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• 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:...
  
  
  • "I'm On Fire" (1975) (lead vocal performed by Tina Charles), "Dr Kiss Kiss" (1976),
• 5th Dimension
  • "Love Hangover" (1976), "Star Dancing" (1978), "You Are The Reason I Feel Like Dancing" (1978)
• 101 Strings
  101 Strings
  101 Strings Orchestra was a brand for a highly successful easy listening symphonic music organization, with a discography exceeding a hundred albums and a creative lifetime of roughly thirty years. Their LPs were individualized by the slogan "The Sound of Magnificence", a puffy cloud logo and...
  
  
  • "Disco Fever" (1979), "Bye Bye Blackbird" (1979)
• 21st Creation
  • "Tailgate" (1976)

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• A Taste of Honey
  A Taste of Honey (band)
  A Taste of Honey was the name of an American recording act, formed in 1971 by associates Perry Kibble and Donald Ray Johnson. In 1978 they had one of the best known chart-toppers of the disco era, "Boogie Oogie Oogie"...
  
  
  • "Boogie Oogie Oogie" (1978), "Disco Dancin'" (1978), "Do It Good" (1979)
• ABBA
  ABBA
  ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...
  
  
  • "Dancing Queen
    Dancing Queen
    "Dancing Queen" is a pop song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released in August 1976, but was first performed two months earlier, on 18 June 1976, during a Royal Variety Show in Stockholm the evening before the Swedish royal wedding. It was the follow-up single to the hit "Fernando"...
    
    " (1976), "Summer Night City
    Summer Night City
    "Summer Night City", written by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, is ABBA's 2nd non-album single, released on September 6, 1978. It was originally intended as the lead single from the group's upcoming Voulez-Vous album, but was eventually not included...
    
    " (1978), "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
    Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
    "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! ", originally titled "Been and Gone and Done It", is one of Swedish pop group ABBA's biggest disco hits. It was recorded and released in 1979 with "The King Has Lost His Crown" as the B-side. It appears on ABBA's Greatest Hits Vol...
    
    " (1979), "Voulez Vous" (1979), "Does Your Mother Know
    Does Your Mother Know
    "Does Your Mother Know", originally "I Can Do It", is the name of a song recorded in 1979 by Swedish pop group ABBA and was the second single to be released from their album Voulez-Vous. The B-side was "Kisses of Fire", also taken from the album.-History:...
    
    " (1979), "Lay All Your Love On Me
    Lay All Your Love on Me
    "Lay All Your Love on Me", is a song recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA in 1980 for their Super Trouper album. It was released only as a 12-inch single in 1981 in limited territories, rather than as a standard 7-inch record. At the time, it was the highest selling 12-inch record in UK chart...
    
    " (1981)
• AC Soulful Symphony
  • "More" (1976)
• Ace Spectrum
  • "Keep Holding On" (1975)
• Addrisi Brothers
  Addrisi Brothers
  The Addrisi Brothers were an American pop duo from Winthrop, Massachusetts. The brothers themselves were Donald Addrisi and Richard Addrisi, known as Dick ....
  
  
  • "As Long As the Music Keeps Playing" (1979), "Ghost Dancer" (1979)
• A.D.
  • "Return of Darth Vader" (1978)
• Adriano Celentano
  Adriano Celentano
  Adriano Celentano is an Italian singer, songwriter, comedian, actor, film director and TV host.-Biography:Celentano was born in Milan at 14 Via Gluck, about which he later wrote the famous song "Il ragazzo della via Gluck"...
  
  
  • Somebody Save Me" (1977)
• Air Power
  • "Welcome to the Disco" (1979), "Be yourself" (1979)
• AKB
  • "Stand Up - Sit Down" (1979)
• A La Carte
  À la carte
  À la carte is a French language loan phrase meaning "according to the menu", and used in* A reference to a menu of items priced and ordered separately, i.e. the usual operation of restaurants * To order an item from the menu on its own, e.g...
  
  
  • "Doctor Doctor Help Me Please" (1979), "Ring Me Honey" (1980),
• Al Downing
  Al Downing (musician)
  Al Downing , later known as Big Al Downing, was an entertainer, singer, songwriter, and pianist. He received the Billboard's New Artist of the Year and the Single of the Year Award in 1979. He was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and was a frequent performer at the Grand Ole Opry...
  
  
  • "I'll Be Holding On" (1975),
• Al Hudson and the Partners
  • "Spread Love" (1978), "You Can Do It" (1979), "Happy Feet" (1979)
• Al Martino
  Al Martino
  Al Martino was an American singer and actor. He had his greatest success as a singer between the early 1950s and mid 1970s, being described as "one of the great Italian American pop crooners", and also became well known as an actor, particularly for his role as singer Johnny Fontane in The...
  
  
  • "Volare" (1976), "Balero" (1978)
• Alec R. Costandinos
  Alec R. Costandinos
  Alec R. Costandinos, is a French singer and artist of the 70's. He was also intimately involved as a writer, publisher and musician in the development of Aphrodite's Child with Vangelis and Greek-born pop singer, Demis Roussos...
  
  
  • "Romeo & Juliet (1977), I Found Love When I Found You (1977), Trocadero Bleu Citron (1978)
• Alexander's Discotime Band
  • "More" (1977)
• Alicia Bridges
  Alicia Bridges
  Alicia Bridges is an American singer who co-wrote and performed her international hit "I Love the Nightlife " in 1978.-Early years:...
  
  
  • "I Love The Nightlife (Disco Round)" (1978), "Body Heat" (1979)
• Allyson with Sunshine
  • "Dance with Me" (1977)
• Alma Faye Brooks
  • "I Don't Need No Sympathy" (1977), "It's Over" (1979), "Don't Fall in Love" (1979)
• Alton McClain & Destiny
  • "It Must Be Love" (1978), "Crazy Love" (1979)
• Amanda Lear
  Amanda Lear
  Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....
  
  
  • "Blood and Honey" (1977), "Enigma" (1978), "Follow Me" (1978), "Fashion Pack" (1979), "Lilli Marlene" (1979), "Diamonds" (1980), "Fever" (1982), "Love Your Body" (1983), "Darkness And Light" (1983), "No Regrets" (1984), "No Credit Card" (1985)
• Amant
  • "If There's Love" (1978)
• American Gypsy
  • "I'm Okay, You're Okay" (1978)
• Amii Stewart
  Amii Stewart
  Amy 'Amii' Paulette Stewart is an American contemporary R&B/disco/dance-pop singer, dancer and actress most famous for her hit disco record "Knock on Wood". Stewart is the stepsister of actress-singer Miquel Brown and aunt to Brown's actress-singer daughter Sinitta.-Career:Amy Stewart was the...
  
  
  • "Knock On Wood" (1979), "Light My Fire/137 Disco Heaven" (1979), "Jealousy" (1979), "The Letter" (1980)
• Anacostia
  Anacostia
  Anacostia is a historic neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Its historic downtown is located at the intersection of Good Hope Road and Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue It is the most famous neighborhood in the Southeast quadrant of Washington, located east of the Anacostia River, after which the...
  
  
  • "What Kind of Love" (1977)
• André Gagnon
  André Gagnon
  André Gagnon, OC is a Canadian musician and composer. He shifted from a classical musical style to an adult contemporary style in the mid-1970s with albums such as Neiges....
  
  
  • "Surprise" (1976), "Wow" (1976) "Donna" (1977), "Smash" (1978)
• Andrea True Connection
  • "More More More" (1976), "Party Line" (1976), "What's Your Name, What's Your Number" (1977), "New York, You Got Me Dancing" (1977), "White Witch" (1977), "Fill Me Up (Heart to Heart)" (1977)
• Andy Gibb
  Andy Gibb
  Andy Gibb was an English singer and teen idol, and the youngest brother of the family whose other male siblings formed the Bee Gees: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb.-The early years:...
  
  
  • "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" (1977), "Shadow Dancing" (1978), "An Everlasting Love" (1978), "Desire" (1980)
• Andy Williams
  Andy Williams
  Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri,...
  
  
  • "Love Story (Where Do I Begin)" (1979)
• Angela Bofill
  Angela Bofill
  Angela Bofill is an American R&B vocalist and songwriter.Bofill was born to a Cuban father and a Puerto Rican mother; one of the first Latina singers to find success in the R&B market.She performed with Ricardo Marrero & the Group and Dance Theater of Harlem chorus prior to her 1978 debut album,...
  
  
  • "People Make the World Go 'Round" (1979), "Angel of the Night" (1979)
• Anita Ward
  Anita Ward
  Anita Ward is an American singer and musician. She is best known for her 1979 million selling chart-topper, "Ring My Bell".-Career:Before signing a recording contract, Ward obtained a degree in psychology from Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and had become a schoolteacher...
  
  
  • "Ring My Bell" (1979), "Don't Drop My Love" (1979)
• Ann-Margret
  Ann-Margret
  Ann-Margret Olsson is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret. She became famous for her starring roles in Bye Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid, Carnal Knowledge, and Tommy...
  
