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• Faith, Hope & Charity
  • "To Each His Own" (1975), "Life Goes On" (1978), "I'm Ready for a New Love" (1978)
• Fantasia
  Fantasia
  Fantasia may refer to:*Fantasia , a traditional equestrian performance practiced in North africa*Show tango, also called Fantasia, a more theatrical and exaggerated form of Argentine tango*1224 Fantasia, an asteroid...
  
  
  • Sweet, Sweet City Rhythm" (1979), "Fantasia" (1979)
• Fantastic Four
  Fantastic Four
  The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 , which helped to usher in a new level of realism in the medium...
  
  
  • "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), "Let the Sun Shine" (1979), "Last Chance to Dance" (1979)
• Fatback
  Fatback
  Fatback is a cut of meat from a domestic pig. It consists of the layer of adipose tissue under the skin of the back, with or without the skin...
  
  
  • "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
  First Choice (band)
  First Choice was an American girl group vocal music trio from Philadelphia. The group produced the disco hits "Armed and Extremely Dangerous", "Smarty Pants", "The Player", "Love Thang", "Let No Man Put Asunder" and "Dr. Love". They were signed to soul label Philly Groove Records and to disco label...
  
  
  • "The Player" (1974), "Dr. Love" (1977), "Let No Man Put Asunder" (1977), "Hold Your Horses" (1979)
• The Flakes
  • "Sugar Frosted Lover" (1980)
• Floaters
  • "I Just Wanna Be with You" (1978)
• Flower
  Flower
  A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to effect reproduction, usually by providing a mechanism for the union of sperm with eggs...
  
  
  • "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)
• Four Tops
  Four Tops
  The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet, whose repertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, hard rock, and showtunes...
  
  
  • "Catfish" (1976), "The Show Must Go On" (1977)
• Four on the Floor
  Four on the Floor
  Four on the Floor was a sketch comedy series which aired on CBC Television in 1986. Consisting of only 13 episodes, the series was a showcase for The Frantics, a comedy troupe consisting of Paul Chato, Rick Green, Dan Redican and Peter Wildman...
  
  
  • "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" (1978), "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), "Don't Stop Dancing" (1979), "Let Go" (1979), "Playboy" (1979)
• 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), (w/ The Four Seasons
    The Four Seasons (group)
    The Four Seasons are an American rock and pop band who became internationally successful in the mid-1960s. The Vocal Group Hall of Fame has stated that the group was the most popular rock band before The Beatles...
    
    ) "Swearin' to God" (1975), "Our Day Will Come" (1975), "December 1963 (Oh What a Night)" (w/ The Four Seasons) (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)
• 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), "Livin' For The Beat" (1978), "Happy Days Are Here Again/Happy Music" (1978), "Red Hot" (1979), I'll Do Anything for You" (1979)
• Freddie James
  • "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
  • "Love Insurance" (1979)
• The Futures
  • "Party-Time Man" (1978)
• Funkadelic
  Funkadelic
  Funkadelic was an American band most prominent during the 1970s. The band and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, began the funk music culture of that decade.-History:...
  
  
  • "One Nation Under A Groove" (1978), "(Not Just) Knee Deep" (1979)

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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)
• 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" (1979), "Oops Upside Your Head" (1980)
• 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" (1979)
• 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)
• 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), "Honey I (I'll Live My Life For You)" (1975), "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), "The Dancer" (1979)
• 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)
• Gladys Knight & the Pips
  Gladys Knight & the Pips
  Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R&B/soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for their string of hit singles on Motown's "Soul" record label and Buddah Records from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight...
  
  
  • "Baby Don't Change Your Mind" (1977), "Bourgié Bourgié" (1980)

• 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), "Most of All" (1977), "Anybody Wanna Party" (1978), "Substitute" (1978), "I Will Survive" (1978), "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)" (1979), "Tonight" (1980), "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)
• Gloria Scott
  • "Just as Long as We're Together" (1975)
• GMT Sound
  • "Malaguena" (1979)
• Gonzalez
  • "Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet" (1979)
• 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...
  
  
  • "Sorry" (1976), "La Vie En Rose" (1977), "I Need A Man" (1978), "Am I Ever Gonna Fall in Love in New York City" (1978), "On Your Knees" (1979), "Don't Mess with the Messer" (1979)
• Graham Bonnett
  • "Warm Ride" (1978)
• Grand Tour
  Grand Tour
  The Grand Tour was the traditional trip of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class European young men of means. The custom flourished from about 1660 until the advent of large-scale rail transit in the 1840s, and was associated with a standard itinerary. It served as an educational rite of passage...
  
  
  • "The Grand Tour" (1978)
• Grateful Dead
  Grateful Dead
  The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
  
  
  • "Shakedown Street" (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)
• 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), "I Found a Love" (1979), "Melody of Life" (1979)

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• Halloween
  Halloween
  Hallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...
  
  
  • "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), "Where Are All My Friends" (1975), "Don't Leave Me This Way" (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" (1980)
• 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), "This is it" (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)
• 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...
  
  
  • "Make Love to Me" (1979)
• Henry Mancini and His Concert Orchestra
  • "African Symphony" (1975), "Get It On" (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), "The Groove Line" (1978)
• Helen Davis
  • "Satisfaction" (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)
• Wayne Henderson
  Wayne Henderson (musician)
  Wayne Henderson is a soul-jazz and hard bop trombonist and record producer. In 1961, he co-founded the soul jazz/hard bop group The Jazz Crusaders...
  
