"Dancer" | ||||
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Single by Gino Soccio | ||||
from the album Outline | ||||
B-side | "So Lonely" | |||
Released | 1979 | |||
Recorded | 1979 | |||
Genre | Disco | |||
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Label | RFC/Warner Bros. | |||
Songwriter(s) | Gino Soccio | |||
Producer(s) | Mix Machine | |||
Gino Soccio singles chronology | ||||
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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 topped 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]
Chart (1979) | Peak position |
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Canada RPM Top Singles [8] | 6 |
US Billboard Hot 100 [9] | 48 |
US Billboard Hot Soul Singles [9] | 60 |
US Billboard Disco Top 80 [9] | 1 |
UK Singles [10] | 46 |
During Pride Month 2022, "Dancer" was selected by Jezebel as #22 in their list of "69 of the Best Disco Songs of All Time." [11]