  
  • "Love Rush (In E-Minor)" (1979), "Midnight Message" (1979), "Everybody Needs Somebody Sometime" (1981)
• Anthony White
  • "I Can't Turn You Loose" (1977)
• Antonio Rodriguez
  • "La Bamba" (1978)
• Apollo
  • "Astro Disco" (1979)
• Arabesque
  Arabesque
  The arabesque is a form of artistic decoration consisting of "surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils" or plain lines, often combined with other elements...
  
  
  • "Friday Night" (1978), "City Cats" (1979), "Roller Star" (1980)
• Araxis
  • "Araxis Space Ship" (1978), "Theme D'Araxis" (1978), "Space Ranger" (1982)
• Archie Bell & the Drells
  Archie Bell & the Drells
  Archie Bell & the Drells was a R&B vocal group from Houston, Texas, and one of the main acts on Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia International Records...
  
  
  • "Let's Go Disco" (1976), "Let's Groove" (1976), "The Soul City Walk" (1976), "Everybody Have A Good Time" (1977), "Don't Let Love Get You Down" (1977), "Strategy" (1979)
• Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
  
  
  • "No One Could Ever Love You More" (1977), "Ladies Only" (1979), "Only Star" (1979), "What A Fool Believes" (1980), "Jump To It" (1981)
• Armada Orchestra
  • "For the Love of Money" (1976)
• Arpeggio
  Arpeggio
  An arpeggio is a musical technique where notes in a chord are played or sung in sequence, one after the other, rather than ringing out simultaneously...
  
  
  • "Love and Desire" (1976)
• Arthur Prysock
  Arthur Prysock
  Arthur Prysock was an American jazz singer best known for his live shows and his baritone influenced by Billy Eckstine....
  
  
  • "When Love Is New" (1976), "You Can Do It" (1977)
• Asha Puthli
  Asha Puthli
  Asha Puthli is an Indian-born singer-songwriter, producer and actress.Best recognized for her daredevil vocals on the "Science Fiction" album by jazz iconoclast Ornette Coleman, Asha Puthli has recorded ten solo albums for labels like EMI, CBS/Sony, and RCA...
  
  
  • "I'm Gonna Dance" (1979), "Music Machine (Dedication to Studio 54)" (1979)
• Ashford & Simpson
  Ashford & Simpson
  Nickolas Ashford , and Valerie Simpson , were a husband and wife songwriting/production team and recording artists....
  
  
  • "Over and Over" (1976), "It Seems to Hang On" (1978), "Get Up and Do Sumething" (1978), "Flashback" (1978), "Found A Cure" (1979)
• Athens
  Athens
  Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
  
  
  • "C'mon, Dance the Night Away" (1978)
• Atlantic Starr
  Atlantic Starr
  Atlantic Starr was a 1980s R&B band. Among their biggest hits were "Always" and "Secret Lovers."- History :The group was started in 1976 in White Plains, New York by trumpeter Duke Jones , drummer Porter Carroll Jr., bassist Clifford Archer, percussionist and flautist Joseph Phillips, and three...
  
  
  • "Stand Up" (1978), "Being In Love With You Is So Much Fun" (1978), "Keep It Comin'" (1978), "Straight to the Point" (1979)
• Automat
  Automat (album)
  Automat is an album of instrumental electronic music composed by the Italian musicians Romano Musumarra and Claudio Gizzi. It was produced in 1977 and released in 1978 by EMI Italy, through its Harvest label....
  
  
  • "Automat (The Rise, The Advance, The Genus)" (1978), "Droid" (1978), "Ultraviolet" (1978), "Mecadence" (1978)

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• Baccara
  Baccara
  Baccara was a female vocal duo formed in 1977 by Spanish artists Mayte Mateos and María Mendiola . The pair rapidly achieved international success with their debut single "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie", which reached number one across much of Europe...
  
  
  • "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" (1977), "Sorry I'm A Lady (1978), "Parlez Vous Francais" (1979)
• Bad City Band
  • "Batman '77" (1977)
• Baker-Harris-Young
  • "Come As You Are" (1979), "Take My Body Now" (1979)
• Ban Deetoe Rhythm Band
  • "Cisco's Disco" (1978)
• Barbara-Jean English
  • "House of Strangers" (1976), "Dancing to Keep from Crying" (1979)
• Barbara Law
  Barbara Law
  Barbara Law is a British singer. She performed in many radio and TV shows on the BBC from the late 1950s to the 1990s. She now lives in Tenerife, the largest of the seven Canary Islands, near Spain....
  
  
  • "Take All of Me" (1979)
• Barbara Markay
  • "It's All Rite to F*ck All Night, and It's Okay to S*ck All Day" (1979)
• Barbara Mason
  Barbara Mason
  Barbara Mason is an American R&B/soul singer best known for her 1965 hit song, "Yes, I'm Ready".-Career:A soul singer, Mason initially focused on songwriting when she entered the music industry in her teens...
  
  
  • "Love Song" (duet with Bunny Sigler
    Bunny Sigler
    Walter "Bunny" Sigler is a pop and R&B songwriter and record producer who has done extensive work with the team of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, and who was instrumental in creating the "Philly Sound" in the early 1970s. He is nicknamed "Mr...
    
    ) (1979)
• Barbara Pennington
  Barbara Pennington
  Barbara Pennington is an American Hi-NRG and soul music artist of the 1970s and 1980s.-Career:Pennington was born in 1950s in Chicago and began her musical career when Hi-NRG and soul record producer Ian Levine came to the United States in search of new talent for his burgeoning record label...
  
  
  • "24 Hours a Day" (1977), "You Are the Music within Me" (1978)
• Barbara Potts
  • "Johnny Love" (1978)
• Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
  
  
  • "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)" (1975), "The Main Event/Fight" (1979), "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (duet with Donna Summer
    Donna Summer
    LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...
    
    ) (1979), "Promises" (1980)
• Barry Manilow
  Barry Manilow
  Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, and performer, best known for such recordings as "Could It Be Magic", "Mandy", "Can't Smile Without You", and "Copacabana ."...
  
  
  • "It's a Miracle" (1975), "Copacabana (At The Copa)" (1978)
• Barry White
  Barry White
  Barry White, born Barry Eugene Carter , was an American composer and singer-songwriter.A five-time Grammy Award-winner known for his distinctive bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring...
  
  
  • "You're The First, My Last, My Everything" (1974), "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" (1974), "I'll Do For You Anything You Want Me To" (1975), "What Am I Gonna Do With You" (1975), "You See The Trouble With Me" (1976), "Baby, We Better Try To Get It Together" (1976), "Let The Music Play" (1976), "I'm Qualified To Satisfy You" (1976), "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me" (1977), "Never Thought I'd Fall In Love With You" (1977), "Look At Her" (1978), "Your Sweetness Is My Weakness" (1978), "Sha La La (Means I Love You)" (1978), "I Love to Sing the Songs I Sing" (1979)
• Barrabás
  Barrabás
  Barrabás are a Spanish musical group, most successful in the 1970s and 1980s, when they were led by drummer Fernando Arbex. The group's musical style was initially Latin rock with jazz and funk influences, and later developed into a more disco-orientated sound.-History:Arbex formed Barrabás in 1971...
  
  
  • "Mellow Blow" (1975), "Broadway Star" (1976), "Desperately" (1976)
• Basic Black & Pearl
  • "What I Did for Love" (1977)
• Bazuka
  • "Dynomite" (1975), "(C'est) Le Rock" (1979)
• B. Baker Chocolate Co.
  • "Higher and Higher"/"The High and the Mighty" (1979)
• The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...
  
  
  • "Here Comes the Night" (1979)
• Beautiful Bend
  • "Boogie Motion" (1978)
• Bebu Silvetti
  Bebu Silvetti
  Juan Fernando Silvetti Adorno , professionally known as Bebu Silvetti or simply Silvetti, was an Argentine pianist, composer, conductor, arranger and record producer...
  
  
  • "Primitive Man" (1976), "Spring Rain" (1977), "Sun after the Rain" (1978)
• The Beck Family
  • "Can't Shake the Feeling" (1979)
• The Bee Gees
  • "Jive Talkin'
    Jive Talkin'
    "Jive Talkin" is a song by the Bee Gees, which hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top-five on the UK singles chart in the summer of 1975. Largely recognized as the group's "comeback" song, it was their first U.S. top ten hit since "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" in...
    
    " (1975), "Wind of Change" (1975), "Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)" (1975), ""You Should Be Dancing
    You Should Be Dancing
    "You Should Be Dancing" is a single by the Bee Gees, from the album, Children of the World, in 1976. The single hit number one for one week on the American Billboard Hot 100, number one for seven weeks on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart, and in July the same year, reached number five on the UK...
    
    " (1976), "Subway" (1976), "Love So Right
    Love So Right
    "Love So Right" is a R&B/pop ballad by the musical group the Bee Gees in 1976. It was the first Bee Gees single to feature Barry's falsetto exclusively as the lead vocal...
    
    " (1976), "You Stepped into My Life" (1976), "Lovers" (1976), "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" (1976), "How Deep Is Your Love?" "Stayin' Alive
    Stayin' Alive
    "Stayin' Alive" is a song by the pop group Bee Gees from the Saturday Night Fever motion picture soundtrack. The song was written by the Bee Gees and produced by the Bee Gees, Albhy Galuten and Karl Richardson. It was released on 13 December 1977, as the second single from the Saturday Night Fever...
    
