Vicki Sue Robinson - 'Turn the Beat Around'. In an unusual achievement for a group of White musicians, 'You Should Be Dancing' hit #4 on the R&B singles chart. 'You Should Be Dancing' is the first #1 pop hit by the Bee Gees which features Barry Gibb's trademark falsetto vocals. He was in the same studio as the Bee Gees recording the Stills-Young Band album Long May You Run. Among the studio musicians appearing on the record are Stephen Stills on the drums. It also spent a week at the top of the pop chart. 'You Should Be Dancing' remains the only Bee Gees record to hit #1 on the disco chart where it stayed for seven weeks. It was incorporated into the Saturday Night Fever film soundtrack for crucial dance scenes. However, the trio's best and most complete disco record 'You Should Be Dancing' hit the charts a year earlier. 'Staying Alive,' 'Night Fever,' and 'How Deep Is Your Love' are legendary pop hits of the era. The three #1 pop hit songs that the Bee Gees wrote and recorded specifically for the soundtrack for the hit film Saturday Night Fever helped bring disco squarely into the pop mainstream. dance chart.īee Gees - 'You Should Be Dancing'. Their cover went all the way to #2 on the U.S. The British group, the Communards, released a version of 'Never Can Say Goodbye' in 1987. Gloria Gaynor returned in 1978 with another career-defining disco hit 'I Will Survive' which became a #1 pop smash. It is a landmark that paved the way for the disco revolution. 'Never Can Say Goodbye' hit the top 10 on the US pop chart and soared all the way to #1 on the fledgling disco chart. It was a groundbreaking extended mix that would lay the groundwork for later 12-inch single remixes used in dance clubs. Among the producers was Meco Monardo who later hit #1 on the pop singles chart with a disco version of the 'Star Wars Theme.' Gloria Gaynor's recording of 'Never Can Say Goodbye' is part of a 19-minute-long disco suite on the first side of the album of the same name. In 1974, producers reworked the song as a disco record for rising R&B vocalist Gloria Gaynor. They took the song all the way to #2 on the US pop chart. Courtesy MGMĬlifton Davis, part of Motown's team of songwriters, wrote 'Never Can Say Goodbye,' and it was first recorded by the Jackson 5 in 1970.

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