboardist, and producer Matjaž Kosi.-Profile:...
  
  
  • "To Love Somebody" (1979)
• Munich Machine
  • "Get on the Funk Train" (1977)
• Muscle Shoals Horns
  • "Dance to the Music" (1977), "I Just Wanna Turn You On" (1978)
• Musique
  Musique (Patrick Adams)
  Musique was a studio project by Patrick Adams, best known for the song, "In the Bush". It consisted of five singers, Christine Wiltshire, Angela Howell, Gina Taylor Pickens, Mary Seymour Williams and Jocelyn Brown.-Career:...
  
  
  • "In the Bush" (1978), "Keep On Jumpin'" (1978), "Summer Love" (1979)
• Mystic
  • "Disco Love Affair" (1977)

N

• Nancy Sinatra
  Nancy Sinatra
  Nancy Sandra Sinatra is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra, and remains best known for her 1966 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"....
  
  
  • "Kinky Love" (1976)
• Nancy Wilson
  Nancy Wilson (guitarist)
  Nancy Lamoureux Wilson is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer who, with her older sister Ann and lead guitarist Roger Fisher, became the core of the Seattle/Vancouver rock band Heart.-Life and career:...
  
  
  • "Love, Life & Harmony" (1979)
• Narada Michael Walden
  Narada Michael Walden
  Narada Michael Walden is an American producer, drummer, singer, and songwriter. He was given the name Narada by guru Sri Chinmoy in the early 1970s and his musical career spans three decades, in which he was awarded several gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards...
  
  
  • "I Shoulda Loved Ya" (1979), "Tonight I'm Alright" (1979)
• Natalie Cole
  Natalie Cole
  Natalie Maria Cole , is an American singer, songwriter and performer. The daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Cole rode to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be ", "Inseparable" and "Our Love"...
  
  
  • "Mr. Melodie" (1976), "Annie Mae" (1977), "Party Lights" (1978), "Stand By" (1979), "I Love You So" (1979)
• Naura Hayden
  Naura Hayden
  Naura Hayden, originally Norah Helene Hayden is an author , who has worked in entertainment also as Nora Hayden and in modeling as Helene Hayden and is the daughter of Los Angeles Times reporter John Hayden and his wife...
  
  
  • "Equal Time" (1979)
• Neil Clouds Orchestra
  • "Time of the Seasons" (1979)
• Neil Sedaka
  Neil Sedaka
  Neil Sedaka is an American pop/rock singer, pianist, and composer. His career has spanned nearly 55 years, during which time he has sold millions of records as an artist and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard...
  
  
  • "All You Need Is the Music" (1978)
• New Birth
  New Birth (band)
  New Birth is an American funk and R&B group, originally conceived in Detroit, Michigan by former Motown songwriter/producer and veteran musician Vernon Bullock, and co-founded in Louisville, Kentucky by Vernon, with former Motown songwriter/producer Harvey Fuqua, and music industry veterans, Tony...
  
  
  • "Deeper" (1977)
• The New Marketts
  • "Theme from M*A*S*H" (1976), "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" (1977)
• New Paradise
  • "Showman" (1979), "In the Laser Beams" (1979)
• The New Ventures
  • "Temptation, Temptation" (1976), "Moonlight Serenade" (1976)
• New York Community Choir
  • "Express Yourself" (1977)
• New York City Rhythm Orchestra
  • "Art Deco" (1976)
• New York Port Authority
  • "Rainbow" (1977)
• Nicolette Larson
  Nicolette Larson
  Nicolette Larson was an American pop singer. She is perhaps best known for her work in the late 1970s with Neil Young, as well as her 1978 cover of Young's "Lotta Love". The song, her debut single, was a Number One Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks hit and #8 pop hit that year...
  
  
  • "Lotta Love" (1978)
• Nightlife Unlimited
  • "Disco Choo-Choo" (1979)
• Nino Temp and 5th Ave. Sax
  • "(Hooked on) Young Stuff" (1979)
• Nite School
  • "Do You Speak French?" (1978)
• Noel Pointer
  Noel Pointer
  Noel Pointer was an American jazz violinist and record producer.He was nominated for a Grammy award in 1981. Pointer's reputation as an outstanding jazz musician and literary advocate garnered him honorary citizenship in cities across the United States...
  
  
  • "For You (A Disco Concerto)" (1979)
• The Nolans
  • "I'm In The Mood For Dancing" (1979), "Don't Make Waves" (1980), "Gotta Pull Myself Together" (1980), "Attention To Me" (1980), "Who's Gonna Rock You" (1981), "Chemistry" (1981), "Don't love Me Too Hard" (1982), "Crashing Down" (1983)
• Nona Hendryx
  Nona Hendryx
  Nona Hendryx is an American vocalist, producer, songwriter, musician, author, and actress.Hendryx is known for her work as a solo artist as well as for being one-third of the trio Labelle, who had a hit with "Lady Marmalade." Her music has ranged from soul, funk, dance, and R&B to hard rock, art...
  
  
  • "Snakes Alive" (1978), "You're the Only One That I Ever Needed" (1978), "Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart" (1980), "Busting Out" (1980), "Do What You Wanna Do" (1981)
• Norman Connors
  Norman Connors
  Norman Connors is an American jazz drummer, composer, arranger, producer, and headliner, who has led some influential jazz and R&B groups. He also achieved several big R&B hits of the day, especially with love ballads.-Biography:...
  
  
  • "Once I've Been There" (1977), "Disco Land" (1979)
• North End
  • "Kind of Life" (1979)
• North, South, East & West
  • "Keep on Dancing" (1979)
• Nuggets
  • "New York" (1979)

O

• O.C. Smith
  • "You Thrill Me" (1979)
• Odyssey
  Odyssey (band)
  Odyssey was a New York, now UK-based dance music band. It grew out of the talent of the Connecticut-born Lopez sisters: Lillian Lopez , Louise Lopez , and Carmen Lopez , who left the group before Odyssey, as the group came to be known after her departure, was formed.-Career:Filipino singer Tony...
  
  
  • "Native New Yorker" (1977), "Single Again/What Time Does the Balloon Go Up" (1978), "Lucky Star" (1978). "Use It Up Wear It Out" (1980)
• The O'Jays
  The O'Jays
  The O'Jays are an American R&B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1963 and originally consisting of Eddie Levert , Walter Williams , William Powell , Bobby Massey and Bill Isles. The O'Jays were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004, and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005...
  
  
  • "Love Train" (1973), "I Love Music" (1975), "Use Ta Be My Girl" (1978), "Sing a Happy Song" (1979)
• Olivia Newton-John
  Olivia Newton-John
  Olivia Newton-John AO, OBE is a 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 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles and 14 of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA...
  
  
  • "Totally Hot" (1979), "Xanadu" (1980), "Magic" (1980)
• The Olympic Runners
  The Olympic Runners
  -External links:*...
  
  
  • "Keep It Up" (1977), "The Kool Gent" (1978), "Sir Dancealot" (1979)
• One Way
  One Way (American band)
  One Way was an American R&B/funk band that was popular in the late 1970s, and throughout most of the 1980s.-Al Hudson and the Partners:One Way was formed in 1979 in Detroit, Michigan as the newer incarnation of a band originally known as Soul Partners...
  
  
  • "Music" (1979)
• The Opec Family
  • "Love Account" (1978)
• Orchestra 88
  • "Manhattan Skyline" (1978)
• Orchestra Montego
  • "I Shot the Sheriff" (1977)
• Orlando Riva Sound
  Orlando Riva Sound
  Orlando Riva Sound was a German eurodisco group founded in 1977 by Anthony Monn and Rainer Pietsch.Their first success was in 1977 with the song "Moon Boots", a mostly instrumental piece. Soon after the group's founding, they added Sophia Reaney as a singer/dancer...
  
  
  • "Moon Boots" (1977), "Body to Body Boogie" (1978), "Indian Reservation" (1979), "Fire on the Water" (1980)
• Osmonds
  • "I, I, I" (1978)
• Ottawan
  Ottawan
  Ottawan were a French eurodisco duo in the late 1970s and early 1980s.-Career:They were fronted by lead singer Jean Patrick and Annette , with Daniel Vangarde and Jean Kluger the main songwriters. They are best known for their two hit singles "D.I.S.C.O." and "Hands Up "...
  
  
  • "D.I.S.C.O." (1979), "Hands Up" (1981)
• Overnight Band
  • "Disco Tossed Salad" (1979)
• OVNI
  • "UFO 003" (1978), "Telstar" (1978)

P

• Pam Todd & the Gold Bullion Band
  • "------Moi" (1978)
• Pamala Stanley
  Pamala Stanley
  Pamala Stanley is a Disco, Hi-NRG, Club/Dance and Dance-pop singer from Norfolk, Virginia, United States. She scored many dance chart and dance radio hits from the late 1970s to the late 1980s...
  
  
  • "This Is Hot" (1979), "All I Wanna Do Is Dance" (1979), "Hey Mr. Magic" (1979), "Coming Out of Hiding" (1983)
• Pamela Neal
  Pamela Neal
  Pamela Neal , is the Mentor and Workshop Facilitator, CODA Business Management Ltd, Newport, Wales. In 2008, she was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion.-References:...
  
  
  • "Charlie Hustle" (1979)
• Panic! at the Disco
  Panic! at the Disco
  Panic! at the Disco is an American alternative rock duo, formed in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2005. Since its split, the band's line-up includes Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith . Former members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker left the group in 2009...
  
  
  • "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" (2006), "Nine in the Afternoon" (2008), "The Ballad of Mona Lisa" (2011)
• Papa John Creach
  Papa John Creach
  Papa John Creach played for Jefferson Airplane , Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Starship - The Next Generation, the San Francisco All-Stars , The Dinosaurs , and Steve Taylor...
  
