Disco Music released during 1975:
5000 Volts a.k.a. Airbus - "Bye Love" - electro-disco-pop
Yambu - "Sunny" - latin-jazzy disco-funk version of the 1966 Bobby
Hebb hit
5000 Volts a.k.a. Airbus - "I'm on Fire" - disco-pop; reached #26 Pop
in the USA in December 1975, #4 Pop in the U.K.
André Gagnon - "Wow" - reached #95 Pop in the USA in 1976
Andrea True Connection - "More, More, More" - reached #4 Pop in the
USA in July 1976
Archie Bell and the Drells - "Let's Groove"
Archie Bell and the Drells - "The Soul City Walk"
The Armada Orchestra - "Band of Gold" - instrumental cover of the
1970 Freda Payne classic
The Armada Orchestra - "Cochise"
The Armada Orchestra - "Do Me Right" - instrumental disco version of
the 1971 Detroit Emeralds song
The Armada Orchestra - "Feel the Need in Me" - instrumental disco
version of the 1972 Detroit Emeralds song
The Armada Orchestra - "Same Old Song" - instrumental disco version of
the 1965 Four Tops classic "It's the Same Old Song"
The Armada Orchestra - "The Hustle" - cover of Van McCoy's hit
The Armada Orchestra - "You Want It, You Got It" - instrumental disco
version of the Detroit Emeralds' 1972 song
Astor and the Potentials - "Give Me What I Want"
Atlanta Disco Band - "Bad Luck" - instrumental cover of the song by
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes; reached #94 Pop in the USA in early 1976
Atlanta Disco Band - "Buckhead" - rock-disco
Atlanta Disco Band - "It's Love"
Atlanta Disco Band - "My Soul Is Satisfied" - funky disco
B.T. Express - "Devil's Workshop" - funky disco
B.T. Express - "Discotizer"
B.T. Express - "Express" - disco-funk; reached #4 Pop in the USA
in March 1975
B.T. Express - "Give It What You Got" - disco-funk
B.T. Express - "Peace Pipe" - disco-funk
B.T. Express - "Still Good - Still Like It"
B.T. Express - "Whatcha Think About That"
Barbra Streisand - "Shake Me, Wake Me" - disco-soul version of the 1966
Four Tops Motown song "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)" with modified lyrics
Barry White - "I'll Do For You Anything You Want Me To" - reached #40
Pop in the USA in June 1975, #5 Pop in the U.K. in May 1975
Barry White - "What Am I Gonna Do With You?" - reached #8 Pop in the
USA in April 1975, #5 Pop in the U.K. in March 1975
Biddu Orchestra - "Aranjuez Mon Amour"
Biddu Orchestra - "Blue-Eyed Soul"
Biddu Orchestra - "Exodus" - disco version of the theme to the 1960
film "Exodus", written by Pat Boone and Ernest Gold, originally performed
by Ferrante and Teicher
Biddu Orchestra - "I Could Have Danced All Night" - disco version of
the song from the musical "The King and I"; bundled with "Jump with
Joy", reached #72 Pop in the USA in 1976
Biddu Orchestra - "Jump for Joy"
Biddu Orchestra - "Northern Dancer"
Biddu Orchestra - "Summer of '42" - disco version of the 1971 song by
Peter Nero and His Orchestra; reached #57 Pop in the USA in late
1975, #15 Pop in the U.K. in August 1975
Bimbo Jet - "La Balanga" - electro-disco in Spanish
Black Blood - "A.I.E. (A'mwana)" - African disco in Swahili
Black Blood - "Chicano" - African rock-disco/latin-rock in Swahili
Bobby Moore - "Call Me Your Anything Man" - disco-funk
Bobby Moore - "Try To Hold On (Disco Version)" - disco-soul
The Boogie Man Orchestra featuring Mel Hayes - "(Theme From) Lady, Lady,
Lady (Are You Crazy for Me?)"
