b/w Love Pollution
| Released: March, 1977 (Epic) Written by: Robert Peckman Produced by: Q Album: Dancin' Man |
Note: when I label a song a "Lost AT40 Single," I'm only speaking for myself. Your mileage may vary.
So I'm listening to a rerun of the American Top 40 broadcast from May 7, 1977 and Casey Kasem comes out of a commercial break and introduces this song. As he's talking over the introduction, I get very confused and think I'm listening to Rachel Sweet's cover of B-A-B-Y, but when the vocals come in, I recognize a song I haven't heard in almost 35 years: "Dancin' Man" by Q.
So I'm listening to a rerun of the American Top 40 broadcast from May 7, 1977 and Casey Kasem comes out of a commercial break and introduces this song. As he's talking over the introduction, I get very confused and think I'm listening to Rachel Sweet's cover of B-A-B-Y, but when the vocals come in, I recognize a song I haven't heard in almost 35 years: "Dancin' Man" by Q.
On the May 7 AT40 show it was at position 25; it would peak at 23 the following week. The song spent a total of 7 weeks in the Top 40. Q was a quartet that hailed from Beaver Falls, PA and this was their only Top 40 hit. The song is a mid-tempo disco track centered around the '60s R&B lick mentioned earlier, but the ear-catching bit comes from the background singers:
Gotta get upIt's not a great song, but it's fun to reconnect with it.
Get the get down feelin'
Gotta get up
Get it on (clap, clap)
I kinda dug this in the spring of 1977, but a friend of mine adored it. He was rockin' a white-guy afro at the time and fancied himself a bit of a brother despite the fact that we lived in a lily-white part of Wisconsin. He had an itchy little dance he'd do to "Dancin' Man," despite having very little sense of rhythm. I think of it, and him--gone 30 years this spring--whenever I hear it.
ReplyDeleteI heard this on a recent countdown too. How did I miss this song? It was not in my collection.
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