| 1 |
record label: CBS 8852
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #4, US AC #12
written by: Winfred Lovett
album: The Manhattans featuring Kiss and Say Goodbye
comments: [ballad]
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| 2 |
record label: Epic 50225
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #7, US dance #12
written by: Robert Parissi
album: Wild Cherry
comments: [funk]
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| 3 |
record label: Tamla 54274
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #5, US AC #23, US dance #2
written by: Stevie Wonder
album: Songs in the Key of Life
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 4 |
record label: RSO 853
chart position: RandB #4, US #1, UK #5, US AC #25, US dance #1
written by: Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb & Maurice Gibb
album: Children of the World
comments: [disco]
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| 5 |
record label: ABC 12208
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #7, US AC #6
written by: James Dean & John Glover
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| 6 |
record label: Tamla Motown 1024
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #10, US AC #19, US dance #1
written by: Marilyn McLeod & Pam Sawyer (as Pamela Sawyer)
album: Diana Ross [1976 album] / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 10
comments: [Motown Sound] [disco]
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| 7 |
record label: Tamla 54278
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #13, US AC #40, US dance #1
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff & Cary Gilbert
album: Any Way You Like It / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 10
comments: [Motown Sound] [disco]
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| 8 |
record label: MCA 40615
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #9, US dance #3
written by: Norman Whitfield
album: Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
comments: [disco funk]
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| 9 |
record label: Pye International 25709
chart position: UK #1, RandB #28, US #66
written by: Ken Gold & Michael Denne
album: Real Thing
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| 10 |
record label: P.I.R. 3592
chart position: RandB #1, US #2, UK #10, US AC #1, US dance #4
written by: Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff
album: All Things In Time / The Best Of Philadelphia
comments: [philly sound]
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| 11 |
record label: Midland Int. 10571
chart position: RandB #5, US 2, UK #7, US AC #25, US dance #5
written by: Sylvester Levay & Michael Kunze (as Stephan Prager)
album: Get Up and Boogie
comments: [disco]
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| 12 |
record label: Columbia 10281
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #25
written by: Harvey Scales, Albert Vance & Don Davis
album: Eargasm
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| 13 |
record label: T.K. 1019
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #22
written by: Harry Wayne Casey & Richard Finch
album: Part 3
comments: [disco funk]
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| 14 |
record label: Private Stock 45073
chart position: RandB #10, US #1, UK #28, US AC #13
weeksinr&bchart: 15
written by: Walter Murphy
album: Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track
comments: [jazz funk instrumental]
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| 15 |
record label: Malaco 1029
chart position: RandB #2, US #3, UK #5, US AC #14
written by: Bob Montgomery
album: Misty Blue
comments: [deep soul]
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| 16 |
record label: Atlantic 453355
chart position: RandB #1, US #2, UK #16, US dance #14
written by: Thom Bell & Linda Creed
album: Happiness Is Being With The Spinners
comments: [disco dance]
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| 17 |
record label: Buddah 515
chart position: RandB #23, US #4, UK #5, US AC #23, US dance #2
written by: Gregg Diamond
album: More, More, More
comments: [disco]
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| 18 |
record label: Capitol 4179
chart position: RandB #1, US #1
written by: Kenneth St. Lewis & Freddie Perren
album: Showcase
comments: [disco dance]
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| 19 |
record label: T.K. 1023
chart position: RandB #1, US #2, UK #31, US AC #36
written by: Harry Wayne Casey & Richard Finch
album: Part 3
comments: [disco dance]
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| 20 |
record label: Columbia 10367
chart position: RandB #5, US #3, UK #28, US AC #11, US dance #12
written by: Boz Scaggs & David Paich
album: Silk Degrees
comments: [disco dance]
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| 21 |
record label: Bang 727
chart position: RandB #1, US #3, US dance #7
written by: Eddie Irons, Ray Ransom & Regi Hargis
album: Good High
comments: [disco funk]
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| 22 |
record label: Columbia 10429
chart position: RandB #2, UK #1, US #25, US dance #31, US AC #38
written by: Deniece Williams, Hank Redd, Nathan Watts & Susaye Greene
album: This Is Niecy
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| 23 |
record label: CBS 3937 (UK)
chart position: UK #1
written by: Jack Robinson and James Bolden
album: I Love To Love
comments: [disco]
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| 24 |
record label: Capitol 4270
chart position: RandB #3, UK #4, US #15, US dance #1, US AC #18
written by: Freddie Perren & Keni St. Lewis
album: Sky High!
