Wow, this is awesome. Casey was one of the best.. anyway disco never died. It’s just called electronic dance music techno. Dua Lipa is considered disco Calvin Harris David Guetta it’s just a different name same thing except the clubs back in the day is like a fantasy world. Where are you? Enter and you wish you can never come out . Disco will never die.
Johnnie Taylor, "Disco Lady", in 1976.It spent four weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and six weeks at the top of the R&B chart. It peaked at No. 25 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1976. "Disco Lady" was the first certified platinum single (two million copies sold) by the RIAA. from Wikipedia
When l first started dating my ex Teresa Rosado .when we saw Thank God is Friday back on May 1978. ,the song " Last Dance" Donna Summer. And on my birthday August 29th, 1978. Teresa gave me the the CD of Donna Summer. Listening to it. January 3rd, 2025. 7:34am.
I Googled it because I had no clue how Disco got its name. Interesting. Makes since! The term "disco" is a shortened version of the French word "discothèque," which means "library of phonograph records". The term came into use in the United States in the early 1960s. "Discothèque" was originally used to describe a type of nightclub in Paris that played records instead of having a band during the Nazi occupation in the 1940s. The term became popular in Europe for decades before the 1970s.
disco music was so infectious that even hard rock KISS joined the bandwagon with their 1979 hit “I was Made for Loving You” which peaked at #11 on Billboard Hot 100
The group "A Tast of Honey" higher on the countdown than 5 Donna Summer songs??? " A Fifth of Beethoven" at number 5?! this list is like listening to tourists describe the city you grew up in.
“San Francisco” by Village People was indeed released as a single in 1977. The flip side was “Fire Island” and the song peaked at #102 in the Bubbling Under chart in Billboard Magazine.
*UNFORGIVABLE that Blondie's HEART OF GLASS isn't listed here! HEART OF GLASS was a worldwide groundbreaking single that crossed disco with punk and rock. HEART OF GLASS was number one around the world for many weeks. Debbie Harry and Blondie are in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rap Hall of Fame because they are the number one rated USA band that crossed genres and influenced countless acts from Joan Jett, The Go Go's to Cyndi Lauper to Culture Club to Duran Duran to Madonna to Stefani to Lady Gaga, and male pop rock acts and solo acts too numerous to mention.*
Heart of Glass was still on the charts when AT40 compiled this list and didn't gather enough points. If you compiled this list today, 2025, it would be included.
@@jph0917 If you compiled this list today, "Heart of Glass" would have acquired more points. But so would other high charting disco songs from that period. So I think we still can't be positive that great song would be included.
This was great to hear! So many awesome songs. BEST OF MY LOVE by the Emotions is probably my favorite of all. Also LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, NIGHT FEVER and all the KC & The Sunshine Band songs. Favorite song from that era not on the list: HEAVEN KNOWS. Also, where's HEART OF GLASS? Odd that they decided to do this while disco was still ongoing. The 5-year period seems kind of arbitrary.
I love disco and was glad to find this video! Here are Casey Kasem’s four errors. Hues Corporation’s “Rock The Boat” did not mark the beginning of the disco phase of the rock era. Manu Dibango’s “Soul Makossa” did. It peaked at #35 a year earlier, in 1973. “Love To Love You Baby” was not the first chart record by Donna Summer. A year earlier, in 1974, her single “The Hostage” hit #2 in The Netherlands. “Don’t Leave Me This Way” was not Thelma Houston’s first chart single. Her single “Save The Country” hit #74 in 1970. Village People’s “San Francisco (You’ve Got Me)” was indeed released as a single; it hit #102. The picture sleeve cover is shown at the same time as Casey’s voice is saying the falsehood. I like Tom Waits, too, and salt free soup.
In the UK, it was the various Philly Sound tracks, Hues Corporation & also George McCrae's Rock Your Baby (KC) that started the Disco Ball rolling in the Summer of 1974.
Thanks for putting this on YT. Was this uploaded from cassette tape? At times the quality sounds like it's on tape but other times it sounds like it's on vinyl. I know the actual AT 40 programs were delivered to radio stations on vinyl discs.
