Billboard Disco Action Top 15 – June 26, 1976

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Enjoy the Billboard Disco Action Top 15, dated on June 26th 1976! I believe the best disco was made in 1976, just before the big “Saturday Night Fever bang", when it all became too commercial. In 1976 the line between up-tempo soul and disco was very thin. Disco meant soul music for the dance floor, nothing more and nothing less. It all ended when the movie Saturday Night Fever became a massive success and everyone tried to get a piece of the disco pie.

The Philly track by Eli’s Second Coming (MFSB guitarist Bobby Eli) was surprisingly released by T.K. Records, which was based in Hialeah, Florida. The name "TK" was inspired by the initials of sound engineer Terry Kane. He built a recording studio on the second floor of founder Henry Stone’s office. T.K. Records is closely associated with the early rise of disco. In 1974 the label released Rock Your Baby by George McCrae, the second bona fide disco song (after The Hues Corporation's Rock The Boat) that reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The company also released all the big hits by KC & The Sunshine Band. Bobby Eli passed away last year. He was for a great deal responsible for the Sound Of Philadelphia as guitarist of house band MFSB and played on songs from The O’Jays, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes and The Trammps.

Next week the legendary Smooth Operators (Martijn Soetens and I) will return! 😊 We will again present some real yacht rock classics and yacht rock songs that we think should have been classics.

Tracklist:

The Whispers – One For The Money
Side Effect – Always There
Jimmy James And The Vagabonds – I'll Go Where Your Music Takes Me
Barrabas – Desperately
Diana Ross – Love Hangover
Roberta Kelly – Trouble Maker
Impact – Happy Man
Tavares – Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel
Liquid Pleasure – Take A Little
Eli's Second Coming – Love's Chant
Donna Summer – Could It Be Magic (Love Trilogy)
The Supremes – I’m Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking
Jesse Green – Nice And Slow
Double Exposure – Ten Percent
The Trammps – Where The Happy People Go

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