    " (1977), "If I Can't Have You
    If I Can't Have You
    "If I Can't Have You" is a song written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees. It was most famously recorded by Yvonne Elliman for the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.-Background:...
    
    " (1977), "Night Fever
    Night Fever
    "Night Fever" is a disco song, written and performed by The Bee Gees. It first appeared on the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever. Producer Robert Stigwood wanted to call the film Saturday Night, but singer Robin Gibb expressed hesitation at the title. Stigwood liked the title Night Fever but was...
    
    " (1977), "More than a Woman
    More Than a Woman (Bee Gees song)
    "More Than a Woman" is a disco song written by the Bee Gees for the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever....
    
    " (1977), "Too Much Heaven
    Too Much Heaven
    "Too Much Heaven" is a song by the Bee Gees, which was the band's contribution to the "Music for UNICEF" fund. They performed it at the Music for UNICEF Concert on 9 January 1979. The song later found its way to the group's thirteenth original album, Spirits Having Flown...
    
    " (1978), "Tragedy
    Tragedy (song)
    "Tragedy" is a song recorded by the Bee Gees, included on their 1979 album Spirits Having Flown. The single reached number one in the UK in February 1979 and repeated the feat the following month on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100...
    
    " (1979), "Love You Inside Out
    Love You Inside Out
    "Love You Inside Out" is a 1979 hit single for the Bee Gees, from their album Spirits Having Flown. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in June 1979...
    
    " (1979), "Spirits (Having Flown)
    Spirits (Having Flown)
    "Spirits " is song by The Bee Gees which was originally released on the 1979 album Spirits Having Flown. Though not issued as a single in conjunction with the parent album, it was issued as a single in the UK to promote the compilation Bee Gees Greatest, which was released in December, 1979.The...
    
    " (1979), "He's a Liar
    He's A Liar
    "He's a Liar" was the first single from The Bee Gees album Living Eyes released in 1981. It had been approximately 2 years since the last Bee Gees single had been released and although this song sounded nothing like the Bee Gees' disco-era singles, the backlash had pigeonholed the Bee Gees as a...
    
    " (1981).
• Bell & James
  • "Livin' It Up (Friday Night)" (1978)
• Belle Epoque
  Belle Epoque (band)
  Belle Epoque was the name of a female vocal trio, based in Paris, France. The group first rose to popularity during the mid to late 1970s with a disco remake of the song, "Black Is Black", originally a hit in 1966 for the Spanish group Los Bravos.-History:Belle Epoque consisted of lead singer...
  
  
  • "Miss Broadway" (1977), "Disco Sound/Black is Black" (1977), "Bamalama" (1978)
• Ben E. King
  Ben E. King
  Benjamin Earl King , better known as Ben E. King, is an American soul singer. He is perhaps best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me", a U.S...
  
  
  • "A Star in the Ghetto" (with Average White Band) (1977), "Music Trance" (1979)
• Benelux & Nancy Dee
  • "Switch" (1979)
• Benny Golson
  Benny Golson
  Benny Golson is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger.-Biography:While in high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Golson played with several other promising young musicians, including John Coltrane, Red Garland, Jimmy Heath, Percy Heath, Philly Joe Jones, and...
  
  
  • "I'm Always Dancin' to the Music" (1978)
• Benny Troy
  • "I Wanna Give You Tomorrow" (1976)
• Bette Midler
  Bette Midler
  Bette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...
  
  
  • "Strangers in the Night" (1976),"Hang On In There Baby" (1979), "My Knight In Black Leather" (1979), "Married Men" (1979), "Big Noise From Winnetka" (1979), "Hurricane" (1979), "Only In Miami" (1983)
• Bettye Lavette
  Bettye LaVette
  Bettye LaVette is an American soul singer-songwriter who made her first record at sixteen, but achieved only intermittent fame until 2005, with her album, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise...
  
  
  • "Doin' the Best That I Can" (1979)
• Beverly Crosby
  • "You Can Be My Lover" (1977)
• Beverly Johnson
  Beverly Johnson
  Beverly Johnson is an American model, actress, and businesswoman. She made history when she rose to fame as the first black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue in 1974...
  
  
  • "Don't Run for Cover" (1979)
• Beverly Robinson
  • "Menage a Trois" (1977)
• Biddu Orchestra
  • "A Man and a Woman" (1976), "Voodoo Man" (1976), "Driving in the Rain" (1977), "The Stud" (1977), "Soul Coaxing" (1978), "James Bond Disco Theme" (1978)
• Bill Anderson
  • "Double S"
• Bill Brandon
  • "We Fell in Love While Dancing" (1977)
• Bill Pursell and the Nashville Sweat Band and Aides
  • "Now" (1976)
• Bill Summers and Summers Heat
  • "Dancing Lady" (1978), "Musicland" (1979)
• Bill Withers
  Bill Withers
  William Harrison "Bill" Withers, Jr. is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. Some of his best-known songs are "Lean on Me", "Ain't No Sunshine", "Use Me", "Just the Two of Us", "Lovely Day", and "Grandma's Hands"...
  
  
  • "Lovely Day" (1977), "You've Got the Stuff" (1979)
• Billy Nichols
  Billy Nichols
  Billy Nichols was one of nine children born to Laura Bell and Tom Sanders in Carrollton, Mississippi. They were a farming family. At the end of the work day, Billy's father played blues on the guitar. Billy and his family gathered on the porch to listen. Billy would play the guitar when his...
  
  
  • "Give Your Body up to the Music" (1979)
• Billy Ocean
  Billy Ocean
  Billy Ocean is a Trinidad-born English Grammy Award winning popular music performer who had a string of rhythm and blues international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based R&B singer / songwriter of the early to mid-1980s...
  
  
  • "Love Really Hurts Without You" (1976), "Red Light Spells Danger" (1977), "American Hearts" (1979), "Nights (Feel Like Gettin' Down)" (1981), "Caribbean Queen" (1983)
• Billy Paul
  Billy Paul
  Billy Paul is a Grammy Award winning American soul singer, most known for his 1972 number-one single, "Me and Mrs. Jones" as well as the 1973 album and single "War of the Gods" which blends his more conventional pop, soul and funk styles with electronic and psychedelic influences...
  
  
  • "Bring the Family Back" (1979)
• Billy Preston
  Billy Preston
  William Everett "Billy" Preston was a musician who gained notoriety and fame, first as a session musician for the likes of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and later finding fame as a solo artist with hits such as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from...
  
  
  • "Go for It" (duet with Syreeta) (1978), "Disco Dancin'" (1978), "Give It Up, Hot" (1979), "Just for You" (1981)
• Bimbo
  • "I Love You in My Life" (1977)
• Bionic Boogie
  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:...
  
  
  • "Risky Changes" (1977), "Hot Butterfly" (1978)
• Bisquit
  • "Roller Boogie" (1980), "Zoo Zoo" (1981)
• Black & Ward
  • "Back Up (Against Your Persuasion)" (1975)
• Black Star
  • "Black Star" (1978)
• Black Sun
  Black Sun
  The term Black Sun , also referred to as the Sonnenrad , is a symbol of esoteric or occult significance...
  
  
  • "Black Sun (You've Broken My Heart)" (1979)
• Blondie
  Blondie (band)
  Blondie is an American rock band, founded by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave and punk scenes of the mid-1970s...
  
  
  • "Heart Of Glass" (1979), "Call Me" (1980), "Atomic" (1980), "Rapture" (1981)
• Blood Hollins
  • "Have You Ever Been" (1976), "Don't Give It Up" (1976)
• Blue Magic
  Blue Magic (band)
  Blue Magic is an American soul music group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972, they were originally composed of lead Ted Mills, Vernon Sawyer, Wendell Sawyer, Keith Beaton, and Richard Pratt...
  
  
  • "We're on the Right Track" (1975)
• Blush
  • "Lift Off" (1979)
• The Bob Crewe Generation
  • "Street Talk" (1976), "Menage a Trois" (1978)
• Bob McGilpin
  • "Superstar" (1978), "54" (1979)
• Bob Welch
  Bob Welch (musician)
  Robert Lawrence "Bob" Welch, Jr. is a former member of Fleetwood Mac, who had a briefly successful solo career in the late 1970s. His singles included "Hot Love, Cold World", "Ebony Eyes", "Precious Love", and "Sentimental Lady"....
  
  
  • "Precious Love" (1978)
• Bob-A-Rela
  • "Why Does It Rain?" (1979)
• Bobby Rydell
  Bobby Rydell
  Bobby Rydell is an American professional singer, mainly of rock and roll music. In the early 1960s he was considered a so-called "teen idol"...
  
  
  • "Sway" (1976)
• Bobby Thomas and the Hotline
  • "Sugar Boogie" (1976)
• Bobby Womack
  Bobby Womack
  Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack is an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s where he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career has spanned more than 40...
  
  
  • "Trust Your Heart" (1978)
• The Body Shop
  The Body Shop
  The Body Shop International plc, known as The Body Shop, has 2,400 stores in 61 countries, and is the second largest cosmetic franchise in the world, following O Boticario, a Brazilian company...
  
