You Should Be Dancing

"You Should Be Dancing"
Single by Bee Gees
from the album Children of the World
B-side"Subway"
ReleasedJune 1976 (1976-06)[1]
Recorded19 January–1, 8 February 1976
6 May 1976
Studio
GenreDisco[1][2]
Length4:16 (single)
4:47 (12" version)
LabelRSO
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Bee Gees, Albhy Galuten, Karl Richardson
Bee Gees singles chronology
"Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)"
(1976)
"You Should Be Dancing"
(1976)
"Love So Right"
(1976)
Music video
"You Should Be Dancing (Audio)" on YouTube

"You Should Be Dancing" is a song by the Bee Gees, from the album Children of the World, released in 1976. It hit No. 1 for one week on the American Billboard Hot 100, No. 1 for seven weeks on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart, and in September the same year, reached No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart.[3] The song also peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Soul chart. It was this song that first launched the Bee Gees into disco. It was also the only track from the group to top the dance chart.

It is also one of six songs performed by the Bee Gees included in the Saturday Night Fever movie soundtrack which came out a year later.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference JB76 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Guarisco, Donald A. "You Should be Dancing – Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference UK was invoked but never defined (see the help page).