Dancer (Gino Soccio song)

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B-side"So Lonely"
Released1979
Recorded1979
"Dancer"
Single by Gino Soccio
from the album Outline
B-side"So Lonely"
Released1979
Recorded1979
GenreDisco
Length
  • 3:30 (single version)
  • 8:23 (album & 12" version)
LabelRFC/Warner Bros.
SongwriterGino Soccio
ProducerMix Machine
Gino Soccio singles chronology
"The Visitors"
(1978)
"Dancer"
(1979)
"Dance To Dance"
(1979)

Dancer is a song by Gino Soccio. It was released as a single in 1979 from his album Outline.[1][2][3][4]

The song was #1 on the Billboard Disco chart and remained on that spot for six weeks.[5] It was also Soccio's only Billboard Hot 100 entry, peaking at No. 48, and his only Top 10 hit on his home country's RPM Top Singles chart, peaking at No. 6.[6]

The song was part of the playlist at New York City disco Paradise Garage, in an extended mix by DJ Larry Levan. “They would play that song three times in a row sometimes, and it was already an eight-minute song," Soccio told Wax Poetics in a 2013 career retrospective interview. "It was twenty-four minutes of ‘Dancer,’ and people just would not get enough of it. It really was something. It blew me away.”[7]


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