“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.
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
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
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.
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'm missing ABBA's Dancing Queen, Diana Ross' Love Hangover, Alicia Bridges' I love the nightlife, and Thelma Houston's Saturday Night (Sunday Morning).
*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.*
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.
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.
They were born in the Isle of Mann. moved to Manchester where their parents were born when young boys. Then moved to Australia. Returned to Manchester when Barry was a teen.
My brother thinks it was incredibly wise to have this countdown at the very start of July 1979, as the true period of 1970s disco stretched from late 1974 until mid-1979, with a bit of a dry period in middle to late 1977 when there didn't seem to be any notable "major" hits in the 1970s disco era. My brother thinks disco started turning a little too cartoonish in the last days of 1978 and into 1979, the most essential of the disco hits were from late 1974 through the middle of 1978.
Not True! A Dry Period in 1977, uh? Ask him about Saturday Night Fever and Thanks God It's Friday Movies back in the days and you'll see he is wrong. We had a lot of hits that year here in the U.S. including Star Wars Disco Version by Meco, an Academy Award Winner Theme (Last Dance) by Paul Jabara and the Best Selling Soundtrack of All Time ( Saturday Night Fever) among others, just before Whitney Houston smash soundtrack The Bodyguard from 1992. That's only his personal opinion. I'm sorry about that!
@@charlieshine6157I agree with you 1977 had some hits Rose Royce had do your dance Heatwave boogie nights Odyssey native New Yorker El coco cocolocomotion lepamlamoose le spank some of my favorites cuts were the stuff that didn't get much airplay
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.
queen of disco was no. one of disco era. glad chi dj killed off disco june of '79 at Comiskey park proclaiming 'disco is dead'. 'And now on with the countdown...'
My father & Casey attended & graduated from Northwestern High School in Detroit, Michigan together in 1957
Casey Kasem is the king of Top 40 shows.
Thanks for sharing this with us 💯
Excelente resumen... Gracias por su creación...
Started watching and listening to Casey's radio and tv show in the early '80's. Great memories. Thanks for uploading this.
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.
I love these so much! Thankyou to the person downloading them!
Meco was so underrated. He did some really innovative movie remixes even into the 80's.
It's so.
Good to Hear his voice it's been so long
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
I love Disco music from the 79s
I really enjoyed listening to this ❤
Thank you for putting these together!
Excellent Countdown and great memories from a wonderful period of time!
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.
“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.
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
Este Ranking es excelente! 100% 70's.
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"
@@andressrojas 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
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.
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.
This was also before france jolis top 40 disco hit from late 79
“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”.
Great show!!!! You know. I bougt it to walt Bailey few years ago 😮
Paradise by Change #1 for 5 weeks on Disco Chart
Cant fake the feeling by Geraldine Hunt was #1 for 7 consecutives weeks o Disco chart
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
Added to Popstar playlist.
Lovers Holiday 9 weeks at #1 on USA Disco chart
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
Some of the song positions have changed as the years have passsed
“LAST DANCE” NOT IN THE TOP TEN. An Oscar winner. 🤷🏼♂️
Awesome. How about "love hangover" by diana ross?
Come into my heart by USA EUROPEAN CONNECTION *is a true masterpiece*
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
The cartoon voice of Shaggy, Alexander, Robin and Mark
*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.*
Donna is the Queen of Disco and King is Barry Gibb but KC of the Sunshine Band is a close second.
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.
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.
Cool but I am missing the songs.
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 RUclips, it was shortened to get through the list quickly.
Fun survey! I always preferred the single mix of "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" over the 12" version. The 12" sounds too sparse.
I thought the Bee Gees were from Australia. Maybe Casey make a mistake, he says here they were from England.
They were born in Manchester and moved to Brisbane as children.
They were born in the Isle of Mann. moved to Manchester where their parents were born when young boys. Then moved to Australia. Returned to Manchester when Barry was a teen.
They were from Australia and Mr.Gibb decided to move the family to England where they would have better opportunity’s.Aloha from Makawao,Maui🤙🏽
the gibbs family were from england only moved to australia because of their father's work.
@ Thank you kimchoohay for pointing this out,I was incorrect on where the BeeGees were from🤙🏽
My brother thinks it was incredibly wise to have this countdown at the very start of July 1979, as the true period of 1970s disco stretched from late 1974 until mid-1979, with a bit of a dry period in middle to late 1977 when there didn't seem to be any notable "major" hits in the 1970s disco era. My brother thinks disco started turning a little too cartoonish in the last days of 1978 and into 1979, the most essential of the disco hits were from late 1974 through the middle of 1978.
Not True! A Dry Period in 1977, uh? Ask him about Saturday Night Fever and Thanks God It's Friday Movies back in the days and you'll see he is wrong. We had a lot of hits that year here in the U.S. including Star Wars Disco Version by Meco, an Academy Award Winner Theme (Last Dance) by Paul Jabara and the Best Selling Soundtrack of All Time ( Saturday Night Fever) among others, just before Whitney Houston smash soundtrack The Bodyguard from 1992.
That's only his personal opinion. I'm sorry about that!
@@charlieshine6157I agree with you 1977 had some hits Rose Royce had do your dance Heatwave boogie nights Odyssey native New Yorker El coco cocolocomotion lepamlamoose le spank some of my favorites cuts were the stuff that didn't get much airplay
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.
This is bull Donna Summer should have been in the top 10 with at least 4 songs.
Sad that the Beegees took the brunt of the Disco sucks movement
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
Earth wind and fire didn’t make it
No GQ or Foxy either! Lots of song missing. (Don't like the Emotions song.)
Tons missing, love GQ Disco Nights and especially Foxy-Get Off. Still be jamming them in 2025.Rock on! Friend.
queen of disco was no. one of disco era. glad chi dj killed off disco june of '79 at Comiskey park proclaiming 'disco is dead'. 'And now on with the countdown...'