“Don’t Leave Me This Way” was not Thelma Houston’s first chart record. In 1970 she went to #74 with her version of the Laura Nyro composition “Save The Country”.
I Heart Radio has a station its called Classic American Top 40 with Casey Kasem the 70s and 80s. It also has AT 40 with Casey Kasem 90s and 2000s. Enjoy
Disco takes me is that happy place Bee Gees Jive talkin MFSB the sound of Philadelphia Barry White you are the first the last my everything Philadelphia play a big part of the disco Tymes trustmaker 💗👍💗 Casey Kasem
Love all the tracks that made the top 40. Some of them were genre-defining. However, I'm a little disappointed that none of Sylvester's hits made this list though. Of these four: Do You Want to Funk, You Make Me Feel, Can't Stop Dancin and Disco Heat, surely one of them should have made it into the top 40 of the era. Love the Genre. Nothing compares anymore.
This list ends before Michael Jackson released Off The Wall, before Donna and Barbra released No More Tears (Enough Is Enough), Diana Ross released Upside Down and Lipps Inc released Funkytown,; before Laura Branigan released Gloria, Irene Cara released Flashdance (What A Feeling), and Madonna released Everybody and Holiday.
Lo que estas escribiendo son 80s solo Rod Stewart Do ya Think l'm sexy solo pertenece a dos años seguidos 1978 - 79 igual que Wham 1984-85 Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.
The list was compiled before Hot Stuff ended its chart run; it also excluded Bad Girls. Both songs would’ve been in the Top 10. Bad Girls was ranked No.2 song of 1979, ahead of Le Freak, I Will Survive and Da Ya Think I’m Sexy, all of which were in the Top 10 of this disco countdown
I agree with what the first person with comments made. A lot of this list is actually funk, R&B & just pop dance music. Some of these are disco (dance) songs. Many disco (dance ) songs from back in the day, actually go to an 8 count. The 8 count is your ( basic) steps in disco dancing ( partner dancing). I think most disco songs have that distinct disco sound, little kind of like high energy music. Very fluent in nature. To me, most of this music was more or less, commercialized.
If someone doesn't like a particular form of music, ignore it and let those that do, enjoy it. Unfortunately, that was too much to ask for when it concerned Disco.
I'm missing ABBA's Dancing Queen, Diana Ross' Love Hangover, Alicia Bridges' I love the nightlife, and Thelma Houston's Saturday Night (Sunday Morning).
I'm from the UK and I am surprised theres no Barry White,or Earth Wind and Fire, Tavares, Trammps and ask most people to name a group who'd had a Disco Hit, the RolIng Stones wouldn't be on that list. It's a great list but I think it's amazing how different that survey would have been asked in the UK.
Awww - the wonderful Tavares ! Yes indeed - in the UK we'd have tracks like BT Express (Express), Rahni Harris (Six Million Steps), Francine McGee (Delerium), T-Connection (Do What You Wanna Do), & SO many other tracks that weren't pop hits.
40. Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer 39. Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb 38. Back In Love Again - LTD 37. Last Dance - Donna Summer 36. Turn The Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson 35. Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band 34. Shake Your Body Down To The Ground - The Jacksons 33. Dance With Me - Peter Brown 32. That’s The Way (I Like It) - KC & The Sunshine Band 31. I Feel Love - Donna Summer 30. Dazz - Brick 29. Disco Inferno - The Trammps 28. Knock On Wood - Amy Stewart 27. You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees 26. Get Up And Boogie - Silver Convention 25. In The Navy - Village People 24. You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate 23. Got To Give It Up - Marvin Gaye 22. Fly, Robin, Fly - Silver Convention 21. Hot Stuff - Donna Summer 20. Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Meco 19. More, More, More - Andrea True Connection 18. Miss You - The Rolling Stones 17. Car Wash - Rose Royce 16. If I Can’t Have You - Yvonne Elliman 15. Shake Your Booty - KC & The Sunshine Band 14. I’m Your Boogie Man - KC & The Sunshine Band 13. Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) - Chic 12. MacArthur Park - Donna Summer 11. Don’t Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston 10. YMCA - Village People 9. Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey 8. I Love The Night Life (Disco Round) - Alicia Bridges 7. Do You Think I’m Sexy - Rod Stewart 6. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor 5. A Fifth Of Beethoven - Walter Murphy Band 4. Best Of My Love - Emotions 3. Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees 2. Night Fever - Bee Gees 1. Le Freak - Chic
It was right about this time that people were experiencing Disco burnout. Disco would die within one year of this broadcast. Although there were some tremendous Disco tunes there was lots of crap too. Virtually every band out there was trying to get on the Disco gravy train.
