"Disco Lady"
#1 weeks: 4
weeks: 1976-04-03, 1976-04-10, 1976-04-17, 1976-04-24
genre: soul, disco
artist: Johnnie Taylor
album: Eargasm
writers: Harvey Scales, Albert Vance, Don Davis
producers: Don Davis
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formats: 7" 45 RPM
lengths: 4:27 (album version) 4:20 (single version)
"Disco Lady" is a 1976 single for Johnnie Taylor that went
on to become his biggest hit. It spent four weeks at number one
on the Hot 100 and six weeks on the
BillboardR&B chart in the U.S. It was also the first
single to be certified platinum by the RIAA. The single was
Taylor's first for Columbia Records, where Taylor signed after
his long-time label, Stax Records, went bankrupt. The song was
produced by Taylor's longtime producer, Don Davis. Among the
guests on the song were three members of Parliament-Funkadelic:
bassist Bootsy Collins, keyboardist Bernie Worrell and
guitarist Glen Goins, and Dawn's Telma Hopkins.
"Disco Lady" is the first Hot 100 number-one hit to include
the word "disco", though there had been several disco songs
that had already reached number one.