| "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" | ||||
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| Single by Leo Sayer | ||||
| from the album Endless Flight | ||||
| B-side | "Magdalena" | |||
| Released | October 1976 | |||
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| Length | 3:41 2:50 (7" version) | |||
| Label | Chrysalis (UK) Warner Bros. (US) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | [1][2] | |||
| Producer(s) | Richard Perry | |||
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| "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" on YouTube | ||||
"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" is a song credited to British-Australian singer Leo Sayer, taken from his 1976 album Endless Flight.
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 of 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 second episode of season 3 of The Muppet Show.
- ^ "Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing / Magdalena (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. 1976. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
- ^ "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing by Leo Sayer Songfacts". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
- ^ Helligar, Jeremy (August 11, 2020). "How Ray Parker Jr. Got Cheated Out of a Grammy for a No. 1 Hit". Variety. Retrieved March 20, 2024.
- ^ Bronson, Fred (2003). The Billboard Book of #1 Hits, 5th Edition (Billboard Publications)
- ^ "Leo Sayer - Full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
- ^ Helligar, Jeremy (August 11, 2020). "How Ray Parker Jr. Got Cheated Out of a Grammy for a No. 1 Hit". Variety. Retrieved October 15, 2022.