Brass Construction - "Changin'" - disco-funk
Brass Construction - "Love" - funky disco
Brass Construction - "Movin'" - funky electro-disco; reached #14 Pop
in the USA in June 1976
[Sidiku] Buari - "Advice from Father" - African-flavored disco-funk
Carl Bean a.k.a. Valentino - "I Was Born This Way"
Carol Douglas - "A Hurricane is Coming Tonite" - reached #81 Pop in
the USA in April 1975
Carol Douglas - "Carol's Theme, Pts. 1 and 2"
Carol Douglas - "Crime Doesn't Pay" a.k.a. "Crime Don't Pay" -
instrumental pattern is largely copied from her 1974 hit "Doctor's Orders"
Carol Douglas - "Headline News"
Carol Douglas - "In the Morning" - has a brief reprise of "Midnight
Love Affair" at the end
Carol Douglas - "Lie to Me"
Carol Douglas - "Lifetime Guarantee"
Carol Douglas - "Midnight Love Affair"
Carol Williams - "Rattlesnake" - disco-soul
Chuck Jackson - "Beautiful Woman" - disco-soul
Consumer Rapport - "Ease on Down the Road" - funky disco version of
the song from The Wiz musical; reached #42 Pop in the USA
Crispy and Company - "Brazil"
Crown Heights Affair - "Dreaming a Dream (Goes Dancing)" - reached #43
Pop in the USA
Crown Heights Affair - "Every Beat of My Heart" - reached #83 Pop in
the USA
Crystal Grass featuring Steve Leach - "You Can Be What You Dream"
Dalida - "J'attendrai" - French disco version of the 1938 Italian song
"Tornerai"
David Bowie - "John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)" - rock-disco
David Ruffin - "Who I Am"
Dionne Warwick - "Take It From Me" - disco-soul
Donna Summer - "Love to Love You Baby" - mellow disco; reached #2 Pop
in the USA in February 1976, #4 Pop in the U.K. in January 1976
Donna Summer - "Need-A-Man Blues" - electro-disco
The Dramatics - "You're Fooling You"
The Duprees - "Delicious" - disco-pop
Dynamic Superiors - "Face the Music"
The Eagles - "One of These Nights" - rock-disco; reached #1 Pop in the
USA in August 1975
Earth, Wind and Fire - "Sing a Song" a.k.a. "Singasong" - disco-funk;
reached #5 Pop in the USA in February 1976
Ebb Tide - "It Takes Love to Make Love" - disco-soul
Eddie Drennon and B.B.S. Unlimited - "Get Down Do the Latin Hustle" -
latin-disco
Eddie Drennon and B.B.S. Unlimited - "Let's Do It Again"
Eddie Drennon and B.B.S. Unlimited - "Let's Do the Latin Hustle" -
latin-disco; reached #20 Pop in the U.K. in March 1976
Eddie Drennon and B.B.S. Unlimited - "Please Stay Please Stay" -
latin-disco
El Coco - "A Brighter Shade of Blue" - electro-disco
El Coco - "Brazil" - electro-disco
El Coco - "Disco Carnival" - electro-disco
El Coco - "Mondo Disco"
The Elton John Band - "Philadelphia Freedom" - disco-pop; reached #1
Pop in the USA in April 1975
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade - "Brazil" - based on Ary
Barroso's "Aquarela Do Brasil"; influenced by the Ritchie Family's version
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade - "Fly, Robin, Fly" - mellow
electro-disco version of Silver Convention's hit
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade - "Hijack" - cover of the 1974 song
by Barrabas
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade - "Love's Theme" - mellow
electro-disco version of Love Unlimited Orchestra's 1973 instrumental hit
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade - "Summer of '42" - disco version of
the 1971 song by Peter Nero and His Orchestra; influenced by Biddu
Orchestra's 1975 rendition
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade - "T.S.O.P. ('Soul Train')" - mellow
disco cover of MFSB's 1974 hit
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade - "The Hustle" - electro-disco cover
of the hit by Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade - "To Each His Own" - cover of
