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Side-A label of the 1977 US vinyl single "Disco Inferno" is a song by American disco band the Trammps from their 1976 studio album of same name.With two other cuts by the group, it reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in early 1977, but had limited mainstream success until 1978, after being included on the soundtrack to the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, when a re-release ...
The album peaked at No. 16 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 46 on the Billboard 200. The album features the title track, which peaked at No. 9 on the Hot Soul Singles chart, No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, and "I Feel Like I've Been Livin' (On the Dark Side of the Moon)", which charted at No. 52 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.
The history of the Trammps grew from the 1960s group the Volcanos, who later became the Moods. [1] With a number of line-up changes by the early 1970s, the band membership included gospel-influenced lead singer Jimmy Ellis, drummer and singer (bass voice) Earl Young, with brothers Stanley and Harold 'Doc' Wade.
Earl Donald Young (born June 2, 1940) is a Philadelphia-based drummer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s as part of the Philly Soul sound. Young is best known as the founder and leader of The Trammps [1] who had a hit record with "Disco Inferno".
Tommy Cash, the country musician and younger brother of late music icon Johnny Cash, died Friday evening. He was 84. The Johnny Cash Museum confirmed Tommy Cash’s death in a statement Saturday.
The Owsley Stanley Foundation and Renew Records/BMG announced Johnny Cash, At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24 1968 a never-heard Johnny Cash live album of a concert in San Francisco just days ...
Tyrone Garfield Kersey (April 7, 1949 – January 25, 2005), known as Ron "Have Mercy" Kersey, was an American keyboardist, songwriter, producer and arranger most known for writing the music to "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps. Kersey was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended and graduated from Edison High School where he sang in the ...
The recordings Cash made in 1993 at LSI Studios in Nashville were demos, not completed tracks. To bring them into public view now, the singer’s son, John Carter Cash, gathered musicians at the ...