this survey or ranking is outdated ... it does not even contain Disco Lady by Johnnie Taylor, the first platinum issued or selling single and #1 for 4 weeks nor does it contain Love Hangover by Diana Ross 2 weeks at #1 and both in 1976. Quite sure those sold more than other songs listed here which were barely top 10 or just merely top 10 hits. Or at least those should have been given special mentions and are obvious oversights (among other high charting disco/pop songs from 1975 to 1979) by Casey way back then. May Casey Kasem rest in peace though, he was fun to listen to and his America's top 40 during the early to mid 1980s on the radio on Sundays.
I remember the horrible anti-Disco era. The Rock segment of the population could not tolerate competing with/being displaced by Disco. I am 66 years old and I do not remember any other time where there was a concerted movement to bring down another form of music style.
This is not a opinion related list. They are going based off of how many weeks the song was on the Hot 100. If you look at the 70s decade end chart. They are just picking the disco songs from it in order.
Solid list. Interesting how assessment of the era has changed over the decades as dance music evolved from its disco roots. A lot of tracks in the top 40 were just pop or rock songs with a groove by established artists (miss you, etc), a fifth of Beethoven and the star wars theme don’t fit the bill at all now. I Feel Love would have to be top 5, Good Times by Chic as well, Bad Girls and Don’t Stop till you get enough too, a Barry White track would need to be in the 10 somewhere.
Absolutely; Boris Midney made many masterpieces, but they did not cross over to the Top 40 of the Hot 100 in Billboard. Alec R. Costandinos and Cerrone were brilliant, too.
I don't consider some as Disco. Like Back in Love, Again by LTD, it's Soul/R&B. Same for Off the Wall. FYI: Blillboard used to call the R&B charts as the Black Charts for some. It wasn't intended to be racist. It was just misguided.
I'm still dancing to 70s disco in 2025!
I used to love listening to the top forty.
I'm almost 58. I absolutely loved Disco. And still listen to it. I remember it like it was yesterday when I was a kid to pre-teen ❤
Wow, this is awesome. Casey was one of the best.. anyway disco never died. It’s just called electronic dance music techno. Dua Lipa is considered disco Calvin Harris David Guetta it’s just a different name same thing except the clubs back in the day is like a fantasy world. Where are you? Enter and you wish you can never come out . Disco will never die.
Guetta Dua Lipa edm techno sucks...check Dabeull Tuxedo and Jafunk for new REAL disco-funk artists.
I agree 👏👏👏👏👏
Was called Euro in the 90s and early 2000s
Thanks for such a good memories and for whoever downloaded. R.I.P Casey kaisem
Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem is the king of Top 40 shows.
Great disco list. Keep on dancing! May Casey Kasem RIP!
Nice to hear CASEY KASEM's voice again thanks for the memories Casey,R.I.P❤😢
Yeah, right?! His voice was (and still is) like music ITSELF.
Best time ever 70s and 80s
For many of us, the best time was when we were young(er).
One of the great ones, Casey Kasem. Great voice and show.
I love Disco music from the 79s
The disco era was the best time, I have a lot disco songs on my Spotify playlist,glad I was there😊
Disco lives forever, bebe 💖
My father & Casey attended & graduated from Northwestern High School in Detroit, Michigan together in 1957
Umbeliable
Music of my childhood, i was a fan of disco and the rock of that time. I had many of these on 45 single records
1980 had a few great disco 🕺 tunes too 💃 ✨: Funkytown, Celebration, Upside Down 💙❤.