comments: [disco]
|
| 25 |
record label: Warner 8181
chart position: RandB #1, US #20, UK #2, US AC #50, US dance #8
written by: Dave Crawford (as David Crawford)
album: Young Hearts Run Free
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 26 |
record label: Ariola 7621
chart position: US #22, UK #2
written by: Billy Ocean and Ben Findon
album: Billy Ocean
comments: [northern soul]
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| 27 |
record label: Atlantic 10827
chart position: UK #6, US Dance #11, US #65
written by: Frank Farian and Georg Reyam
album: Take the Heat Off Me
comments: [disco] charted as Daddy Kool//Take The Heat Off Me/Fever in US dance charts
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| 28 |
record label: AandM 1806
chart position: RandB #1, US #3
written by: George Johnson, Louis Johnson & Sonora Sam
album: Look Out For #1
comments: [disco funk jazz]
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| 29 |
record label: RCA 10530
chart position: RandB #23, US #4, US AC #18
written by: Daryl Hall & John Oates
album: Daryl Hall and John Oates
comments: [ballad]
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| 30 |
record label: Epic P.I.R. 50289
chart position: RandB #2, US #6, UK #42, US dance #33
written by: Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff
album: The Jacksons / The Best Of Philadelphia
comments: [philly sound]
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| 31 |
record label: Capitol 11299
chart position: RandB #3, US #5
written by: Kenneth St. Lewis & Freddie Perren
album: Something Special
comments: [disco dance]
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| 32 |
record label: ABC 12149
chart position: RandB #1, US #5
written by: Chaka Khan & Tony Maiden
album: Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan
comments: [ballad]
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| 33 |
record label: United Artists 834
chart position: RandB #4, US #7, US AC #1
written by: Jerry Goldstein , Harold Brown, Papa Dee Allen,B.B Dickerson
album: Greatest Hits
comments: [beat ballad]
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| 34 |
record label: Atlantic 3332
chart position: RandB #93, US #7, UK #42, US AC #6
written by: Daryl Hall & John Oates
album: Abandoned Lunchonette
comments: [beat ballad]
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| 35 |
record label: United Artists 875
chart position: UK #2
written by: Ken Gold and Michael Denne
album: Real Thing
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 36 |
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]
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| 37 |
record label: United Artists 775
chart position: RandB #1, US #14, UK #23, US dance #1
written by: Randy Muller & Wade Williamston
album: Brass Construction
comments: [disco funk]
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| 38 |
record label: Motown 1402
chart position: RandB #1, US #7, UK #62
written by: Lionel Richie
album: Hot on the Tracks
comments: [Motown Sound] [ballad]
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| 39 |
record label: RCA Victor 10562
chart position: US dance #1, RandB #73, UK #51, US #10, US AC #43
written by: Gerald Jackson & Peter Jackson
album: Never Gonna Let You Go
comments: [disco]
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| 40 |
record label: Capitol 15886
chart position: RandB #14, US #34, UK #4, US dance #3
written by: Freddie Perren, Keni St. Lewis & Christine Yarian
album: Sky High!
comments: [disco dance]
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| 41 |
record label: Warner 8209
chart position: RandB #3, US #10, US AC #6
written by: Leon Russell
album: This Masquerade
comments: [smooth jazz ballad]
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| 42 |
record label: Columbia 3 10439
chart position: RandB #4, US #21, UK #17, US dance #12
written by: Maurice White, Philip Bailey & Al McKay
album: Spirit
comments: [funk]
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| 43 |
record label: Columbia 310373
chart position: RandB #1, US #12, US dance #12
written by: Peter Cor & Beloyd Taylor
album: Spirit
comments: [funk]
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| 44 |
record label: Mercury 73839
chart position: RandB #1, US #10
written by: Paul Mitchell & William Bell
album: Coming Back for More
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| 45 |
record label: 20th Century 2277
chart position: RandB #14, UK #2
written by: Barry White & Ray Parker Jr
album: Let the Music Play
comments: [disco dance]
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| 46 |
record label: Tamla 54264
chart position: RandB #1, US #15
written by: Leon Ware & Arthur Ross
album: I Want You
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 47 |
record label: Dynamic 118
chart position: UK #3
written by: Bobby Eli and Vinnie Barrett
album: Mr. Biggs
comments: [Reggae]
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| 48 |
record label: Mercury 73814
chart position: RandB #1, US #18
