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Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [131] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [132] The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [ 133 ]
Embracing rock, funk, dance, new wave and post-disco, the full-length seven-minute track features numerous solos, including trumpet, saxophone, guitar and percussion. Several music elements, from the bassline and the breakdown, were based on Rodgers' work with Chic, while the rising vocal intros were taken from the Beatles ' version of " Twist ...
Whitburn, Joel (2004), Joel Whitburn's Hot Dance/Disco 1974-2003, Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, ISBN 0-89820-156-X, archived from the original on 2010-03-16; Some weeks may also be found at Billboard magazine courtesy of Google Books: 1980—1984
He added, "A full hands-in the-air anthem, it brought a stately majesty to the original." [ 4 ] Larry Flick from Billboard stated that "as clubland continues to salivate for the onset of the full-length debut from Nuyorican Soul, the act offers this wonderfully faithful rendition of the Loleatta Holloway disco classic with fierce Latin / dance ...
"Young Hearts Run Free" is a disco song written by David Crawford and originally recorded by American soul singer Candi Staton in 1976. Rolling Stone ranked Staton's "Young Hearts Run Free" number 150 in their list of "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time" in 2022, [1] while Billboard ranked it among the "500 Best Pop Songs of All Time" in 2023.
"Everybody Dance" is a song by American band Chic. The disco song, which features Norma Jean Wright on lead vocals and Luther Vandross , Diva Gray , Robin Clark and David Lasley on background vocals, [ 1 ] was released as the second single from the band's self-titled debut album Chic (1977).
"Dancin' the Night Away" went to number one for three weeks on the Billboard disco/dance chart. [2] The single failed to chart on either the Billboard Hot 100 or the R&B chart (although the single did "Bubble Under" at No. 109 for one week). In the UK, the single peaked at No. 39 in August 1981. [3] In the Netherlands, it reached number 22.
"Keep On Dancin '" is the debut single by Gary's Gang, a disco group from Queens, New York. The song became successful in several countries in 1979. "Keep On Dancin'" peaked at number 15 on the US Soul Singles chart, number 41 on the US Billboard Hot 100, [1] and number 33 on the Cash Box Top 100. [2]