  
  • "Never" (1979)
• Bombers
  • "Let's Dance" (1979)
• Boney M
  Boney M
  Boney M. is a Eurodisco group created by German record producer Frank Farian. Originally based in Germany, the four original members of the group's official line-up were Jamaicans Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett, Maizie Williams from Montserrat and Bobby Farrell from Aruba...
  
  
  • "Daddy Cool" (1976), "Sunny" (1976), "Ma Baker" (1977), "Belfast" (1977), "Rivers Of Babylon" (1978), "Rasputin" (1978), "Hooray Hooray It's A Holi Holiday" (1979), "Gotta Go Home" (1979), "Painter Man" (1979), "We Kill The World" (1981), "Young Free & Single" (1985)
• Bonnie Boyer
  • "We've Got To Give Into Love" (1979)
• Bonnie Oliver
  • "Come Inside My Love" (1978)
• Bonnie Pointer
  Bonnie Pointer
  Patricia Eva "Bonnie" Pointer is an American R&B and disco singer, most notable for being the next-to-youngest member of the 1970s and 1980s family music group, The Pointer Sisters. She scored several moderate solo hits after leaving the Pointers in 1977, including a disco cover of The Elgins'...
  
  
  • "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" (1978), "Free Me From My Freedom" (1979), "Heaven Must Have Sent You" (1979)
• Boz Scaggs
  Boz Scaggs
  William Royce "Boz" Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 hit singles in the United States, along with the #2 album, Silk Degrees. Scaggs continues to write, record music and tour.-Early life and career:Scaggs was born in Canton,...
  
  
  • "Lowdown" (1976), "Hollywood" (1977)
• Brass Construction
  Brass Construction
  Brass Construction was an American funk group formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1968. They were originally known as Dynamic Soul, and went on to record a string of hit singles and albums through to 1985.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Movin'" (1976), "Changin'" (1976), "Ha Cha Cha" (1977), "Screwed" (1977), "Starting Tomorrow" (1978), "One To One" (1978), "Get Up" (1978), "Get Up to Get Down" (1979)
• Bonnie Tyler
  Bonnie Tyler
  Bonnie Tyler is a Welsh singer, most notable for her hits in the 1970s and 1980s including "It's a Heartache", "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart".-Early life:...
  
  
  • "Married Men" (1979), "Holding Out for a Hero" (1984)
• Brainstorm
  Brainstorm (disco band)
  Brainstorm was an American funk and R&B band, based in Detroit, Michigan in the late 1970s. Their debut album, Stormin' , was their best selling album, and was released in 1977 on Tabu Records, executive-produced by Clarence Avant and produced by Jerry Peters...
  
  
  • "We're on Our Way" (1976), "Lovin' Is Really My Game" (1977), "Hot for You" (1978), "Case of the Boogie" (1979)
• Brandye
  • "Rhythm of Love" (1978)
• Brenda and Herb
  • "I Who Have Nothing" (1978)
• Brenda and the Tabulations
  • "Everybody's Fool" (1979)
• Brick
  Brick (band)
  Brick is a former American band that created a successful merger of funk and jazz in the 1970s. Their most popular single was "Dazz", which was released in 1976.-History:...
  
  
  • "Dazz
    Dazz (song)
    "Dazz" was a hit song by R&B/funk band Brick. "Dazz" is a combination of disco and jazz. Released in 1976 from their Good High album, it would become their biggest hit, spending four weeks at the top of the R&B singles chart and reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100 singles...
    
    " (1976), "Dusic" (1977)
• The Brides of Funkenstein
  The Brides of Funkenstein
  The Brides of Funkenstein was a funk musical group originally composed of singers Dawn Silva and Lynn Mabry.-History:Previously background singers for Sly Stone, Mabry and Silva joined the P-Funk collective in the mid-1970s. George Clinton named the group...
  
  
  • "Disco to Go" (1978)
• Broadway
  • "Kiss You All Over" (1978), "Magic Man" (1979)
• The Broadway Brass
  • "I've Never Been in Love Before" (1976)
• The Brothers Johnson
  • "Stomp!" (1980), "Light Up The Night" (1980)
• Brother to Brother
  • "In the Bottle" (1974)
• Bruce Johnston
  Bruce Johnston
  Bruce Arthur Johnston is a member of The Beach Boys and a songwriter, remembered especially for composing "I Write the Songs". Johnston was not one of the original members of the band...
  
  
  • "Pipeline" (1977)
• Bruni Pagan
  • "Fantasy" (1979), "Lovers" (1979)
• Bryan Adams
  Bryan Adams
  Bryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written...
  
  
  • "Let Me Take You Dancing" (1979)
• Buffalo
  • "Magic Carpet Ride" (1979)
• Bunny Sigler
  Bunny Sigler
  Walter "Bunny" Sigler is a pop and R&B songwriter and record producer who has done extensive work with the team of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, and who was instrumental in creating the "Philly Sound" in the early 1970s. He is nicknamed "Mr...
  
  
  • "By the Way You Dance" (1978), "Love Song" (duet with Barbara Mason
    Barbara Mason
    Barbara Mason is an American R&B/soul singer best known for her 1965 hit song, "Yes, I'm Ready".-Career:A soul singer, Mason initially focused on songwriting when she entered the music industry in her teens...
    
    ) (1979)
• B.T. Express
  B.T. Express
  B.T. Express was an American funk/disco group, that had a number of successful songs during the 1970s.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Express" (1974), "Peace Pipe" (1975), "Energy To Burn" (1976), "Expose Yourself" (1977)
• Bus Connection
  • "Superdance" (1977)
• Byron Burns
  • "Ooh Baby" (1978)

C

• Cab Calloway
  Cab Calloway
  Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City where he was a regular performer....
  
  
  • "Minnie the Moocher" (1978)
• C.J. & Company
  • "We Got Our Own Thing" (1977), "Devil's Gun" (1977), "Big-City Sidewalk" (1978)
• Cake
  Cake (band)
  Cake is an American alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. Consisting of singer John McCrea, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, guitarist Xan McCurdy, bassist Gabe Nelson and drummer Paulo Baldi, the band has been noted for McCrea's sarcastic lyrics and deadpan voice, DiFiore's trumpet parts, and...
  
  
  • "Theme from Mork and Mindy" (1979)
• Calhoon
  • "Dance Dance Dance" (1975), "Soul Man" (1976)
• California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
  
  • "I Can Hear Music" (1979), "Discomania" (1979)
• California Instant Replay Band
  • "Big Foot" (1978)
• Camouflage
  Camouflage
  Camouflage is a method of concealment that allows an otherwise visible animal, military vehicle, or other object to remain unnoticed, by blending with its environment. Examples include a leopard's spotted coat, the battledress of a modern soldier and a leaf-mimic butterfly...
  
  
  • "You've Got the Power" (1976), "Disco Symphony" (1977)
• Camp Galore
  • "Boop Boop a Hustle" (1976)
• Candi Staton
  Candi Staton
  Candi Staton is an American soul and gospel singer, best known for her 1970 remake of Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" and her 1976 disco hit "Young Hearts Run Free". In 2007, Staton was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame.-Early years:...
  
  
  • "Young Hearts Run Free" (1976), "Nights On Broadway" (1977), "Victim" (1978), "Honest I Do Love You" (1978), "When You Wake up Tomorrow" (1979), "Suspicious Minds" (1982)
• Capricorn
  • "I Need Love" (1982)
• Caress
  • "Fill Me Up (Heart to Heart)" (1976)
• Carl Bean
  Carl Bean
  Carl Bean is the founding prelate of the Unity Fellowship Church Movement, a liberal protestant denomination that is particularly welcoming of lesbian, gay and bisexual African Americans...
  
  
  • "I Was Born This Way" (1976)
• Carl Carlton
  Carl Carlton
  Carl Carlton is an American R&B, soul, and funk singer and songwriter, best known for his hits "Everlasting Love" and "She's a Bad Mama Jama ".-Career:...
  
  
  • "Everlasting Love" (1974)
• Carl Douglas
  Carl Douglas
  Carl Douglas is a former Jamaican-born, UK-based, singer, best known for his song "Kung Fu Fighting", which hit number one in both the UK Singles Chart and the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1974. The R.I.A.A. awarded gold disc status on 27 November, and it won a Grammy Award for Best Selling Single...
  
  
  • "Kung Fu Fighting" (1974), "Dance The Kung Fu" (1974)
• Carl Graves
  • "Heart Be Still" (1976)
• Carly Simon
  Carly Simon
  Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work...
  
  
  • "Tranquillo (Melt My Heart)" (1978), "Spy" (1979), "Why" (1982)
• Carol Douglas
  Carol Douglas
  Carol Douglas is an American singer whose hit "Doctor's Orders" was a pioneer track in the disco genre.-Early life and acting career:...
  
  
  • "Doctor's Orders" (1975), "Midnight Love Affair" (1976), "I Want to Stay with You" (1977), "Night Fever" (1978), "Fell in Love for the First Time Today" (1978), "I Got the Answer" (1979), "Come into My Life" (1979)
• Carol Williams
  • "Rattlesnake" (1975), "More" (1976), "Come Back" (1976), "Love Is You" (1977), "My time of need" (1977),"Love has come my way" (1978), "Dance the Night Away" (1979), "Tell the World All about Our Love" (1979)
• Carol Woods
  • "I'm in Wonderland" (1977)
• Carole Bayer Sager
  Carole Bayer Sager
  Carole Bayer Sager is an American lyricist, songwriter, singer, and painter.-Introduction:Born in New York City, Sager graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, dramatic arts and speech...
  
  
  • "I Don't Wanna Dance No More" (1978)
• Carole King
  Carole King
  Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King had an album, Tapestry, top the U.S...
  
  
  • "Disco Tech" (1978)
• Carolyne Bernier
  • "Secret Agent Love" (1977), "Hold Me, Touch Me" (1978), "Dance with Me" (1978)
• Carrie Lucas
  Carrie Lucas
  Carrie Lucas, is an American female R&B musician, born in Carmel, California. In 1976 she was signed to Soul Train Records. Lucas made six albums over seven years with Soul Train and Solar Records.-Career:...
  
  
  • "I Gotta Keep Dancing" (1977), "Street-Corner Symphony" (1978), "Dance with You" (1979), "Are You Dancing" (1979)
• Cecile Frenette
  • "Step Out" (1977)
• Cedar Walton
  Cedar Walton
  Cedar Anthony Walton, Junior is an American hard bop jazz pianist.-Biography:Walton grew up in Dallas, Texas. His mother was an aspiring concert pianist, and was Walton's initial teacher. She also took him to jazz performances around Dallas...
  
  
  • "Canadian Sunset" (1976)
• Celi Bee
  Celi Bee
  Celi Bee is an American disco musician.-Career:Bee is of Puerto Rican heritage and, after being born in New York, initially relocated back to that country with her parents. There she met Pepe Luis Soto in Puerto Rico in the 1960s and they began making music together...
  
  
  • "Macho (A Real Real One)" (1977), "Superman" (1978), "One Love" (1978), "Love Drops" (1979), "Fly Me on the Wings of Love" (1979)
• Cellophane
  Cellophane
  Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose. Its low permeability to air, oils, greases, bacteria and water makes it useful for food packaging...
  
  
  • "Dance with Me (Let's Believe)" (1978)
• Cerrone
  Cerrone
  Marc Cerrone is a French disco drummer, singer-songwriter and record producer.Marc Cerrone has sold over thirty million albums and has often performed in front of hundreds of thousands of people at huge concerts and events such as The 2005 Dance Party Live in Versailles and The 2000 Los Angeles...
  
  
  • "Love In C-Minor" (1976), "Cerrone's Paradise" (1977), "Supernature" (1978)
• The Chakachas
  The Chakachas
  The Chakachas were a Belgian based group of Latin soul studio musicians. Also known as 'Les Chakachas' or 'Los Chakachas', they were formed by band leader Gaston Bogaert, ex-Los Juano Boengs and The Continentals, percussion ; Tito Puente's singer wife Kari Kenton, vocals and maracas; Vic Ingeveldt...
  
  
  • "Jungle Fever" (1972)
• 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...
  
  
  • "I'm Every Woman" (1978), "Life Is a Dance" (1978), "What Cha Gonna Do for Me" (1981), "Ain't Nobody" (1983), "I Feel for You" (1984)
• The Champ's Boys Orchestra
  • "Land of Make-Believe" (1976), "Tubular Bells" (1976)
• 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...
  
  
  • "Don't Hold Back" (1978), "Jack Be Nimble" (1978), "I Can Tell" (1979)
• Charles Earland
  Charles Earland
  Charles Earland was an American jazz composer, organist, and saxophonist in the soul jazz idiom.-Biography:...
  
  
  • "Drifting" (1977), "Over and Over" (1978), "Let the Music Play" (1978)
• The Charlie Calello Orchestra
  • "Star Dust" (1979), "Moonlight Serenade" (1979), "Sing, Sing, Sing" (1979)
• Charlie Mike Sierra
  • "On the Moon" (1978), "Lunar Orbital" (1978)
• Charme
  Charmé
  Charmé is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...
  
  
  • "Georgy Porgy" (1979)
• Charo
  Charo
  María del Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Gutiérrez de los Perales Santa Ana Romanguera y de la Hinojosa Rasten , better known as Charo, is a Spanish-American actress, comedienne, and flamenco guitarist, best known for her flamboyant stage presence, her provocative outfits, and her trademark phrase...
  
   (with the 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:...
  
  )
  • "Dance a Little Bit Closer" (1977), "(Mamacita) Dónde Está Santa Claus?
    ¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?
    ¿Dónde Está Santa Claus? is a Christmas song. Augie Rios had a hit with the song in 1958 which featured the Mark Jeffrey Orchestra...
    
    " (1978), "Stay with Me" (1978), "Concierto De Aranjuez" (1979), "Hot Love" (1979), "The Love Boat Theme" (1979)
• Cher
  Cher
  Cher is an American recording artist, television personality, actress, director, record producer and philanthropist. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in...
  
  
  • "Take Me Home" (1979), "Wasn't It Good" (1979), "Hell on Wheels" (1979), "Bad Love" (1980)
• Cheri
  Cheri
  Cheri is a given name, and may refer to:* Cheri Blauwet, wheelchair racer* Cheri Dennis , American singer* Cheri DiNovo , Canadian United Church minister and social democratic politician...
  
  
  • "Murphy's Law" (1980)
• Cheryl Ladd
  Cheryl Ladd
  Cheryl Ladd is an American actress, singer and author. Ladd is best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the television series Charlie's Angels, hired amid a swirl of publicity prior to its second season in 1977 to replace the departing Farrah Fawcett-Majors...
  
  
  • "Skinny-dippin'" (1978), "Missing You" (1979), "Dance Forever" (1979)
• Cheryl Lynn
  Cheryl Lynn
  Lynda Cheryl Smith , known better by her professional name Cheryl Lynn, is a female African-American disco, R&B and soul singer known best for her 1978 disco song, "Got to Be Real".-Early career:...
  
  
  • "Got To Be Real" (1978), "Star Love" (1979), "Keep It Hot" (1979), "Shake It Up Tonight" (1980), "Encore" (1981)
• Cherry Laine
  Cherry Laine
  Cherry Laine is female disco star. Her father was a clergyman, her mother a nurse. At the age of six she is said to have been singing in her father’s church choir accompanied by her mother playing the organ. The family moved to England. The mother wanted her daughter to become a nurse and a...
  
  
  • "Catch The Cat" (1978), "Night In Chicago" (1978), "Sea Farewalk" (1978)
• Chi-Chi Favelas and the Black and White Band
  • "Give It to Me" (1978)
• The Chi-Lites
  The Chi-Lites
  The Chi-Lites are a Chicago-based smooth soul vocal quartet from the early 1970s, one of the few from the period not to come from Memphis or Philadelphia...
  
  
  • "You Don't Have To Go" (1976), "Higher" (1979)
• Chic
  Chic (band)
  Chic was an African American disco and R&B band that was organized during 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards. It is known best for its commercially successful disco songs, including "Dance, Dance, Dance " , "Everybody Dance" , "Le Freak" , "I Want Your Love" , "Good Times"...
  
  
  • "Dance Dance Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (1977), "Everybody Dance" (1977), "Le Freak" (1978), "I Want Your Love" (1978), "Chic Cheer" (1978), "Good Times" (1979), "My Forbidden Lover" (1979), "Rebels Are We" (1980)
• Chicago
  Chicago (band)
  Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The self-described "rock and roll band with horns" began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads. They had...
  
  
  • "Streetplayer" (1979)
• Chilly
  Chilly (band)
  Chilly was a popular German eurodisco/rock band at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s. Their most famous songs include hits like "Friday On My Mind",'Johnny Loves Jenny', 'Come to L.A.', 'Simply a Love Song', 'For Your Love' and 'Get Up And Move'.The Song "For Your Love" was...
  
  
  • "For Your Love" (1978)
• The Chocolats
  • "Baby Let's Do It the French Way" (1977), "The King of Kings" (1978)
• Chris Lovely
  • "That's What True Love is Made Of" (1974)
• Chromium
  Trevor Horn
  Trevor Charles Horn CBE is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring in north-east England....
  
  
  • "Fly On UFO" (1978), "Caribbean Air Control" (1978)
• Chuck Cissel
  Chuck Cissel
  Charles "Chuck" Cissel is an American singer, dancer, director, choreographer and producer. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma, and was one of the first African Americans to...
  
  
  • "Cisselin' Hot" (1979)
• Chuck Mangione
  Chuck Mangione
  Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good." Mangione has released more than thirty albums since 1960.-Early life and career:...
  
  
  • "Feels So Good" (1977)
• Cissy Houston
  Cissy Houston
  Emily "Cissy" Houston is a Grammy Award–winning American soul and gospel singer. She led a very successful career as a backup singer for such artists as Elvis Presley, Mahalia Jackson, Wishbone Ash and Aretha Franklin, and is now primarily a solo artist...
  
  
  • "Think It Over" (1978), "Warning - Danger" (1979)
• Citi
  • "Roller Disco" (1979)
• Clarence Reid
  • "You Get Me Up" (1979)
• Claudia Ashley
  • "C'est la Vie" (1977)
• Claudia Cardinale
  Claudia Cardinale
  Claudia Cardinale is an Italian actress, and has appeared in some of the most prominent European films of the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of Cardinale's films have been either Italian or French...
  