Best years of my life ! Best memory : 1978 my first visit to THE COPA and MARLIN BEACH TEA DANCE in Fort Lauderdale Florida
DISCO RULES!!!!!
Disco is everywhere, always!
I love these so much! Thankyou to the person downloading them!
Excelente resumen... Gracias por su creación...
Thank you for putting these together!
Donna Summer should be the top 10!
I remember Casey perhaps one of the more palatable AMERICANS to have graced radio ….RIP …brother from another mother
Started watching and listening to Casey's radio and tv show in the early '80's. Great memories. Thanks for uploading this.
Excellent Countdown and great memories from a wonderful period of time!
Wow...good times!!!
Rock the Boat should be included because it’s a classic song as well as being the first.
It's so.
Good to Hear his voice it's been so long
They have a station of his shows on iHeart Radio. They’re on all the time!
I really enjoyed listening to this ❤
That Giorgio Moroder sound was/is amazing.
Johnnie Taylor, "Disco Lady", in 1976.It spent four weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and six weeks at the top of the R&B chart. It peaked at No. 25 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1976. "Disco Lady" was the first certified platinum single (two million copies sold) by the RIAA. from Wikipedia
Yes fantastic track… peace to the World from Scotland.
Disco rules
When l first started dating my ex Teresa Rosado .when we saw Thank God is Friday back on May 1978. ,the song " Last Dance" Donna Summer. And on my birthday August 29th, 1978. Teresa gave me the the CD of Donna Summer. Listening to it. January 3rd, 2025. 7:34am.
I would turn 1 month old the exact day after this show was aired!!!!
Not born yet
I was 14 that summer. Prime record buying age. I still have crates full from that era and into the 90's.
Thanks for sharing this with us 💯
I Googled it because I had no clue how Disco got its name. Interesting. Makes since!
The term "disco" is a shortened version of the French word "discothèque," which means "library of phonograph records". The term came into use in the United States in the early 1960s.
"Discothèque" was originally used to describe a type of nightclub in Paris that played records instead of having a band during the Nazi occupation in the 1940s. The term became popular in Europe for decades before the 1970s.
Great memories❤❤❤
For anyone interested, listen to Alec R. Costandinos's "Romeo and Juliet" and see if this lost gem deserves a spot in the all-time top 40.
Roberta Kelly too
Este Ranking es excelente! 100% 70's.
The thing about Peaches and Herb is that there's been more than one "Peaches" over the time that act was active. It's like Lassie.
@@evandoorbell4278 aww I didn't know that
Meco was so underrated. He did some really innovative movie remixes even into the 80's.
disco music was so infectious that even hard rock KISS joined the bandwagon with their 1979 hit “I was Made for Loving You” which peaked at #11 on Billboard Hot 100
The group "A Tast of Honey" higher on the countdown than 5 Donna Summer songs??? " A Fifth of Beethoven" at number 5?! this list is like listening to tourists describe the city you grew up in.
Where's Roberta Kelly,didn't make the countdown ?😢
“San Francisco” by Village People was indeed released as a single in 1977. The flip side was “Fire Island” and the song peaked at #102 in the Bubbling Under chart in Billboard Magazine.
Spent 6 months on the bubbling under chart
*UNFORGIVABLE that Blondie's HEART OF GLASS isn't listed here! HEART OF GLASS was a worldwide groundbreaking single that crossed disco with punk and rock. HEART OF GLASS was number one around the world for many weeks. Debbie Harry and Blondie are in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rap Hall of Fame because they are the number one rated USA band that crossed genres and influenced countless acts from Joan Jett, The Go Go's to Cyndi Lauper to Culture Club to Duran Duran to Madonna to Stefani to Lady Gaga, and male pop rock acts and solo acts too numerous to mention.*
But "Heart of Glass" was only #1 for one week in America.
Heart of Glass was still on the charts when AT40 compiled this list and didn't gather enough points. If you compiled this list today, 2025, it would be included.
@@jph0917 If you compiled this list today, "Heart of Glass" would have acquired more points. But so would other high charting disco songs from that period. So I think we still can't be positive that great song would be included.