Faith, Hope, and Charity's song
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade - "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" -
disco version of Dinah Washington's 1959 classic
Ernie Bush - "Breakaway" - disco-soul
Esther Phillips - "What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" - disco remake of
Dinah Washington's 1959 classic; reached #20 Pop in the USA in 1975
Faith, Hope, and Charity - "Disco Dan"
Faith, Hope, and Charity - "Little Bit of Love" - R&B-disco
Faith, Hope, and Charity - "Mellow Me" - mellow disco
Faith, Hope, and Charity - "To Each His Own (That's My Philosophy)" -
reached #50 Pop in the USA in 1975
Fatback Band - "(Do the) Spanish Hustle" - electro-disco; reached #10
Pop in the U.K. in March 1976
Fatback Band - "Trompin'"
Floyd Smith - "I Just Can't Give You Up"
Foxy - "Get Off Your Aaah and Dance"
Frankie Valli - "Our Day Will Come" - disco-pop version of the 1963
Ruby and the Romantics original; reached #11 Pop in the USA in December 1975
Frankie Valli - "Swearin' to God" - disco-pop; reached #6 Pop in the
USA in July 1975
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - "Who Loves You" -
disco-pop; reached #3 Pop in the USA in November 1975
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - "December 1963 (Oh, What a
Night)" - electro-disco-pop; reached #1 Pop in the USA in March 1976
Gail - "Consideration"
Gary Toms Empire - "7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (Blow Your Whistle)" - funky disco;
reached #46 Pop in the USA in 1975
Gary Toms Empire - "Drive My Car" - funky disco version of the Beatles
hit; reached #69 Pop in the USA in late 1975
George Tindley - "Pity the Poor Man" - disco-soul
Geraldine Hunt - "Ne me dis pas adieu" - French disco
The Glitter Band - "Makes You Blind" - rock-disco; reached #91 Pop in
the USA in late 1976
Gloria Gaynor - "All I Need is Your Good Lovin'"
Gloria Gaynor - "Casanova Brown" - R&B-disco
Gloria Gaynor - "False Alarm"
Gloria Gaynor - "If You Want It Do It Yourself"
Gloria Gaynor - "How High the Moon" - disco version of a 1960 Ella
Fitzgerald hit; reached #75 Pop in the USA in late 1975
Gloria Gaynor - "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" - disco version of the
1966 Four Tops classic; reached #60 Pop in the USA in early 1975
Gloria Gaynor - "Real Good People"
Gloria Gaynor - "Searchin'" - R&B-disco
Gloria Gaynor - "Walk on By" - reached #98 Pop in the USA
Hamilton Bohannon - "Disco Stomp"
Hamilton Bohannon - "Foot Stompin' Music" - reached #98 Pop in the USA
in September 1975
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - "Bad Luck" - reached #15 Pop in the
USA in June 1975
Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - "Don't Leave Me This Way (A Tom
Moulton Mix)" - disco remix of their song
Hokis Pokis - "Nowhere" - electro-disco
Hot Blood - "Soul Dracula" - funky disco cover of the 1975 song by
Georgie Dann; Hot Blood's "Sans Dracula" is a variation of the song
Hot Chocolate - "You Sexy Thing" - disco-funk; reached #3 Pop in the
USA in February 1976
Houston Person - "Disco Sax" - jazzy disco; reached #91 Pop in the USA
in early 1976
The Hues Corporation - "Follow the Spirit"
The Hustlers - "Hustling" - disco-funk
Isaac Hayes - "Disco Connection" - funky disco
James Last - "Ding-A-Dong"
James Last - "Lady Marmalade" - disco cover of LaBelle's 1974
barely-disco hit
James Last - "Giddy Up, Giddy Up"
James Last - "Inspiration"
James Last - "Shame, Shame, Shame" - disco cover of Shirley and
Company's 1974 rock-disco hit
James Last - "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" - cover of
the Barry White hit
Jay and the Techniques - "Number Onederful" - disco-soul
Jigsaw - "Sky High" - reached #3 Pop in the USA in December 1975;
