B-side "Boogie Oogie Oogie" Format 7"
12" Length 5:51 | Released February 1979 Genre Disco | |
Recorded 1978
Sigma Sound Studios (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) | ||
"Disco Nights (Rock-Freak)" is a song written by Emanuel LeBlanc, Herb Lane, Keith Crier, and Paul Service and performed by American band GQ from their debut studio album Disco Nights in 1979. The single spent two weeks at number one on the soul chart during the spring of 1979, becoming the first number-one soul hit for Arista Records, and peaked at #12 on the pop chart in April of that year. The single also peaked at #3 on the disco chart.
The song was produced by Larkin Arnold, Beau Ray, and Fleming Jimmy Simpson.
The single ranked #76 on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1979.
In popular culture
Kon Kan sampled the song in their 1988 song "I Beg Your Pardon".
References
Disco Nights (Rock-Freak) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA