| "Dance (Disco Heat)" | ||||
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| Single by Sylvester | ||||
| from the album Step II | ||||
| B-side | "Was It Something That I Said" | |||
| Released | August 1978 | |||
| Recorded | March 1978 | |||
| Genre | Disco, hi-NRG | |||
| Length | 5:46 | |||
| Label | Fantasy | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Eric Robinson[1]
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"Dance (Disco Heat)" is a song by American singer Sylvester. The song appears on his 1978 album Step II and features backing vocals by Two Tons O' Fun.
The song was Sylvester's first Top 40 hit in the United States, where it peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the fall of 1978,[2] it also reached #29 on the UK Singles Chart.[3] A 12" single was released in 1978, with "Dance (Disco Heat)" as the A-side and "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" as the B-side, and these two extended dance mixes proved to be very popular in the dance clubs at the time. The two songs held down the top spot on the Billboard Dance/Disco chart for six weeks in August and September of that year [4] and helped to establish Sylvester's career as a noted disco and dance music performer, both in the U.S. and abroad.