Not surprised…
Alternative title: 40 Obscure Disco Songs Nobody Knows (Not Even the DJ)
@@jfrunnerCanada I knew these great songs all well at the time of this broadcast and I still remembered them all well.
This was great to hear! So many awesome songs. BEST OF MY LOVE by the Emotions is probably my favorite of all. Also LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, NIGHT FEVER and all the KC & The Sunshine Band songs. Favorite song from that era not on the list: HEAVEN KNOWS. Also, where's HEART OF GLASS? Odd that they decided to do this while disco was still ongoing. The 5-year period seems kind of arbitrary.
Heaven Knows is one of the best songs ever.
I love disco and was glad to find this video! Here are Casey Kasem’s four errors.
Hues Corporation’s “Rock The Boat” did not mark the beginning of the disco phase of the rock era. Manu Dibango’s “Soul Makossa” did. It peaked at #35 a year earlier, in 1973.
“Love To Love You Baby” was not the first chart record by Donna Summer. A year earlier, in 1974, her single “The Hostage” hit #2 in The Netherlands.
“Don’t Leave Me This Way” was not Thelma Houston’s first chart single. Her single “Save The Country” hit #74 in 1970.
Village People’s “San Francisco (You’ve Got Me)” was indeed released as a single; it hit #102. The picture sleeve cover is shown at the same time as Casey’s voice is saying the falsehood.
I like Tom Waits, too, and salt free soup.
In the UK, it was the various Philly Sound tracks, Hues Corporation & also George McCrae's Rock Your Baby (KC) that started the Disco Ball rolling in the Summer of 1974.
Thanks for putting this on YT. Was this uploaded from cassette tape? At times the quality sounds like it's on tape but other times it sounds like it's on vinyl. I know the actual AT 40 programs were delivered to radio stations on vinyl discs.
I know I have my phone on especially with the commercials.I'm not looking and it seems like I'm listening to him on the radio.It's crazy
Awesome. How about "love hangover" by diana ross?
“Don’t Leave Me This Way” was not Thelma Houston’s first chart record. In 1970 she went to #74 with her version of the Laura Nyro composition “Save The Country”.
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The top three still popular today. The order might be different but its still these top 3 songs
I Heart Radio has a station its called Classic American Top 40 with Casey Kasem the 70s and 80s. It also has AT 40 with Casey Kasem 90s and 2000s. Enjoy
Disco takes me is that happy place Bee Gees Jive talkin MFSB the sound of Philadelphia Barry White you are the first the last my everything Philadelphia play a big part of the disco Tymes trustmaker 💗👍💗 Casey Kasem
Nostalgia
This was the week the infamous Cleveland radio station, WGCL 98.5, did a makeshift countdown of the Billboard that week. The station hated disco.
G 98
Yet they used the extended remix versions of Donna Summer's 2 big disco hits in the Top 5 that week, instead of the 45 single version. Go figure.
Donna is the Queen of Disco and King is Barry Gibb but KC of the Sunshine Band is a close second.
Love all the tracks that made the top 40. Some of them were genre-defining. However, I'm a little disappointed that none of Sylvester's hits made this list though. Of these four: Do You Want to Funk, You Make Me Feel, Can't Stop Dancin and Disco Heat, surely one of them should have made it into the top 40 of the era. Love the Genre. Nothing compares anymore.
You Make Me Feel was huge in the UK
This list ends before Michael Jackson released Off The Wall, before Donna and Barbra released No More Tears (Enough Is Enough), Diana Ross released Upside Down and Lipps Inc released Funkytown,; before Laura Branigan released Gloria, Irene Cara released Flashdance (What A Feeling), and Madonna released Everybody and Holiday.
And Kiss released "I was Made for loving You"
@@at40montages You HAD to go there, didn't you!
Casey recorded this in the Summer of ‘79, right around the time Wrigley Field hosted the “Disco Sucks” rally.
Lo que estas escribiendo son 80s solo Rod Stewart Do ya Think l'm sexy solo pertenece a dos años seguidos 1978 - 79 igual que Wham 1984-85 Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.
