38 Best Disco Songs

2019

 
These are the Best Disco Songs for Weddings to get people on the dance floor! Disco derives itself from the soul, funk and Latin styles of music. Disco music is considered a form, genre, of dance music. DJs in New York City in the the 1960’s began overlaying prerecorded music with live music as well as mixing two or three records together at once. This sound became so popular that recording artists began composing these extended grooves and dance beats in the studios.

Disco music became popular to play in most nightclubs by the early 1970’s. As Best Disco Songs became more popular and the dominant dance style music, the disco style clubs were called as a discotheque. Donna Summer quickly rose to be the most popular and well-known disco artist. Donna Summer eventually claimed the title “The Queen of Disco”.

Popular disco-themed movies helped propitiate spark the popularity of disco music with Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It’s Friday. These movies made superstars out of the Bee Gees and subsequently K.C. & The Sunshine Band.

Top 5 Best Disco Songs for Weddings
1) Celebration – Kool & The Gang, 2) YMCA – Village People, 3) Dancing Queen – Abba, 4) We Are Family – Sister Sledge, 5) Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees.

Best Disco Songs

Album	Artist	Song	Info	Amazon Link
	ABBA	Dancing Queen	1976, Arrival
	ABBA	Take A Chance On Me	1978, ABBA: The Album
	Amii Stewart	Knock On Wood	1979,Knock On Wood
	Anita Ward	Ring My Bell	1979, Songs of Love
	Barry Manilow	Copacabana	1978, Even Now
	Bee Gees	Stayin’ Alive	1977, Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
	Bee Gees	You Should Be Dancing	1976, Children of the World
	Carl Douglas	Kung Fu Fighting	1974, Kung Fu Fighting and Other Great Love Songs
	Cheryl Lynn	Got To Be Real	1978, Cheryl Lynn
	Chic	Good Times	1979, Risqué
	Chic	Le Freak	1978, C’est Chic
	Donna Summer	Bad Girls	1979, Bad Girls
	Donna Summer	Last Dance	1978, Thank God It’s Friday
	Gap Band	You Dropped A Bomb On Me	1982, Gap Band IV
	Gloria Gaynor	I Will Survive	1978, Love Tracks
	KC & The Sunshine Band	Get Down Tonight	1975, KC and the Sunshine Band
	KC & The Sunshine Band	(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty	1976, Part 3
	KC & The Sunshine Band	That’s The Way I Like It	1975, KC and the Sunshine Band
	Kool & The Gang	Celebration	1980, Celebrate!
	Kool & The Gang	Ladies Night	1979, Ladies’ Night
	Lipps Inc.	Funkytown	1980, Mouth to Mouth
	McFadden & Whitehead	Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now	1979, McFadden & Whitehead
	Michael Jackson	Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough	1979, Off the Wall
	Michael Jackson	P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)	1983, Thriller
	Patti Labelle	Lady Marmalade	1974, Nightbirds
	Peaches & Herb	Shake Your Groove Thing	1978, 2 Hot
	Rick James	Super Freak	1981, Street Songs
	Sister Sledge	We Are Family	1979, We Are Family
	Sly & The Family Stone	Dance To The Music	1968, Sly and the Family Stone
	Sylvester	You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)	1978, Step II
	Taste Of Honey	Boogie Oogie Oogie	1978, A Taste of Honey
	The O’Jays	Love Train	1972, Back Stabbers
	The Trammps	Disco Inferno	1976, Disco Inferno
	Thelma Houston	Don’t Leave Me This Way	1976, Any Way You Like It
	Van McCoy	The Hustle	1975, Disco Baby
	Vicki Sue Robinson	Turn The Beat Around	1976, Never Gonna Let You Go
	Village People	Y.M.C.A.	1978, Cruisin’
	Village People	Macho Man	1978, Macho Man
	Weather Girls	It’s Raining Men	1982, Success
	Wild Cherry	Play That Funky Music	1976, Wild Cherry

Due to the vast popularity of disco, there were many backlashes from rock music supporters, many blue color workers and those that were just plain tired of the fads. Fads as a result of disco music included the mirror ball, lit dance floors, afros, and leisure suits. A promotional night at Cominsky Park in Chicago, home of the Chicago White Sox, took place in July 1979. Disco Demolition Night was about blowing up a crate of disco records provided by the crowd on the field.

However, a near riot ensued after the explosion with a mere 90,000 people in attendance. In the 1980’s, disco was seen as a negative term. So disco eventually transformed into being known as dance music. Best Disco Songs paved the way for new forms of dance music such as house, electronica, and techno.

A reader submitted the song Mondo Disco by El Coco. Are there any other disco songs you think we should add to the list?

Disco song list curated by Matthew Campbell