  
  • "Joyce" (1976)
• Pappy'ion
  • "1001 Nights (Ali Baba)" (1979), "Time Machine" (1980)
• Paradise Express
  Paradise Express
  - Cast :*Grant Withers as Lawrence 'Larry' Doyle*Dorothy Appleby as Kay Carson*Arthur Hoyt as Phineas K. Trotter*Maude Eburne as Maggie Casey*Harry Davenport as Jed Carson*Donald Kirke as Armstrong*Arthur Loft as Glover*Lew Kelly as Tom Wilson...
  
  
  • "Poinciana" (1977), "Don't Stop the Music" (1977), "Star in My Life" (1978), "Dance" (1979), "Let's Fly" (1979)
• Paris Casablanca
  • "Dancing in Cairo" (1979)
• Partners
  • "Dance (Whoever You Are)" (1979)
• Partners
  • "Hot Leather" (1978)
• Patti Austin
  Patti Austin
  -Life and career:Austin was born in Harlem, New York. 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 Dinah Washington have proclaimed themselves as her godparents....
  
  
  • "Every Home Should Have One" (1981), "Do You Love Me" (1981), "It's Gonna Be Special" (1984), "Rhythm of the Street" (1984)
• Patrice Rushen
  Patrice Rushen
  Patrice Rushen is a Grammy Award-winning African American R&B and jazz vocalist, composer and pianist.-Biography:...
  
  
  • "Haven't You Heard" (1979), "Never Gonna Give You Up" (1979), "Look Up" (1980)
• Patrick Cowley
  Patrick Cowley
  Patrick Joseph Cowley was an American disco and Hi-NRG dance music composer and recording artist. He recorded in a style that has drawn comparisons to that of Giorgio Moroder and is often credited with pioneering electronic dance music.-Early life:Patrick Cowley was born in Buffalo, New York to...
  
  
  • "Megatron-Man" (1981), "Do You Wanna Funk" (with Sylvester) (1982)
• Patrick Hernandez
  Patrick Hernandez
  Patrick Hernandez is a French singer who had a worldwide hit with "Born to Be Alive" in 1979.-Biography:...
  
  
  • "Born To Be Alive" (1979), "Disco Queen" (1979), "Back to Boogie" (1979)
• Patrick Juvet
  Patrick Juvet
  Patrick Juvet is a former model turned singer-songwriter, who had a string of hit records in France...
  
  
  • "Ou Sont les Femmes" (1977), "I Love America" (1978), "Lady Night" (1979), "Swiss Kiss" (1979)
• Patrick Norman
  • "Loving You" (1977), Let's Try Once Again" (1977)
• The Patten & Guest Steppers
  • "Put on Your Dancing Bells" (1977)
• Patti Boulaye
  Patti Boulaye
  Patti Boulaye is a British singer, actress and artist who was among the leading black British entertainers in the seventies and eighties...
  
  
  • "Disco Dancer" (1979)
• Patti LaBelle
  Patti LaBelle
  Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards , better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is a Grammy Award winning American singer, author and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry...
  
  
  • "Joy to Have Your Love" (1977), "Dan Swift Me" (1977), "Eyes in the Back of My Head" (1978), "Music Is My Way of Life" (1979)
• Patti Whatley
  • "Backstreet" (1979)
• Pattie Brooks
  Pattie Brooks
  Pattie Brooks is an American singer most frequently associated with the disco era. She was born in Fort Riley, Kansas to a military family. Her first break came in 1968 when she auditioned for the chorus on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour". In the next decade she became a sought-after backing...
  
  
  • "Let's Make Love to the Music" (1977), "Love-Shook" (1977), "After Dark" (1978), "This Is The House Where Love Died" (1978), "Heartbreak in Disguise" (1978), "Got Tu Go Disco" (1979), "Party Girl" (1979)
• Paul Anka
  Paul Anka
  Paul Albert Anka, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...
  
  
  • "Make It Up to Me in Love" (duet with Oadia Coates) (1977), "Never Get to Know You" (1979)
• Paul Cacia
  • "Saved by Your Love" (1978)
• Paul Jabara
  Paul Jabara
  Paul Jabara was an American actor, singer, and songwriter of Lebanese ancestry. He wrote Donna Summer's "Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday and Barbra Streisand's song "The Main Event/Fight" from The Main Event...
  
  
  • "Heaven Is a Disco" (1978), "Disco Queen" (1978), "Disco Wedding/Disco Honeymoon/Disco Divorce" (1979)
• Paul Mauriat and His Grand Orchestra
  • "Love Is Still Blue" (1976), "The Joy of You" (1978), "Overseas Call" (1978)
• Paul McCartney & Wings
  • "Goodnight Tonight" (1979)
• Paul Nicholas
  Paul Nicholas
  Paul Nicholas is an English actor and singer who has had considerable success on stage, screen and in the pop charts.-Biography:Nicholas was born as Paul Oscar Beuselinck in Peterborough, England...
  
  
  • "Heaven On The 7th Floor" (1977)
• Paulette Reaves
  • "It's in Me" (1979)
• Peaches & Herb
  Peaches & Herb
  Peaches & Herb was an American vocalist duo, once comprising Herb Fame and Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker...
  
  
  • "Shake Your Groove Thing" (1978), "Roller-Skatin' Mate" (1979), "Funtime" (1980), "Sayin' Something" (1981)
• Pearly Gates
  Pearly gates
  The pearly gates is an informal name for the gateway to Heaven according to some Christian denominations. It is inspired by the description of the New Jerusalem in Book of...
  
  
  • "Fandango Dancing" (1979)
• Pegasus
  • "Fly" (1978)
• Penny McLean
  • "Lady Bump" (1976)
• People's Choice
  The People's Choice (band)
  The People's Choice was an American funk band formed in 1971 in Philadelphia by Frank Brunson. While they had several vocalists, their biggest hits were instrumentals.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Do it Any Way You Wanna" (1975), Movin' in All Directions" (1976)
• Percy Sledge
  Percy Sledge
  Percy Sledge is an American R&B and soul performer who recorded the hit "When a Man Loves a Woman" in 1966.-Early career:...
  
  
  • "When She's Touching Me" (1977)
• Persia
  • "That's What Keeps 'Em Dancing" (1979)
• The Persuaders
  The Persuaders (band)
  The Persuaders are a New York based R&B vocal group, with some fame in the 1970s, best known for their hit single, "Thin Line Between Love and Hate"...
  
  
  • "Two Women" (1976)
• Peter Allen
  Peter Allen
  Peter Allen was an Australian songwriter and entertainer. His songs were made popular by many recording artists, including Elkie Brooks, Melissa Manchester and Olivia Newton-John, with one, Arthur's Theme, winning an Academy Award in 1981...
  
  
  • "I Go to Rio" (1977), "Don't Wish Too Hard" (1979)
• Peter Brown
  Peter Brown (singer)
  Peter Brown is an artist, songwriter and record producer. He grew up in Palos Heights, another Chicago suburb. His mother, Virginia, was artistic and musically talented and gave Peter music lessons at a very young age. Peter’s father, Maurice, was an electronic engineer and unwittingly helped him...
  
  
  • "Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me" (1977), "Dance With Me" (with Betty Wright
    Betty Wright
    Bessie Regina Norris, better known by her stage name, Betty Wright , is a Grammy winning Miami-based soul and R&B singer-songwriter, who won fame in the 1970s with hits such as "Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight Is the Night"...
    
    ) (1978)
• Peter Griffin
  Peter Griffin (singer)
  Peter Griffin was a German disco musician.-Biography:Peter Kamp was born on the 17th of December. He is the father of 5 children. Alexandra, Patricia, Dominic and the twins Nicolas and Robin...
  
  
  • "Spider-Man" (1979), "Step By Step" (1980), "Inside Out" (1981), "Devil's Reception" (1981)
• Peter Jacques Band
  Peter Jacques band
  Peter Jacques band was an Italian Disco band, created by French-Italian-American businessman Jacques Fred Petrus and songwriter and producer Mauro Malavasi . They released three albums all reaching minor success but most of all opened up the US market for Italian made disco...
  
  
  • "Fire Night Dance" (1979), "Walking on Music" (1979)
• Phil Trim
  • "Give Me Your Love" (1977)
• Philadelphia Boys
  • "D.I.S.C.O." (1979), "Flight One Ten" (1979)
• The Philarmonics
  • "Piano Concerto" (1977), "For Elise" (1977)
• Philly Cream
  • "Motown Review" (1979), "Join the Army" (1979)
• Philly U.S.A.
  • "Speak Well" (1977)
• Phyllis Hyman
  Phyllis Hyman
  Phyllis Linda Hyman was an American soul singer and actress.-Early years:Phyllis Hyman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in the St. Clair Village, the South Hills section of Pittsburgh...
  
  
  • "Loving You, Losing You" (1977), "Under Your Spell" (1979), "You Know How to Love Me" (1979), "Tonight, You and Me (1981)"
• Pink Lady
  Pink Lady (band)
  is a Japanese female pop music duo of the late 1970s and early 1980s, featuring Mitsuyo Nemoto and Keiko Masuda...
  
  
  • "Kiss In The Dark" (1979)
• Planet Patrol
  Planet Patrol
  Planet Patrol is an American electro group from the 1980s. The members were Arthur Baker, John Robie, and a quintet of vocalists led by Herbert J. Jackson: lead singer Joseph Lites, Rodney Butler, Michael Anthony Jones, and the late Melvin Franklin...
  
  
  • "Play at Your Own Risk" (1982), "Cheap Thrills" (1983)
• The Players Association
  • "Love Hangover" (1977), "Disco Inferno" (1977), "Going to the Disco" (1978), "Turn the Music Up!" (1979)
• Pockets
  • "Take It on Up" (1978), "Catch Me" (1979)
• Pointer Sisters
  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, disco, jazz, bebop, blues, soul, funk, dance, country and rock.The...
  
