“Boogie” invaded the pop and R&B charts a year and change before Saturday Night Fever, inspiring a Mingo Junction band to speed up a standard shouter. “Play That Funky Music” has its fans, though, so good for them. My most chilling experience was re-listening to “Just To Be Close to You, the most satisfying to “Disco Lady.”
The Hague
Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music
Meh
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. – You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)
The O’Jays – Message in Our Music
Commodores – Just To Be Close to You
The Manhattans – Kiss and Say Goodbye
The Sylvers – Boogie Fever
Natalie Cole – Inseparable
Sound, Solid
KC & the Sunshine Band – Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – Wake Up Everybody
The Ohio Players – Who’d She Coo?
Brass Construction – Movin’
L.T.D. – Love Ballad
Brick – Dazz
Tyrone Davis – Turning Point
Good to Great
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan – Sweet Thing
The Spinners – The Rubberband Man
Aretha Franklin – Something He Can Feel
Earth, Wind & Fire – Getaway
Diana Ross – Love Hangover
Johnnie Taylor – Disco Lady
Candi Station – Young Hearts Run Free
The Brothers Johnson – I’ll Be Good to You
Marvin Gaye – I Want You
Lou Rawls – You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
Natalie Cole – Sophisticated Lady (She’s a Different Lady)
Earth, Wind & Fire – Sing a Song
The O’Jays – Livin’ for the Weekend/Stairway to Heaven
Humanizing The Vacuum 