Disco Inferno

"Disco Inferno"
1978 US vinyl reissue picture sleeve
Single by the Trammps
from the album Disco Inferno
B-side
  • "You Touch My Hot Line" (original)
  • "That's Where the Happy People Go" (reissue)
ReleasedDecember 28, 1976
Recorded1976
StudioSigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
GenreDisco
Length
  • 10:59 (album version)
  • 3:35 (radio edit)
LabelAtlantic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Ron "Have Mercy" Kersey
The Trammps singles chronology
"Ninety-Nine and a Half"
(1976)
"Disco Inferno"
(1976)
"I Feel Like I've Been Livin' (On the Dark Side of the Moon)"
(1977)
Audio
"Disco Inferno" on YouTube
"Disco Inferno" (radio edit) on YouTube
Side-A label of the 1977 US vinyl single

"Disco Inferno" is a song by American disco band the Trammps from their 1976 studio album of same name. With two other cuts by the group, it reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in early 1977, but had limited mainstream success until 1978, after being included on the soundtrack to the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, when a re-release hit number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[1][2]

It was also notably covered in 1993 by American-born singer Tina Turner on What's Love Got to Do with It,[3] and in 1998 by American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper on the A Night at the Roxbury soundtrack.[4] Among others who covered this are Damien Lovelock, Hardsonic Bottoms 3, and Vicki Shepard.

  1. ^ "The Trammps Billboard singles". AllMusic. Retrieved January 21, 2012.
  2. ^ Dys, Andrew (March 8, 2012). "'Disco Inferno' singer Jimmy Ellis of Rock Hill dies at 74". The Herald. Rock Hill, SC. Archived from the original on March 10, 2012. Retrieved March 9, 2012.
  3. ^ "Disco Inferno Lyrics - Tina Turner". Sing365.com. Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
  4. ^ "Disco Inferno Lyrics by Cyndi Lauper - Night At The Roxbury Soundtrack Lyrics". Lyricsondemand.com. Retrieved June 28, 2014.