  
  • "Going Down Slowly" (1975), "You Gotta Believe" (1976), "Fire" (1978), "Happiness" (1979) "We've Got the Power" (1980)
• Polly Brown
  Polly Brown
  Polly Brown is an English singer. A member of Pickettywitch and Sweet Dreams - and with each group lead singer on a Top Ten hit, respectively "That Same Old Feeling" and "Honey Honey" - Brown had an international solo hit in 1975 with "Up in a Puff of Smoke".-Biography:Brown recorded with...
  
  
  • "You're My Number-One" (1976), "(Up Up Up) In a Puff of Smoke" (1975)
• Poussez
  • "Boogie with Me" (1979), "You're All I Have" (1979), "Come on and Do It" (1979)
• Precious Wilson
  Precious Wilson
  Precious Wilson is a soul singer.-Background:Wilson started out as a backing singer for the all-male group Eruption. The group enjoyed a minor hit when they won a talent competition in 1975 with the song "Let Me Take You Back in Time"...
  
  
  • "Hold on, I'm Comin' (1979)
• The Pretenders
  The Pretenders
  The Pretenders are an English rock band formed in Hereford, England in March 1978. The original band consisted of initiator and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde , James Honeyman-Scott , Pete Farndon , and Martin Chambers...
  
  
  • "Mystery Achievement" (1979)
• Prime Time
  Prime Time
  Prime Time is an Irish news analysis, current affairs and politics programme. It is broadcast on RTÉ One on Tuesday and Thursday nights between 21:30 and 22:10. It is currently presented by Miriam O'Callaghan, who has presented the programme since its commencement in 1996...
  
  
  • "Good Times Theme" (1978)
• Prince
  Prince (musician)
  Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...
  
  
  • "Soft and Wet" (1978), "Just as Long as We're Together" (1979), "I Wanna Be Your Lover" (1979), "Sexy Dancer" (1979), "I Feel for You" (1980), "Uptown" (1980) "Dirty Mind" (1980) "Controversy" (1981), "Let's Work" (1982), "Sexuality" (1982), "1999" (1982)
• Prince Ellis
  • "Disco Girl" (1979)
• Prince Phillip Mitchell
  • "A Star in the Ghetto" (1978)
• Private Pink
  • "Little High Thing" (1977)
• Puff
  • "(You Got Me) In the Mood" (1979)
• Purple Reign
  Purple Reign
  Purple Reign is an American female music group assembled by producer Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, established in 2010. The trio consists of Latoya Duggan, Victoria McCants and Siobhan McNear....
  
  
  • "You Can't Keep a Good Man Down" (1979), "You Gave Me Somebody to Love" (1979)
• Pussyfoot
  Pussyfoot
  Pussyfoot was the name of a British recording act of the late 1970s.The act consisted of former The Mixtures member, songwriter, producer and musician Mick Flinn, and vocalist Donna Jones. Flinn remained behind the scenes, and Jones was marketed as a solo artist...
  
  
  • "The Way That You Do It" (1976), "Ooh Ja Ja" (1977)

Q

• Quartz
  • "Beyond the Clouds" (1978)
• Queen
  Queen (band)
  Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
  
  
  • "Fun It" (1978), "Another One Bites the Dust
    Another One Bites the Dust
    "Another One Bites the Dust" is a song by the English rock band Queen. Written by bass guitarist John Deacon, the song featured on the group's eighth studio album The Game . The song was a worldwide hit, charting number one on the United States Billboard Hot 100, number two on the R&B charts and...
    
    " (1980), "Dancer" (1982), "Back Chat" (1982), "Staying Power" (1982), "Body Language" (1982)
• Queen Samantha
  Queen Samantha
  The Queen Samantha was a 1970s disco artist produced by the Parisian musician Harry Chalkitis. Gloria Brooks, a singer from Chicago, was the lead vocalist on many of their recordings. All of their songs were co-written by Chalkitis and his wife Myriam...
  
  
  • "Close Your Eyes" (1979), "Take a Chance" (1979)
• Queen Yahna
  • "Ain't It Time" (1976)
• The Quickest Way Out
  • "Who Am I" (1976)
• Quincy Jones
  Quincy Jones
  Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...
  
  
  • "Love, I Never Had It So Good" (1978), "Stuff Like That" (1978), "Ai No Corrida" (1981), "Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me" (1981), "Razzamatazz" (1981)

R

• The Raes
  The Raes
  The Raes were the Welsh-Canadian husband-and-wife singing duo of Robbie and Cherrill Rae, who had a handful of disco-inflected pop hits in the late 1970s.-Career:...
  
  
  • "A Little Lovin' Helps Keep the Doctor Away" (1979)
• Rahni Harris
  Dayton (band)
  Dayton was a post-disco funk band, formed in Dayton, Ohio, United States by Chris Jones from the band Sun and Shawn Sandridge from Over Night Low. Derrick Armstrong , Kevin Hurt , Jennifer Matthews and Rachel Beavers completed the line up...
  
   & F.L.O.
  • "Six Million Steps (West Runs South)" (1978)
• Raindolls
  • "Disco Santa Claus" (1978)
• Ralph Carter
  Ralph Carter
  Ralph Carter is an American actor, and singerCarter is best known for his work as a child and teenager, both in the Broadway musical Raisin and as the character Michael Evans, the youngest member of the Evans family, on the 1970s sitcom Good Times...
  
  
  • "Extra Extra (Read All About It)" (1975)
• Ralph Graham
  Ralph Graham
  -Additional sources:* Fitzgerald, Tim. Wildcat Gridiron Guide: Past & Present Stories About K-State Football -External links:*...
  
  
  • "What Am I to Do" (1977)
• Ralph MacDonald
  Ralph MacDonald
  Ralph MacDonald is an American percussionist and song-writer. He joined Harry Belafonte's band at age 17. He wrote the Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway song "Where is the Love" with songwriting partner William Salter. Probably his best-known composition is the Grover Washington, Jr...
  
  
  • "Where Is the Love" (1977), "The Path" (1978), "Discolypso" (1979)
• Ramona Wulf
  • "I Can't Say No" (1977), "Step by Step" (1978)
• Ramsey Lewis
  Ramsey Lewis
  Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis, Jr. is an American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality. Ramsey Lewis has recorded over 80 albums and has received seven gold records and three Grammy Awards so far in his career.-Biography:...
  
  
  • "Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In" (1979), "Dancin'" (1979)
• Ranee Lee
  Ranee Lee
  Ranee Lee, CM is a Canadian jazz vocalist and musician who resides in Montreal, Quebec.Lee toured North America in the 1970s as a jazz drummer and tenor saxophonist. She subsequently landed a starring role playing Billie Holiday in Lady Day, and won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for her performance...
  
  
  • "Disco Man" (1979)
• Raul De Souza
  Raul de Souza
  Raul de Souza is a renowned trombonist who has recorded with Sergio Mendez, Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, Milton Nascimento, Sonny Rollins, Cal Tjader and the jazz/fusion band Caldera....
  
  
  • "'Til Tomorrow Comes" (1979)
• Ray Charles
  Ray Charles
  Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...
  
  
  • "You 20th-Century Fox" (1978)
• Ray Dahrouge
  • "Lifetime Guarantee of Love" (1977), "I Can See Him Making Love to You" (1979), "Stepping Out" (1979)
• Ray, Goodman & Brown
  Ray, Goodman & Brown
  Ray, Goodman & Brown is an American R&B vocal group. The group originated as The Moments, who formed in the mid-1960s and whose greatest successes came in the 1970s with hits including "Love on a Two-Way Street", "Sexy Mama" and "Look at Me "...
  
  
  • "Thrill/Friends" (1979)
• Ray Marco
  • "La, La, La, La" (1979)
• Ray Simpson
  Ray Simpson
  Ray Simpson is the replacement lead singer and "Cop" of noted musical group Village People. Victor Willis is the original lead singer. Like his predecessor, Victor Willis, Simpson is straight...
  
  
  • "My Love Is Understanding" (1979)
• Raydio
  Raydio
  Raydio was an American funk and R&B vocal group formed in 1977, by Ray Parker Jr., with Vincent Bohnam, Jerry Knight, and Arnell Carmichael.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Jack and Jill" (1978), "Get Down" (1978), "You Can't Change That" (1979) " It's Time To Party Now"
• Raymond Lefèvre
  Raymond Lefèvre
  Raymond Lefèvre was a French easy listening orchestra leader, arranger and composer.Born in Calais, France, Lefèvre is best known for his 1968 theme "Soul Coaxing ", which became an international hit...
  
  
  • "Theme from Le Gendarme Et Les Extra-Terrestres" (1979)
• Red Point Orchestra
  • "Blue Light" (1981)
• Real Thing
  The Real Thing (group)
  -Albums:Studio albums* Real Thing - UK #34* 4 from 8 * Step Into Our World , retitled Can You Feel the Force - UK #73* ....Saints Or Sinners? Live albums* The Real Thing Live Compilation albums...
  
  
  • "You To Me Are Everything" (1976), "Can You Feel The Force" (1978)
• Rena Scott
  • "Super Lover" (1979)
• Rene Harris
  René Harris
  René Reynaldo Harris was President of the Republic of Nauru four times between 1999 and 2004. He was a Member of Parliament from 1977 to 2008.-Background and early career:...
  