written by: Billy Beck , Leroy Bonner, Marshall Jones, Ralph Middlebrooks, Marvin Pierce, Clarence Satchell
album: Contradiction
comments: [funk]
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| 49 |
record label: Atlantic 10703
chart position: RandB #12, US #27, UK #35, US dance #1
written by: Ronald Baker
album: Where the Happy People Go
comments: [philly sound] [disco]
|
| 50 |
record label: Brunswick 34
chart position: RandB #50, UK #3
written by: Barbara Acklin & Eugene Record
|
| 51 |
record label: Casablanca 856
chart position: RandB #5, US #15
written by: George Clinton, Bootsy Collins & Jerome Brailey
album: Mothership Connection
comments: [funk]
|
| 52 |
record label: Motown 1384
chart position: UK #5, US #85
written by: Norman Whitfield & William 'Mickey' Stevenson
album: The Bitch Is Black / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 10
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 53 |
record label: Salsoul 2004
chart position: RandB #36, US #18, US AC #11, US dance #6
written by: Victor Schertzinger & Johnny Mercer
album: Salsoul Orchestra
comments: [disco]
|
| 54 |
record label: AandM 1847
chart position: RandB #1, US #20
written by: Skip Scarborough
album: Love to the World
comments: [love ballad]
|
| 55 |
record label: HandL 4669
chart position: RandB #52, UK #4
written by: George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti & Luigi Creatore
album: Fabulous
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 56 |
record label: RCA 2616
chart position: UK #5
written by: Russell Stone (as Russell Oliver Stone)
album: We Do It
comments: [sweet soul love ballad]
|
| 57 |
record label: Mercury 73833
chart position: RandB #5, US #23, UK #41
written by: Michael Beard, Larry Dodson, Harvey Henderson, Lloyd Smith, Frank Thompson
album: Too Hot To Stop
comments: [funk]
|
| 58 |
record label: Arista 78
chart position: UK #5
written by: Roger Greenaway and Tony Macaulay
comments: [pop soul]
|
| 59 |
record label: Fantasy 762
chart position: RandB #3, US #19, US dance #18
written by: Donald Byrd (as Donald Toussaint Byrd)
album: City Life
comments: [disco jazz funk]
|
| 60 |
record label: P.I.R. 3587
chart position: RandB #1, US #20
written by: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff & Cary Gilbert
album: Family Reunion / The Best Of Philadelphia
comments: [philly sound]
|
| 61 |
record label: Buddah 443
chart position: RandB #18, US #91, UK #9, US dance #10
written by: Van McCoy
album: This Is It
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 62 |
record label: Capitol 4259
chart position: RandB #1, US #25
written by: Chuck Jackson, Marvin Yancy & Natalie Cole
album: Natalie
comments: [funk]
|
| 63 |
record label: Pye International 725703 (UK)
chart position: UK #9
written by: Herbie Watkins
album: Sheer Elegance
comments: [pop soul]
|
| 64 |
record label: T Neck 2261
chart position: RandB #9, US #63, UK #10
written by: Ronald Isley, Kelly Isley, Rudolph Isley, Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley & Chris Jasper
album: Harvest for the World
|
| 65 |
record label: Polydor 2066656
chart position: RandB #12, UK #10, US dance #5, US #101
written by: Gerry Thomas
album: Raising Hell
comments: [disco jazz funk instrumental]
|
| 66 |
record label: Buddah 544
chart position: RandB #12, UK #20, US #47, US AC #3
written by: Michael Masser & Gerry Goffin
album: Pipe Dreams
comments: [ballad]
|
| 67 |
record label: Buddah 449
chart position: RandB #4, US #27
written by: Michael Henderson
album: You Are My Starship
comments: [ballad]
|
| 68 |
record label: ABC 12177
chart position: RandB #19, US #20, US AC #14
written by: Dave Grusin & Morgan Ames
album: Disco fied
comments: [jazz funk instrumental]
|
| 69 |
record label: Opal 5 (UK)
chart position: UK #6
written by: Pluto Shervington
album: Pluto
comments: [reggae]
|
| 70 |
record label: Motown 1056
chart position: RandB #10, US #25, UK #52, US AC #31
written by: Lawrence Brown, Leonard Perry & Terri McFaddin
album: Diana Ross [1976 album]
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 71 |
record label: Atlantic 3326
chart position: RandB #1, US #28
written by: Curtis Mayfield
album: Sparkle
comments: [ballad]
|
| 72 |
record label: Big Tree 16060
chart position: UK #11, RandB #43, US #42
written by: Errol Brown
album: Man To Man
|
| 73 |
record label: AandM 1851
chart position: RandB #4, US #30, US dance #15
written by: Louis E. Johnson, Quincy Jones & George Henry Johnson
album: Look Out for #1
comments: [funk]
|
| 74 |
record label: Polydor 14326
chart position: RandB #4, US #45, UK #22, US dance #19
written by: Deanna Brown, Deidra Brown & Yamma Brown
album: Get up Offa That Thing
comments: [funk]
|
| 75 |
record label: Asylum 45294
chart position: RandB #96, US #24, US dance #19
written by: Earl Cate & Ernie Cate
comments: [disco funk]
|
| 76 |
record label: Tamla 54266
chart position: RandB #2, US #36, US dance #37
written by: T.G. Conway, Allan Felder & Bruce Gray
album: He's A Friend
comments: [philly sound] [disco dance]
|
| 77 |
record label: Salsoul 2011
chart position: RandB #20, US #30, US dance #3
written by: Vincent Montana Jr.
