Boogie Fever

"Boogie Fever"
side-A label by Capitol Records
One of side-A labels of the US single
Single by the Sylvers
from the album Showcase
B-side"Free Style"
ReleasedNovember 1975
Recorded1975
Genre
Length3:31
LabelCapitol
Songwriter(s)Freddie Perren, Kenneth St. Lewis
Producer(s)Freddie Perren
The Sylvers singles chronology
"Stay Away From Me"
(1973)
"Boogie Fever"
(1975)
"Cotton Candy"
(1976)

"Boogie Fever" is a song recorded by Los Angeles, California-based R&B group the Sylvers, from their 1975 album Showcase. Their most lucrative single, it reached No. 1 in the US on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts as well as reaching No. 1 in Canada on the RPM national singles chart in 1976.[2] It was their third of nine Top 20 R&B hits and first top 40 pop single.[3] Billboard ranked it as the No. 20 song for 1976. "Boogie Fever" is one of two gold records by the Sylvers, the other being "Hot Line".

  1. ^ a b Breihan, Tom (September 3, 2019). "The Number Ones: The Sylvers' "Boogie Fever"". Stereogum. Retrieved June 30, 2023. Perren co-wrote "Boogie Fever," an absolutely incandescent piece of euphoric Jacksons-esque pop-soul...And "Boogie Fever" really is top-shelf bubblegum disco.
  2. ^ "Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-06-03. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004. Record Research. p. 563.