You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

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Name = You Make Me Feel Like Dancing


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Artist = Leo Sayer
Album = Endless Flight
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B-side = "Magdalena"
Released = 1976
Format = 7" (45 rpm)
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Genre = Pop, Disco, R&B
Length = 2:48
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Writer = Leo Sayer, Vini Poncia
Producer = Richard Perry
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"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" is a popular song by the British singer Leo Sayer, taken from his 1976 album "Endless Flight". The song reached #1 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart, [Bronson, Fred (2003). "The Billboard Book of #1 Hits", 5th Edition (Billboard Publications)] making it his first number one single in United States, and #2 on the UK Singles Chart. [ [http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=7192 UK chart info at chartstats.com] ] "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" spent two weeks at the top of the United World Chart in December 1976. Songwriters Sayer and Vini Poncia won a Grammy Award for the song in 1978 in the category Best R&B Song.

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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 #32. [ [http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=26582 UK 1998 remix chart info at chartstats.com] ] In 2006, the song "I Don't Feel Like Dancin' by the American band Scissor Sisters was often compared with Sayer's song because of its tempo, arrangement and subject matter. In episode 3F21 of "The Simpsons" ("Homerpalooza"), a teenaged Homer and his friend Barney alternate singing the chorus of this song into hairbrushes in Homer's room.

Sayer re-recorded the song with The Wiggles in 2008 for a Wiggles DVD, also entitled "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing."

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