You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
1976 single by Leo Sayer
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"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" is a song by the English singer Leo Sayer, taken from his 1976 album Endless Flight. It reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart,[3] making it his first top single in the United States, and reached number two on the UK singles chart.[4] Billboard ranked it the number 13 song of 1977.
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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) | |||
| Songwriters | [1][2] | |||
| Producer | Richard Perry | |||
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| "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" on YouTube | ||||
Credited songwriters Sayer and Vini Poncia won a Grammy Award for the song in 1978 for Best R&B Song. Ray Parker Jr, who was a session musician at the time, has stated that he was the original songwriter and that when he gave the tune as a demo, his accreditation as such was missed.[5] "It's not Leo's fault," Parker told Variety. "He tried to cut six or seven more of my songs just because he felt so bad."[5]
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 thirteenth episode of the second season of "Saturday Night Live" and the second episode of season 3 of The Muppet Show.
Personnel
- Leo Sayer – vocals
- John Barnes – electric piano, clavinet
- Larry Carlton, Ray Parker Jr. – guitar
- Steve Gadd – drums
- Jeff Porcaro – drums (verse 3 onwards)
- Clydie King, Becky Louis, Sherlie Matthews – background vocals
- Chuck Rainey – bass
- Gene Page – string arrangements
Chart performance
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Cover versions
- Lee Ritenour brought back drummer Steve Gadd among other session stars to add this cover to his 1979 album, Feel the Night.
- DTV, in 1984, set the song to The Grasshopper and the Ants.
- In 2000, American singer-songwriter Carmen Carter and gospel singer Donnie McClurkin covered the song for the soundtrack to the 2000 film An Extremely Goofy Movie.
- A remixed version of "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" credited to Groove Generation featuring Leo Sayer charted on the UK Singles Chart in 1998, peaking at No.32.[4]
- In 2008, the Wiggles sang the song as the title work of their DVD You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, with Leo Sayer guest starring.[citation needed]