See XOXO

Hugs and Kisses

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Love & Kisses was a 1970s disco

Disco

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

 group assembled by Europe

Europe

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an producer

Record producer

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 Alec Costandinos, with a variety of male/female singers.

After collaborating on 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...

's debut album

Album

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 Love In C Minor (1976), Costandinos assembled Love & Kisses in early 1977, and shortly after the group released their first album, which contained just two songs - and so was also classed as a double A-side

A-side and B-side

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 single. These were "Accidental Lover" and "I Found Love (Now That I Have Found You)

I Found Love (Now That I Have Found You)

"I Found Love " is a 1977 disco single by Love & Kisses, a disco studio group formed by Alec Costandinos. Along with the track, "Accidental Lover", "I Found Love ", from Love & Kisses self-titled debut album, hit number one on the disco/dance chart for three weeks, in July 1977...

", which combined orchestra

Orchestra

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l sounds, classical

Classical music

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 influences and a disco arrangement. The single

Single (music)

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 charted at #1 for three weeks on Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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s Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

The following year saw the release of their second album entitled How Much, How Much I Love You, (title track covered side one, "Beauty and the Beast" completed side two) utilising the same basic formula. Both songs became top five disco hits. This was followed closely by the group's biggest hit, "Thank God It's Friday

Thank God It's Friday

The triple album was, unlike the movie, a commercial success. It contained contributions from some of the biggest names in disco at the time, including Donna Summer, Diana Ross, Thelma Houston, The Commodores, and many others....

", the title song from the movie

Film

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. It peaked at #23 R&B, #22 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 chart and #1 for six weeks on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The soundtrack, which featured 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...

's "Last Dance

Last Dance (song)

"Last Dance" is a hit 1978 song by singer Donna Summer. The song appeared on the Thank God It's Friday movie soundtrack. It was written by Paul Jabara and was co-produced by Summer's regular collaborator Giorgio Moroder, along with Bob Esty...

" and the 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...

 "Too Hot Ta Trot", was nominated for several Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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s.

Their third and final album, You Must Be Love was released in 1979, but met with less success. Shortly thereafter the group disassembled.

Albums

• 1977 Love and Kisses
• 1978 How Much, How Much I Love You
• 1979 You Must Be Love

See also

• List of number-one dance hits (United States)
• List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart