Discography and Biography of The Ritchie Family. Listen to all their hits.
The Ritchie Family Songs

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The Ritchie Family, an American vocal group based in Philadelphia, achieved several hits during the disco era. Their first hit single, a reworking of the 1930s song "Brazil" reached the Top 20 in the United States in 1975, and the album, also titled Brazil, sold well. The following year they released the album Arabian Nights, and with it the single "The Best Disco in Town". The song was a medley of recent disco songs linked together with an original chorus and it became a worldwide hit. Their follow up albums Life is Music, which followed a 1930s theme, and African Queens were only mediocre successes. Their 1978 album, American Generation, was a slight departure from disco and more in the style of Europop, although one of the singles from it was called "I Feel Disco Good." For the next album, Bad Reputation, they brought in lead singer Vera Brown; the group enjoyed success with "Put Your Feet To The Beat." The Ritchie Family line-up of Brown, Smith-Lee and Draher next recorded the Give Me A Break album, which contained the hits "Give Me A Break" and "Never Be Able to Set You Free." Continuing with album releases, the next was I'll Do My Best (1981) followed by All Night All Right (1983) - the group's final album - neither of which made much of an impact.

Below is a list of The Ritchie Family songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: 20th Century 2218
chart position: RandB #13, US #11, UK #41, US AC #5, US dance #1
written by: Ary Barroso
album: Brazil
comments: [disco]
The Ritchie Family Brazil
1975 20th Century
2 record label: Marlin 3306
chart position: RandB #12, US #17, UK #10, US dance #1
written by: Jacques Morali, Richard V. DiCicco, Henri Belolo & Phil Hurtt
album: African Queens
comments: [disco]
The Ritchie Family The Best Disco in Town
1976 Marlin
3 record label: Marlin 3316
chart position: RandB #8, US dance #1
written by: Les Baxter
album: African Queens
The Ritchie Family Quiet Village
1977 Marlin
4 record label: 20th Century 498
chart position: US dance #4
album: Brazil
The Ritchie Family Peanut Vendor -- Frenesi
1975 20th Century
5 record label: 20th Century 2252
chart position: RandB #74, US #84, US dance #18
written by: Jacques Morali, Henri Belolo and Beauris Whitehead
album: Brazil
The Ritchie Family I Want to Dance with You (Dance with Me)
1975 20th Century
6 record label: RCA Victor 13093
chart position: RandB #27, US dance #17
written by: Mauro Malavasi, Guiliano Salerni and Fonzi Thornton
album: I'll Do My Best
The Ritchie Family I'll Do My Best (For You Baby)
1982 RCA Victor
7 record label: Marlin 3309
chart position: RandB #74, US #102, US dance #8
written by: Jacques Morali, Max Gazzola, Richie Rome, Henri Belolo and Phil Hurtt
album: Life Is Music
The Ritchie Family Life Is Music
1977 Marlin
8 record label: Casablanca 2206
chart position: US dance #14
written by: Russell Dabney, Alfonso Carey, Tom Polite, Rodger Lee, Jimmy Lee and Nathaniel Wilkie
The Ritchie Family Put Your Feet to the Beat
1979 Casablanca
9 record label: Marlin 3323
chart position: UK #49, US dance #19
written by: Henri Belolo, Jacques Morali & Phil Hurtt
album: American Generation
The Ritchie Family American Generation
1979 Marlin
10 record label: Casablanca 2259
chart position: RandB #80, US dance #25
written by: Henri Belolo and Jacques Morali
The Ritchie Family Give Me a Break
1980 Casablanca
11 record label: RCA 13343
chart position: RandB #77
album: All Night All Right
comments: [disco, funk, boogie]
The Ritchie Family All Night All Right
1983 RCA
-- record label: RCA Victor 4601
written by: G. Christopher, G. Levias
album: All Night All Right
comments: [album cut]
The Ritchie Family Real Love
1983 RCA Victor




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