  
  • "Love Affair" (1977), "Sun... I Love You" (1978)
• Claudja Barry
  Claudja Barry
  Claudja Barry, is a singer and actress who has performed in the European versions of the stage musicals Hair and Catch My Soul.-Early music career:...
  
  
  • "Sweet Dynamite" (1977), "Dancin' Fever" (1977), "Sunshine Love" (1978), "Boogie-Woogie Dancin' Shoes" (1979)
• Clay Carillon
  • "Shimmy-Dancin'" (1979)
• Clem Curtis
  Clem Curtis
  Clem Curtis is a singer and former lead vocalist of sixties British soul group The Foundations.-Early years:...
  
  
  • "Unchained Melody/Need Your Love" (1979)
• Cleveland Eaton
  Cleveland Eaton
  Cleveland "Cleve" Eaton is an American jazz double bassist from Fairfield, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. His most famous accomplishments are substantial playing stints with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and later with the Count Basie Orchestra...
  
  
  • "Bama Boogie Woogie" (1976), "The Funky Cello" (1978), "I'm Lonely Tonight" (1979)
• Colorblind
  • "Kalei-Disco" (1977)
• Commodores
  Commodores
  The Commodores are an American funk/soul band of the 1970s and 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour...
  
  
  • "Slippery When Wet" (1975), "Fancy Dancer" (1976), "Brick House" (1977), "Too Hot Ta Trot" (1978)
• Computer
  • "Come and Dance" (1977), "Nobody Loves A Computer Because A Computer Does Not Dance" (1977)
• Constellation Orchestra
  • "Perfect Love Affair" (1978)
• Corniche
  Corniche
  The word corniche typically refers to a road on the side of a cliff or mountain, with the ground rising on one side of the road and falling away on the other...
  
  
  • "CHiPs Theme" (1979), "California Hustle" (1979)
• Corruption
  • "Show Me Yours" (1981)
• Cory Daye
  • "Green Light" (1979), "Pow-Wow" (1979)
• Costa Rica Band
  • "Baila" (1978)
• Cream D'Cocoa
  • "Baby, Don't You Know" (1979)
• Cream de Coco
  • "Disco Strut" (1976)
• Croisette
  • "Keep It on Ice" (1979)
• Crowd Pleasers
  • "Disco World" (1979)
• Crown Heights Affair
  Crown Heights Affair
  Crown Heights Affair was an American R&B / funk / disco group from New York, founded in the early 1970s.-Career:Originally known as Ben Iverson and the Nue Dey Express on Britne Records, founded by then bassist Donnie Linton, the group took their new name from a district of their native Brooklyn,...
  
  
  • "Dreaming a Dream" (1975), "Every Beat of My Heart" (1976), "Do It Your Way" (1976), "Dream World" (1978), "Dance, Lady, Dance" (1979), "You Gave Me Love" (1980)
• The Crusaders
  The Crusaders
  The Crusaders are an American music group popular in the early 1970s known for their amalgamated jazz, pop and soul sound. Since 1961, more than forty albums have been credited to the group , 19 of which were recorded under the name "The Jazz Crusaders" .-History:In 1960, following the demise of a...
  
  
  • "Street Life" (1979)
• Crystal Disco Band
  • "Nuclear Night" (1979)
• Crystal Grass
  • "Fio Maravilha - Taj Mahal" (1975), "You Can Be What You Dream" (1976), "Love Train Theme" (1978)
• Current (band)
  • "Classica's Love Song" (1977)
• Curtis Mayfield
  Curtis Mayfield
  Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...
  
  
  • "No Goodbyes" (1978), "Tell Me, Tell Me (How Ya Like to Be Loved)" (1979)
• Cut Glass (Mildred Vaney & Ortheia Barnes)
  • "Without Your Love" (1979)
• Cy Coleman
  Cy Coleman
  Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.-Life and career:He was born Seymour Kaufman on June 14, 1929, in New York City to Eastern European Jewish parents, and was raised in the Bronx. His mother, Ida was an apartment landlady and his father was a brickmason...
  
  
  • "Chloe" (1976)
• Cynthia Woodard
  • "California-Dreamin'" (1979)

D

• D'llegance
  • "Share My Love" (1979)
• Daddy Dewdrop
  Daddy Dewdrop
  Daddy Dewdrop is a pseudonym for an American songwriter named Dick Monda , backed up by some studio musicians, including Tom Hensley who later became the musical director for Neil Diamond, and Butch Rillera who later became a member of the group Redbone...
  
  
  • "Nanu Nanu (I Wanna Funk with You)" (1978), "The Real Thing" (1979), "If You Wanna Wanna" (1979)
• Daisy Daze and the Bumble Bees
  • "Planet O" (1979)
• Dalida
  Dalida
  Dalida , born with Italian name of Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a world-famous singer and actress born in Egypt with Italian origins but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti. She spent her early years in Egypt amongst the Italian Egyptian community, but she lived most of her adult...
  
  
  • "J'attendrai" (1975), "Besame Mucho" (1976), "Femme est la nuit" (1977), "Génération 78" (1978), "Ça me fait rêver" (1978), "Laissez-moi Danser" (1979), "Gigi in Paradisco" (1980), "Americana" (1981)
• Dame Edna Everage
  Dame Edna Everage
  Dame Edna is a character created and played by Australian dadaist performer and comedian, Barry Humphries, famous for her lilac-coloured or "wisteria hue" hair and cat eye glasses or "face furniture," her favorite flower, the gladiola and her boisterous greeting: "Hello Possums!" As Dame Edna,...
  
  
  • "Disco Matilda" (based around Waltzing Matilda
    Waltzing Matilda
    "Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's most widely known bush ballad. A country folk song, the song has been referred to as "the unofficial national anthem of Australia"....
    
    ) (1979)
• Damon Harris
  Damon Harris
  Damon Harris is a three-time Grammy Award-winning African-American soul and R&B singer. He is most notable as a member of The Temptations from 1971 to 1975. Twenty years old when he joined the group, Harris was the youngest member of The Temptations during his tenure in the group...
  
  
  • "Silk" (1978)
• Dan Hartman
  Dan Hartman
  Daniel Earl "Dan" Hartman was an American singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for such songs as: "Free Ride", "I Can Dream About You", "Instant Replay", "Love Sensation", and "Relight My Fire", all of which had world-wide success.-Career:Born in Pennsylvania's capital, Harrisburg,...
  
  
  • "Instant Replay" (1978), "Relight My Fire" (1979)
• Danny Johnson
  • "Learnin' to Love You Was Easy" (1979)
• Danny Pearson
  • "Let's Go Dancin'" (1979)
• Dante's Inferno
  • "Open Your Heart" (1979)
• Dalton & Dubarri
  Dalton and Dubarri
  Dalton and Dubarri were a rock band from the 1970s. The leads were Gary Dalton, and Kent Dubarri who released four albums. Two of them were on Columbia records.-History:...
  
  
  • "I (You) Can Dance All By My- (Your-) Self" (1979)
• Dana
  Dana Rosemary Scallon
  Dana Rosemary Scallon , known in her singing career simply as Dana, is an Irish singer and former Member of the European Parliament ....
  
  
  • "Fairytale" (1976), "Break the Ice" (1979), "Somethings Cooking In The Kitchen" (1979), "I Feel Love Comin' On" (1982)
• Danny White
  Danny White
  Wilford Daniel "Danny" White is a former quarterback and punter for the Dallas Cowboys, an American football coach in the Arena Football League and also occasionally appears as an analyst on broadcasts of college football games. He was named the head coach of the Arena Football League expansion...
  
  
  • "Now That I Found You" (1977)
• Dave Crawford
  Dave Crawford
  Dave Crawford was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Hawaii from 1917 to 1919. He also coached the Hawaii basketball team during the 1918–1919 season.-Football:-External links:...
  
  
  • "A Letter from Myself" (1979)
• Dave Grusin
  Dave Grusin
  David Grusin is an American composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy award and 12 Grammys...
  
  
  • "Disco Magic" (1979)
• David Castle
  David Castle
  David Castle is a Canadian philosopher and bioethicist. He is currently Professor and Chair of Innovations in the Life Sciences at University of Edinburgh. From 20062010 he served as Canada Research Chair in Science and Society at the University of Ottawa.He received his B.Sc. and B.A. from the...
  
  
  • "Pure Love" (1979)
• David Naughton
  David Naughton (actor)
  David Walsh Naughton is an American actor and singer best known for his starring roles in the 1981 horror film An American Werewolf in London, the 1980 Walt Disney comedy, Midnight Madness, the 1984 comedies Hot Dog.....
  
  
  • "Makin' It
    Makin' It (song)
    "Makin' It" was a 1979 pop song performed by David Naughton. It was the theme song for the television show Makin' It, in which Naughton starred. It was written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris, the team also responsible for Gloria Gaynor's #1 hit "I Will Survive" and Peaches and Herb's #5 hit...
    
    " (1979)
• David Ruffin
  David Ruffin
  Davis Eli "David" Ruffin was an American soul singer and musician most famous for his work as one of the lead singers of the Temptations from 1964 to 1968...
  