The list was compiled before Hot Stuff ended its chart run; it also excluded Bad Girls. Both songs would’ve been in the Top 10. Bad Girls was ranked No.2 song of 1979, ahead of Le Freak, I Will Survive and Da Ya Think I’m Sexy, all of which were in the Top 10 of this disco countdown
The commercials back in the day were a lot..over and over
Great show!!!! You know. I bougt it to walt Bailey few years ago 😮
I wonder what the top 40 Disco songs would have been, if they used the charts from the Dance Disco Club Action surveys from 76-81.
I agree with what the first person with comments made. A lot of this list is actually funk, R&B & just pop dance music. Some of these are disco (dance) songs. Many disco (dance ) songs from back in the day, actually go to an 8 count. The 8 count is your ( basic) steps in disco dancing ( partner dancing). I think most disco songs have that distinct disco sound, little kind of like high energy music. Very fluent in nature. To me, most of this music was more or less, commercialized.
Dances such as the Hustle could be danced with music ranging from slow to extremely fast.
“LAST DANCE” NOT IN THE TOP TEN. An Oscar winner. 🤷🏼♂️
Great song, but peaked at #3. The Top 10 songs all peaked higher on the Hot 100.
Cant fake the feeling by Geraldine Hunt was #1 for 7 consecutives weeks o Disco chart
unfortunately for a good number of those weeks Queen's Another one bites the Dust was #2
Some of the song positions have changed as the years have passsed
This is definitely before "Bad Girls".
This was also before france jolis top 40 disco hit from late 79
I just hope they got kc and the sunshine band
Dance with me by Peter Brown, car wash by Rose Royce, dance dance dance by Chic, Mac Arthurs Park by Donna and Dont lea eme this way are SO. Disco
If someone doesn't like a particular form of music, ignore it and let those that do, enjoy it. Unfortunately, that was too much to ask for when it concerned Disco.
I'm missing ABBA's Dancing Queen, Diana Ross' Love Hangover, Alicia Bridges' I love the nightlife, and Thelma Houston's Saturday Night (Sunday Morning).
I Love The Nightlife made the countdown
I do not consider "Dancing Queen" disco. "Voulez-Vous" was. "Saturday Night, Sunday Morning" only reached #34.
I'm from the UK and I am surprised theres no Barry White,or Earth Wind and Fire, Tavares, Trammps and ask most people to name a group who'd had a Disco Hit, the RolIng Stones wouldn't be on that list. It's a great list but I think it's amazing how different that survey would have been asked in the UK.
Awww - the wonderful Tavares ! Yes indeed - in the UK we'd have tracks like BT Express (Express), Rahni Harris (Six Million Steps), Francine McGee (Delerium), T-Connection (Do What You Wanna Do), & SO many other tracks that weren't pop hits.
Could you imagine saying “the disco phase of the rock era” to the people at Comiskey Park July 12 1979?
Rock The Boat didn't make the list? How could that happen?
Added to Popstar playlist.
A lot of these songs aren't disco in my opinion they're funk r&b every dance song that came during 75-79 is not a disco song it's just dance music
This is all disco. Might be 2 questionable songs
ok pero falto BAD GIRLS con Donna Sumer la Reina del Disco
This broadcast was before Bad Girls was released. I agree it would be #1. I love Donna Summer, the best singer and a beautiful person.
40. Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer
39. Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb
38. Back In Love Again - LTD
37. Last Dance - Donna Summer
36. Turn The Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson
35. Keep It Comin’ Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
34. Shake Your Body Down To The Ground - The Jacksons
33. Dance With Me - Peter Brown
32. That’s The Way (I Like It) - KC & The Sunshine Band
31. I Feel Love - Donna Summer
30. Dazz - Brick
29. Disco Inferno - The Trammps
28. Knock On Wood - Amy Stewart
27. You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
26. Get Up And Boogie - Silver Convention
25. In The Navy - Village People
24. You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
23. Got To Give It Up - Marvin Gaye
22. Fly, Robin, Fly - Silver Convention
21. Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
20. Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band - Meco
19. More, More, More - Andrea True Connection
18. Miss You - The Rolling Stones
17. Car Wash - Rose Royce
16. If I Can’t Have You - Yvonne Elliman
15. Shake Your Booty - KC & The Sunshine Band
14. I’m Your Boogie Man - KC & The Sunshine Band
13. Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) - Chic
12. MacArthur Park - Donna Summer
11. Don’t Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston
10. YMCA - Village People
9. Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
8. I Love The Night Life (Disco Round) - Alicia Bridges
7. Do You Think I’m Sexy - Rod Stewart
6. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
5. A Fifth Of Beethoven - Walter Murphy Band
4. Best Of My Love - Emotions
3. Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees
2. Night Fever - Bee Gees
1. Le Freak - Chic
It was right about this time that people were experiencing Disco burnout. Disco would die within one year of this broadcast. Although there were some tremendous Disco tunes there was lots of crap too. Virtually every band out there was trying to get on the Disco gravy train.
