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Van McCoy Songs

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Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6, 1940 - July 6, 1979) was an American musician, record producer, arranger, songwriter, singer and orchestra conductor. He is known best for his 1975 internationally successful song "The Hustle". He has approximately 700 song copyrights to his credit, and is also noted for producing songs for such recording artists as Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda & the Tabulations, David Ruffin, Peaches & Herb and Stacy Lattisaw.

Below is a list of Van McCoy 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: Avco 4653
chart position: RandB #1, UK #3, US dance #3, US AC #2
written by: Van McCoy
album: Disco Baby
comments: [disco]
Van McCoy The Hustle
1975 Avco
2 record label: HandL 4677
chart position: RandB #79, UK #4, US #105
written by: Van McCoy
album: Rhythms Of The World
comments: [disco instrumental]
Van McCoy The Shuffle
1977 H&L
3 record label: Avco 4660
chart position: RandB #6, US #46, UK #36, US dance #15
written by: Van McCoy
album: The Disco Kid
comments: [disco dance]
Van McCoy Change with the Times
1975 Avco
4 record label: Avco 4639
chart position: RandB #77, US AC #22
written by: George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore
Van McCoy Love Is the Answer
1974 Avco
5 record label: HandL 4682
chart position: UK #34
written by: Van McCoy
album: Rhythms of the World
Van McCoy Soul Cha Cha
1977 H&L
6 record label: HandL 4670
chart position: RandB #20, US #69, US dance #14
written by: Van McCoy
album: The Real McCoy
Van McCoy Party
1976 H&L
7 record label: HandL 6105065 (UK)
chart position: US dance #13
written by: Van McCoy
album: Love Is the Answer
Van McCoy African Symphony
1974 H&L
8 record label: HandL 4667
chart position: RandB #51, US #96
written by: Van McCoy
album: The Real McCoy
Van McCoy Night Walk
1976 H&L
9 record label: Rock'n 101
chart position: US #104
written by: Van McCoy
Van McCoy Mr. D.J.
1961 Rock'n
10 record label: Share 102
chart position: Cashbox RandB #43
written by: J. Cobb, V. McCoy
comments: [northern soul instrumental]
The Van McCoy Strings Sweet And Easy
1968 Share
11 record label: Avco 4648
chart position: RandB #67
written by: Frank Wilson, Leonard Caston and Anita Poree
Van McCoy Boogie Down
1975 Avco
12 record label: MCA 40885
chart position: RandB #76
written by: Van McCoy
album: My Favorite Fantasy
Van McCoy My Favorite Fantasy
1978 MCA
-- record label: President 446 (UK)
written by: Van McCoy, Ray Anderson
Sharon Ridley & Van McCoy I'm In Your Corner
1975 President




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