Billboard Top Dance: 1978

Billboard Top Dance Hits (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 25, 1992)
• Original Release Date: February 25, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000032FV
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #379,017 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Shake Your Groove Thing

2. Mac Arthur Park Suite: Mac Arthur Park/One of a Kind/Heaven ...

3. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

4. Come Into My Heart

5. From East to West

6. After Dark

7. If My Friends Could See Me Now

8. Boogie Oogie Oogie

9. Y.M.C.A.

10. Le Freak

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW! MT, June 5, 1999

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This review is from: Billboard Top Dance: 1978 (Audio CD)

This collection of songs are great. Donna Summer's almost 18 minute MacArthur suite is included. To those who bought her "Live and More" album, here is the suite that was missing from that album. This album introduced me to Sylvester, Voyage and other great disco acts. I think the best songs are "MacArthur Suite", "From east to west" and "You make me feel (mighty real)". Be Warned the "YMCA" in this Cd uses another singer other than Victor Willis. Was this a fluke? Well, anybody who has ever wondered what Disco was all about, should check this Cd out.

3.0 out of 5 stars Don't get this for "Y.M.C.A."..., August 13, 2010

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This review is from: Billboard Top Dance: 1978 (Audio CD)

...because as the other reviewer noted, the vocal used here is wrong. I suspect this is a rerecording with Ray Simpson, who replaced the irreplaceable Victor Willis as VP lead vocalist--and "cop"--in mid-1979.

I'm not loving the fact that only 3 of these ten songs are offered in their extended versions. These are the MacArthur Park Suite at a whopping 17:47, After Dark at 7:52, and Come Into My Heart at 7:57. There was room on the CD for the full versions of pretty much all ten. "Last Dance" is particularly disappointing in this 3:19 version; it barely gets going before it stops.

The song choices are very good especially considering possible licensing limitations. The tracks by Sylvester, Linda Clifford, and Voyage were huge disco hits that deserved bigger pop airplay than they got. Again, 12-inch or LP versions would have been nice.

All of these reached #1 on Billboard's Disco chart in 1978 except "Shake Your Groove Thing" and "Y.M.C.A.", which each reached #2. Since you can find the correct "Y.M.C.A." about a hundred other places, this disc is still recommended for the remaining nine tracks.