album: Nice N' Naasty
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 78 |
record label: RCA 10827
chart position: US dance #1, RandB#31, US #27, US AC #22
written by: Schonberger, Coburn, Rose, Browder & Darnell
album: Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 79 |
record label: ABC 12171
chart position: RandB #60, UK #10, US dance #7
written by: Isaac Hayes
album: Disco Connection
comments: [disco instrumental]
|
| 80 |
record label: Playboy 6062
chart position: RandB #3, US #29, US AC #38
written by: Homer Banks & Carl Hampton
album: I've Got A Feeling
|
| 81 |
record label: Columbia 3601
chart position: RandB #1, US #49, UK #51, US dance #38
written by: Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff
album: Message In The Music
comments: [philly sound]
|
| 82 |
record label: Casablanca 874
chart position: RandB #21, US #43, UK #27, US AC# 8
written by: Pete Bellotte, Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer
album: Four Seasons of Love
|
| 83 |
record label: Chrysalis 2112
chart position: UK #15, RandB #85, US #58
written by: Lee Garrett and Robert Taylor
album: Heat For The Feets
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 84 |
record label: United Artists 921
chart position: RandB#8, US #51, UK #37, US dance #14
written by: Randy Muller
album: Brass Construction II
comments: [funk jazz instrumental]
|
| 85 |
record label: Columbia 10388
chart position: RandB #2, US #38
written by: Charles Babbit
album: Love and Touch
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 86 |
record label: Atlantic 3354
chart position: RandB #21, UK #23, US #40
written by: Hamish Stuart
album: Soul Searching
|
| 87 |
record label: 20th Century 2301
chart position: US dance #1, RandB #28, US #48, US AC #30
written by: Barry White
album: My Sweet Summer Suite
comments: [disco dance instrumental]
|
| 88 |
record label: Motown 1387
chart position: RandB #61, US #47, UK #32, US AC #4
written by: Michael Masser & Pam Sawyer
album: Dianna Ross [1976 album]
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 89 |
record label: Oasis 405
chart position: US dance #3, RandB #21, UK #40, US #52, US AC #47
written by: Barry Manilow & Adrienne Anderson
album: A Love Trilogy
comments: [disco]
|
| 90 |
record label: Mercury 73775
chart position: RandB #9, US #30
written by: Billy Beck , Leroy Bonner, Marshal Jones , Ralph Middlebrooks, Marvin Pierce, Clarence Satchell
album: Honey... / Gold
comments: [funk]
|
| 91 |
record label: Tamla Motown 1029
chart position: RandB #25, US #40, US dance #3
written by: Brian Holland & Eddie Holland Jr.
album: High Energy
comments: [disco dance] [Motown Sound]
|
| 92 |
record label: Hi 2319
chart position: RandB #4, US #37
written by: Al Green & Willie Mitchell
album: Have a Good Time
|
| 93 |
record label: 20th Century 2298
chart position: RandB #29, US #9, UK #15
written by: Barry White
album: Let the Music Play
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 94 |
record label: Pye 45606 (UK)
chart position: UK #5
written by: Biddu
album: Now
comments: [disco]
|
| 95 |
record label: T.K. 1020
chart position: RandB# 4, US #37
written by: Harry Wayne Casey & Richard Finch
album: Part 3
comments: [disco funk]
|
| 96 |
record label: Malaco 1033
chart position: RandB #7, US #58, UK #38, US AC #46
written by: Willie Nelson
album: Misty Blue
comments: [ballad]
|
| 97 |
record label: Columbia 10347
chart position: RandB #13, US #51, US dance #4
written by: Jeanette Hawes & Wanda Hutchinson
album: Flowers
comments: [disco funk]
|
| 98 |
record label: Columbia 10334
chart position: RandB #5, US #33
written by: Clarence Coulter, Don Davis & Chico Jones
album: Eargasm
|
| 99 |
record label: EMI 2492
chart position: UK #17, US Dance #3
written by: Ken Gibson
album: Nice and Slow
comments: [disco dance]
|
| 100 |
record label: 20th Century 2309
chart position: UK #17, RandB #20, US #105
written by: Barry White
album: Is This Whatcha Wont?
comments: [disco dance]
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