Disco Inferno (album)

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Commercial performance

The album peaked at No. 16 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached No. 46 on the Billboard 200. The album features the title track, which peaked at No. 9 on the Hot Soul Singles chart, No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 1 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, and "I Feel Like I've Been Livin' (On the Dark Side of the Moon)", which charted at No. 52 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.

Track listing

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Personnel

The Trammps

  • Jimmy Ellis – lead vocal
  • Robert Upchurch – lead and baritone vocal
  • Earl Young – bass vocal, drums
  • Harold Wade – first tenor
  • Stanley Wade – second tenor

Additional personnel

  • Ronald Baker – bass
  • Norman Harris, Bobby Eli, T.J. Tindall – guitars
  • Ron "Have Mercy" Kersey, T.G. Conway, Bruce Gray, Carlton Kent – keyboards
  • Larry Washington, Robert Cupit – congas
  • Allen Felder, Ronald Tyson – tambourines
  • Barbara Ingram, Carla Benson, Evette Benton – background vocals
  • Don Renaldo and His Strings and Horns
  • Flash Wilson – The Trammps' M.C.

Charts

Album

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Chart performance for Disco Inferno
Chart (1976–1977) Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)[1] 65
US Billboard Top LPs[2] 46
US Billboard Top Soul LPs[2] 16

Singles

Chart performance of singles from Disco Inferno
Title Year Peaks
US
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US
R&B

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US
Dan

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"Disco Inferno" 1976 53 9 1
"Starvin'"
"Body Contact Contract"
"I Feel Like I've Been Livin' (On the Dark Side of the Moon)" 1977 105 52
"Disco Inferno" (re-release) 1978 11

References

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External links

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