  
  • "Doctor Music" (1977)
• Retta Young
  • "My Man Is on His Way" (1979)
• Reflections
  • "Gift-Wrap My Love" (1976)
• Regina James
  • "Alfie" (1979), "Dancin' in the Name of Love" (1979)
• Règine
  • "I'll Never Stop Dancin'" (1979), "Je Survivrai" (1979)
• Revanche
  Revanche
  Revanche was a short-lived Marvel Comics character, associated with the X-Men. She was created by writer Fabian Nicieza and first appeared in X-Men -Fictional character biography:...
  
  
  • "1979 It's Dancing Time" (1979), "Music Man" (1979)
• Revelation
  • "You to Me Are Everything" (1976)
• Rhoades Affair
  • "See You in September" (1979)
• Rhoda Scott
  Rhoda Scott
  Rhoda Scott is an African-American hard bop and soul jazz organist.The daughter of an AME minister, Scott spent much of her childhood in New Jersey, where she learned to play organ in the churches where her father served. Soon she herself was serving frequently as organist for youth and gospel...
  
  
  • "C'est Si Bon" (1978)
• Rhythm Heritage
  Rhythm Heritage
  Rhythm Heritage was a 1970s American disco-funk band, best known for their 1976 US #1 single "Theme from "S.W.A.T.". It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the Recording Industry Association of America in February 1976...
  
  
  • "Theme from S.W.A.T." (1975), "Baretta's Theme (Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow)" (1977), "Sail away with Me" (1977), "Disco Queen" (1978)
• Rice & Beans Orchestra
  • "You've Got Magic" (1977), "Disco Dancing" (1978)
• Richard Evans
  • "Do-Re-Me-For-Soul (Use It before You Lose It)" (1979)
• The Richard Hewson Orchestra
  • "What Shall We Do When the Disco's Over" (1978)
• Richenel
  • "Dance Around the World" (1986)
• Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots
  Rick Dees
  Rigdon Osmond "Rick" Dees III is an American comedic performer, entertainer, and radio personality, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown and for the novelty song "Disco Duck." He is a People's Choice Award recipient, a Grammy-nominated...
  
  
  • "Disco Duck" (1976), "Dis-gorilla" (1977), "You Got Those Lips" (1978)
• Rick James
  Rick James
  James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. , better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popular performer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four number-one hits on the U.S. R&B charts performing in the genres of funk and R&B...
  
  
  • "Mary Jane" (1978), "You and I" (1979), "Dance Wit' Me" (1980), "Super Freak" (1981), "Give It to Me Baby" (1981), "Ghetto Life" (1981), "Cold Blooded" (1983), "Glow" (1985)
• Ricky Derrington & the Funkytown Hustlers
  • "Let's Get Funky" (1974), "Boogie Down" (1975), "All Funked Up" (1976), "Manhattan Slide" (1977)
• The Ring
  • "Jump!" (1979), "Savage Lover
    Savage Lover
    "Savage Lover" is a 1979 hit recording by the American disco group, The Ring. The tune was produced and written by studio musician - composer Marcus Barone and the professional musician Fausto Lucignani who also co-produced the hit record. Savage Lover hit #1 on the Pop Charts in Mexico for weeks....
    
    " (1979)
• Ringo Starr
  Ringo Starr
  Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
  
  
  • "Drowning in the Sea of Love" (1977)
• Ripple (band)
  Ripple (band)
  Ripple was an American funk band from Michigan. The group was signed to GRC Records in the 1970s, and scored several hit singles, the biggest of which was "I Don't Know What It Is, But It Sure Is Funky".-Band members:*Keith Samuels - guitar, lead vocals...
  
  
  • "The Beat Goes On" (1977)
• The Ritchie Family
  The Ritchie Family
  The Ritchie Family was the name of an American vocal group, based in Philadelphia, who achieved several hits during the disco era.-Career:...
  
  
  • "I Want to Dance with You (Dance with Me)" (1975), "Brazil" (1975), "Best Disco In Town" (1976), "Life Is Music" (1977), "African Queens" (1977), "American Generation" (1978), "Put Your Feet to the Beat" (1979), "Give Me a Break" (1980)
• Ritz
  • "Dance Until You Drop" (1979), "The Loco-Motion" (1979), "I Wanna Get With You" (1980)
• Robert Guillaume
  Robert Guillaume
  Robert "Bob" Guillaume is an American stage and television actor, best known for his role as Benson Du Bois on the TV-series Soap and the spin-off Benson, voicing the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King and as Isaac Jaffe on Sports Night...
  
  
  • "I Who Have Nothing" (1979), "The Streets Are Filled with Dancing" (1979)
• Robert John
  Robert John
  Robert John is an American singer-songwriter.- Biography :He is best remembered for the 1979 hit, "Sad Eyes". This song, which features John's falsetto vocals, reached Number One on the Billboard Hot 100. Earlier, in 1963 he recorded as the lead singer with Bobby & the Consoles...
  
  
  • "Give a Little Bit" (1978)
• Robert Lee
  Robert Lee (musician)
  Robert Lee is a Hong Kong musician and younger brother of martial artist Bruce Lee.-Biography:Lee's father, Lee Hoi-chuen , a leading Cantonese opera and film actor of the 1940s was all Chinese, and his mother, Grace Ho was half Chinese and half Caucasian...
  
  
  • "Are You Ready to Love Me" (1979)
• Roberta Flack
  Roberta Flack
  Roberta Flack is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who is notable for jazz, soul, R&B, and folk music...
  
  
  • "Back Together Again" (1979), "Don't Make Me Wait" (1979)
• Roberta Kelly
  Roberta Kelly
  Roberta Kelly is an African American singer, who scored three hits on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart between 1976 and 1978...
  
  
  • "Love-Sign" (1977)
• Robin Beck
  Robin Beck
  Robin Beck is an American singer. She topped the singles chart in the UK in 1988, and Germany in 1989 with her single "First Time", which had come to the public's attention via its use in a Coca-Cola commercial....
  
  
  • "Sweet Talk" (1979)
• Rockets
  Rockets (band)
  Rockets were a French space rock band that formed in Paris in 1974. Some of the former members had played together since 1970 in a local band called Crystal...
  
  
  • "Space Rock" (1978)
• Rockwell
  Rockwell (musician)
  Rockwell is an R&B performer who was signed to the Motown label.-Biography:...
  
  
  • "Somebody's Watching Me
    Somebody's Watching Me
    "Somebody's Watching Me" is the debut single by R&B artist Rockwell, released on the Motown label in 1984. The song's lyrics relate the narrator's paranoid fear of being followed and watched. It featured former Motown artists Michael Jackson on the chorus and Jermaine Jackson on additional backing...
    
    " (1984)
• Rod Stewart
  Rod Stewart
  Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE is a British singer-songwriter and musician, born and raised in North London, England and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry....
  
  
  • "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" (1979), "Passion" (1981), "Tonight I'm Yours" (1981), "Young Turks" (1981)
• The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
  
  
  • "Miss You" (1978), "Dance (Pts 1&2)" (1980), "Emotional Rescue" (1980), "Too Much Blood" (1983)
• Romance
  • "Dance My Way to Your Heart" (1979)
• Ron Louis Smith
  • "Party Freaks, Come On" (1979)
• Ronnie Dyson
  Ronnie Dyson
  Ronnie Dyson was an American singer and actor.-Career:Born in Washington, D.C., Dyson grew up in Brooklyn, New York where he sang in church choirs. At just 18 years of age, he won lead part in the Broadway production of Hair debuting in New York in 1968...
  
  
  • "If the Shoe Fits" (1979), "Couples Only" (1979)
• Ronnie Jones
  Ronnie Jones
  - External links :**...
  
  
  • "Soul Sister" (1978)
• Ronnie Milsap
  Ronnie Milsap
  Ronnie Lee Milsap is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country’s most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s...
  
  
  • "High-Heel Sneakers" (1978)
• Rose Royce
  Rose Royce
  Rose Royce is an American soul and R&B band. The group is best known for several hit singles including "Car Wash," "I Wanna Get Next to You," "Wishing on a Star", "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" and "I'm Going Down".-Career:...
  
  
  • "Car Wash
    Car Wash (song)
    "Car Wash" is a 1976 soul music single by Rose Royce for MCA Records, the group's debut single and one of the most notable successes of the disco era. Written and produced by the band's main producer Norman Whitfield, "Car Wash", the theme of the 1976 film Car Wash, was Rose Royce's most successful...
    
    " (1976), "Do Your Dance" (1977), "Is It Love You're After" (1979)
• Rosebud
  Rosebud (band)
  Rosebud was the name of an American popular music group which released a single, eponymous album in 1971.Its members were Judy Henske, Jerry Yester, Craig Doerge, John Seiter, and David Vaught. The album was a follow-up to the Henske-Yester collaboration, Farewell Aldebaran...
  
  
  • "Have a Cigar" (1979)
• Roundtree
  • "Get on Up" (1979), "Discocide" (1979)
• Rouge
  • "Don't Stop Singing" (1978)
• Roy Ayers
  Roy Ayers
  Roy Ayers is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk .- Biography :Ayers...
  
  
  • "Running Away" (1977), "Fever" (1977), "Don't Stop the Feeling" (1979), "Heat of the Beat" (1979), "Don't Let Our Love Slip Away" (1979)
• Rozalin Woods
  • "Flashback" (1979)
• Ruby Andrews
  Ruby Andrews
  Ruby Andrews is a Chicago-based American soul singer.Her best known songs include "Casonova " , "You Made A Believer " , and "Everybody Saw You" .-Biography:...
  
  
  • "Queen of the Disco" (1977)
• Rufus
  Rufus (band)
  Rufus was an American funk band from Chicago, Illinois best known for launching the career of lead singer Chaka Khan. They had several hits throughout their career, including "Tell Me Something Good," "Sweet Thing," and "Ain't Nobody."-Origins:...
  
   (featuring Chaka Khan
  Chaka Khan
  Chaka Khan , frequently known as the Queen of Funk, is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career...
  
  )
  • "Once You Get Started" (1975), "Have a Good Time" (1976), "Dance Wit Me" (1976), "At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up)" (1977), "Do You Love What You Feel" (1979), "Any Love" (1979)
• Ruth Waters
  • "Never Gonna Be the Same" (1979), "Start a New Affair" (1979)

S

• S.S.O.
  • "Right Here, Right Now" (1977)
• Saint & Stephanie
  • "Have You Ever Heard a Symphony" (1979)
• Saint Tropez
  • "On A Rien A Perdre" (1977), "Hold on to Love" (1978), "Fill My Life with Love" (1978), "One More Minute" (1979)
• Salsoul Orchestra
  Salsoul Orchestra
  The Salsoul Orchestra was the backing band for acts on Salsoul Records. Under their own name the group recorded several hit singles and albums between 1975 and 1981.-Group History:...
  
  
  • "Tangerine" (1975), "Nice 'n' Naasty" (1976), "You're Just the Right Size" (1976), "Chicago Bus Stop (Ooh, I Love It)" (1976), "Christmas Medley" (1976), "Run Away" (1977)
• The Salsoul Strings
  • "Sun after the Rain" (1978)
• Samantha Sang
  Samantha Sang
  Samantha Sang is a stage name of Australian singer, Cheryl Lau Sang, from Melbourne, who had an earlier career as Cheryl Gray. She had a number eight hit in Australia with "You Made Me What I Am" in 1967. By 1969, she had relocated to United Kingdom and worked with Bee Gees but then returned...
  
  
  • "Emotion" (1978), "You Keep Me Dancing" (1978), "From Dance To Love" (1979)
• Samba Soul
  • "Chove Chuva" (1978), "I'm in You" (1979)
• Samona Cooke
  • "One-Night Affair" (1978)
• Sandra Feva
  • "If You Want It, You Got It" (1979)
• Sandy Mercer
  • "Play with Me" (1978), "Now That You're In" (1979)
• Santa Esmeralda
  Santa Esmeralda
  Santa Esmeralda is a U.S./French Disco group formed in the 1970s, which earned a #1 club hit in 1977 with a cover version of the song "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood".-Mr. "Misunderstood":Leroy Gómez was born in Wareham, Massachusetts of Cape Verdean descent...
  
  
  • "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (1977), "Sevilla Nights" (1977), "Another Cha-Cha" (1978)
• Santana
  Carlos Santana
  Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
  
  
  • "One Chain (Don't Make No Prison)" (1978)
• Sarah Brightman
  Sarah Brightman
  Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer. She is famous for possessing a vocal range of over 3 octaves and singing in the whistle register...
  
   & Hot Gossip
  Hot Gossip
  -Formation:Arlene Phillips came to London to learn and teach developing American Jazz dance routines. Employed as a dance teacher, she taught at locations including the Pineapple Dance Studios and the Italia Conti Stage School. In 1974, Phillips started forming the core of a troupe; Italia Conti...
  
  
  • "I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper" (1978)
• Sarah Dash
  Sarah Dash
  Sarah Dash is a singer and actress. Her first notable appearance on the music scene was as a member of Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles...
  
  
  • "Sinner Man" (1978), "(Come and Take This) Candy from your Baby" (1979), "Ooh La La, Too Soon" (1980)
• Sassy
  • "Theme from Disco '77" (1977)
• Saturday Night Band
  • "Keep Those Lovers Dancing" (1979)
• Saturne EA 1
  • "Saturn's Brass" (1977), "Gammaray Dance" (1977)
• Scarlet Rivera
  Scarlet Rivera
  Scarlet Rivera is an American violinist. She is best known for her work with Bob Dylan, in particular on his album Desire and as part of the Rolling Thunder Revue.-Early career:...
  
  
  • "Scarlet Fever" (1978)
• Scherrie & Susaye
  • "Leaving Me Was the Best Thing You've Ever Done" (1979)
• Sea Level
  Sea Level (band)
  Sea Level is the name of a fusion group that mixed jazz, blues and rock. It existed between 1976 and 1981. Initially, it was an offshoot of The Allman Brothers Band, but as tensions grew between the loss of two of its founding members, and personal greivances between Gregg Allman and other...
  
  
  • "Sneakers (Fifty-Four)" (1979)
• Sex O'Clock USA
  • "Baby Come On" (1977)
• Seals & Crofts
  • "You're the Love" (1978)
• Sergey Kremenchenko
  • "O Ukraine" (1975), "Boogie against the USSR" (1976), "Kievan Funky" (1976)
• Sergio Franchi
  Sergio Franchi
  Sergio Franchi was an Italian tenor.Franchi was born in Cremona, Italy. His father wanted him to become an electrical engineer, so he studied both music and engineering simultaneously. The family moved to South Africa in 1952, where Sergio worked part-time as a draftsman, while continuing to study...
  
  
  • "Laugh You Silly Clown" (1979), "More" (1979)
• Sérgio Mendes
  Sergio Mendes
  Sérgio Santos Mendes is a Brazilian musician. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk....
  
  
  • "I'll Tell You" (1978)
• Seventh Avenue
  Seventh Avenue (band)
  Seventh Avenue is a Christian metal band from Wolfsburg, Germany, formed in 1989. Consisting of guitarist/vocalist Herbie Langhans, guitarist Florian Gottsleben, bassist Markus Beck, and drummer Mike Pflüger, Seventh Avenue plays a hybrid style of speed and power metal with the focus on melodies...
  
  
  • "New York's on Fire" (1979), "Miami Heatwave" (1979)
• Shadee
  • "I Just Need More Money" (1979), "Disco Hall of Fame" (1979)
• Shalamar
  Shalamar
  Shalamar was an American music group, primarily of the 1970s and 1980s, that was originally a disco-driven vehicle created by Soul Train booking agent Dick Griffey and show creator Don Cornelius. They went on to be an influential dance trio, masterminded by Soul Train producer Don Cornelius...
  
  
  • "Uptown Festival" (1977), "Take That To The Bank" (1978), "The Second Time Around" (1979), "Right in the Socket" (1979), "Go for It" (1981)
• Shampoo
  • "Harlem Hustle" (1979)
• Sharon Redd
  Sharon Redd
  Sharon Redd was an American singer from New York. She was the half sister of R&B singer Pennye Ford.-Biography and career:...
  
  
  • "Love Insurance" (1979), "Can You Handle It" (1980), "You Got My Love" (1980)
• Shaw
  • "How High the Moon" (1976)
• Sheila and B. Devotion
  Sheila (and) B. Devotion
  Sheila & B. Devotion was a disco group fronted by French singer Sheila between 1977 and 1980. This formation briefly reached popularity in Europe and to a lesser extent in the US club circuit during the disco era...
  
  (billed in some countries as Sheila B. Devotion)
  • "Singin' in the Rain" (1977), "You Light My Fire" (1978), "Spacer" (1979)
• Shelbra Deane
  • "You Move Me" (1979)
• Sherman Hunter
  • "Dancing Down the Avenue" (1979)
• Shirley & Company
  Shirley & Company
  Shirley & Company was an American disco group, consisting of Shirley Goodman , Jesus Alvarez, Walter Morris, Bernadette Randle, Seldon Powell, Jonathan Williams and Clarence Oliver....
  
  
  • "Shame, Shame, Shame" (1975)
• Shirley Bassey
  Shirley Bassey
  Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE , is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century"...
  
  
  • "Copacabana" (1978), "This Is My Life" (1978)
• Shobizz
  • "Do It in the Dark" (1979)
• Showdown featuring Sampson
  • "What's Your Name" (1977)
• Silver Blue
  • "Light My Fire" (1978)
• Silver Convention
  Silver Convention
  Silver Convention was a German euro disco recording act of the 1970s. The group was originally named Silver Bird Convention, or Silver Bird.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Fly, Robin Fly" (1975), "Get Up And Boogie" (1976), "Telegram" (1977),
  • "Hollywood Movie" (1978), "Love in a Sleeper" (1979)
• Silvetti
  • "Spring Rain" (1979)
• Siren
  • "Morning Music" (1979)
• Sister Power
  • "Give Me Back My Love Affair" (1979)
• Sister Sledge
  Sister Sledge
  Sister Sledge is an American musical group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in 1972 and consisting of four sisters: Kim Sledge Debbie Sledge , Joni Sledge , and Kathy Sledge . They are granddaughters of the former opera singer Viola Williams. The sisters used to perform under the name of "Mrs...
  
  
  • "Love Don't You Go Through No Changes On Me" (1975), "Cream of the Crop" (1977), "Thinking Of You" (1978), "We Are Family" (1979), "He's the Greatest Dancer" (1979), "Lost In Music" (1979), "Got to Love Somebody" (1980), "Pretty Baby" (1980), "All American Girls" (1981)
• Skip Mahoaney & the Casuals
  • "Running away from Love" (1976), "And It's Love" (1977),
• Skyy
  Skyy (band)
  Skyy was an American R&B/funk/disco band based in New York. They are perhaps best known for their 1982 hit, "Call Me," as well as their 1989 "comeback" hits, "Start of a Romance" and "Real Love."-Career:...
  
  
  • "First Time Around" (1979), "Disco Dancing" (1979)
• Slave
  Slave (band)
  Slave was an Ohio funk band popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Trumpeter Steve Washington and Mark Hicks formed the group in Dayton, Ohio in 1975.-Career:Trombonist Floyd Miller teamed with Tom Lockett Jr...
  
  
  • "Just A Touch Of Love" (1979)
• Slick
  • "Sexy Cream" (1979), "Feelin' Good" (1979)
• Soccer
  • "Time Out (For Love)" (1978)
• Soiree
  • "Close to You" (1979)
• Solar Heat
  • "Let's Go Dancing" (1979)
• Sonny Rollins
  Sonny Rollins
  Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins is a Grammy-winning American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St...
  
