Truth in advertising from the good folks over at Rhino: ten dance tunes from 1978, all but two hit #1 on the Billboard Dance chart. Great cuts, lots of them, and with a running time of nearly an hour, one of the longer discs in this series. Case in point: the magnificent MacArthur Park Suite is included in its entirety, including not only the Jimmy Webb classic, but also the original songs One Of A Kind and Heaven Knows. Overall, a fantastic compilation with the just the right blend of the often-heard and rarely-heard.
One in a series of ten covering the years 1976-1985, not to be confused with either The Disco Years or Special Editions Disco series, also issued by Rhino.
Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: Did not chart
Tracks, with chart peaks and links to previous appearances on this blog. Extended mixes marked with an asterisk, others are 7" single versions:
| Song | Artist | Time | Dance | Hot 100 | R&B | Prev. |
| Shake Your Groove Thing | Peaches & Herb | 3:25 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1,2 |
| MacArthur Park Suite* | Donna Summer | 17:47 | 1 | † | † | 1 |
| You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) | Sylvester | 3:45 | 1 | 36 | 20 | 1 |
| Come Into My Heart* | USA-European Connection | 7:57 | 1 | |||
| From East To West | Voyage | 3:27 | 1 | 85 | 1 | |
| After Dark* | Pattie Brooks | 7:52 | 1 | 1 | ||
| If My Friends Could See Me Now | Linda Clifford | 3:47 | 1 | 54 | 68 | 1 |
| Boogie Oogie Oogie | A Taste Of Honey | 3:37 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1,2 |
| Y.M.C.A. | Village People | 4:00 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 1,2,3 |
| Last Dance†† | Donna Summer | 3:19 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1,2 |
†The single version of MacArthur Park peaked at #1 pop and #8 R&B while the single version of Heaven Knows (a duet with Joe "Bean" Esposito of Brooklyn Dreams) peaked at #4 pop and #10 R&B.
††In later CD pressings, Le Freak by Chic is substituted for Last Dance as track 10 in the compilation.
The only new-to-me cut is Come Into My Heart which, to my ears, is the weakest cut on the disc - not terrible but could use some catchier hooks and a more prominent bass line. But man-oh-man those cuts from Donna Summer and Sylvester are top shelf; they never fail to get me moving.
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Personal Memory Associated with this CD: None
Previously revisited for the blog:
Billboard Top Dance Hits 1976 (1992)
Billboard Top Dance Hits 1979 (1992)
Billboard Top Dance Hits 1980 (1992)
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