Best Disco Songs
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These are the Best Disco Songs for Weddings to get people on the dance floor! Disco derives itself from soul, funk and Latin styles of music. Disco music is considered a form, genre, of dance music. DJs in New York City in 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 discotheque. Donna Summer quickly rose to being 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.
Our Top 5 Best Disco Songs for Wedding Receptions: 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
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?
Rock The Boat. Rock Your Baby. Get Dancin’
Hi Garrett. Yes, a great song by The Hues Corporation. Thanks for sharing!
As far as i recall the first song that i remember playing in a disco club was Mondo disco by Manu Dibango if my memory is correct way back in early 70’s…..And i loved that disco beat even TODAY !!!!!!!! Sorry for those that said that DISCO SUCKS cause you folks obviously missed the LOVE BOAT !!!
Peace to you….anyways….
Thanks Leon. We will keep playing the Disco Hits! I will add EL COCO – Mondo Disco.