  
  • "Disco Monk" (1979)
• Sophie Ellis-Bextor
  Sophie Ellis-Bextor
  Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor is an English singer, songwriter, model and occasional DJ. She first came to prominence in the late 1990s, as the lead singer of the indie rock band Theaudience. After the group disbanded, Ellis-Bextor went solo, achieving widespread success in the early 2000s...
  
  
  • "Murder on the Dancefloor
    Murder on the Dancefloor
    "Murder on the Dancefloor" is a song written by Gregg Alexander and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Alexander and Matt Rowe for Ellis-Bextor's first album Read My Lips. After the release of "Take Me Home" in August 2001, Ellis-Bextor released her best-selling single to date in December 2001...
    
    " (2001), "Me and My Imagination
    Me and My Imagination
    "Me and My Imagination" is a pop song written by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Hannah Robinson and Matt Prime for Ellis-Bextor's third album, Trip the Light Fantastic. The song was released as the album's second single in May 2007, reaching number twenty-three on the UK singles chart. The song reached...
    
    " (2007), "Heartbreak (Make Me a Dancer)" (2009), "Can't Fight This Feeling feat. Junior Caldera
    Junior Caldera
    Junior Caldera is a French disc jockey from Paris. A multi-instrumentalist, Caldera was influenced by many musical styles and made rock music before becoming involved in house music in 2002 whilst working as a stage designer in a number of Parisian nightclubs...
    
    
• Sophisticated Ladies
  Sophisticated Ladies
  Sophisticated Ladies is a musical revue based on the music of Duke Ellington.After fifteen previews, the Broadway production, conceived by Donald McKayle, directed by Michael Smuin, and choreographed by McKayle, Smuin, Henry LeTang, Bruce Heath, and Mercedes Ellington, opened on March 1, 1981 at...
  
  
  • "Check It Out" (1977)
• Soul Children
  • "Summer in the Shade" (1978)
• Soul Survivors
  Soul Survivors
  Soul Survivors is a 2001 psychological thriller film starring Melissa Sagemiller as a college student named Cassie, whose boyfriend Sean died in a car accident that resulted from her driving after a night of partying...
  
  
  • "Happy Birthday, America" (1976)
• Soul Train Gang
  • "Soul Train Theme" (1976), "Ooh Cha Cha" (1976), "My Cherie Amour" (1977)
• Southern Exposure
  • "On Our Way" (1979), "Love Is" (1979)
• Southroad Connection
  • "You Like It, We Love It" (1977)
• Space
  • "Carry on, Turn Me On" (1977), "Magic Fly" (1977), "Deliverance" (1978)
• Space Project
  • "Conquest of the Stars" (1977), "Beyond Orion" (1978)
• Spiders Web
  • "I Don't Know What's on Your Mind" (1976)
• The Spinners (Known as the Detroit Spinners in the UK)
  • "Love or Leave" (1975), "The Rubberband Man" (1976), "H.E.L.P." (1978), "Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me Girl" (1979), "Body Language" (1979), "Disco Ride" (1979), "Cupid/I've Loved You for a Long Time" (1980)
• Squallor
  • "I Love My Disco Baby" (1978)
• Stacy Lattisaw
  Stacy Lattisaw
  Stacy Lattisaw is an American R&B, dance, and gospel singer. Since the 1990s, she has exclusively sung gospel music, as a callback to her Christian roots.-Career:...
  
  
  • "When You're Young and in Love" (1979), "Dynamite!" (1980), "Jump to the Beat" (1980)
• The Staples
  • "Dancing at the Disco" (1978)
• Star City
  • "I'm a Man" (1978)
• Stargard
  Stargard (band)
  Stargard was an American three-piece female funk band, consisting of original members Rochelle Runnells, Debra Anderson, and Janice Williams. Stargard was best known for their 1977 Norman Whitfield-penned hit song " Which Way Is Up?" which served as a theme for the movie of the same name starring...
  
  
  • "Disco Rufus" (1978), "Wear It Out" (1979)
• Stars on 45
  Stars on 45
  Stars on 45 was a Dutch novelty pop act that was briefly very popular in the United Kingdom, throughout Europe, the United States and Australia in the early 1980s. The group later shortened its name to Stars On in the U.S., while in the U.K. and Ireland it was known as Starsound...
  
   (Starsound)
  • "The Beatle's Medley" (1981)
• Stephanie Mills
  Stephanie Mills
  Stephanie Dorthea Mills is an American R&B and soul singer, and a former Broadway star.-Career:Mills began her career appearing in her first play at the age of nine. Two years later, Mills won Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater a record six times...
  
  
  • "What Cha' Gonna Do With My Lovin'?" (1979), "Put Your Body In It" (1979), "You Can Get Over" (1979), "Never Knew Love Like This Before" (1980), "Sweet Sensation" (1980), "Last Night" (1982), "You Can't Run from My Love" (1983), "Pilot Error" (1983), "The Medicine Song" (1984), "Stand Back" (1985)
• Steve Bender
  • "The Final Thing" (1979)
• Stevo
  • "Pay the Price" (1979), "Party Night" (1979)
• The Stewart-Thomas Group
  • "To Freak or Not to Freak" (1979)
• Street People
  The Street People
  The Street People was the name of two American groups to score hits on the US Billboard charts in the 1970s.A group called The Street People hit #35 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970 with the song "Jennifer Tomkins". The group's vocalist was Rupert Holmes....
  
  
  • "Never Get Enough of Your Love" (1976), "Liberated Lady" (1977)
• The Stylistics
  The Stylistics
  The Stylistics are a soul music vocal group, and were one of the best-known Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. They formed in 1968, and were composed of lead Russell Thompkins, Jr., Herbie Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith, and James Dunn. All of their US hits were ballads, graced by the...
  
  
  • "Lucky Me" (1977), "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (1978), "One-Night Affair" (1979), "Fly!" (1979)
• Sugarhill Gang
  • "Rapper's Delight" (1979), "Apache" (1981)
• Sumeria
  • "Golden Tears" (1978)
• The Supremes
  The Supremes
  The Supremes, an American female singing group, were the premier act of Motown Records during the 1960s.Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop, soul, Broadway show tunes, psychedelic soul, and disco...
  
  
  • "He's My Man" (1975), "I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking" (1976), "High Energy" (1976), "You're My Driving Wheel" (1976), "Love I Never Knew You Could Feel So Good" (1977), "I Don't Want to Be Tied Down" (1977), "Let Yourself Go" (1977)
• Sunshine
  Sunshine (band)
  Sunshine is a disco act whose members include the real-life sisters of singer Donna Summer . Their 1978 number one Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play hit "Take It to the Zoo," which was featured on the "Thank God It's Friday" film and soundtrack, was co-written by Summer , who also sings...
  
  
  • "Take It to the Zoo" (1978)
• Sweet Cream
  • "I Don't Know What I'd Do" (1978)
• Sweet Dreams
  • "Hollywood (Disco Star)" (1979)
• Sydney Barnes
  Sydney Barnes
  Sydney Francis Barnes was an English professional cricketer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the sport's history...
  
  
  • "Get on up and Dance" (1979)
• The Sylvers
  The Sylvers
  The Sylvers were a popular R&B/soul and disco family group during the 1970s. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, the family would later relocate to Watts, California.- Beginnings :...
  
  
  • "Boogie Fever" (1975), "Hot Line" (1977), "Don't Stop, Get Off" (1978)
• Sylvester
  Sylvester James
  -Studio albums:-Live albums:-Compilation albums:* Mighty Real UK #62* 12 By 12 * Immortal -Singles:-Additional recordings:*Lights Out San Francisco...
  
  
  • "Love Hangover" (1976), "Down, Down, Down" (1977), "Over and Over" (1977), "Dance (Disco Heat)" (1978), "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" (1978), "I (Who Have Nothing)" (1979), "Can't Stop Dancing" (1979), "Living Proof" (1979), "Stars" (1979), "Do Ya Wanna Funk" (featuring Patrick Crowley) (1982)
• Sylvester Johnson
  • "Mystery Lady" (1979)
• Sylvia
  Sylvia Robinson
  Sylvia Robinson was an American singer, musician, record producer, and record label executive, most notably known for her work as founder/CEO of the hip hop label Sugar Hill Records. She is credited as the driving force behind two landmark singles in the genre...
  
  
  • "Pillow Talk" (1973), "The Lollipop Man" (1977), "Automatic Lover" (1977)
• Syreeta
  • "One to One" (1977), "Loving You" (with Donald Byrd
    Donald Byrd
    Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II, is an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd is best known as one of the only bebop jazz musicians who successfully pioneered the funk and soul genres while simultaneously remaining a...
    
    ) (1979)

T

• T-Boy Ross
  • "I Want You" (1979)
• T-Connection
  T-Connection
  T-Connection was a funk and disco group from Nassau, the Bahamas, who scored two hits on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1977 and 1979. They did better on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, where they had five Top 10 hits, including "Do What You Wanna Do", which reached #1, and "Everything Is...
  
  
  • "Disco Magic" (1976), "Do What Ya Wanna Do" (1977), "Let Yourself Go" (1978), "At Midnight" (1978), "Saturday Night" (1979)
• Taana Gardner
  Taana Gardner
  Taana Gardner is an American disco and post-disco singer who found her success through West End Records from 1979 to the present day. She is also a former member of the Aural Exciters....
  
  
  • "When You Touch Me" (1979), "Work That Body" (1979), "Heartbeat" (1981)
• Taka Boom
  Taka Boom
  Taka Boom is a female R&B and dance music singer and is the younger sister of Chaka Khan and Mark Stevens of Aurra. She sang background vocals for several Parliament albums in the 1970s...
  
