Note: this release was originally purchased as a double LP, later replaced by a CD.
I really don't need to write anything about this album, because you had (or still have) a copy, too. It wasn't bad on 2 LPs, but so much better on CD. Heard on CD as over 70 minutes of music, this disc comes off like an idealized commercial-free radio set of late-'70s dance music.
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| Rolling Stone, March 23, 1978, p. 64 |
Whatever, Rolling Stone. It's hard to argue with these numbers:
- 40+ million - copies sold worldwide.
- 120 - weeks on the Billboard album chart (until March 1980).
- 57 - spot on VH1's 2003 list of greatest albums of all time.
- 163 - spot on Rolling Stone magazine's 2020 list of 500 greatest albums of all time.
- 1 - Grammy Award for Album of the Year (1979)
- 10:51 - length of the epic Disco Inferno by The Trammps
- 17 - tracks
- 6 - Billboard #1 pop hits
Album chart peaks:
- US Billboard Top 200: #1 (24 straight weeks, Jan 21-July 1, 1978)
- Billboard R&B: #1 (5 consecutive weeks, February 18 - March 18, 1978)
- CashBox: #1 (25 consecutive weeks, January 21 - July 8, 1978)
Tracks: God help me, I love disco music. I can't skip any of these tracks, not even the cheesy Fifth Of Beethoven or the processed David Shire instrumentals. If I had to pick a favorite track, it would be If I Can't Have You by Yvonne Elliman, which might be my all-time favorite disco tune.
| Single | Artist | Hot 100 |
R&B
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Dance
|
AC
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| Jive Talkin' |
Bee Gees
| 1 | 9 | ||
| A Fifth of Beethoven |
Walter Murphy
| 1 | 10 | 13 | |
| You Should Be Dancing |
Bee Gees
| 1 | 4 | 1 | 25 |
| Open Sesame |
Kool & The Gang
| 55 | 6 | 13 | |
| How Deep is Your Love |
Bee Gees
| 1 | 1 | ||
| Night Fever |
Bee Gees
| 1 | 8 |
19
|
|
| If I Can't Have You |
Yvonne Elliman
| 1 | 9 | ||
| Stayin' Alive/Night Fever/More Than a Woman |
Bee Gees
| 3 | |||
| Stayin' Alive |
Bee Gees
| 1 | 4 |
28
|
|
| Disco Inferno |
The Trammps
| 11 | 9 | 1 | |
| More Than a Woman |
Tavares
| 32 | 36 | ||
| Boogie Shoes |
KC & The Sunshine Band
| 35 | 29 |
Personal Memory Associated with this CD: Seeing the movie at the Texas movie theater in downtown BC (even though I had the soundtrack before I saw the movie). Now when I watch the movie, I notice its dark subject matter of bigotry, rape, and death. When I was 12 years old, I didn't pay attention to any of that. To me, it was all about the music and the dancing. That may be the last movie I ever saw in a single screen movie house.
The song Disco Inferno, for some reason, reminds me of a jr. high tennis tournament at BCHS.
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