Rock couldn't stand the competition from Disco and there was a concerted movement to bring it down.
Lovers Holiday 9 weeks at #1 on USA Disco chart
That is 1980 song
It's so hard to believe that is shaggy from Scooby-Doo. And honestly it's sad to say but in the US disco's and clubs are virtually extinct
The music clips are just too long - cut it back from 4 seconds to 2 seconds so we can hear more Casey!
This was the same week they burned disco records at Comisky Park in Chicago.
But that wasn’t the end. Hints of disco was still blazing in Europe.
It was a book burning. Fascism, bigotry, racism, homophobia and misogyny. The Disco Demolitionists went on to become MAGA voters.
@@terrancethomas9792Big difference not seeing Boney M and the Gibson Brothers in this countdown.
Paradise by Change #1 for 5 weeks on Disco Chart
Lovers Holiday by Change is the song with more weeks at number one o Disco chart for always ( 9 weeks at #1)
this survey or ranking is outdated ... it does not even contain Disco Lady by Johnnie Taylor, the first platinum issued or selling single and #1 for 4 weeks nor does it contain Love Hangover by Diana Ross 2 weeks at #1 and both in 1976. Quite sure those sold more than other songs listed here which were barely top 10 or just merely top 10 hits. Or at least those should have been given special mentions and are obvious oversights (among other high charting disco/pop songs from 1975 to 1979) by Casey way back then. May Casey Kasem rest in peace though, he was fun to listen to and his America's top 40 during the early to mid 1980s on the radio on Sundays.
"The Hustle" just an extra? Ridiculous!
I remember the horrible anti-Disco era. The Rock segment of the population could not tolerate competing with/being displaced by Disco. I am 66 years old and I do not remember any other time where there was a concerted movement to bring down another form of music style.
This is bull Donna Summer should have been in the top 10 with at least 4 songs.
This is not a opinion related list. They are going based off of how many weeks the song was on the Hot 100. If you look at the 70s decade end chart. They are just picking the disco songs from it in order.
I wonder what the countdown was in Europe.
I disagree with Casey. Disco was not a part of the Rock era. It was and is its own genre.
Solid list. Interesting how assessment of the era has changed over the decades as dance music evolved from its disco roots. A lot of tracks in the top 40 were just pop or rock songs with a groove by established artists (miss you, etc), a fifth of Beethoven and the star wars theme don’t fit the bill at all now. I Feel Love would have to be top 5, Good Times by Chic as well, Bad Girls and Don’t Stop till you get enough too, a Barry White track would need to be in the 10 somewhere.
No “Love Hangover?”
Come into my heart by USA EUROPEAN CONNECTION *is a true masterpiece*
Absolutely; Boris Midney made many masterpieces, but they did not cross over to the Top 40 of the Hot 100 in Billboard. Alec R. Costandinos and Cerrone were brilliant, too.
@@shiroibasketshoes Im sure of it
I don't consider some as Disco. Like Back in Love, Again by LTD, it's Soul/R&B. Same for Off the Wall.
FYI: Blillboard used to call the R&B charts as the Black Charts for some. It wasn't intended to be racist. It was just misguided.
5 second snippets of each song isn’t working for me.
I agree. I imagine the original radio broadcast featured the full songs. But for TH-cam, it was shortened to get through the list quickly.
Maybe because of copyright issues. Five seconds is tha max you can play without violatating copyright law