theme to the 1975 movie "The Dragon Flies" a.k.a. "The Man from Hong Kong"
Jimmy "Bo" Horne - "Gimme Some" - electro-disco
Jimmy James and the Vagabonds - "Chains of Love" - disco-soul
Jimmy James and the Vagabonds - "I Am Somebody" - funky disco; reached
#94 Pop in the USA in 1976
Jimmy James and the Vagabonds - "Let's Have Fun" - disco-funk
Joe Bataan - "Chico and the Man" - disco version of Jose Feliciano's
television theme song
Joe Simon - "Get Down, Get Down (Get on the Floor)" - reached #8 Pop
in the USA in June 1975
Joe Simon - "Music in My Bones"
Julie Budd - "One Fine Day" - disco-pop version of a 1963 hit by the
Chiffons
K.C. and the Sunshine Band - "Get Down Tonight" - disco-pop; reached
#1 Pop in the USA in August 1975
K.C. and the Sunshine Band - "Rock Your Baby" - cover of the 1974
George McCrae hit
K.C. and the Sunshine Band - "Shotgun Shuffle - electro-disco
K.C. and the Sunshine Band - "That's the Way (I Like It)" - disco-pop;
reached #1 Pop in the USA in November 1975
Linda Fields and the Funky Boys - "Shame, Shame, Shame" - cover of the
1974 Shirley and Company hit
Love Childs Afro-Cuban Blues Band - "Get Dancin'" - cover of the
1974 hit by Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
Love Unlimited Orchestra - "Bring It On Up"
MFSB - "K-Jee" - disco version of the 1971 track by The Nite-Liters
MFSB - "Let's Go Disco"
MFSB - "Philadelphia Freedom" - cover of the Elton John tune
MFSB - "Sexy" - reached #42 Pop in the USA
MFSB - "T.L.C. (Tender Lovin' Care)"
Marianne Rosenberg - "Er gehört zu mir" - German disco-pop;
reached #7 Pop in Germany
Maryann Farra and Satin Soul - "Do Those Little Things"
Maryann Farra and Satin Soul - "Forget That Girl"
Maryann Farra and Satin Soul - "Just A Little Timing"
Maryann Farra and Satin Soul - "Never Gonna Leave You"
Maxine Nightingale - "Right Back to Where We Started From" -
Motown-flavored R&B/disco-pop; reached #2 Pop in the USA in May 1976
Merry Clayton - "One More Ride" - disco-soul
Miami - "Kill that Roach"
Mighty Clouds of Joy - "Everything is Love" - gospel-disco
Mike and Bill - "Somebody's Gotta Go (Sho Ain't Me)" - disco-soul
The Miracles - "Love Machine" - funky disco; reached #1 Pop in the USA
in March 1976
Moment of Truth - "Helplessly"
Moonlion - "The Little Drummer Boy" - disco version of the Christmas
classic
The New York Rubber Rock Band - "Disco Lucy" - disco version of the "I
Love Lucy" theme
The O'Jays - "I Love Music" - reached #5 Pop in the USA in January 1976
The O'Jays - "Livin' for the Weekend" - reached #20 Pop in the USA in 1976
Oliver Sain - "Apricot Splash" - jazzy disco
Pat Lundi - "Party Music"
Penny McLean (a.k.a. Gertrude Wirshinger) - "1-2-3-4...Fire!" - disco-pop
Penny McLean (a.k.a. Gertrude Wirshinger) - "Big Bad Boy" - mellow
disco-pop
Penny McLean (a.k.a. Gertrude Wirshinger) - "Devil Eyes" - electro-disco
Penny McLean (a.k.a. Gertrude Wirshinger) - "Lady Bump" - reached #48
Pop in the USA in early 1976
Penny McLean (a.k.a. Gertrude Wirshinger) - "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
- disco version of the song written by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach for
the 1933 musical "Roberta", which became a hit for the Platters in 1958
Penny McLean (a.k.a. Gertrude Wirshinger) - "The A-B-C of Love" -
mellow disco-pop
Percy Faith - "Sabre Dance" - disco version of the 1942 Aram
Khachaturian classic from the ballet "Gayane"
Polly Browne a.k.a. Polly Brown - "Special Delivery" - disco-pop
Ralph Carter - "Extra Extra (Read All About It)"
Ralph Carter - "When You're Young and in Love" - disco-pop; reached
#95 Pop in the USA
Redd Holt Unlimited - "Gimme Some Mo" - disco-funk
Retta Young - "(Sending Out An) S.O.S."