  
  • "Night Dancin'" (1979), "Red Hot, (1979), "To Hell With Him" (1980)
• Tangerue
  • "Tangerue" (1979)
• Tantra
  • "Hills of Katmandu" (1980)
• Tasha Thomas
  Tasha Thomas
  Tasha Thomas was an American singer-songwriter and actress, known for her role as Aunt Em in the original Broadway production of The Wiz. Thomas also had a hit single, "Shoot Me ," from her 1979 album, Midnight Rendezvous.-Music career:Thomas was born in Jeutyn, Alaska...
  
  
  • "Hot-Buttered Boogie" (1979), "Shoot Me With Your Love" (1979)
• Tata Vega
  Tata Vega
  Táta Vega is an American vocalist whose career spans theater, film, and a variety of musical genres.-Early life:...
  
  
  • "I Just Keep Thinking About You Baby" (1979)
• Tavares
  • "It Only Takes a Minute" (1975), "Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel" (1976), "Don't Take Away the Music" (1976), "Whodunnit" (1976), "More Than a Woman" (1977), "Never Knew Love Like This Before" (1978), "Slow Train to Paradise" (1978)
• TC James & the Fist O' Funk Orchestra
  • "New York Strut" (1976), "Bumpsie's Whipping Cream" (1978)
• Ted Taylor
  Ted Taylor (musician)
  Austin Taylor, better known as Ted Taylor was an American soul musician.Born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, Taylor sang with The Cadets/The Jacks in the 1950s...
  
  
  • "Ghetto Disco" (1977), "Keepin' My Head above Water" (1979)
• Teddy Pendergrass
  Teddy Pendergrass
  Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass was an American R&B/soul singer and songwriter. Pendergrass first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade...
  
  
  • "The More I Get, the More I Want (1977), "Life Is a Circle" (1978), "When Somebody Loves You Back" (1978), "If You Know Like I Know" (1979)
• Teena Marie
  Teena Marie
  Mary Christine Brockert, better known by her stage name Teena Marie, was an American singer, songwriter and producer...
  
  
  • "I'm a Sucker for Your Love" (duet with Rick James
    Rick James
    James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. , better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popular performer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four number-one hits on the U.S. R&B charts performing in the genres of funk and R&B...
    
    ) (1979), "Behind the Groove" (1979), "I Need Your Lovin'" (1980), "First Class Love" (1980), "Square Biz" (1981), "Lovergirl" (1984)
• Telex
  Telex (band)
  The Belgian synth-pop group Telex was formed in 1978 by Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman, and Michel Moers, with the intention of "Making something really European, different from rock, without guitar — and the idea was electronic music." Mixing the aesthetics of disco, punk and experimental electronic...
  
  
  • "Moskow Diskow" (1979)
• Tempest Trio
  • "Last Call for Love" (1979), "Love Machine" (1979)
• The Temprees
  The Temprees
  The Temprees were an American soul vocal trio from Memphis, Tennessee, most popular during the 1970s. The band released several albums under We Produce records, an offshoot of Stax Records...
  
  
  • "I Found Love on a Disco Floor" (1976)
• Tenderness
  • "Gotta Keep on Trying" (1978)
• Teresa Brewer
  Teresa Brewer
  Teresa Brewer was an American pop singer whose style incorporated elements of country, jazz, R&B, musicals and novelty songs. She was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, recording nearly 600 songs. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular...
  
  
  • "Music! Music! Music!
    Music! Music! Music!
    "Music! Music! Music!" is a popular song written by Stephen Weiss and Bernie Baum and published in 1949.The biggest-selling version of the song was recorded by Teresa Brewer on December 20, 1949, and released by London Records as catalog number 604. It became a #1 hit and a million-seller in 1950...
    
    " (1976)
• Teri DeSario
  Teri DeSario
  Teri DeSario is a singer/songwriter from Miami, Florida. DeSario worked within several music genres out of high school. She was vocalist, played recorder and harp from 1970 - 1977 with a Medieval and Renaissance music group, the Early Music Consort, headed by scholar and Pro Musica member Arnold...
  
  
  • "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me from You" (1978), "Yes I'm Ready" (duet with KC
    Harry Wayne Casey
    Harry Wayne "K.C." Casey is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is most famous for his group, KC and the Sunshine Band, and as a producer of several hits for other artists.-Early years:...
    
    ) (1980)
• Texico
  • "I Wanna Be with You" (1978)
• Thelma Houston
  Thelma Houston
  Thelma Houston is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She scored a number-one hit in 1976 with her cover version of the song "Don't Leave Me This Way", which won the 1978 Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.-Early life & career:Houston is the daughter of a cotton picking mother...
  
  
  • "Don't Leave Me This Way" (1977), "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" (1979), "Love Machine" (1979), "Love Masterpiece" (1979), "Suspicious Minds" (1980), "96 Tears" (1981), "If You Feel It" (1981)
• Theo Vaness
  • "As Long As It's Love" (1978), "Thank God There's Music" (1978), "Magic Dancer" (1979), "I Can't Dance without You" (1979), "No Romance, Just Wanna Dance" (1979)
• Thomas Escovedo
  • "Stay with Me" (1976)
• THP Orchestra
  • "Shadow of Your Smile" (1976), "Too Hot for Love" (1977), "Music Is All You Need" (1978), "Weekend Two-Step" (1978), "Tender Is the Night" (1978)
• The Three Degrees
  The Three Degrees
  The Three Degrees are an American female vocal group. Formed in 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,, the group has always been a trio though there have been a number of personnel changes and a total of fourteen women have represented the group so far. The original members were Fayette Pinkney,...
  
  
  • "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)" (w/ MFSB) (1973), "The Year Of Decision" (1974), "When Will I See You Again" (1974), "Get Your Love Back" (1974), "Dirty Old Man" (1975), "Take Good Care Of Yourself" (1975), "Giving Up, Giving In" (1978), "Woman In LOve" 1978, "The Runner" (1979), "The Golden Lady" (1979), "My Simple Heart" (1979), "Jump the Gun" (1979) "Set Me Free (To Live)" (1979), "Red Light" (1979)
• Timmy Thomas
  Timmy Thomas
  Timmy Thomas is an American R&B singer, keyboardist, songwriter and record producer, best known for the hit song, "Why Can't We Live Together".-Career:...
  
  
  • "Touch to Touch" (1977), "Stone to the Bone" (1978), "Freak in, Freak Out" (1978)
• Tina Charles
  • "I'm On Fire" (with 5000 Volts
    5000 Volts
    5000 Volts is the name of a British disco recording act that achieved success throughout Europe during the 1970s. The group consisted of vocalists Tina Charles and Martin Jay, with a changing group of session musicians.-Career:...
    
    ) (1975), "I Love To Love" (1976), "Love Me Like A Lover" (1976), "Dance Little Lady Dance" (1976), "Dr Love" (1976), "Love Bug" (1977), "I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me" (1977), "Boogie Around the Clock" (1979)
• Tina Turner
  Tina Turner
  Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...
  
  
  • "Viva la Money" (1978), "Root Toot, Undisputable Rock & Roller" (1978), "Let's Stay Together" (1983)
• Tod Foster
  • "I Fell in Love with an Angel" (1979)
• Tom Jones
  Tom Jones (singer)
  Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...
  
  
  • "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" (1979)
• Tomiko Jones
  • "Let It Flow" (1976)
• Tony Middleton
  Tony Middleton
  Tony Charles Middleton is a former English first class cricketer. He played for Hampshire and was named their Cricket Society's Player of the Year in 1992.-External links:*...
  
  
  • "Lady Fingers" (1976)
• Tony Orlando
  Tony Orlando
  Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis , better known as Tony Orlando, is an American show business professional, best known as the lead singer of the group Tony Orlando and Dawn in the early 1970s. Discovered by producer Don Kirshner, Orlando had songs on the charts in 1961 when he was 16, "Halfway to...
  
  
  • "Don't Let Go" (1978), "They're Playing Our Song" (1979)
• Tony Rallo
  • "Burning Alive" (1979), "Fais L'amour" (1979)
• Tony Valor
  • "Gotta Get It" (1976), "Ma-Mo-Ah" (1977), "Opus 22" (1978), "Love Has Come My Way" (1978)
• Total Unity
  • "Green-Eyed Lady" (1978)
• Toto
  Toto (band)
  Toto is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1977. The group currently consists of Joseph Williams , David Paich , Steve Porcaro , Steve Lukather , Mike Porcaro , and Simon Phillips . Toto is known for a musical style that combines elements of pop, rock, soul, funk, progressive rock, hard...
  
  
  • "Georgy Porgy" (1978)
• Touch
  • "Me and You" (1977)
• Touche
  Touché (band)
  Touché were a German boyband famous from the mid to late 1990s.They split in 2001 after 5 years together and are best remembered for hits such as "This Goodbye Is Not Forever", "I'll Give You My Heart" and "I Can't Get No Sleep"....
  
  
  • "Take a Look (But Don't Touch)" (1979)
• The Trammps
  The Trammps
  The Trammps were an American disco band, who were based in Philadelphia and were one of the first disco bands. The band's first major success was with their 1972 cover version of "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart". The first disco track they released was "Love Epidemic" in 1973...
  
  
  • "Hold Back the Night" (1975), "That's Where the Happy People Go" (1975), "Disco Party" (1976), "Disco Inferno" (1977), "The Whole World's Dancing" (1979)
• Transvolta
  • "Disco Computer" (1978), "You Are Disco" (1978)
• Tribe
  • "Share It" (1976)
• Trini Lopez
  Trini Lopez
  Trini Lopez is an American singer, guitarist and actor.-Career:Lopez was born in Dallas, Texas, on Ashland Street in the Little Mexico neighborhood. He began his entertainment career in Dallas playing at the Vegas Club, a nightclub owned by Jack Ruby...
  
