You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

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Ray Parker Jr. claims that the song was stolen from him, after he played it in a studio for an executive who promised he would get credit. Parker received no royalties and no credit for that song. "It's not Leo's fault," he told Variety. "He tried to cut six or seven more of my songs just because he felt so bad."[3]

"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart,[4] making it his first top single in the United States, and reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart.[5] Billboard ranked it as the No. 13 song of 1977. Credited songwriters Sayer and Vini Poncia won a Grammy Award for the song in 1978 in Best R&B Song. Parker has stated that he was the original songwriter and that when he gave the tune as a demo his accreditation as such was missed.[6] Like other Sayer songs from that time, it features extensive use of the singer's falsetto voice, a very popular vocal register in disco-era songs. Sayer performed the song in the thirteenth episode of the second season of "Saturday Night Live" and the second episode of season 3 of The Muppet Show.

Personnel

Chart performance

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Cover versions

  • Lee Ritenour brought back drummer Steve Gadd among other session stars to add this cover to his 1979 album, Feel the Night.
  • DTV, in 1984, set the song to The Grasshopper and the Ants.
  • A remixed version of "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" credited to Groove Generation featuring Leo Sayer charted on the UK Singles Chart in 1998, peaking at No.32.[5]
  • In 2008, the Wiggles sang the song as the title work of their DVD You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, with Leo Sayer guest starring.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

References

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  10. ↑ Swiss Charts Archive. 15 February 1977.
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