  
  • "Fallin' in Love with You" (1977), "Sexy Dancer" (1979), "Let Your Love Rain Down On Me", (1979)
• Dazzle
  • "You Dazzle Me" (1979)
• D.B.M.
  • "Beetlemania" (1979), "Kiss Me" (1979)
• D.C. LaRue
  • "Cathedrals" (1976), "Face of Love" (1977), "Let Them Dance" (1978), "Do You Want The Real Thing" (1978), "Hot Jungle Drums and Voodoo Rhythm" (1979)
• The D.C.A. Experience
  • "Yankee Doodle Boy" (1976)
• D.D. Sound
  • "We Like It" (1977), "Disco Bass" (1978), "Cafe" (1979)
• Deborah Washington
  • "Ready or Not" (1978), "Take a Chance with Me" (1978), "Standing in the Shadows of Love" (1978), "Rock It" (1979)
• Dee D. Jackson
  Dee D. Jackson
  Dee D. Jackson is a musician and singer. In the 1970s, she worked as a film producer in Munich, Germany, before moving into music, working with Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Automatic Lover" (1978), "Meteor Man" (1978)
• Dee Edwards
  Dee Edwards
  Dee Edwards is the London-based entrepreneur who founded Habbo with Aapo and Sampo. She was managing director.Dee used to visit Habbo Hotel occasionally in the evening or weekend and visit businesses or just have a chat. She also used one of her own rooms for market research.Dee Edwards now runs...
  
  
  • "Don't Sit Down" (1979), "Heavy Love" (1979)
• Deep-South Dance Band
  • "Dancin' Place (Theme from Zoli's)" (1979)
• Delegation
  Delegation
  Delegation is the assignment of authority and responsibility to another person to carry out specific activities. However the person who delegated the work remains accountable for the outcome of the delegated work. Delegation empowers a subordinate to make decisions, i.e...
  
  
  • "The Promise of Love/Soul-Trippin'" (1977)
• The Dells
  The Dells
  The Dells are an R&B and crossover musical group. Their successful recordings spanned more than four decades. Formed in 1952 after attending high school together, the Dells' repertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul, disco and contemporary rhythm and blues...
  
  
  • "Face to Face" (1979)
• Demis Roussos
  Demis Roussos
  Artemios Ventouris Roussos is a Greek singer and performer, best known for being the main musical partner of movie soundtrack composer Vangelis and a string of international hit records as a solo performer in the 1960s and 1970s...
  
  
  • "L.O.V.E. Got a Hold of Me" (1978)
• Denise LaSalle
  Denise LaSalle
  Denise LaSalle is an American R&B/soul and blues singer, songwriter, and record producer.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Think about It" (1979)
• Denise McCann
  Denise McCann
  Denise McCann is an American-Canadian singer/songwriter.-Biography:Growing up in a musical family, Denise McCann (born December 16, 1948, in Clinton, Iowa) is an American-Canadian singer/songwriter.-Biography:Growing up in a musical family, Denise McCann (born December 16, 1948, in Clinton, Iowa)...
  
  
  • "Tattoo Man" (1978), "Midnight Madness" (1978), "I Have a Destiny" (1979)
• Deodato
  • "Whistle Bump" (1978)
• Desmond Child and Rouge
  • "Our Love Is Insane" (1979)
• Destination
  • "Move On Up" (1979)
• The Detroit Emeralds
  • "Feel the Need" (1977), "Turn on Lady" (1978)
• Dexter Wansel
  Dexter Wansel
  Dexter Gilman Wansel is an American keyboardist, raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He contributed to the development of the Philly Sound and worked with producers Gamble and Huff at Philadelphia International Records. Wansel led the musical group, Yellow Sunshine...
  
  
  • "I'll Never Forget (My Favorite Disco)" (1979)
• The Diamond Dolls
  • "Toot Toot Tootsie - Goodbye" (1979)
• 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...
  
  
  • "Love Hangover" (1976), "Your Love Is So Good for Me" (1977), "Livin, Lovin', Givin'" (1978), "Ease on Down the Road" (w/ 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...
    
     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), "The Boss" (1979), "It's My House" (1979), "Upside Down" (1980), "My Old Piano" (1980), "I'm Coming Out" (1980)
• Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick
  Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....
  
  
  • "Out of My Hands" (1979)
• Disco Circus
  • "Over and Over" (1978)
• Disco Dream and the Androids
  • "Dream Machine" (1979)
• The Disco Kids
  • "What the World Needs Now" (1979)
• Disco Rock Machine
  • "You Really Got Me" (1978), "Time To Love" (1978)
• Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
  Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
  Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes were a disco group of the 1970s headed by Sir Monti Rock III .-Career:...
  
  
  • "Get Dancin" (1974), "I Wanna Dance Wit Choo" (1975), "Hey There Little Firefly" (1976)
• Disconnection
  • "Little Lady" (1977)
• Discopolis
  Discopolis
  Discopolis is the sixth studio album by the Finnish rock group CMX.With Discopolis, CMX took a different approach on recording with the goal of making the first entirely Pro Tools-based album in Finland. The basic concept was to build the songs from small pieces, emphasizing editing and production...
  
  
  • "Night Patrol" (1977), "Gitano" (1977)
• Dizzie Gillespie
  • "Unicorn" (1977)
• Dobie Gray
  Dobie Gray
  Dobie Gray is an African American singer and songwriter, whose musical career has spanned soul, country, pop and musical theater...
  
  
  • "Find 'Em, Fool 'Em and Forget 'Em" (1976)
• Doc Severinsen
  Doc Severinsen
  Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen is an American pop and jazz trumpeter. He is best known for leading the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.-Early life:...
  
  
  • "I Wanna Be with You" (1976)
• Dollar (band)
  Dollar (band)
  Dollar are a pop vocal duo from the UK, consisting of David Van Day and Thereza Bazar. The duo were successful in the late 1970s and 1980s.-Career:...
  
  
  • "Mirror Mirror (Mon amour)" (1981), "Gimme Some Kind of Magic" (1982),
  • "Hand Held in Black and White" (1982), "Videotheque" (1982)
• Dolly Parton
  Dolly Parton
  Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...
  
  
  • "Baby I'm Burning" (1978), "I Wanna Fall in Love" (1978), "Star of the Show" (1979)
• Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band
  • "Deputy of Love" (1979)
• Don Downing
  • "Doctor Boogie" (1979)
• Don Covay
  Don Covay
  Don Covay is an American R&B/rock and roll/soul music singer and songwriter most active in the 1950s and 1960s, who received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1994...
  
  
  • "Travelin' in Heavy Traffic" (1976)
• Don Ray
  • "Got to Have Loving" (1978), "Standing in the Rain" (1978)
• Donnie Elbert
  Donnie Elbert
  Donnie Elbert was an American soul singer, who had a prolific career from the mid 1950s to the late 1970s...
  
  
  • "You Don't Have to Be A Star" (1977)
• Donna Summer
  Donna Summer
  LaDonna Adrian Gaines , known by her stage name, Donna Summer, is an American singer/songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of the 1970s. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Summer is a five-time Grammy winner and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach...
  
  
  • "The Hostage" (1974), "Lady Of The Night" (1974), "Love To Love You Baby" (1975), "Could It Be Magic?" (1976), "Spring Affair" (1976), "Try Me I Know We Can Make It" (1976), "I Feel Love" (1977), "Loves Unkind" (1977), "I Remember Yesterday" (1977), "Down Deep Inside" (1977), "I Love You" (1977), "Last Dance" (1978), "MacArthur Park" (1978), "Hot Stuff" (1979), "Bad Girls" (1979), "Heaven Knows" (1979), "Dim All The Lights" (1979), "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (Duet with Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Streisand
    Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
    
    ) (1979), "On The Radio" (1980), "Sunset People" (1980), "Cold Love" (1981)
• Donny and Marie Osmond
  • "On the Shelf" (1978)
• Donny Beaumont
  • "This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)" (1975)
• Doobie Brothers
  • "What a Fool Believes" (1979), "Real Love" (1980)
• Doris Jones
  • "Can't You See the Smile on My Face" (1978)
• Doris Troy
  Doris Troy
  Doris Troy was an American R&B singer, known to her many fans as "Mama Soul".She was born as Doris Higginson in The Bronx, the daughter of a Barbadian Pentecostal minister. Her parents disapproved of "subversive" forms of music like rhythm & blues, so she cut her teeth singing in her father's choir...
  
  
  • "Can't Hold On" (1977)
• Dorothy Moore
  Dorothy Moore
  Dorothy Moore is an American pop, R&B, and soul singer best known for her 1976 hit song, "Misty Blue".-Career:...
  
  
  • "Let the Music Play" (1977)
• Double Exposure
  • "Ten Percent" (1976)
• Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
  Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
  Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band was a big band and swing influenced disco band, formed in the Bronx, New York. They are best known for their #1 US dance hit, "Cherchez La Femme"/C'est si bon, from their self-titled debut album....
  
  
  • "Whispering/Cherchez La Femme/C'est Si Bon" (1975)
• Dr. Hook
  • "Sexy Eyes" (1978), "When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman" (1979)
• Dream Express
  • "Take Me out Dancing" (1979), "Dream Express" (1979)
• Droids
  • "(Do You Have) The Force?" (1977)
• Duncan Sisters
  Duncan Sisters
  The Duncan Sisters were a vaudeville duo who became popular in the 1920s with their act Topsy and Eva.-Early career:Rosetta and Vivian Duncan were born in Los Angeles, California, the daughters of a violinist turned salesman...
  