  
  • "Dancin' Love Affair" (1978), "Heat of the Beat" (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 One's A Winner" (1978) "Are You Getting Enough Of What Makes You Happy" (1980), "Girl Crazy" (1982),
• Hot Cuisine
  • "Who's Been Kissing You?" (1981)
• 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)
• Imperials
  The Imperials
  The Imperials are an American Christian music group that has been around for over 45 years. Originating as a southern gospel quartet, the innovative group would become pioneers of contemporary Christian music in the 1960s. There have been many changes for the band in membership and musical styles...
  
  
  • "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...
  
  
  • "I'm Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair)" (1979)
• 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)
• The Invisible Man's Band
  • "All-Night Thing" (1980)
• 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...
  
  
  • "Stranger in Paradise" (1977), "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...
  
  
  • "People of Today" (1976), "Who Loves You Better" (1976), "I Wanna Be With You" (1979), "Winner Takes All" (1979), "Life In The City" (1979), "It's a Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop)" (1979)

J

• Jackie Moore
  • "This Time Baby" (1979), "How's Your Love-Life Baby" (1979)
• The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5
  The Jackson 5 , later known as The Jacksons, were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...
  
  
  • "The Life of The Party" (1974), "Forever Came Today" (1975)
• The Jacksons
  • "Enjoy Yourself" (1976), "Show You The Way To Go" (1976), "Keep On Dancing" (1976), "Goin' Places" (1977), "Blame It On The Boogie" (1978), "Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground)" (1978), "Can You Feel It" (1981)
• James & Bobby Purify
  James & Bobby Purify
  James & Bobby Purify were an R&B singing duo, whose biggest hits were "I'm Your Puppet" in 1966, which reached #6 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and in a re-recorded version #12 in the UK Singles Chart , and "Let Love Come Between Us" in 1967, which reached #23 in the U.S.James Lee Purify was...
  
  
  • "Do Your Thing" (1974),
• 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...
  
  
  • "Hot Pants - Pt1" (1971), "Make it Funky - Pt1" (1971), "Stoned to the Bone" (1973), "Hustle!!! (Dead on it)" 1975), "Sex Machine" (1975), "Get Up Offa That Thing" (1976), "Bobyheat" (1976), "It's Too Funky In Here" (1979)
• James Wells
  • "That's the Way the Wind Blows" (1979), "My Claim to Fame" (1979)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Jimmy Castor Bunch
  • "Bertha Butt Encounters Vader" (1978)
• Jimmy "Bo" Horne
  • "Get Happy" (1977), "Dance Across The Floor" (1978), "Spank" (1978)
• 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)
• Jinny & The Flamboyants
  • "Cumparsita Dance" (1977), "Serenade To Cripton" (1978)
• J.J. Barnes
  • "How Long" (1977)
• J.M. with Love
  • "Love Is a Stranger" (1977)
• 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:...
  
  
  • "Get Down, Get Down (Get On The Floor)" (1975), "Love Vibration" (1978), "Going Through These Changes" (1978), "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)
• Joe Thomas
  • "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 and the Monster Orchestra
  John Davis and the Monster Orchestra
  John Davis and the Monster Orchestra were an American disco band, noted for their lead member , who lent his name to the band as well as producing all of their output.-History:...
  
  
  • "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 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...
  
  
  • "Hang On in There Baby" (1974),
• 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...
  
  
  • "Hang On In There Baby" (1974), "Do It to My Mind" (1976), "I Sho Like Groovin' With You" (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" (1974)
• 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
  Jumbo
  Jumbo was a large African Bush Elephant, born 1861 in the French Sudan – present-day Mali – imported to a Paris zoo, transferred to the London Zoo in 1865, and sold in 1882 to P. T...
  
  
  • "Turn on to Love" (1976), "City Girl" (1976), "Sexy Lady" (1976)
• Jupiter Beyond
  • "The River Drive" (1979)
• Jupiter Sunset Band
  • "Disco Rhapsody" (1978), "Stranger in Paradise" (1978)

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• 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)
• 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
  • "Get Down Tonight" (1975), "That's The Way (I Like It)" (1975), "Boogie Shoes" (1975), "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty" (1976), "I Like to Do It" (1976), "I'm Your Boogie Man" (1976), "Keep It Comin' Love" (1976), "It's The Same Old Song" (1978), "Do You Wanna Go Party" (1979), "Give It Up" (1983)
• 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
  • "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" (1980), "Loving Just for Fun" (1980), "Hot Love" (1981), "I'm On Fire" (1983), "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)
• Kiss
  KISS (band)
  Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...
  
  
  • "I Was Made For Lovin' You" (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...
  
  
  • "Spirit of the Boogie" (1975), "Open Sesame" (1976), "Super Bad" (1976), "If You Feel Like Dancin'" (1979), "Hangin' Out" (1979), "Ladies Night" (1979), "Tonight's The Night" (1979), "Celebration" (1980), "Night People" (1980), "Get Down On It" (1981)
• Krypton
  Krypton
  Krypton is a chemical element with the symbol Kr and atomic number 36. It is a member of Group 18 and Period 4 elements. A colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas, krypton occurs in trace amounts in the atmosphere, is isolated by fractionally distilling liquified air, and is often used with other...
  
  
  • "Can You Read My Mind" (1979)