  
  • "Helplessly" (1978)
• Triple "S" Connection
  • "Dance Fever" (1979), "My Cherie Amour" (1979), "Dance the Night Away" (1979)
• Troiano
  • "We All Need Love" (1979)
• True Image
  • "Secret Lover" (1979)
• T.T. Sotto
  • "Chorus Line" (1975)
• Tuxedo Junction
  Tuxedo Junction
  "Tuxedo Junction" is a song co-written by Birmingham, Alabama composer Erskine Hawkins and saxophonist and arranger Bill Johnson. Julian Dash is also credited for the music. The song was introduced by Hawkins's orchestra. Lyrics were by Buddy Feyne...
  
  
  • "That Old Black Magic" (1978), "Take the 'A' Train" (1979)

U

• Ullanda McCollough
  • "Want Ads" (1979)
• Ultimate
  • "Ultimate Medley: Touch Me Baby/Dancing in the Night" (1979)
• U.N.
  • "Disco Power" (1979), "In the Groove" (1979)
• Undisputed Truth
  • "Let's Go Down to the Disco" (1976), "You + Me = Love" (1977)
• Universe City
  • "Can You Get Down" (1976)
• Universal Energy
  • "Disco Energy" (1977)
• Uranium
  • "Eleanor Rigby" (1979), "Carbon 14" (1979), "Gimme Some Lovin'" (1979), "Car Crash" (1979)

V

• The Vamps
  • "Disco Blood" (1977)
• Van Jones & the J's
  • "Let's Go Disco" (1979)
• Van Ludwig Orchestra
  • "Fiddle Away, Paganini" (1979)
• Van McCoy
  Van McCoy
  Van Allen Clinton McCoy was an accomplished musician, music producer, arranger, songwriter, and orchestra conductor. He is known best for his 1975 internationally successful song "The Hustle", which is still played in dance halls and on radio to this day more than thirty years since his death...
  
  
  • "The Hustle" (1975), "The Shuffle" (1976), "Rhythms of the World" (1976), "Disco Movies" (1978), "Lonely Dancer" (1979), "The Hustle II" (1979)
• Vaughn Mason
  • "Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll" (1979), "Jammin' Big Guitar" (1980)
• Venise
  • "Love Is the Real Thing" (1979)
• Verónica Castro
  Verónica Castro
  Verónica Castro is a Mexican actress, singer and television host. She is the mother of singer Cristian Castro and filmmaker Michelle Sáinz Castro and the sister of actress Beatriz Castro,and telenovela producer José Alberto Castro....
  
  
  • "Yo Creo en el Manana" (1979)
• Vicki Sue Robinson
  Vicki Sue Robinson
  Vicki Sue Robinson was an American theatre and film actress and singer, closely associated with the disco era of late 1970s pop music; she is most famous for her 1976 hit, "Turn the Beat Around."-Early life and career:...
  
  
  • "Turn the Beat Around" (1976), "Daylight" (1978), "Feels So Good It Must Be Wrong" (1979), "To Sir with Love" (1981)
• Village People
  Village People
  Village People is a concept disco group that formed in the United States in 1977, well known for their on-stage costumes depicting American cultural stereotypes, as well as their catchy tunes and suggestive lyrics....
  
  
  • "San Francisco (You've Really Got Me)" (1977), "Macho Man" (1978), "In Hollywood (Everybody Is a Star)" (1978), "Y.M.C.A." (1979), "In The Navy" (1979), "Go West" (1979), "Can't Stop the Music" (1980), "Ready for the 80s" (1980), "Do You Wanna Spend the Night" (1981)
• Vince Tempera
  • "Get up, Get on, Get out, Get Off" (1976)
• Viola Wills
  • "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" (1979), "If You Could Read My Mind" (1981), "up On The Roof" (1980), "Stormy Weather" (1983)
• Vivian Reed
  • "Sweet Harmony" (1978), "Ready and Waitin" (1979)
• Voggue
  Voggue
  Voggue was a female disco vocal duo from Canada composed of Chantal Condor and Angela Songui.In 1980, the duo released its first self-titled album, which contains the singles "Love Buzz", "Here We Are" and their most successful single, "Dancin' the Night Away". In 1983, a second album was released...
  
  
  • "Dancin' The Night Away" (1980), "Roller Boogie" (1981)
• Voyage
  Voyage (band)
  Voyage was a European eurodisco group consisting of lead vocalist Sylvia Mason-James, along with Slim Pezin , Marc Chantereau , Sauveur Mallia and Pierre-Alain Dahan ....
  
  
  • "Souvenirs" (1978), "From East to West" (1978), "Let's Fly Away" (1979)

W

• Walter Murphy
  Walter Murphy
  Walter Anthony Murphy, Jr. is an American instrumentalist, songwriter, and arranger. He rose to fame with the hit instrumental "A Fifth of Beethoven", a disco adaptation of passages from the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, in 1976, when disco was at the height of its...
  
  
  • "A Fifth of Beethoven" (1976), "Rhapsody in Blue" (1977), "Gentle Explosion" (1978), "Mostly Mozart" (1979), "Classical Dancing" (1979)
• The Warlord
  • "The Ultimate Warlord" (1979), "I Shall Return" (1979)
• Wayne St. John
  • "Something's Up (Love Me Like the First Time)" (1977)
• Weather Girls
  Weather Girls
  The Weather Girls, also known as Two Tons o' Fun , are an American duo comprising two plus-size African-American women...
  
   (Martha Wash
  Martha Wash
  Martha Wash is an American R&B, Pop, Soul, House singer/songwriter known for her distinctive and powerful voice.-Early career:...
  
   & Izora Rhodes)
  • "Got the Feeling" (1979), "Earth Can Be Just Like Heaven" (1979), "Just Us" (1980), "I Depend On You" (1981), "It's True, I Do" (1981), "Hope" (1982), "Ladies Hotline" (1982), "It's Raining Men
    It's Raining Men
    "It's Raining Men" is a song written by Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer in 1979 originally for Dave Balfour's album Stars , and originally recorded by The Weather Girls in 1982...
    
    " (1982), "Dear Santa (Bring Me a Man This Christmas)" (1982), "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair" (1983)
• Webster Lewis
  Webster Lewis
  Webster Lewis was an American jazz and disco keyboardist.Lewis was born in 1943 in Baltimore, Maryland, and studied at the New England Conservatory of Music under Gunther Schuller. He started out in jazz working with Tony Williams, George Russell, Bill Evans, Stanton Davis, and the Piano Choir...
  
  
  • "Do It with Style" (1977), "You Deserve to Dance" (1979)
• Werner Drexler and His Orchestra
  • "Los Angeles" (1976), "Hustle Serenade" (1976)
• Wet Willie
  • "Weekend" (1979)
• Whispers
  The Whispers
  The Whispers are a long-established R&B-dance vocal group from Los Angeles, California, with a consistent track record of hit records dating back to the late 1960s.-Career:...
  
  
  • "I Fell in Love Last Night (At the Disco)" (1976), "Make It with You" (1977), "Can't Do Without Love" (1979), "And the Beat Goes On" (1980), "It's a Love Thing" (1981)
• Wildflower
  Wildflower (band)
  Wildflower are a rock/reggae band from Mamadawerre, Northern Territory, a remoteoutstation in Arnhem Land. They sing in mostly in local Aboriginal languages and tell traditional stories with lyrics written by mentor Jill Nganjmirra. The band was a Next Crop artist on Triple J....
  
  
  • "Harlem Nocturne" (1978)
• Wilton Place Street Band
  Wilton Place Street Band
  Wilton Place Street Band was an American disco group. The group was an ensemble of studio musicians put together by record producer Trevor Lawrence in Los Angeles, California for the purpose of recording an instrumental disco cover version of the theme tune to "I Love Lucy". The result, "Disco...
  
  
  • "Disco Lucy" (1976)
• Witch Queen
  Witch Queen
  Witch Queen is mini album/EP by the British goth rock band Inkubus Sukkubus, released in November 2005 as a limited edition, and made re-available in 2007.-Track listing:1. "Witch Queen"2. "Intraveneous"3. "All Hallow's Eve4. "Lady Geneva"5. "Crush"...
  
  
  • "Witch Queen" (1979), "Bang a Gong" (1979)
• The Wright Brothers Flying Machine
  • "Skywriter" (1979)

Y

• YBS
  • "Happy Birthday" (1979)
• Yoko Ono
  Yoko Ono
  is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
  
  
  • "Kiss Kiss Kiss" (1980), "Walking on Thin Ice
    Walking on Thin Ice
    "Walking on Thin Ice" is a New Wave/dance song by Yoko Ono, released in 1981. She and John Lennon concluded the recording of the song on December 8, 1980. It was upon their return from the recording studio to The Dakota that Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman...
    
    " (1981), "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him
    Every Man has a Woman who Loves Him
    "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" is a Yoko Ono song from her Double Fantasy album with John Lennon. The version released as a single, and on the compilation album Every Man Has a Woman, is credited to Lennon, and has stripped away Ono's lead vocal, while bringing Lennon's backing vocal up in...
    
    " (1981)
• Yvonne Elliman
  Yvonne Elliman
  Yvonne Marianne Elliman is an American singer who performed for four years in the first cast of Jesus Christ Superstar...
  
  
  • "(I Don't Know Why) I Keep Hangin' On" (1977), "If I Can't Have You" (1978), "Love Pains" (1979)

Z

• The Z.A.C.K.
  • "565, Where Are You?" (1979)
• Zack Ferguson
  • "AA AA UU AA EE" (1979)
• Zarathustra
  • "Magic Nights"
• Zulema Cusseaux
  • "Change" (1978)