  
  • "Love Is on the Way" (1979), "You Give Me Such a Feeling" (1979)
• Dunn Pearson Jr.
  • "Groove on Down" (1978)
• The Dynamos
  • "You Can Do It By Yourself" (1977)
• Dynasty
  Dynasty (band)
  Dynasty was an American R&B band, based in Los Angeles, California, created by producer and SOLAR Records label head Dick Griffey and Leon Sylvers III. The band was known for their dance/pop numbers during the late 1970s and 1980s...
  
  
  • "Satisfied" (1979), "Do Me Right" (1981)

E

• Eagles (band)
  • "The Disco Strangler" (1979)
• The Earls
  • "Meditation" (1977)
• Earl Klugh
  Earl Klugh
  Earl Klugh is an American smooth jazz/crossover jazz/jazz fusion guitarist and composer.At the age of 13, Klugh was captivated by the guitar playing of Chet Atkins when Atkins made an appearance on the Perry Como Show. Klugh was a performing guest on several of Atkins' albums...
  
  
  • "Acoustic Lady" (1977), "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" (1978)
• Eastside Connection
  • "La Cucaracha" (1976), "Birthday Medley" (1977), "You're So Right for Me" (1977), "Frisco Disco" (1978)
• Earth, Wind & Fire
  Earth, Wind & Fire
  Earth, Wind & Fire is an American soul and R&B band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 by Verdine and Maurice White. Also known as EWF, the band has won six Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of...
  
  
  • "September" (1978), "Boogie Wonderland" (duet with The Emotions) (1979), "Let's Groove" (1981)
• Easy Going
  • "Baby I Love You" (1978), "Fear" (1980)
• Ecstasy, Passion & Pain
  Ecstasy, Passion & Pain
  Ecstasy, Passion & Pain was a 1970s disco band. Their most successful songs are "Touch and Go" and "Ask Me".-History:EP&P was founded by Barbara Roy in New York in 1972...
  
  
  • "Ask Me" (1974), "Touch and Go" (1976)
• Eddie Kendricks
  Eddie Kendricks
  Eddie Kendricks was an American singer and songwriter. Noted for his distinctive falsetto singing style, Kendricks co-founded the Motown singing group The Temptations, and was one of their lead singers from 1960 until 1971. His was the lead voice on such famous songs as "The Way You Do The Things...
  
  
  • "Keep On Truckin'" (1973), "Boogie Down" (1974), "Happy" (1975), "Get The Cream Off The Top" (1975), "Goin' Up In Smoke" (1976), "He's A Friend" (1976), "Chains" (1976)
• Eddie Drennon
  • "Let's Do the Latin Hustle" (1976)
• Eddie Floyd
  Eddie Floyd
  Eddie Lee Floyd is an American soul/R&B singer and songwriter, best known for his work on the Stax record label in the 1960s and 1970s and the song "Knock on Wood".-Biography:...
  
  
  • "Take a Chance on Me" (1977)
• Eddie Horan
  • "Turn My World Back Around" (1978), "The Dancer" (1978)
• Eddie Rosemond
  • "Wake up and Move (Funk It) (1979)
• Edwin Starr
  Edwin Starr
  Edwin Starr was an American soul music singer. Starr is most famous for his Norman Whitfield produced singles of the 1970s, most notably the number one hit "War".-Biography:...
  
  
  • "Contact" (1978), "H.A.P.P.Y. Radio" (1979)
• Eine Kleine Disco Band
  • "Disco Concerto" (1978)
• El Coco
  • "Cocomotion" (1977), "Fait le Chat" (1977), "Dancing in Paradise" (1978), "Love Exciter" (1979), "Afrodesia" (1979)
• Elaine & Ellen
  • "The Look of Love" (1979), "All I Need Is Me" (1979)
• Elaine Overholt
  • "Run to Me" (1977)
• Electric Light Orchestra
  Electric Light Orchestra
  Electric Light Orchestra were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical overtones...
  
  
  • "Shine A Little Love" (1979), "Last Train To London" (1979), "Xanadu" (With Olivia Newton-John) (1980)
• Eli's Second Coming
  • "Hop-Scotch" (1977), "Heavenly" (1977)
• Elliot Lurie
  Elliot Lurie
  Elliot Lurie is an American singer/musician who was the lead guitarist and songwriter for the band Looking Glass from 1969 to 1974...
  
  
  • "Disco (Where You Gonna Go)" (1975)
• Eloise Laws
  Eloise Laws
  Eloise Laws is a singer and a member of the prominent Laws family of musicians from Houston, Texas.-Biography:Lavern Eloise Laws was born November 6, 1943 in Houston, Texas as the fourth of eight children of Miola Luverta Donahue and Hubert Laws, Sr...
  
  
  • "1,000 Laughs" (1978), "Love Goes Deeper Than That" (1977)
• Elton John
  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
  
  
  • "Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance!)" (1976), "Ego" (1978), "Are You Ready For Love" (1979), "Victim Of Love" (1979), "Mama Can't Buy You Love" (1979), "Johnny B. Goode" (1979), "I'm Still Standing" (1983)
• Emily Woods
  • "Proud Mary" (1979), "Ak-shun" (1979)
• The Emotions
  • "Flowers" (1977), "Best Of My Love" (1978), "Boogie Wonderland" (duet with Earth, Wind & Fire
    Earth, Wind & Fire
    Earth, Wind & Fire is an American soul and R&B band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 by Verdine and Maurice White. Also known as EWF, the band has won six Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of...
    
    ) (1979), "We Should Be Dancing" (1979)
• Enchantment
  Enchantment (band)
  Enchantment is a 1970s R&B band formed in Detroit, Michigan by Emanuel "EJ" Johnson, Bobby Green, Mickey Clanton, Joe Thomas and Dave Banks. Best known for the hits Gloria and It's You That I Need.- Beginnings :...
  
  
  • "Hold On" (1976), "Dance To The Music" (1976), "Come On and Ride" (1976), "Sexy Lady" (1976), "If You're Ready (Here It Comes)" (1977), "Sunny Shine Feeling" (1977), "You Must Be An Angel/Up Higher" (1977), "Any Way You Want It, You Got It" (1979), "Futures Gonna Get You" (1979), "Fun" (1979), "I Want To Boogie" (1979)
• Engelbert Humperdinck
  Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)
  Engelbert Humperdinck is a British pop singer, best known for his hits including "Release Me " and "After the Lovin'" as well as "The Last Waltz" .-Early life:...
  
  
  • "I Can't Live a Dream" (1976), "Loving You Too Long" (1979)
• Ennio Morricone
  Ennio Morricone
  Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
  
  
  • "Come Maddelena" (1978)
• Ernie Fields Jr.
  • "Ride a Wild Horse" (1978)
• Eruption
  Eruption (band)
  Eruption was a popular disco / R&B / Soul band in the 1970s and 1980s.-History:Silent Eruption was formed in 1974 in Britain. In 1975 they won the RCA Soul Search Contest, whilst their first single "Let Me Take You Back in Time" was released in 1976...
  
  
  • "Party Party" (1977), "I Can't Stand The Rain" (1978), "One-Way Ticket" (1979)
• Esther Phillips
  Esther Phillips
  Esther Phillips was an American singer. Phillips was known for her R&B vocals, but she was a versatile singer, also performing pop, country, jazz, blues and soul music.-Early life:...
  
  
  • "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" (1976), "Our Day Will Come" (1978), "Oo Oop Oo Oop" (1979)
• Esther Williams
  Esther Williams
  Esther Jane Williams is a retired American competitive swimmer and MGM movie star.Williams set multiple national and regional swimming records in her late teens as part of the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team...
  
  
  • "You Gotta Let Me Show You" (1976), "Yours and Yours Alone" (1978)
• Ethel Merman
  Ethel Merman
  Ethel Merman was an American actress and singer. Known primarily for her powerful voice and roles in musical theatre, she has been called "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage." Among the many standards introduced by Merman in Broadway musicals are "I Got Rhythm", "Everything's...
  
  
  • "There's No Business Like Show Business" (1979)
• Eugene Record
  Eugene Record
  Eugene Record was the American lead vocalist of the Chicago, Illinois based band, The Chi-Lites, during the 1960s and 1970s.He was born Eugene Booker Record in Chicago...
  
  
  • "I Don't Mind"/"Take Everything" (1979), "Magnetism" (1979), "Where Are You" (1979)
• Evelyn "Champagne" King
  • "Shame" (1977), "I Don't Know If It's Right" (1977)
• Evelyn Thomas
  Evelyn Thomas
  Evelyn Thomas is an American singer from Chicago, Illinois, best known for the dance hits "High Energy", "Masquerade", "Standing At The Crossroads", "Reflections", and "WeakSpot"....
  
  
  • "I Wanna Make It on My Own" (1978), "My Head's in the Stars" (1979), "Have a Little Faith in Me" (1979)
• Extensions From Area Code (212)
  • "Manhattan Shuffle" (1979), "Daddy" (1979), "Duke's Train" (1979), "Gaz-O-Lean" (1979)