The Rimshots - "7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (Blow Your Whistle)" - funky disco cover
of the Gary Toms Empire original
The Ritchie Family - "Brazil" - based on Ary Barroso's "Aquarela Do
Brasil"; reached #11 Pop in the USA in October 1975
The Ritchie Family - "Frenesi" - disco version of the 1940 Artie Shaw
jazz classic
The Ritchie Family - "I Want to Dance With You (Dance With Me)" -
reached #84 Pop in the USA in December 1975
The Ritchie Family - "Life is Fascination"
The Ritchie Family - "Peanut Vendor" - disco version of the latin-jazz
classic
Ronnie Spector - "You'd be Good for Me" - disco-pop
The Salsoul Orchestra - "Chicago Bus Stop (Ooh, I Love It)"
The Salsoul Orchestra - "Get Happy"
The Salsoul Orchestra - "Salsoul Hustle" - reached #76 Pop in the USA
in 1975
The Salsoul Orchestra - "Salsoul Rainbow"
The Salsoul Orchestra - "Tale of Three Cities"
The Salsoul Orchestra - "Tangerine" - disco version of a 1942 song
written by Johnny Mercer and Victor Schertzinger; reached #18 Pop in the
USA in April 1976
The Salsoul Orchestra - "You're Just the Right Size" - reached #88 Pop
in the USA in mid-1976
Silver Convention - "Always Another Girl"
Silver Convention - "I Like It"
Silver Convention - "Fly, Robin, Fly" - mellow disco;
reached #1 Pop in the USA in November 1975
Soul Train Gang - "Soul Train '75" - reached #75 Pop in the USA
South Shore Commission - "Free Man" - reached #61 Pop in the USA in
May 1975
South Shore Commission - "Train Called Freedom" - reached #86 Pop in
the USA in early 1976
South Shore Commission - "We're on the Right Track" - another version
of the 1973 Ultra High Frequency song; reached #94 Pop in the USA in
early 1976
The Spinners a.k.a. Detroit Spinners - "Love or Leave"
Stephanie
Mills - "This Empty Place" - disco version of the 1963 Dionne Warwick
song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
The Supremes - "Where Do I Go From Here" - disco-soul
Sweet Blindness - "Cowboys to Girls" - disco version of the classic
soul song by the Intruders
Sweet Blindness - "Full Time Subject" - rock-disco
Sweet Blindness - "Quebec" - mellow disco
Tavares - "It Only Takes A Minute" - reached #10 Pop in the USA in
October 1975
Thelma Houston and Pressure Cooker - "I've Got the Music in Me" -
disco-soul
The Three Degrees - "T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia) (Live)" -
reprise of their 1974 track with MFSB, recorded live in 1975 in England
Touch - "Do the Hustle"
Touch - "Love Hangover" - instrumental version of Diana Ross's hit
Touch - "Me and You" - mellow disco
The Trammps - "Hold Back the Night" - reached #35 Pop in the USA in
March 1976, #5 Pop in the U.K. in October 1975
The Trammps - "Hooked for Life"
The Trammps - "Save a Place"
The Trammps - "That's Where the Happy People Go" - reached #27 Pop in
the USA in June 1976, #35 Pop in the U.K. in March 1976
Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony - "Disco Baby"
Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony - "Doctor's Orders" -
instrumental cover of the 1974 Carol Douglas hit
Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony - "Hey Girl, Come and Get It" -
cover of the 1974 Stylistics tune
Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony - "The Hustle" - reached #1 Pop
in the USA in July 1975, #3 Pop in the U.K. in May 1975
Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony - "Turn this Mother Out"
Walter Murphy Orchestra - "Disco Bells" - disco version of the
Christmas classic "Jingle Bells"
Wing and a Prayer Fife and Drum Corps. - "Baby Face" - disco version
of the 1926 song written by Henry Akst and Benny Davis; reached #14 Pop in
the USA in March 1976
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